• 1957
  • 30m
Whirlybirds

Summary Charter helicopter pilots Chuck and P. T. solve crimes. Rescue people, perform tasks and more using their Bell helicopter, the star of the show; View more details

  • 1957
  • 30m

Whirlybirds

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Kenneth Tobey Craig Hill Nancy Hale Sandra Spence

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7.8

Details

Genres : Adventure

Release date : Jan 2, 1957

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Production companies : CBS Television Network Desilu Productions

Summary Charter helicopter pilots Chuck and P. T. solve crimes. Rescue people, perform tasks and more using their Bell helicopter, the star of the show; View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure

Release date : Jan 2, 1957

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Production companies : CBS Television Network Desilu Productions

Photos

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jan 02, 1957
The Big U
The Whirlybirds are hired to find a missing uranium prospector. The search area is rugged and inhospitable, and the task is even harder when two claim jumpers try to stop them.
Episode 2 • Jan 09, 1957
Rampage
A sickly circus gorilla named Congo escapes. Once on the loose, he terrorizes the local residents. Chuck and P.T. are hired to track the beast down and capture him.
Episode 3 • Jan 16, 1957
Boy on the Roof
A younger brother, with revenge in his heart, climbs on a building and keeps police at bay with a rifle. P.T. takes a reporter up to the brother, thinking the reporter has good intentions. Unknown to P.T. the sleazy reporter has ulterior motives.
Episode 4 • Jan 23, 1957
Fire Flight
The Whirlybirds rush against time to save three mountain climbers that are trapped by a forest fire.
Episode 5 • Jan 30, 1957
Hot Wire
Whirlybirds ground crew are trying to contact P.T. and Chuck to warn them of imminent danger of a thunder storm. As this is going on reporter Bronson arrives to do a news story on the Whirlybirds business. Chuck and P.T. at this moment are delivering a portable iron lung respirator to a secluded mountain home were a young boy named Tommy is in great need of the respirator to survive. Dangerous winds and lightning, fear of loosing the precious life saving cargo due to the holding straps coming loose, plus a leak in the helicopters gas tank only make things worst for the pilots. To make matters even worst the storm breaks the power line leading to the mountain home and it is up to the Whirlybirds to help a local lineman reconnect the live electric line in time to save young Tommy.
Episode 6 • Feb 06, 1957
Mountain Flight
The Whirlybirds are hired for a hunting trip up in the mountains. But once they get there they discover that there's a plot to kill one of the hunters.
Episode 7 • Feb 13, 1957
Ghost Town Flight
Billy and Danny fall into a mine shaft at a ghost town. Billy's little brother, Ricky, goes for help. He is spotted by Chuck and P. T. in the whirlybird. They take him to a hospital and then return to search for the other boys.
Episode 8 • Feb 20, 1957
Hostage
Three escape convicts, one of whom has flying experience, steal the "Whirleybirds" plane and rough up their secretary. The warden arrives and they co-ordinate a search for the missing plane which has little gas. When the convicts return to fuel the plane, the warden later arrives to wait for new developments and is kidnapped by the convicts who fly off again. The search continues...
Episode 9 • Feb 27, 1957
Diamond Smugglers
Episode 10 • Mar 06, 1957
Lynch Mob
Virgil Hook and his "lynch mob" want to take the law into their own hands and evict a suspected killer and his wife from their home. A reporter has important information that may change things . Chuck and P.T. help the reporter and police out.
Episode 11 • Mar 13, 1957
Sky Net
A man is obsessed on killing a mountain lion that took his hand during an earlier hunt. He hires the Whirlybirds to take him back up to the mountain were the incident happened so he can hunt the animal down and kill it. Chuck and P.T. feel the hunter is being careless.
Episode 12 • Mar 20, 1957
Prison Break
A woman posing as a flying student makes off with the helicopter which she plans to use to help her husband break out of prison.
Episode 13 • Mar 27, 1957
Top of the Mountain
Episode 14 • Apr 03, 1957
Operation Blue Hen
The Whirlybirds are hired by a company to deliver a newly developed solid fuel bomb to its testing area. When the bomb fails to explode they are tasked to go back to the location with the only person that can dismantle it.
Episode 15 • Apr 10, 1957
Human Bomb
Chuck and P.T. unwittingly become accomplices to a bank robber.
Episode 16 • Apr 17, 1957
Missing Witness
The Whirlybird crew assists in the rescue of a husband and wife who are being pursued by gangsters they are scheduled to testify against.
Episode 17 • Apr 24, 1957
The Egg Code
The U.S. Army is trying to prevent spies from discovering secret military bases and hire the Whirlybirds to keep an eye out for anything unusual.
Episode 18 • May 01, 1957
Superstition Mountain
While transporting gold out and supplies in to a small mine, P.T. and Chuck find themselves involved in a murder plot.
Episode 19 • May 08, 1957
Homicide Haven
Episode 20 • May 13, 1957
Riptide
Episode 21 • May 22, 1957
The Black Pearl
P.T. and Chuck fight an electrical storm to deliver an iron lung to save a boy hurt in a landslide.
Episode 22 • May 29, 1957
Illegal Entry
Episode 23 • Jun 05, 1957
Lady Luck
Chuck and P.T. fly a "businessman" to Las Vegas. He suddenly decides he wants to return home early in the morning. Hot on his trail are some desperate gamblers, led by a woman, who kill the passenger and take P.T. hostage as they search for $150,000 taken from them. Chuck risks his life as he leads the police in an attempt to capture the gamblers and rescue P.T,
Episode 24 • Jun 12, 1957
Hide and Seek
Chuck and P.T. help their secretary search for her missing nephew who was last seen playing a game of "Hide and Seek". Unknown to them he was hiding in the trunk of a old rusted car that is now in route to the junkyard to be crushed.
Episode 25 • Jun 19, 1957
Hobson's Choice
The Whirlybirds are working for a motion picture company. While on the filming site, P.T. happens to see a man rescue the films star from danger and photographs this event. The man doesn't want the photos with him shown to the public. The photos somehow get in the papers and the man is very upset. He now wants to get revenge on P.T.
Episode 26 • Jun 26, 1957
Crisis
Episode 27 • Jul 03, 1957
Journey to the Past
A wealthy explorer is conned by a former acquaintance into believing there has been a discovery of an ancient civilization. He hires the Whirlybirds to take them to the location not realizing that he is being set up to be robbed.
Episode 28 • Jul 10, 1957
Aerial Circus
The Whirlybirds have been teaching a brother-sister act to fly so they can use a helicopter in their trapeze act. After his student returns from a solo flight Chuck finds evidence that connects him to a $200,000 armored truck robbery.
Episode 29 • Jul 17, 1957
Cycle of Terror
A sniper on a motorcycle brings fear to a town unable to fight back. It's up to P.T. and Chuck to end his crime spree.
Episode 30 • Jul 24, 1957
Fury Canyon
An entire family mysteriously disappears from a travel trailer parked out in the desert. Chuck and P.J. join with the sheriff's department in the search.
Episode 31 • Jul 31, 1957
The Rustlers
The local Cattle Association hire the Whirlybirds to investigate how rustlers are stealing their cattle.
Episode 32 • Aug 07, 1957
I'll Get Even
Episode 33 • Aug 14, 1957
Incident in Del Rio
Chuck and P.T. get involved with UFOs and gunrunners south of the border in Mexico.
Episode 34 • Aug 21, 1957
Sky Hook
Episode 35 • Aug 28, 1957
The Secret Cove
A woman hires Chuck and P.T to search for her wealthy missing husband who she fears has met with foul play.
Episode 36 • Sep 04, 1957
Take a Little, Leave a Little
When a bag of payroll money being delivered is several thousand dollars short, the Whirlybirds are the first suspects. Evidence they find leads the two pilots and their client to the jobsite.
Episode 37 • Sep 11, 1957
Airborne Gold
P.T. and Chuck unknowingly help a client smuggle gold into Mexico.
Episode 38 • Sep 16, 1957
The Iron Mountain
P.T. and Chuck try help their client persuade a 105 year old man into selling his land to a mining company. However, there are two land speculators who also want the land and will do anything to get it, including murder.
Episode 39 • Sep 23, 1957
Panic at Green Ridge
The Whirlybirds rescue a motorist that has gone off a mountain road and fly him to a hospital, only to find out that his wife is having a medical emergency back at their cabin and a doctor is needed there quickly.
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