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19 Episodes 1952 - 1952
Episode 1
Sat, Apr 5, 195227 mins
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
Sat, Apr 19, 195227 mins
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
Sat, May 3, 195227 mins
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
Sat, May 17, 195227 mins
While helping a friend run his freight airline after an accident, Sky stumbles across a gold-smuggling operation.
Episode 5
Sat, May 31, 195227 mins
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
Sat, Jun 14, 195227 mins
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
Sat, Jun 28, 195227 mins
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
Sat, Jul 12, 195227 mins
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
Sat, Jul 26, 195227 mins
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
Sat, Aug 9, 195227 mins
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
Sat, Aug 23, 195227 mins
Eastern gangsters set up a protection racket near Grover and the local ranchers appeal to Sky for help.
Episode 12
Sat, Sep 6, 195227 mins
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
Sat, Sep 20, 195227 mins
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
Sat, Oct 4, 195227 mins
Penny sees a man attempting to flee from two men in white coats and is told that the escapee is a mental patient who broke out of a sanatorium. Sky King learns that the escapee is actually a scientist who knows the secret formula for a deadly new kind of poison gas and the "doctors" were really foreign spies.
Episode 15
Sat, Oct 18, 195227 mins
The police are baffled - three payroll robberies have occurred in the past month and all three times the criminals have disappeared into thin air. When Sky learns that a local rancher claims that a giant eagle has been spooking his cattle at night, he suspects that the crooks aren't using ground transportation to make their getaway.
Episode 16
Sat, Nov 8, 195227 mins
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
Sat, Nov 22, 195227 mins
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
Sat, Dec 6, 195227 mins
Sky teams up with a military intelligence officer to track down a foreign agent who blew up a secret government project.
Episode 19
Sat, Dec 20, 195227 mins
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.