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Whirlybirds

Season 2 · 39 episodes · Feb 3, 1958

  1. Episode 1

    Seven Were Trapped

    Feb 3, 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.

  2. Episode 2

    The Ashley Case

    Feb 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

  3. Episode 3

    Hit And Run

    Feb 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.

  4. Episode 4

    The Runaway

    Feb 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.

  5. Episode 5

    The Brothers

    Mar 3, 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.

  6. Episode 6

    Search For An Unknown Man

    Mar 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.

  7. Episode 7

    The Killer

    Mar 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.

  8. Episode 8

    The Unwanted

    Mar 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..

  9. Episode 9

    Mister Q

    Mar 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.

  10. Episode 10

    Seven Orchids

    Apr 7, 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.

  11. Episode 11

    Father and Son

    Apr 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.

  12. Episode 12

    Time Out Of Mind

    Apr 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.

  13. Episode 13

    Buy Me A Miracle

    Apr 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".

  14. Episode 14

    Infra-Red

    May 5, 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.

  15. Episode 15

    An Apple For The Teacher

    May 4, 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. Episode 18

    Copters and Robbers

    Jun 2, 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".

  19. Episode 19

    If I Were King

    Jun 9, 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.

  20. Episode 20

    Dog Gone

    Feb 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.

  21. Episode 21

    Fear

    Jun 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.

  22. Episode 22

    Time To Kill

    Jun 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.

  23. Episode 23

    Two Came Back

    Jul 7, 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.

  24. Episode 24

    Summit Meeting

    Jul 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.

  25. Episode 25

    Robert Dixon, M.D.

    Oct 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.

  26. Episode 26

    Uncle Pete

    Oct 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.

  27. Episode 27

    Hideout

    Nov 3, 1958

    Chuck and P.T. innocently carry a young man to the hideout of a murderer.

  28. Episode 28

    Baby Face

    Nov 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.

  29. Episode 29

    Glamor Girl

    Nov 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.

  30. Episode 30

    Address Unknown

    Nov 24, 1958

    Chuck and P.T. attempt to reunite a Korean hero and his sweetheart.

  31. Episode 31

    The Story of Sister Bridget

    Dec 1, 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.

  32. Episode 32

    Midnight Show

    Dec 8, 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.

  33. Episode 33

    27 Pieces of Gold

    Dec 15, 1958

    Chuck and P.T. meet danger when they answer a young wife’s request that they find her treasure seeking husband.

  34. Episode 34

    Dead On Arrival

    Dec 22, 1958

    Chuck and P.T. fly a sleepy passenger to his destination but find him dead when they arrive.

  35. Episode 35

    An Act of Fate

    Dec 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.

  36. Episode 36

    Always A Gentleman

    Jan 5, 1959

    Pursuing an escaped prisoner, Chuck and P.T. discover they have flown into an Army firing range.

  37. Episode 37

    Road Block

    Jan 12, 1959

    Chuck and P.T. are delivering a payroll when they are asked to aid police in pursuing a robber.

  38. Episode 38

    C.O.D.

    Jan 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.

  39. Episode 39

    Rest In Peace

    Jan 26, 1959

    Invited to attend a secret business meeting, Chuck and P.T. witness a murder.