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Bearcats! Episode Guide

Powderkeg

First aired: Apr/16/1971


1 :01x01 - The Devil Wears Armor

First aired: Sep/16/1971
Writer: Herman Groves
Director: Harry Harvey, Jr.
Guest star: Julio Medina (Ramirez), John Vernon (Jason Ryker), Sherry Bain (Rose), Kathleen Lloyd (Sister Catalina), Evans Thornton (Colonel), Paul Koslo (Billy Joe), Michael Masters (Coley Wyatt)

A stolen Army tank is being used in bank robberies. Johnny, Hank, and their Stutz Bearcat are hired to put a stop to things.


2 :01x02 - Ground Loop at Spanish Wells

First aired: Sep/23/1971
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
Director: Robert Totten
Guest star: Sandy Rosenthal (John Cumber), Peter O'Crotty (Stearns), Tom Simcox (Lt. Stengler), Lenore Stevens (Juanita Perez), Allen Pinson (Corporal Schmidt), Henry Darrow (Raoul Esteban)

German troops, disguised as American soldiers, are raiding Mexican towns just across the border hoping to foment a war between the United States and Mexico.


3 :01x03 - Dos Gringos

First aired: Sep/30/1971
Writer: James L. Henderson, Sam Roeca
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Guest star: Maria Grimm (Carlotta), William Wintersole (Colonel), Frank Orsatti (Armando), Elisabeth Chauvet (Brunette), Catherine Ferrar (Conchita), Charles Picerni (Alfredo), Robert Tafur (Ignacio Gomez), Jack Owens (Mayor), David Cadiente (Carlos), Eric Braeden (Colonel Reinert)

Johnny and Hank try to stop a German assassin from killing a Mexican revolutionary who's raising money in the United States.


4 :01x04 - The Feathered Serpent

First aired: Oct/07/1971
Writer: Gene L. Coon
Director: Robert Totten
Guest star: Hank Kendrick (Bartender), Link Wyler (Guard), Woody Chambliss (Mayor Evans), Katherine Justice (Hilda), Louis Massad (Heller), William Bramley (Overton), Fielding Greaves (Brainard), Henry Silva (Zavala), Lenore Kasdorf (Laura), Rex Holman (Pauk)

It's Johnny and Hank to the rescue when a small town is held hostage by a group of wannabe revolutionaries.


5 :01x05 - Hostages

First aired: Oct/14/1971
Writer: Jim Byrnes
Director: Marvin Chomsky
Guest star: Ed Flanders (Ben Tillman), Erin Moran (Elisa Tillman), Todd Mason (Slocum), Don West (Tully), Sam Edwards (Charlie Doyle), Warner Anderson (Huddleston), Kevin Scott Allen (Boy), Herb Robins (Maitre'd), Gary McLarty (Father Herreta), David Canary (Joe Bascom), Ben Zeller (Walton)

To revenge himself on a town, ex-convict Joe Bascom kidnaps a priest and demands that the town hang one of its citizens in exchange for the priest's release.


6 :01x06 - Conqueror's Gold

First aired: Oct/28/1971
Writer: Stephen Kandel, Alexander Richards
Director: Richard Donner
Guest star: Fred M. Waugh (Trini), Tom Nardini (Father Liberto), Hersha Parady (Carrie), Victor Eberg (Jason), Kevin McCarthy (Carter Gladstone), Rod Cameron (Warden Price), Pepper Martin (Gus Bailey), Gary Cassell (Paulo), Gregory Enton (Daniels), Sue Ann Carpenter (Reba), Jane Merrow (Samantha Burke)

Johnny and Hank are hired by a newspaperwoman to rescue a group of Indians being held as slave labor at an archeological digging site by a gang of thieves seeking buried treasure.


7 :01x07 - Blood Knot

First aired: Nov/04/1971
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Guest star: Robert F. Hoy (Pete), X Brands (Mantano), Lauren Campbell (Jane Webb), C. Lindsay Workman (Mayor Cobb), Leslie Parrish (Liz Burke), H. M. Wynant (Ben Shamrock)

Townspeople believe that nearby Indians are behind the sabotage of an oil well. Johnny and Hank arrive to get to the bottom of things before tensions can escalate.


8 :01x08 - Assault on San Saba

First aired: Nov/11/1971
Writer: Joe Ruby, Ken Spears
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Guest star: Edward Faulkner (Mills), Richard Webb (Colonel Hunt), Mark Allen (Warden Sims), Maree Cheatham (Jessica Adams), George Sawaya (Tower Guard), Rob Townsend (Baker), Barry Hamilton (Billy Adams), Ann Bell (Informer), Ed Call (Jerret), Lincoln Kilpatrick (Jake), Bruce Glover (Schiller)

Johnny and Hank are faced with the difficult task of breaking into a prison that's been taken over by a German military intelligence officer who's recruiting saboteurs.


9 :01x09 - Bitter Flats

First aired: Nov/18/1971
Writer: Michael P. Butler, Christopher Trumbo
Director: Richard Donner
Guest star: Grady Hill (Guard), Jason Ledger (Lt. Bill McKelvey), John Gill (Ned), Craig R. Baxley (Sgt. David Spears), Rockne Tarkington (Lukas), Don Rizzan (Young Man), Jim Boles (Tom McKelvey), Doreen Lang (Audrey McKelvey), Charles Dierkop (Pistolero), Keenan Wynn (Mason Latimer), Katherine Cannon (Amy Latimer)

Johnny and Hank clash with a ruthless rancher while searching for a friend who disappeared while on a top secret mission for the Army.


10 :01x10 - Tiger! Tiger!

First aired: Nov/25/1971
Director: Murray Golden
Guest star: Kathy Silva (Apache Woman), Morgan Woodward (Tiger Thompson), Ted Grossman (Anderson), Lawrence Montaigne (Koster), Byron Morrow (Colonel Barton), Walter Brooke (Fairfield), Victor Mohica (Apache), Houston Savage (Foreman), Betty Anne Rees (Katherine Costello), Judith M. Brown (Dana Walters), Bob Herron (Paul)

Johnny and Hank try to stop a saboteur who's been destroying medical supply shipment bound for the war in Europe.


11 :01x11 - The Big Gun

First aired: Dec/02/1971
Writer: James L. Henderson, Sam Roeca
Director: Alf Kjellin
Guest star: Phil Mead (Sergeant), Morgan Paull (Don Kemper), George Murdock (Koontz), Fred Stromsoe (Chum), Peter Hellman (Heine), Leslie Nielsen (Colonel Ted Donovan), Vincent Van Lynn (Convoy Captain), Philip Kennedy (Riley), Arthur Batanides (Don Kemper), Stacy Harris (Emmett Grosvenor), Peter Church (British Officer), Walter Scott (Baker)

A renegade Army colonel steals artillery in order to destroy an convoy of explosives bound for Great Britain and the Allied war effort.


12 :01x12 - The Return of Estaban

First aired: Dec/23/1971
Writer: Jim Byrnes
Director: Lee Madden
Guest star: Kathryn Hays (Millie), Brioni Farrell (Sally), Henry Darrow (Raoul Esteban), William Smith (Russell), Dick Anders (Cadwell)

Johnny and Hank call on their old friend, Mexican pilot Raoul Esteban, in order to stop a gang out to rob, loot, and pillage a mining town.


13 :01x13 - Man in a Cage

First aired: Dec/30/1971
Writer: Jim Byrnes
Director: Lee Madden
Guest star: Luke Askew (Greer), John Anderson (Judge O'Brien), Jeremy Slate (Lassiter), John Quade (Brady)

Hank and a gubernatorial candidate are being held by kidnappers and Johnny must rely on an ex-convict for help.