Givin away UR age if ya do

If they could have only seen to 2022

Wabi will know

LOL

That reminds me

We have ice cream in the parlor. I shall retire to that end of the house

Yes. Loved the Cessna 310

I sure do!

With his niece Penney, and Skyler. In the early series, he flew a Beechcraft D-18, I believe, and later a Cessna 310. Penney had a Piper Cub.

It was just uncanny how every problem could be solved with an airplane. Later, Lloyd Bridges taught us that problems were solved underwater in Sea Hunt.

I knew U would

every Saturday morning huh ?

1963-64 ??????

Yup.

I'm so old that when I was a kid, the Dead Sea was only feeling bad.

Colonel Anus Mcgonockal?

I watched ONE episiode......

IIRC, the plane had an engine out, and they searched, and searched for two trees just the right distance apart to crash between, so as to take the wings and fuel tanks off, and not die in a fire...............

I don't remember how old I was but thought that was BS...............

The good days of Television.

Those years have flown by.

I remember, a while back!

Good one!

Some days are like that.

Oh yea. Followed shortly after by Roy and Dale.

There were certain things that we, as kids in the 50s, were required by law to watch. "Sky King" was one that I didn't watch. Do you suppose that the statute of limitations has run out on that?

The "Songbird" was the name of his plane

I thought sky king was the baggage handler that jacked a plane from seatac several years back and got chased around by the military until he decided to crash it and kill himself up the duwamish

Used watch Sky King and Sgt. Preston of the Yukon on Saturday afternoon...after the chores were done

Same

Original plane was a Cessna AT-17 it was replaced by the 310. AT-17 had 7 cyl Jacobs radials.

Oh hell yeah!!!! 'Out of the blue of the western sky comes sky king!

Beat me to it 😊

Vaguely

Come on man..............

I do !!

One of my favorites as a kid!

I watched several episodes but hey don't seem to be stuck in my memory like others.

So... I'm kinda vague on it as well.

Yes, every Saturday morning.

And also Johny Quest.





My two favorites.

As a helicopter driver, I have to throw in the other aviation program "Whirlybirds". Had to watch that along with Sky King. IIRC, Kirby Grant was killed in a car crash in Florida when he was going from his house to watch a shuttle launch, as one of the crew was a friend of his. He is buried in Missoula MT, as he was born in MT.

The thing about Sky King was there was always a place to land when they wanted to. The funny thing is, it always looked like the same strip.

Yes. Few details but Penny and the Songbird are in the memory banks.

Penney was immortalized by Jimmy Buffet in "Pencil Thin Mustache." He wrote her fan letters.
It's a wonderful world if you can separate the wheat from the chaff. It's getting harder all the time.

"Well, King, this case is closed."

He always took the 30-30 Winchester instead of the sensible bolt action. Real man!

Yes I do.

Loved thst show! Like Rocky said, every problem could be solved with an airplane.

And they could see EVERYTHING.

TV show?

No cable where I grew...still none there.


Before the later 80s if it wasn't on the Altoona CBS station or
Johnstown NBC, we didnt see it.

If it was on them, it wasn't too fuzzy to make out.

Scheese. Really? You were that astute at such an early age? What did you watch as a kid, if you did, and enjoy?
Whirlybirds was neat, or did you not like that one also? As mentioned, Seahunt? Oh, maybe Bozo the clown.

Nalp….

Before my time…..

The rerun channels must not show it.

Its like Lassie and Gunsmoke but with an airplane

I remember it just enough to recall I watched it religiously as a tyke.......early to mid 60s... .pretty sure we would watch Amos n andy reruns about that same time.

Anyone listen to Ranger Bill on the radio?

With Gray Wolf?

RANGER BILL ""Ranger Bill, Warrior of the Woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, fighting the many enemies of nature. This is the job of the guardian of the forest, Ranger Bill. Pouring rain, freezing cold, blistering heat, snows, floods, bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lions. Yes, all this in exchange for the ...Recognition of a job well done.

Skippy (the bush kangaroo, dumbest show ever, lassie as a kangaroo) is as far back as I go, but that was in England.

All i watch is “have gun, will travel”.

Something about a gun slinger quoting Shakespeare.

And hollering hey boy!

Don't forget Whirlybirds for those helicopter problems.

Are you that kid that had the sign on his back that said "kick me" ?

kwg

Sky King and Whirleybirds? What else could a kid need for entertainment?

Well then there was Ripcord, and if you wanted things settled by a Dolphin there was Flipper, or a Bear- Gentle Ben.

JAy Jay the Jetplane too

I think it was a Cessna UC-78 that first year. Unless I'm misremembering it.

The reason I say that is that is as a kid I sent a letter to the people making Sky King and asked and that is, IIRC, what they told me.

UC-78 is a later designation of the AT-17 that Borchardt mentioned.

WTH? He named his plane after Senator John McCain?

I remember when Sky King was a radio show.
Paul B.

257 Roberts, as you liked Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, This might bring back some fond "watching" memories.





L.W.

And sit on the davenport in the breezeway?

Was Roy and Dale for me.. and of course Nelly Belle! Then came Gabby Hayes..

Yep, I remember it well but I'm an old fugger!

Back when heterosexual White people were still cool....

Yes sir..

thanks

as Jimmy Buffett said "I remember bein' buck-toothed and skinny
Writin' fan letters to Sky's niece Penny"

I was in love with Penny.

How about " Bobby Benson & the B - Bee"

or "The second Missus Burton: ?

Roy Rogers always had me confused.

It was The West, since everybody rode horses and carried six guns and there were rustlers and bank robbers and stuff, but then here was Pat Brady riding around in a jeep. Even at my early age I knew they didn't have jeeps in The Old West. What the heck?!




It wasn't until I was older that I realized that the show was set in modern times (for the times) so the jeep was accurate but everything else about the show was a romanticized image of the modern west.

I had a NellyBelle pedal car. It probably just got passed on to some younger kid. Wonder what it would be worth today.

One of the Saturday morning shows that entertained the kids and let the parents sleep in. The acting wasn't always great and the plot was usually pretty thin but it was good enough for kids. Part of the reason for the good memories surrounding these shows, for me, is that we only got to watch them when we were visiting our grandparents in Idaho. At the time, we lived in northern British Columbia and there was no television there. So it was that we had the benefit of seeing grandparents we loved; with the novelty of Saturday morning TV thrown in for good measure! GD

What show had (Plunk you magic twanger frogy ) on it.

Howdy Doody)

Nope. Froggy was a character on Andy's Gang, with Andy Devine.

Hiya Kids, Hiya Hiya!

I traded her in for Ginger & Mary Ann though!

That was just a bit later in my life.
By then, I had a little better idea what to do with girls.

Could not see all that on the radio. Every afternoon during the week 5:30.