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Whirlybirds is a syndicated American drama/adventure television series, which aired for 111 episodes — broadcast from February 4, 1957, through January 18, 1960. It was produced by Desilu Studios . The show centered around Chuck Martin (Kenneth Tobey) and Pete (P.T.) Moore (Craig Hill), owners of 'Whirlybirds, Inc', who flew their helicopter (N975B) between Longwood Field and anywhere where they could be of help to someone in trouble.
Episode 39 : Rest In Peace
January. 26,1959
Invited to attend a secret business meeting, Chuck and P.T. witness a murder.
Episode 38 : C.O.D.
January. 19,1959
Chuck and P.T. fly a wife to meet her husband as he is released from prison, having served time for robbery. When the ex-prisoner returns home, he finds three criminals waiting for him.
Episode 37 : Road Block
January. 12,1959
Chuck and P.T. are delivering a payroll when they are asked to aid police in pursuing a robber.
Episode 36 : Always A Gentleman
January. 05,1959
Pursuing an escaped prisoner, Chuck and P.T. discover they have flown into an Army firing range.
Episode 35 : An Act of Fate
December. 29,1958
Chuck and P.T. fly a reporter who is assigned a story "Mr. Average American" when they arrive, they find the subject from average. They find a hard-labor camp.
Episode 35 : Midnight Show
December. 08,1958
Chuck and P.T. fly a ventriloquist and his female partner to a benefit performance. Hearing that there is no benefit scheduled, the two performers take a walk along the cliffs. It is here that the girl learns that the man's former partner fell from this cliff to her death.
Episode 34 : Dead On Arrival
December. 22,1958
Chuck and P.T. fly a sleepy passenger to his destination but find him dead when they arrive.
Episode 33 : 27 Pieces of Gold
December. 15,1958
Chuck and P.T. meet danger when they answer a young wife’s request that they find her treasure seeking husband.
Episode 31 : The Story of Sister Bridget
December. 01,1958
Chuck and P.T. fly Sister Bridgit to see one of her former charges. They arrive minutes after the boy has left, armed with a gun.
Episode 30 : Address Unknown
November. 24,1958
Chuck and P.T. attempt to reunite a Korean hero and his sweetheart.
Episode 29 : Glamor Girl
November. 17,1958
A movie star involves Chuck and P.T. in the pursuit of a car thatis traveling on a road that is about to be blown up.
Episode 28 : Baby Face
November. 10,1958
Chuck and P.T. put down in the desert to help a couple they think are eloping, only to find they are escaping from a charge of robbery and murder.
Episode 27 : Hideout
November. 03,1958
Chuck and P.T. innocently carry a young man to the hideout of a murderer.
Episode 26 : Uncle Pete
October. 27,1958
On arriving at the Rollins ranch for a job of crop-dusting, Chuck and P.T. find the foreman, Pete Novack, beaten and unconscious, his life-savings missing. They rush him to the hospital where they are told he has a fighting chance, but seems to have lost his will to live.
Episode 25 : Robert Dixon, M.D.
October. 20,1958
A doctor has a heart attack when summoned to a mysterious rendezvous, and his M.D. son asks Chuck and P.T. to help him keep the appointment.
Episode 24 : Summit Meeting
July. 14,1958
Army Intelligence hires Chuck, P.T. and their whirlybird to carry a closely guarded scientist to a secret rocket test. By not using an Army Carrier they hope to avoid drawing attention to their very important passenger, but after an attempt to substitute a fake scientist, they are dogged every inch of the way.
Episode 23 : Two Came Back
July. 07,1958
Diane invites teenagers John and Bob to join her a biology trip into a lonely wooded spot. When only Diane and John return, Chuck and P.T. start a search for the missing youth, said to have lost his way in returning to the car.
Episode 22 : Time To Kill
June. 30,1958
A top investment counselor feels the only way he can make good for a loss, for which he feels responsible, is to have himself murdered and use the insurance to pay off.
Episode 21 : Fear
June. 16,1958
Three youths, volunteers from a juvenile detention camp, are forced to retreat to a canyon when they are surrounded by the fire they are fighting, Chuck and P.T. take them to an aid station. There they encounter a doctor of whom the youths are terrified.
Episode 20 : Dog Gone
February. 17,1958
A business tycoon asks Chuck and P.T. to cancel their fishing trip in order to search for his daughter's lost dog.
Episode 19 : If I Were King
June. 09,1958
A would be assassin shoots at a man who has come 12,000 miles for a two-hour visit. Chuck and P.T. are hired to take him to the secret rendezvous.
Episode 18 : Copters and Robbers
June. 02,1958
A runaway bride hires the boys to fly her back to he husband's side,but on reaching there they find him murdered. Chuck, P. T. and Helen, their secretary, calm the distraught girl. While they are waiting for the police they encounter a succession of "brothers" all unknown to their supposed "sister".
Episode 17 : Blind Victory
May. 26,1958
Chuck P.T. are in a aerial search for a murderer-on -the-run, when they see an auto crash and rush a beautiful blonde victim to a hospital. Unknown to them, the blonde has just left the murderer they seek. As a result of the accident, the girl is in danger of losing her sight unless a donor for a corneal transplant can be found.
Episode 16 : Blind Date
May. 19,1958
Chuck and P.T. are about to fly Julie Cavanaugh to a vacation given her by the "Daily Star" as a promotion stunt. When the photographer is told to "shoot", shots ring out from an uninvited car which speeds away. The shots were all aimed at Julie who was on a "blind date" that ended in murder.
Episode 15 : An Apple For The Teacher
May. 04,1958
Miss Churchill, Chuck's former high school teacher- apparently a very self- contained woman hires Chuck and P.T. for her first copter ride to take her to a resort hotel. After the trip Chuck realizes that the day the teacher began her vacation is the first day of school. On inquiring he learns that no one named Churchill has registered at the hotel.
Episode 14 : Infra-Red
May. 05,1958
The sheriff's office has tabbed the regular movements of three known drug peddlers but loses them in traffic at the same spot every time they try to follow them. Only two of the sheriff's men, & Chuck and P.T. are in on a plan to trace the "pushers" to their source of supply from the air.
Episode 13 : Buy Me A Miracle
April. 28,1958
A mild-mannered man charters a midnight helicopter ride to a Mexican hamlet on the towns peoples "Day of Miracles" observed only once every ten years. He wishes to repay a long-standing debt by staging a "miracle".
Episode 12 : Time Out Of Mind
April. 21,1958
An unknown man tests Chuck and P.T.'s new helicopter without their permission and claims he is trying to recapture his lost memory.
Episode 11 : Father and Son
April. 14,1958
Chuck and P.T. are hired for a day's outing in which they are hired to fly a boy - a leukemia victim - and his father to the Grand Canyon and then to an all-star football game. The poignant pilots learn that their adult passenger is the head of a crime syndicate.
Episode 10 : Seven Orchids
April. 07,1958
P.T. gets a package containing seven bruised orchids and half of a $500 bill from an unknown woman. The phone for the address has been disconnected so P.T. flies there for a look.
Episode 9 : Mister Q
March. 31,1958
From their helicopter, Chuck and P.T. spot a boy who has just been thrown from his horse. When they stop to help the rider, they see that the horse is unable to get to his feet.
Episode 8 : The Unwanted
March. 24,1958
The teenage son of a wealthy family disappears after a quarrel with his beautiful stepmother. Chuck and P.T. search until a ransom note is found and then the hunt takes a different turn when his auto is found abandoned..
Episode 7 : The Killer
March. 17,1958
A young featherweight boxer, with a hard punch, hears that his last opponent has died of injuries inflicted by him. His spirit is broken by this as his championship bout approaches.
Episode 6 : Search For An Unknown Man
March. 10,1958
Chuck and P.T. receive a letter from a prospector asking them to fly him out of a mining town. When Chick and P.T. arrive in the lonely spot, they are met by toughs who claim there's no such person as the one being sought.
Episode 5 : The Brothers
March. 03,1958
Chuck and P.T. learn that the seven-year-old boy they are searching for has gone to look for his older brother who he thinks has run away from home after a quarrel with their father. The boy is exhausted when found.
Episode 4 : The Runaway
February. 24,1958
An illegal Mexican immigrant has contracted dread pneumonia plague and is on the run with his pregnant wife, from what he believes to be deportation. The disease is so contagious that the life of anyone he contact is endangered. Chuck and P.T. are hired to fly a doctor to a mysterious rendezvous. They arrive too late.
Episode 3 : Hit And Run
February. 17,1958
Chuck and P.T. are aloft on an inspection job when they witness a hit-and-run accident. They notify the police and transport the victim to a hospital. With the copter they tow the victim's car out of a gully to where the police arrive to pick it up. However when the police arrive to take it, the car has disappeared.
Episode 2 : The Ashley Case
February. 10,1958
Donald Ashley, confined to a wheelchair, is appealing his conviction for the murder of his wife. Chuck and P.T. find a battered license plate of the car in which Ashley's wife disappeared. This means the body and the car are in one
Episode 1 : Seven Were Trapped
February. 03,1958
While radioing for a weather check, Chuck and P.T. hear of a mine cave-in. They fly to the rescue, but the operation is not as easy as they first supposed.
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