Ripcord - Episode Guide

Ted Mckeever and Jim Buckly are not exactly jumping for joy-they do it for a living as partners in Sky Divers Inc. an outfit that hires out for aerial jumps. In this premiere episode Ted and Jim are on their way to Central Mexico with an instrument urgently needed by a group of geologists.

A beautiful pilot, Betty Shannon, member of an accident-plagued air circus tries to get Ted and Jim into the act. The pretty aviatrix tries to lure Ted and Jim into signing up with the Justin Rock air circus.

Ted and Jim try to clear themselves of murder. "The Assassin," Burt Reynolds, infiltrates an industrial complex. Former big star Richard Arlen shows up (to good advantage), before a big mid-air parachute fight (pretty cool) and a sky hook snatch (remarkable).

Ted and Jim jump into treacherous canyon country to rescue Matador, a thoroughbred trapped amid the rocks.

Ted and Jim, on an expedition to recover a space capsule at sea, are aboard a C-47 when it's hi-jacked by men who intend to kidnap a rocket expert in "Hijack."

Skydiving into an inaccessible ski resort, Jim is trapped in a declivity, as he and Ted seek the body of Jean Bartram, a woman who is presumed murdered by her husband.

Ian Kendrick is private medic to a millionaire, Hal Glinders. When Glinder's son is trapped in a terrain, Kendrick parachutes to his rescue.

Jay Coates, a zealous jumper, pulls Chuck (Paul Comi) into danger as the pilot attempt to stop him from jumping. Chuck is in a bad spot when narcotics are found on him after the accident.

Archaeologist,Gustave Merril holds Ted McKeever captive. He is kidnapped by an archaeologist eager to get his hands on an Aztec death mask.

Kidnappers hold electronicist Brandon Oliver hostage and demand a special ransom: Brandon Oliver's highly valuable new gadget. 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.

McKeever and Buckley fly a charge of nitroglycerin over a logging area to break up a log jam

A man kidnaps a rancher's wife. McKeever and Buckley become involved when a skydiving Reverend who is a protege of McKeever is also captured by the abductor.

McKeever's pilot brushes up on his commando training to save a girl from a public enemy.

The Sky Divers are hired by an insurance company to discover if the death of a millionaire was suicide.

Skydivers McKeever and Buckley para-jump into a missile target area in a desperate effort to rescue a man and his son.

Fugitive criminal Steve Danton (Lane Bradford) forces Chuck Lambert to take him aloft in the Skydivers, Inc., plane, leaving Ted McKeever and Jim Buckley grounded.

Ted McKeever's skydiving pupil Suzy Thomas runs afoul of a gang of hot-rodders. Puzzled and angered by the young men's attitude Ted steps into action.

Ted, captured by a claim jumper, looks for a way to signal Jim. 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.

An ex-paratrooper, on the run from the law, holes up in a mountain cabin and holds Jim Buckley captive. Buckley tries to escape by using the walkie-talkie radio.

A desperate father, believing he's on the trail of a man he thinks kidnaped his child, is bent on murder.

Eric Askley substitutes a dummy parachute for the one his wife packs for her first attempt at sky diving.

McKeever and Buckley skydive with some medicine to a Central American epidemic area where natives steal their survival kits.

Even though Shug Fisher's pilot, Charlie Kern, has been seen in previous episodes (shown out of production order, obviously), this is his introductory outing: Hagen Charm, from Lee Erwin. A surprisingly involving entry where football/war/medical "hero" Dr. Arthur Franz (underrated, and always good), confesses he's a coward--he can't jump and save his dying son because he's lost the family lucky charm: "The Spanish Stone."

Important documents, lost on an inaccessible mountain top must be read by Ted over the DARB, while airborne stenographer Dyan Cannon transcribes them, hopefully in time to avoid a rival company's contract bid.

Laura Cokely, a paranurse comes to hire the service of the skydivers. She wants to sky dive into a far woody zone where a boy with breathing problems requires assistance. Henry was also involved in the "Para-Nurse" episode, in which McKeever and a female nurse are the heroes who need to render medical aid to a sick boy in an inaccessible area at night.

Jim (Ken Curtis) is duped into accompanying a young recording star on a dangerous publicity stunt.

Commies are hinted when FBI agent Robert Clarke fears his scientist father Paul Birch is going over to "the common cause."

Jim mounts a rescue operation after Ted falls into the hands of a mobster.

Ted and Jim mistake the Sapphire for the good ship Caroline. The boys, all set to sky/scuba dive for sunken treasure, land on the wrong boat, where Israeli agents (although they're not identified as so) Sylvia and Arsheim have kidnapped none other than Adolph Eichmann's personal aide, Brunner.

Big shot Wally Griffin turns out to be not quite so big when it comes to his cheating wife. In this afternoon's story, "Elegy for a Hero," Ted McKeever tries to help an old army pal who has become a national hero. But both he and his colleague Jim find that it is not at all easy being a hero.

An insurance company retains Ted and Jim to investigate a claim involving an allegedly stolen plane.

Kidnapers abandon diabetic Cynthia Roberts in the mountains when she succumbs to an insulin coma.

An ex-con tries to help Ted elude a killer named Cort after Ted and Jim arrive to investigate the suspicious deaths of three uranium prospectors.

A man named Anderson and his daughter get lost amid a cloudburst and then a crash is heard. Ted, Jim and Chuck are nearby and attend the distress call from Anderson. A hot-tempered radar navigator is determined to even the score with Ted, who expelled him from jump school.

Diplomatic secrets are lost when a U. N. diplomat dies in a plane crash. McKeever and Buckley dive into the hazardous area to retrieve the vital papers.

Ted McKeever hires pilot Charlie Kern to fly him to a jump target on a commercial mission. Soon, Ted suspects Charlie of sabotage when the pilot creates difficulties to prevent a take-off. Charlie's bunion tells him bad weather is coming in a clear blue sky.

An industrialist hires McKeever and Buckley to make a dangerous parajump to deliver priceless cargo. Guided by carefully written instructions, the Ripcord jumpers run afoul of serious opposition.

The Ripcord team is hired by Cliff Street, a man who says that he is seeking revenge on a mountain lion responsible for his partner's killing.

The skydivers have one of their most trying and exciting experiences while trying to salvage a ship loaded with high explosives. The boys land on a deserted ship and clash with salvage skipper Leach. The cargo? TNT and nitro.

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.

Ted and Jim meet Race Morgan, a likeable rascal, who makes a business of bringing in criminals to the police for the reward they carry.

Ted and Jim get involved in a political feud at the opening ceremonies of an airport. Two men have to bale out, but there is only one parachute. Ted and Jim solve this problem in their own way.

A man kidnaps the daughter of a wealthy man and demands the pay off to be dropped by sky divers. Ted and Jim plan to trap the kidnaper.

Dope runner Hervey Stanton has a unique method of smuggling heroin into the U. S. by a parachutist. McKeever signs on to jump for the smugglers in order to find out who receives the heroin.

Ted and Jim drop into the mountain to blast out a landing strip for a search team. A lawman and an escaped convict disappear when their plane crashes in the mountains.

Ted McKeever and Jim Buckley answer the "Mayday" of a gangster when the fugitive's plane makes a forced landing near the Mexican border. Gangster Louis Santee and his wife are fleeing toward the Mexican border one jump ahead of Senate investigators.

A munitions magnate is shot by his chief chemist and left for dead.

McKeever end Buckley make a strange venture into the the desert. Even geiger-counters can sometimes be misleading. Ted and Jim do their best to convince two uranium prospectors that they have not struck lucky.

Ted and Jim are to be the entertainment for a birthday party with a skydive and are mystified when they land and find neither the guest of honor nor his friends. Domi Dias, a Latin American woman, had planned a fiesta for an old friend.

Ted and Jim sky dive into a canyon to warn a businessman of an escaped convict who intends to kill him.

A mining company engages McKeever and Buckley to drop heavy equipment at the site of an old mine in an inaccessible mountain region and the two discover they are transporting counterfeit money.

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.

Colonel Jans Rovag, a refugee from a country bordering the Iron Curtain, starts writing an expose of Communist tactics in his homeland and seeks the help of Ripcord

Ted is injured during a jump into the Tennessee hills and meets more trouble when he discovers a young boy who has just stolen money and is attempting to leave the hills.

A parachutist, dropped from a plane bearing the Ripcord insignia, lands in a restricted research area and steals top secret defense information. He is a murderous saboteur trying to pin his crimes on Ted and Jim.

Cheyenne Bronson, a singing cowboy, attempts to learn skydiving and McKeever and Buckley are unaware of the star's poor health.

Two youngsters plot to blow up the town's hydroelectric dam and, for consultation on "special work," they call in McKeever and Buckley.

McKeever and Buckley teach a young geologist and her assitant to dive so they can reach inaccesilble terraln, but the sceintists fall into unmapped terrain and become the prisoners of a long-lost tribe descended from the Aztecs.

Jill Kelly, a lovely daredevil is determined to test an experimental parachute. She is a skydiving newspaperwoman who will do anything to get her story.

A couple makes a bet about skydiving. Nick bets that she can't train any normal guy to be a skydiver. Evvie picks Willie, a construction worker. Ted and Jim teach the local boy to parachute, without much hope of success-but he finally surprises them.

Ted McKeever joins an insurance investigator in search of a stolen payroll.

The district attorney slaps an injunction on Ripcord, grounding all jumpers, pilots, and students. The plaintiff is a lawyer whose son has signed with Ripcord to learn parachuting instead of going to law school.

Jim and Ted volunteer for a search for David Thurston, a young boy believed lost in the woods.

The boys are suspicious of Frank Webb, a photographer who keeps in the chips by his unerring ability to forecast disasters.

A teen-ager takes a near fatal skydive in order to save her inventor father from ruin.

Jim puts his flares to good use when confronted by a tricky situation. An old man breaks out of jail to go to his dying friend, and he cons Ripcord Inc. into flying beyond their reach.

Charlie begins to give flying lessons but picks the wrong pupil: a woman who shanghais pilot Charlie Kern to help her sons with their first job---a bank robbery.

World sky-diving trials are being held in Mexico where Ted and Jim take a long overdue vacation. Ted and Jim meet a Russian who wants to defect while they're attending the World Skydiving Trials in Mexico.

Ted McKeever is sent out to undo the damage caused by a landslide, but he finds that it is due to more than natural reasons. Ted finds a wanted man who's sick with Small Pox.

Ted and Jim become fall guys in a clairvoyant's version of Russian roulette.

A million dollars lying on the open desert, but it is death for the first man who finds it. Ted and Jim find themselves in an air race with two outlaws. The prize: $1000000 in cash.

Two men are seriousy injured in a mountain-climbing accident. One, crawling to get help, is picked up by a motorist who delivers him to a hospital. Police hear his story and call Ripcord to help find the second man.

Jim concocts an elaborate scheme to rehabilitate a pilot who goes half blind, but the scheme backfires.

The Coast Guard calls on Ripcord to help find a boy and his sick father lost at sea.

Allison Hartford, a hackwriter, attacks Ripcord, Inc. as unsafe and is tricked by Ted and Jim into-- of all things-- skydiving.

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?