• 1951
  • TV-PG
  • 30m
Sky King

Summary Fly plane... Bust bad guys... Fuss with niece and nephew... Eat Peter Pan Peanut Butter... Dat's it! View more details

  • 1951
  • TV-PG
  • 30m

Sky King

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Kirby Grant Gloria Winters Ewing Mitchell Ron Hagerthy

All cast & crew

7.7

Details

Genres : Adventure Drama Family Western

Release date : Sep 15, 1951

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Filming locations : Apple Valley Airport - Highway 18, Apple Valley, California, USA

Production companies : Jack Chertok Television Productions McGowan Productions

Summary Fly plane... Bust bad guys... Fuss with niece and nephew... Eat Peter Pan Peanut Butter... Dat's it! View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure Drama Family Western

Release date : Sep 15, 1951

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Filming locations : Apple Valley Airport - Highway 18, Apple Valley, California, USA

Production companies : Jack Chertok Television Productions McGowan Productions

Photos

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Apr 04, 1952
Operation Urgent
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.
Episode 2 • Apr 18, 1952
Carrier Pigeon
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.
Episode 3 • May 02, 1952
Stage Coach Robbers
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.
Episode 4 • May 16, 1952
Deadly Cargo
While helping a friend run his freight airline after an accident, Sky stumbles across a gold-smuggling operation.
Episode 5 • May 30, 1952
Jim Bell's Triumph
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.
Episode 6 • Jun 13, 1952
Designing Woman
Sky becomes suspicious when a Eastern woman shows up in Grover claiming to be the long-lost niece and heir of a dead rancher.
Episode 7 • Jun 27, 1952
One for the Money
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.
Episode 8 • Jul 11, 1952
Danger Point
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.
Episode 9 • Jul 25, 1952
Desperate Character
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.
Episode 10 • Aug 08, 1952
The Man Who Forgot
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.
Episode 11 • Aug 22, 1952
The Threatening Bomb
Eastern gangsters set up a protection racket near Grover and the local ranchers appeal to Sky for help.
Episode 12 • Sep 05, 1952
Speak No Evil
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.
Episode 13 • Sep 19, 1952
Two-Gun Penny
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.
Episode 14 • Oct 03, 1952
Formula for Fear
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.
Episode 15 • Oct 17, 1952
The Giant Eagle
Sky investigates a series of mysterious payroll robberies, where the police chase the robbers only to see their getaway car mysteriously disappear.
Episode 16 • Nov 07, 1952
Blackmail
A local banker is blackmailed by two former confederates who aware of a crime he committed over twenty years ago and was never apprehended.
Episode 17 • Nov 21, 1952
Wings of Justice
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.
Episode 18 • Dec 05, 1952
Destruction from the Sky
Sky teams up with a military intelligence officer to track down a foreign agent who blew up a secret government project.
Episode 19 • Dec 19, 1952
The Porcelain Lion
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.

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