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Ripcord Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

37 Episodes 1961 - 1962

Episode 0

The Sky Diver

Thu, Sep 28, 196130 mins

Jim interrupts Ted's pleasant day eyeing pretty girls (and being ogled in return) with the news they've been hired to deliver valuable supplies and equipment to a team prospecting deep in Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains. At a trading post, Ted prevents another prospector from taking a valuable instrument crucial to the success of his clients, with near tragic results.

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Episode 1

Air Carnival

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

Betty Rhodes, star performer of Justin Rock's air carnival, is eager to have Ted and Jim join their team. Ted and Jim don't want to jump for kicks, however, but they soon must jump to save Rock's life when his parachute gear is sabotaged.

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Episode 2

Airborne

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

Ted takes under his wing a spoiled rich juvenile delinquent and his two stooges, who are attempting to impress a young woman skydiving student.

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Episode 3

Chuting Stars

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

McKeever, Buckley and an old Navy friend and his corps of jumpers join forces and race against the clock to find a diabetic woman abandoned in a canyon by her kidnappers.

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Episode 4

Colorado Jump

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

Ted and Jim desperately try to rescue a young singer who was seriously injured in an aerial jump, promoted by his publicity-hungry agent.

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Episode 5

The Condemned

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

Ted and Jim are hired by a lawyer to help prove that his client, now on death row, is not guilty of his wife's murder by parachuting to her remote mountain home and gathering the evidence he believes is there in time to stop the execution.

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Episode 7

Counter-Attack

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

Taking place more on the ground than above this time, Ted and Jim (in a car) have to pick up a top secret device to give to a scientist, and are tailed by a couple of men in suits while being distracted by a mysterious blonde.

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Episode 8

Crime Jump

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

Ripcord, Inc. is brought under suspicion of murder and espionage when a former student of theirs parachutes into a top security laboratory at night, kills a scientist, and tries to make off with important secrets.

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Episode 9

Dangerous Night

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

When Ted is kidnapped by a mentally disturbed client of theirs, Jim must make a risky jump into the Mexican wilderness at night to rescue him, guided only by a small hand-held radio signal that Ted was able to set off.

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Episode 10

Death Camp

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

Ripcord is hired by a team of uranium prospectors to drop supplies to them, but when Ted and Jim are about to make the drop, they notice all three men sprawled on the ground below them. Concerned, Ted jumps in to investigate and encounters a deadly welcome at the camp.

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Episode 11

Derelict

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

Ted and Jim are hired to make one of their most difficult jumps: on to a deserted cargo ship abandoned on a reef in the ocean. It's a matter of time for the owners to claim the derelict ship before a greedy salvage outfit gets there first.

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Episode 12

Top Secret

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

Carl Sexton, an old acquaintance of Ted and Jim's now in the FBI, approaches them for help in preventing his own father, a prominent scientist, defect to the Communists before it's too late.

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Episode 13

Radar Rescue

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

When Ted and Jim angrily flunk radar operator Bill Kirk from their sky diving school, they little dream they will have to put their lives in his hands to effect a daring rescue of a downed pilot and his little daughter in dangerous fog, guided only by radar.

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Episode 14

Sierra Jump

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

Chuck Lambert, Ripcord's pilot, is in serious trouble when his plane crashes and the man he was flying is killed. Drugs were found in Chuck's possession, yet he insists the drugs were his passenger's who also caused the crash, but unless Jim and Ted can help, the dead man's brother will see Chuck grounded and prosecuted.

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Episode 15

The Silver Cord

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

Speed Domaine, an old soldier Ted and Jim know from the army, wants his son Billy to learn sky-diving to prove he's a man, in spite of Billy's resistance to the idea. But when they jump into a canyon the army uses for target practice and Speed breaks his leg, Billy, wins new respect from his father by saving the old man's life, with the help of Ripcord.

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Episode 16

Thoroughbred

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

While visiting the race track, Ted and Jim are unexpectedly hired by Margo Kane to rescue her prize thoroughbred horse which is trapped in a box canyon.

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Episode 17

Ransom Drop

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

Ted McKeever can't understand why pretty Dana Oliver demands his company prove they can drop a crate of eggs by parachute without cracking a shell. When Ted's team demonstrates its capabilities, she reveals the reason for her strange request - she wants Ted, Jim and Chuck to airdrop a top-secret and extremely fragile missile instrument to ransom her father who is being held prisoner in the mountains by technology-savvy kidnappers.

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Episode 18

Escape

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

Ted and Jim jump into a job only to be taken hostage by an escaped convict.

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Episode 19

Double Drop

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

Jim jumps into a mountain cabin with a medical supply delivery only to end up being taken hostage along with the doctor. Fortunately, Jim brought a radio and looks for an opportunity to send a message without tipping off the baddies.

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Episode 20

The Financier

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

A former student of the skydiving school commits suicide shortly after graduating. Or did he? An insurance investigator is not so sure and enlists Jim and Ted's assistance with the investigation.

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Episode 21

Sentence of Death

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

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Episode 22

Desperate Choice

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

Ted and Jim join in on the search for a missing girl. Things get complicated when the girl's father flips out and goes on a murderous rampage.

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Episode 23

Diplomatic Mission

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

Ripcord must search a crash site for top secret papers. Finding the papers will be the easy part because, of course, the bad guys want the papers too.

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Episode 24

Hagen Charm

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

Ripcord must deliver Dr. Hagen to a remote cabin for a medical emergency. Conditions are rough but they think Dr. Hagen can handle it since he was a war hero. However, they discover that he is terrified and may not be able to handle it.

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Episode 25

The Helicopter Race

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

Ripcord helps a businessman recover a valuable briefcase from rocky terrain before thugs get to it using a helicopter.

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Episode 26

High Jeopardy

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

Beautiful spoiled rich girl gets banned from Ripcord for not following the rules. Later, she uses her feminine wiles on Chuck to make him take her to rough terrain for an unauthorized jump. Trouble ensues.

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Episode 27

Hi-Jack

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

While on their way to Cape Canaveral for a job, the airplane Ted and Jim are on is hi-jacked by Communist agents intending to kidnap an important scientist.

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Episode 28

The Human Kind

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

When a woman is kidnapped, Ted, Jim, and a minister join in the search for her.

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Episode 30

Hurricane Charlie

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

When Ted and Jim are in a hurry to start a job, Charlie Kern oddly keeps trying to stall them.

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Episode 31

Elegy for a Hero

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

An old Army superior shows up wanting the boys to take him on a dangerous drop into the mountains. Ted, who never could stand the guy, refuses and they come to blows.

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Episode 32

Cougar Mesa

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

An insurance adjuster thinks a plane is being hidden atop Cougar Mesa and did not crash as claimed by the policy holder. Ted and Jim agree to assist in the insurance fraud investigation by jumping on to Cougar Mesa and locating the plane.

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Episode 33

Last Chance

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

While Ted (Larry Pennell) flies over a ghost town to make a routine drop of supplies to a man named Henry Travis (Hank Patterson) who is a prospector, Ted sees Travis makes the drop and then after turning back Travis is gone, Ted parachutes to find Travis, but gets ambushed.

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Episode 34

Log Jam

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

Ripcord unwittingly agree to deliver a load of nitro to clear up a log jam.

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Episode 35

Mile High Triangle

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

A man drowning in gambling debts wants to off his wife to collect on the insurance. After failing to hurl her from his plane he tries to stage a skydiving accident.

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Episode 36

Millionaire Doctor

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

When the son of millionaire Hal Glinders is critically injured in a car accident at a dangerously remote spot in the mountains, Ted and Jim are called in to try and reach the boy with help before he bleeds to death.

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Episode 37

One for the Money

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

When Ripcord is offered $1000 for a job, they "jump" at the chance. But little do they realize they are being played by a gang of ruthless criminals.

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Episode 38

Para-Nurse

Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins

A Para-Nurse named Laura Copeland (Allison Hayes) is on an assignment to help Ted McKeever (Larry Pennell), and Jim Buckley (Ken Curtis) with a Father's young kid who has fallen ill to a fatal lung disease.

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