8.1/1019 votes#1 - Big U
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1957
Chuck and P.T. successfully locate a missing "weekend" prospector, then are marked for death by claim jumpers who believe the prospector has made a valuable uranium strike.
Director: Lew Landers
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1013 votes
#2 - Rampage
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/1957
An ailing gorilla escapes from a circus and terrorizes the town. Chuck and P.T. set out in a desperate attempt to capture the pain-crazed animal.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1014 votes
#3 - Boy On The Roof
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/1957
P.T. and Chuck work out a plan to save the life of a teenager. The boy is perched on a high building threatens to jump.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - Fire Fight
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/1957
Chuck and P.T. answer an SOS from three mountain climbers who are in the line of a raging forest fire. The rescue must be made quickly or not at all.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1011 votes
#5 - Hot Wire
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/1957
Chuck and P.T. set out to deliver an iron lung in a windstorm that makes flying perilous.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1012 votes
#6 - Mountain Flight
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/1957
Chuck and P.T. pilot a man on a weekend hunting trip to the mountains. They soon learn that the man's query is human not animal.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1013 votes
#7 - Ghost Town Flight
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1957
Three boys on a camping trip in the mountains explore a ghost town left after the minning ended in the California mountains. Two of the boys accidentally fall into an old mine shaft. The youngest boy goes out to find help even though he is far from civilization in the mountins. Chuck and P.T. see the boy from above in their helicopter and fly him to a hospital, then go back to try and find the other two boys and help them get back home.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: Eric Freiwald
- 8.6/1010 votes
#8 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - Diamond Smugglers
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/1957
Helicopter pilots Chuck and P.T. are in trouble. Their helicopter has been seen in Mexico on the same dates that diamonds were smuggled across the border. They protest their innocence in vain.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.2/108 votes
#10 - 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
- 7.9/1012 votes
#11 - Sky Net
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/14/1957
Ben Carling hires Chuck and P.T. to take him on a hunting trip in the mountains. He is determined to track down and kill a mountain lion.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/109 votes
#12 - Prison Break
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/21/1957
An attractive girl comes to Chuck and P.T. for helicopter lessons. She proves such a apt pupil that she is able to solo well ahead of schedule. But P.T. and Chuck learn she's planning to rescue her boyfriend from prison.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Top Of The Mountain
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/28/1957
Helicopter pilots Chuck and P.T. deliver a box to the mountain retreat of a wealthy businessman, they are sure the box contains vital medicine.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1011 votes
#14 - Operation Blue Hen
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/4/1957
Chuck and P.T. are offered a large fee to transport a fuel bomb into a canyon where the bomb is to be tested. The assignment is made even more hazardous when the scientist sent with them turns out to be an old enemy of Chuck’s.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1012 votes
#15 - The Human Bomb
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/11/1957
Chuck and P.T. are forced at gunpoint to aid a bank robber.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1013 votes
#16 - Missing Witness
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/18/1957
After promising to testify against the head of a crime ring, a couple becomes afraid of the consequences and runs away, members of the gang pursue them. Chuck and P.T. witness the chase from the air. After promising to testify against the head of a crime ring, a couple becomes afraid of the consequences and runs away, members of the gang pursue them. Chuck and P.T. witness the chase from the air.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1012 votes
#17 - The Egg Code
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/25/1957
Chuck and P.T. report some unusual air traffic and put Army Intelligence on the trail of informers who are spying on vital installations. Then they pin-point an unusual code set-up.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1011 votes
#18 - Superstition Mountain
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/2/1957
A psychopathic killer tries to use an ancient Apache India curse to hide his crimes and do away with Chuck and P.T. when the boys are hired to ferry supplies to a remote gold mining operation.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - Homicide Haven
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/9/1957
Chuck and P.T come upon a man who is living in a well-hidden house in the desert, although the man introduces himself as a writer seeking solitude, Chuck suspects he has seen him before.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#20 - Riptide
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/16/1957
Following a bad plane accident a pilot loses his nerve and grounds himself to take another job. Realizing his unhappiness, Chuck and P.T. attempt to help him regain his courage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/108 votes
#21 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - Illegal Entry
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/30/1957
Answering a distress call from a yacht, Chuck and P.T. become suspicious when a passenger they transport to a hospital is swathed in bandages. They report the incident to immigration authorities.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1013 votes
#23 - Lady Luck
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/6/1957
A passenger whom Chuck and P.T. have flown to Las Vegas suddenly decides to leave in a hurry. Pursuing him are desperate gamblers who are determined to get back the money they lost.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1010 votes
#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
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - Hobson's Choice
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 6/20/1957
P.T. photographs a hermit's dramatic rescue of a glamorous film star at a location site. But when the picture is published, the hermit is outraged at the invasion of his privacy, and tries to shoot P.T.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Whirlybirds Season 1
Every episode of Whirlybirds Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Whirlybirds Season 1!
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
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Big U" is the best rated episode of "Whirlybirds" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by Lew Landers and written by N/A, it aired on 1/3/1957. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Rampage".