• 1961
  • 30m
Ripcord

Summary On their private plane, a skydiver and a pilot are placed in unusual situations in which their special skills and abilities are needed. They're led on exciting adventures, from chasing dangerous criminals to performing difficult rescues. View more details

  • 1961
  • 30m

Ripcord

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Larry Pennell Ken Curtis Shug Fisher Paul Comi

All cast & crew

7.4

Details

Genres : Adventure

Release date : Sep 27, 1961

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : United Artists Television ZIV Television Programs

Summary On their private plane, a skydiver and a pilot are placed in unusual situations in which their special skills and abilities are needed. They're led on exciting adventures, from chasing dangerous criminals to performing difficult rescues. View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure

Release date : Sep 27, 1961

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : United Artists Television ZIV Television Programs

Photos

John Bryant in Ripcord (1961) Ken Drake and Myron Healey in Ripcord (1961) BarBara Luna in Ripcord (1961) Johnny Seven in Ripcord (1961) Ken Curtis and Larry Pennell in Ripcord (1961) Shug Fisher in Ripcord (1961) Lane Bradford and John Zaremba in Ripcord (1961) Ken Curtis and Larry Pennell in Ripcord (1961) Gerald Mohr in Ripcord (1961) Paul Lambert in Ripcord (1961) Ken Curtis, Shug Fisher, and Larry Pennell in Ripcord (1961) Larry Pennell and Jay Douglas in Ripcord (1961) Adam Hill Gilbert in Ripcord (1961)

Episodes

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Sep 27, 1961
The Sky Diver
Jim interrupts Ted's pleasant day eyeing pretty girls (and being ogled in return) with the news they've been hired to deliver valuable supplies and equipment to a team prospecting deep in Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains. At a trading post, Ted prevents another prospector from taking a valuable instrument crucial to the success of his clients, with near tragic results.
Episode 1 • Dec 31, 1969
Air Carnival
Betty Rhodes, star performer of Justin Rock's air carnival, is eager to have Ted and Jim join their team. Ted and Jim don't want to jump for kicks, however, but they soon must jump to save Rock's life when his parachute gear is sabotaged.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 1969
Airborne
Ted takes under his wing a spoiled rich juvenile delinquent and his two stooges, who are attempting to impress a young woman skydiving student.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
Chuting Stars
McKeever, Buckley and an old Navy friend and his corps of jumpers join forces and race against the clock to find a diabetic woman abandoned in a canyon by her kidnappers.
Episode 4 • Dec 31, 1969
Colorado Jump
Ted and Jim desperately try to rescue a young singer who was seriously injured in an aerial jump, promoted by his publicity-hungry agent.
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
The Condemned
Ted and Jim are hired by a lawyer to help prove that his client, now on death row, is not guilty of his wife's murder by parachuting to her remote mountain home and gathering the evidence he believes is there in time to stop the execution.
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
Counter-Attack
Taking place more on the ground than above this time, Ted and Jim (in a car) have to pick up a top secret device to give to a scientist, and are tailed by a couple of men in suits while being distracted by a mysterious blonde.
Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1969
Crime Jump
Ripcord, Inc. is brought under suspicion of murder and espionage when a former student of theirs parachutes into a top security laboratory at night, kills a scientist, and tries to make off with important secrets.
Episode 9 • Dec 31, 1969
Dangerous Night
When Ted is kidnapped by a mentally disturbed client of theirs, Jim must make a risky jump into the Mexican wilderness at night to rescue him, guided only by a small hand-held radio signal that Ted was able to set off.
Episode 10 • Dec 31, 1969
Death Camp
Ripcord is hired by a team of uranium prospectors to drop supplies to them, but when Ted and Jim are about to make the drop, they notice all three men sprawled on the ground below them. Concerned, Ted jumps in to investigate and encounters a deadly welcome at the camp.
Episode 11 • Dec 31, 1969
Derelict
Ted and Jim are hired to make one of their most difficult jumps: on to a deserted cargo ship abandoned on a reef in the ocean. It's a matter of time for the owners to claim the derelict ship before a greedy salvage outfit gets there first.
Episode 12 • Dec 31, 1969
Top Secret
Carl Sexton, an old acquaintance of Ted and Jim's now in the FBI, approaches them for help in preventing his own father, a prominent scientist, defect to the Communists before it's too late.
Episode 13 • Dec 31, 1969
Radar Rescue
When Ted and Jim angrily flunk radar operator Bill Kirk from their sky diving school, they little dream they will have to put their lives in his hands to effect a daring rescue of a downed pilot and his little daughter in dangerous fog, guided only by radar.
Episode 14 • Dec 31, 1969
Sierra Jump
Chuck Lambert, Ripcord's pilot, is in serious trouble when his plane crashes and the man he was flying is killed. Drugs were found in Chuck's possession, yet he insists the drugs were his passenger's who also caused the crash, but unless Jim and Ted can help, the dead man's brother will see Chuck grounded and prosecuted.
Episode 15 • Dec 31, 1969
The Silver Cord
Speed Domaine, an old soldier Ted and Jim know from the army, wants his son Billy to learn sky-diving to prove he's a man, in spite of Billy's resistance to the idea. But when they jump into a canyon the army uses for target practice and Speed breaks his leg, Billy, wins new respect from his father by saving the old man's life, with the help of Ripcord.
Episode 16 • Dec 31, 1969
Thoroughbred
While visiting the race track, Ted and Jim are unexpectedly hired by Margo Kane to rescue her prize thoroughbred horse which is trapped in a box canyon.
Episode 17 • Dec 31, 1969
Ransom Drop
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.
Episode 18 • Dec 31, 1969
Escape
Ted and Jim jump into a job only to be taken hostage by an escaped convict.
Episode 19 • Dec 31, 1969
Double Drop
Jim jumps into a mountain cabin with a medical supply delivery only to end up being taken hostage along with the doctor. Fortunately, Jim brought a radio and looks for an opportunity to send a message without tipping off the baddies.
Episode 20 • Dec 31, 1969
The Financier
A former student of the skydiving school commits suicide shortly after graduating. Or did he? An insurance investigator is not so sure and enlists Jim and Ted's assistance with the investigation.
Episode 21 • Dec 31, 1969
Sentence of Death
Episode 22 • Dec 31, 1969
Desperate Choice
Ted and Jim join in on the search for a missing girl. Things get complicated when the girl's father flips out and goes on a murderous rampage.
Episode 23 • Dec 31, 1969
Diplomatic Mission
Ripcord must search a crash site for top secret papers. Finding the papers will be the easy part because, of course, the bad guys want the papers too.
Episode 24 • Dec 31, 1969
Hagen Charm
Ripcord must deliver Dr. Hagen to a remote cabin for a medical emergency. Conditions are rough but they think Dr. Hagen can handle it since he was a war hero. However, they discover that he is terrified and may not be able to handle it.
Episode 25 • Dec 31, 1969
The Helicopter Race
Ripcord helps a businessman recover a valuable briefcase from rocky terrain before thugs get to it using a helicopter.
Episode 26 • Dec 31, 1969
High Jeopardy
Beautiful spoiled rich girl gets banned from Ripcord for not following the rules. Later, she uses her feminine wiles on Chuck to make him take her to rough terrain for an unauthorized jump. Trouble ensues.
Episode 27 • Dec 31, 1969
Hi-Jack
While on their way to Cape Canaveral for a job, the airplane Ted and Jim are on is hi-jacked by Communist agents intending to kidnap an important scientist.
Episode 28 • Dec 31, 1969
The Human Kind
When a woman is kidnapped, Ted, Jim, and a minister join in the search for her.
Episode 30 • Dec 31, 1969
Hurricane Charlie
When Ted and Jim are in a hurry to start a job, Charlie Kern oddly keeps trying to stall them.
Episode 31 • Dec 31, 1969
Elegy for a Hero
An old Army superior shows up wanting the boys to take him on a dangerous drop into the mountains. Ted, who never could stand the guy, refuses and they come to blows.
Episode 32 • Dec 31, 1969
Cougar Mesa
An insurance adjuster thinks a plane is being hidden atop Cougar Mesa and did not crash as claimed by the policy holder. Ted and Jim agree to assist in the insurance fraud investigation by jumping on to Cougar Mesa and locating the plane.
Episode 33 • Dec 31, 1969
Last Chance
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.
Episode 34 • Dec 31, 1969
Log Jam
Ripcord unwittingly agree to deliver a load of nitro to clear up a log jam.
Episode 35 • Dec 31, 1969
Mile High Triangle
A man drowning in gambling debts wants to off his wife to collect on the insurance. After failing to hurl her from his plane he tries to stage a skydiving accident.
Episode 36 • Dec 31, 1969
Millionaire Doctor
When the son of millionaire Hal Glinders is critically injured in a car accident at a dangerously remote spot in the mountains, Ted and Jim are called in to try and reach the boy with help before he bleeds to death.
Episode 37 • Dec 31, 1969
One for the Money
When Ripcord is offered $1000 for a job, they "jump" at the chance. But little do they realize they are being played by a gang of ruthless criminals.
Episode 38 • Dec 31, 1969
Para-Nurse
A Para-Nurse named Laura Copeland (Allison Hayes) is on an assignment to help Ted McKeever (Larry Pennell), and Jim Buckley (Ken Curtis) with a Father's young kid who has fallen ill to a fatal lung disease.
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