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Steve Canyon Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Operation Towline

First aired: Sep/13/1958
Director: Ted Post
Guest star: Sidney Clute (Unknown), Paul Frees (Durkel), Harry Townes (Brig. Gen. Towne), Suzanne Alexander (Jeets), Dan Barton (Capt. Bullet McVay), Morgan Woodward (Maj. Tex Berry), Nancy Valentine (Nurse), Ray Montgomery (Unknown), Ken Mayer (Unknown), Pat Colby (Unknown)

Steve's mission is to develop an anti-missile system consisting of towing Convair F-102 jet fighters from a KB-50 tanker.


2 :01x02 - Operation Thunderbirds

First aired: Sep/20/1958
Director: Don Taylor
Guest star: Ronnie Knox (Lt. Skippy Edwards), Burt Metcalfe (Lt. Buck Buckley), Ken Hardison (Capt. Jonesy Jones), Michael Ferrall (General Prentiss), Joe Di Reda (Lt. Johnson), Barry McGuire (Lt. Angus), Gloria Robertson (Beautiful Girl), Marian Collier (Secretary), Barbara Wilson (Doris), Gail Land (Martha), Jo Ann Wade (Jane)

Steve is assigned to re-educate a group of dare devil fly-boys the basic Air Force principles.


3 :01x03 - Operation Zero Launch

First aired: Sep/27/1958
Writer: Sidney Carroll
Director: Don Taylor
Guest star: Mike McCoy (Sid), Douglas Wilson (Crocker), Nelson Leigh (General Black), Doro Merande (Mrs. Turton), Marion Ross (Rita Bradshaw), Ward Wood (Brad Bradshaw)

Steve steps in when his friend is injured and agrees to fly a dangerous experimental plane, an F-100 Super Sabres from with rocket boosters.


4 :01x04 - Project Heartbeat

First aired: Oct/04/1958
Director: Don Taylor
Guest star: John Doucette (Unknown), Jason Wingreen (Unknown), Russell Johnson (Unknown), Jacqueline Scott (Unknown)

Steve and Major Pitch Hammer prepare for an around the world trip conducting an experiment to measure the brain and heart activity of the pilots during the flight.


5 :01x05 - Operation Jettison

First aired: Oct/11/1958
Writer: Sidney Carroll
Director: Andrew McCullough
Guest star: Norman Alden (Radar Enlisted Man), Rayford Barnes (Radar Sgt.), DeForest Kelley (Radar Major), John Ward (Lt. Evans), William Ching (Lt. Roebling), Paul Comi (Lt. Castle), Michael Galloway (Sgt. Kiefer), Sue Randall (Sgt. Addie Malone), John Hoyt (Atterbury), Tige Andrews (Sgt. Bagdasarian)

Steve must keep his passengers calm and land a plane safely after one of the engines fails.


6 :01x06 - Operation Survival

First aired: Oct/25/1958
Writer: Sidney Carroll
Director: Richard Tregaskis
Guest star: Buck Young (Lieutenant Kress), Max Slaten (Airman Dolbin), Pete Peterson (Air Rescue Pilot), Frank Gerstle (General Hall), Eddie Firestone (Sergeant Harry Triver), Anthony Eisley (Captain Milt Newberry)

Steve is accidentally thrown from an airplane during a paramedic parachute training jump. When the Drill Master is injured while attempting to rescue Canyon, both must survive in a wild mountain countryside.


7 :01x07 - Fear of Flying

First aired: Nov/01/1958
Writer: Joseph Landon
Director: Andrew McCullough
Guest star: Tom Middleton (Lieutenant Hardiman), Donald Freed (Trial Counsel), Robert De Coag (Major Elfingstone), Philip Abbott (Captain Peterson)

Steve is asked to defend a decorated pilot who is being court martialed for reckless flying.


8 :01x08 - Operation Moby Dick

First aired: Nov/08/1958
Director: Don Taylor
Guest star: Barry Atwater (Dr. Francis Arnold), Frank Bella (Air Policeman), Karl Lukas (Dave Newman)

Steve is put in charge of transporting the first Atlas missile to Cape Canaveral.


9 :01x09 - Operation B-52

First aired: Nov/15/1958
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: Richard Anderson (Ben Radin), Tom Greenway (Gen. Waybright), John Compton (Capt. Woody Buckler), Gene Miller (Mixmaster Col.), Bill Idelson (Mixmaster Capt.), Sylvia Lewis (Macayo), Roxane Berard (Lucette), Peter Nelson (Navigator), Jeff De Benning (SAC Delta), Stephen Roberts (SAC Bravo)

Steve, his crew and a B-52 set out to beat the around the world speed record, all being monitored by Ben Radin, a newsman who has a grudge against airmen.


10 :01x10 - Operation Mushroom

First aired: Nov/29/1958
Writer: Sidney Carroll
Director: Don Taylor
Guest star: Sam Edwards (Major David), Frank Harding (Air Force General), Grandon Rhodes (General Hanson), Vernon Rich (Navy Captain), Larry Thor (Army Colonel), Norman Sturgis (Scientist)

Steve is to fly a plane that drops a test bomb.


11 :01x11 - Operation Crash Landing

First aired: Dec/06/1958
Writer: Sidney Carroll
Director: Lamont Johnson
Guest star: William Schallert (Major Karl Richmond), Orlando Rodriguez (Native Boy), Gordon Polk (Sgt. Bailey), Wesley Lau (Sgt. Bowman), Sandy Kenyon (Lt. Michelson), Jack Hogan (Tower Operator), Michael Hinn (General Trevor), George Brenlin (Lt. Collins), Martin Braddock (Sgt. Galway), Nick Adams (Sgt. Korman)

A crewman become ill with spinal meningitis while on a flight from Brazil to California and needs immediate treatment. Things get worse when the landing gear becomes stuck and the only solution may be to crash land.


12 :01x12 - Pilot Error

First aired: Dec/13/1958
Writer: Joseph Landon
Director: Walter Grauman
Guest star: Robert F. Simon (Colonel Hampton), Paul Langton (Major Martin), Douglas Henderson (Lt. Mahoney), Paul Frees (Durkel (Pilot)), Robert Sampson (Tower Operator), Paul Maxwell (Major Russell), Parley Baer (McJorgenson), Barney Phillips (Flight Surgeon)

An investigation of a pilots death after a plane crash at Andrews AFB in Arizona points to pilot error, but the pilots father wants the investigators to dig deeper.


13 :01x13 - The Gift

First aired: Dec/20/1958
Writer: Ray Bradbury
Director: Don Taylor
Guest star: Sean McClory (Bert Quillan), Celia Lovsky (Mrs. Czerny), William Bryant (Lt. Kirby), Lillian Adams (Mrs. Karoly), Barbara Beaird (Lisa)

Christmas time at the base finds a group of orphans flown in to celebrate the holidays. But Steve tries to explain the meaning of Christmas to a little girl who has never celebrated the day.


14 :01x14 - Operation Diplomat

First aired: Dec/27/1958
Writer: Sidney Carroll
Director: Don Taylor
Guest star: Joanna Barnes (Joan Richards), Oliver McGowan (Lawrence Costigan), Robert Patton (Lt. Sandeman), John Hackett (Lt. Earle), Eddie Ryder (Sgt. Bregman), Robert McQueeney (Lt. Hollister), Bartlett Robinson (Ambassador Grey), Glenn Thompson (Uzbek Chief)

Steve makes a forced landing inside unfriendly territory while carrying an American diplomat from Istanbul to Pakistan.


15 :01x15 - Operation Big Thunder

First aired: Jan/03/1959
Writer: Sidney Carroll
Director: Lamont Johnson
Guest star: Jerry Paris (Maj. 'Willie' Williston), Ted de Corsia (Police Chief Hagedorn), Ken Lynch (M / Sgt. Maconochie), Robert F. Hoy (Sgt. Charley Berger), Abel Fernández (Airman Abel Featherstone), Tom Gilson (A / 3c Brannigan), Leslie Parrish (Brannigans's Girl), Caroline Hughes (Waitress), Chuck Courtney (1st Tough), Hal Baylor (2nd Tough)

Local citizens around the Big Thunder AFB protest the base and the airmen just as Steve arrives.


16 :01x16 - Operation Nose Wheel

First aired: Jan/08/1959
Writer: David Haft
Director: Walter Grauman
Guest star: Jackson Beck (Announcer), Jerry Paris (Maj. 'Willie' Williston), Abel Fernández (Airman Abel Featherstone), Paul Frees (Narrator), Ingrid Goude (Secretary), Lamont Johnson (Ed Tuttle), Charles Lind (Maintenance Man), Robert Sampson (Tower Operator)

A routine landing turns dangerous when the front landing gear will not lower forcing a possible crash landing at Big Thunder AFB.


17 :01x17 - The Search

First aired: Jan/15/1959
Writer: Sidney Carroll
Director: Lamont Johnson
Guest star: Jerry Paris (Maj. 'Willie' Williston), Abel Fernández (Airman Abel Featherstone), Robert F. Hoy (Sgt. Charley Berger), Ingrid Goude (Secretary), Meg Wyllie (Nurse)

Industrialist Peter Brendan's plane has been reported missing by his wife, and Steve is requested by State Senator Smith to make a search.


18 :01x18 - The Prisoner

First aired: Jan/22/1959
Director: Lamont Johnson
Guest star: Frank Kumagai (Japanese Sergeant), Rollin Moriyama (Soldier # 1), James Yagi (Soldier #2), Jerry Paris (Maj. 'Willie' Williston), Ted de Corsia (Police Chief Hagedorn), Abel Fernández (Airman Abel Featherstone), Robert F. Hoy (Sgt. Charley Berger), Ingrid Goude (Secretary)

Steve begins a search for a missing WWII soldier in New Guinea after a native shows a pair of dog tags which had belonged to him.


19 :01x19 - Operation Souvenir

First aired: Jan/29/1959
Director: Lamont Johnson
Guest star: Jerry Paris (Maj. 'Willie' Williston), Oliver Cliff (Sorenson), Jay Novello (Formosa Freddie), Tony Travis (Lieutenant Artie Morris), Elena Verdugo (Captain Maggie Gallagher)

A carved, wooden monkey statue in which Steve had bought from a peddler in Taipei, has an Air Force nurse and himself in danger back at Big Thunder AFB.


20 :01x20 - The Fight

First aired: Feb/05/1959
Writer: John Hawkins
Director: Walter Grauman
Guest star: Ted de Corsia (Police Chief Hagedorn), Abel Fernández (Airman Abel Featherstone), Robert F. Hoy (Sgt. Charley Berger), Read Morgan (Al Gorski), Joyce Taylor (Betty Berger)

When a boxer beats up his sparring partner while training for a championship bout, Airman Featherstone plans revenge by provoking the fighter into a grudge match.


21 :01x21 - The Robbery

First aired: Feb/19/1959
Director: Lamont Johnson
Guest star: Jerry Paris (Maj. 'Willie' Williston), Gavin MacLeod (Jack Olsen), Jack Weston (Smiley), Vito Scotti (Tony Trusco), Harry Harvey, Jr. (Operations Officer), David Cross (Penrose Control), John Craven (Radio Officer), Carol Hill (Mrs. Phipps), Norman Alden (O.D.)

Robbers of the Penrose AFB bank kidnap Steve and Maior Willy Williston, confiscating their plane as a getaway vehicle with plans of parachuting over Mexico and leaving the tied up men behind.


22 :01x22 - Blackmail

First aired: Feb/26/1959
Writer: John Hawkins
Director: Lamont Johnson
Guest star: Robert Richards (Sergeant Robel), Narda Onyx (Tarmara Cooper)

A blackmailer kills the wife of an Big Thunder airman. Steve and Police Chief Hagedorn head the investigation.


23 :01x23 - Iron Curtain

First aired: Mar/05/1959
Director: Lamont Johnson
Guest star: Barbara Beaird (Lisa), Henry Corden (Roxza), Eric Feldary (Gyorgy), Werner Klemperer (Linz), Konstantin Shayne (Vornoff), Karl Swenson (Karoli), Dan Tana (Joachim)

A group of Communists hold a girl hostage in exchange for her father, a Hungarian underground leader.


24 :01x24 - The Bomb

First aired: Mar/12/1959
Writer: John Hawkins
Director: Walter Grauman
Guest star: Ted de Corsia (Police Chief Hagedorn), John Anderson (Sergeant Bulla), Virginia Christine (Mary Moore), Dabbs Greer (Ben Moore), Stephen Wootton (Raymond Moore), Ricky Klein (Perry Hill), Gregory Irvin (Billy Brown), Fred Coby (Police Officer), Jerry Paris (Maj. 'Willie' Williston)

Steve's bomb training mission turns to danger when a problem forces him to release a small arsenal over a disposal area and are retrieved by two youngsters.


25 :01x25 - The Sergeant

First aired: Mar/26/1959
Director: Walter Grauman
Guest star: Abel Fernández (Airman Abel Featherstone)

Steve intervenes when Airman Pete Randal's chances of transferring to the Air Force Academy is jeopardized over a disagreement with a sergeant about a woman.


26 :01x26 - Operation Intercept

First aired: Mar/31/1959
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Jeanne Tatum (Girl), Jerry Paris (Maj. 'Willie' Williston), Nelson Leigh (General Connors), Harlan Warde (Major Grant), Harry Landers (Radar Operator), Ingrid Goude (Ingrid), Donald Richards (B-47 Pilot), Gil Frye (Sergeant)

The pilot and his co-pilot die in a freak accident while the plane is headed towards the USSR, with the controls set on auto pilot.


27 :01x27 - The Muller Story

First aired: Apr/07/1959
Writer: William Spier
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Jerry Paris (Maj. 'Willie' Williston), Ted de Corsia (Police Chief Hagedorn), Abel Fernández (Airman Abel Featherstone), Robert F. Hoy (Sgt. Charley Berger), Ingrid Goude (Ingrid)

Loyalty tears apart a young airman.


28 :01x28 - Operation Strikeforce

First aired: Apr/14/1959
Writer: David Haft, Michael Meshekoff
Director: Lamont Johnson
Guest star: William Bryant (Capt. Connors), Jerry Paris (Maj. 'Willie' Williston), Robert Sampson (Tower Operator), Don Fenwick (Airman), Yvonne Preble (First Spanish Girl), Mary Tyler Moore (Second Spanish Girl)

A training exercise has Steve and his men from Big Thunder making a rendezvous with another unit over the mid-Atlantic.


29 :01x29 - The Trap

First aired: Apr/21/1959
Writer: John Hawkins
Director: Walter Grauman
Guest star: Jerry Paris (Maj. 'Willie' Williston)

Steve tries to save Major Williston from his plane wreckage before it explodes.


30 :01x30 - The Korean Story

First aired: Apr/28/1959
Writer: William Spier
Director: Arthur Marks
Guest star: Wynn Pearce (Captain Dennis Parker), William Schallert (Major Karl Richmond), Robert Sampson (Tower Operator), Sidney Clute (Crew Chief Sgt. Gerke)

Capt. Dennis Parker, a Korean war veteran arrives at Big Thunder in a state of shock.


31 :01x31 - Room 313

First aired: May/05/1959
Writer: William Spier
Director: Lamont Johnson
Guest star: Jerry Paris (Maj. 'Willie' Williston), Ted de Corsia (Police Chief Hagedorn), Jack Grinnage (Lt. Rogers), Frank Killmond (Eli), Herman Rudin (Harry), Roy Thinnes (Officer Weber)

An Indian ruler is a guest on the base.


32 :01x32 - Project U.F.O.

First aired: May/19/1959
Writer: Sidney Carroll
Director: Don Taylor
Guest star: Julie Adams (Amanda Crown), Walter Brooke (Col. Jamison), George Mitchell (Police Chief Travis), Jim Boles (Harvey Berry), Joe Jefferson (George Crane), John Harding (Willoughby), Anthony Lawrence (Ticket Taker), Diane Fredrick (Switchboard Girl)

Steve is sent to investigate UFO sightings in Altora, Kansas.


33 :01x33 - Sabotage

First aired: May/26/1959
Writer: John Hawkins
Director: Walter Grauman
Guest star: Robert Sampson (Tower Operator), Sidney Clute (Crew Chief Sgt. Gerke), Weaver Levy (Wang San)

A saboteur is masquerading as a trainee jet pilot at the base.


34 :01x34 - Operation Firebee

First aired: Jun/02/1959
Writer: Sidney Carroll
Director: Don Taylor
Guest star: Richard Crane (Major Woodrow), Patricia Blair (Janice Taft), Jane Langley (Irene Tripp), Don Devlin (Sgt. Gino DeLuca), William Kendis (Lt. Col. Blakeney), Robert Courtleigh (Major Ted Crichton), Roger Pace (Captain Gillian), James T. Callahan (Lt. Hageman), Hank Worden (Ben Shaw), Paul Mantee (Sgt. Taliman), John Gallaudet (Col. Hackley), Martin Milner (Sgt. Ernest Bigelow)

Steve challenges another pilot in a contest to shoot down jets with guided missiles.