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Ripcord

All Episodes 1961 - 1963

  • Ended
  • 1961-09-28T23:30:00Z
  • 30m
  • 1d 14h (76 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.)

76 episodes

Series Premiere

1961-09-28T23:30:00Z

1x01 The Sky Diver

Series Premiere

1x01 The Sky Diver

  • 1961-09-28T23:30:00Z30m

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

1961-10-04T23:30:00Z

1x02 Crime Jump

1x02 Crime Jump

  • 1961-10-04T23:30:00Z30m

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

1961-10-11T23:30:00Z

1x03 Thoroughbred

1x03 Thoroughbred

  • 1961-10-11T23:30:00Z30m

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

1961-10-18T23:30:00Z

1x04 Air Carnival

1x04 Air Carnival

  • 1961-10-18T23:30:00Z30m

An aviatrix tries to lure Ted and Jim into signing up with an air circus.

1961-10-25T23:30:00Z

1x05 Hi-Jack

1x05 Hi-Jack

  • 1961-10-25T23:30:00Z30m

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

1961-11-02T00:30:00Z

1x06 The Condemned

1x06 The Condemned

  • 1961-11-02T00:30:00Z30m

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.

1961-11-09T00:30:00Z

1x07 Millionaire Doctor

1x07 Millionaire Doctor

  • 1961-11-09T00:30:00Z30m

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

1961-11-16T00:30:00Z

1x08 Sierra Jump

1x08 Sierra Jump

  • 1961-11-16T00:30:00Z30m

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,"

1961-11-23T00:30:00Z

1x09 DARB (Dangerous Night)

1x09 DARB (Dangerous Night)

  • 1961-11-23T00:30:00Z30m

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

1961-11-30T00:30:00Z

1x10 Ransom Drop

1x10 Ransom Drop

  • 1961-11-30T00:30:00Z30m

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.

1961-12-07T00:30:00Z

1x11 Log Jam

1x11 Log Jam

  • 1961-12-07T00:30:00Z30m

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."

1961-12-14T00:30:00Z

1x12 The Human Kind

1x12 The Human Kind

  • 1961-12-14T00:30:00Z30m

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.

1961-12-21T00:30:00Z

1x13 High Jeopardy

1x13 High Jeopardy

  • 1961-12-21T00:30:00Z30m

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

1961-12-28T00:30:00Z

1x14 The Financier

1x14 The Financier

  • 1961-12-28T00:30:00Z30m

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

1962-01-04T00:30:00Z

1x15 The Silver Cord

1x15 The Silver Cord

  • 1962-01-04T00:30:00Z30m

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."

1962-01-11T00:30:00Z

1x16 Escape

1x16 Escape

  • 1962-01-11T00:30:00Z30m

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.

1962-01-18T00:30:00Z

1x17 Airborne

1x17 Airborne

  • 1962-01-18T00:30:00Z30m

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.

1962-01-25T00:30:00Z

1x18 Last Chance

1x18 Last Chance

  • 1962-01-25T00:30:00Z30m

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.

1962-02-01T00:30:00Z

1x19 Double Drop

1x19 Double Drop

  • 1962-02-01T00:30:00Z30m

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."

1962-02-08T00:30:00Z

1x20 Desperate Choice

1x20 Desperate Choice

  • 1962-02-08T00:30:00Z30m

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."

1962-02-15T00:30:00Z

1x21 Mile High Triangle

1x21 Mile High Triangle

  • 1962-02-15T00:30:00Z30m

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

1962-02-22T00:30:00Z

1x22 Jungle Survival

1x22 Jungle Survival

  • 1962-02-22T00:30:00Z30m

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.

1962-03-01T00:30:00Z

1x23 Hagen Charm

1x23 Hagen Charm

  • 1962-03-01T00:30:00Z30m

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.

1962-03-08T00:30:00Z

1x24 The Helicopter Race

1x24 The Helicopter Race

  • 1962-03-08T00:30:00Z30m

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

1962-03-15T00:30:00Z

1x25 Para-Nurse

1x25 Para-Nurse

  • 1962-03-15T00:30:00Z30m

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.

1962-03-22T00:30:00Z

1x26 Colorado Jump

1x26 Colorado Jump

  • 1962-03-22T00:30:00Z30m

A teenage recording star is accompanied by Jim on a publicity stunt jump into the gorge of the Colorado river.

1962-03-29T00:30:00Z

1x27 Top Secret

1x27 Top Secret

  • 1962-03-29T00:30:00Z30m

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

1962-04-05T00:30:00Z

1x28 One For The Money

1x28 One For The Money

  • 1962-04-05T00:30:00Z30m

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

1962-04-12T00:30:00Z

1x29 Sentence of Death

1x29 Sentence of Death

  • 1962-04-12T00:30:00Z30m

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."

1962-04-12T00:30:00Z

1x30 Elegy for a Hero

1x30 Elegy for a Hero

  • 1962-04-12T00:30:00Z30m

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

1962-04-19T00:30:00Z

1x31 Cougar Mesa

1x31 Cougar Mesa

  • 1962-04-19T00:30:00Z30m

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

1962-03-29T00:30:00Z

1x32 Chuting Stars

1x32 Chuting Stars

  • 1962-03-29T00:30:00Z30m

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.

1962-05-02T23:30:00Z

1x33 Death Camp

1x33 Death Camp

  • 1962-05-02T23:30:00Z30m

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.

1962-05-09T23:30:00Z

1x34 Radar Rescue

1x34 Radar Rescue

  • 1962-05-09T23:30:00Z30m

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.

1962-05-16T23:30:00Z

1x35 Diplomatic Mission

1x35 Diplomatic Mission

  • 1962-05-16T23:30:00Z30m

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."

1962-05-23T23:30:00Z

1x36 Hurricane Charlie

1x36 Hurricane Charlie

  • 1962-05-23T23:30:00Z30m

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.

1962-05-30T23:30:00Z

1x37 Counter-Attack

1x37 Counter-Attack

  • 1962-05-30T23:30:00Z30m

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.

1962-05-02T23:30:00Z

1x38 The Hunter

1x38 The Hunter

  • 1962-05-02T23:30:00Z30m

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."

1962-06-13T23:30:00Z

1x39 Derelict

1x39 Derelict

  • 1962-06-13T23:30:00Z30m

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

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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