SKY KING

ABC and CBS
30 Minute Episodes
Broadcast: April 1952-March 1959


Regular Cast:
Kirby Grant- Schuyler (Sky) J. King
Gloria Winters- Penny King (niece of Sky King)
Ron Hagerthy- Clipper King (nephew of Sky King)
Ewing Mitchell- Mitch Hargrove (Sheriff)
Norman Ollestad- Bob Carey (son of Mayor of Grover, AZ)
Chubby Johnson- Jim Bell (ranch foreman)



SEASON 1




DATE EPISODE SCRIPT BRIEF
April 5, 1952 Operation Urgent Sky intercepts an SOS from an Airforce pilot who is lost in a storm and almost out of fuel
April 19, 1952 Carrier Pigeon Penny finds an injured carrier pigeon carrying a rare ruby. Sky and the Mexican police investigate
May 3, 1952 Stagecoach Robbers Penny is taken captive by a crooked express agent who plans to steal gold from his company by faking a holdup
May 17, 1952 Deadly Cargo Sky King discovers the wreckage of an aircraft. The investigation leads to a gang of gold smugglers and their cargo
May 31, 1952 Jim Bell's Triumph Sky sets out to expose a corrupt county clerk and winds up having to talk his terrified foreman into landing the Songbird
June 14, 1952 Designing Women On returning from an aerial survey Sky, Penny, & Clipper are flagged down by a woman who claims to be the daughter of a rancher who has died mysteriously
June 28, 1952 One For The Money After returning from a trip, Penny picks up the wrong suitcase by mistake. When she opens it, she finds it full of money-counterfit money
July 12, 1952 Danger Point An elderly rancher disinherits his nephew in favor of his young son. When the rancher is murdered, the son is blamed
July 26, 1952 Desperate Character Sky sets out to find out the identity of a mysterious young hitchhiker who has escaped from a reformatory after being involved in a bank robbery
August 9, 1952 The Man Who Forgot Shortly after the murder of a crook, a young rancher disappears. Sky believes the rancher is innocent of the crime and is suffering from amnesia
August 23, 1952 The Threatening Bomb A group of ranchers appeal to Sky to help when eastern gangsters move into the area and offer protection
September 6, 1952 Speak No Evil A sick man confesses to Sky that he is a former criminal who escaped from prison years ago and has since been going straight
September 20, 1952 Two-Gun Penny Penny captures foreign agents who are holding a refugee-professor prisoner
October 4, 1952 Formula For Fear While driving into town, Penny sees a man trying to escape from a doctor. She is told that he is a mental patient. She tells Sky and become involved with foreign spies trying to secure a poison gas formula
October 18, 1952 The Giant Eagle Three robberies are carried out in one month. The bandits seem to disappear from the scene into thin air
November 8, 1952 Blackmail The local banker, a highly respected citizen of the town, is visited by two blackmailers who can link him to an old crime
November 22, 1952 Wings Of Justice Sky is suspicious of an eastern couple who is visiting a local ranch that has Uranium deposits on it
December 6, 1952 Destruction From The Sky Military intelligence enlist Sky's help to look for the saboteur who has blown up a secret project
December, 20, 1952 The Porcelain Lion The disappearance and reappearance of a valuable porcelain lion and a strange forced landing causes Sky to investigate


..continue to SEASON 2