TV Show

Sky King

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.

TV Show Stats +8%

4 seasons

72 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

1952

Rating

TV Show

5.1/10

7 votes • HD

Season 1

19 episodes
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Operation Urgent
Episode 1

Operation Urgent

Episode 1 • Apr 05, 1952

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.

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Carrier Pigeon
Episode 2

Carrier Pigeon

Episode 2 • Apr 19, 1952

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.

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Stage Coach Robbers
Episode 3

Stage Coach Robbers

Episode 3 • May 03, 1952

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.

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Deadly Cargo
Episode 4

Deadly Cargo

Episode 4 • May 17, 1952

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

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Jim Bell's Triumph
Episode 5

Jim Bell's Triumph

Episode 5 • May 31, 1952

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.

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Designing Woman
Episode 6

Designing Woman

Episode 6 • Jun 14, 1952

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

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Season 2

20 episodes
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The Neckerchief
Episode 1

The Neckerchief

Episode 1 • Jan 02, 1956

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.

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Manhunt
Episode 2

Manhunt

Episode 2 • Jan 02, 1956

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The Plastic Ghost
Episode 3

The Plastic Ghost

Episode 3 • Jan 09, 1956

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The Rainbird
Episode 4

The Rainbird

Episode 4 • Jan 09, 1956

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The Crystal Trap
Episode 5

The Crystal Trap

Episode 5 • Jan 30, 1956

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Red Tentacles
Episode 6

Red Tentacles

Episode 6 • Jan 30, 1956

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Season 3

20 episodes
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Mystery Horse
Episode 1

Mystery Horse

Episode 1 • Dec 29, 1957

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Double Trouble
Episode 2

Double Trouble

Episode 2 • Dec 29, 1957

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Note for a Dam
Episode 3

Note for a Dam

Episode 3 • Jan 05, 1958

Sky and Penny are held captive by a maniac planning to dynamite a waterworks facility.

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Bad Actor
Episode 4

Bad Actor

Episode 4 • Jan 05, 1958

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Fight for Oil
Episode 5

Fight for Oil

Episode 5 • Jan 12, 1958

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Lost Boy
Episode 6

Lost Boy

Episode 6 • Jan 12, 1958

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Season 4

13 episodes
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The Wild Man
Episode 1

The Wild Man

Episode 1 • Dec 28, 1958

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

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Sky Robbers
Episode 2

Sky Robbers

Episode 2 • Dec 28, 1958

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.

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A Dog Named Barney
Episode 3

A Dog Named Barney

Episode 3 • Dec 28, 1958

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.

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Bullet Bait
Episode 4

Bullet Bait

Episode 4 • Dec 28, 1958

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.

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Money Has Wings
Episode 5

Money Has Wings

Episode 5 • Jan 04, 1959

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.

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Frogmen
Episode 6

Frogmen

Episode 6 • Jan 04, 1959

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