Chopper One Season 1

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Season 1

Air date: 1974-01-17

Episodes: 13

Episodes

E1: Chopper One

A swanky fourteen story hotel is being robbed downtown. The team plot the arrests and how best to use the helicopter.

Air date: 1974-01-17

E2: Strain of Innocence

Burdick gets a call from a girl he once helped, who is now mixed up with some bad guys and afraid for the safety of her unborn child.

Air date: 1974-01-24

E3: The Bust-Out

Don and Gil find themselves in a dangerous predicament when their helicopter is taken over by armed gunmen.

Air date: 1974-01-31

E4: The Boy Who Cried Wolf

An invalid creates havoc when he uses a ham radio to call in fake emergencies.

Air date: 1974-02-07

E5: The Informer

Don and Gil are asked to help secure a witness by using the chopper to transport him to the safe house. But when they get there, the man calls his wife and tells her where he is. So she goes there not knowing that the people who want to kill her husband is following her.

Air date: 1974-02-14

E6: The Drop

When the daughter of a doctor is kidnapped. The kidnappers then call her father to tell him of their demands. And it seems he wants the police to make the ransom drop using a chopper so Don and Gil are told of this. The father only wants her daughter back, so Don makes a suggestion that he parachute out of the chopper after Gil makes the drop. So they do it.

Air date: 1974-02-21

E7: Ambush

When anti-police militants offer a reward to anyone who can shoot down the "pig spy helicopter," Foley and Burdick's lives are in danger from rooftop snipers.

Air date: 1974-02-28

E8: The Copperhead

A respected officer is suspected of reselling guns that were confiscated by the police.

Air date: 1974-03-07

E9: Killing Time

Mitch's wife's been kidnapped. They call him to tell him that they want the chopper grounded, so he damages it so it won't fly. Gil and Don who suspect something talks to him and he admits what's happening. So the go to the Captsin and deduce that they wanted the chopper down cause they were suppose to fly aerial cover for a prosecutor who's about to indict several criminals. With info from Mitch, they deduce where they could be holding her and go there. And hopefully they can go back to protect the prosecutor.

Air date: 1974-03-14

E10: Deadly Carrier

Gil and Don are working on a case involving illegal aliens. But they learn that one of the aliens is carrying a contagious disease, so a doctor is assigned to accompany them. And Don doesn't get along with her.

Air date: 1974-03-21

E11: The Scramble

Chopper cop Gil goes undercover to race in a motorcycle scramble. He's investigating renegade cyclists who have been robbing business establishments near the races.

Air date: 1974-03-28

E12: The Hijacking

During a period of fuel shortages, Foley and Burdick work to help bust a gang that is hijacking gasoline tanker trucks.

Air date: 1974-04-04

E13: Downtime

Thinking that they will be able to relax while their chopper is undergoing repairs, Burdick and Foley find that they must race the clock to locate an extortionist before his bomb goes off.

Air date: 1974-04-11