McKeever and Buckley are asked to help fight a massive forest fire by parachuting in behind the fire, and creating a fire break -- and find a young boy and his dog.
When Jill Kelly, an old flame of Jim's, comes into his life again, she asks his help in testing a new kind of parachute she feels will be worth much money if perfected. Ted, however, feels the chute is impractical and unsafe, and tries to keep Jim from falling prey to Jill's persuasions, who ultimately cares more for her money plans than for Jim's life.
Inmate escapes from prison and is bent on revenge. The man he blames for his prison sentence is camping in Devil's Canyon so he enlists Ripcord to parachute him into the canyon. Of course, the boys have no idea he is a murderer.
Tom Mathison is David, a young man who finds out from fellow teen campers that his father was not a hero who died in combat in Korea, but rather a gangster. He angrily runs away to a nearby family cabin, and armed with rifle, threatens to shoot anyone who approaches. Ted (Larry Pennell) and Jim (Ken Curtis) agree to help by skydiving to the cabin, but David's father "Doctor" Partlow (Grant Richards) shows up and wants to go after David by himself, warning that he will shoot anyone who tries to interfere.
When Ted and Jim are flying and observe a downed plane, they jump to investigate. They find a severely injured man, but another man has a gun and takes them hostage.
A down-and-out singer tries to recharge his career -- and his relationship with the wife he abandoned 10 years earlier -- by skydiving at a county fair.
Man with an Ahab complex seeks vengeance upon the cougar who killed his friend and hires Ripcord to take him high up into the mountains to hunt and kill the big cat. Or -- is something else going on?
A girl is so eager to test her father's automatic ripcord invention that she lies and finagles her way into testing the invention herself -- with nearly fatal results.
When Charlie Kern, Ripcord's pilot, begins giving flying lessons, his first client turns out to be an accomplice in a bank robbery who kidnaps him and his plane in order to escape the law.
When Ripcord unknowingly assists an escaped convict to elude pursuit, Jim, feeling responsible, tries to follow him, and ends up jumping into a dangerous situation, with Ted close behind him.
While instructing their pretty client Tanya Rovag, Ted and Jim become involved in trying to save her father's life from assassination by Communists, who are unwilling to let him publish the political exposé he has been secretly writing in the mountains.
Two uranium prospectors think they have struck it rich but all they really have is radiation poisoning. When they turn on each other, Ted and Jim save them from themselves.
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.
Two anthropologists speculate that a lost Aztec tribe still exists in a very remote location in Mexico. They enlist Ted and Jim to help them access the remote location.
While at an air show, Ted and Jim become involved in the rescue of two politicians who are on their way to the same show, but in a plane with no landing gear and no parachutes.
Faithful pilot Charlie Kern (Shug Fisher) starts seeing blurry while in flight, but can't admit the problem to himself or the guys, hence the "Proud Little Man" title.
Denny Collins is an aspiring student at Ripcord. But his mother is opposed to this, so Denny forges her signature on the jump release form. She is a powerful attorney, so when she finds out she has Ripcord grounded.
After a recent health scare, Nobel-Prize-winning author and former Korean War correspondent Aaron Sparks asks his friends and comrades-in-arms Ted and Jim to teach him how to skydive, for research for a new novel. But is that the real reason for his interest in this dangerous sport?
A parachute club picks a road construction worker to teach how to skydive after a bet is placed between the head of the club and a reckless skydiver.The bet is that anybody can learn to skydive in 30 days.
