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Whirlybirds Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

39 Episodes 1957 - 1957

Episode 1

The Big U

Thu, Jan 3, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 2

Rampage

Thu, Jan 10, 195730 mins

A sickly circus gorilla named Congo has been unable to perform due to an illness. His trainer's attempt to administer an injection of penicillin to the gorilla goes awry, and Congo escapes. Once on the loose, he terrorizes the local residents until Chuck and P.T. are hired to capture him, which they eventually accomplish by dropping a net over the ferocious beast.

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Episode 3

Boy on the Roof

Thu, Jan 17, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 4

Fire Flight

Thu, Jan 24, 195730 mins

The Whirlybirds rush against time to save three mountain climbers that are trapped by a forest fire.

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Episode 5

Hot Wire

Thu, Jan 31, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 6

Mountain Flight

Thu, Feb 7, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 7

Ghost Town Flight

Thu, Feb 14, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 8

Hostage

Thu, Feb 21, 195730 mins

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...

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Episode 9

Diamond Smugglers

Thu, Feb 28, 195730 mins

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Episode 10

Lynch Mob

Thu, Mar 7, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 11

Sky Net

Thu, Mar 14, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 12

Prison Break

Thu, Mar 21, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 13

Top of the Mountain

Thu, Mar 28, 195730 mins

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Episode 14

Operation Blue Hen

Thu, Apr 4, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 15

Human Bomb

Thu, Apr 11, 195730 mins

Chuck and P.T. unwittingly become accomplices to a bank robber.

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Episode 16

Missing Witness

Thu, Apr 18, 195730 mins

The Whirlybird crew assists in the rescue of a husband and wife who are being pursued by gangsters they are scheduled to testify against.

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Episode 17

The Egg Code

Thu, Apr 25, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 18

Superstition Mountain

Thu, May 2, 195730 mins

While transporting gold out and supplies in to a small mine, P.T. and Chuck find themselves involved in a murder plot.

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Episode 19

Homicide Haven

Thu, May 9, 195730 mins

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Episode 20

Riptide

Tue, May 14, 195730 mins

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Episode 21

The Black Pearl

Thu, May 23, 195730 mins

P.T. and Chuck fight an electrical storm to deliver an iron lung to save a boy hurt in a landslide.

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Episode 22

Illegal Entry

Thu, May 30, 195730 mins

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Episode 23

Lady Luck

Thu, Jun 6, 195730 mins

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,

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Episode 24

Hide and Seek

Thu, Jun 13, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 25

Hobson's Choice

Thu, Jun 20, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 26

Crisis

Thu, Jun 27, 195730 mins

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Episode 27

Journey to the Past

Thu, Jul 4, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 28

Aerial Circus

Thu, Jul 11, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 29

Cycle of Terror

Thu, Jul 18, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 30

Fury Canyon

Thu, Jul 25, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 31

The Rustlers

Thu, Aug 1, 195730 mins

The local Cattle Association hire the Whirlybirds to investigate how rustlers are stealing their cattle.

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Episode 32

I'll Get Even

Thu, Aug 8, 195730 mins

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Episode 33

Incident in Del Rio

Thu, Aug 15, 195730 mins

Chuck and P.T. get involved with UFOs and gunrunners south of the border in Mexico.

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Episode 34

Sky Hook

Thu, Aug 22, 195730 mins

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Episode 35

The Secret Cove

Thu, Aug 29, 195730 mins

A woman hires Chuck and P.T to search for her wealthy missing husband who she fears has met with foul play.

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Episode 36

Take a Little, Leave a Little

Thu, Sep 5, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 37

Airborne Gold

Thu, Sep 12, 195730 mins

P.T. and Chuck unknowingly help a client smuggle gold into Mexico.

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Episode 38

The Iron Mountain

Tue, Sep 17, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 39

Panic at Green Ridge

Tue, Sep 24, 195730 mins

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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