Cannonball

Episode 0

Pilot

Mike's 20th Anniversary is interrupted when he and Jerry are summoned by their company to haul a top-secret government load to Buffalo. The job proves to be extremely dangerous when enemy agents overcome their police escort.

Episode 1

The Runaway Truck

15 mins

Harry tries to stop a runaway truck.

Episode 2

Nitro Haul

Mon, Jan 5, 1959

While hauling a dangerous cargo of nitroglycerin on winding mountain roads, Mike swerves to avoid striking an animal, sending his truck into a ditch and blowing out a tire in the process. While Mike trudges off to find help, Jerry tries to replace the flat, but gets pinned under the truck in the process.

Episode 3

Small Cargo

Mon, Dec 1, 1958 27 mins

An escaped convict kidnaps his niece and nephew from an orphanage where they have been since their father's recent death. the kids try to elude their unhinged uncle by stowing away on Mike and Jerry's truck. Discovering them, Mike takes the kids home for the night, but the Uncle is stalking them.

Episode 4

The Big Ambulance

Mon, Nov 10, 1958

Mike's love of truck-stop food has often resulted in his getting mild cases of indigestion, so when he complains to Jerry about stomach pain, Jerry just figures it's Mike's stomach acting up again. It turns out to be more serious than both of them think, however, and Mike winds up being rushed to the hospital by ambulance.

Episode 5

Mark Time

Mon, Feb 2, 1959

After a C&A truck driver's son dies, his wife deserts him and he loses his job with the shipping company, the man blames all his problems on Mike Malone. The fired trucker determines to get revenge by blowing up Malone's rig with a homemade bomb and killing Mike in the process, but Mike's son intervenes.

Episode 6

The Necklace

Mon, Mar 2, 1959

Mike Malone buys an inexpensive necklace for his wife, only to discover that the jewelry was stolen and is worth $300,000.

Episode 7

Shock

Mon, Dec 29, 1958 26 mins

Ben Handley, a man Jerry Austin detests, is selected to be the trucking company's new parts manager. While giving him a lift to Buffalo, Jerry and Mike discover that Ben knows absolutely nothing about truck engines. Furthermore, he has a serious drinking problem. When the truckers encounter an accident where the driver has been seriously injured, Ben suddenly displays hidden medical skills and takes charge of saving the dying man.

Episode 8

The Attack

Mon, Jan 19, 1959

A female reporter asks the C&A Trucking Company to allow her to go on a long-distance trip with one of their crews. Believing it would be good publicity, the dispatcher assigns Mike and Jerry to escort her, but everything on the trip goes wrong.

Episode 9

The Girl Reporter

Mon, Apr 27, 1959

A female reporter asks the C&A Trucking Company to allow her to go on a long-distance trip with one of their crews. Believing it would be good publicity, the dispatcher assigns Mike and Jerry to escort her, but everything on the trip goes wrong.

Episode 10

Pills

Mon, Oct 13, 1958

Truckers often use caffeine pills to stay awake during long hauls. However, some truck stops are selling "stay-awake" pills that can not only keep a driver awake but can kill him. Mike and Jerry decide to help the Highway Patrol break up this pill racket.

Episode 11

Butch

Mon, Feb 16, 1959

A stowaway forces Mike and Jerry to drive him across the U.S.-Canadian border at knife-point.

Episode 12

The Little Old Man

Mon, Mar 30, 1959

Mike and Jerry pick up an old man hitchhiker along the road. The man confesses that he's vector for the smallpox outbreak that has struck Toronto.

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Episode 14

Sauce for the Goose

Mon, Jan 26, 1959

Just before his arrest, a gangster gives Mike a note to deliver to his wife causing unpleasant consequences for the trucker.

Episode 15

Big Buck

Mon, Mar 23, 1959

Mike and Jerry decide to get even with "Big Buck" Harris for his constant practical jokes by stealing one of his loads.

Episode 16

The Girl at Joe's Place

Mon, Jan 12, 1959

Jerry falls for the new waitress at a roadside diner who is in a relationship with another patron.

Episode 17

Nanette

Mon, Mar 16, 1959

Mike and Jerry try to help a French-Canadian girl they meet on their travels.

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Episode 22

Lil's Cafe

Mike and Jerry try to help their friend Lil whom they fear has fallen in love with a con man only interested in her money.

Episode 23

The Hostage

Mike and Jerry are taken hostage at a roadside diner by a gang of crooks.

Episode 24

Fallout

Mon, Feb 23, 1959 26 mins

A hitchhiker overhears Mike and Jerry discussing their tiny but valuable cargo - a small piece of iridium worth $100,000 and decides to break into their truck and steal the rock. The thief doesn't realize that the iridium is radioactive and will kill anyone who carries it outside its lead box for more than three hours.

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Episode 26

Marooned

Mon, Apr 6, 1959

Flooding from a torrential rainstorm forces Mike and Jerry to take refuge in a roadside diner.

Episode 27

Undercover

Mon, Mar 9, 1959

When Jerry is accused of stealing and fired from his job at C&A Transport, he is actually working undercover with the police to recover stolen goods from the company's warehouse. Mike decides to do some investigating of his own and nearly jeopardizes the investigation and Jerry's life.

Episode 28

Vendetta

Mon, Apr 20, 1959

During World War 2, Mike had to shoot one of his own men to stop him from slaughtering prisoners-of-war. When he learns that a wounded veteran is searching for a trucker nicknamed "Cannonball", he fears that the man he shot has returned and is seeking revenge

Episode 29

The Has-Been

Mike and Jerry pick up a burly man and his crippled son who are walking along the side of the road. Stopping at a diner for lunch, the father is challenged to a fight, but refuse, causing his son to lose all respect for him. The truckers try to restore the youngster's faith in his father.

Episode 30

Flying Dutchman

Mike and Jerry's load of valuable fur pelts are hijacked by a gang of crooks.

Episode 31

Roadeo

Defending champion Mike Malone, decides not to defend his title at the annual "Roadeo", a competition where truck drivers pit their driving skills and knowledge of safety regulations, believing that Jerry should be given a chance to win. Unknown to both men, another trucker plans to sabotage the other contenders chances so he can take home the top prize

Episode 32

Trip to Buffalo

Defending champion Mike Malone, decides not to defend his title at the annual "Roadeo", a competition where truck drivers pit their driving skills and knowledge of safety regulations, believing that Jerry should be given a chance to win. Unknown to both men, another trucker plans to sabotage the other contenders chances so he can take home the top prize.

Episode 33

Wild Party

Mike and Jerry come to the assistance of a youthful bride.

Episode 34

Driving School

Mon, Jun 22, 1959

One of the teenagers in a driver's education class taught by Mike and Jerry decides to go on a joy ride after midnight with terrible consequences.

Episode 35

Eye Witness

Mon, Jun 29, 1959

Mike witnesses a murder and identifies to killers to the police. When reporters leak the story to their newspapers, Mike becomes the target for another gangland killing.

Episode 36

Ginny

Mon, Jun 8, 1959

Ginny get's kissed by Jerry and is infatuated and then forgets him for her friends and party.

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Episode 38

Racket

Mon, Jun 15, 1959 25 mins

Mike and Jerry come across a trucker they know badly beaten. He reluctantly tells them of a nefarious protection racket that's been shaking down independent operators, all of whom are too intimidated to talk to the police or Mike. Though little does he realise, that his erstwhile friend and victim is the brains of the gang.

Episode 39

Tunnel Eyes

When Mike learns that Jerry has turned down a full four-year scholarship to a prestigious engineering school because the younger man doesn't want to break up their partnership, Mike fakes eye trouble and flunks the vision exam so that he will be forced to take a desk job.