B. J. and the Bear

1979

B. J. and the Bear

6.4 | en | Drama

B.J. and the Bear is an American comedy series which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1981. Created by Christopher Crowe and Glen A. Larson, the series stars Greg Evigan and Claude Akins.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP15 The Two Million Dollar Hustel

May. 09,1981

Grant throws a beach party to embroil B.J.'s friends in a bank robbery where he intends to take the money and leave the country.

EP14 Detective Finger, I Presume?

May. 02,1981

The club that B.J.'s trucking company owns is robbed and the thieves make away with jewels and a very valuable painting

EP13 Who is B.J.?

Apr. 25,1981

B.J. crash his truck and git's amnesia, he becomes easy prey for a corrupt lawman

EP12 Stunt

Mar. 31,1981

B.J. is hired to deliver stunt equipment to a movie set. but realize something is going on behind the camera.

EP11 Seven Lady Captives

Mar. 24,1981

BJ's seven lady friend's who are truckers are kidnapped and flown down the Mexico to harvest drugs

EP10 A Bear in the Hand

Mar. 17,1981

In order to force B.J. to rob from his own strongbox compromising ledgers, Captain Rutherford Grant orders his henchman to ""apenap""Bear.

EP9 For Adults Only

Mar. 10,1981

B.J. is taken hostage by an elderly couple facing eviction from there home. When it's found out the Captain Grant is running an adult film studio at their retirement village.

EP8 The Blonde in a Gilded Cage

Mar. 03,1981

Stacks is abducted by a demented rock musician named Dante and it's up to B.J. to find her before it's to late.

EP7 Beauties and the Beasts

Feb. 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

EP6 Down and Dirty

Feb. 10,1981

The killer truckers setup another trap for B.J. and his girlfriend. This time the setup is an auction. And B.J. help's a friend git there truck back by scheming Captian Grant into playing a poker game

EP5 Intercepted Pass

Feb. 03,1981

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.

EP4 The Fast and the Furious part 2

Jan. 27,1981

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EP3 The Fast and the Furious part 1

Jan. 20,1981

B.J. faces a bunch of bickering competitors bent on preventing the success of his new trucking company. Watch he won a contract for when he won a race back to Pacific Distributors

EP2 B.J. and the Seven Lady Truckers part 2

Jan. 13,1981

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EP1 B.J. and the Seven Lady Truckers part 1

Jan. 13,1981

B.J. helps a friend get a contract for his business and finds out there is some competition

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Released: 1979-02-10 | Released Producted By: Glen A. Larson Productions , Universal Television Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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B.J. and the Bear is an American comedy series which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1981. Created by Christopher Crowe and Glen A. Larson, the series stars Greg Evigan and Claude Akins.

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Greg Evigan , Claude Akins , Ed Lauter

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Reviews

tigerpaws11 NO SPOILERS! I've ONLY SEEN SELECT EPISODES!!I'm only 12 but this was my dad's favorite show. I watch BJ and the bear on YouTube all the time. BJ was so cool and it makes me mad and sad that this show won't come out on DVD. There used to be a TV channel out of Pittsburgh that used to show classic TV but they never showed BJ and the Bear. Now they've changed to like a OLD show channel. I'm talking Mary Tyler Moore (which is a good show) and M*A*S*H (love it!!). Going back to BJ. I wish I could find this show on DVD. And what's bad is that on YouTube not all of season 3 is on there. But I give the show a 25 on a scale of one to ten. CLASSIC TV RULEZ!!!

FilmPolice I was going to high school in Ukiah, California when this show was on the air, and one week they came to the town to film at the fairgrounds in that town. We didn't see much filming up there, so this was quite a lot of excitement for us! They filmed mostly at the fairgrounds, and a lot of students (including myself) cut school to go and watch. They filmed some shots with onlookers in the background so it was even more exciting for us to think we would be on TV! But my best memory of this time was one day as Greg Evigan was signing autographs (I had already got one from him the day before) and my mother and I were standing off to the side and talking about whether or not they may shoot somewhere else in town after they were finished at the fairgrounds. And Mr. Evigan talked to us, as he was signing an autograph for someone, joking that sometimes he was the last to know where they would be going next. I was about 16 and to have a TV star talking to me was really a big deal. And he was nice to all the fans who were there, and to this day when I see him on TV I think of him as this nice guy who gave a lot of people in a small town a good image of famous people.

chit-1 "BJ & The Bear" was one of my all time favorite shows as a young teen. Greg Evigan was great, and of course lets not forget Sam the chimp who played "The Bear". BJ was always a step ahead of the bungling lawmen, played most briliantly by Calude Akins (Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo) and Mills Watson (Deputy Perkins). I hated to see the show go off the air and wish they would do a TV-movie again or something. It would be nice to see that big red and white Kenworth on the road again.

Mister-6 In the craze of truck-driver shows that came out in the '70s, none had a more original premise than that of "B.J. and the Bear", with its mixture of good ol' boy farce, action, romance and, of course, a monkey!The plot stayed more or less the same all through the show's run: B.J. McKay (Evigan) worked as a truck driver who constantly dealt with inept lawmen (namely Akins' Sheriff Lobo, who got his own series!), crooked truckers and, usually, bevy after bevy of beautiful women in tight clothes. Who said this show was sexist?The women worked so well, in fact, that they stayed on for the long haul as "The Seven Lady Truckers" who worked with B.J. and gave the show a big boost from the male part of the TV-viewing public. And who could blame them: women the likes of Landers (YIKES!), Holleran, Julia, McCullough and the Brough sisters were definitely worth tuning in for every week.And the series, helmed by TV maestro Glen Larson (also of "The Fall Guy" fame) knew what worked in a series and kept action, tough guys and beautiful women in each episode. Oh yeah, and the monkey too. Can't forget him.All in all, a great reminder of the glory that was truck driving, the heroism that was "B.J." and the monkey that was "the Bear".Eight stars for "B.J. and the Bear" - keep on truckin'!