The Immortal

- Season 1

(1970)

A professional race-car driver discovers that there are certain properties in his blood that will make him, basically, immortal. A dying multi-millionaire also finds out about the racer's blood, and is determined to get it to keep himself alive.

When Ben realizes that his fiancee is now engaged to another man, his attendance at their engagement party arouses the suspicion of the wealthy and devious Arthur Maitland.

An ever down-on-his-luck dreamer who bid his last chance for custody of his son for leaking toxic gas canisters, must flee Fletcher and his men while transporting the tanks with Ben.

Ben gets a job as a lab janitor for a doctor studying blood and longevity. Weaker, Maitland becomes a patient at the clinic, offering to buy their exclusive help, permanently.

Ben helps a female doctor treating a group of Mexican American rogues out for enough money to move on to better things.

A crooked sheriff arrests Ben for a minor traffic infraction, adding to his workers slaving on a kid's camp. His coerced kept woman (Wilcox) wants a way out.

Computer programmers, at first intent on proving their system for Maitland's grant money, agree to predict Ben's escape route.

A nasty tempered rancher who refuses to pay his hired hands what he promised causes a fatal scuffle for which he blames Ben and a drifter.

A woman feigning car trouble draws Ben into the compound of a young millionaire envisioning a 'partnership' to greater world power.

A domineering foreman on a declining tomato farm deliberately poisons his illegal workers with pesticide, one of them Ben's friend.

After surviving a car crash on a mountain road, Ben must pose as the missing driver, a deputy sent to arrest the local doctor for fraud.

Ben seeks his brother in a dwindling beach town slated for corporate development.

To save the victim of an argument implicating his boyhood benefactor, Ben must choose whether to expose his whereabouts to his pursuers.

Fletcher traps Richards in a cabin, framing a 'flashback' tale of a dying Jordan Braddock.

Ben Richards is severely hurt while driving a dune buggy and is found by Native Americans. They take him back to their reservation to recover and during his recuperation he gains insight to another culture.

Ben Richards locates a man named Jason Richards whose biography seems to match that of his lost brother. Fletcher locates the man and his wife as well and tries to put them under his billionaire employer Maitland's control.