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Ripcord

Season 2 1962 - 1963

  • 1962-10-24T23:30:00Z
  • 30m
  • 18h 30m (37 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Action, Adventure
Operating their skydiving service company "Ripcord", Jim Buckley and Ted McKeever are able to get to places that others can't and get there much faster. This leads them on many exciting adventures from chasing bad guys to performing daring rescues. The series featured a lot of spectacular skydiving scenes, including one involving a fistfight in mid-air (shot by a cameraman in free-fall with the stuntmen.)

37 episodes

Season Premiere

1962-10-24T23:30:00Z

2x01 Aerial Backfire

Season Premiere

2x01 Aerial Backfire

  • 1962-10-24T23:30:00Z30m

An 8-year-old hires Ted and Jim to rescue his dog from a burning forest.

2x02 Race Morgan: Bounty Hunter

  • 1962-11-01T00:30:00Z30m

Ted and Jim meet Race Morgan, a likeable rascal who makes a business of bringing in criminals to the police for the reward they carry.

1962-11-08T00:30:00Z

2x03 Panic At 10,000

2x03 Panic At 10,000

  • 1962-11-08T00:30:00Z30m

Series of mishaps threaten the lives of state senator and representative when jammed landing gear and missing parachutes combine to a sure disaster for two air-borne senators.

1962-11-15T00:30:00Z

2x04 Hostage Below

2x04 Hostage Below

  • 1962-11-15T00:30:00Z30m

The boys are sent to ransom a millionaire's kidnapped daughter.

1962-11-22T00:30:00Z

2x05 Infiltration

2x05 Infiltration

  • 1962-11-22T00:30:00Z30m

Ted and Jim join in an attempt to break up a smuggling racket. Ted joins the gang of smugglers who are working in South America.

1962-11-29T00:30:00Z

2x06 Among Those Missing

2x06 Among Those Missing

  • 1962-11-29T00:30:00Z30m

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

1962-12-06T00:30:00Z

2x07 Flight To Terror

2x07 Flight To Terror

  • 1962-12-06T00:30:00Z30m

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.”

1962-12-13T00:30:00Z

2x08 Day Of The Hunter

2x08 Day Of The Hunter

  • 1962-12-13T00:30:00Z30m

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

1962-12-20T00:30:00Z

2x09 The Losers

2x09 The Losers

  • 1962-12-20T00:30:00Z30m

McKeever and Buckley venture into the desert and find a mysterious mine containing uranium. Even geiger-counters can sometimes be misleading. Ted and Jim do their best to convince two uranium prospectors that they have not struck lucky.

1962-12-27T00:30:00Z

2x10 A Present For Felipe

2x10 A Present For Felipe

  • 1962-12-27T00:30:00Z30m

Mystery shrouds a Latin-American village where the boys arrive just in time for a nonexistent party. A Latin American woman plans a fiesta for an old friend.

1963-01-03T00:30:00Z

2x11 Devil's Canyon

2x11 Devil's Canyon

  • 1963-01-03T00:30:00Z30m

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

1963-01-10T00:30:00Z

2x12 The Money Mine

2x12 The Money Mine

  • 1963-01-10T00:30:00Z30m

Ted and Jim try to get the drop on a ring of counterfeiters. Hired to drop crates of machinery into a mountainous region, Ted and Jim find unexpected trouble.

1963-01-17T00:30:00Z

2x13 The Lost Ones

2x13 The Lost Ones

  • 1963-01-17T00:30:00Z30m

A mid-air accident shakes Jim's (Ken Curtis) faith in skydiving. Jim nearly dies in an aerial trick, and doesn't want to jump again. Ted's on a job, and ends up hanging on the edge of a cliff, and Jim needs to come to his rescue.

1963-01-24T00:30:00Z

2x14 The Last Chapter

2x14 The Last Chapter

  • 1963-01-24T00:30:00Z30m

Ted tries to shield an Eastern European refugee from Communist assassins.

1963-01-31T00:30:00Z

2x15 Run, Joby, Run

2x15 Run, Joby, Run

  • 1963-01-31T00:30:00Z30m

Ted is injured in a jump in the Tennessee hills. An overzealous Tennessee sheriff mistakes Ted (Larry Pennell) for a robber's accomplice.

1963-02-07T00:30:00Z

2x16 Wrong Way Down

2x16 Wrong Way Down

  • 1963-02-07T00:30:00Z30m

A parachutist, dropped from a plane bearing the Ripcord insignia, commits a crime and Ripcord, Inc. becomes suspect after their plane is spotted in the area.

1963-02-14T00:30:00Z

2x17 A Free Falling Star

2x17 A Free Falling Star

  • 1963-02-14T00:30:00Z30m

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

1963-02-21T00:30:00Z

2x18 Reprisal

2x18 Reprisal

  • 1963-02-21T00:30:00Z30m

Tom and Reba Mason dupe Ted and Jim into destroying a dam. Ted and Jim are called upon for "special work" by two youngsters who secretly are plotting to wreck their home town.

1963-02-28T00:30:00Z

2x19 The Lost Tribe

2x19 The Lost Tribe

  • 1963-02-28T00:30:00Z30m

Two scientists are parachuted into the mountains to find a lost tribe.

1963-03-07T00:30:00Z

2x20 Chute to Kill

2x20 Chute to Kill

  • 1963-03-07T00:30:00Z30m

A pretty and daring correspondent with a flair or finding exciting new stories, commissions Ripcord to test an experimental parachute.

1963-03-14T00:30:00Z

2x21 Willie

2x21 Willie

  • 1963-03-14T00:30:00Z30m

A couple makes a bet about skydiving. Ted and Jim teach a local boy to parachute, without much hope of success-but he finally surprises them.

1963-03-21T00:30:00Z

2x22 The Well

2x22 The Well

  • 1963-03-21T00:30:00Z30m

McKeever joins a girl insurance Investigator in search of a stolen payroll and later learns she may be a girl friend of the thieves.

2x23 The Trouble With Denny Collins

  • 1963-03-28T00:30:00Z30m

The district attorney slaps an injunction on Ripcord,grounding all jumpers, pilots, and students. The plaintiff is a lawyer whose son has signed with Ripcord to learn parachuting instead of going to law school in “The Trouble with Denny Collins."

1963-04-04T00:30:00Z

2x24 The Final Jump

2x24 The Final Jump

  • 1963-04-04T00:30:00Z30m

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.

1963-04-11T00:30:00Z

2x25 Picture Of Terror

2x25 Picture Of Terror

  • 1963-04-11T00:30:00Z30m

A photographer who specialises in pictures of disaster hires the Ripcord boys to fly over a forest fire. The boys are suspicious of a photographer who keeps in the chips by his unerring ability to forecast disasters.

1963-04-18T00:30:00Z

2x26 The Inventor

2x26 The Inventor

  • 1963-04-18T00:30:00Z30m

A young girl takes a near-fatal skydive in order to save her father from ruin.

1963-04-25T00:30:00Z

2x27 Jump To A Blind Alley

2x27 Jump To A Blind Alley

  • 1963-04-25T00:30:00Z30m

Jim puts his flares to good use when confronted by a tricky situation. A man breaks out of jail to go to his dying friend, and he cons Ripcord Inc. into flying beyond their reach in "Jump To a Blind Alley”

1963-05-01T23:30:00Z

2x28 Jump Or Die

2x28 Jump Or Die

  • 1963-05-01T23:30:00Z30m

Charlie begins to give flying lessons but picks the wrong pupil.

1963-05-08T23:30:00Z

2x29 Jump To Freedom

2x29 Jump To Freedom

  • 1963-05-08T23:30:00Z30m

A Russian wants to defect to the United States during the World Skydiving Trials.

1963-05-15T23:30:00Z

2x30 Man On A Mountain

2x30 Man On A Mountain

  • 1963-05-15T23:30:00Z30m

A fugitive starts a landslide, damming an important waterway.

1963-05-22T23:30:00Z

2x31 The Suicide Club

2x31 The Suicide Club

  • 1963-05-22T23:30:00Z30m

A doctor hires the Ripcord divers to prove his ability to foretell a catastrophe.

1963-05-29T23:30:00Z

2x32 Million Dollar Drop

2x32 Million Dollar Drop

  • 1963-05-29T23:30:00Z30m

A million dollars lying on the open desert, but it is death for the first man who finds it

1963-06-05T23:30:00Z

2x33 Flight For Life

2x33 Flight For Life

  • 1963-06-05T23:30:00Z30m

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.”

1963-06-12T23:30:00Z

2x34 The Proud Little Man

2x34 The Proud Little Man

  • 1963-06-12T23:30:00Z30m

Ripcord, Inc.'s pilot goes half blind and tries to keep it from Ted and Jim. Jim concocts an elaborate scheme to rehabilitate the pilot who goes half blind, but the scheme backfires.

1963-06-19T23:30:00Z

2x35 Semper Paratus Anytime

2x35 Semper Paratus Anytime

  • 1963-06-19T23:30:00Z30m

A man has a heart attack while at sea in on open boat with his eight-year-old son. He manages to radio a desperate S.O.S. The Coast Guard can't get a fix on the distressed boat's location in "Semper Paratus — Any Time,"

1963-06-26T23:30:00Z

2x36 Exposé

2x36 Exposé

  • 1963-06-26T23:30:00Z30m

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,

2x37 Where Do Elephants Go To Die ?

  • 1963-07-03T23:30:00Z30m

Ted McKeever and Jim Buckley, are asked by Nobel Prize novelist Aaron Sporks to be taught how to sky dive, in "Where Do the Elephants Go to Die?" The Ripcord boys are unaware the doctor has been given him one year to live and is planning suicide.

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