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Episode Guide
Even
though I first saw these episodes 20 years ago, some scenes stayed with
me all that time. One instant that still stands out is from the
episode, "Shangri-la Lil". The Salvage team comes across a Japanese
soldier in a remote jungle who does not know that World War II ended
over 30 years earlier. He captures Harry and his friends as prisoners
of war. Harry finally convinces the old soldier that the war is over.
When the Japanese soldier asks who won, Harry, not wanting to upset
him, says Japan did. As proof, he pulls off his Japanese-made
wristwatch and says, "Look, made in Japan." The old man then believes
him and straightens with pride.
First Season - Winter & Spring, 1979 |
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1. Salvage (2 hour premiere movie)
Airdate: Jan 20, 1979
Junkyard owner Harry
Broderick assembles a team to pull off the ultimate salvage operation.
With former astronaut Skip Carmichael and fuel expert Melanie Slozar,
Harry builds the spacecraft Vulture in order to bring back the
equipment left on the moon during the Apollo moon expeditions.
Guest
Cast
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Lorene... |
Jacqueline
Scott |
Fred....... |
Raleigh
Bond |
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2. Dark Island
Airdate: Jan 29, 1979
On their first
authorized salvage job...an aerial survey of Antarctic
icebergs...Harry, Melanie and Skip make an unauthorized stop on a
supposedly uninhabited island to pick up valuable spider monkeys for a
zoo. What they find instead is a lone scientist and a giant man-ape.
Guest
Cast
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John
Goodwin... |
Henry
Jones |
Creature............ |
Ray Young |
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3. Shagri-la Lil
Airdate:
Feb 5, 1979
Harry takes his
teammates on a sentimental journey to the Burmese jungle to recover the
well-preserved B-25 bomber he flew in Doolittle's 1942 raid on Tokyo.
They find that the plane is being guarded by an old Japanese soldier
who doesn't know the war has ended. He takes the Salvage team as war
prisoners.
Guest
Cast
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Toshiro............... |
Mako |
General
Morse... |
Dane
Clark |
Fong.................... |
Byron
Chung |
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4. Shelter Five
Airdate: Feb 19, 1979
While salvaging an
abandoned government fallout shelter, an earthquake traps Melanie,
Skip, a little girl and her dog. Harry puts together a rescue operation
as he races against time to save them.
Guest
Cast
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Maj.
Phil Burke... |
Sam Groom |
Susan
Burke........ |
Michelle
Stacy |
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5. The Haunting of Manderly Mansion
Airdate: Feb 26, 1979
After Harry purchases a
famous haunted mansion with plans to salvage it, strange things begin
to happen. The Salvage team discovers it is actually inhabited by a
strange alien waiting to be transported home.
Guest
Cast
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Sam
Bishop... |
Bert
Freed |
Kramer........... |
Howard
Mann |
Auctioneer... |
Henry
Sutton |
Burglar........... |
Keith
McConnell |
Burglar........... |
Bob Hoy |
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6. The Bugatti Treasure
Airdate: Mar 5, 1979
At an auction, Harry
outbids an antiquarian for a classic 1934 automobile he has always
dreamed of owning. Harry and his crew discover a treasure map hidden in
the car. The antiquarian, who is known to traffic in precious objects,
doesn't give up quite so easily as the Salvage crew goes treasure
hunting.
Guest
Cast
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Caspar
Beckman... |
Severn
Darden |
Wilbur.................... |
Ron Soble |
Max
Jacoby........... |
David
Opatoshu |
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7. Golden Orbit (part 1)
Airdate: Mar 12, 1979
A plan to retrieve a
gold-plated satellite before it falls from orbit hits two snags: the
Government impounds the Vulture, and NASA offers Skip a long-awaited
mission aboard a space station. A dangerous liquid nitrogen leak traps
Skip and his fellow NASA crewmembers aboard the ship.
Guest
Cast
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Buck
Fulton.......... |
Edward
Winter |
Vanessa
Ashley... |
Ellen Bry |
Dr.
Singleton......... |
Barry
Nelson |
Jim
Webster.......... |
Gary
Stephan Swanson |
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8. Golden Orbit (part 2)
Airdate: Mar 19, 1979
Conclusion. Harry
convinces NASA that he is the only one who can rescue the
crew-including Skip-that is freezing to death in an orbiting space
station. Harry and Melanie launch in the Vulture to save them.
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9. Operation Breakout
Airdate: Apr 2, 1979
An African dictator
kidnaps FBI agent Jack Klinger to exchange for a U.S. missile. The U.S.
won't respond, but Harry does. The Salvage 1 team comes to the rescue
while pretending to offer the dictator the Vulture as a weapons
platform.
Guest
Cast
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Yaffert
Boratu... |
Moses
Gunn |
Sanders.............. |
John
Crawford |
Pierre.................. |
Hari
Rhodes |
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10. Mermadon
Airdate: Apr 16, 1979
Skip and Melanie patch
up an almost-human robot with damaged memory circuits, not knowing it
came from a secret army project and is programmed to kill.
Guest
Cast
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General
Macklin... |
Ed Nelson |
Dr.
Maven............ |
Philip
Abbott |
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11. Up, Up and Away
Airdate: May 14, 1979
The air-freight delivery
of a miniature locomotive involves the Salvage trio with the devious
pilot of an undependable aircraft, a terrified fourth passenger and
additional cargo of enormous interest to the FBI. The plane crashes in
an isolated area and the Salvage team assembles a make-shift balloon in
order to reach civilization.
Guest
Cast
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Milo...... |
Christopher
Connelly |
Basset... |
George
Furth |
Spiro...... |
Adam
Roarke |
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12. Energy Solution
Airdate: May 21, 1979
Melanie develops a
possible-and dangerous-solution to the energy crisis: using
monohydrazine to blast new oil out of old dried-out wells. The
experiment results in a catastophic underground explosion and fire that
must be extinguished.
Guest
Cast
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Dawson..... |
Peter
Donat |
Sanborne... |
Ben
Piazza |
Brinks........ |
Richard
Eastham |
Krandall..... |
Stanley
Brock |
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13. Confederate Gold
Airdate: May 28, 1979
The salvagers hunt for
legendary buried treasure at a Confederate paymaster's last stand. But
they soon find that everyone wants them out of town and the real
"Confederate Gold" is supplied by moonshiners.
Guest
Cast
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Sherrif
Moss... |
R.G.
Armstrong |
Melba............... |
Fran Ryan |
Shorty.............. |
Dub
Taylor |
Buster.............. |
Med Flory |
Billie................. |
Dirk
Blocker |
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Second Season - Fall, 1979 |
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14. Hard Water (part 1)
Airdate: Nov 4, 1979
The salvage team that
went to the moon resurrects an old project: towing an Antarctic iceberg
to a drought-stricken island off the California coast. Their plan
involves using the Vulture's engines to direct the iceberg's course.
The competition is a well-funded and unscrupulous corporation.
Guest
Cast
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Kress..... |
Philip
Charles MacKenzie |
Bishop... |
Bert
Freed |
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15. Hard Water (part 2)
Airdate: Nov 11, 1979
Harry and crew run into
extreme difficulties in bringing an iceberg to California to be used as
a source of water. The engine they use to steer the mountain of ice
breaks loose and the iceberg drifts into the shipping lanes.
Guest
Cast
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Captain
Barlow... |
Frank
Campanella |
Faye
Delmont...... |
Rosemary
Prinz |
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16. Diamond Volcano
UNAIRED
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. However, the
volcano proves to be more active than they thought.
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17. Dry Spell
UNAIRED
When a severe drought
threatens a farm belonging to Harry's aunt and uncle in Arkansas, the
Salvage team attempts to harvest rain from the clouds using a very
unique method: heating the air above the clouds with flame devices
mounted on an old biplane.
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18. Harry's Doll
UNAIRED
Skip convinces Harry to
buy a race horse called "Harry's Doll", based on computer predictions
that it will be a winner. When the horse breaks its leg in its first
race, a NASA doctor is brought in to meld the bone using laser
technology. Against all odds, the horse races again with young Michelle
as the jockey, but will it win?
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19. Round Up
UNAIRED
The Salvage team learns
that a herd of wild horses are going to be shot as part of a government
program to control their numbers. To save them (and make a profit),
they round them up to sell them to a local police department as mounted
patrols.
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