• 1958
  • 30m
Cannonball

Summary The adventures of a pair of long-haul truck drivers as they haul cargo all over the US and Canada. View more details

  • 1958
  • 30m

Cannonball

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : William Campbell Paul Birch Beth Lockerbie Beth Morris

All cast & crew

7.8

Details

Genres : Adventure Drama

Release date : Oct 5, 1958

Countries of origin : United States Canada United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Nobleton, Ontario, Canada

Production companies : Normandie Productions Television Programs of America (TPA)

Summary The adventures of a pair of long-haul truck drivers as they haul cargo all over the US and Canada. View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure Drama

Release date : Oct 5, 1958

Countries of origin : United States Canada United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Nobleton, Ontario, Canada

Production companies : Normandie Productions Television Programs of America (TPA)

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Cannonball (1958)

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Dec 31, 1969
Pilot
Mike's 20th Anniversary is interrupted when he and Jerry are summoned by their company to haul a top-secret government load to Buffalo. The job proves to be extremely dangerous when enemy agents overcome their police escort.
Episode 1 • Oct 05, 1958
The Runaway Truck
Harry tries to stop a runaway truck.
Episode 2 • Oct 12, 1958
Nitro Haul
While hauling a dangerous cargo of nitroglycerin on winding mountain roads, Mike swerves to avoid striking an animal, sending his truck into a ditch and blowing out a tire in the process. While Mike trudges off to find help, Jerry tries to replace the flat, but gets pinned under the truck in the process.
Episode 3 • Oct 19, 1958
Small Cargo
An escaped convict kidnaps his niece and nephew from an orphanage where they have been since their father's recent death. the kids try to elude their unhinged uncle by stowing away on Mike and Jerry's truck. Discovering them, Mike takes the kids home for the night, but the Uncle is stalking them.
Episode 4 • Oct 26, 1958
The Big Ambulance
Mike's love of truck-stop food has often resulted in his getting mild cases of indigestion, so when he complains to Jerry about stomach pain, Jerry just figures it's Mike's stomach acting up again. It turns out to be more serious than both of them think, however, and Mike winds up being rushed to the hospital by ambulance.
Episode 5 • Nov 02, 1958
Mark Time
After a C&A truck driver's son dies, his wife deserts him and he loses his job with the shipping company, the man blames all his problems on Mike Malone. The fired trucker determines to get revenge by blowing up Malone's rig with a homemade bomb and killing Mike in the process, but Mike's son intervenes.
Episode 6 • Nov 09, 1958
The Necklace
Mike Malone buys an inexpensive necklace for his wife, only to discover that the jewelry was stolen and is worth $300,000.
Episode 7 • Dec 28, 1958
Shock
Ben Handley, a man Jerry Austin detests, is selected to be the trucking company's new parts manager. While giving him a lift to Buffalo, Jerry and Mike discover that Ben knows absolutely nothing about truck engines. Furthermore, he has a serious drinking problem. When the truckers encounter an accident where the driver has been seriously injured, Ben suddenly displays hidden medical skills and takes charge of saving the dying man.
Episode 8 • Nov 23, 1958
The Attack
A female reporter asks the C&A Trucking Company to allow her to go on a long-distance trip with one of their crews. Believing it would be good publicity, the dispatcher assigns Mike and Jerry to escort her, but everything on the trip goes wrong.
Episode 9 • Nov 30, 1958
The Girl Reporter
A female reporter asks the C&A Trucking Company to allow her to go on a long-distance trip with one of their crews. Believing it would be good publicity, the dispatcher assigns Mike and Jerry to escort her, but everything on the trip goes wrong.
Episode 10 • Oct 12, 1958
Pills
Truckers often use caffeine pills to stay awake during long hauls. However, some truck stops are selling "stay-awake" pills that can not only keep a driver awake but can kill him. Mike and Jerry decide to help the Highway Patrol break up this pill racket.
Episode 11 • Dec 14, 1958
Butch
A stowaway forces Mike and Jerry to drive him across the U.S.-Canadian border at knife-point.
Episode 12 • Dec 21, 1958
The Little Old Man
Mike and Jerry pick up an old man hitchhiker along the road. The man confesses that he's vector for the smallpox outbreak that has struck Toronto.
Episode 13 • Dec 31, 1969
Episode #1.13
Episode 14 • Jan 11, 1959
Sauce for the Goose
Just before his arrest, a gangster gives Mike a note to deliver to his wife causing unpleasant consequences for the trucker.
Episode 15 • Jan 18, 1959
Big Buck
Mike and Jerry decide to get even with "Big Buck" Harris for his constant practical jokes by stealing one of his loads.
Episode 16 • Jan 11, 1959
The Girl at Joe's Place
Jerry falls for the new waitress at a roadside diner who is in a relationship with another patron.
Episode 17 • Feb 01, 1959
Nanette
Mike and Jerry try to help a French-Canadian girl they meet on their travels.
Episode 18 • Dec 31, 1969
Episode #1.18
Episode 19 • Dec 31, 1969
Episode #1.19
Episode 20 • Dec 31, 1969
Episode #1.20
Episode 21 • Dec 31, 1969
Episode #1.21
Episode 22 • Mar 08, 1959
Lil's Cafe
Mike and Jerry try to help their friend Lil whom they fear has fallen in love with a con man only interested in her money.
Episode 23 • Mar 15, 1959
The Hostage
Mike and Jerry are taken hostage at a roadside diner by a gang of crooks.
Episode 24 • Feb 22, 1959
Fallout
A hitchhiker overhears Mike and Jerry discussing their tiny but valuable cargo - a small piece of iridium worth $100,000 and decides to break into their truck and steal the rock. The thief doesn't realize that the iridium is radioactive and will kill anyone who carries it outside its lead box for more than three hours.
Episode 25 • Dec 31, 1969
Episode #1.25
Episode 26 • Apr 05, 1959
Marooned
Flooding from a torrential rainstorm forces Mike and Jerry to take refuge in a roadside diner.
Episode 27 • Mar 08, 1959
Undercover
When Jerry is accused of stealing and fired from his job at C&A Transport, he is actually working undercover with the police to recover stolen goods from the company's warehouse. Mike decides to do some investigating of his own and nearly jeopardizes the investigation and Jerry's life.
Episode 28 • Apr 19, 1959
Vendetta
During World War 2, Mike had to shoot one of his own men to stop him from slaughtering prisoners-of-war. When he learns that a wounded veteran is searching for a trucker nicknamed "Cannonball", he fears that the man he shot has returned and is seeking revenge
Episode 29 • May 03, 1959
The Has-Been
Mike and Jerry pick up a burly man and his crippled son who are walking along the side of the road. Stopping at a diner for lunch, the father is challenged to a fight, but refuse, causing his son to lose all respect for him. The truckers try to restore the youngster's faith in his father.
Episode 30 • May 10, 1959
Flying Dutchman
Mike and Jerry's load of valuable fur pelts are hijacked by a gang of crooks.
Episode 31 • May 17, 1959
Roadeo
Defending champion Mike Malone, decides not to defend his title at the annual "Roadeo", a competition where truck drivers pit their driving skills and knowledge of safety regulations, believing that Jerry should be given a chance to win. Unknown to both men, another trucker plans to sabotage the other contenders chances so he can take home the top prize
Episode 32 • May 24, 1959
Trip to Buffalo
Mike and Jerry host an auction to benefit a family who is too proud to seek assistance.
Episode 33 • May 31, 1959
Wild Party
Mike and Jerry come to the assistance of a youthful bride.
Episode 34 • Jun 07, 1959
Driving School
One of the teenagers in a driver's education class taught by Mike and Jerry decides to go on a joy ride after midnight with terrible consequences.
Episode 35 • Jun 14, 1959
Eye Witness
Mike witnesses a murder and identifies to killers to the police. When reporters leak the story to their newspapers, Mike becomes the target for another gangland killing.
Episode 36 • Jun 07, 1959
Ginny
Ginny get's kissed by Jerry and is infatuated and then forgets him for her friends and party.
Episode 37 • Dec 31, 1969
Episode #1.37
Episode 38 • Jun 14, 1959
Racket
Mike and Jerry come across a trucker they know badly beaten. He reluctantly tells them of a nefarious protection racket that's been shaking down independent operators, all of whom are too intimidated to talk to the police or Mike. Though little does he realise, that his erstwhile friend and victim is the brains of the gang.
Episode 39 • Jul 12, 1959
Tunnel Eyes
When Mike learns that Jerry has turned down a full four-year scholarship to a prestigious engineering school because the younger man doesn't want to break up their partnership, Mike fakes eye trouble and flunks the vision exam so that he will be forced to take a desk job.
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