Chopper One
- 1974
- Ended
- Crime · Drama
- ~26m / ep
- 1 season
- 7.5/10
Chopper One was a short-lived ABC drama/adventure television series in early 1974 depicting the activities of a California police helicopter team. The program aired in a half-hour time slot on Thursdays at 8 p.m. Eastern. It aired adjacent to Firehouse, an action-drama series about a Los Angeles fire station. Chopper One was cancelled after six months and Firehouse ended in the following month.
Latest: Season 1 · 1974
View all seasonsE1. Chopper One
Jan 17, 1974
A swanky fourteen story hotel is being robbed downtown. The team plot the arrests and how best to use the helicopter.
E2. Strain of Innocence
Jan 24, 1974
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.
E3. The Bust-Out
Jan 31, 1974
Don and Gil find themselves in a dangerous predicament when their helicopter is taken over by armed gunmen.
E4. The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Feb 7, 1974
An invalid creates havoc when he uses a ham radio to call in fake emergencies.
E5. The Informer
Feb 14, 1974 · 30m
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.
E6. The Drop
Feb 21, 1974
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.
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