The BEST episodes of B.J. and the Bear
Every episode of B.J. and the Bear ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of B.J. and the Bear!
A trucker and his pet chimp travel the highways of America, getting into various adventures and misadventures along the way.
#1 - Shine On
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/24/1979
Three young ladies abduct BJ and force him to work in an illegal still,asserting that they need money for their sick father.
#2 - A Coffin with a View
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/10/1979
B.J. is contracted to haul two coffins that will be in a vampire movie.
#3 - Deadly Cargo
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/17/1979
B.J. helps a women escape a big corporation making deadly chemical bio agent
#4 - Never Give a Trucker an Even Break
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/24/1979
B.J. helps a girl who works for a motorcycle stunt circuit
#5 - Lobo's Revenge
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/7/1979
It's an "unbearable" situation for B.J. when Sheriff Lobo kidnaps Bear in order to lure B.J. back into Orly County.
#6 - The Murphy Contingent
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/14/1979
Facing an eviction, the murphy contingent devise a plan which BJ disapproves
#7 - Wheels of Fortune
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/21/1979
B.J. is hired to haul for a fraternity and later discovers it was gambling equipment
#8 - Crackers
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/28/1979
B.J. runs afoul of Clearwater's power broker Jason T. Rockman when he agrees to take Dr. Winters and a group of her mental patients to a local carnival.
#9 - Lobo
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/5/1979
B.J. testifies at Sheriff Lobo's trial.
#10 - Odyssey of the Shady Truth
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/10/1979
B.J. is tricked into returning to Orly County, where he's quickly arrested and imprisoned by the unscrupulous Sheriff Lobo. B.J. and his fellow falsely accused prisoners plot a jailbreak and a mad dash for the county line.
#11 - For Adults Only
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/10/1981
B.J. befriends the Tiptons, an elderly but feisty couple being forced out of their home and into a retirement community that is being used as a cover for an illegal skin flick operation.
#12 - The 18-Wheel Rip-Off
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/22/1980
B.J. is arrested by a lady cop, while the sheriff and his deputies devote to themselves to ransack the truck.
#13 - Run For The Money
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1979
All of B.J.'s greatest adversaries are assembled in Las Vegas for a Sheriff's Convention when a criminal gang stages an ambitious and inventive robbery of the Dunes Casino. Caught near incriminating evidence, B.J. is the prime suspect. (Part I of a three-part epic that continued on The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo.)
#14 - The Friendly Double Cross
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/29/1980
B.J. arrives in Florida and reunites with an old pal, a renown smuggler. Due to strange circumstances, B.J. ends up embroiled in the guy's shady deals.
#15 - B.J. and the Seven Lady Truckers (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/1981
B.J. helps a friend get a contract for his business and finds out there is some competition
#16 - B.J. and the Seven Lady Truckers (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1981
B.J. and his convoy of lady truckers trek to San Francisco. Captain Grant declares war on B.J. and Bear Enterprises, establishing the conflict that will span this third and final season.
#17 - The Fast and the Furious (1)
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1981
Captain Grant and Trans Cal Trucking's new strongman Cooley conspire to put Bear Enterprises out of business, aided and abetted by a stranger with a secret.
#18 - The Fast and the Furious (2)
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/1981
B.J. and Cooley race their trucks from Oakland to L.A., with the prize being a lucrative shipping contract. With so much depending on a McKay victory, will B.J. and the seven lady truckers find the time to right a wrong along the way?
#19 - Intercepted Pass
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/1981
When one of B.J.'s girlfriends begins to gamble with his money,the trucker sets out to investigate and uncover's a blackmail scheme related to some pictures.
#20 - Down and Dirty
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/10/1981
While in Reno, Captain Grant capitalizes on Callie's compulsive gambling to make life difficult for B.J. and Bear Enterprises, but B.J. has a plan to even the odds.
#21 - Beauties and the Beasts
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/17/1981
Captain Grant is coercing independent truckers to pay for a so-called protection. B.J. steps in and the sly cop sends B.J. and his girlfriends to jail.B.J. proposes a football game to regain his and the girls freedom
#22 - Blonde in a Gilded Cell
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/3/1981
An eccentric pop singer kidnaps beautiful blonde groupies and imprisons them in his mansion. When Stacks disappears, B.J. goes undercover as a singer to find and free her.
#23 - A Bear in the Hand
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/17/1981
Captain Grant and Lt. Steiger set a match to a powder-keg when they abduct B.J.'s best friend Bear. B.J. and the lady truckers wage war against SCAT just when Grant is trying to woo appropriations funding from an influential state senator.
#24 - Seven Lady Captives
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/24/1981
When the seven lady truckers are kidnapped to drug kingpin Leonard Marker's San Pepe compound, B.J., Fred and Hatsie Tipton and a very unlikely ally team up to rescue them.
#25 - S.T.U.N.T.
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/31/1981
B.J., Callie and Stacks help B.J.'s old friend Steven Thomas Ulysses Nathaniel Travis complete the filming of his television pilot. Buster Crabbe is outstanding as an aging stuntman with a secret.