Ripcord (first-run syndicated: 1961-1963) was an awesome, amazing and fantastic adventure series that really did credit to sport parachuting or skydiving, the most danger-packed show on TV ever made by far. Great chemistry, lots of action, heart-pounding stories, not like the crap that's on the small ...
Ripcord (first-run syndicated: 1961-1963), starred the late Larry Pennell (1928-2013) as the handsome, headstrong, youthful and colorful parachute fellow Ted McKeever, with the also late Ken Curtis (1916-1991) as his level-headed older mentor and buddy Jim Buckley, was an awesome skydiving adventure ...
James Clavell (born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, 10 October 1921 – 6 September 1994), was an Australian (and later naturalized American) novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known as the author of his Asian Saga novels, a number of which have had television adaptations. Clavell also authored such screenplays as those for The Fly (1958) (based on the short story by George Langelaan) and The Great Escape (1963) (based on the personal account of Paul Brickhill).
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