8.3/1081 votesLoading...#1 - Deadliest Enemy of All: Part 2
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1977
Pappy receives an entirely new kind of wound when a nurse that he's fallen for reveals that she's married.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/1092 votesLoading...#2 - W*A*S*P*S
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/1/1977
The battle of the sexes lands on the frontline when a Woman's Airforce Pilots squad arrives at the base.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/1079 votesLoading...#3 - Last One for Hutch
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/8/1977
During a Japanese attack, one of the men is killed. Because of the Japanese forces, the Black Sheep and hospital staff are relocated to another island and all of them are re-asigned, but Boyington has a plan to fix everything.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/1096 votesLoading...#4 - High Jinx
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1976
The Japanese have a new special modified armored Zero with the best Japanese pilots in the air. If Pappy or any of his men come up against them they are to disengage and get home. This doesn't sit well with Pappy or the rest of the squadron. Pappy pulls strings and has newly 'returned to service' Ace pilot Doug Rafferty assigned to his squadron. His father is an Admiral...but Jim remembers him from previous missions and believes him to be a jinx. Pappy won't have this kind of superstitious talk going around and tells Jim to keep his mouth shut.
Director: John Peyser
Writer: Ken Pettus
8.2/1073 votesLoading...#5 - Operation Stand-Down
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/11/1978
Squadron 214 has to re-qualify for combat duty. Conflict erupts when they discover they will be tested on what the book in Washington says and not direct combat experience against the Japanese.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10100 votesLoading...#6 - Presumed Dead
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1976
Presumed dead, flying ace Charles Dobson is found afloat on a raft at sea, after being released by the Japanese. The Meatheads try to unlock the secret to why the Japanese have set up shop with anti-aircraft batteries overnight on an island seemingly with no importance. Dobson's strange behavior brings about suspicion in Boyington.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1087 votesLoading...#7 - The War Biz Warrior
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1977
A movie hero discovers war is different than the way it is portrayed on film when he is sent on a combat mission in order to improve morale.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1079 votesLoading...#8 - The Deadliest Enemy of All: Part 1
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1977
When French gets flamed in a hailstorm of flak, Pappy guides the pilot to safety but is injured in the process.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1083 votesLoading...#9 - Divine Wind
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 12/14/1977
A padre fresh from Guadalcanal arrives to visit the Black Sheep squadron. Rather than man of courage and faith, they see a man in the middle of a crisis of faith. Meanwhile local Japanese bombers seem to be taking a lot interest in activity around the islands.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1077 votesLoading...#10 - Fighting Angels
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/1/1978
The base for the squadron comes under attack from Japanese land forces. The situation becomes more desperate with need to evacuate the nursing staff. With all retreat cut of the men and women decide to make their stand.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1078 votesLoading...#11 - The Iceman
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/8/1978
A friend of Boyington's, who's the number 1 ace, is shot down by a Japanese pilot, known as the Iceman, who only goes after the top pilots. Boyington is now the number one ace pilot and he is told that he has to go back to the States to go on a bond drive. And the one who's going to replace him is not exactly what the squad is use to.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1067 votesLoading...#12 - Sheep in the Limelight
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/30/1978
The squadron save a transport plane under attack from the Japanese only to find later the wife of the president of the United States was on board. The subsequent publicity becomes overwhelming.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10111 votesLoading...#13 - Best Three Out of Five
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1976
While in temporary command, Lard uses his powers to cut the supply lines to the Black Sheep, in order to have their unit shut down for no combat activity, but Boyington finds a way around that and all the Black Sheep are on leave. Things go awry when Boyington and crew return and finds the man Boyington stole the Corsairs from, now in charge of the 214.
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: N/A
7.9/10104 votesLoading...#14 - The Meatball Circus
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1976
The navy whisks Boyington and other squadron leaders away and tells them to pick five men for a top secret mission where five men from each will have fly until out of gas and ditch in the ocean, hoping to be picked up. Angered, Boyington comes up with an alternate plan and enlists the help of his flying meatball circus. But Boyington isn't sure what is more dangerous, flying a mission over multiple Japanese carriers, or his men butting heads with professionally dressed, by-the-book Navy men.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1076 votesLoading...#15 - The 200 Pound Gorilla
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 12/21/1977
Sgt Micklin receives a promotion but he seems very resistant to the idea. Pappy needs him to accept the new position so the chronic issues with ammunition for the Black Sheep squadron can be resolved.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1074 votesLoading...#16 - Ten'll Get You Five
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1/18/1978
The island is visited by a number of politicians on a fact finding mission. The pilot flying them is a serious black market operator. And soon horse trading among the men gets out of hand.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1089 votesLoading...#17 - Anyone for Suicide?
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1976
Boyington, just recovered from malaria, gets no volunteers for a dangerous mission after Doc Lindsay tells the Black Sheep to ground Pappy or he'll send him stateside. Pappy decides to fly the mission anyway, with four strangers. After bad weather keeps the replacements from flying in, the mission is scrubbed. To get back into Pappy's good graces, the Black Sheep decide to fly with Pappy, but the mission doesn't go as planned.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1064 votesLoading...#18 - The Show Must Go On... Sometimes
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/23/1978
The Japanese are bombing LaCava and they damage the runway. Boyington then asks Lard if he can get some SesBees to repair the runway. Lard tells him if he can find one, he'll authorize it. He does. When he goes to see the man in charge, he says he has too much to do. But when Boyington tells him that a USO show will be visiting the island, he agrees. It seems that while he was at Lard's office, he heard of a USO show coming so he has Casey find out if they can come to the island. But when he calls he is told they are not coming.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1081 votesLoading...#19 - Love and War
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1976
Nothing is fair in love or war when Bragg and Casey both fall for the same pretty nurse.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1084 votesLoading...#20 - Five the Hard Way
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1977
When French's father pressures his son to become an ace pilot by downing a fifth plane, Pappy takes a stand against the overeager newspaper publisher.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1079 votesLoading...#21 - Trouble at Fort Apache
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1977
A new experimental bomber has two generals giving conflicting orders and, unfortunately, Pappy is stuck in the middle.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1077 votesLoading...#22 - The Hawk Flies on Sunday
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 12/28/1977
The Black Sheep squadron are in direct competition with an army squadron. The winner of the contest will get the opportunity to fly an extremely dangerous and important mission.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1079 votesLoading...#23 - Forbidden Fruit
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/22/1978
A new recruit joins the squadron and the commander has extreme doubts about his age. After a series of encounters it is obvious the young man is an extremely talented flyer and is welcomed into the squadron with open arms.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1088 votesLoading...#24 - Up for Grabs
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1976
General MacArthur is visiting everyone in the Pacific and Boyington's men are his next stop. On the day he is suppose to arrive, some Japanese soldiers show up and take everyone captive, with the intent to grab MacArthur. But fortunately Wiley and Casey went fishing so they weren't captured. So they must try and find a way to stop them.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1090 votesLoading...#25 - New Georgia on My Mind
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1976
A marine Colonel arrives on the island and informs Boyington that he and his squad are going to join him on a raid. Boyington is not pleased when he learns that the Colonel is taking command of his squad so he goes to General Moore who tells him to suck it up. And things between the marines and the black sheep get tense. And when the Colonel pushes them too far, Boyington snaps.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Baa Baa Black Sheep
Every episode of Baa Baa Black Sheep ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Baa Baa Black Sheep!
The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaWar & Politics
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Deadliest Enemy of All: Part 2" is the best rated episode of "Baa Baa Black Sheep". It scored 8.3/10 based on 81 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/18/1977. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "W*A*S*P*S".