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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Apology

    • August 28, 1979
    • ABC (US)

    In this special preview movie the rescue team of the Sheriff's Aero Bureau and Emergency Services Detail save the occupants of a plane that has crashed into the ocean and a woman trapped on a mountain.

  • S01E02 Stuntman

    • September 3, 1979
    • ABC (US)

    The 240 rescue team have to take drastic action after a famous retired stunt man makes a daring comeback attempt by trying the most death-defying feat of his career.

  • S01E03 Bathysphere

    • September 10, 1979
    • ABC (US)

    The 240 rescue team are forced to act quickly when a speedboat cuts short the test of an experimental diving bell by severing the air lines and imprisoning the two students 120 feet below the surface. In another development, a woman rescued by Thibideaux is an important person in the recording industry and vows to make him a star.

  • S01E04 Models

    • September 17, 1979
    • ABC (US)

    The 240-Robert rescue team faces a harrowing experience when they try to rescue two window washers clinging from a broken scaffold 40 stories up on a skyscraper, while beautiful members of a modeling agency inside the building watch with astonishment.

  • S01E05 Acting Sergeant

    • September 24, 1979
    • ABC (US)

    An isolated mountain cabin becomes a makeshift operating room when Thib is forced to perform emergency surgery on an injured student after the 240 rescue team are stranded by fierce weather and rugged terrain.

  • S01E06 Bank Job

    • October 1, 1979
    • ABC (US)

    A routine dive by Trap and Thib in a reservoir to recover stolen bank money takes a perilous turn when an attendant trips a valve, drawing Trap toward a huge drain that could crush him to death.

  • S01E07 Out of Sight

    • October 15, 1979
    • ABC (US)

    Thib's career seems to be over when he loses his sight after a high-speed crash, and two doped-up kids in a car turn a gas station into a deadly inferno.

  • S01E08 Time Bomb

    • October 22, 1979
    • ABC (US)

    Trap wants to transfer because Morgan is about to become the unit's first woman sergeant, but Trap and Thib must first cope with a lion running wild in the streets, and then face underwater death when given just seconds to disarm a time-bomb set to blow up an oil tanker.

  • S01E09 Double Trouble

    • October 29, 1979
    • ABC (US)

    Trap and Thib receive some unusual support from sun worshipers at a nude beach as they attempt to rescue one of the nudists trapped in an awkward position, and Morgan is forced into a deadly situation when she must crash-land her chopper with two young boys aboard.

  • S01E10 Poison Air

    • November 5, 1979
    • ABC (US)

    After the spectacular rescue of a panic-stricken woman stranded in a hot air balloon, Trap suits up for a pleasure dive with Morgan, unaware that a vengeful youth has spiked his air tanks with poison gas, and Thib undertakes a desperate off-shore race against time to save his buddy.

  • S01E11 Earthquake

    • November 19, 1979
    • ABC (US)

    An earthquake rocks the county, spelling disaster and almost certain death for Trap and Thib when they become sealed in an underwater cave with two stunning but frightened models, as the water rises and a voracious moray eel goes on the prowl.

  • S01E12 The Applicant

    • November 26, 1979
    • ABC (US)

    In a spectacular rescue high atop a collapsing Ferris wheel, Trap and Thib receive some daring support from a stunning policewoman, but then they're confronted by terrifying jaws of death when they must save a brash new member of the unit who panics in shark-infested waters.

  • S01E13 Oil and Water

    • December 3, 1979
    • ABC (US)

    A man in a hang glider entangled in power lines brings Thib perilously close to a high-voltage death and Trap starts playing detective when he learns about Morgan's new love life.

Season 2

  • S02E01 A Cool Welcome

    • March 7, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Trap gets a brash new young partner, named Cueva, and the unit also gets a new helicopter pilot named Harper.

  • S02E02 First Loss

    • March 14, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Cueva is stranded on a mountainside with a heart attack patient after the chopper he's riding in crashes; while the 240 Robert teams search for them before it's too late.

  • S02E03 Hostages

    • March 21, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Trap and Sandy are stuck inside a bank when a robbery becomes a standoff with police.