Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Movin' On' from 1970-1982:
- Claude Akins as Sonny Pruitt (1974-1976)
- Frank Converse as Will Chandler (1974-1976)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Movin' On':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: George Kirgo D: Walter Doniger
With Michael J. Pollard (Joe Shannon), Elisha Cook Jr. (Andrew Shannon), Fred Lerner (Mervyn Peck), Charles Macualay (Dr. Merrill), Karen Jensen (Myrna), Betty Ann Rees (Terry), Roberta Collins (Lucille).
In the premiere episode of this action drama about truckers, Sonny and Will are the targets of a short-tempered young trucker who doesn't know he's dying of cancer.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Robert Lewin D: John Peyser
With Richard Jaeckel (Red Wallace), Kevin Hagen (Joe Roemer), MacKenzie Phillips (Chessie), Joan Shawlee (Juleen Wallace).
Sonny and Will race against time to stop a friend from hijacking his own truck in order to pay off gambling debts.
Season 1, episode 3
W: William Putman D: Hy Averback
With James Olson (Ben Simms), Pamela Payton-Wright (Francie Simms), Robert Symonds (Dr. Stillwell), Eve McVeagh (Rosalie), William Christopher (Clerk).
A broken-down wheelchair involves Sonny and Will in a migrant worker's determination and test of grit in getting his wife to a heart specialist.
Season 1, episode 4
W: James Menzies D: John Peyser
With Ron Feinberg (Burt Little), John Qualen (Liggett), Clint Howard (Mark), Lois Nettleton (Karen).
Trying to return a frightened mentally retarded youth to his mother, Sonny actually drives him farther into the woods and becomes the target of an alarmed poacher.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Dan Ullman D: Michael O'Herlihy
With Aldo Ray (Art), Robert Sorrells (Marlowe), Marilyn Hassett (Mary Kate), James Keach (Ron).
When Will takes a scenic shortcut despite Sonny's protests, he discovers a bullet-ridden auto and stops at a remote garage to report it. He is greeted by a gun-carrying escaped convict.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Eugene Price D: Paul Stanley
With A Martinez (Manolo), Edward Faulkner (Elton Edwards), Glenn Corbett (Tommy Trueblood), Tina Louise (Helen Trueblood), Stuart Nisbet (Sheriff Pittman).
A former cowboy champion who runs his own small rodeo is being financially drained by alimony payments.
Season 1, episode 7
W: George Kirgo D: Richard Benedict
With George Maharis (Harry Lorimer), Laraine Stephens (Joan), Gary Merrill (Paul Lorimer).
A flamboyant oil rig operator hires Sonny and Will away from the trucker's life for $1,000 a week. But there's a catch: they have to convince a feminine investment counselor to invest $250,000 in the project when everyone thinks it's dry.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Stephen Kandel D: Charles S. Dubin
With Michael Parks (Ike Godowsky), Gary Lockwood (Officer Harmony), Patricia Quinn (Sally Danielson), Joe Kapp (Jackson).
A truck-menacing cop trumps up violations against Will and a novice trucker, with smug assurance they will be convicted.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Jim Byrnes D: Michael O'Herlihy
With Fritz Weaver (Eli Hoffner), Belinda Montgomery (Anna Hoffner), Philip Bruns (George Heyward), Alan Fudge (Barber).
Sonny and Will are caught in the crossfire of a colony of pacifists and a raging group of farmers who want to burn them out.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Mann Rubin D: Sutton Roley
With Barbara Brownell (Denise), Jonathan Lippe (Officer Terry), Skip Homeier (Dexhill), Frank Gorshin (Tucker Paulsen).
A logging helicopter accidentally drops a load of logs, nearly killing Tucker J. Paulsen, and he fears someone is trying to do him in.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Ken Kolb D: Leonard Horn
With William Bailey (Foreman), John C. Barone (Gossett), Scott Brady (Murphy), Robert F. Lyons (Chuck), Cristina Raines (Rita).
Will, in an attempt to win enough money for the down payment on a truck-tractor, goes on a gambling spree in Las Vegas.
Season 1, episode 12
W: George Kirgo D: Paul Stanley
With Will Hutchins (Slim), Mathilda Calnan (Madame Stendhal), Woodrow Parfrey (Jack Wentworth), Jamie Smith Jackson (Julie), John Vernon (Vincent Felton), Sheree North (Dinah).
Sonny becomes lonesome for home cooking and decides to head to Phoenix for the holidays.
Season 1, episode 13
W: George Kirgo D: Paul Stanley
With John Vernon (Felton), Sheree North (Dinah), Eddie Little Sky (Freewater), Woodrow Parfrey (Jack Wentworth), Joyce Jameson (Angela Wentworth), Jamie Smith Jackson (Julie).
Unwillingly involved in a lovers' quarrel between his ex-wife and her estranged gangster boyfriend, Sonny searches for a valuable necklace in a purse that has been donated to charity.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Eugene Price D: Charles S. Dubin
With Jeanette Nolan (Lucille Gillette), Jerry Houser (Alex), William Challee (Ansel), Don Knight (Richard).
An old woman actress accuses Sonny and Will of stealing a $50,000 automobile.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Jack March D: Richard Newton
With Charles Haid (Don Driscoll), Paul Carr (Bob Powers), Kenneth Tobey (Richardson), Michael Fox (Kandel).
A broker signs over a valuable racing dog to Sonny and Will as payment when their rig is repossessed. They head for the races to convert the dog to dollars.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Ken Kolb D: Georg Fenady
With John Ritter (Casey Crawford), Cameron Mitchell (Casey's Father), Lisa Eilbacher (Cathy), Frank Maxwell (Russ), June Dayton (Lois), Jeff Conaway (Mike).
Hauling a separate cargo, Will's rig catches fire and explodes on a narrow mountain road, causing a landslide. Discovering that Will's lung has been punctured, Sonny is unable to call for help when a teenage runaway short-circuits the citizen's band radio and flees.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Michael Fisher D: Seymour Robbie
With Jenny Sullivan (Eunice Bernhardt), Barry Sullivan (Zack Bernhardt), Roosevelt Grier (Fats), Richard Bull (Manager), Art Aragon (Brown), Mike Hagerthy (Teddy).
Sonny's trailer catches fire while parked overnight at a warehouse dock, and Sonny is framed for arson.
Season 1, episode 19
W: Robert C. Dennis D: Georg Fenady
With Jess Walton (Olivia), Roger Perry (Charles), Albert Paulsen (Ernest), Michael Baseleon (Danny), Paul Mantee (Lt. Commander Shaw).
A gift case of tomatoes to a cafe owner from Sonny and Will gets them into trouble when the contents are discovered to contain live ammunition.
Season 1, episode 20
W: Ken Kolb D: Michael O'Herlihy
With Ramon Bieri (Rip), James Callahan (Gabe), Lynette Mettey (Millie).
A elusive lady truck driver has stolen the heart of Sonny's AWOL Navy buddy, who enlists the aid of Sonny and Will in finding her.
Season 1, episode 21
W: Stephen Kandel D: Alexander Grasshoff
With Ralph Meeker (Dave Bennet), Karen Carlson (Janet Kingman), Patricia Smith (Claire Bennet), Claudia Jennings (Ann).
Sonny and Will are asked to deliver an unusual cargo -- a briefcase which they are instructed to throw over a cliff.
Season 1, episode 22
W: Eugene Price D: Seymour Robbie
With Frank Campanella (Wheels), Anne Francis (Abby), John Schuck (Teddy Brown), Sean Maley (Leroy), Jay Robertson (Stevie), Chris Valentine (Junior), Christopher Crew (Bumper), Kelly Jean Peters (Betsy).
Sonny and Will volunteer to help an ailing friend deliver his San Francisco-to-Reno cargo and discover the trucker has wives in both cities.
Season 1, episode 23
W: George Kirgo D: Michael O'Herlihy
With Debralee Scott (Amy Smith), Bill Catching (Angelo), Janet Leigh (Nina Smith), Ray Gorman (Gentry), Logan Houston (Eduard).
A well-to-do artist decides to make Sonny her fifth husband and turn him from trucking to painting.
September 9, 1975: The Stowaway
Season 2, episode 1
W: Gwen Bagni, Paul Dubov D: Corey Allen
With John Rubinstein (Gershon Simenov), Roosevelt Grier (Benjy), Art Metrano (Moose), Noah Keen (Vasily Goralsky).
Going into their second season, the truckers find a stowaway when a Russian concert pianist hides in the back in hopes of doing some American sightseeing.
Season 2, episode 2
W: Jimmy Sangster D: Allen Reisner
With Brad Sullivan (Lt. Hardacre), Gary Sandy (Jim), Elizabeth Richards (Dr. Gorham), Ben Hammer (Gus Manning), Stephan Early (Wally), Thom Christopher (Hank), George Dzundza (Charlie Banner).
A time bomb, planted in a factory by extortionists, finds its way into the truck of unsuspecting Sonny and Will.
Season 2, episode 3
W: David P. Harmon D: Lawrence Dobkin
With Joe Frazier (Cpl. Brooks), Roosevelt Grier (Benjy), Art Metrano (Moose), Don Galloway (Sgt. Harris).
Sonny tells a national magazine that truckers are the toughest men in America, and lands in a Marine boot camp to prove it.
Season 2, episode 4
W: Stanley Z. Cherry D: Leo Penn
With Keenan Wynn (Barnaby).
Anna May, a suppoedly peaceful pachyderm, spells trouble when she turns out not to be such a peaceful cargo for Sonny and Will.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Gwen Bagni, Paul Dubov D: Michael Schultz
With Moses Gunn (Otis Andrews), David Downing (Lee Andrews), Lauren Jones (Liz Andrews), Jason Bernard (Cabe).
While trying to help a tobacco farmer, Sonny and Will are duped into hauling illegal cargo.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Glenn Schiffman D: Ernest Pintoff
Sonny and Will find themselves without a cargo out of Charlotte, N.C., and without a daddy for a 4-year-old stowaway.
Season 2, episode 7
W: David P. Harmon D: Leo Penn
With Diane Ladd (Amy), Roosevelt Grier (Benjy), Art Metrano (Moose).
Sonny and Will's rig is repossessed for delinquent payments and auctioned off to the highest bidders, but they devise a scheme to get their truck back.
Season 2, episode 8
W: Jimmy Sangster D: Allen Reisner
With Rory Calhoun (J.C. Coombs), Jo Ann Harris (Sandy), Scott Brady (Nate Middleton), Pat Hall Jr. (Billy), Jerry Moore (Charlie), Neil Castles (Red Banning).
Sonny and Will exchange their rig for stock cars in a life-or-death race for a large cash prize.
Season 2, episode 9
W: Ron Bishop D: Corey Allen
With Tessa Dahl (Haley), Patricia Neal (Maddie), Gary Merrill (Samson), William Smith (Frank Stone), George Murdock (Cap), Lesley Woods (Mina).
A coal mine owner is beset by a labor strike that puts Sonny and Will on opposite sides.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Jimmy Sangster D: Jack Priestley
With John Dehner (Mr. Lanier), Paul Carr (Carl).
Sonny and Will aid the passengers of a stranded bus, only to become involved in a violent siege.
Season 2, episode 11
W: David P. Harmon D: Jerry Jameson
With Strother Martin (Cabe Miller), Jeff Conaway (Mike Miller).
Sonny and Will, attempting to make money on a long haul to Canada, hire an extra truck and two drivers, then discover one of them is dependent on pills.
Season 2, episode 12
W: Jimmy Sangster D: Lawrence Dobkin
With Roosevelt Grier (Benjy), Art Metrano (Moose).
While delivering cargo to a prison farm, Sonny is kidnapped by a young inmate who is determined to prevent the state from taking his son away.
Season 2, episode 13
W: Nancy Greenwald D: Lawrence Dobkin
With Fionnula Flanagan (Laura Brown), Don Dubbins (Bevo).
Sonny and Will save a young woman from death when the brakes of her truck fail, and Will is so taken with the charming widow that he convinces Sonny they should stay in town.
Season 2, episode 14
W: Jimmy Sangster D: Bob Kelljan
With Dub Taylor (Luke Hinshaw), Devon Ericson (Lila Hinshaw).
Sonny switches from piloting a rig on the road to piloting a balloon in the air in an episode filmed around Atlanta, Ga.
Season 2, episode 15
W: Orville H. Hampton D: Jack Arnold
With Rosemary Murphy (Lois Hunt), R.G. Armstrong (Sam Jellico), Michele Marsh (Grace Jellico), Cliff Osmond (Walt).
Sonny contracts for eight additional rigs to haul processed poultry, but faces financial disaster when a chicken epidemic closes the plant.
Season 2, episode 16
W: Jimmy Sangster D: Allen Reisner
With L.Q. Jones (Flakey Edwards), Jackie Coogan (Sam Prichard).
Sonny and Will switch rigs in a dangerous plot to recoup $15,000 swindled from a friend.
Season 2, episode 17
W: Robert White, Phyllis White D: Lawrence Dobkin
With Penny Fuller (Marge Brenner), Joe Higgins (Dan Hemmings).
Sonny befriends a lady trucker and incurs the anger of a steel mill manager.
Season 2, episode 18
W: Jimmy Sangster, Ernie Frankel D: Anton M. Leader
With Roosevelt Grier (Benjy), Art Metrano (Moose), E.J. Peaker (Mary Ellen), Jack Kruschen (Mr. Nash).
Against Will's objections, Sonny rents the rig to a broker and almost loses it -- and more -- to a crew that broke into an armory. To keep them in the dark and out of his way, the broker treats Will and Sonny to a few days at an exclusive resort.
Season 2, episode 19
W: Jimmy Sangster D: Jack Priestley
With Collin Wilcox (Annie Beanvil), Shawn Bishop (Billy Beanvil), Pamela C. Berton (Ellen Beanvil).
Will and Sonny tow a mobile home to Alabama for an Arkansas woman who claims she holds the deed to a piece of land that is now Bienville Square, a Mobile city park.
Season 2, episode 20
W: Jimmy Sangster D: Bob Kelljan
With Philip Michael Thomas (Banjo), Earl Billings (Choo Choo), Billie Holliday (Aunt Bess), Don Hood (Mr. Flick), Al Scott (Frank), Lisa Foy (Maggie).
Sonny and Will become accomplices in a bookmaking operation when a man hides his day's receipts in their truck.
Season 2, episode 21
W: Jimmy Sangster D: Leo Penn
With Ted Gehring (Jack), Carol Scott (Nance), Sarah Jo Roush (Cora), Wilbur Swartz (Nate).
Sonny puts his truck into hock to help a bayou shrimp fisherman, an old friend, search for sunken gold in the Gulf of Mexico.
Season 2, episode 22
W: Jim Allen D: Jack Arnold
With George Lindsey (Twiller), Cliff Osmond (Momo), Vera Miles (Shiela Powers).
Sonny makes his debut as a singer and dreams of becoming another Elvis. Meanwhile, Will is hijacked. (Last show of the series.)