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1. Big U
First aired: 2/4/1957 Production Code: LP8000Chuck and P.T. successfully locate a missing "weekend" prospector, then are marked for death by claim jumpers who believe the prospector has made a valuable uranium strike.
2. Rampage
First aired: 2/18/1957 Production Code: LP8233Chuck and P.T attempt to capture a sick gorilla which has escaped from a circus and is terrorizing the local town.
3. Boy On The Roof
First aired: 2/11/1957 Production Code: LP8012P.T. and Chuck work out a plan to save the life of a teenager. The boy is perched on a high building threatens to jump.
4. Fire Flight
First aired: 2/25/1957 Production Code: LP8014When three climbers are caught on a mountain by a forest fire, Chuck and P.T. are called to help but have little time to find them.
5. Hot Wire
First aired: 3/18/1957 Production Code: LP8015Chuck and P.T. must brave some dangerous flying in a windstorm to deliver a respirator.
6. Mountain Flight
First aired: 3/25/1957A man hires Chuck and P.T. to fly him around for a weekend hunting trip. Only they soon discover the man's pry is human.
7. Ghost Town Flight
First aired: 3/11/1957 Production Code: LP8013Three boys on a camping trip in the mountains explore a ghost town left abandoned after minning ended in California. Two of the boys accidentally fall into an old mine shaft. The youngest goes to find help. Chuck and P.T. see the boy from their helicopter and fly him to a hospital, then go back to try and find the others.
Director: Lee Sholem
Guest star: Sandra Spence (Janet Culver), Ralph Votrian (Ricky Scott), Michael Miller (Danny Morgan), Johnny Crawford (Billy Scott), John McNamara (I) (Steve Scott), Ann Doran (Linda Scott), Robert Forrest (Dr. Emerson)
8. Hostage
First aired: 3/4/1957 Production Code: LP8003A small plane is stolen by three escaped convicts with the intent on making a getaway. But the plane has little fuel and must return to the airfield, where the convicts take a hostage.
9. Diamond Smugglers
First aired: 4/1/1957 Production Code: LP8001Whirlybird pilots Chuck and P.T. are accused of smuggling when their helicopter is spotted in Mexico the same day diamonds go missing and are allegedly moved across the U.S. border.
10. Lynch Mob
First aired: 4/8/1957 Production Code: LP8011Chuck and P.T. fly a reporter into the mountains for a story when they discover a lynch mob chasing a man who shot a Deputy Sheriff.
11. Sky Net
First aired: 4/15/1957 Production Code: LP8002A hunter is flown into the mountains intent on tracking and killing a cougar.
12. Prison Break
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A woman poses as a student pilot with the purpose of using a helicopter to orchestrate a prison break.
13. Top Of The Mountain
First aired: 4/29/1957 Production Code: LP8137A box supposedly full of much needed medicine is flown to a rich man's mountain top retreat.
14. Operation Blue Hen
First aired: 5/6/1957 Production Code: LP8004Whirlybird pilots P.T. and Chuck take on a dangerous job when hired to fly a bomb into a canyon for testing.
15. The Human Bomb
First aired: 5/13/1957 Production Code: LP8138A bank robber needs assistance and forces Chuck and P.T., at gunpoint, to help him.
16. Missing Witness
First aired: 5/20/1957 Production Code: LP8235Chuck and P.T. come to the aid of a couple who, after deciding to testify in court against a crime syndicate boss, find themselves being chased by the ring.
17. The Egg Code
First aired: 5/27/1957 Production Code: LP8236Thanks to the sharp eyes of P.T. and Chuck, the Army is now alert to a group that is spying on government installations.
18. Superstition Mountain
First aired: 6/3/1957 Production Code: LP8237Chuck and P.T. are hired to fly in supplies to a remote gold mining operation. But a psychopathic killer is convenced that an ancient Apache Indian superstition will hide his crime and bring harm to the Whirlybirds.
19. Homicide Haven
First aired: 6/10/1957 Production Code: LP8618As Chuck and P.T. fly across the desert, they discover a house that is well hidden, even from the air. When they find that a man is living there, his story of being a reclusive writer clashes with Chuck's feeling that he's seen his face somewhere.
20. Riptide
First aired: 6/17/1957 Production Code: LP8617Chuck and P.T. try to help a friend find his courage again, after the pilot has grounded himself following a bad crash.
21. The Black Pearl
First aired: 6/24/1957 Production Code: LP8619Chuck and P.T. get hired to take a diver out to an undiscovered oyster bed he has found. They are promised a portion of the pearls if they can get to the site ahead of the diver's former partner.
22. Illegal Entry
First aired: 7/1/1957 Production Code: LP8643Chuck and P.T. respond to a distress signal from a yacht but suspect something else is going on when the passenger they fly to a hospital is covered from head to toe in concealing bandages.
23. Lady Luck
First aired: 7/8/1957 Production Code: LP9346P.T. and Chuck are hired to ferry a man to Las Vegas. But the man decides to leave suddenly, with a group of cheated gamblers close behind.
24. Hide And Seek
First aired: 7/15/1957 Production Code: LP8820A nine year old boy, who has hidden in a trunk, loses consciousness and is trapped as the car is prepared to be crushed for scrap.
25. Hobson's Choice
First aired: 7/23/1957 Production Code: LP8821A reclusive man rescues a famous actress on a movie location while P.T. captures the act on film. But after the photograph appears in a newspaper, the man is outraged by the violation of his right to secrecy and attempts to shoot P.T.
26. Crisis
First aired: 7/29/1957 Production Code: LP9347P.T. and Chuck fly a woman to a relative's house way up in the mountains, only to be told to set down far from where the sister lives. They then learn that their fare has gone missing and must now find her.
27. Journey To The Past
First aired: 8/5/1957 Production Code: LP8870A wealthy man hires Chuck and P.T. to transport him to the site of some pre-Aztec ruins as found on a map received from a stranger.
Nancy Hale joins the cast as Helen Carter, replacing Sandra Spence as The Whirlybirds' secretary. She'll remain throughout the run of the show.
Director: Harve Foster
Guest star: Joseph Perry (Vince), Bartlett Robinson (Alexander Ford), Dorothy Green (Nora Jameson), Vinton Hayworth (Carter Jameson)
28. Aerial Circus
First aired: 8/12/1957 Production Code: LP8820A brother and sister circus aerial team learn how to fly a helicopter as part of their act. But they soon raise the suspicions of P.T. and Chuck when they return a chopper with damaged pontoons just after an armored car is robbed.
29. Cycle Of Terror
First aired: 8/19/1957 Production Code: LP9340Chuck and P.T. try to stop a sniper on a motorcycle from terrorizing a town.
Director: Lee Sholem
Guest star: John Duncan (Eddie James), Darryl Hickman (Duke Sender), Race Gentry (Bill Stone)
30. Fury Canyon
First aired: 10/7/1957 Production Code: LP9349A newspaper reporter enlists the help of P.T. and Chuck to search for a family that has mysteriously disappeared from their trailer in the desert.
Director: Lee Sholem
Guest star: Rusty Lane (Sheriff Bates), William Schallert (Fred Jaffy), Melody Gace (Janie Tyler), Robert Cranferd (Johnny Tyler), Mary Carver (Mary Taylor), William Flaherty (Bruce Tyler), Alex Campbell (Mr.Hurly)
31. The Rustlers
First aired: 10/14/1957 Production Code: LP9341Cattle rustlers use a unique method of stealing cows from ranchers.
32. I'll Get Even
First aired: 10/21/1957 Production Code: LP9348Chuck and P.T. help a special agent search a chemical plant for a bomb, after a disgruntled employee makes an anonymous phone call with the threat.
33. Incident In Del Rio
First aired: 10/28/1957 Production Code: LP9539A ranch owner hires Chuck and P.T. to help identify something that flies over his ranch at night, making high pitched sounds and scaring his workers.
34. Sky Hook
First aired: 11/5/1957 Production Code: LP9536A storm has sent a small boat into the rocks near a lighthouse. The injured men have no means of rescue except for Chuck and P.T. and their helicopter.
35. The Secret Cove
First aired: 11/11/1957 Production Code: LP9537The wife of a rich sportsman, who has disappeared in his yacht, hires Chuck and P.T. to find the boat, and hopefully him.
36. Take A Little, Leave A Little
First aired: 2/10/1958 Production Code: LP11084The delivery of payroll funds to a construction site are delayed by a storm so Chuck and P.T. must store the money in the office safe until it's discoverd that some of it has gone missing.
37. Airborne Gold
First aired: 1/13/1958 Production Code: LP13583Chuck and P.T. get hired to help a melon farmer oversee his land, which is spread over both sides of the U.S./Mexican border. But little do they know is that the farmer has been hiding gold in their chopper and smuggling it to the other side of the border.
38. Iron Mountain
First aired: 1/20/1958 Production Code: LP13579P.T. and Chuck must fly a federal agent into a remote area to deal with an old recluse who refuses to sell his mountainous land for mining.
39. Panic At Green Ridge
First aired: 1/27/1958 Production Code: LP9538When a woman, who is vacationing at a mountain cabin with her family, comes down with a case of appendicitis, her husband tries to get help, only to crash the car on his way down the mountain.
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