Ripcord

- Season 1

(1961)

Jim interrupts Ted's pleasant day eyeing pretty girls (and being ogled in return) with the news they've been hired to deliver valuable supplies and equipment to a team prospecting deep in Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains. At a trading post, Ted prevents another prospector from taking a valuable instrument crucial to the success of his clients, with near tragic results.

Betty Rhodes, star performer of Justin Rock's air carnival, is eager to have Ted and Jim join their team. Ted and Jim don't want to jump for kicks, however, but they soon must jump to save Rock's life when his parachute gear is sabotaged.

Ted takes under his wing a spoiled rich juvenile delinquent and his two stooges, who are attempting to impress a young woman skydiving student.

McKeever, Buckley and an old Navy friend and his corps of jumpers join forces and race against the clock to find a diabetic woman abandoned in a canyon by her kidnappers.

Ted and Jim desperately try to rescue a young singer who was seriously injured in an aerial jump, promoted by his publicity-hungry agent.

Ted and Jim are hired by a lawyer to help prove that his client, now on death row, is not guilty of his wife's murder by parachuting to her remote mountain home and gathering the evidence he believes is there in time to stop the execution.

Taking place more on the ground than above this time, Ted and Jim (in a car) have to pick up a top secret device to give to a scientist, and are tailed by a couple of men in suits while being distracted by a mysterious blonde.

Ripcord, Inc. is brought under suspicion of murder and espionage when a former student of theirs parachutes into a top security laboratory at night, kills a scientist, and tries to make off with important secrets.

When Ted is kidnapped by a mentally disturbed client of theirs, Jim must make a risky jump into the Mexican wilderness at night to rescue him, guided only by a small hand-held radio signal that Ted was able to set off.

Ripcord is hired by a team of uranium prospectors to drop supplies to them, but when Ted and Jim are about to make the drop, they notice all three men sprawled on the ground below them. Concerned, Ted jumps in to investigate and encounters a deadly welcome at the camp.

Ted and Jim are hired to make one of their most difficult jumps: on to a deserted cargo ship abandoned on a reef in the ocean. It's a matter of time for the owners to claim the derelict ship before a greedy salvage outfit gets there first.

Carl Sexton, an old acquaintance of Ted and Jim's now in the FBI, approaches them for help in preventing his own father, a prominent scientist, defect to the Communists before it's too late.

When Ted and Jim angrily flunk radar operator Bill Kirk from their sky diving school, they little dream they will have to put their lives in his hands to effect a daring rescue of a downed pilot and his little daughter in dangerous fog, guided only by radar.

Chuck Lambert, Ripcord's pilot, is in serious trouble when his plane crashes and the man he was flying is killed. Drugs were found in Chuck's possession, yet he insists the drugs were his passenger's who also caused the crash, but unless Jim and Ted can help, the dead man's brother will see Chuck grounded and prosecuted.

Speed Domaine, an old soldier Ted and Jim know from the army, wants his son Billy to learn sky-diving to prove he's a man, in spite of Billy's resistance to the idea. But when they jump into a canyon the army uses for target practice and Speed breaks his leg, Billy, wins new respect from his father by saving the old man's life, with the help of Ripcord.

While visiting the race track, Ted and Jim are unexpectedly hired by Margo Kane to rescue her prize thoroughbred horse which is trapped in a box canyon.

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.

Ted and Jim jump into a job only to be taken hostage by an escaped convict.

Jim jumps into a mountain cabin with a medical supply delivery only to end up being taken hostage along with the doctor. Fortunately, Jim brought a radio and looks for an opportunity to send a message without tipping off the baddies.

A former student of the skydiving school commits suicide shortly after graduating. Or did he? An insurance investigator is not so sure and enlists Jim and Ted's assistance with the investigation.

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Ted and Jim join in on the search for a missing girl. Things get complicated when the girl's father flips out and goes on a murderous rampage.

Ripcord must search a crash site for top secret papers. Finding the papers will be the easy part because, of course, the bad guys want the papers too.

Ripcord must deliver Dr. Hagen to a remote cabin for a medical emergency. Conditions are rough but they think Dr. Hagen can handle it since he was a war hero. However, they discover that he is terrified and may not be able to handle it.

Ripcord helps a businessman recover a valuable briefcase from rocky terrain before thugs get to it using a helicopter.

Beautiful spoiled rich girl gets banned from Ripcord for not following the rules. Later, she uses her feminine wiles on Chuck to make him take her to rough terrain for an unauthorized jump. Trouble ensues.

While on their way to Cape Canaveral for a job, the airplane Ted and Jim are on is hi-jacked by Communist agents intending to kidnap an important scientist.

When a woman is kidnapped, Ted, Jim, and a minister join in the search for her.

When Ted and Jim are in a hurry to start a job, Charlie Kern oddly keeps trying to stall them.

An old Army superior shows up wanting the boys to take him on a dangerous drop into the mountains. Ted, who never could stand the guy, refuses and they come to blows.

An insurance adjuster thinks a plane is being hidden atop Cougar Mesa and did not crash as claimed by the policy holder. Ted and Jim agree to assist in the insurance fraud investigation by jumping on to Cougar Mesa and locating the plane.

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.

Ripcord unwittingly agree to deliver a load of nitro to clear up a log jam.

A man drowning in gambling debts wants to off his wife to collect on the insurance. After failing to hurl her from his plane he tries to stage a skydiving accident.

When the son of millionaire Hal Glinders is critically injured in a car accident at a dangerously remote spot in the mountains, Ted and Jim are called in to try and reach the boy with help before he bleeds to death.

When Ripcord is offered $1000 for a job, they "jump" at the chance. But little do they realize they are being played by a gang of ruthless criminals.

A Para-Nurse named Laura Copeland (Allison Hayes) is on an assignment to help Ted McKeever (Larry Pennell), and Jim Buckley (Ken Curtis) with a Father's young kid who has fallen ill to a fatal lung disease.