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Movin' On Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 1974 - 1975
Episode 0
In Tandem
Wed, May 8, 197490 mins
Two independent truck drivers, one a veteran and the other his young, college-educated partner, get involved with a group of beleaguered citrus growers.
Episode 1
The Time of His Life
Thu, Sep 12, 197460 mins
Will and Sonny encounter Joe Shannon in Oregon after he crashes his truck trying to pass on a narrow road. After they take him, unconscious, to a hospital, the doctor informs them he is terminally ill, and they decide to make his last days enjoyable.
Episode 2
Roadblock
Thu, Sep 19, 197445 mins
When Sonny offers his friend Red Wallace to accompany his daughter Chessie to her mother's place where she is to play craps, he does not know yet that Red has lost a large sum of money gambling and that he is about to hijack his own truck to pay his debt. Chessie, who has understood what trouble her father is in, gives her friends the slip...
Episode 3
Grit
Thu, Sep 26, 197450 mins
Driving through the farm country of eastern Oregon, Will and Sonny meet a man pushing his wife down the road in a wheelchair.
Episode 4
Life Line
Thu, Oct 3, 197445 mins
Will and Sonny are delivering a load to the owner of a diner John Qualen in a small town in Oregon. While waiting for their breakfast, they meet a very pretty single mother Lois Nettleton. Karen and Sonny hit it off as they both have an interest in rock collecting. Karen and Will hit it off as they both play a mean player piano. Karen is traveling with her autistic son, Mark Clint L. Howard who manages to get into serious physical peril and requires rescuing by Will and Sonny..
Episode 5
The Trick Is to Stay Alive
Thu, Oct 10, 197460 mins
Will is taking a shortcut through the country when he spots fresh skid marks leading off the road to a bullet-riddled car. He and Sonny soon learn why the car is there: a modern-day Bonnie & Clyde . . . plus one.
Episode 6
The Cowhands
Thu, Oct 24, 197450 mins
Will and Sonny help move a low-budget traveling rodeo.
Episode 7
The Good Life
Thu, Nov 7, 197450 mins
Will and Sonny deliver pipe casings to an Idaho wildcat oil well driller, and he hires them to be in charge of oil transportation before the well comes in.
Episode 8
Games
Thu, Nov 14, 197450 mins
Will, Sonny, and fellow trucker Ike run afoul of a small-town police officer and his speed trap, and they get involved in a series of "touch" football games that turn out rougher, and with higher stakes, than expected.
Episode 9
Hoots
Thu, Nov 21, 1974
Will and Sonny haul auctioned farm equipment for the Hoots, an old-world farming colony, and get involved in a dispute between them and the surrounding farmers.
Episode 10
Good for Laughs
Thu, Nov 28, 197450 mins
Will talks Sonny into hauling timber with Will's Vietnam War buddy in Hood River, Oregon.
Episode 11
High Roller
Thu, Dec 5, 197446 mins
Will and Sonny pull a load of fresh eggs (and a trailer with a broken refrigerator) into Las Vegas, where Will meets two friends from back east: Rita, who is now a card dealer, and her ex-husband Chuck, a former stunt driver.
Episode 12
Goin' Home: Part 1
Thu, Dec 12, 197450 mins
While in a cafe in Las Vegas, Sonny moans to Will about how depressing it is to spend Christmas on the road. So they head for Phoenix for dinner with Sonny's uncle, but end up with Sonny's ex-wife instead.
Episode 13
Goin' Home: Part 2
Thu, Dec 19, 197450 mins
Sonny, Dinah, and Slim look for a missing necklace, and Will enters Sonny's truck in a race.
Episode 14
Antiques
Thu, Dec 26, 197450 mins
Will and Sonny deliver two trucks to an eccentric old lady who has an antique Benz that she restored herself. The next day it's gone and she accuses them of stealing it.
Episode 15
Explosion
Thu, Jan 2, 197560 mins
Sonny accepts a racing dog from a freight broker as payment for a debt after Sonny's rig is impounded for a late loan payment.
Episode 16
Landslide
Thu, Jan 16, 197546 mins
While detouring around a road construction site, Will and Sonny are trapped by a landslide on a wilderness road, along with six other people: a runaway and her boyfriend, an alcoholic trumpeter and his estranged med-student son, and a man and his wife towing their RV.
Episode 17
Fraud
Thu, Jan 30, 197550 mins
Will and Sonny carry a load to San Diego. They arrive at the warehouse at 4:02 and the loading dock manager refuses to accept their load which was due by 4:00. They are forced to drop the trailer and leave it overnight. They are awakened in the middle of the night by a telephone call telling them that their trailer is on fire. They are suspected of arson.
Episode 18
Ammo
Thu, Feb 6, 197550 mins
After delivering a load to a San Diego cannery, Sonny gets a case of hams for his lady friend, but when she opens one, it is full of military ammunition. Then Will and Sonny go undercover to help find the rest of the stolen munitions.
Episode 19
Tattoos
Thu, Feb 13, 197550 mins
In San Diego after making a delivery at the Navy docks, Sonny runs into his old Navy buddy, who enlists Sonny and Will in a chase to catch his truckin' sweetheart.
Episode 20
Ransom
Thu, Feb 20, 197560 mins
After delivering a load of fabric to a San Diego clothing manufacturer, Will and Sonny are drawn into a ransom delivery after Sonny's friend, the company's VP, is kidnapped.
Episode 21
The Price of Loving
Wed, Apr 2, 1975
In San Francisco, Will and Sonny get caught between a trucker pal and his wife Abby . . . and his other wife Betsy.
Episode 22
Weddin' Bells
Wed, Apr 9, 197546 mins
Sonny stops to help a lady in distress. She is an artist and somewhat, shall we say, "kooky?" Soon she has Sonny painting oil paintings. She tries to convince him to give up trucking and become an artist with her. Marriage is perhaps in the offing. She also has a rebellious daughter who gets involved with a strip joint. Mayhem follows.
