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Sky King is an American radio and television adventure series. The title character is Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler "Sky" King. The series was likely based on a true-life personality of the 1930s, Jack

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Season 1

  • Operation Urgent
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    Operation Urgent

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/1952

    During a fierce thunderstorm, Sky picks up a mayday call from a Air Force courier plane which is about to run out of gas. The Air Force request Sky's assistance in locating the downed aircraft because the pilot is transporting secret documents that are of interest to foreign governments. Sky locates the plane wreck, but the pilot is nowhere to be found. When he discovers that the navigational instruments have been tampered with, Sky fears that enemy agents may have located and stolen the secret plans and are headed for the nearby Mexican border.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Carrier Pigeon
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    Carrier Pigeon

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/19/1952

    When Penny discovers a wounded carrier pigeon carrying a valuable ruby attached to its leg, Sky suspects a gang of jewel smugglers is operating in the area. With the help of a Mexican police detective, Sky sets up to break up the criminal operation.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Stage Coach Robbers
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    Stage Coach Robbers

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/3/1952

    A crooked express agent fakes a hold-up to steal gold from his company's vault. He uses an old stagecoach to get the stolen loot out of town.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Deadly Cargo
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    Deadly Cargo

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/17/1952

    While helping a friend run his freight airline after an accident, Sky stumbles across a gold-smuggling operation.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Jim Bell's Triumph
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    Jim Bell's Triumph

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/31/1952

    Sky's efforts to prove corruption in the county clerk's office nearly result in disaster, when Sky's foreman, a non-pilot, must land the Songbird when Clipper becomes too ill to fly the plane.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Designing Woman
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    Designing Woman

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/14/1952

    Sky becomes suspicious when a Eastern woman shows up in Grover claiming to be the long-lost niece and heir of a dead rancher.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • One for the Money
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    One for the Money

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/28/1952

    Penny picks up the wrong suitcase at the airport and discovers it's full of counterfeit money. Sky suspects that a young former engraver might be involved.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Danger Point
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    Danger Point

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/12/1952

    A rancher disinherits his nephew in favor of his young son. When the rancher is murdered the young man is blamed. Sky hopes that by faking a jailbreak, the real murderer will be forced into the open, but the plan backfires when Clipper and the young man are kidnapped.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Desperate Character
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    Desperate Character

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/26/1952

    Sky King picks up a young hitchhiker who refuses to divulge his identity, or where he's been or going. Determined to fill in the blank spaces on the young man's resume, Sky learns that he is an escapee from a boy's reformatory who was involved in a recent bank robbery.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Man Who Forgot
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    The Man Who Forgot

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/9/1952

    A young rancher disappears after the man attempting to foreclose on his mortgage is murdered. Sky is convinced that the man is innocent and that there's another explanation for the man's apparent flight.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Threatening Bomb
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    The Threatening Bomb

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/23/1952

    Eastern gangsters set up a protection racket near Grover and the local ranchers appeal to Sky for help.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Speak No Evil
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    Speak No Evil

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/6/1952

    The drug Sky delivers to a critically ill man does more than save his life; the medicine causes the man to confess that he's a former criminal who has attempted to go straight.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Two-Gun Penny
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    Two-Gun Penny

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/20/1952

    Angry that Sky and Clipper won't allow her to join the search for a missing refugee professor, Penny slaps on a pair of six-shooters and launches her own investigation.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Formula for Fear
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    Formula for Fear

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 10/4/1952

    Penny sees a man escape from a doctor's office, and is informed that the man is a dangerous mental patient. Sky looks into the incident, and soon finds himself mixed up in foreign spies and poison gas.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Giant Eagle
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    The Giant Eagle

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 10/18/1952

    Sky investigates a series of mysterious payroll robberies, where the police chase the robbers only to see their getaway car mysteriously disappear.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Blackmail
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    Blackmail

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 11/8/1952

    A local banker is blackmailed by two former confederates who aware of a crime he committed over twenty years ago and was never apprehended.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Wings of Justice
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    Wings of Justice

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 11/22/1952

    A couple of Easterners claim to have traveled west to visit a dude ranch, but are actually a pair of con artists willing to commit murder to obtain a ranch with a rich uranium deposit on it.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Destruction from the Sky
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    Destruction from the Sky

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 12/6/1952

    Sky teams up with a military intelligence officer to track down a foreign agent who blew up a secret government project.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Porcelain Lion
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    The Porcelain Lion

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 12/20/1952

    Sky stumbles across a dead pilot and suspicious looking plane wreck and discovers that the man was murdered and the crash never happened. He learns that the plane was carrying a number of valuable pieces of ancient Chinese art, all of which are missing from the plane's cargo hold.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown