Ripcord - Season 1

Ted Mckeever and Jim Buckly are not exactly jumping for joy-they do it for a living as partners in Sky Divers Inc. an outfit that hires out for aerial jumps. In this premiere episode Ted and Jim are on their way to Central Mexico with an instrument urgently needed by a group of geologists.

A beautiful pilot, Betty Shannon, member of an accident-plagued air circus tries to get Ted and Jim into the act. The pretty aviatrix tries to lure Ted and Jim into signing up with the Justin Rock air circus.

Ted and Jim try to clear themselves of murder. "The Assassin," Burt Reynolds, infiltrates an industrial complex. Former big star Richard Arlen shows up (to good advantage), before a big mid-air parachute fight (pretty cool) and a sky hook snatch (remarkable).

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

Ted and Jim, on an expedition to recover a space capsule at sea, are aboard a C-47 when it's hi-jacked by men who intend to kidnap a rocket expert in "Hijack."

Skydiving into an inaccessible ski resort, Jim is trapped in a declivity, as he and Ted seek the body of Jean Bartram, a woman who is presumed murdered by her husband.

Ian Kendrick is private medic to a millionaire, Hal Glinders. When Glinder's son is trapped in a terrain, Kendrick parachutes to his rescue.

Jay Coates, a zealous jumper, pulls Chuck (Paul Comi) into danger as the pilot attempt to stop him from jumping. Chuck is in a bad spot when narcotics are found on him after the accident.

Archaeologist,Gustave Merril holds Ted McKeever captive. He is kidnapped by an archaeologist eager to get his hands on an Aztec death mask.

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.

McKeever and Buckley fly a charge of nitroglycerin over a logging area to break up a log jam

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.

McKeever's pilot brushes up on his commando training to save a girl from a public enemy.

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

Skydivers McKeever and Buckley para-jump into a missile target area in a desperate effort to rescue a man and his son.

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

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.

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.

An ex-paratrooper, on the run from the law, holes up in a mountain cabin and holds Jim Buckley captive. Buckley tries to escape by using the walkie-talkie radio.

A desperate father, believing he's on the trail of a man he thinks kidnaped his child, is bent on murder.

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

McKeever and Buckley skydive with some medicine to a Central American epidemic area where natives steal their survival kits.

Even though Shug Fisher's pilot, Charlie Kern, has been seen in previous episodes (shown out of production order, obviously), this is his introductory outing: Hagen Charm, from Lee Erwin. A surprisingly involving entry where football/war/medical "hero" Dr. Arthur Franz (underrated, and always good), confesses he's a coward--he can't jump and save his dying son because he's lost the family lucky charm: "The Spanish Stone."

Important documents, lost on an inaccessible mountain top must be read by Ted over the DARB, while airborne stenographer Dyan Cannon transcribes them, hopefully in time to avoid a rival company's contract bid.

Laura Cokely, a paranurse comes to hire the service of the skydivers. She wants to sky dive into a far woody zone where a boy with breathing problems requires assistance. Henry was also involved in the "Para-Nurse" episode, in which McKeever and a female nurse are the heroes who need to render medical aid to a sick boy in an inaccessible area at night.

Jim (Ken Curtis) is duped into accompanying a young recording star on a dangerous publicity stunt.

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

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

Ted and Jim mistake the Sapphire for the good ship Caroline. The boys, all set to sky/scuba dive for sunken treasure, land on the wrong boat, where Israeli agents (although they're not identified as so) Sylvia and Arsheim have kidnapped none other than Adolph Eichmann's personal aide, Brunner.

Big shot Wally Griffin turns out to be not quite so big when it comes to his cheating wife. In this afternoon's story, "Elegy for a Hero," Ted McKeever tries to help an old army pal who has become a national hero. But both he and his colleague Jim find that it is not at all easy being a hero.

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

Kidnapers abandon diabetic Cynthia Roberts in the mountains when she succumbs to an insulin coma.

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.

A man named Anderson and his daughter get lost amid a cloudburst and then a crash is heard. Ted, Jim and Chuck are nearby and attend the distress call from Anderson. A hot-tempered radar navigator is determined to even the score with Ted, who expelled him from jump school.

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.

Ted McKeever hires pilot Charlie Kern to fly him to a jump target on a commercial mission. Soon, Ted suspects Charlie of sabotage when the pilot creates difficulties to prevent a take-off. Charlie's bunion tells him bad weather is coming in a clear blue sky.

An industrialist hires McKeever and Buckley to make a dangerous parajump to deliver priceless cargo. Guided by carefully written instructions, the Ripcord jumpers run afoul of serious opposition.

The Ripcord team is hired by Cliff Street, a man who says that he is seeking revenge on a mountain lion responsible for his partner's killing.

The skydivers have one of their most trying and exciting experiences while trying to salvage a ship loaded with high explosives. The boys land on a deserted ship and clash with salvage skipper Leach. The cargo? TNT and nitro.