Call to Glory Season 1

August. 13,1984

Rating：

7.9

Genre：

Drama Action & Adventure

Trailer Synopsis

Call to Glory is an American television series that aired 23 episodes during the 1984-1985 TV season on the ABC-TV network. The show focused on USAF pilot Colonel Raynor Sarnac and his family, living near Edwards Air Force Base during the early 1960s. Heavily promoted during ABC's broadcast of the 1984 Summer Olympics, the pilot episode aired August 13, 1984. The first episode related to the U-2 flights over Cuba during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. During its production run, the show came to focus more on the loneliness experienced by wife Vanessa Sarnac while stationed on base and what she and the family would do to spend time in productive pursuits while enduring the Antelope Valley's then more noticeable isolation from civilization. The series was an early appearance of in the career of actor Elisabeth Shue, who starred as the Sarnacs' daughter.

Episode 24 : The End, the Beginning

January. 01,0001

This episode had the return of Raynor home after the Viet Nam war. Every one had grown up Jackie had a baby. Wesley became a draft dodger and fled to Canada and at the end of the episode he came home to see his father. It was clear that this series was going into a different direction if only ABC would have stuck with it for another season.

Episode 23 : Fathers and Daughters

January. 01,0001

This episode mainly concentrates on the relationship between Raynor and Jackie. Jackie is growing into womanhood and Raynor is comming to grips with it.

Episode 22 : The JFK Years (2)

June. 30,1985

Raymor meets with President Kennedy. The family goes with him.

Episode 21 : The JFK Years (1)

June. 30,1985

Raynor has to fly this top secret mission and go to Washington DC

Episode 20 : Just in Time

February. 12,1985

Episode 19 : Fathers and Sons

January. 29,1985

Episode 18 : Images

January. 22,1985

Episode 17 : Moonchild

January. 15,1985

The news that a child is on the way puts a wedge in the Sarnacs' marriage as they both try to cope with feelings of doubt and guilt.

Episode 16 : Give Unto Caesar

December. 17,1984

Stiff penalties await a pilot who disobeys orders and brings a Russian defector back to America.

Episode 15 : A Wind of Change

December. 03,1984

A flight over Vietnam turns into a journey of terror when Raynor is shot down and captured by the North Vietnamese.

Episode 14 : Medals All of Brass

November. 26,1984

Raynor is forced to face the harsh truth that an old friend is really a spy for the KGB.

Episode 13 : The Wake

November. 19,1984

Tension mounts in the Sarnac household as Raynor prepares for a mission that has already claimed the life of one of his best test pilots.

Episode 12 : Realities

November. 12,1984

Raynor and Vanessa are so involved in their friends' marital problems, they don't notice Carl is facing a crisis of his own.

Episode 11 : Cover Story

October. 29,1984

While testing a new flight system, Sarnec is hounded by an investigative reporter probing for revelations about defense spending.

Episode 10 : A Moment in the Sun

October. 22,1984

Raynor is torn between duty and friendship when an Air Force buddy suddenly develops a crippling fear of flying.

Episode 9 : A Wind from the East

October. 08,1984

Forced to bail out of a crippled plane, Raynor and a Japanese Air Force officer struggle to survive in a dangerous wilderness.

Episode 8 : Call It Courage

October. 01,1984

Raynor's involvement in a bitter political controversy could cost him a valued friendship...and ruin his military career.

Episode 7 : Go / No Go

September. 24,1984

On a mission into the heart of Saigon, Raynor bears personal witness to the horrifying brutality of the government.

Episode 6 : Paper Tiger

September. 17,1984

A dangerous top-secret mission takes Raynor over Red China to see if the Chinese have developed an Atomic Bomb.

Episode 5 : A Nation Divided

September. 03,1984

The violence spawned by the Civil Rights Movement hits home when Wesley and a black friend are beaten by teenage racists.

Episode 4 : Blackbird

August. 27,1984

Raynor faces one of his toughest missions as he tries to prevent a bitter ex-pilot from exposing the details of a top secret mission.

Episode 3 : The Move

August. 20,1984

The entire Sarnac family is thrown into turmoil when Raynor receives a lucrative job offer in the private sector.

Episode 2 : pilot (2)

August. 13,1984

Craig T. Nelson stars in this critically acclaimed, gripping two hour premiere presentation that launched the exciting weekly CALL TO GLORY, television series. The year was 1962. John F. Kennedy was president, Nikita Krushchev ruled Russia, and the world held its breath as the Cuban missle crisis pushed the two superpowers to the brink of war. Behind the scenes, Air Force pilots flew dangerous spy missions over Cuba to monitor the volatile situation. Many men answered the CALL TO GLORY and many of them never made it back. This is the story of those brave pilots and their families.

Episode 1 : pilot (1)

August. 13,1984

Col. Raynor Sarnac is a pilot with the right stuffâ€”he's flown missions in two wars and has risen to command a reconnaissance wing at Laughlin AFB, Texas, where he pilots his fliers and his family through the turbulent Cold War of the early 1960s. In October 1962 Sarnac's wing is ordered to fly continuous U-2 missions over Cubaâ€”to obtain conclusive evidence that the Russians are installing offensive missiles. Meanwhile, Sarnac's wife Vanessa, who lives in constant dread of 'the knock at the door,' is baffled by her youngest son who won't speak to anyone but his sister; and has difficulty coping with a headstrong 16-year-old daughter who's taking flying lessons from her grandfather against her mother's orders.