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Ripcord

A thrilling series follows a skydiver and a pilot as they navigate unexpected scenarios, leveraging their unique skills to embark on daring escapades, from high-stakes chases to perilous rescues.

The owners of skydiving service company "Ripcord" - Jim Buckley, Ted McKeever, and Alex Fielding - utilize their unique capabilities to access hard-to-reach locations and arrive quickly, leading to thrilling adventures involving high-stakes chases and daring rescues.

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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Info about Ripcord

Current Status: Ended

Genres:Adventure