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The Worst Episodes of Pensacola: Wings of Gold

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The Worst 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.

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  1. Background image for Lost Shipment
    4.1/10(18 votes)

    #1 - Lost Shipment

    S1:E17

    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.

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    Director:James Brolin
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Great Expectations
    4.1/10(18 votes)

    #2 - Great Expectations

    S1:E20

    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.

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    Director:Peter Ellis
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Game, Set and Match
    4.5/10(19 votes)

    #3 - Game, Set and Match

    S1:E16

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Not in My Back Yard
    4.5/10(20 votes)

    #4 - Not in My Back Yard

    S1:E22

    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.

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    4.8/10(19 votes)

    #5 - Soldiers of Misfortune

    S1:E14

    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.

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  6. Background image for Broken Wings
    4.8/10(23 votes)

    #6 - Broken Wings

    S1:E21

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    4.9/10(21 votes)

    #7 - Power Play

    S1:E15

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for We Are Not Alone
    4.9/10(20 votes)

    #8 - We Are Not Alone

    S1:E18

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Nan Hagan
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    5.0/10(22 votes)

    #9 - Trials and Tribulations

    S1:E13

    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.

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    Director:James Brolin
    Writer:Nan Hagan
  11. Background image for Company Town
    5.3/10(24 votes)

    #10 - Company Town

    S1:E12

    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.)

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Joe Gannon
  12. Background image for Past Sins
    5.7/10(14 votes)

    #11 - Past Sins

    S1:E9

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Yesterday, Upon the Stair... (2)
    5.8/10(18 votes)

    #12 - Yesterday, Upon the Stair... (2)

    S1:E2

    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.

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    5.8/10(16 votes)

    #13 - Freebird

    S1:E3

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

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    5.8/10(15 votes)

    #14 - Fallout

    S1:E5

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Birds of Prey
    5.9/10(14 votes)

    #15 - Birds of Prey

    S1:E6

    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.

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    Director:Jack Sholder
  17. Background image for Acceptable Casualties
    6.0/10(11 votes)

    #16 - Acceptable Casualties

    S1:E11

    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.

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    Director:Peter Ellis
  18. Background image for Stranger, Lover, Friend
    6.2/10(9 votes)

    #17 - Stranger, Lover, Friend

    S1:E19

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

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    Director:Peter Ellis
  19. Background image for Pensacola Shootout
    6.2/10(9 votes)

    #18 - Pensacola Shootout

    S3:E17

    It's Blaze vs Ice in the Pensacola Shootout where the Marines, Air Force, Navy and RAF all send two of their best pilots to compete. Spoon is Ice's wingman. Also there is an opening for a female astronaut; Hammer worries that Megan has a drinking problem.

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    Director:Carl Weathers
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Grey Ghost
    6.3/10(11 votes)

    #19 - Grey Ghost

    S1:E8

    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.

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    Director:Peter Ellis
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for It's the Real Thing, Baby
    6.4/10(19 votes)

    #20 - It's the Real Thing, Baby

    S1:E4

    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.

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    Director:Jim Johnston
    Writer:Nan Hagan
  22. Background image for Answered Prayers
    6.4/10(13 votes)

    #21 - Answered Prayers

    S3:E18

    Abby/Mad Dog/Abigail Holley meets an attractive man, Mark, coaching soccer and begins a love affair with him. Then she finds out that the man is already married, and worse, to a marine sergeant air controller whom was under investigation for a near miss involving her. The man tells his wife that Abby blackmailed him into sex for testimony clearing her. Abby is investigated and she is to be reassigned. She must try to convince the woman that they both were tricked by this lothario. For community service, Megan Ryan is assigned to work for Helen Williams at an agency which tries to give children with cancer one of their top three wishes. However Kevin, the boy she is given only wants one thing, to fly in a fighter jet and even though she asks Kelly, it is against regulations that he can not override.

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    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for On the Tee
    6.5/10(10 votes)

    #22 - On the Tee

    S3:E11

    A reckless private collects some ordinance after an exercise instead of calling EOD. While doing an inventory, Spoon and Abby/Mad Dog are caught in an explosion and Capone is hit by the edge. Spoon starts hallucinating (with the hallucinations often referencing a canceled golf game) as he drifts in and out of consciousness, but rescuers can not get to them until unexploded ordinance is dealt with. Kelly and Hammer try to determine what happened.

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    Director:Carl Weathers
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Blue on Blue
    6.6/10(12 votes)

    #23 - Blue on Blue

    S2:E16

    A nugget, flying as wingman, shoots down his lead in simulated dogfighting (ACM / Air Combat Manuevering). This is called Blue on Blue. Two women seek Spoon's affections while two pilots pursue Ice.

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    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Yesterday, Upon the Stair... (1)
    6.7/10(19 votes)

    #24 - Yesterday, Upon the Stair... (1)

    S1:E1

    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.

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    6.7/10(16 votes)

    #25 - Bogey Man

    S1:E10

    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.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Lost Shipment" is the worst rated episode of "Pensacola: Wings of Gold". It scored 4.1/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by James Brolin and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/20/1998. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Great Expectations".