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The Best Episodes of Whirlybirds

Every episode of Whirlybirds ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Whirlybirds!

Whirlybirds is a syndicated American drama/adventure television series, which aired for 111 episodes — broadcast from February 4, 1957, through January 18, 1960. It was...
Genres:Action & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"The Ashley Case" is the best rated episode of "Whirlybirds". It scored 9.3/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/10/1958. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Lynch Mob".

  • The Ashley Case
    9.3/1012 votes
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    #1 - The Ashley Case

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/10/1958

    Donald Ashley, confined to a wheelchair, is appealing his conviction for the murder of his wife. Chuck and P.T. find a battered license plate of the car in which Ashley's wife disappeared. This means the body and the car are in one

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lynch Mob
    9.2/108 votes
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    #2 - Lynch Mob

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/7/1957

    P.T. and Chuck fly a reporter into mountainous country to cover a story. A hunter, who shot a deputy for attempting to evict him from his mountain cabin is being chased by a angry lynch mob.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Seven Orchids
    9.1/1010 votes
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    #3 - Seven Orchids

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 4/7/1958

    P.T. gets a package containing seven bruised orchids and half of a $500 bill from an unknown woman. The phone for the address has been disconnected so P.T. flies there for a look.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Black Pearl
    9.0/108 votes
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    #4 - Black Pearl

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/23/1957

    P.T. and Chuck fly a skin-diver to an untouched oyster bed he has discovered. The diver promises to share the pearls with them if they reach the site before his former partner.

    Director: Lee Sholem

    Writer: N/A

  • Infra-Red
    9.0/1010 votes
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    #5 - Infra-Red

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 5/5/1958

    The sheriff's office has tabbed the regular movements of three known drug peddlers but loses them in traffic at the same spot every time they try to follow them. Only two of the sheriff's men, & Chuck and P.T. are in on a plan to trace the "pushers" to their source of supply from the air.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Baby Face
    9.0/109 votes
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    #6 - Baby Face

    Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 11/10/1958

    Chuck and P.T. put down in the desert to help a couple they think are eloping, only to find they are escaping from a charge of robbery and murder.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • His Brothers Keeper
    9.0/108 votes
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    #7 - His Brothers Keeper

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 5/18/1959

    A dead police lieutenant's brother hires the Whirlybirds to help him flush from hiding a mobster Who killed his brother.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bankrupt Alibi
    9.0/109 votes
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    #8 - Bankrupt Alibi

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 8/3/1959

    A father commits a hit-and-run crime and persuades his son to take the blame to save his reputation as a prominent citizen.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Aerial Circus
    8.9/1011 votes
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    #9 - Aerial Circus

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 8/12/1957

    Chuck and P.T. teach circus aerial artists, a brother and sister, to fly a helicopter for their new act. The boys become suspicious when, following an armored car robbery, the boy returns from his solo flight with damaged pontoons.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Panic At Green Ridge
    8.9/1010 votes
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    #10 - Panic At Green Ridge

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 1/27/1958

    A woman vacationing with her family in an isolated mountain cabin is stricken with an appendicitis attack. Her husband drives down the treacherous roads for help, but he wrecks his car on the way.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mr. Jinx
    8.9/1011 votes
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    #11 - Mr. Jinx

    Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 10/5/1959

    Chuck and P.T. fly a newspaper reporter to an isolated hard-labor camp and end up being wanted by the police.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Runaway
    8.8/1012 votes
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    #12 - The Runaway

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/24/1958

    An illegal Mexican immigrant has contracted dread pneumonia plague and is on the run with his pregnant wife, from what he believes to be deportation. The disease is so contagious that the life of anyone he contact is endangered. Chuck and P.T. are hired to fly a doctor to a mysterious rendezvous. They arrive too late.

    Director: R.G. Springsteen

    Writer: N/A

  • Blind Date
    8.8/1010 votes
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    #13 - Blind Date

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 5/19/1958

    Chuck and P.T. are about to fly Julie Cavanaugh to a vacation given her by the "Daily Star" as a promotion stunt. When the photographer is told to "shoot", shots ring out from an uninvited car which speeds away. The shots were all aimed at Julie who was on a "blind date" that ended in murder.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • An Act of Fate
    8.8/108 votes
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    #14 - An Act of Fate

    Season 2 Episode 35 - Aired 12/29/1958

    Chuck and P.T. fly a reporter who is assigned a story "Mr. Average American" when they arrive, they find the subject from average. They find a hard-labor camp.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Perfect Crime
    8.8/109 votes
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    #15 - The Perfect Crime

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 6/29/1959

    A strange old man confesses to every major crime in town, including a murder and a politically minded mayor orders him jailed, for his own safekeeping. Chuck and P.T. have their hands full when lynch mobs start to gather.

    Director: Robert Altman

    Writer: N/A

  • Man, You Kill Me
    8.8/1013 votes
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    #16 - Man, You Kill Me

    Season 3 Episode 31 - Aired 11/2/1959

    A jazzman who has been chauffered to a nightclub date by Whirlybirds is found murdered- Chuck and P.T. turn in the logical suspect.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Copters and Robbers
    8.7/109 votes
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    #17 - Copters and Robbers

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 6/2/1958

    A runaway bride hires the boys to fly her back to he husband's side,but on reaching there they find him murdered. Chuck, P. T. and Helen, their secretary, calm the distraught girl. While they are waiting for the police they encounter a succession of "brothers" all unknown to their supposed "sister".

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Challenge
    8.7/1010 votes
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    #18 - The Challenge

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 6/1/1959

    Dr. Clark Evans secludes himself at a mountain retreat when one of his patients dies in surgery. He doesn't believe a message that his daughter is afflicted with the same disease his patient had.

    Director: Robert Altman

    Writer: N/A

  • Hostage
    8.6/1010 votes
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    #19 - Hostage

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/21/1957

    Three escaped convicts steal a plane and try to make a daring getaway. Needing gasoline they are forced to return to the airfield where they pick up a valuable hostage.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Journey To The Past
    8.6/1010 votes
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    #20 - Journey To The Past

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 8/5/1957

    A stranger approaches a millionaire, whose hobby is archaeology, with a map leading to undiscovered pre-Aztec ruins. The rich man engages Chuck and P.T. to fly him to the site.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Iron Mountain
    8.6/1011 votes
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    #21 - Iron Mountain

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 1/20/1958

    A woman vacationing with her family in an isolated mountain cabin is stricken with an appendicitis attack. Her husband drives down the treacherous roads for help, but he wrecks his car on the way.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Unknown Solider
    8.6/1012 votes
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    #22 - The Unknown Solider

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 7/6/1959

    A young woman who believes her husband to have died in Korea plans to remarry. Shortly thereafter she receives a demand for money for late husband. The husband "returns from the grave" to plague his wife, who enlists the aid of the Whirlybirds.

    Director: Robert Altman

    Writer: N/A

  • The Deacon
    8.6/108 votes
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    #23 - The Deacon

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 8/31/1959

    A glib-tongued deacon hires the Whirlybirds to transport him to a preaching engagement in a nearby city. When some toughs threaten the deacon at the airport, Chuck and P.T. begin to doubt his integrity.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hide And Seek
    8.5/1010 votes
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    #24 - Hide And Seek

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 6/13/1957

    Hidden in the trunk of an abandoned car, a nine-year-old boy falls unconscious and cannot cry out when the car is removed for junk.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cycle Of Terror
    8.5/1013 votes
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    #25 - Cycle Of Terror

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 8/19/1957

    Sniper shootings have been happening around the area and it is being done by two kids on motorcyles who are doing it just for kicks. They spook Helen and her boyfriend when he takes her out for a ride on his motorcycle. Heading back to the airport the two boys confront them and pick a fight until Chuck and P.T. step in and chase the boys away. To get even the boys shoot at the helicopter as it flies overhead, damaging one of the fuel tanks. The boys then take a shot at Chuck and his friend while they are outside and accidently his friend, Bill, get shot in the arm. Chuck and P.T. give chase and catch one of the boys who can't start his cycle. The other gets away. P.T. manages to get the motorcyle started and heads out after the other boy. Chuck goes for the helicopter and together they corner the boy down in the canyons and bring him back to justice.

    Director: Lee Sholem

    Writer: Eric Freiwald