Fireman Mike Stoker: The George Harrison of Station 51

[Sgt. Saunders]

The late, great George Harrison was once described as being the “quiet Beatle.” If you’ve ever seen the Beatles’ final public appearance on the roof of that London office building, while John Lennon and Paul McCartney are seen schmoozing with everyone else on that roof, George just seems to stand in the background, apparently content to just play his guitar.

Even in “A Hard Day’s Night,” the Beatles’ first film, George is pretty much a sphinx while Ringo, John and Paul are regular chatterboxes in that classic film.

Well, LA Fireman Mike Stoker is even more taciturn than the late, great Mr. Harrison; Mike is lucky to even get one or two lines during an episode of “Emergency” and even that’s a rarity.

You would think that the show’s writers could have given that voluble and even blabby fireman, Chet Kelly, a few less lines and given them to the silent and apparently somewhat diffident Mike Stoker.