Season 2 • Episode 7
LatestA pair of downed fliers are most ungrateful when Ted and Jim "drop in" on them.
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.
Practical Effects
Real skydivers, real planes, real possibility of cast turnover mid-season.
Stunts
Every episode is basically 'what if we jumped out of THAT?'
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show's production company, Berman/Swerdlow, was so cheap they reportedly used the same plane crash footage in multiple episodes. Viewers in 1961 definitely noticed.
Ripcord premiered two years before the Kennedy assassination froze American optimism; its casual death-defiance feels like a time capsule from a country that still believed physics was negotiable.
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