• Air date: 29 Dec '57 20 episodes
      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...
  • List of Episodes (20)
    • 1. Mystery Horse

      29 Dec '57
    • 2. Double Trouble

      29 Dec '57
    • 3. Note for a Dam

      05 Jan '58
    • 4. Bad Actor

      05 Jan '58
    • 5. Fight for Oil

      12 Jan '58
    • 6. Lost Boy

      12 Jan '58
    • 7. The Brain and the Brawn

      26 Jan '58
    • 8. The Feathered Serpent

      26 Jan '58
    • 9. The Circus Clown Mystery

      22 Feb '58
    • 10. Dead Man's Will

      22 Feb '58
    • 11. Cindy, Come Home

      11 Mar '58
    • 12. Rodeo Decathlon

      09 Mar '58
    • 13. Abracadabra

      11 Mar '58
    • 14. Triple Exposure

      09 Mar '58
    • 15. The Haunted Castle

      16 Mar '58
    • 16. Man Hunt

      16 Mar '58
      Fearing he has killed another boy, Joe Belden, recently released from reform school, flees into the desert. Sheriff Hargrove knows that the Joe's opponent survived the fight, but also knows that Joe, now heavily armed, will think that the law officers are intent on arresting him. He calls upon Sky, whom Joe trusts, to join the man-hunt.
    • 17. Danger at the Sawmill

      16 Mar '58
    • 18. Sleight of Hand

      23 Mar '58
    • 19. The Runaway

      23 Mar '58
    • 20. Stop That Train

      30 Mar '58