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Sky King
Sky King is an American radio and television adventure series. The title character is Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler "Sky" King. The series was likely based on a true-life personality of the 1930s, Jack Cones, the "Flying Constable" of Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California, although this claim is unverified. Although the series had strong western elements, King mostly captured criminals and spies, and found lost hikers with the use of his plane, the Songbird. Though the planes used changed during the course of the series, the later model was not given a number, but was still known as the Songbird. King and his niece, Penny, lived on the Flying Crown Ranch, near the town of Grover, Arizona. Penny and Clipper were also pilots, though still relatively inexperienced and looking to their uncle for guidance and mentoring. Penny was an accomplished air racer and rated multi-engine pilot, whom Sky trusted to fly the Songbird. In the third TV episode, Penny refers to Clipper as "my brother", so they are siblings. The musical score was largely the work of Herschel Burke Gilbert.
Seasons
1. Operation Urgent
Air Date: 1952-04-05
During a fierce thunderstorm, Sky picks up a mayday call from a Air Force courier plane which is about to run out of gas. The Air Force request Sky's assistance in locating the downed aircraft because the pilot is transporting secret documents that are of interest to foreign governments. Sky locates the plane wreck, but the pilot is nowhere to be found. When he discovers that the navigational instruments have been tampered with, Sky fears that enemy agents may have located and stolen the secret plans and are headed for the nearby Mexican border.
2. Carrier Pigeon
Air Date: 1952-04-19
When Penny discovers a wounded carrier pigeon carrying a valuable ruby attached to its leg, Sky suspects a gang of jewel smugglers is operating in the area. With the help of a Mexican police detective, Sky sets up to break up the criminal operation.
3. Stage Coach Robbers
Air Date: 1952-05-03
A crooked express agent fakes a hold-up to steal gold from his company's vault. He uses an old stagecoach to get the stolen loot out of town.
4. Deadly Cargo
Air Date: 1952-05-17
While helping a friend run his freight airline after an accident, Sky stumbles across a gold-smuggling operation.
5. Jim Bell's Triumph
Air Date: 1952-05-31
Sky's efforts to prove corruption in the county clerk's office nearly result in disaster, when Sky's foreman, a non-pilot, must land the Songbird when Clipper becomes too ill to fly the plane.
6. Designing Woman
Air Date: 1952-06-14
Sky becomes suspicious when a Eastern woman shows up in Grover claiming to be the long-lost niece and heir of a dead rancher.
7. One for the Money
Air Date: 1952-06-28
Penny picks up the wrong suitcase at the airport and discovers it's full of counterfeit money. Sky suspects that a young former engraver might be involved.
8. Danger Point
Air Date: 1952-07-12
A rancher disinherits his nephew in favor of his young son. When the rancher is murdered the young man is blamed. Sky hopes that by faking a jailbreak, the real murderer will be forced into the open, but the plan backfires when Clipper and the young man are kidnapped.
9. Desperate Character
Air Date: 1952-07-26
Sky King picks up a young hitchhiker who refuses to divulge his identity, or where he's been or going. Determined to fill in the blank spaces on the young man's resume, Sky learns that he is an escapee from a boy's reformatory who was involved in a recent bank robbery.
10. The Man Who Forgot
Air Date: 1952-08-09
A young rancher disappears after the man attempting to foreclose on his mortgage is murdered. Sky is convinced that the man is innocent and that there's another explanation for the man's apparent flight.
11. The Threatening Bomb
Air Date: 1952-08-23
Eastern gangsters set up a protection racket near Grover and the local ranchers appeal to Sky for help.
12. Speak No Evil
Air Date: 1952-09-06
The drug Sky delivers to a critically ill man does more than save his life; the medicine causes the man to confess that he's a former criminal who has attempted to go straight.
13. Two-Gun Penny
Air Date: 1952-09-20
Angry that Sky and Clipper won't allow her to join the search for a missing refugee professor, Penny slaps on a pair of six-shooters and launches her own investigation.
14. Formula for Fear
Air Date: 1952-10-04
Penny sees a man escape from a doctor's office, and is informed that the man is a dangerous mental patient. Sky looks into the incident, and soon finds himself mixed up in foreign spies and poison gas.
15. The Giant Eagle
Air Date: 1952-10-18
Sky investigates a series of mysterious payroll robberies, where the police chase the robbers only to see their getaway car mysteriously disappear.
16. Blackmail
Air Date: 1952-11-08
A local banker is blackmailed by two former confederates who aware of a crime he committed over twenty years ago and was never apprehended.
17. Wings of Justice
Air Date: 1952-11-22
A couple of Easterners claim to have traveled west to visit a dude ranch, but are actually a pair of con artists willing to commit murder to obtain a ranch with a rich uranium deposit on it.
18. Destruction from the Sky
Air Date: 1952-12-06
Sky teams up with a military intelligence officer to track down a foreign agent who blew up a secret government project.
19. The Porcelain Lion
Air Date: 1952-12-20
Sky stumbles across a dead pilot and suspicious looking plane wreck and discovers that the man was murdered and the crash never happened. He learns that the plane was carrying a number of valuable pieces of ancient Chinese art, all of which are missing from the plane's cargo hold.
1. The Neckerchief
Air Date: 1956-01-02
Sky attempts to help a young man recently paroled from prison get started again, but the ex-convict's former friends frame him for a bank robbery.
2. Manhunt
Air Date: 1956-01-02
3. The Plastic Ghost
Air Date: 1956-01-09
4. The Rainbird
Air Date: 1956-01-09
5. The Crystal Trap
Air Date: 1956-01-30
6. Red Tentacles
Air Date: 1956-01-30
7. Boomerang
Air Date: 1956-02-06
Sky King and Penny turn the tables on foreign agents conspiring to blackmail a refugee scientist.
8. Geiger Detective
Air Date: 1956-02-27
9. Golden Burro
Air Date: 1956-02-27
10. Rustlers on Wheels
Air Date: 1956-03-05
A young rancher is losing cattle fast so Sky King investigates.
11. The Silver Grave
Air Date: 1956-03-05
12. Uninvited Death
Air Date: 1956-03-12
Sky and Penny unwittingly become involved in sabotage when they visit their friends Major Dave and Denise McKay. An enemy agent has attached a time bomb to Major McKay's car, setting the fuse to explode while the Major is working at an army special-projects base. When Denise and Penny borrow the Major's car, they are placed in grave peril.
13. Fish Out of Water
Air Date: 1956-03-19
14. Diamonds on a Sky-Hook
Air Date: 1956-03-26
15. Flood of Fury
Air Date: 1956-04-02
During a major flood, Sky, Penny and Bob assist the authorities in their rescue efforts. Unfortunately, three of the men they rescue are murderous escaped felons who force their rescuers to help them rob a flooded bank.
16. Rocket Story
Air Date: 1956-04-02
17. Rodeo Round-Up
Air Date: 1956-04-23
A mock holdup paves the way for a real holdup and Sky King comes to the rescue.
18. Showdown
Air Date: 1956-04-23
19. Land o' Cotton
Air Date: 1956-04-23
20. Dust of Destruction
Air Date: 1956-04-30
Someone has sabotaged a young rancher's harvest and Sky King sets out to find the culprit before any more damage is done.
1. Mystery Horse
Air Date: 1957-12-29
2. Double Trouble
Air Date: 1957-12-29
3. Note for a Dam
Air Date: 1958-01-05
Sky and Penny are held captive by a maniac planning to dynamite a waterworks facility.
4. Bad Actor
Air Date: 1958-01-05
5. Fight for Oil
Air Date: 1958-01-12
6. Lost Boy
Air Date: 1958-01-12
7. The Brain and the Brawn
Air Date: 1958-01-26
Sky investigates some suspicious happenings at the county fair.
8. The Feathered Serpent
Air Date: 1958-01-26
After a bird with an emerald attached to its leg lands in penny's garden, Sky King releases it to see where it goes.
9. The Circus Clown Mystery
Air Date: 1958-02-22
10. Dead Man's Will
Air Date: 1958-02-22
11. Cindy, Come Home
Air Date: 1958-03-11
12. Rodeo Decathlon
Air Date: 1958-03-09
13. Abracadabra
Air Date: 1958-03-11
14. Triple Exposure
Air Date: 1958-03-09
15. The Haunted Castle
Air Date: 1958-03-16
16. Man Hunt
Air Date: 1958-03-16
Fearing he has killed another boy, Joe Belden, recently released from reform school, flees into the desert. Sheriff Hargrove knows that the Joe's opponent survived the fight, but also knows that Joe, now heavily armed, will think that the law officers are intent on arresting him. He calls upon Sky, whom Joe trusts, to join the man-hunt.
17. Danger at the Sawmill
Air Date: 1958-03-16
18. Sleight of Hand
Air Date: 1958-03-23
19. The Runaway
Air Date: 1958-03-23
20. Stop That Train
Air Date: 1958-03-30
1. The Wild Man
Air Date: 1958-12-28
Sky and Penny try to clear a gentle, animal-loving "wildman" who has been blamed for the robbery of a logging company payroll.
2. Sky Robbers
Air Date: 1958-12-28
Sky and Penny enter an air race, and it's soon discovered that the main office has been robbed and all of the receipts have been stolen. Sky suspects that one of the contestants in the race is the culprit and is using the race to make his getaway.
3. A Dog Named Barney
Air Date: 1958-12-28
Sky follows the seeing-eye dog of a blind newsboy, who he believes will lead him to a holdup man living with a party of wolf hunters.
4. Bullet Bait
Air Date: 1958-12-28
Sky is holding a wedding at the Flying Crown Ranch. The ceremony is interrupted, however, when two gangsters kidnap the groom and threaten his fiancé.
5. Money Has Wings
Air Date: 1959-01-04
Four pilots for Wellman Air Freight Lines are injured in the first month of a contract for the company to carry s large payroll. In order to find out what's going on, Sky goes undercover as a security guard.
6. Frogmen
Air Date: 1959-01-04
7. Terror Cruise
Air Date: 1959-02-01
While Sky is training with his naval reserve unit, Penny visits friends who cruise Central America on their large sailboat. When three escaped prisoners commandeer their vessel, it's up to Sky and the U.S. Navy to rescue his niece and her friends.
8. Operation Urgent aka Runaway Truck
Air Date: 1959-02-01
9. Bounty Hunters
Air Date: 1959-02-01
When marauding coyotes begin to kill his calves, Sky hires two flying bounty hunters to kill the animals. When more dead calves are found, Sky discovers that the men he has hired are using his ranch to smuggle jewels, not kill vermin.
10. Dead Giveaway
Air Date: 1959-02-01
11. A Mickey for Sky
Air Date: 1959-02-22
Young Mickey, a distant relative of Sky's, is traveling to visit the Flying Crown Ranch while his guardian is out of the country. En route, he overhears two men discuss shooting a foreign visitor and is determined to warn the man of his peril.
12. Ring of Fire
Air Date: 1959-03-01
Sky tries to help an old Indian chief who is very sick, but he won't go to the hospital for treatment because he would rather die on his own tribe's land.
13. Mickey's Birthday
Air Date: 1959-03-08
While visiting an amusement park on his birthday, Mickey wins a model airplane at a shooting gallery. Unfortunately, two smugglers have hidden a valuable pearl in the airplane and will stop at nothing to get it back.
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Rating
5.0/10
Release Date
1952-04-05
Episodes
72 (4 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
McGowan Productions
Jack Chertok Television Productions