B.J. and the Bear

- Season 1

(1979)

B. J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.

B.J. is tricked into returning to Orly County, where he's quickly arrested and imprisoned by the unscrupulous Sheriff Lobo. B.J. and his fellow falsely accused prisoners plot a jailbreak and a mad dash for the county line.

B.J.'s truck is hijacked by three beautiful sisters. They need B.J.'s rig and his help in order to make a big moonshine run that will raise money for their ailing father's operation.

It was a dark and stormy night when B.J and the Bear drove two Transylvanian coffins from Frisco to L.A., meeting up along the way with murder, mayhem and maybe even Count Dracula.

B.J. is hired by a lady to transport to Washington DC a deadly virus that she stole so she can present it to Congress as proof that her company is conducting highly illegal and potentially lethal research.

It's a three-ring circus for B.J. and the Bear when they're made monkeys in the middle between a shady circus promoter, nasty gangsters, and a daredevil motorcycle stunt woman with a heart of gold.

It's an "unbearable" situation for B.J. when Sheriff Lobo kidnaps Bear in order to lure B.J. back into Orly County.

B.J. is pressured by his former military buddies to help pull off a gold heist in order to save their veteran's charity.

The college students who hire BJ to haul equipment for a talent show secretly plan to his rig as a gambling casino.

B.J. runs afoul of Clearwater's power broker Jason T. Rockman when he agrees to take Dr. Winters and a group of her mental patients to a local carnival.

Deputy Perkins serves B.J. a subpoena too appear in court to testify against sheriff Lobo. During the trial B.J. is arrested. Lobo lets B.J. escape and tells him to leave town. B.J. doesn't leave town but instead helps to stop Harry Cunningham who is cutting cost on a dam project by diluting cement.