Ripcord
Operating their skydiving service company "Ripcord", Jim Buckley, Ted McKeever, and Alex Fielding are able to get to places that others can't--and get there much faster. This leads them on many exciting adventures, from chasing bad guys to performing daring rescues. This series inspired the first widespread interest in parachuting as a sport.
- 1961-1963
- 2 seasons
- TGG Direct
- Action & Adventure
Operating their skydiving service company "Ripcord", Jim Buckley, Ted McKeever, and Alex Fielding are able to get to places that others can't--and get there much faster. This leads them on many exciting adventures, from chasing bad guys to performing daring rescues. This series inspired the first widespread interest in parachuting as a sport.
Season 2 Episode Guide
38 Episodes 1962 - 1963
Episode 1
Aerial Backfire
Thu, Oct 18, 1962 30 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
Among Those Missing
Thu, Oct 25, 1962 30 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
Chute to Kill
Mon, Aug 13, 1962 30 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
Day of the Hunter
Mon, Aug 13, 1962 30 mins
While waiting for Ted to arrive with medical supplies for a gunshot hunter, Jim himself comes under fire.
Episode 5
Devil's Canyon
Mon, Aug 13, 1962 30 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
Expose
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 mins
An unscrupulous newspaper man is writing fake news about skydiving in general and Ripcord, Inc. in particular.
Episode 7
The Final Jump
Tue, Apr 16, 1963 30 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
Flight for Life
Mon, Aug 13, 1962 30 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
Flight to Terror
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
A Free Falling Star
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
Hostage Below
Mon, Aug 13, 1962 30 mins
Kidnapper holds an executive's daughter hostage and demands the ransom be air-dropped into the woods.
Episode 12
The Hunter
Mon, Aug 13, 1962 30 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
Infiltration
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 mins
Ted goes undercover to break up a drug trafficking scheme that finds the drugs being parachuted in by gang members.
Episode 14
The Inventor
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
Jump or Die
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
Jump to a Blind Alley
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
Jump to Freedom
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 mins
At an international sky diving competition, a Russian wants help to defect.
Episode 18
Man on a Mountain
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
The Last Chapter
Tue, Jan 15, 1963 30 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
The Losers
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
The Lost Ones
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
The Lost Tribe
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
Million Dollar Drop
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
The Money Mine
Thu, Jan 3, 1963 30 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
Panic at 10,000
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
Picture of Terror
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 mins
The boys work with an adventurous, and creepy, photographer (Dick Sargent) who always happens to be there when a tragedy occurs.
Episode 27
A Present for Felipe
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
The Proud Little Man
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
Race Morgan: Bounty Hunter
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
Reprisal
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 mins
The boys are kidnapped by a criminal couple who plan to ruin a town's water supply.
Episode 31
Run, Joby, Run
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 mins
Ted, who lands in the boonies, injured, is held hostage by the titular hillbilly on the lam.
Episode 32
Semper Paratus Any Time
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 mins
The boys attempt a rescue at sea of a fisherman and his young son.
Episode 33
The Suicide Club
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 mins
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's story about a group of thrill-seekers finding one new member to kill.
Episode 34
The Trouble with Denny Collins
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
The Well
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 mins
First Ted and then Jim are both tricked into flying robbers to a well allegedly containing stolen loot.
Episode 36
Where Do Elephants Go to Die?
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 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
Willie
Tue, Mar 26, 1963 30 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
Wrong Way Down
Tue, Aug 13, 1963 30 mins
The boys are accused of murder and theft of top secret information.