High Mountain Rangers

- Season 1

(1988)

T.J. Cousins is a mountain man who committed some grisly murders a few years ago. Currently he is in prison. Now a drug dealer also in the same prison hires T.J. to lead him through the Sierras. Now the "High Mountain Rangers" a group who's assigned the task of bringing T.J. and the other escapees back, are on the case but T.J. proves to be too wily for them, and kills one of them. So Matt Hawkes, one of the rangers, decides to get help from the man who caught T.J., his father, Jesse Hawkes. Now it seems that Hawkes felt that T.J. should have been executed but that ...

An earthquake jolts everyone into persuading Aaron Bass, an old timer and his granddaughter Jen to leave a danger area, and to search for missing spelunkers.

An old friend of Jesse's comes to see him and he has his daughter with him. And she and Cody hit it off. In the meantime, some people come to Ranger HQ and inform them that the man kidnapped his daughter. It seems that his ex-wife has custody and her husband is pushing them to find them. When Jesse's friend gets sick, Jesse takes him to the hospital leaving his daughter with. Matt then goes to get her so Cody takes her into the mountains.

The acting prosecutor decides to charge Jesse for the murder of T.J. Cousins the killer who escaped from prison whom he pursued. The prosecutor instructs Matt to bring him in and he tells the team to do it but he radios Cody and tells him to take Jesse and get away till he can sort it out. But Jesse sees through Cody and comes in. He learns that T.J.'s father is the one pressing the issue. And to add fuel to the fire is the fact that T.J. had $250,000 with him which was never recovered. So it's assumed Jesse took it. A woman whom Matt saved, is a lawyer and she offers...

Matt and Avila rescue two skiers, Chaz Collins and Dana Brooks, who were caught in an avalanche, but then a blizzard downs their chopper.

Roy Culhane, a former Ranger candidate, believing that Jesse Hawkes washed him out in favor of Matt, returns to the area brimming with resentment.

Sly Fox Avila, an Indian chief, must locate an ancient burial ground before a lumber company claims the land, while his son-in-law helps drug smugglers, led by gangster Cresbie, locate a cocaine-laden plane that crashed in the area.

Jesse Hawkes suspects that Paul Millard, fiance of his friend Marjorie Russell, who purports to be a ski instructor, is an assassin whose target is Andrew Mallory, an American diplomat.

Cody leads a search for two deaf teenagers who have fled into the wilderness after a bear attack on their camp. Diane and Kaycee, two deaf girls, flee in a panic and get lost in the thicket.

Matt leads a search for Olga Denilov, a Soviet ski champion, and her trainer-father, Pjotr Denilov, both of whom he's accused of helping to defect. Jesse and Matt worry about Dingy being attacked by rabid wolves.

A sudden summer snowstorm strands Jesse and an injured distance runner, Mickey Perry, in the mountains after she runs off course and breaks her leg in a fall.

Upset over a family dispute, Jesse hikes to a remote, snowy canyon, where he's wounded by Beaudine, a drunken hunter, who's afraid to report the accident.

A war-gaming family isn't playing when the father, Jack Rassy, commits cold-blooded murder. After learning that Phil and his wife Donna are having an affair, Jack shoots Phil. But Cody witnesses the crime and becomes Jack's target.