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The Trick Is to Stay Alive

Drama

50

Oct 9, 1974

Will takes a shortcut through the country but finds fresh skid marks leading to a bullet-riddled car.

Full Episodes

Season 1, 22 episodes

The Time of His Life,

Will and Sonny find themselves in an accident involving Joe Shannon and discover he is dying of cancer.

50m Sep 11, 1974

Roadblock,

Red Walker, a gambler, entrusts Chessie, his bratty 14-year-old daughter, to Sonny and Will.

45m Sep 18, 1974

Grit,

Will and Sonny meet a man pushing his wife down the road in a wheelchair.

50m Sep 25, 1974

Life Line,

Will and Sonny deliver a generator to Shaniko, Oregon and encounter a single mother and her autistic son.

45m Oct 2, 1974

The Trick Is to Stay Alive,

Will takes a shortcut through the country but finds fresh skid marks leading to a bullet-riddled car.

50m Oct 9, 1974

The Cowhands,

Will and Sonny help move a low-budget traveling rodeo.

50m Oct 23, 1974

The Good Life,

Will and Sonny deliver pipe casings to an Idaho wildcat oil well driller.

50m Nov 6, 1974

Games,

Will, Sonny and fellow trucker Ike run afoul of a small-town police officer and his speed trap.

50m Nov 13, 1974

Hoots,

Will and Sonny haul auctioned farm equipment for an old-country farming colony and get involved in a dispute.

50m Nov 20, 1974

Good for Laughs,

Will talks Sonny into hauling timber with Will's Vietnam War buddy (Frank Gorshin) in Hood River, Oregon.

50m Nov 27, 1974

High Roller,

Will wins so much money in Las Vegas that he considers buying his own truck and going it alone.

46m Dec 4, 1974

Goin' Home (Part 1),

While in a cafe in Las Vegas, Sonny moans to Will about how depressing it is to spend Christmas on the road.

50m Dec 11, 1974

Goin' Home (Part 2),

Sonny's ex-wife has him looking for lost jewelry from an ex-boyfriend.

50m Dec 18, 1974

Antiques,

Will and Sonny deliver two trucks to an eccentric old lady who has an antique Benz that she restored herself.

50m Dec 25, 1974

Explosion,

Sonny accepts a racing dog from a freight broker as payment for a debt.

50m Jan 1, 1975

Landslide,

While avoiding a road construction site, Will and Sonny are trapped by a landslide with six other people.

46m Jan 15, 1975

Fraud,

An insurance investigator is out to jail Sonny and Will for insurance fraud.

50m Jan 29, 1975

Ammo,

A gift case of tomatoes to cafe owner Janey (Gloria DeHaven) from Sonny and Will gets them into trouble.

50m Feb 5, 1975

Tattoos,

Sonny runs into his old Navy buddy who enlists Sonny and Will in a chase to catch his truckin' sweetie.

50m Feb 12, 1975

Ransom,

After delivering a load of fabric to a clothing manufacturer, Will and Sonny are drawn into a ransom delivery.

46m Feb 19, 1975

The Price of Loving,

In San Francisco, Will and Sonny get caught between a trucker pal and his wife Abby…and his other wife Betsy.

46m Apr 1, 1975

Weddin' Bells,

Sonny assists a woman, Nina, when her car breaks down. Sparks fly between them, and they make plans to marry.

46m Apr 8, 1975