While helping a friend run his freight airline after an accident, Sky stumbles across a gold-smuggling operation.While helping a friend run his freight airline after an accident, Sky stumbles across a gold-smuggling operation.While helping a friend run his freight airline after an accident, Sky stumbles across a gold-smuggling operation.
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- TriviaThe aircraft seen as the "Fletcher Airline" plane is a Lockheed 12, N60775, owned at the time by noted Hollywood motion picture pilot, Paul Mantz. Mantz supervised the aerial work on the early Sky King episodes and also owned and flew King's Cessna T-50/UC-78 "Songbird".
This particular Lockheed was sold as an airliner in the U.S., but was re-acquired by Lockheed as a prototype for a bomber version (which several were sold to the Dutch East Indies before WWII). Mantz bought the aircraft from Lockheed in 1946. In this episode, you can see a large metal patch atop the fuselage just behind the passenger door, that is where a gun turret was fitted during its time as a military prototype. Its registration was later changed to N16020, the number used by Amelia Earhart's similar Lockheed 12, the plane she disappeared in. Mantz was the technical advisor for her Ill-fated round the world 1937 flight.
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Another "10" Episode
An episode almost too complex for a 25 minute "Children's TV Show" from the 1950's, yet the superb writing and excellent character development pull it off very well. Only the 4th Episode into the first Season and "Sky King" continues to impress. Also really noticeable in this episode is the growing strong affectionate rapport between Kirby Grant(Sky King) and Gloria Winters (Penny King).
Watch for Myron Healey, one of those great character actors, who often portrayed bad guys and heavies in Movie/TV Westerns & Crime Dramas from the mid-1940's up into the early 1990's. Healey is another of those great character actors whose name sadly, is often not remembered, but whose face is never forgotten.
Also watch for Charles Stevens, a versatile character actor who started during the first silent days of Hollywood in 1915, acting in "BIRTH OF A NATION"! He was a memorable bad guy in "THE BIG TRAIL" (1930), John Wayne's first starring role, under the direction of legendary director Raoul Walsh.
Watch for Myron Healey, one of those great character actors, who often portrayed bad guys and heavies in Movie/TV Westerns & Crime Dramas from the mid-1940's up into the early 1990's. Healey is another of those great character actors whose name sadly, is often not remembered, but whose face is never forgotten.
Also watch for Charles Stevens, a versatile character actor who started during the first silent days of Hollywood in 1915, acting in "BIRTH OF A NATION"! He was a memorable bad guy in "THE BIG TRAIL" (1930), John Wayne's first starring role, under the direction of legendary director Raoul Walsh.
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- Jul 19, 2020
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