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38 Episodes 1962 - 1963
Episode 1
Thu, Oct 18, 196230 mins
McKeever and Buckley are asked to help fight a massive forest fire by parachuting in behind the fire, and creating a fire break -- and find a young boy and his dog.
Episode 2
Thu, Oct 25, 196230 mins
A prisoner downs a police plane, and McKeever and Beckley are asked to jump into the wilderness and clear a landing strip for the police manhunt.
Episode 3
Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins
When Jill Kelly, an old flame of Jim's, comes into his life again, she asks his help in testing a new kind of parachute she feels will be worth much money if perfected. Ted, however, feels the chute is impractical and unsafe, and tries to keep Jim from falling prey to Jill's persuasions, who ultimately cares more for her money plans than for Jim's life.
Episode 4
Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins
While waiting for Ted to arrive with medical supplies for a gunshot hunter, Jim himself comes under fire.
Episode 5
Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins
Inmate escapes from prison and is bent on revenge. The man he blames for his prison sentence is camping in Devil's Canyon so he enlists Ripcord to parachute him into the canyon. Of course, the boys have no idea he is a murderer.
Episode 6
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
An unscrupulous newspaper man is writing fake news about skydiving in general and Ripcord, Inc. in particular.
Episode 7
Tue, Apr 16, 196330 mins
Tom Mathison is David, a young man who finds out from fellow teen campers that his father was not a hero who died in combat in Korea, but rather a gangster. He angrily runs away to a nearby family cabin, and armed with rifle, threatens to shoot anyone who approaches. Ted (Larry Pennell) and Jim (Ken Curtis) agree to help by skydiving to the cabin, but David's father "Doctor" Partlow (Grant Richards) shows up and wants to go after David by himself, warning that he will shoot anyone who tries to interfere.
Episode 8
Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins
When sent to rescue an injured mountain climber, Jim must play surgeon when conditions are too difficult for the doctor to jump.
Episode 9
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
When Ted and Jim are flying and observe a downed plane, they jump to investigate. They find a severely injured man, but another man has a gun and takes them hostage.
Episode 10
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
A down-and-out singer tries to recharge his career -- and his relationship with the wife he abandoned 10 years earlier -- by skydiving at a county fair.
Episode 11
Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins
Kidnapper holds an executive's daughter hostage and demands the ransom be air-dropped into the woods.
Episode 12
Fri, Feb 9, 196230 mins
Man with an Ahab complex seeks vengeance upon the cougar who killed his friend and hires Ripcord to take him high up into the mountains to hunt and kill the big cat. Or -- is something else going on?
Episode 13
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
Ted goes undercover to break up a drug trafficking scheme that finds the drugs being parachuted in by gang members.
Episode 14
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
A girl is so eager to test her father's automatic ripcord invention that she lies and finagles her way into testing the invention herself -- with nearly fatal results.
Episode 15
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
When Charlie Kern, Ripcord's pilot, begins giving flying lessons, his first client turns out to be an accomplice in a bank robbery who kidnaps him and his plane in order to escape the law.
Episode 16
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
When Ripcord unknowingly assists an escaped convict to elude pursuit, Jim, feeling responsible, tries to follow him, and ends up jumping into a dangerous situation, with Ted close behind him.
Episode 17
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
At an international sky diving competition, a Russian wants help to defect.
Episode 18
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
Ted jumps to a remote area to free up a mountain land slide -- and finds a wanted man who's sick with Small Pox.
Episode 19
Tue, Jan 15, 196330 mins
While instructing their pretty client Tanya Rovag, Ted and Jim become involved in trying to save her father's life from assassination by Communists, who are unwilling to let him publish the political exposé he has been secretly writing in the mountains.
Episode 20
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
Two uranium prospectors think they have struck it rich but all they really have is radiation poisoning. When they turn on each other, Ted and Jim save them from themselves.
Episode 21
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
Jim nearly dies in an aerial trick, and doesn't want to jump again. Ted's on a job, and ends up hanging on the edge of a cliff, and Jim needs to come to his rescue.
Episode 22
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
Two anthropologists speculate that a lost Aztec tribe still exists in a very remote location in Mexico. They enlist Ted and Jim to help them access the remote location.
Episode 23
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
A pilot pushes a man out of a plane along with a bag of loot, and has to get the money on time before the boys catch him.
Episode 24
Thu, Jan 3, 196330 mins
A group of crooks (including Lee Van Cleef) seek gold in an old mine, and need the boys to get them there.
Episode 25
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
When two politicians, scheduled to make a personal appearance at an air show, take off in a private plane, they are too busy arguing to notice that they've left their parachutes behind. When their landing gear is discovered to be faulty, it is up to Ted and Jim, also appearing at the air show, to figure out a way of rescuing them both.
Episode 26
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
The boys work with an adventurous, and creepy, photographer (Dick Sargent) who always happens to be there when a tragedy occurs.
Episode 27
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
The boys deal with an eccentric and very beautiful Mexican daredevil skydiver (Barbara Luna) in search of her cousin Felipe, who may not even exist.
Episode 28
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
Faithful pilot Charlie Kern (Shug Fisher) starts seeing blurry while in flight, but can't admit the problem to himself or the guys, hence the "Proud Little Man" title.
Episode 29
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
Ted and Jim help a bounty hunter capture a murderous tax cheat. But the bounty hunter is hiding something from the boys.
Episode 30
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
The boys are kidnapped by a criminal couple who plan to ruin a town's water supply.
Episode 31
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
Ted, who lands in the boonies, injured, is held hostage by the titular hillbilly on the lam.
Episode 32
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
The boys attempt a rescue at sea of a fisherman and his young son.
Episode 33
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's story about a group of thrill-seekers finding one new member to kill.
Episode 34
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
Denny Collins is an aspiring student at Ripcord. But his mother is opposed to this, so Denny forges her signature on the jump release form. She is a powerful attorney, so when she finds out she has Ripcord grounded.
Episode 35
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
First Ted and then Jim are both tricked into flying robbers to a well allegedly containing stolen loot.
Episode 36
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
After a recent health scare, Nobel-Prize-winning author and former Korean War correspondent Aaron Sparks asks his friends and comrades-in-arms Ted and Jim to teach him how to skydive, for research for a new novel. But is that the real reason for his interest in this dangerous sport?
Episode 37
Tue, Mar 26, 196330 mins
A parachute club picks a road construction worker to teach how to skydive after a bet is placed between the head of the club and a reckless skydiver.The bet is that anybody can learn to skydive in 30 days.
Episode 38
Sat, Feb 9, 196330 mins
The boys are accused of murder and theft of top secret information.