Ripcord

📊 Series Specifications

Network Network Broadcast
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 2
Total Episodes 111
Original Language EN

Ripcord (1961)

⭐ 3.4 / 5 (3 votes) 🎬 2 Seasons 📼 111 Episodes 🏷️ Action & Adventure 📡 Ended
⏱️
Series Status:

This series has concluded and all seasons are available for tracking.

Ended

Synopsis

Ripcord is an American syndicated television series that ran for 76 episodes from 1961 to 1963 about the exploits of a skydiving operation by the same name.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 The Sky Diver

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

E2 Flight to Terror

Gangster and his wife must make a forced landing while fleeing to Mexico.

E3 Crime Jump

Ted and Jim try to clear themselves of murder.

E4 Thoroughbred

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

E5 Air Carnival

A member of an accident-plagued air circus tries to get Ted and Jim into the act. A pretty aviatrix tries to lure Ted and Jim into signing up with the Justin Rock air circus.

E6 Hi-Jack

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

E7 The Condemned

The skydivers assignment tonight is to find a woman's body at an inaccessible ski resort.

E8 Millionaire Doctor

The skydivers have one of their most trying and exciting experiences while trying to salvage a ship loaded with high explosives.

E9 Sierra Jump

Jay Coates, a zealous jumper, pulls Chuck (Paul Comi) into danger as the pilot attempt to stop him from jumping. Chuck is in a bad spot when narcotics are found on him after the accident.

E10 Darb

Archaeologist,Gustave Merril holds Ted McKeever captive. Ted is kidnapped by an archaeologist eager to get his hands on an Aztec death mask.

E11 Ransom Drop

Kidnappers hold electronicist Brandon Oliver hostage and demand a special ransom: Brandon Oliver's highly valuable new gadget.

E12 Log Jam

A lumber man hires Ted and Jim to break up a log jam. The two skydivers fly a charge of nitroglycerin over the logging area.

E13 The Human Kind

The boys join an air search for the kidnapped wife of a rancher.

E14 High Jeopardy

A reckless skydiving student jumps into danger.

E15 The Financier

Skydivers investigate millionaire's suicide. Wealthy E.J. Bowen killed himself.

E16 The Silver Cord

Irresponsible Speed Domaine and his son are lost in a missile-target area.

E17 Escape

Fugitive criminal Steve Danton forces Chuck Lambert to take him aloft in the Skydivers, Inc., plane, leaving Ted McKeever and Jim Buckley grounded.

E18 Airborne

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.

E19 Last Chance

Ted, captured by a claim jumper, looks for a way to signal Jim.

E20 Double Drop

James Coburn plays an injured bank robber on the lam. The crook is n ex-paratrooper, on the run from the law.

E21 Desperate Choice

Ted and Jim drop onto dangerous terrain to search for a trapped youth---and the boy's overeager rescuer.

E22 Mile High Triangle

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

E23 Jungle Survival

The jungle becomes a nightmarish prison for a stranded Ted and Jim.

E24 Hagen Charm

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.

E25 The Helicopter Race

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

E26 Para-Nurse

Laura Cokely 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.

E27 Colorado Jump

Jim (Ken Curtis) is duped into accompanying a young recording star on a dangerous publicity stunt.

E28 Top Secret

The boys try to find out if U.S. scientist Rupert Sexton is planning to defect.

E29 One for the Money

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

E30 Sentence of Death

A Nazi war criminal menaces Ted and Jim.

E31 Elegy for a Hero

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

E32 Cougar Mesa

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

E33 Chuting Stars

Navy parachutists join a search for a diabetic abandoned in the mountains.

E34 Death Camp

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.

E35 Radar Rescue

A man named Anderson and his daughter get lost amid a cloudburst and then a crash is heard. Ted, Jim and Chuck are nearby and attend the distress call from Anderson. A hot-tempered radar navigator is determined to even the score with Ted, who expelled him from jump school.

E36 Diplomatic Mission

Ted and Jim are after a slain diplomat's secret papers---and so is an enemy agent.

E37 Hurricane Charlie

Ted and Jim, hired to deliver equipment to a mining crew, suspect that their pilot is sabotaging the operation.

E38 Counter-Attack

Gunmen, G-men and a beautiful girl get into the act as Ted and Jim go to work for an industrialist.

E39 The Hunter

The boys try to intercept an assassin.

E41 Race Morgan: Bounty Hunter
E45 Among Those Missing
E49 A Present for Felipe
E55 The Wrong Way Down
E56 A Free Falling Star

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.

E62 The Trouble with Denny Collins
E66 Jump to a Blind Alley
E71 Million Dollar Drop
E73 The Proud Little Man
E74 Semper Paratus Any Time
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →