9.2/10 13 votes#1 - Hostages
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/21/1981
Trap and Sandy are stuck inside a bank when a robbery becomes a standoff with police.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Herman Groves
- 9.0/10 9 votes
#2 - Stuntman
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/3/1979
The 240 rescue team have to take drastic action after a famous retired stunt man makes a daring comeback attempt by trying the most death-defying feat of his career.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lew Hunter
- 9.0/10 8 votes
#3 - Bathysphere
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/10/1979
The 240 rescue team are forced to act quickly when a speedboat cuts short the test of an experimental diving bell by severing the air lines and imprisoning the two students 120 feet below the surface. In another development, a woman rescued by Thibideaux is an important person in the recording industry and vows to make him a star.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/10 9 votes
#4 - Acting Sergeant
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/24/1979
An isolated mountain cabin becomes a makeshift operating room when Thib is forced to perform emergency surgery on an injured student after the 240 rescue team are stranded by fierce weather and rugged terrain.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/10 8 votes
#5 - Double Trouble
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/29/1979
Trap and Thib receive some unusual support from sun worshipers at a nude beach as they attempt to rescue one of the nudists trapped in an awkward position, and Morgan is forced into a deadly situation when she must crash-land her chopper with two young boys aboard.
Director: John Florea
Writer: N/A
- 8.9/10 13 votes
#6 - The Applicant
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/26/1979
In a spectacular rescue high atop a collapsing Ferris wheel, Trap and Thib receive some daring support from a stunning policewoman, but then they're confronted by terrifying jaws of death when they must save a brash new member of the unit who panics in shark-infested waters.
Director: N/A
Writer: Robert Specht
- 8.8/10 10 votes
#7 - Models
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/17/1979
The 240-Robert rescue team faces a harrowing experience when they try to rescue two window washers clinging from a broken scaffold 40 stories up on a skyscraper, while beautiful members of a modeling agency inside the building watch with astonishment.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/10 8 votes
#8 - Time Bomb
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/22/1979
Trap wants to transfer because Morgan is about to become the unit's first woman sergeant, but Trap and Thib must first cope with a lion running wild in the streets, and then face underwater death when given just seconds to disarm a time-bomb set to blow up an oil tanker.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/10 8 votes
#9 - Poison Air
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/5/1979
After the spectacular rescue of a panic-stricken woman stranded in a hot air balloon, Trap suits up for a pleasure dive with Morgan, unaware that a vengeful youth has spiked his air tanks with poison gas, and Thib undertakes a desperate off-shore race against time to save his buddy.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: Anthony Yerkovich
- 8.7/10 9 votes
#10 - Oil and Water
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/3/1979
A man in a hang glider entangled in power lines brings Thib perilously close to a high-voltage death and Trap starts playing detective when he learns about Morgan's new love life.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/10 9 votes
#11 - A Cool Welcome
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/7/1981
Trap gets a brash new young partner, named Cueva, and the unit also gets a new helicopter pilot named Harper.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/10 10 votes
#12 - Out of Sight
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/15/1979
Thib's career seems to be over when he loses his sight after a high-speed crash, and two doped-up kids in a car turn a gas station into a deadly inferno.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 16 votes
#13 - Bank Job
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/1/1979
A routine dive by Trap and Thib in a reservoir to recover stolen bank money takes a perilous turn when an attendant trips a valve, drawing Trap toward a huge drain that could crush him to death.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10 16 votes
#14 - The Apology
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/28/1979
In this special preview movie the rescue team of the Sheriff's Aero Bureau and Emergency Services Detail save the occupants of a plane that has crashed into the ocean and a woman trapped on a mountain.
Director: Phil Bondelli
Writer: Charlene Bralver
- 7.1/10 10 votes
#15 - Earthquake
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/19/1979
An earthquake rocks the county, spelling disaster and almost certain death for Trap and Thib when they become sealed in an underwater cave with two stunning but frightened models, as the water rises and a voracious moray eel goes on the prowl.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#16 - First Loss
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/14/1981
Cueva is stranded on a mountainside with a heart attack patient after the chopper he's riding in crashes; while the 240 Robert teams search for them before it's too late.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of 240-Robert
Every episode of 240-Robert ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 240-Robert!
240-Robert is an American drama series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. The series title is a reference to the call-sign designation for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's search and rescue/paramedic teams.
Genre:Drama
Network:ABC
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "240-Robert" is "Hostages", rated 9.2/10 from 13 user votes. It was directed by James Sheldon and written by Herman Groves. "Hostages" aired on 3/21/1981 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Stuntman".