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📺 Series

Sky King

📅 1952 ⭐ 5.1 🕐 30m US US

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 & Episodes
Season 1 19 episodes
E1
Operation Urgent 1952-04-05
E2
Carrier Pigeon 1952-04-19
E3
Stage Coach Robbers 1952-05-03
E4
Deadly Cargo 1952-05-17
E5
Jim Bell's Triumph 1952-05-31
E6
Designing Woman 1952-06-14
E7
One for the Money 1952-06-28
E8
Danger Point 1952-07-12
E9
Desperate Character 1952-07-26
E10
The Man Who Forgot 1952-08-09
E11
The Threatening Bomb 1952-08-23
E12
Speak No Evil 1952-09-06
E13
Two-Gun Penny 1952-09-20
E14
Formula for Fear 1952-10-04
E15
The Giant Eagle 1952-10-18
E16
Blackmail 1952-11-08
E17
Wings of Justice 1952-11-22
E18
Destruction from the Sky 1952-12-06
E19
The Porcelain Lion 1952-12-20
Season 2 20 episodes
E1
The Neckerchief 1956-01-02
E2
Manhunt 1956-01-02
E3
The Plastic Ghost 1956-01-09
E4
The Rainbird 1956-01-09
E5
The Crystal Trap 1956-01-30
E6
Red Tentacles 1956-01-30
E7
Boomerang 1956-02-06
E8
Geiger Detective 1956-02-27
E9
Golden Burro 1956-02-27
E10
Rustlers on Wheels 1956-03-05
E11
The Silver Grave 1956-03-05
E12
Uninvited Death 1956-03-12
E13
Fish Out of Water 1956-03-19
E14
Diamonds on a Sky-Hook 1956-03-26
E15
Flood of Fury 1956-04-02
E16
Rocket Story 1956-04-02
E17
Rodeo Round-Up 1956-04-23
E18
Showdown 1956-04-23
E19
Land o' Cotton 1956-04-23
E20
Dust of Destruction 1956-04-30
Season 3 20 episodes
E1
Mystery Horse 1957-12-29
E2
Double Trouble 1957-12-29
E3
Note for a Dam 1958-01-05
E4
Bad Actor 1958-01-05
E5
Fight for Oil 1958-01-12
E6
Lost Boy 1958-01-12
E7
The Brain and the Brawn 1958-01-26
E8
The Feathered Serpent 1958-01-26
E9
The Circus Clown Mystery 1958-02-22
E10
Dead Man's Will 1958-02-22
E11
Cindy, Come Home 1958-03-11
E12
Rodeo Decathlon 1958-03-09
E13
Abracadabra 1958-03-11
E14
Triple Exposure 1958-03-09
E15
The Haunted Castle 1958-03-16
E16
Man Hunt 1958-03-16
E17
Danger at the Sawmill 1958-03-16
E18
Sleight of Hand 1958-03-23
E19
The Runaway 1958-03-23
E20
Stop That Train 1958-03-30
Season 4 13 episodes
E1
The Wild Man 1958-12-28
E2
Sky Robbers 1958-12-28
E3
A Dog Named Barney 1958-12-28
E4
Bullet Bait 1958-12-28
E5
Money Has Wings 1959-01-04
E6
Frogmen 1959-01-04
E7
Terror Cruise 1959-02-01
E8
Operation Urgent aka Runaway Truck 1959-02-01
E9
Bounty Hunters 1959-02-01
E10
Dead Giveaway 1959-02-01
E11
A Mickey for Sky 1959-02-22
E12
Ring of Fire 1959-03-01
E13
Mickey's Birthday 1959-03-08
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