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The Best Episodes of Salvage 1

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Salvage operator Harry Broderick buys and sells scrap as well as electronics, aircraft, and other equipment. Harry constantly has grandiose schemes to make money, sometimes not completely honestly. In the pilot, his dream is

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 11 - Mermadon
    8.6/10(13 votes)

    #1 - Mermadon

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 10 - Operation Breakout
    8.3/10(12 votes)

    #2 - Operation Breakout

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 1 - Salvage (1)
    8.0/10(23 votes)

    #3 - Salvage (1)

    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.

    Director:Lee Philips
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 12 - Up, Up and Away
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #4 - Up, Up and Away

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 2 - Salvage (2)
    7.9/10(20 votes)

    #5 - Salvage (2)

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Lee Philips
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 8 - The Golden Orbit (1)
    7.9/10(15 votes)

    #6 - The Golden Orbit (1)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert Swanson

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  7. Salvage 1 Season 2 Episode 2 - Hard Water (2)
    7.8/10(14 votes)

    #7 - Hard Water (2)

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 3 - Dark Island
    7.5/10(16 votes)

    #8 - Dark Island

    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.

    Director:Gene Nelson
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 4 - Shangri-la Lil
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    #9 - Shangri-la Lil

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 6 - The Haunting of Manderly Mansion
    7.5/10(20 votes)

    #10 - The Haunting of Manderly Mansion

    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.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Salvage 1 Season 2 Episode 1 - Hard Water (1)
    7.5/10(19 votes)

    #11 - Hard Water (1)

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 5 - Shelter Five
    7.4/10(16 votes)

    #12 - Shelter Five

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Gerald K. Siegel

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  13. Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 7 - The Bugatti Treasure
    7.2/10(18 votes)

    #13 - The Bugatti Treasure

    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.

    Director:Edward M. Abroms
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 9 - The Golden Orbit (2)
    7.2/10(17 votes)

    #14 - The Golden Orbit (2)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert Swanson

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  15. Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 13 - Energy Solution
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - Energy Solution

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Salvage 1 Season 1 Episode 14 - Confederate Gold
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Confederate Gold

    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.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writer:Jack Turley

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Best Episodes Summary

"Mermadon" is the best rated episode of "Salvage 1". It scored 8.6/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/16/1979. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Operation Breakout".