Blue Thunder: A Clear and Present Danger

Episode score 9.3 Superb

A Clear and Present Danger

  • 2.
  • Season: 1
  • Episode: 2
  • First Aired: 1/13/1984
  • Prod Code: 102

EPISODE OVERVIEW

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A paramilitary group are the prime suspects for a series of bank robberies. Read full recap »

Writers:
James PatrickDon SafranMike Robe
Director:
Charles Picerni
Stars:
Dick Butkus (Richard ''Ski'' Butowski)
Ann Cooper (J.J. Douglas)
Dana Carvey (Clinton C. ''JAFO'' Wonderlove)
Sandy McPeak (Captain Edward Braddock)
James Farentino (Lieutenant Frank Chaney)
Bubba Smith (Lyman ''Bubba'' Kelsey)
Guest Star:
Gracie Harrison (Sarah O'Connell)
Michael Alldredge (Hal Winters)
Joseph Whipp (Gil Franzen)
David J. Bowman (Dignitary)
Fred Scheiwiller (Barlander)
Edwin Avedissian (Poeta Kalim)
Geoffrey Lewis (Sheriff Kyle C. Tenney)
  • When Blue Thunder lands to investigate the thermograph discovery of a plane inside a barn, the 30mm, 6-barrel Electric Cannon prop mounted on the front wobbles for a slight moment. edit »
  • A very brief, rather secondless shot taken from behind the police car being shot up by the World War Two fighter plane shows a black cable linked between the police car and possibly a behind-the-camera truck. edit »
  • When Chaney hides Blue Thunder behind a hill, a shot of BT flying fast from behind a hill follows, but the next shot shows the chopper just simply hovering slowly from behind the same hill. edit »
  • When Chaney says while hovering over the Queen Mary "Hit it with the zoom, scan everyplace a person can hide", a few shots of a hand turning on certain systems follow, but when the next shot of Chaney and Wonderlove in the cockpit appears, the camera backs off a little and you can see just briefly Dana Carvey (Wonderlove) looking straight at the camera, as if that take was about to finish. edit »
  • This episode was aired on the UK S&A channel Bravo on Friday, 17th May 2002. edit »
  • Braddock: Madness, mayhem, anarchy, that's all what the mounts do! edit »
  • Chaney: Tank ya, tank ya, and a one, and a two and the.... edit »
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