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High Mountain Rangers Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

13 Episodes 1987 - 1988

Episode 0

Pilot

Sun, Apr 19, 1987100 mins

T.J. Cousins is a mountain man who committed some grisly murders a few years ago. Currently he is in prison. Now a drug dealer also in the same prison hires T.J. to lead him through the Sierras. Now the "High Mountain Rangers" a group who's assigned the task of bringing T.J. and the other escapees back, are on the case but T.J. proves to be too wily for them, and kills one of them. So Matt Hawkes, one of the rangers, decides to get help from the man who caught T.J., his father, Jesse Hawkes. Now it seems that Hawkes felt that T.J. should have been executed but that sentenced was reduced to life imprisonment, so he left the rangers and lives in a cabin up in the mountains. Jesse at first decides not to do it but eventually changes his mind. But as I said T.J. is too wily. And he also wants to get his hands on Hawkes.

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Episode 1

The Only Place to Live

Sat, Jan 2, 1988

An earthquake jolts everyone into persuading Aaron Bass, an old timer and his granddaughter Jen to leave a danger area, and to search for missing spelunkers.

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Episode 2

Old Friends, New Friends

Sat, Jan 9, 1988

An old friend of Jesse's comes to see him and he has his daughter with him. And she and Cody hit it off. In the meantime, some people come to Ranger HQ and inform them that the man kidnapped his daughter. It seems that his ex-wife has custody and her husband is pushing them to find them. When Jesse's friend gets sick, Jesse takes him to the hospital leaving his daughter with. Matt then goes to get her so Cody takes her into the mountains.

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Episode 3

The Trial of Jesse Hawkes

Sat, Jan 16, 1988

The acting prosecutor decides to charge Jesse for the murder of T.J. Cousins the killer who escaped from prison whom he pursued. The prosecutor instructs Matt to bring him in and he tells the team to do it but he radios Cody and tells him to take Jesse and get away till he can sort it out. But Jesse sees through Cody and comes in. He learns that T.J.'s father is the one pressing the issue. And to add fuel to the fire is the fact that T.J. had $250,000 with him which was never recovered. So it's assumed Jesse took it. A woman whom Matt saved, is a lawyer and she offers to represent Jesse. She tries to delay things so that when the prosecutor who is a friend of Jesse's returns who will decide to drop the whole thing. But Jesse wants to go to trial and the judge grants it.

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Episode 4

Matt's Choice

Sat, Jan 23, 1988

Matt and Avila rescue two skiers, Chaz Collins and Dana Brooks, who were caught in an avalanche, but then a blizzard downs their chopper.

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Episode 5

Competitors

Sat, Jan 30, 1988

Roy Culhane, a former Ranger candidate, believing that Jesse Hawkes washed him out in favor of Matt, returns to the area brimming with resentment.

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Episode 6

Sacred Ground

Sat, Feb 6, 1988

Sly Fox Avila, an Indian chief, must locate an ancient burial ground before a lumber company claims the land, while his son-in-law helps drug smugglers, led by gangster Cresbie, locate a cocaine-laden plane that crashed in the area.

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Episode 7

Ambassador

Sat, Feb 13, 1988

Jesse Hawkes suspects that Paul Millard, fiance of his friend Marjorie Russell, who purports to be a ski instructor, is an assassin whose target is Andrew Mallory, an American diplomat.

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Episode 8

Wild

Sat, Feb 20, 1988

Cody leads a search for two deaf teenagers who have fled into the wilderness after a bear attack on their camp. Diane and Kaycee, two deaf girls, flee in a panic and get lost in the thicket.

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Episode 9

Asylum

Sat, Feb 27, 1988

Matt leads a search for Olga Denilov, a Soviet ski champion, and her trainer-father, Pjotr Denilov, both of whom he's accused of helping to defect. Jesse and Matt worry about Dingy being attacked by rabid wolves.

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Episode 10

Run of Her Life

Sat, Mar 5, 1988

A sudden summer snowstorm strands Jesse and an injured distance runner, Mickey Perry, in the mountains after she runs off course and breaks her leg in a fall.

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Episode 11

Ordeal

Sat, Mar 26, 1988

Upset over a family dispute, Jesse hikes to a remote, snowy canyon, where he's wounded by Beaudine, a drunken hunter, who's afraid to report the accident.

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Episode 12

War Games

Sat, Apr 9, 1988

A war-gaming family isn't playing when the father, Jack Rassy, commits cold-blooded murder. After learning that Phil and his wife Donna are having an affair, Jack shoots Phil. But Cody witnesses the crime and becomes Jack's target.

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