In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love.
Harry runs a salvage operation, in which he and his partners reclaim trash and junk and sell it as scrap (or as other things). Harry also has a home-made spaceship which he sometimes uses to reclaim junk satellites.
During the American Civil War, after his family is killed by Confederate raider William Quantrill, a young farmer seeks the help of a famous gunfighter in order to exact revenge on Quantrill.
A more than slightly incompetent private eye inherits five doberman pinschers. The dogs at first create havoc with Alex's home and personal life, but soon become trusted allies and on more than one occasion help Alex solve cases.
Salvage company sees a prospect in recovering abandoned items in space. They build a makeshift rocket and launch it amongst resistance from the government.
Any and Rebecca rescue a boy trapped in a burning warehouse. When they investigate the fire they find it was set by an arson ring that puts their lives in danger.
Amy and Rebecca draw an assignment of interviewing a famous magician who recently defected. The two TV journalists find themselves saving their subject from an assassination plot.
While trying to locate gold from the Confederate States of America, the Salvage 1 team is captured by greedy townspeople and forced to work for the locals.
Harry treats the gang to a trip to Hawaii where they find he has other motives. He has arranged for a mining operation into the side of an extinct volcano to retrieve diamonds formed by extreme geologic forces long ago.
Harry plans a return to space to salvage a communications satellite, Telcom, that is loaded with gold. While Klinger impounds the Vulture, Skip, rehired by NASA, is trapped aboard a malfunctioning space station.
Harry befriends a mobile robot who, unknown to the Salvage 1 team, has runaway from a secret army base and is programmed to kill anyone who poses a threat.
