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Season 1 Episode 1: Air Carnival

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.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Air Carnival

1. Air Carnival

Aired: Sep 28, 1961

Betty Rhodes, star performer of Justin Rock's air carnival, is eager to have ...

Episode 2 Airborne

2. Airborne

Aired: Oct 4, 1961

Ted takes under his wing a spoiled rich juvenile delinquent and his two stoog...

Episode 3 Chuting Stars

3. Chuting Stars

Aired: Oct 11, 1961

McKeever, Buckley and an old Navy friend and his corps of jumpers join forces...

Episode 4 Colorado Jump

4. Colorado Jump

Aired: Oct 18, 1961

Ted and Jim desperately try to rescue a young singer who was seriously injure...

Episode 5 The Condemned

5. The Condemned

Aired: Oct 25, 1961

Ted and Jim are hired by a lawyer to help prove that his client, now on death...

Episode 6 Hi-Jack

6. Hi-Jack

Aired: Nov 1, 1961

Skydivers McKeever and Buckley are on an expedition to recover space capsules...

Episode 7 Counter-Attack

7. Counter-Attack

Aired: Nov 8, 1961

Taking place more on the ground than above this time, Ted and Jim (in a car) ...

Episode 8 Crime Jump

8. Crime Jump

Aired: Nov 15, 1961

Ripcord, Inc. is brought under suspicion of murder and espionage when a forme...

Episode 9 Dangerous Night

9. Dangerous Night

Aired: Nov 22, 1961

When Ted is kidnapped by a mentally disturbed client of theirs, Jim must make...

Episode 10 Death Camp

10. Death Camp

Aired: Nov 29, 1961

Ripcord is hired by a team of uranium prospectors to drop supplies to them, b...

Episode 11 Derelict

11. Derelict

Aired: Dec 6, 1961

Ted and Jim are hired to make one of their most difficult jumps: on to a dese...

Episode 12 Top Secret

12. Top Secret

Aired: Dec 13, 1961

Carl Sexton, an old acquaintance of Ted and Jim's now in the FBI, approaches ...

Episode 13 Radar Rescue

13. Radar Rescue

Aired: Dec 20, 1961

When Ted and Jim angrily flunk radar operator Bill Kirk from their sky diving...

Episode 14 Sierra Jump

14. Sierra Jump

Aired: Dec 27, 1961

Chuck Lambert, Ripcord's pilot, is in serious trouble when his plane crashes ...

Episode 15 The Silver Cord

15. The Silver Cord

Aired: Jan 3, 1962

Speed Domaine, an old soldier Ted and Jim know from the army, wants his son B...

Episode 16 Thoroughbred

16. Thoroughbred

Aired: Nov 30, -1

While visiting the race track, Ted and Jim are unexpectedly hired by Margo Ka...

Episode 17 Ransom Drop

17. Ransom Drop

Aired: Nov 30, -1

Ted McKeever can't understand why pretty Dana Oliver demands his company prov...

Episode 18 Escape

18. Escape

Aired: Nov 30, -1

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

Episode 19 Double Drop

19. Double Drop

Aired: Nov 30, -1

Jim jumps into a mountain cabin with a medical supply delivery only to end up...

Episode 20 The Financier

20. The Financier

Aired: Nov 30, -1

A former student of the skydiving school commits suicide shortly after gradua...

Episode 21 Sentence of Death

21. Sentence of Death

Aired: Nov 30, -1

Ted and Jim drop onto dangerous terrain to search for a trapped youth---and t...

Episode 22 Desperate Choice

22. Desperate Choice

Aired: Jan 22, 1962

Ted and Jim join in on the search for a missing girl. Things get complicated ...

Episode 23 Diplomatic Mission

23. Diplomatic Mission

Aired: Nov 30, -1

Ripcord must search a crash site for top secret papers. Finding the papers wi...

Episode 24 Hagen Charm

24. Hagen Charm

Aired: Nov 30, -1

Ripcord must deliver Dr. Hagen to a remote cabin for a medical emergency. Con...

Episode 25 The Helicopter Race

25. The Helicopter Race

Aired: Nov 30, -1

Ripcord helps a businessman recover a valuable briefcase from rocky terrain b...

Episode 26 High Jeopardy

26. High Jeopardy

Aired: Apr 12, 1962

Beautiful spoiled rich girl gets banned from Ripcord for not following the ru...

Episode 27 Hi-Jack

27. Hi-Jack

Aired: Nov 30, -1

While on their way to Cape Canaveral for a job, the airplane Ted and Jim are ...

Episode 28 The Human Kind

28. The Human Kind

Aired: Nov 30, -1

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

Episode 30 Hurricane Charlie

30. Hurricane Charlie

Aired: Nov 30, -1

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

Episode 31 Elegy for a Hero

31. Elegy for a Hero

Aired: Nov 30, -1

An old Army superior shows up wanting the boys to take him on a dangerous dro...

Episode 32 Cougar Mesa

32. Cougar Mesa

Aired: Nov 30, -1

An insurance adjuster thinks a plane is being hidden atop Cougar Mesa and did...

Episode 33 Last Chance

33. Last Chance

Aired: Nov 30, -1

While Ted (Larry Pennell) flies over a ghost town to make a routine drop of s...

Episode 34 Log Jam

34. Log Jam

Aired: Nov 30, -1

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

Episode 35 Mile High Triangle

35. Mile High Triangle

Aired: May 10, 1962

A man drowning in gambling debts wants to off his wife to collect on the insu...

Episode 36 Millionaire Doctor

36. Millionaire Doctor

Aired: Nov 30, -1

When the son of millionaire Hal Glinders is critically injured in a car accid...

Episode 37 One for the Money

37. One for the Money

Aired: Nov 30, -1

When Ripcord is offered $1000 for a job, they "jump" at the chance. But littl...

Episode 38 Para-Nurse

38. Para-Nurse

Aired: Nov 30, -1

A Para-Nurse named Laura Copeland (Allison Hayes) is on an assignment to help...

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Genres:Adventure