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Season 1

  • SPECIAL 0x5 The Foundlings (1)

    • October 4, 1978
    • NBC

  • SPECIAL 0x6 The Foundlings (2)

    • October 4, 1978
    • NBC

  • S01E01 Odyssey of the Shady Truth

    • February 10, 1979
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E02 Shine On

    • February 24, 1979
    • NBC

    Three young ladies abduct BJ and force him to work in an illegal still,asserting that they need money for their sick father.

  • S01E03 A Coffin with a View

    • March 10, 1979
    • NBC

    B.J. is contracted to haul two coffins that will be in a vampire movie.

  • S01E04 Deadly Cargo

    • March 17, 1979
    • NBC

    B.J. helps a women escape a big corporation making deadly chemical bio agent

  • S01E05 Never Give a Trucker an Even Break

    • March 24, 1979
    • NBC

    B.J. helps a girl who works for a motorcycle stunt circuit

  • S01E06 Lobo's Revenge

    • April 7, 1979
    • NBC

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

  • S01E07 The Murphy Contingent

    • April 14, 1979
    • NBC

    Facing an eviction, the murphy contingent devise a plan which BJ disapproves

  • S01E08 Wheels of Fortune

    • April 21, 1979
    • NBC

    B.J. is hired to haul for a fraternity and later discovers it was gambling equipment

  • S01E09 Crackers

    • April 28, 1979
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E10 Lobo

    • May 5, 1979
    • NBC

    B.J. testifies at Sheriff Lobo's trial.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Snow White and the Seven Lady Truckers (1)

    • September 29, 1979
    • NBC

    The boss of a trucking syndicate pursues B.J. to get rid of his competition. B.J.looks for assistance of some lady truckers.

  • S02E02 Snow White and the Seven Lady Truckers (2)

    • October 6, 1979
    • NBC

    The Hi-Ballers under new leader Riker are relentless in their pursuit of B.J. and the Piston Packin' Mamas, especially after word gets out that B.J., Snow White, and the lady truckers are hauling truckloads of money for the Treasury Dept.

  • S02E03 Cain's Cruiser

    • October 13, 1979
    • NBC

    A team has made a super computer police car that can tell everything wrong with vehicles, generating huge $$ for police dept's, FBI, etc. They target and harass BJ McKay and others to put them out of business. BJ and his friends decide to fight back against this car that seems to know their every step.

  • S02E04 Pogo Lil

    • October 20, 1979
    • NBC

    A female trucker in debt to a loan shark pledges him winnings from a truck race she now must win.

  • S02E05 Cain's Son-in-Law

    • October 27, 1979
    • NBC

    When B.J. rescues a young lady from an assailant it hits Captain Cain where he lives.

  • S02E06 Run For The Money

    • November 3, 1979
    • NBC

    All of B.J.'s greatest adversaries are assembled in Las Vegas for a Sheriff's Convention when a criminal gang stages an ambitious and inventive robbery of the Dunes Casino. Caught near incriminating evidence, B.J. is the prime suspect. (Part I of a three-part epic that continued on The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo.)

  • S02E07 The Eyes of Texas

    • November 10, 1979
    • NBC

    B.J. helps two detectives stop a criminal preying on wealthy widows in New Orleans.

  • S02E08 Mary Ellen

    • November 17, 1979
    • NBC

    B.J.comes to the assistance of a young women and her grandpa who need to transport an elephant

  • S02E09 Gasohol

    • November 24, 1979
    • NBC

    After sabotage cuts off his fuel supply, B.J. converts his rig to run on moonshine.

  • S02E10 B.J.'s Sweethearts

    • December 1, 1979
    • NBC

    B.J. is rescued by a lovely women in a raging storm,but her jealous husband missinterprets the good deed.

  • S02E11 Fly a Wild Horse

    • December 8, 1979
    • NBC

    B.J. helps an indian stop wild horses from being slaughtered for profit.

  • S02E12 Silent Night, Unholy Night

    • December 15, 1979
    • NBC

    On christmas,Judge Spencer is in an accident, B.J. saves him and takes him to his house, but this good action will embroil him in a mess.

  • S02E13 Fire in the Hole

    • January 12, 1980
    • NBC

    B.J. brokers a reconciliation between Lil and her estranged father while also assisting Lil in fending off a crooked mining executive and his goons who are determined to lay claim to her gold mine.

  • S02E14 Siege

    • January 19, 1980
    • NBC

    Machine-gun-wielding mercenaries storm the Country Comfort truck stop and hold its occupants hostage, including the Panhandle Pussycats, cheerleaders for a popular football team. Will B.J. come through in time?

  • S02E15 Through the Past, Darkly

    • January 26, 1980
    • NBC

    A mental patient escapes from an institution and beseeches help from B.J.to clear her name in a murder rap investigation. She stands accused of killing her husband

  • S02E16 Bear Bondage

    • February 2, 1980
    • NBC

    When Bear becomes ill B.J. takes him to a vet and is subsequently told that he has died. However it turns out that the vet is secretly selling animals to a laboratory and Bear is still alive.

  • S02E17 B.J. and the Witch

    • February 9, 1980
    • NBC

    B.J. befriends a woman who is suspected of being a witch by the people from the town in which she lives. They have to deal with a plot to get rid of her that is hatched by the supersticious locals.

  • S02E18 The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful

    • February 16, 1980
    • NBC

    A biker looking to get back his impounded bike and an old girlfriend brings his gang to Bishop County.

  • S02E19 The Girls on the Hollywood High

    • February 23, 1980
    • NBC

    BJ's sister is kidnapped by the rebel truckers

  • S02E20 The 18-Wheel Rip-Off

    • March 22, 1980
    • NBC

    B.J. is arrested by a lady cop, while the sheriff and his deputies devote to themselves to ransack the truck.

  • S02E21 The Friendly Double Cross

    • March 29, 1980
    • NBC

    B.J. arrives in Florida and reunites with an old pal, a renown smuggler. Due to strange circumstances, B.J. ends up embroiled in the guy's shady deals.

Season 3

  • S03E01 B.J. and the Seven Lady Truckers (1)

    • January 13, 1981
    • NBC

    B.J. helps a friend get a contract for his business and finds out there is some competition

  • S03E02 B.J. and the Seven Lady Truckers (2)

    • January 13, 1981
    • NBC

    B.J. and his convoy of lady truckers trek to San Francisco. Captain Grant declares war on B.J. and Bear Enterprises, establishing the conflict that will span this third and final season.

  • S03E03 The Fast and the Furious (1)

    • January 20, 1981
    • NBC

    Captain Grant and Trans Cal Trucking's new strongman Cooley conspire to put Bear Enterprises out of business, aided and abetted by a stranger with a secret.

  • S03E04 The Fast and the Furious (2)

    • January 27, 1981
    • NBC

    B.J. and Cooley race their trucks from Oakland to L.A., with the prize being a lucrative shipping contract. With so much depending on a McKay victory, will B.J. and the seven lady truckers find the time to right a wrong along the way?

  • S03E05 Intercepted Pass

    • February 3, 1981
    • NBC

    When one of B.J.'s girlfriends begins to gamble with his money,the trucker sets out to investigate and uncover's a blackmail scheme related to some pictures.

  • S03E06 Down and Dirty

    • February 10, 1981
    • NBC

    While in Reno, Captain Grant capitalizes on Callie's compulsive gambling to make life difficult for B.J. and Bear Enterprises, but B.J. has a plan to even the odds.

  • S03E07 Beauties and the Beasts

    • February 17, 1981
    • NBC

    Captain Grant is coercing independent truckers to pay for a so-called protection. B.J. steps in and the sly cop sends B.J. and his girlfriends to jail.B.J. proposes a football game to regain his and the girls freedom

  • S03E08 Blonde in a Gilded Cell

    • March 3, 1981
    • NBC

    An eccentric pop singer kidnaps beautiful blonde groupies and imprisons them in his mansion. When Stacks disappears, B.J. goes undercover as a singer to find and free her.

  • S03E09 For Adults Only

    • March 10, 1981
    • NBC

    B.J. befriends the Tiptons, an elderly but feisty couple being forced out of their home and into a retirement community that is being used as a cover for an illegal skin flick operation.

  • S03E10 A Bear in the Hand

    • March 17, 1981
    • NBC

    Captain Grant and Lt. Steiger set a match to a powder-keg when they abduct B.J.'s best friend Bear. B.J. and the lady truckers wage war against SCAT just when Grant is trying to woo appropriations funding from an influential state senator.

  • S03E11 Seven Lady Captives

    • March 24, 1981
    • NBC

    When the seven lady truckers are kidnapped to drug kingpin Leonard Marker's San Pepe compound, B.J., Fred and Hatsie Tipton and a very unlikely ally team up to rescue them.

  • S03E12 S.T.U.N.T.

    • March 31, 1981
    • NBC

    B.J., Callie and Stacks help B.J.'s old friend Steven Thomas Ulysses Nathaniel Travis complete the filming of his television pilot. Buster Crabbe is outstanding as an aging stuntman with a secret.

  • S03E13 Who is B.J.?

    • April 25, 1981
    • NBC

    B.J. wrecks his truck and suffers amnesia. As he struggles to remember who he is and why two men are attempting to kill him, he falls in love with Gypsy and works the bumper car pavilion of her uncle's carnival.

  • S03E14 Detective Finger, I Presume?

    • May 2, 1981
    • NBC

    The club that B.J.'s trucking company owns is robbed and the thieves make away with jewels and a very valuable painting

  • S03E15 The Two Million Dollar Hustle

    • May 9, 1981
    • NBC

    B.J. enlists an unlikely ally in his effort to bring down Rutherford T. Grant after the crooked captain frames a bank robbery on Samantha, Stacks and Angie. Final episode of the series.