The Master Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Max

Fri, Jan 20, 198460 mins

In the opening episode of this series John Peter McAllister is introduced as an American who remained in Japan after the War and became a Ninja. He has just discovered he has a daughter after many years and decides to go to America to find her. On his way out he is wounded by a former protégé who vows to track him down to stop him from breaking the Ninja code. Meanwhile in America in the town of Ellerston a drifter and wannabe hero Max Keller runs into a girl who flags him down on the road. Apparently the girl was being attacked or come on to be a corrupt Sheriff. Max saves her and learns that the girl, Holly Trumbull and her father own an airport which is trying to be closed and bought out by a scheming land developer. The Master meanwhile arrives and runs in to trouble with the sheriff at the bar. The Master demonstrates his amazing skill to Max during a fight in the bar with the Sheriff and other hoodlums. Max decides he wants to become a ninja. Arson to the Trumbull's Airport causes even more problems for the heroes as the team up to stop the evil land developer and his cohorts. Max tags along with the Master in hopes of becoming a Ninja and to also help him find his daughter.

Episode 2

Out-of-Time-Step

Fri, Jan 27, 198445 mins

Following a lead on his daughter's whereabouts, the Master and his apprentice look to meet up with Kelly Patterson, a dancer at a nightclub owned by her father. However, this nightclub is in danger of being taken over by corrupt business men from Chinatown, who are protected by Okasa. Aided by Kelly's handicapped sister, it's up to the crime fighting duo to save the nightclub and hopefully find another clue that will lead to the Master's daughter.

Episode 3

State of the Union

Fri, Feb 3, 198448 mins

The Master and his apprentice stop in their search for McAllister's daughter to refuel their funds. However, upon losing a dirt bike race, Keller tries to pick up a few day's work at a local cannery. There he meets a cute young union organizer, whose cause is threatened by the cannery's sadistic boss and his thirst for violent control over everything around him. It's up to the Master and his apprentice to help her make things right with their bag of tricks and a few wheelies.

Episode 4

Hostages

Fri, Feb 10, 1984

After saving her from a runaway sports car, Keller and McAllister are invited by a rambling blonde to a black tie garden party hosted by her father, an influential senator. However, the party is crashed by more than just Okasa when a terrorist organization swoops down and kidnaps the senator and a number of hostages in the hopes of trading them for the release of political prisoners. Aided by an old rival/acquaintance, McAllister and Keller must infiltrate the terrorist stronghold and rescue the prisoners before their time runs out.

Episode 5

High Rollers

Fri, Mar 2, 1984

Master and Max go to a Vegas casino to visit Max's showgirl friend only to find themselves in the middle of a heist.

Episode 6

Fat Tuesday

Fri, Mar 9, 1984

Episode 7

Juggernaut

Fri, Mar 16, 1984

John and Max are in a town where farmers are being terrorized by the owner of a trucking company who wants half of their take for running their produce into town. Meanwhile, each finds themselves taken with a feisty mother and daughter.

Episode 8

The Good, the Bad, and the Priceless

Fri, Mar 23, 1984

John, Max and Cat go to New York to find John's daughter. They find her but what they don't know is that the girl they think is her daughter is an impostor.

Episode 9

Kunoichi

Fri, Apr 6, 1984

Max and McAllister travel to Washington D.C. to help a reporter named Allison Grant and uncover an assassination plot of a high ranking official. Max and McAllister discover that Osaka is part of the plot with a mysterious front man and learn that Osaka has a pupil in training, who turns out to be a female ninja to their surprise tasked to carry out the plot during a public music concert.

Episode 10

The Java Tiger

Fri, Apr 13, 198448 mins

Max Keller and John Peter McAllister travel to Hawaii to help the daughter of a murdered friend recover half of a treasure map to an island that he owned that could contain great wealth.

Episode 11

Failure to Communicate

Fri, May 4, 1984

Max Keller and John Peter McAllister travel back to Max's old haunts where his father, Patrick, who's a drunken alcoholic lawyer lives and works with his blind assistant, Laura Crane, still grieving over the loss of Max's mother and brother. Immediately they see a bunch of goons going after a beautiful blonde named Kathy Hunter, who they rescue at a local cemetery and bring her home to her father, who's a wealthy banker. Soon it is revealed that Kathy is part of a kidnapping plot involving Max's father and the mysterious person calling the shots, who maybe close to Kathy herself. Okasa also looms closely behind trying once again to eliminate McAllister.

Episode 12

Rogues

Fri, Aug 10, 198447 mins

Max and McAllister travel to another one of Max's old haunts where he searches for an old high school girlfriend who might be working at a local gym in Los Angeles. Soon the duo find trouble when a man is harassing a Max's friend and learn that he's an LAPD cop working a case involving her brother, who has gone into hiding and sends cryptic messages to her to learn his whereabouts. It turns out he's gone into hiding from a group of rogue police officers trying to silence him and eventually take her hostage. Max and McAllister soon have to take them on to get her back alive.

Episode 13

A Place to Call Home

Fri, Aug 31, 198460 mins

Max and McAllister rescue an orphan kid from a nearby Church who has stolen something valuable from a local store that turns out to lead back a group of corrupt locals trying to get the kids out of the town along with their foster mother. They soon encounter some dangerous thugs in the process.