Salvage 1

The Best Episodes of Salvage 1

Genres:ComedyAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:ABC

Every episode of Salvage 1 ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Salvage 1!

Harry runs a salvage operation, in which he and his partners reclaim trash and junk and sell it as scrap (or as other things).
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  1. 7.8/10(13 votes)

    #1 - Mermadon

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    S1:E11

    Skip and Melanie patch up an almost-human robot with damaged memory circuits, not knowing it came from a secret army project and is programmed to kill.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  2. 7.5/10(24 votes)

    #2 - Salvage (1)

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    S1:E1

    Junkyard owner Harry Broderick assembles a team to pull off the ultimate salvage operation. With former astronaut Skip Carmichael and fuel expert Melanie Slozar, Harry builds the spacecraft Vulture in order to bring back the equipment left on the moon during the Apollo moon expeditions.

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    Director:Lee Philips
    Writer:N/A
  3. 7.5/10(20 votes)

    #3 - Salvage (2)

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    Junkyard owner Harry Broderick assembles a team to pull off the ultimate salvage operation. With former astronaut Skip Carmichael and fuel expert Melanie Slozar, Harry builds the spacecraft Vulture in order to bring back the equipment left on the moon during the Apollo moon expeditions.

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    Director:Lee Philips
    Writer:N/A
  4. 7.4/10(13 votes)

    #4 - Operation Breakout

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    S1:E10

    An African dictator kidnaps FBI agent Jack Klinger to exchange for a U.S. missile. The U.S. won't respond, but Harry does. The Salvage 1 team comes to the rescue while pretending to offer the dictator the Vulture as a weapons platform.

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    Director:N/A
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  5. 7.3/10(16 votes)

    #5 - The Golden Orbit (1)

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    S1:E8

    A plan to retrieve a gold-plated satellite before it falls from orbit hits two snags: the Government impounds the Vulture, and NASA offers Skip a long-awaited mission aboard a space station. A dangerous liquid nitrogen leak traps Skip and his fellow NASA crewmembers aboard the ship.

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    Director:N/A
  6. 7.3/10(12 votes)

    #6 - Up, Up and Away

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    S1:E12

    The air-freight delivery of a miniature locomotive involves the Salvage trio with the devious pilot of an undependable aircraft, a terrified fourth passenger and additional cargo of enormous interest to the FBI. The plane crashes in an isolated area and the Salvage team assembles a make-shift balloon in order to reach civilization.

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    Director:N/A
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  8. 7.3/10(19 votes)

    #7 - Hard Water (1)

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    The salvage team that went to the moon resurrects an old project: towing an Antarctic iceberg to a drought-stricken island off the California coast. Their plan involves using the Vulture's engines to direct the iceberg's course. The competition is a well-funded and unscrupulous corporation.

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  9. 7.3/10(14 votes)

    #8 - Hard Water (2)

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    Harry and crew run into extreme difficulties in bringing an iceberg to California to be used as a source of water. The engine they use to steer the mountain of ice breaks loose and the iceberg drifts into the shipping lanes.

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  10. 7.2/10(17 votes)

    #9 - Shangri-la Lil

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    S1:E4

    Harry takes his teammates on a sentimental journey to the Burmese jungle to recover the well-preserved B-25 bomber he flew in Doolittle's 1942 raid on Tokyo. They find that the plane is being guarded by an old Japanese soldier who doesn't know the war has ended. He takes the Salvage team as war prisoners.

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  11. 7.2/10(19 votes)

    #10 - The Haunting of Manderly Mansion

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    S1:E6

    After Harry purchases a famous haunted mansion with plans to salvage it, strange things begin to happen. The Salvage team discovers it is actually inhabited by a strange alien waiting to be transported home.

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    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:N/A
  12. 7.0/10(16 votes)

    #11 - Dark Island

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    S1:E3

    On their first authorized salvage job...an aerial survey of Antarctic icebergs...Harry, Melanie and Skip make an unauthorized stop on a supposedly uninhabited island to pick up valuable spider monkeys for a zoo. What they find instead is a lone scientist and a giant man-ape.

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    Director:Gene Nelson
    Writer:N/A
  13. 6.9/10(17 votes)

    #12 - Shelter Five

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    S1:E5

    While salvaging an abandoned government fallout shelter, an earthquake traps Melanie, Skip, a little girl and her dog. Harry puts together a rescue operation as he races against time to save them.

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  14. 6.9/10(18 votes)

    #13 - The Bugatti Treasure

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    S1:E7

    At an auction, Harry outbids an antiquarian for a classic 1934 automobile he has always dreamed of owning. Harry and his crew discover a treasure map hidden in the car. The antiquarian, who is known to traffic in precious objects, doesn't give up quite so easily as the Salvage crew goes treasure hunting.

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  15. 6.8/10(17 votes)

    #14 - The Golden Orbit (2)

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    S1:E9

    Conclusion. Harry convinces NASA that he is the only one who can rescue the crew-including Skip-that is freezing to death in an orbiting space station. Harry and Melanie launch in the Vulture to save them.

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    #15 - Energy Solution

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    S1:E13

    Melanie develops a possible-and dangerous-solution to the energy crisis: using monohydrazine to blast new oil out of old dried-out wells. The experiment results in a catastophic underground explosion and fire that must be extinguished.

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    #16 - Confederate Gold

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    S1:E14

    The salvagers hunt for legendary buried treasure at a Confederate paymaster's last stand. But they soon find that everyone wants them out of town and the real ""Confederate Gold"" is supplied by moonshiners.

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    Director:Ray Austin

Best Episodes Summary

"Mermadon" is the best rated episode of "Salvage 1". It scored 7.8/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/16/1979. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Salvage (1)".