# Help me ID this 80s TV show about a wingwalker **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-80s-tv-show-about-a-wingwalker/699032 "2014-09-20T18:58:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-80s-tv-show-about-a-wingwalker/699032/1 "2014-09-20T18:58:48Z")
My coworker and I were talking on Friday about old TV shows and I was asking him about a show that I’d seen the intro for but couldn’t remember. The opening intro seemed to involve some guy wing walking on a plane, I believe he was wearing a brown leather jacket and a red scarf, I think. My coworker didn’t know the name of the show (He thought it might have been Fall Guy but I watched the credits on youtube and that doesn’t seem to be it). Anyone have any idea? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-80s-tv-show-about-a-wingwalker/699032/2 "2014-09-20T19:13:51Z")
He’s in a plane, not wing-walking, and it’s a red shirt, not scarf, under a brown leather jacket, but [Murdock from the A-Team](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_MVonyVSQoM#t=55)? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-80s-tv-show-about-a-wingwalker/699032/3 "2014-09-20T20:44:31Z")
My first thought was Tales of the Gold Monkey, which involved a hero who owned a seaplane, but a quick check showed there was no wingwalking in the opening credits. ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-80s-tv-show-about-a-wingwalker/699032/4 "2014-09-21T12:46:14Z")
also no wing walking, but brown leather jacket and old timey planes, this is what sprang to my mind…Voyagers [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/h2rz7bMeDTA/hqdefault.jpg "VOYAGERS! 1980's t.v. show opening credits") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2rz7bMeDTA) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-80s-tv-show-about-a-wingwalker/699032/5 "2014-09-21T13:49:55Z")
[Macgyver](http://static.tvgcdn.net/MediaBin/Content/090316/News/Todays_News_Our_Take/1_mon/090316macgyver1.jpg) sprung to my mind, but I don’t know if any of the title sequences had wing-walking in it. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-80s-tv-show-about-a-wingwalker/699032/6 "2014-09-21T15:36:50Z")
[quote=“carlotta, post:4, topic:699032”] also no wing walking, but brown leather jacket and old timey planes, this is what sprang to my mind…Voyagers [/QUOTE] Voyagers is what I think of when I think of old-timey planes, too. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-80s-tv-show-about-a-wingwalker/699032/7 "2014-09-21T18:00:27Z")
Looks like there’s a site, [ilovetvintros.com](http://ilovetvintros.com/), that has clips of the intros to a ton of shows. I would have thought _Fall Guy_, also. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-80s-tv-show-about-a-wingwalker/699032/8 "2014-09-22T03:34:24Z")
Could it have been the goofy 1980 show _ **Salvage 1** _ with Andy Griffith? About a junk yard owner who builds a rocket, flies to the Moon, and brings back (i.e. salvages) the old Apollo hardware. Ridiculous show, but I enjoyed it’s short run as a kid. [The opening credits feature an open cockpit biplane…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mR-gz9EFO8)