Ripcord - Season 2 (1962)

While waiting for Ted to arrive with medical supplies for a gunshot hunter, Jim himself comes under fire.

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.

An unscrupulous newspaper man is writing fake news about skydiving in general and Ripcord, Inc. in particular.

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 sent to rescue an injured mountain climber, Jim must play surgeon when conditions are too difficult for the doctor to jump.

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.

Kidnapper holds an executive's daughter hostage and demands the ransom be air-dropped into the woods.

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?

Ted goes undercover to break up a drug trafficking scheme that finds the drugs being parachuted in by gang members.

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.

At an international sky diving competition, a Russian wants help to defect.

Ted jumps to a remote area to free up a mountain land slide -- and finds a wanted man who's sick with Small Pox.

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.

A pilot pushes a man out of a plane along with a bag of loot, and has to get the money on time before the boys catch him.

A group of crooks (including Lee Van Cleef) seek gold in an old mine, and need the boys to get them there.

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.

The boys work with an adventurous, and creepy, photographer (Dick Sargent) who always happens to be there when a tragedy occurs.

The boys deal with an eccentric and very beautiful Mexican daredevil skydiver (Barbara Luna) in search of her cousin Felipe, who may not even exist.

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.

Ted and Jim help a bounty hunter capture a murderous tax cheat. But the bounty hunter is hiding something from the boys.

The boys are kidnapped by a criminal couple who plan to ruin a town's water supply.

Ted, who lands in the boonies, injured, is held hostage by the titular hillbilly on the lam.

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Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's story about a group of thrill-seekers finding one new member to kill.

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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.

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