Specifically a 1981 Cessna 402C, N121PP.
Maybe a smaller airline too. Sandpiper Air had two pilots plus a former flight attendant working the ticket counter. MJN air had 2 pilots and 2 flight attendants.
Yeah, baby-- I loved that show.
I loved it when Lowell was asked to give the commencement speech when he graduated from MIT. That would be “Murray’s Institute of Tools,” a three-week mechanic’s training program.
So many great moments.
Car-B-Cue.
That is all.
Oh, my fav ep is where they thought Faye was a serial killer.
Helen: Lowell what happened to the engine?
Lowell: The technical term is catastrophic engine failure.
Helen: What causes that?
Lowell: Catastrophes
Lewis Blanchard: Ya know, I have a video camera that shoots in the dark.
Helen: Yeah, I got a gun that does the same thing.
Lewis and his Uncle Carlton were just two of the fantastic characters from the show. And in the spirit of the thread, an episode of Monk where Tony Shalhoub played a former detective and police consultant featured Tim Daly and Monk on an airplane flight where references were made back to Wings.
From the Puppet Master Episode- Tim Daly wiggles his fingers: “Isn’t that how deaf people say ‘sparkling water’?”
How about guest star Tyne Daly turning Bri-Bri into her Boy Toy?
Bringing it back to the police - I now know not to eat the last jelly donut in front of the stressed air-traffic controlman (whose wife you are boning on the side.) It will take the cops the entire episode to respond to the hostage situation.
BTW - Wings is airing on Antenna TV.
And Cabin Pressure isn’t airing on BBC4 any more.
But it’s available on iTunes (along with John Finnemore’s sketch show, Souvenir Programme)… and for free on Archive.com). Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allem playing off each other… perfect.
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Ok, back to cops again. When I was a little kid, one of us pulled a squirt gun (day-glo luger, of course) on our local Barney Fife. Who whirled around, screaming, with his gun aimed straight at the kid’s face.
What I learned from cop shows is that the kid was awfully lucky. On TV, he’d’ve been shot, and his older brother would’ve gone crazy and plotted a decade’s-worth of revenge.
I loved that show. Was totally in love with Crystal Bernard.
edit: sorry, please go back to cops.
I grew up playing Army with a replica Tommy gun and a very authentic .45 automatic as a side arm. I shudder when I think of what might happen if a kid did that today.
When I was 10 or 11, the cops actually stopped me on the street and wanted to see my toy .45. I was big for my age and dressed in full Army surplus uniform. I suppose they could even have arrested me for impersonating a serviceman, but I know now my insignia were all wrong
99% of the time nothing. But that 1% is not worth the risk.
Yeah, we had some pretty realistic toy guns.
Probably more than 1% if you go out on a “night patrol,” which I did often.
All toy guns now come with a red tip on the barrel. Older toys have led to some unfortunate incidents.
Is a trigger-happy cop going to look carefully for that red tip at night?
Realistic replica guns are just asking for trouble.
There are a lot less of them now. When I was a kid the imitation flintlocks we used to save the Alamo were unlikely to be mistaken for a real gun, it was unlikely anyone seeing a child holding a toy gun would think it was real, but times have changed for the worse. Much worse.
By the bye, the reason I thought of the cop who drew on the little kid (and let his cop car roll into the river, and a lot of other dumb stuff)…
…was that I went back to the hometown cemetery for Memorial Day, and saw his gravestone.
Okay, folks, back to TV cops shows please.
If you are rich, or otherwise an important (even if it’s only in your own mind) person, when the police question you while investigating a crime it’s perfectly okay to tell them that you don’t have the time to talk to them now, or that they need to make an appointment with their secretary.
A TV cop would stop at the last moment before shooting a child with a toy gun, then considering that they almost killed a child begin to question their own ability to do the job. A non-lethal incident will soon occur where the cop freezes and doesn’t use his gun, possibly allowing a violent criminal to flee. But later on in the show he’ll again find his nerve to shoot people when another cop, friend, family member, or bus full of orphans is endangered, possibly by the violent criminal who escaped before.