Episode list

In the original unaired cut of the pilot, a number of deleted or altered scenes are featured, as well as an entirely different score (presumably also by Frontiere, based upon how it sounds), and no opening theme is used or closing credits presented.

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

The copter becomes a delivery room when a baby is born on the way to the hospital. Don and Gil answer a call to check out a burglary at a drive-in and find a pregnant girl, whom Don had once befriended, being held against her will.

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

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

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.

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.

A veteran police sergeant is suspected of selling confiscated weapons to a criminal element.

Mitch's wife has been abducted. The kidnappers contact Mitch, they want Chopper One grounded until 2:00PM. Mitch disables the helicopter, it cannot be flown. He blames it on an electrical problem. Officers Gil and Don suspect something; they confront Mitch. He tells them about the kidnapping of his wife. They go to Captain McKeegan, who determines that Organized Crime is behind it. The bad guys want the chopper grounded, to keep it from providing aerial cover for a motorcade. A powerful prosecutor is in the motorcade; the kidnappers plan to assassinate him. With a clue provided by Mitch, the officers learn where the bad guys are holding Mitch's wife, and where the assassination attempt will occur. Chopper One to the rescue.

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.