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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Sky Diver

    • September 28, 1961

    A sky diver attempts to rescue a party of geologists after they send out an SOS for a desperately needed instrument.

  • S01E06 The Condemned

    • November 1, 1961

    At a ski resort, Ted and Jim are searching for the body of Jean Bartram, who has presumably been shoved off a cliff by her husband.

  • S01E07 Counter-Attack

    • May 30, 1962

    Gunmen, G-men and a beautiful girl get into the act as Ted and Jim go to work for an industrialist. The Ripcord boys are commissioned by the F.B.I, to take delivery of a special package. This turns out to be more complicated than they expect.

  • S01E08 Crime Jump

    • October 4, 1961

    Ted and Jim try to clear themselves of murder. "The Assassin," Burt Reynolds, infiltrates an industrial complex.

  • S01E08 Airborne

    • January 17, 1962

    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. McKeever challenges the young hot-rodders to try skydiving.

  • S01E09 DARB (Dangerous Night)

    • November 22, 1961

    An archaeologist holds Ted captive when he refuses to skydive a precious Aztec death mask into the United States.

  • S01E10 Death Camp

    • May 2, 1962

    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. Uranium prospectors trespass on a government atomic proving ground.

  • S01E11 Derelict

    • June 13, 1962

    Two sky divers chute to an abandoned freighter which crashed into a reef in " Derelict."

  • S01E12 Top Secret

    • March 28, 1962

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

  • S01E13 Radar Rescue

    • May 9, 1962

    The skydivers can’t make a rescue jump due to thick clouds. They are desperate to land near a small plane that crashed on a remote mountainside to assist an injured pilot and his little girl. The bombardier of a B-52 in the same airspace suggests guiding them in by radar from 20,000 feet as if they’re bombs.

  • S01E14 Sierra Jump

    • November 15, 1961

    Chuck, a Ripcord pilot is in a bad spot with the CAB when a box of "goof balls" (narcotics) is found on him after an accident. McKeever seeks the real source in "Sierra Jump,"

  • S01E15 The Silver Cord

    • January 3, 1962

    Irresponsible Speed Domaine and his son are lost in a missile-target area. Skydivers McKeever and Buckley para-jump into a missile target area in a desperate effort to rescue a man and his son in "The Silver Cord."

  • S01E16 Thoroughbred

    • October 11, 1961

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

  • S01E16 Chuting Stars

    • March 28, 1962

    Kidnappers abandon a girl in a mountain range, not knowing that she is a diabetic. She succumbs to an insulin coma and the ripcord team is called to jump into the area and try to find the girl. Navy parachutists join the search for a diabetic girl abandoned in the mountains.

  • S01E17 Ransom Drop

    • November 29, 1961

    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.

  • S01E18 Escape

    • January 10, 1962

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

  • S01E19 Double Drop

    • January 31, 1962

    James Coburn plays an injured bank robber on the lam. The crook is an ex-paratrooper, on the run from the law. He holds Jim Buckley captive. Buckley tries to escape by using the walkie-talkie radio in "Double Drop."

  • S01E20 The Financier

    • December 27, 1961

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

  • S01E21 Sentence of Death

    • April 11, 1962

    Jim Buckley and Ted McKeever parachute onto the fishing boat Sapphire by mistake and are held up and brigged along with a long sought war criminal who "was recentry captured by freelancers anxious to bring the Nazi to trial, in "Sentence of Death."

  • S01E22 Desperate Choice

    • February 7, 1962

    Ted and Jim drop onto dangerous terrain to search for a trapped youth---and the boy's overeager rescuer. A desperate father, believing he's on the trail of a man he thinks kidnaped his child, is bent on murder in "Desperate Choice."

  • S01E23 Diplomatic Mission

    • May 16, 1962

    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 in "Diplomatic Mission."

  • S01E24 Hagen Charm

    • February 28, 1962

    Trapped in a mountainous region surgeon Joe's son is suffering from a head injury and desperately needs medical aid. But a violent storm had halted all attempts to reach the boy.

  • S01E25 The Helicopter Race

    • March 7, 1962

    A building contractor has an unusual job for Ted: picking up an attache case from a hillside.

  • S01E26 Jungle Survival

    • February 21, 1962

    The jungle becomes a nightmarish prison for a stranded Ted and Jim. McKeever and Buckley skydive with some medicine to a Central American epidemic area where natives steal their survival kits.

  • S01E27 High Jeopardy

    • December 20, 1961

    McKeever's pilot brushes up on his commando training to save a girl from a public enemy in "High Jeopardy.”

  • S01E28 Hi-Jack

    • October 25, 1961

    Skydivers McKeever and Buckley are on an expedition to recover space capsules at sea when their C-47 is hijacked.

  • S01E29 The Human Kind

    • December 13, 1961

    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.

  • S01E30 Hurricane Charlie

    • May 23, 1962

    Ted McKeever hires a pilot to fly him to a jump target on a commercial mission. Ted suspects sabotage when the pilot creates difficulties to prevent a take-off in "Hurricane Charlie." The Ripcord pilot, Charlie, is never wrong about the weather, even when all appearances are against him.

  • S01E31 Elegy for a Hero

    • April 11, 1962

    Wealthy Wally Griffin (Lang Jeffries) is strangely anxious to reach a remote mountain lodge.

  • S01E32 Cougar Mesa

    • April 18, 1962

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

  • S01E33 Last Chance

    • January 24, 1962

    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.

  • S01E34 Log Jam

    • December 6, 1961

    A lumberman hires Ted and Jim to break up a log jam. The two skydivers fly a charge of nitroglycerin over the logging área. McKeever and Buckley fly a charge of nitroglycerin over a logging area to break up a log jam. Everything goes according to schedule until it is discovered that the man who packed the nitro failed to include dry ice which would counteract the instability of the explosive in "Log Jam."

  • S01E35 Mile High Triangle

    • February 14, 1962

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

  • S01E36 Millionaire Doctor

    • November 8, 1961

    The private doctor to a millionaire parachutes to rescue the man's son when the boy is trapped on a mountain.

  • S01E37 One For The Money

    • April 4, 1962

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

  • S01E38 Para-Nurse

    • March 14, 1962

    Laura Copland is the cause of friendly rivalry between Ted and Jim. Before she can make her choice, all three respond to a fire alarm at Thunder Ridge. The son of ranger Carl Devlin is undergoing breathing difficulties and the boy can't be attended in a hospital due to river floods.

Season 2

  • S02E02 Among Those Missing

    • November 28, 1962

    Ripcord jumpers drop into the mountains to blast out a landing strip for a search team.

  • S02E04 Day Of The Hunter

    • December 12, 1962

    McKeever and Buckley find a munitions factory owner injured by a gunshot. As they try to save him another man threatens them.

  • S02E05 Devil's Canyon

    • January 2, 1963

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

  • S02E06 Exposé

    • June 26, 1963

    Steve Brodie guest stars as a writer who attacks Ripcord, Inc. as unsafe and is tricked by Ted and Jim into-- of all things-- skydiving,

  • S02E07 The Final Jump

    • April 3, 1963

    The members of Ripcord, Inc., volunteer for an air search for a young boy believed lost in a densely wooded area. The lost boy’s father turns out to be one of the most wanted criminals in the country. The Ripcord boys help a son to change his mind.

  • S02E08 Flight For Life

    • June 5, 1963

    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 in "Flight for Life.”

  • S02E09 Flight To Terror

    • December 5, 1962

    McKeever and Buckley answer an urgent call and find a gangster and his wife who are fleeing the United States one jump ahead of Senate investigators in "Flight to Terror.”

  • S02E10 A Free Falling Star

    • February 13, 1963

    A singing star neglects to mention his health problems when he asks the boys to teach him skydiving.

  • S02E12 The Hunter

    • May 2, 1962

    The boys try to intercept an assassin. Ted and Jim go on a hunting expedition to stop a hired assassin from killing a political leader. The Ripcord jumpers, assisted by the secret service, go on a hunting expedition looking for a highly paid assassin in "The Hunter."