Sky King

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

Cast:Kirby Grant , Gloria Winters , Ewing Mitchell , Ron Hagerthy , Norman Ollestad , Bill Hale , Dennis Moore , Rusty Wescoatt , Monte Blue , Chubby Johnson , Stanley Andrews , I. Stanford Jolley , John Cason , Gary Hunley , Terry Kelman , Rand Brooks , Don C. Harvey , Pierre Watkin

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Operation Urgent

Sat, Apr 5, 1952

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.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Carrier Pigeon

Sat, Apr 19, 1952

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.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Stage Coach Robbers

Sat, May 3, 1952

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.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Deadly Cargo

Sat, May 17, 1952

While helping a friend run his freight airline after an accident, Sky stumbles across a gold-smuggling operation.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Jim Bell's Triumph

Sat, May 31, 1952

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.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Designing Woman

Sat, Jun 14, 1952

Sky becomes suspicious when a Eastern woman shows up in Grover claiming to be the long-lost niece and heir of a dead rancher.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ One for the Money

Sat, Jun 28, 1952

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.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Danger Point

Sat, Jul 12, 1952

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.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Desperate Character

Sat, Jul 26, 1952

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.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Man Who Forgot

Sat, Aug 9, 1952

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.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ The Threatening Bomb

Sat, Aug 23, 1952

Eastern gangsters set up a protection racket near Grover and the local ranchers appeal to Sky for help.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Speak No Evil

Sat, Sep 6, 1952

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.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Two-Gun Penny

Sat, Sep 20, 1952

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.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Formula for Fear

Sat, Oct 4, 1952

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.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ The Giant Eagle

Sat, Oct 18, 1952

Sky investigates a series of mysterious payroll robberies, where the police chase the robbers only to see their getaway car mysteriously disappear.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Blackmail

Sat, Nov 8, 1952

A local banker is blackmailed by two former confederates who aware of a crime he committed over twenty years ago and was never apprehended.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Wings of Justice

Sat, Nov 22, 1952

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.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Destruction from the Sky

Sat, Dec 6, 1952

Sky teams up with a military intelligence officer to track down a foreign agent who blew up a secret government project.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ The Porcelain Lion

Sat, Dec 20, 1952

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.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Neckerchief

Mon, Jan 2, 1956

Sky attempts to help a young man recently paroled from prison get started again, but the ex-convict's former friends frame him for a bank robbery.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Manhunt

Mon, Jan 2, 1956

Sky joins the hunt for two escaped convicts and their hostage, the local banker's son.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Plastic Ghost

Mon, Jan 9, 1956

A distress signal from a ghost town lead Sky and Penny to a dangerous criminal and his hostage.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The Rainbird

Mon, Jan 9, 1956

During a severe drought, Sky uses Songbird to seed clouds. Whether or not the process has any effect, the ensuing rain causes great floods that require Sky to spring into action again.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Crystal Trap

Mon, Jan 30, 1956

A plane has mechanical difficulties and is forced to land and a uranium map is stolen.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Red Tentacles

Mon, Jan 30, 1956

When several local Chinese residents are beaten and refuse to tell why, Sky intervenes.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Boomerang

Mon, Feb 6, 1956

Sky King and Penny turn the tables on foreign agents conspiring to blackmail an important refugee scientist.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Geiger Detective

Mon, Feb 27, 1956

Some bandits steal a payroll and escape into the hills. They hold a Uranium prospectors captive. Sky uses a Geiger counter to help track down the robbers.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Golden Burro

Mon, Feb 27, 1956

Penny finds a prospector dying in the desert beside three burros carrying gold ore.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Rustlers on Wheels

Mon, Mar 5, 1956

A young rancher has sixty head of cattle stolen.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ The Silver Grave

Mon, Mar 5, 1956

A writer of westerns named Sinclair Mason comes to town attempting to learn more about the notorious Lowery gang, which robbed and terrorized the area many years ago. He says he will pay well for information that helps his stories.The sheriff and his deputy suggest he speak with Granny Wilcox, who lived in these parts as a little girl and might recall stories about him. They note that she lives on a very limited income but won't accept charity, so payment for information might be appealing to her.As it turns out, Granny knows a great deal about the Lowery Gang, because Boyd Lowery was her father and she has spent most of her life living down the scandal and living down the name. In her words, "the Lowery gang stopped at nothing: stage coaches, banks, anything that held money. Boyd Lowery was the worst of the lot, only a devil could have led those men. The more they took, the more they wanted."One of the gang's most notorious crimes was a robbery in 1895 of the express train near Grover where they stole fifty thousand brand new silver dollars from the Denver Mint which have never been recovered. There was a lot of shooting and the guards were killed, and one gang member, who was buried in an unmarked grave along the trail. The others didn't get very far. Before sundown, the Posse found them and killed every one of them. "It was their due; an eye for an eye."Sky and Penny then learn that the man claiming to be Sinclair Mason is an imposter and alert Granny that she should be careful if he comes snooping around.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Uninvited Death

Mon, Mar 12, 1956

Sky and Penny unwittingly become involved in sabotage when they visit their friends Major Dave and Denise McKay. An enemy agent has attached a time bomb to Major McKay's car, setting the fuse to explode while the Major is working at an army special-projects base. When Denise and Penny borrow the Major's car, they are placed in grave peril.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Fish Out of Water

Mon, Mar 19, 1956

An escaped convict sets out to kill the judge that sentenced him. Sky and the judge are on a fishing trip and Penny warns them.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Diamonds on a Sky-Hook

Mon, Mar 26, 1956

Prospectors ask for Sky's help in getting industrial diamonds to market. Sky uses a novel way to pick them up from rough terrain using a "sky hook". When the shipment goes missing, he's accused of stealing the consignment.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Flood of Fury

Mon, Apr 2, 1956

During a major flood, Sky, Penny and Bob assist the authorities in their rescue efforts. Unfortunately, three of the men they rescue are murderous escaped felons who force their rescuers to help them rob a flooded bank.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Rocket Story

Mon, Apr 2, 1956

The Army tests a rocket and asks Sky's help in recovering its instrument capsule. But one of the men sent to help isn't what he seems.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ Rodeo Round-Up

Mon, Apr 23, 1956

During the El Dorado Rodeo two men rob the safe of the $10,000.00 that was gathered for the hospital fund.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ Showdown

Mon, Apr 23, 1956

Penny and Bob Carey set out on horseback to track down thieves who have stolen four of Sk's horses. Bob is hurt and Sky arranges a showdown.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Land o' Cotton

Mon, Apr 23, 1956

An unscrupulous farmer keeps a migrant family in servitude. Sky is determined to find a way to let the workers move on to a better situation.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Dust of Destruction

Mon, Apr 30, 1956

A young rancher's alfalfa crops seem to be dying and they can't figure out what is causing his crop to dry up. Sky volunteers to fly samples to a lab in Tucson, with the promise to have their report back later that afternoon. Turns out that someone has been putting weed killing poison in the crop duster. If something drastic isn't done in the next two or three days, the crop will be lost and nothing will be able to grow there ever again. Sky calls Penny and tell her that the crop needs to be cut right away, so she needs to round up as many people as she can. Luckily there is a ranchers' meeting at the local Farm Bureau, so she hurries over in hopes of enlisting others to help with the mowing.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Mystery Horse

Sun, Dec 29, 1957

A valuable race horse is lost in a canyon and Sky takes to his plane to join the search.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Double Trouble

Sun, Dec 29, 1957

When a man who looks like Sky King steals the Songbird and attempts to blow up a Navy missile center, Sky borrows a jet to chase him.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Note for a Dam

Sun, Jan 5, 1958

Rancher Angus McGonicle keeps finding strange bottles with lit wicks and notes threatening the dam floating down the river, which King traces to a psychotic old hermit upstream. There, he traps King and Penny, then sets out to dynamite the dam in a rowboat.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Bad Actor

Sun, Jan 5, 1958

Sky and Penny get involved with a film location shoot. Some criminals decide to use the move activity to rob a bank.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Fight for Oil

Sun, Jan 12, 1958

An old friend of Sky's asks for help after someone attempts to kill him because of his oil well.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Lost Boy

Sun, Jan 12, 1958

Sky and Penny search for a lost boy Bobby Hutchins who is trapped in an abandoned mine shaft.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Brain and the Brawn

Sun, Jan 26, 1958

Sky investigates some suspicious happenings at the county fair.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ The Feathered Serpent

Sun, Jan 26, 1958

A bird with a valuable emerald attached to it's leg lands in Penny's garden. Sky decides to release the animal to see where it goes.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ The Circus Clown Mystery

Sat, Feb 22, 1958

When a police bulletin describes a thief as over seven feet tall, Sky and Penny head to the circus to find him.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Dead Man's Will

Sat, Feb 22, 1958

When a man claims that the land on which the clinic for poverty stricken Indians is built belongs to him, Sky steps in to prove he's wrong.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Cindy, Come Home

Tue, Mar 11, 1958

A doctor informs Sky that the only thing that will help a sick girl is finding her missing father. Sky goes on the hunt for missing man.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Rodeo Decathlon

Sun, Mar 9, 1958

Wen a young man is injured in the rodeo, Sky helps out by transporting to the hospital and participating in the events.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Abracadabra

Sun, Mar 9, 1958

Todays theme is the magic word Abracadabra.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Triple Exposure

Sun, Mar 9, 1958

Sky and Penny try to recover a valuable stamp collection with the help of a newspaper photographer.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ The Haunted Castle

Sun, Mar 16, 1958

A local home has some wild stories associated with it. Penny decides to have her own investigation about the house to end the rumors about the place being haunted. But she lands into major trouble while doing so.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Man Hunt

Sun, Mar 16, 1958

Fearing he has killed another boy, Joe Belden, recently released from reform school, flees into the desert. Sheriff Hargrove knows that the Joe's opponent survived the fight, but also knows that Joe, now heavily armed, will think that the law officers are intent on arresting him. He calls upon Sky, whom Joe trusts, to join the man-hunt.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Danger at the Sawmill

Sun, Mar 16, 1958

After being almost run down by a lumber truck, Sky and Penny investigate and learn that the local timber workers are being victimized.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Sleight of Hand

Sun, Mar 23, 1958

Sky starts to hear tales of dishonesty about the people who run gambling operations in nearby Center City. Sky decides to kook into the matter but it brings danger to the pilot and his young friend Davey Wilson.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ The Runaway

Sun, Mar 23, 1958

Young Davey Wilson finds himself in grave danger when he crosses paths with an armed gunman. Davey goes into the mountains to hide leaving Sky and Penny trying to find him before the dangerous criminal does.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ Stop That Train

Sun, Mar 30, 1958

Penny is captured by three men who plan to dynamite the train. Sky and Penny race to the rescue.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ The Wild Man

Sun, Dec 28, 1958

Sky and Penny try to clear a gentle, animal-loving "wildman" who has been blamed for the robbery of a logging company payroll.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Sky Robbers

Sun, Dec 28, 1958

Sky and Penny enter an air race, and it's soon discovered that the main office has been robbed and all of the receipts have been stolen. Sky suspects that one of the contestants in the race is the culprit and is using the race to make his getaway.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ A Dog Named Barney

Sun, Dec 28, 1958

Sky follows the seeing-eye dog of a blind newsboy Johnny Henderson, who he believes will lead him to a holdup man living with a party of coyote hunters.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Bullet Bait

Sun, Dec 28, 1958

Sky is holding a wedding at the Flying Crown Ranch. The ceremony is interrupted, however, when two gangsters kidnap the groom and threaten his fiancé.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Money Has Wings

Sun, Jan 4, 1959

Four pilots for Wellman Air Freight Lines are injured in the first month of a contract for the company to carry s large payroll. In order to find out what's going on, Sky goes undercover as a security guard.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Frog Man

Sun, Jan 4, 1959

Young Jimmy Ness has recently come into, and started spending, lots of money. He won't tell his aunt where he is getting the money from, and his dad is away working at the Flying Crown Ranch. Hoodlums find out about Jimmy's money.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Terror Cruise

Sun, Feb 1, 1959

While Sky is training with his naval reserve unit, Penny visits friends who cruise Central America on their large sailboat. When three escaped prisoners commandeer their vessel, it's up to Sky and the U.S. Navy to rescue his niece and her friends.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Operation Urgent aka Runaway Truck

Sun, Feb 1, 1959

Sky is showing his doctor friend how to fly the Songbird when they get a call that one of the Doc's patients is in trouble. She took the wrong medication and is passing out. Turns out she gave the same wrong meds to her husband who is driving a truckload of kids down a mountain.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Bounty Hunters

Sun, Feb 1, 1959

When marauding coyotes begin to kill his calves, Sky hires two flying bounty hunters to kill the animals. When more dead calves are found, Sky discovers that the men he has hired are using his ranch to smuggle jewels, not kill vermin.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Dead Giveaway

Sun, Mar 1, 1959

Sky's visitor, Mickey, goes exploring on his new pony and is captured by thieves guarding a large supply of stolen cars.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ A Mickey for Sky

Sun, Feb 22, 1959

Young Mickey, a distant relative of Sky's, is traveling to visit the Flying Crown Ranch while his guardian is out of the country. En route, he overhears two men discuss shooting a foreign visitor and is determined to warn the man of his peril.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Ring of Fire

Sun, Mar 1, 1959

Sky tries to help an old Indian chief who is very sick, but he won't go to the hospital for treatment because he would rather die on his own tribe's land.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ Mickey's Birthday

Sun, Mar 8, 1959

While visiting an amusement park on his birthday, Mickey wins a model airplane at a shooting gallery. Unfortunately, two smugglers have hidden a valuable pearl in the airplane and will stop at nothing to get it back.