Whirlybirds

1. Big U

Air Date: 1957-01-03

Chuck and P.T. successfully locate a missing "weekend" prospector, then are marked for death by claim jumpers who believe the prospector has made a valuable uranium strike.

2. Rampage

Air Date: 1957-01-10

An ailing gorilla escapes from a circus and terrorizes the town. Chuck and P.T. set out in a desperate attempt to capture the pain-crazed animal.

3. Boy On The Roof

Air Date: 1957-01-17

P.T. and Chuck work out a plan to save the life of a teenager. The boy is perched on a high building threatens to jump.

4. Fire Fight

Air Date: 1957-01-24

Chuck and P.T. answer an SOS from three mountain climbers who are in the line of a raging forest fire. The rescue must be made quickly or not at all.

5. Hot Wire

Air Date: 1957-01-31

Chuck and P.T. set out to deliver an iron lung in a windstorm that makes flying perilous.

6. Mountain Flight

Air Date: 1957-02-07

Chuck and P.T. pilot a man on a weekend hunting trip to the mountains. They soon learn that the man's query is human not animal.

7. Ghost Town Flight

Air Date: 1957-02-14

Three boys on a camping trip in the mountains explore a ghost town left after the minning ended in the California mountains. Two of the boys accidentally fall into an old mine shaft. The youngest boy goes out to find help even though he is far from civilization in the mountins. Chuck and P.T. see the boy from above in their helicopter and fly him to a hospital, then go back to try and find the other two boys and help them get back home.

8. Hostage

Air Date: 1957-02-21

Three escaped convicts steal a plane and try to make a daring getaway. Needing gasoline they are forced to return to the airfield where they pick up a valuable hostage.

9. Diamond Smugglers

Air Date: 1957-02-28

Helicopter pilots Chuck and P.T. are in trouble. Their helicopter has been seen in Mexico on the same dates that diamonds were smuggled across the border. They protest their innocence in vain.

10. Lynch Mob

Air Date: 1957-03-07

P.T. and Chuck fly a reporter into mountainous country to cover a story. A hunter, who shot a deputy for attempting to evict him from his mountain cabin is being chased by a angry lynch mob.

11. Sky Net

Air Date: 1957-03-14

Ben Carling hires Chuck and P.T. to take him on a hunting trip in the mountains. He is determined to track down and kill a mountain lion.

12. Prison Break

Air Date: 1957-03-21

An attractive girl comes to Chuck and P.T. for helicopter lessons. She proves such a apt pupil that she is able to solo well ahead of schedule. But P.T. and Chuck learn she's planning to rescue her boyfriend from prison.

13. Top Of The Mountain

Air Date: 1957-03-28

Helicopter pilots Chuck and P.T. deliver a box to the mountain retreat of a wealthy businessman, they are sure the box contains vital medicine.

14. Operation Blue Hen

Air Date: 1957-04-04

Chuck and P.T. are offered a large fee to transport a fuel bomb into a canyon where the bomb is to be tested. The assignment is made even more hazardous when the scientist sent with them turns out to be an old enemy of Chuck’s.

15. The Human Bomb

Air Date: 1957-04-11

Chuck and P.T. are forced at gunpoint to aid a bank robber.

16. Missing Witness

Air Date: 1957-04-18

After promising to testify against the head of a crime ring, a couple becomes afraid of the consequences and runs away, members of the gang pursue them. Chuck and P.T. witness the chase from the air. After promising to testify against the head of a crime ring, a couple becomes afraid of the consequences and runs away, members of the gang pursue them. Chuck and P.T. witness the chase from the air.

17. The Egg Code

Air Date: 1957-04-25

Chuck and P.T. report some unusual air traffic and put Army Intelligence on the trail of informers who are spying on vital installations. Then they pin-point an unusual code set-up.

18. Superstition Mountain

Air Date: 1957-05-02

A psychopathic killer tries to use an ancient Apache India curse to hide his crimes and do away with Chuck and P.T. when the boys are hired to ferry supplies to a remote gold mining operation.

19. Homicide Haven

Air Date: 1957-05-09

Chuck and P.T come upon a man who is living in a well-hidden house in the desert, although the man introduces himself as a writer seeking solitude, Chuck suspects he has seen him before.

20. Riptide

Air Date: 1957-05-16

Following a bad plane accident a pilot loses his nerve and grounds himself to take another job. Realizing his unhappiness, Chuck and P.T. attempt to help him regain his courage.

21. Black Pearl

Air Date: 1957-05-23

P.T. and Chuck fly a skin-diver to an untouched oyster bed he has discovered. The diver promises to share the pearls with them if they reach the site before his former partner.

22. Illegal Entry

Air Date: 1957-05-30

Answering a distress call from a yacht, Chuck and P.T. become suspicious when a passenger they transport to a hospital is swathed in bandages. They report the incident to immigration authorities.

23. Lady Luck

Air Date: 1957-06-06

A passenger whom Chuck and P.T. have flown to Las Vegas suddenly decides to leave in a hurry. Pursuing him are desperate gamblers who are determined to get back the money they lost.

24. Hide And Seek

Air Date: 1957-06-13

Hidden in the trunk of an abandoned car, a nine-year-old boy falls unconscious and cannot cry out when the car is removed for junk.

25. Hobson's Choice

Air Date: 1957-06-20

P.T. photographs a hermit's dramatic rescue of a glamorous film star at a location site. But when the picture is published, the hermit is outraged at the invasion of his privacy, and tries to shoot P.T.

26. Crisis

Air Date: 1957-07-29

Chuck and P.T. taxi a woman to her sister’s home in the mountains, reluctantly complying with her demands to be put down in the wilderness. Their fears mount when her husband reports she has disappeared, and insists they find her.

27. Journey To The Past

Air Date: 1957-08-05

A stranger approaches a millionaire, whose hobby is archaeology, with a map leading to undiscovered pre-Aztec ruins. The rich man engages Chuck and P.T. to fly him to the site.

28. Aerial Circus

Air Date: 1957-08-12

Chuck and P.T. teach circus aerial artists, a brother and sister, to fly a helicopter for their new act. The boys become suspicious when, following an armored car robbery, the boy returns from his solo flight with damaged pontoons.

29. Cycle Of Terror

Air Date: 1957-08-19

Sniper shootings have been happening around the area and it is being done by two kids on motorcyles who are doing it just for kicks. They spook Helen and her boyfriend when he takes her out for a ride on his motorcycle. Heading back to the airport the two boys confront them and pick a fight until Chuck and P.T. step in and chase the boys away. To get even the boys shoot at the helicopter as it flies overhead, damaging one of the fuel tanks. The boys then take a shot at Chuck and his friend while they are outside and accidently his friend, Bill, get shot in the arm. Chuck and P.T. give chase and catch one of the boys who can't start his cycle. The other gets away. P.T. manages to get the motorcyle started and heads out after the other boy. Chuck goes for the helicopter and together they corner the boy down in the canyons and bring him back to justice.

30. Fury Canyon

Air Date: 1957-10-07

A family mysteriously disappears from a trailer in the Mojave Desert, leaving no clues. Chuck and P.T. join a newspaperman in search of them.

31. The Rustlers

Air Date: 1957-10-14

Cattle-owners are plagued by rustlers who employ a mysterious means of stealing cattle.

32. I'll Get Even

Air Date: 1957-10-21

An anonymous caller reports by telephone that a bomb has been planted in a chemical plant. Chuck and P.T. aid a special agent in searching the factory, suspecting that a disgruntled employee is responsible.

33. Incident In Del Rio

Air Date: 1957-10-28

A mysterious object has been flung over a ranch at night, emitting an eerie wail and terrifying the workers. The ranch owner asks P.T. and Chuck to assist in tracing the object.

34. Sky Hook

Air Date: 1957-11-04

P.T. and Chuck discover a small boat has been dashed against the rocks near a lighthouse during a storm. With no outside help available, the men must find a way to remove the injured survivors.

35. The Secret Cove

Air Date: 1957-11-11

When a wealthy sportsman disappears in his cabin cruiser, his wife hires P.T. and Chuck to find him. They fly over the coastline and discover the boat overturned in a remote cove.

36. Take A Little, Leave A Little

Air Date: 1957-02-10

Violent storms force P.T. and Chuck to delay a payroll delivery to a construction camp. The money is stored in the office safe, but part of it is stolen.

37. Airborne Gold

Air Date: 1958-01-13

A very old recluse, who is against progress, owns mountain land that the government wants to mine for iron ore. Chuck and P.T. fly in an agent to deal with the recluse.

38. Iron Mountain

Air Date: 1958-01-20

A woman vacationing with her family in an isolated mountain cabin is stricken with an appendicitis attack. Her husband drives down the treacherous roads for help, but he wrecks his car on the way.

39. Panic At Green Ridge

Air Date: 1958-01-27

A woman vacationing with her family in an isolated mountain cabin is stricken with an appendicitis attack. Her husband drives down the treacherous roads for help, but he wrecks his car on the way.

1. Seven Were Trapped

Air Date: 1958-02-03

While radioing for a weather check, Chuck and P.T. hear of a mine cave-in. They fly to the rescue, but the operation is not as easy as they first supposed.

2. The Ashley Case

Air Date: 1958-02-10

Donald Ashley, confined to a wheelchair, is appealing his conviction for the murder of his wife. Chuck and P.T. find a battered license plate of the car in which Ashley's wife disappeared. This means the body and the car are in one

3. Hit And Run

Air Date: 1958-02-17

Chuck and P.T. are aloft on an inspection job when they witness a hit-and-run accident. They notify the police and transport the victim to a hospital. With the copter they tow the victim's car out of a gully to where the police arrive to pick it up. However when the police arrive to take it, the car has disappeared.

4. The Runaway

Air Date: 1958-02-24

An illegal Mexican immigrant has contracted dread pneumonia plague and is on the run with his pregnant wife, from what he believes to be deportation. The disease is so contagious that the life of anyone he contact is endangered. Chuck and P.T. are hired to fly a doctor to a mysterious rendezvous. They arrive too late.

5. The Brothers

Air Date: 1958-03-03

Chuck and P.T. learn that the seven-year-old boy they are searching for has gone to look for his older brother who he thinks has run away from home after a quarrel with their father. The boy is exhausted when found.

6. Search For An Unknown Man

Air Date: 1958-03-10

Chuck and P.T. receive a letter from a prospector asking them to fly him out of a mining town. When Chick and P.T. arrive in the lonely spot, they are met by toughs who claim there's no such person as the one being sought.

7. The Killer

Air Date: 1958-03-17

A young featherweight boxer, with a hard punch, hears that his last opponent has died of injuries inflicted by him. His spirit is broken by this as his championship bout approaches.

8. The Unwanted

Air Date: 1958-03-24

The teenage son of a wealthy family disappears after a quarrel with his beautiful stepmother. Chuck and P.T. search until a ransom note is found and then the hunt takes a different turn when his auto is found abandoned..

9. Mister Q

Air Date: 1958-03-31

From their helicopter, Chuck and P.T. spot a boy who has just been thrown from his horse. When they stop to help the rider, they see that the horse is unable to get to his feet.

10. Seven Orchids

Air Date: 1958-04-07

P.T. gets a package containing seven bruised orchids and half of a $500 bill from an unknown woman. The phone for the address has been disconnected so P.T. flies there for a look.

11. Father and Son

Air Date: 1958-04-14

Chuck and P.T. are hired for a day's outing in which they are hired to fly a boy - a leukemia victim - and his father to the Grand Canyon and then to an all-star football game. The poignant pilots learn that their adult passenger is the head of a crime syndicate.

12. Time Out Of Mind

Air Date: 1958-04-21

An unknown man tests Chuck and P.T.'s new helicopter without their permission and claims he is trying to recapture his lost memory.

13. Buy Me A Miracle

Air Date: 1958-04-28

A mild-mannered man charters a midnight helicopter ride to a Mexican hamlet on the towns peoples "Day of Miracles" observed only once every ten years. He wishes to repay a long-standing debt by staging a "miracle".

14. Infra-Red

Air Date: 1958-05-05

The sheriff's office has tabbed the regular movements of three known drug peddlers but loses them in traffic at the same spot every time they try to follow them. Only two of the sheriff's men, & Chuck and P.T. are in on a plan to trace the "pushers" to their source of supply from the air.

15. An Apple For The Teacher

Air Date: 1958-05-04

Miss Churchill, Chuck's former high school teacher- apparently a very self- contained woman hires Chuck and P.T. for her first copter ride to take her to a resort hotel. After the trip Chuck realizes that the day the teacher began her vacation is the first day of school. On inquiring he learns that no one named Churchill has registered at the hotel.

16. Blind Date

Air Date: 1958-05-19

Chuck and P.T. are about to fly Julie Cavanaugh to a vacation given her by the "Daily Star" as a promotion stunt. When the photographer is told to "shoot", shots ring out from an uninvited car which speeds away. The shots were all aimed at Julie who was on a "blind date" that ended in murder.

17. Blind Victory

Air Date: 1958-05-26

Chuck P.T. are in a aerial search for a murderer-on -the-run, when they see an auto crash and rush a beautiful blonde victim to a hospital. Unknown to them, the blonde has just left the murderer they seek. As a result of the accident, the girl is in danger of losing her sight unless a donor for a corneal transplant can be found.

18. Copters and Robbers

Air Date: 1958-06-02

A runaway bride hires the boys to fly her back to he husband's side,but on reaching there they find him murdered. Chuck, P. T. and Helen, their secretary, calm the distraught girl. While they are waiting for the police they encounter a succession of "brothers" all unknown to their supposed "sister".

19. If I Were King

Air Date: 1958-06-09

A would be assassin shoots at a man who has come 12,000 miles for a two-hour visit. Chuck and P.T. are hired to take him to the secret rendezvous.

20. Dog Gone

Air Date: 1958-02-17

A business tycoon asks Chuck and P.T. to cancel their fishing trip in order to search for his daughter's lost dog.

21. Fear

Air Date: 1958-06-16

Three youths, volunteers from a juvenile detention camp, are forced to retreat to a canyon when they are surrounded by the fire they are fighting, Chuck and P.T. take them to an aid station. There they encounter a doctor of whom the youths are terrified.

22. Time To Kill

Air Date: 1958-06-30

A top investment counselor feels the only way he can make good for a loss, for which he feels responsible, is to have himself murdered and use the insurance to pay off.

23. Two Came Back

Air Date: 1958-07-07

Diane invites teenagers John and Bob to join her a biology trip into a lonely wooded spot. When only Diane and John return, Chuck and P.T. start a search for the missing youth, said to have lost his way in returning to the car.

24. Summit Meeting

Air Date: 1958-07-14

Army Intelligence hires Chuck, P.T. and their whirlybird to carry a closely guarded scientist to a secret rocket test. By not using an Army Carrier they hope to avoid drawing attention to their very important passenger, but after an attempt to substitute a fake scientist, they are dogged every inch of the way.

25. Robert Dixon, M.D.

Air Date: 1958-10-20

A doctor has a heart attack when summoned to a mysterious rendezvous, and his M.D. son asks Chuck and P.T. to help him keep the appointment.

26. Uncle Pete

Air Date: 1958-10-27

On arriving at the Rollins ranch for a job of crop-dusting, Chuck and P.T. find the foreman, Pete Novack, beaten and unconscious, his life-savings missing. They rush him to the hospital where they are told he has a fighting chance, but seems to have lost his will to live.

27. Hideout

Air Date: 1958-11-03

Chuck and P.T. innocently carry a young man to the hideout of a murderer.

28. Baby Face

Air Date: 1958-11-10

Chuck and P.T. put down in the desert to help a couple they think are eloping, only to find they are escaping from a charge of robbery and murder.

29. Glamor Girl

Air Date: 1958-11-17

A movie star involves Chuck and P.T. in the pursuit of a car thatis traveling on a road that is about to be blown up.

30. Address Unknown

Air Date: 1958-11-24

Chuck and P.T. attempt to reunite a Korean hero and his sweetheart.

31. The Story of Sister Bridget

Air Date: 1958-12-01

Chuck and P.T. fly Sister Bridgit to see one of her former charges. They arrive minutes after the boy has left, armed with a gun.

32. Midnight Show

Air Date: 1958-12-08

Chuck and P.T. fly a ventriloquist and his female partner to a benefit performance. Hearing that there is no benefit scheduled, the two performers take a walk along the cliffs. It is here that the girl learns that the man's former partner fell from this cliff to her death.

33. 27 Pieces of Gold

Air Date: 1958-12-15

Chuck and P.T. meet danger when they answer a young wife’s request that they find her treasure seeking husband.

34. Dead On Arrival

Air Date: 1958-12-22

Chuck and P.T. fly a sleepy passenger to his destination but find him dead when they arrive.

35. An Act of Fate

Air Date: 1958-12-29

Chuck and P.T. fly a reporter who is assigned a story "Mr. Average American" when they arrive, they find the subject from average. They find a hard-labor camp.

36. Always A Gentleman

Air Date: 1959-01-05

Pursuing an escaped prisoner, Chuck and P.T. discover they have flown into an Army firing range.

37. Road Block

Air Date: 1959-01-12

Chuck and P.T. are delivering a payroll when they are asked to aid police in pursuing a robber.

38. C.O.D.

Air Date: 1959-01-19

Chuck and P.T. fly a wife to meet her husband as he is released from prison, having served time for robbery. When the ex-prisoner returns home, he finds three criminals waiting for him.

39. Rest In Peace

Air Date: 1959-01-26

Invited to attend a secret business meeting, Chuck and P.T. witness a murder.

1. A Matter Of Trust

Air Date: 1959-04-06

Chuck and P.T. had known Mrs. Dudley for years. They obliged when she asked for a lift up to her summer home, only to discover that the bank where Mrs. Dudley worked had been robbed the night before.

2. Guilty Of Old Age

Air Date: 1959-04-13

New and old methods of handling juvenile offenders come into violent conflict as Chuck and P.T. become involved in a police department’s attempt to modernize.

3. Christmas In June

Air Date: 1959-04-20

Chuck and P.T. get a strange request from a little girl to fly her to the North Pole to get a “new daddy” for Christmas.

4. Til Death Do Us Part

Air Date: 1959-04-27

Forester to Mexico. But when they arrive at the Forester residence, everyone denies having made the call.

5. Time Limit

Air Date: 1959-05-04

Chuck and P.T. get mixed up with a gang of safecrackers who wear women's clothes to escape. They hire our boy's to transport them to a fishing cabin.

6. Experiment X-74

Air Date: 1959-05-11

Chuck is captured by a nest of spies while tracking down a stolen Air Force experimental jet.

7. His Brothers Keeper

Air Date: 1959-05-18

A dead police lieutenant's brother hires the Whirlybirds to help him flush from hiding a mobster Who killed his brother.

8. Obsession

Air Date: 1959-05-25

Dr. Clark Evans secludes himself at a mountain retreat when one of his patients dies in surgery. He doesn't believe a message that his daughter is afflicted with the same disease his patient had.

9. The Challenge

Air Date: 1959-06-01

Dr. Clark Evans secludes himself at a mountain retreat when one of his patients dies in surgery. He doesn't believe a message that his daughter is afflicted with the same disease his patient had.

10. The Big Lie

Air Date: 1959-06-08

A boy's tendency to tell lies about famous people leads to him to an encounter with some small-time hoods. He is cured of his habit after an adventure with Chuck and P.T.

11. Without A Net

Air Date: 1959-06-15

A circus high-wire comedian comes out of retirement and faces a dramatic challenge to his shaky nerves.

12. The Fugitive

Air Date: 1959-06-22

A wedding anniversary celebration backfires when the husband is arrested and taken to jail. Possible Synopsis: The Whirlybirds are hired to fly a couple to their wedding anniversary vacation spot. They discover some uninvited guests in the persons of the police.

13. The Perfect Crime

Air Date: 1959-06-29

A strange old man confesses to every major crime in town, including a murder and a politically minded mayor orders him jailed, for his own safekeeping. Chuck and P.T. have their hands full when lynch mobs start to gather.

14. The Unknown Solider

Air Date: 1959-07-06

A young woman who believes her husband to have died in Korea plans to remarry. Shortly thereafter she receives a demand for money for late husband. The husband "returns from the grave" to plague his wife, who enlists the aid of the Whirlybirds.

15. Two of a Kind

Air Date: 1959-07-13

A man who bears an uncanny resemblance to a condemned criminal hires Chuck and P.T. for a helicopter trip.

16. In Ways Mysterious

Air Date: 1959-07-20

A disillusioned minister regains his religious faith when a helicopter helps perform a "miracle".

17. The Deadly Game

Air Date: 1959-07-27

The Whirlybirds run into a first-class mystery when all of a young lady’s clues on a scavenger hunt prove to be deadly booby traps.

18. Bankrupt Alibi

Air Date: 1959-08-03

A father commits a hit-and-run crime and persuades his son to take the blame to save his reputation as a prominent citizen.

19. The Black Maria

Air Date: 1959-08-10

An escaped convict detours long enough to force his seriously ill wife to leave the hospital and flee with him.

20. Sitting Duck

Air Date: 1959-08-17

While in the air, Chuck and P.T. see a woman being strangled near an isolated farm house but on landing are unable to find the killer.

21. Wanted: Alive

Air Date: 1959-08-24

An overdue plane sets the Whirlybirds off on a desert search. A murderer tries to make his crime look like an accident but he forgets one small item.

22. The Deacon

Air Date: 1959-08-31

A glib-tongued deacon hires the Whirlybirds to transport him to a preaching engagement in a nearby city. When some toughs threaten the deacon at the airport, Chuck and P.T. begin to doubt his integrity.

23. Rita Ames Is Missing

Air Date: 1959-09-07

A publicity stunt that suddenly is for real lands a young movie actress in a jam. Chuck and P.T. are hired to fly her to a secret rendezvous to meet her fiancé.

24. The Story Of Mary Scott

Air Date: 1959-09-14

A police lieutenant hires the Whirlybirds to help him explore the past of a young girl who has committed suicide.

25. Pink Is For Death

Air Date: 1959-09-21

Young Davey Richards mistakes a lethal poison for soda pop. The police can’t locate the only man who knows the exact nature of the poison.

26. Star Witness

Air Date: 1959-09-28

27. Mr. Jinx

Air Date: 1959-10-05

Chuck and P.T. fly a newspaper reporter to an isolated hard-labor camp and end up being wanted by the police.

28. File 777

Air Date: 1959-10-12

Chuck and P.T. refuse to give information to a tough-looking man named Grimes about the whereabouts of Sydney Evans, one of their customers. Grimes, later that night breaks into the Whirlybirds' files.

29. Hot Cargo

Air Date: 1959-10-19

The father of a condemned boy vows to kill the governor. He hires the Whirlybirds to take him to a fair where he can get some aerial photos of the governor making a speech.

30. Shoot Out

Air Date: 1959-10-26

A British-born rancher predicts his death to the Whirlybirds and asks them to spread his ashes over a beautiful site in the country after his death.

31. Man, You Kill Me

Air Date: 1959-11-02

A jazzman who has been chauffered to a nightclub date by Whirlybirds is found murdered- Chuck and P.T. turn in the logical suspect.

32. Dead Wrong

Air Date: 1959-11-19

A waitress serves a man who looks exactly like her boy friend, a bank robber on the lam. She plots to turn him over to the police.

33. Four Little Indians

Air Date: 1960-01-18

An escaped convict has vowed to kill the four people who sent him up, including Chuck and P.T.