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Sky King

All Episodes 1952 - 1959

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  • 1952-04-05T23:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 1d 12h (72 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • McGowan Productions + 1 more, Jack Chertok Television Productions
  • Drama, Western
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.

72 episodes

Series Premiere

1952-04-05T23:00:00Z

1x01 Operation Urgent

Series Premiere

1x01 Operation Urgent

  • 1952-04-05T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1952-04-19T23:00:00Z

1x02 Carrier Pigeon

1x02 Carrier Pigeon

  • 1952-04-19T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1952-05-03T22:00:00Z

1x03 Stage Coach Robbers

1x03 Stage Coach Robbers

  • 1952-05-03T22:00:00Z30m

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.

1952-05-17T22:00:00Z

1x04 Deadly Cargo

1x04 Deadly Cargo

  • 1952-05-17T22:00:00Z30m

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

1952-05-31T22:00:00Z

1x05 Jim Bell's Triumph

1x05 Jim Bell's Triumph

  • 1952-05-31T22:00:00Z30m

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.

1952-06-14T22:00:00Z

1x06 Designing Woman

1x06 Designing Woman

  • 1952-06-14T22:00:00Z30m

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

1952-06-28T22:00:00Z

1x07 One for the Money

1x07 One for the Money

  • 1952-06-28T22:00:00Z30m

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.

1952-07-12T22:00:00Z

1x08 Danger Point

1x08 Danger Point

  • 1952-07-12T22:00:00Z30m

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.

1952-07-26T22:00:00Z

1x09 Desperate Character

1x09 Desperate Character

  • 1952-07-26T22:00:00Z30m

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.

1952-08-09T22:00:00Z

1x10 The Man Who Forgot

1x10 The Man Who Forgot

  • 1952-08-09T22:00:00Z30m

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.

1952-08-23T22:00:00Z

1x11 The Threatening Bomb

1x11 The Threatening Bomb

  • 1952-08-23T22:00:00Z30m

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

1952-09-06T22:00:00Z

1x12 Speak No Evil

1x12 Speak No Evil

  • 1952-09-06T22:00:00Z30m

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.

1952-09-20T22:00:00Z

1x13 Two-Gun Penny

1x13 Two-Gun Penny

  • 1952-09-20T22:00:00Z30m

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.

1952-10-04T23:00:00Z

1x14 Formula for Fear

1x14 Formula for Fear

  • 1952-10-04T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1952-10-18T23:00:00Z

1x15 The Giant Eagle

1x15 The Giant Eagle

  • 1952-10-18T23:00:00Z30m

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

1952-11-08T23:00:00Z

1x16 Blackmail

1x16 Blackmail

  • 1952-11-08T23:00:00Z30m

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

1952-11-22T23:00:00Z

1x17 Wings of Justice

1x17 Wings of Justice

  • 1952-11-22T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1952-12-06T23:00:00Z

1x18 Destruction from the Sky

1x18 Destruction from the Sky

  • 1952-12-06T23:00:00Z30m

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

1952-12-20T23:00:00Z

1x19 The Porcelain Lion

1x19 The Porcelain Lion

  • 1952-12-20T23:00:00Z30m

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.

Season Premiere

1956-01-02T23:00:00Z

2x01 The Neckerchief

Season Premiere

2x01 The Neckerchief

  • 1956-01-02T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1956-01-02T23:00:00Z

2x02 Manhunt

2x02 Manhunt

  • 1956-01-02T23:00:00Z30m

1956-01-09T23:00:00Z

2x03 The Plastic Ghost

2x03 The Plastic Ghost

  • 1956-01-09T23:00:00Z30m

1956-01-09T23:00:00Z

2x04 The Rainbird

2x04 The Rainbird

  • 1956-01-09T23:00:00Z30m

1956-01-30T23:00:00Z

2x05 The Crystal Trap

2x05 The Crystal Trap

  • 1956-01-30T23:00:00Z30m

1956-01-30T23:00:00Z

2x06 Red Tentacles

2x06 Red Tentacles

  • 1956-01-30T23:00:00Z30m

1956-02-06T23:00:00Z

2x07 Boomerang

2x07 Boomerang

  • 1956-02-06T23:00:00Z30m

1956-02-27T23:00:00Z

2x08 Geiger Detective

2x08 Geiger Detective

  • 1956-02-27T23:00:00Z30m

1956-02-27T23:00:00Z

2x09 Golden Burro

2x09 Golden Burro

  • 1956-02-27T23:00:00Z30m

1956-03-05T23:00:00Z

2x10 Rustlers on Wheels

2x10 Rustlers on Wheels

  • 1956-03-05T23:00:00Z30m

1956-03-05T23:00:00Z

2x11 The Silver Grave

2x11 The Silver Grave

  • 1956-03-05T23:00:00Z30m

1956-03-12T23:00:00Z

2x12 Uninvited Death

2x12 Uninvited Death

  • 1956-03-12T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1956-03-19T23:00:00Z

2x13 Fish Out of Water

2x13 Fish Out of Water

  • 1956-03-19T23:00:00Z30m

1956-03-26T23:00:00Z

2x14 Diamonds on a Sky-Hook

2x14 Diamonds on a Sky-Hook

  • 1956-03-26T23:00:00Z30m

1956-04-02T23:00:00Z

2x15 Flood of Fury

2x15 Flood of Fury

  • 1956-04-02T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1956-04-02T23:00:00Z

2x16 Rocket Story

2x16 Rocket Story

  • 1956-04-02T23:00:00Z30m

1956-04-23T23:00:00Z

2x17 Rodeo Round-Up

2x17 Rodeo Round-Up

  • 1956-04-23T23:00:00Z30m

1956-04-23T23:00:00Z

2x18 Showdown

2x18 Showdown

  • 1956-04-23T23:00:00Z30m

1956-04-23T23:00:00Z

2x19 Land o' Cotton

2x19 Land o' Cotton

  • 1956-04-23T23:00:00Z30m

1956-04-30T22:00:00Z

2x20 Dust of Destruction

2x20 Dust of Destruction

  • 1956-04-30T22:00:00Z30m

Season Premiere

1957-12-29T23:00:00Z

3x01 Mystery Horse

Season Premiere

3x01 Mystery Horse

  • 1957-12-29T23:00:00Z30m

1957-12-29T23:00:00Z

3x02 Double Trouble

3x02 Double Trouble

  • 1957-12-29T23:00:00Z30m

1958-01-05T23:00:00Z

3x03 Note for a Dam

3x03 Note for a Dam

  • 1958-01-05T23:00:00Z30m

1958-01-05T23:00:00Z

3x04 Bad Actor

3x04 Bad Actor

  • 1958-01-05T23:00:00Z30m

1958-01-12T23:00:00Z

3x05 Fight for Oil

3x05 Fight for Oil

  • 1958-01-12T23:00:00Z30m

1958-01-12T23:00:00Z

3x06 Lost Boy

3x06 Lost Boy

  • 1958-01-12T23:00:00Z30m

1958-01-26T23:00:00Z

3x07 The Brain and the Brawn

3x07 The Brain and the Brawn

  • 1958-01-26T23:00:00Z30m

Sky investigates some suspicious happenings at the county fair.

1958-01-26T23:00:00Z

3x08 The Feathered Serpent

3x08 The Feathered Serpent

  • 1958-01-26T23:00:00Z30m

1958-02-22T23:00:00Z

3x09 The Circus Clown Mystery

3x09 The Circus Clown Mystery

  • 1958-02-22T23:00:00Z30m

1958-02-22T23:00:00Z

3x10 Dead Man's Will

3x10 Dead Man's Will

  • 1958-02-22T23:00:00Z30m

1958-03-11T23:00:00Z

3x11 Cindy, Come Home

3x11 Cindy, Come Home

  • 1958-03-11T23:00:00Z30m

1958-03-09T23:00:00Z

3x12 Rodeo Decathlon

3x12 Rodeo Decathlon

  • 1958-03-09T23:00:00Z30m

1958-03-11T23:00:00Z

3x13 Abracadabra

3x13 Abracadabra

  • 1958-03-11T23:00:00Z30m

1958-03-09T23:00:00Z

3x14 Triple Exposure

3x14 Triple Exposure

  • 1958-03-09T23:00:00Z30m

1958-03-16T23:00:00Z

3x15 The Haunted Castle

3x15 The Haunted Castle

  • 1958-03-16T23:00:00Z30m

1958-03-16T23:00:00Z

3x16 Man Hunt

3x16 Man Hunt

  • 1958-03-16T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-03-16T23:00:00Z

3x17 Danger at the Sawmill

3x17 Danger at the Sawmill

  • 1958-03-16T23:00:00Z30m

1958-03-23T23:00:00Z

3x18 Sleight of Hand

3x18 Sleight of Hand

  • 1958-03-23T23:00:00Z30m

1958-03-23T23:00:00Z

3x19 The Runaway

3x19 The Runaway

  • 1958-03-23T23:00:00Z30m

1958-03-30T23:00:00Z

3x20 Stop That Train

3x20 Stop That Train

  • 1958-03-30T23:00:00Z30m

Season Premiere

1958-12-28T23:00:00Z

4x01 The Wild Man

Season Premiere

4x01 The Wild Man

  • 1958-12-28T23:00:00Z30m

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

1958-12-28T23:00:00Z

4x02 Sky Robbers

4x02 Sky Robbers

  • 1958-12-28T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-12-28T23:00:00Z

4x03 A Dog Named Barney

4x03 A Dog Named Barney

  • 1958-12-28T23:00:00Z30m

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

1958-12-28T23:00:00Z

4x04 Bullet Bait

4x04 Bullet Bait

  • 1958-12-28T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1959-01-04T23:00:00Z

4x05 Money Has Wings

4x05 Money Has Wings

  • 1959-01-04T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1959-01-04T23:00:00Z

4x06 Frogmen

4x06 Frogmen

  • 1959-01-04T23:00:00Z30m

1959-02-01T23:00:00Z

4x07 Terror Cruise

4x07 Terror Cruise

  • 1959-02-01T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1959-02-01T23:00:00Z

4x09 Bounty Hunters

4x09 Bounty Hunters

  • 1959-02-01T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1959-02-01T23:00:00Z

4x10 Dead Giveaway

4x10 Dead Giveaway

  • 1959-02-01T23:00:00Z30m

1959-02-22T23:00:00Z

4x11 A Mickey for Sky

4x11 A Mickey for Sky

  • 1959-02-22T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1959-03-01T23:00:00Z

4x12 Ring of Fire

4x12 Ring of Fire

  • 1959-03-01T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1959-03-08T23:00:00Z

4x13 Mickey's Birthday

4x13 Mickey's Birthday

  • 1959-03-08T23:00:00Z30m

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.

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