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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

"Yesterday, Upon the Stair... (1)" is the best rated episode of "Pensacola: Wings of Gold". It scored 5/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by James Whitmore Jr. and written by William Blinn, it aired on 9/15/1997. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Yesterday, Upon the Stair... (2)".

  • Yesterday, Upon the Stair... (1)
    5.0/101 votes
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    #1 - Yesterday, Upon the Stair... (1)

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1997

    After Col. Ballinger is injured during a traing exercise, Lt. Colonel Bill Kelly, a pilot, asked to take command of the Sea Dragons by Col. Rebecca Hodges. It is a four person team including First Lt. Robert/Bobby Griffin, a jet pilot; First Lt. Annalisa/ Analise Linstrom, a helicopter Huey pilot, First Lt. Wendell McCrae/McCray, a computer and electronics specialist and First Lt. A.J. Conoway/ Conaway an explosives expert.''''Their first mission is to save a DEA plane whose pilot has been injured in Central/South America. Meanwhile Bobby has started romancing Jeanine/Janine who is Kelly's daughter.

    Director: James Whitmore Jr.

    Writer: William Blinn

  • Yesterday, Upon the Stair... (2)
    5.0/101 votes
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    #2 - Yesterday, Upon the Stair... (2)

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1997

    The druglord, Ramon Toledo, captured in the previous episode has a deal. He will receive an operation and a kidney from his brother, Miguel in return for information. This upsets Kelly, whose complaints, in turn, upset Dr. Valerie West. But the druglord has a hidden agenda. He has his brother's wife and children kidnapped so he can force his brother to help him escape. Bobby, who is in the hospital, from a minor volleyball injury, suspects something but has nothing concrete. Kelly goes with the team to a bar, the Tailwind, and discovers Janine is working there and sees that she is dating Bobby who is brawling with a guy who harassed Janine. Bobby learns who Janine's father is. The druglord sends Kelly and his team on a one way mission to rescue two DEA agents while he escapes with his brother and Valerie as hostages. It is up to Kelly and the Sea Dragons to survive and set things right.

    Director: Ray Austin

    Writer: Morgan Gendel, William Blinn

  • Freebird
    5.0/101 votes
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    #3 - Freebird

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1997

    When a pilot and his plane disappear with an experimental stealth device, he is suspected of being involved with a militia group.

    Director: Anthony Hickox

    Writer: Morgan Gendel

  • It's the Real Thing, Baby
    5.0/101 votes
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    #4 - It's the Real Thing, Baby

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1997

    A redhead, who made a pass at Bobby, drugs and murders a Strike Team Cobra for his security pass. She is part of a group of robbers impersonating Cobras who are stealing guidance plans. The Sea Dragons, who are unarmed, discover that their exercise has turned real when the robbers murder a guard. Also Linstrom has a date, Craig, and Janine goes out with Randy after seeing the redhead kiss Bobby.

    Director: Jim Johnston

    Writer: Nan Hagan

  • Fallout
    5.0/101 votes
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    #5 - Fallout

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1997

    The Sea Dragons are called upon when an African ambassador is suspected of stealing plutonium.

    Director: Terrence O'Hara

    Writer: N/A

  • Birds of Prey
    5.0/101 votes
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    #6 - Birds of Prey

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1997

    Conaway, Lindstrom and a third marine are hijacked by two men who have gambling debts. Conaway is shot and falls out of the helicopter and the others land on a small island. The third Marine is badly wounded but Conaway's wound is minor and he swims to the island and gets one of the hijacker's guns. However the criminal whom the hijackers owe arrives. Meanwhile Kelly, Griffin and McCrae are evaluating equipment from a sales representative whom Griffin romances. Griffin turns down her pass, however. The equipment may prove useful when they discover the others are missing and try to go on rescue mission.

    Director: Jack Sholder

    Writer: Eric Estrin

  • Road Warriors
    5.0/101 votes
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    #7 - Road Warriors

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1997

    The Sea Dragons try to protect two foreign dignitaries from assassination on their way to peace talks.

    Director: James A. Contner

    Writer: N/A

  • Grey Ghost
    5.0/101 votes
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    #8 - Grey Ghost

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1997

    The Sea Dragons try to stop a biological weapon, a virus called the Grey Ghost, from being sold by arms dealers. Janine starts seeing an old boyfriend, Zach, because Bobby keeps breaking their dates for work reasons.

    Director: Peter Ellis

    Writer: N/A

  • Past Sins
    5.0/101 votes
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    #9 - Past Sins

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1997

    A man in Kelly's Vietnam unit is burned. It seems to have something to do with the accidental bombing of a village in which 30 or 40 civilians were killed. Kelly was in the hospital during the day of the raid. The operations officer, Joe Damian, got the coordinates wrong, and was tried, but considers himself a scapegoat. Kelly talks to another man from the unit, ""Jer"" Jeremy Britt who winds up dead from a car bomb. Kelly gets a photo of the bombing which is a threat that he is next. Janine's romance with Zach is interupted when Bobby happily horns in using the excuse that he is her bodyguard.

    Director: Charles Siebert

    Writer: N/A

  • Bogey Man
    5.0/101 votes
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    #10 - Bogey Man

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1997

    The Sea Dragons are sent to Korea to try and help get a defector across the border. Kelly's budding romance with Dr. West is interupted by the reassignment. Kelly decides to help Tomlin, a former navy man whose daughter is missing (she is being held prisoner by a nightclub.) McCray tries to romance a translator teaching him Korean. Robert finds out the woman running the nightclub is being tipped off by a pilot, Fingers, whom they thought was helping them. After they finish their mission the Sea Dragons rescue the girl too.

    Director: Richard Compton

    Writer: Morgan Gendel

  • Acceptable Casualties
    5.0/101 votes
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    #11 - Acceptable Casualties

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1997

    When a sheriff comes by investigating a former member of the Sea Dragons who washed out and his possible link to attempted shootings, the team takes leave to investigate. And Kelly seeks more parenting help from Dr. West.

    Director: Peter Ellis

    Writer: William Blinn

  • Company Town
    5.0/101 votes
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    #12 - Company Town

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1998

    The SeaDragons are sent in civilian clothing to investigate who hacked into a military computer. The ""company town"" they are sent to employs computer programmers and is developing software for the government. A.J. and AnnaLise kiss, albeit undercover. (As part of a cover story when they are discovered where they shouldn't be.)

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Joe Gannon

  • Trials and Tribulations
    5.0/101 votes
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    #13 - Trials and Tribulations

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1998

    During a rescue mission one of the pow's is killed and with his dying words he accuses Linstrom. She is placed on trial. Bobby dates a woman he met on the beach and spends the night with her. By the end of the episode AJ and Annalisa are necking.

    Director: James Brolin

    Writer: Nan Hagan

  • Soldiers of Misfortune
    5.0/101 votes
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    #14 - Soldiers of Misfortune

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/19/1998

    The Sea Dragons are sent to rescue hostages in a Carribean nation but their efforts are endangered when a billionaire, whose daughter is one of the hostages, sends in a team of mercenaries to launch a frontal assault.

    Director: Peter Ellis

    Writer: Babs Greyhosky

  • Power Play
    5.0/101 votes
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    #15 - Power Play

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/26/1998

    A test pilot, Peter Allenson, has problems during the testing of a new missle firing system. When the problems go unreported he warns Bobby who is about to test the system and he dies in a hit and run accident. Is there a problem with the system? Was Allenson murdered? The team investigates. Meanwhile Janine finds herself upset that her father is dating Valerie.

    Director: Sidney J. Furie

    Writer: N/A

  • Game, Set and Match
    5.0/101 votes
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    #16 - Game, Set and Match

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1998

    A.J. helps a pretty woman, Rita Garcia, by preventing her purse from being snatched. Then he finds the Naval Criminal Investigation Service suspects him of espionage. Meanwhile Bobby is competing against other pilots, including ""Hammer,"" for an instructor position.

    Director: Vincent McEveety

    Writer: N/A

  • Lost Shipment
    5.0/101 votes
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    #17 - Lost Shipment

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/20/1998

    Agent Catarez asks for the Sea Dragons' help in dealing with an arms dealer, Javier Nuñez (Nunez) entering the U.S. illegally. The arms dealer escapes but Bobby's father, Robert Griffin, is captured and was assisting him. Bobby tries to convince his father to help them.

    Director: James Brolin

    Writer: N/A

  • We Are Not Alone
    5.0/101 votes
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    #18 - We Are Not Alone

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/27/1998

    A top secret experimental weapon that is missing from a USAF plane is found by a boy, Casey. The Sea Dragons are sent to recover the weapon but someone else is also looking for it. In their personal lives Janine goes apartment hunting and A.J. interferes when Annalisa flirts with a guy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Nan Hagan

  • Stranger, Lover, Friend
    5.0/101 votes
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    #19 - Stranger, Lover, Friend

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/4/1998

    After a bird shatters the canopy of his jet, Griffin is injured both physically and emotionally, and may be permanently grounded.

    Director: Peter Ellis

    Writer: William Blinn

  • Great Expectations
    5.0/101 votes
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    #20 - Great Expectations

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/11/1998

    In San Diego for a convention, the Sea Dragons must prevent the deranged Maj. Egan from stealing a laser weapon and taking vengeance against those he believes responsible for the deaths of his men.

    Director: Peter Ellis

    Writer: N/A

  • Broken Wings
    5.0/101 votes
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    #21 - Broken Wings

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/18/1998

    While patrolling the no fly zone in Iraq, Kelly is shot down with Griffin in the back seat. While they try to avoid capture, the other Sea Dragons are frustrated in their attempts to help join the search and rescue. Back home Dr. Valerie West tries to reassure Janine.

    Director: Sidney J. Furie

    Writer: N/A

  • Not in My Back Yard
    5.0/101 votes
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    #22 - Not in My Back Yard

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/25/1998

    After Seaton Palmer, an Irish terrorist with the R.F.I. is captured with nerve gas, Kelly and the Sea Dragons investigate. Annalisa Lindstrom and A.J. Conaway try going on a date. At the end of the episode Kelly is trying to decide which member of the team to let go due to budget cutbacks.

    Director: Sidney J. Furie

    Writer: Morgan Gendel

  • Nuggets
    5.0/101 votes
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    #23 - 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
    5.0/101 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • Solo Flight
    5.0/101 votes
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    #25 - 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