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The Best Episodes of Pensacola: Wings of Gold

Every episode of Pensacola: Wings of Gold ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Pensacola: Wings of Gold!

Pensacola: Wings of Gold is a syndicated American action/adventure drama series based at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida.
Genres:Action & AdventureDrama
Network:Syndication

Best Episodes Summary

"Sortie" is the best rated episode of "Pensacola: Wings of Gold". It scored 9/10 based on 30 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Tim Davis, it aired on 4/22/1999. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "C.Q.".

  • Sortie
    9.0/1030 votes
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    #1 - Sortie

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/22/1999

    Burner meets and falls for a woman with a secret. Kelly and Hammer try to get recognition for a suicidal man who threw himself on a grenade while serving as a marine but lived while the people he tried to save died. Kelly asks Kate on a date? to the retirement party of a General. The Nuggets are evaluated as they go on a ""obstacle course"" (or sortie) ending with a bombing run.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Tim Davis

  • C.Q.
    8.9/1033 votes
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    #2 - C.Q.

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/6/1999

    Spoon's father comes by with bad news. The Nuggets head out to try landing on an aircraft carrier, a dangerous and difficult skill to master.

    Director: Bill Corcoran

    Writer: N/A

  • Rules of Engagement
    8.8/1033 votes
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    #3 - Rules of Engagement

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/1999

    Someone is trying to kill Kelly and Hammer. Both are shot at, apparently in reprisal for the events of the Raid on Osirak episode. Burner and Spoon compete for a prized spot on the ""Panthers"" while Ice seems to be getting passed over because she is a woman. Burner is the favorite to get the spot but he develops a medical condition which may ground him so Spoon may get the spot by default. The pilots perform in an final exhibition before receiving their duty assignments.

    Director: James Brolin

    Writer: N/A

  • Return to Glory
    8.8/1031 votes
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    #4 - Return to Glory

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/29/2000

    Burner returns, attached to the ""Special Operations Training Group,"" to prepare the 18th M.E.U. for a mission. spoilers Hammer and Kelly talk. Kelly is starting to come under scrutiny for a promotion. He has been passed over for promotion twice must either be promoted this time or retire. Burner, who grounded himself, returns attached to special ops training. Burner stays with Ice and Capone, clashes with Capone, and shares a kiss with Megan. While training for a mission, Capone is involved in a crash. He walks away but his co-pilot/gunner is on life support. The injured man, who just got engaged, dies. Capone considers quitting but, after talking to Burner, he decides to stay.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Solo Flight
    8.7/1032 votes
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    #5 - Solo Flight

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1998

    Ice's plane has a major mechanical problem during her first solo flight and her confidence is shaken, Burner is covers up a water jet ski injury so he won't be grounded until he is 100% healthy and Spoon and his father's girlfriend, Teri, start falling for each other when they spend time together.

    Director: Charles Siebert

    Writer: N/A

  • Stand Down
    8.7/1030 votes
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    #6 - Stand Down

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/1998

    Breaker's plane suffers a hydraulic failure and she dies trying to land the plane.

    Director: Bill Corcoran

    Writer: Kristy Dobkin

  • Boom
    8.7/1031 votes
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    #7 - Boom

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1998

    Burner may lose his wings for causing a sonic boom while showing off for two women. Also Kate may lose her bar when an underage woman is found with a drink.

    Director: Jeff Woolnough

    Writer: N/A

  • Lost
    8.7/1032 votes
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    #8 - Lost

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/7/1999

    During a community relations day, a orphaned boy living with his aunt is kidnapped for ransom.

    Director: Michael Levine

    Writer: N/A

  • Night Traps
    8.7/1034 votes
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    #9 - Night Traps

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/1999

    On the carrier, Kristi Blake, an actress planning to play a female pilot, studies and bunks with (and annoys) Ice. Spoon thinks of resigning. He confides in Ice about his father's cancer. Burner tries to argue Spoon out of resigning and learns that Spoon's father has cancer. Swamp is unable to make the trap (landing wires) at night and washes out. Burner's plane has a hydraulic problem and he is forced to try an emergency landing.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Casualties of War
    8.7/1033 votes
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    #10 - Casualties of War

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/6/2000

    When a peace-keeping mission strands Burner in the jungles of San Felipe with rebel forces searching for him, Kelly and Hammer try to get permission to mount a rescue.

    Director: Sidney J. Furie

    Writer: Elliot Stern

  • Nuggets
    8.6/1036 votes
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    #11 - Nuggets

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/1998

    Kelly is assigned to train neophyte jet pilots (Nuggets). Hammer, his second in command; Kate, a bar owner; and three nuggets, Burner, Ice and Spoon are introduced.

    Director: Vern Gillum

    Writer: Jacqueline Zambrano

  • Burn Out
    8.6/1031 votes
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    #12 - Burn Out

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1998

    Ice takes her first flight with Kelly/Raider as her I.P. (Instructor Pilot) in the backseat. Burner is grounded by Hammer for losing his temper when a snob hits his motorcycle but ultimately proves himself and takes his first flight with Hammer as his I.P. Spoon's father, T.H., visits. He surprises Spoon with a girlfriend who is about 2 years younger than Spoon. Spoon is very rude to her. However the sparks fly when T.H. takes business meetings and the two spend the day together.

    Director: Peter Ellis

    Writer: N/A

  • Wild, Wild West
    8.6/1030 votes
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    #13 - Wild, Wild West

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/9/1998

    The Nuggets go to Fallon Air Base to learn low level bombing, where a shifty Lt. Colonel makes trouble for them. Spoon is doubtful when told he is jinxed after breaking an Indian artifact. Burner falls for a woman whose abusive boyfriend turns out to also be her boss. An old friend lodges a complaint against Kelly.

    Director: Charles Siebert

    Writer: N/A

  • Class Strike
    8.6/1031 votes
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    #14 - Class Strike

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/16/1998

    High-scoring Ice is made Strike Leader for a fiercely competitive bombing exercise against missle and fighter defenses. Spoon is attracted to Gunslinger, a pretty blonde operator of missle defenses. Jackal, still angling to obtain Kelly's command, intends to cheat during the Class Strike. And things escalate personally for Burner as he continues his attempts to help the woman with the abusive boyfriend.

    Director: Charles Siebert

    Writer: N/A

  • Fox Two
    8.6/1033 votes
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    #15 - Fox Two

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/21/1999

    Swamp has a loss of confidence both in his flying and when he tries to romance Holly ""of Hollywood."" Burner competes against a new instructor from Top Gun who can't accept losing even though instructors are supposed to be able hold back. Pearly, who was one of Hammer's trainers, is trying to requalify in order to take a fleet assignment, but he seems to have lost his skills.

    Director: Peter Ellis

    Writer: N/A

  • Raid on Osirak
    8.5/1033 votes
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    #16 - Raid on Osirak

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1998

    While Hammer and Kelly go on a top secret mission, Burner and Spoon find they have their hands full when they try to look after Kelly's ostensibly prim and proper niece. (It is revealed that Hammer was briefly a P.O.W. during the Gulf War.)

    Director: Peter Ellis

    Writer: N/A

  • The Red Baron
    8.5/1034 votes
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    #17 - The Red Baron

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/26/1998

    A hot shot German pilot shows off and annoys Burner, scares Spoon with his (off screen) reckless driving and romances Ice. But he has a problem which may ground him. Also Spoon gets the wrong idea when Kate asks him probing questions to plan a surprise birthday party for him.

    Director: James Brolin

    Writer: N/A

  • Blue Angel
    8.5/1035 votes
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    #18 - Blue Angel

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/30/1999

    A former Blue Angel leader is now recruiting and he offers Hammer a position on the Blue Angels. He also begins a romance with Kate. Burner and Spoon try to play matchmaker between Kate and Kelly. Meanwhile a retired general who is a fan of Teddy Roosevelt drops by and takes the unit on a fifty mile march with full gear.

    Director: James Brolin

    Writer: N/A

  • Touch and Go
    8.5/1033 votes
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    #19 - Touch and Go

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/29/1999

    The nuggets practice touch and go landings before trying to land on a carrier, Spoon's father returns, a young acquaintance of Kelly's seeks romance with Ice and a sleep deprivation study needs participants.

    Director: Sidney J. Furie

    Writer: N/A

  • Vertigo
    8.4/1036 votes
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    #20 - Vertigo

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/1998

    A young man shows up at the Bucket and informs Hammer that he is his son and that his mother has died. The Nuggets train to fly using instrumentation only because at night or in clouds after making high gee moves they can get vertigo and become disoriented. Burner and Spoon volunteer to become judges at a ""talent contest"" (Miss Pensacola).

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • S.O.D.
    8.3/1034 votes
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    #21 - S.O.D.

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1998

    Spoon and Teri start an affair. Breaker does not get a S.O.D. for extremely bad flying and then Spoon, thinking about Teri, gets a S.O.D. for approaching the wrong runway, causing friction. A reporter does a negative story about the treatment of female pilots. Burner talks Teri into staying away from Spoon while she thinks things over instead of staying with him.

    Director: Sidney J. Furie

    Writer: N/A

  • Mishap
    8.3/1034 votes
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    #22 - Mishap

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/14/1999

    Ice's mother shows up without calling and arranges a date with Col. Kelly, not knowing that he is Ice's commanding officer. A private propeller plane strays into military airspace and crashes when Spoon flies too close to it. Spoon is put through the wringer in the subsequent ""Mishap investigation.""

    Director: James Brolin

    Writer: Jacqueline Zambrano

  • Gypsy Tumble
    8.0/1015 votes
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    #23 - Gypsy Tumble

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1999

    Spoon's car is stolen and, on Kate's advice, he turns to Capone for help. Kelly's daughter visits from college. Kelly recruits Cricket to be in the corner of a boxer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Call to Glory
    7.9/1014 votes
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    #24 - Call to Glory

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1999

    Burner returns to shore and Spoon, Ice and Kate exult in his return from near death, but Burner is joyless. Ice is injured by an explosion and is medically grounded by Lt. Lawrence Brandon, her doctor, until her arm is strong enough to work the ejector lever. Spoon is jealous of the doctor and is having trouble getting over his near romance with Ice. Kelly investigates to try and find where the unexploded ordinance came from.

    Director: James Brolin

    Writer: N/A

  • A Wing and a Prayer
    7.8/1016 votes
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    #25 - A Wing and a Prayer

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1999

    Burner, Hammer and Kelly are on a carrier. Burner's plane loses radio reception and navigation after possibly being struck by lightning during a storm. Because of heavy rain he cannot see the carrier and he may run out of fuel and crash. Back on shore Spoon and Ice nearly become romantic before Capone alerts them about the danger Burner is in, whereupon they rush to base.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Elliot Stern