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B.J. and the Bear Season 3 Episodes

  • 1978-1981
  • 3 Seasons
  • NBC
  • Action & Adventure, Comedy
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B.J. McCay was a good-looking young trucker who traveled around the country in his big red & white rig, with a single companion - his pet chimp, Bear. B.J. was based in rural Georgia and was confronted by a succession of corrupt local sheriffs - Elroy P. Lobo (who was later given his own series, Lobo); Sgt. Wiley of Winslow County and his two fellow lawmen, Sheriffs Cain and Masters. The only honest cop B.J. seemed to encounter was the Fox, who spent much of her time trying to trap the crooked local cops. Tommy was a lady trucker friend and Bullets ran the local hangout, the Country Comfort Truck Stop.In 1981, B.J. settled down to run a trucking business in Los Angeles called Bear Enterprises. His new adversary was Rutherford T. Grant, a corrupt politician who headed the state Special Crimes Action Team. Grant was a silent partner in TransCal, the largest trucking firm in California and stopped at nothing to stomp out potential competition. Because of Grant's intervention, B.J. found it impossible to get regular truck drivers to work for him and had to settle for a crew of 7 young, beautiful lady truckers, including a pair of identical twins and Grant's daughter, Cindy.

Season 3 Episode Guide

Season 3

15 Episodes 1981 - 1981

Episode 1

B.J. And the Seven Lady Truckers: Part 1

Tue, Jan 13, 198160 mins

B.J. relocates to California and assembles a team of lady truckers to run a lucrative load from Los Angeles to San Francisco. But B.J.'s operation threatens to derail the gravy trains of Trans Cal Trucking and SCAT Captain Rutherford T. Grant.

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Episode 2

B.J. and the Seven Lady Truckers: Part 2

Tue, Jan 13, 198160 mins

B.J. and his convoy of lady truckers trek to San Francisco. Captain Grant declares war on B.J. and Bear Enterprises, establishing the conflict that will span this third and final season.

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Episode 3

The Fast and the Furious: Part 1

Tue, Jan 20, 198160 mins

Captain Grant and Trans Cal Trucking's new strongman Cooley conspire to put Bear Enterprises out of business, aided and abetted by a stranger with a secret.

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Episode 4

The Fast and the Furious: Part 2

Tue, Jan 27, 198160 mins

B.J. and Cooley race their trucks from Oakland to L.A., with the prize being a lucrative shipping contract. With so much depending on a McKay victory, will B.J. and the seven lady truckers find the time to right a wrong along the way?

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Episode 5

Intercepted Pass

Tue, Feb 3, 198160 mins

B.J., Callie and Samantha stumble upon Steiger's pet project: a call girl operation run out of a dating service that blackmails its clients with compromising photographs. But SCAT isn't the only party interested in getting that briefcase of evidence back from B.J.

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Episode 6

Down & Dirty

Tue, Feb 10, 198160 mins

While in Reno, Captain Grant capitalizes on Callie's compulsive gambling to make life difficult for B.J. and Bear Enterprises, but B.J. has a plan to even the odds.

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Episode 7

Beauties and the Beasts

Tue, Feb 17, 198160 mins

Grant and Steiger scheme to have the seven lady truckers imprisoned in Diablo County's tough women's prison. To spring his friends, B.J. agrees to a prisoners vs. guards football game. While Angie is in prison, B.J. cares for and mentors her rebellious nephew.

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Episode 8

Blond in a Gilded Cell

Tue, Mar 3, 198160 mins

An eccentric pop singer kidnaps beautiful blonde groupies and imprisons them in his mansion. When Stacks disappears, B.J. goes undercover as a singer to find and free her.

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Episode 9

For Adults Only

Tue, Mar 10, 198160 mins

B.J. befriends the Tiptons, an elderly but feisty couple being forced out of their home and into a retirement community that is being used as a cover for an illegal skin flick operation.

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Episode 10

A Bear in the Hand

Tue, Mar 17, 198160 mins

Captain Grant and Lt. Steiger set a match to a powder-keg when they abduct B.J.'s best friend Bear. B.J. and the lady truckers wage war against SCAT just when Grant is trying to woo appropriations funding from an influential state senator.

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Episode 11

Seven Lady Captives

Tue, Mar 24, 198160 mins

When the seven lady truckers are kidnapped to drug kingpin Leonard Marker's San Pepe compound, B.J., Fred and Hatsie Tipton and a very unlikely ally team up to rescue them.

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Episode 12

S.T.U.N.T.

Tue, Mar 31, 198160 mins

B.J., Callie and Stacks help B.J.'s old friend Steven Thomas Ulysses Nathaniel Travis complete the filming of his television pilot. Buster Crabbe is outstanding as an aging stuntman with a secret.

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Episode 13

Who Is BJ?

Sat, Apr 25, 198160 mins

B.J wrecks his truck and suffers amnesia. As he struggles to remember who he is and why two men are attempting to kill him, he falls in love with Gypsy and works the bumper car pavilion of her uncle's carnival.

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Episode 14

Detective Finger, I Presume

Sat, May 2, 198160 mins

Cindy and Stacks go undercover at a gymnasium linked to a series of baffling burglaries, most recently one that netted a $400,000 painting entrusted to Bear Enterprises. Detective Finger, a cross between Columbo and Clouseau, joins B.J. in cracking the case.

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Episode 15

The Two Million Dollar Hustle

Sat, May 9, 198160 mins

B.J. enlists an unlikely ally in his effort to bring down Rutherford T. Grant after the crooked captain frames a bank robbery on Samantha, Stacks and Angie. Final episode of the series.

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