

Sky King
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 Cones, the "Flying Constable" of Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California, although this claim is unverified. Although the series had strong western elements, King mostly captured criminals and spies, and found lost hikers with the use of his plane, the Songbird. Though the planes used changed during the course of the series, the later model was not given a number, but was still known as the Songbird. King and his niece, Penny, lived on the Flying Crown Ranch, near the town of Grover, Arizona. Penny and Clipper were also pilots, though still relatively inexperienced and looking to their uncle for guidance and mentoring. Penny was an accomplished air racer and rated multi-engine pilot, whom Sky trusted to fly the Songbird. In the third TV episode, Penny refers to Clipper as "my brother", so they are siblings. The musical score was largely the work of Herschel Burke Gilbert.
Cast

Kirby Grant
Sky King

Gloria Winters
Penny King
Seasons
E1Operation Urgent
Apr 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.
E2Carrier Pigeon
Apr 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.
E3Stage Coach Robbers
May 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.
E4Deadly Cargo
May 17, 1952
While helping a friend run his freight airline after an accident, Sky stumbles across a gold-smuggling operation.
E5Jim Bell's Triumph
May 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.
E6Designing Woman
Jun 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.
E7One for the Money
Jun 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.
E8Danger Point
Jul 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.
E9Desperate Character
Jul 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.
E10The Man Who Forgot
Aug 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.
E11The Threatening Bomb
Aug 23, 1952
Eastern gangsters set up a protection racket near Grover and the local ranchers appeal to Sky for help.
E12Speak No Evil
Sep 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.
E13Two-Gun Penny
Sep 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.
E14Formula for Fear
Oct 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.
E15The Giant Eagle
Oct 18, 1952
Sky investigates a series of mysterious payroll robberies, where the police chase the robbers only to see their getaway car mysteriously disappear.
E16Blackmail
Nov 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.
E17Wings of Justice
Nov 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.
E18Destruction from the Sky
Dec 6, 1952
Sky teams up with a military intelligence officer to track down a foreign agent who blew up a secret government project.
E19The Porcelain Lion
Dec 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.
E1The Neckerchief
Jan 2, 1956
Sky attempts to help a young man recently paroled from prison get started again, but the ex-convict's former friends frame him for a bank robbery.
E2Manhunt
Jan 2, 1956
E3The Plastic Ghost
Jan 9, 1956
E4The Rainbird
Jan 9, 1956
E5The Crystal Trap
Jan 30, 1956
E6Red Tentacles
Jan 30, 1956
E7Boomerang
Feb 6, 1956
Sky King and Penny turn the tables on foreign agents conspiring to blackmail a refugee scientist.
E8Geiger Detective
Feb 27, 1956
E9Golden Burro
Feb 27, 1956
E10Rustlers on Wheels
Mar 5, 1956
A young rancher is losing cattle fast so Sky King investigates.
E11The Silver Grave
Mar 5, 1956
E12Uninvited Death
Mar 12, 1956
Sky and Penny unwittingly become involved in sabotage when they visit their friends Major Dave and Denise McKay. An enemy agent has attached a time bomb to Major McKay's car, setting the fuse to explode while the Major is working at an army special-projects base. When Denise and Penny borrow the Major's car, they are placed in grave peril.
E13Fish Out of Water
Mar 19, 1956
E14Diamonds on a Sky-Hook
Mar 26, 1956
E15Flood of Fury
Apr 2, 1956
During a major flood, Sky, Penny and Bob assist the authorities in their rescue efforts. Unfortunately, three of the men they rescue are murderous escaped felons who force their rescuers to help them rob a flooded bank.
E16Rocket Story
Apr 2, 1956
E17Rodeo Round-Up
Apr 23, 1956
A mock holdup paves the way for a real holdup and Sky King comes to the rescue.
E18Showdown
Apr 23, 1956
E19Land o' Cotton
Apr 23, 1956
E20Dust of Destruction
Apr 30, 1956
Someone has sabotaged a young rancher's harvest and Sky King sets out to find the culprit before any more damage is done.
E1Mystery Horse
Dec 29, 1957
E2Double Trouble
Dec 29, 1957
E3Note for a Dam
Jan 5, 1958
Sky and Penny are held captive by a maniac planning to dynamite a waterworks facility.
E4Bad Actor
Jan 5, 1958
E5Fight for Oil
Jan 12, 1958
E6Lost Boy
Jan 12, 1958
E7The Brain and the Brawn
Jan 26, 1958
Sky investigates some suspicious happenings at the county fair.
E8The Feathered Serpent
Jan 26, 1958
After a bird with an emerald attached to its leg lands in penny's garden, Sky King releases it to see where it goes.
E9The Circus Clown Mystery
Feb 22, 1958
E10Dead Man's Will
Feb 22, 1958
E11Cindy, Come Home
Mar 11, 1958
E12Rodeo Decathlon
Mar 9, 1958
E13Abracadabra
Mar 11, 1958
E14Triple Exposure
Mar 9, 1958
E15The Haunted Castle
Mar 16, 1958
E16Man Hunt
Mar 16, 1958
Fearing he has killed another boy, Joe Belden, recently released from reform school, flees into the desert. Sheriff Hargrove knows that the Joe's opponent survived the fight, but also knows that Joe, now heavily armed, will think that the law officers are intent on arresting him. He calls upon Sky, whom Joe trusts, to join the man-hunt.
E17Danger at the Sawmill
Mar 16, 1958
E18Sleight of Hand
Mar 23, 1958
E19The Runaway
Mar 23, 1958
E20Stop That Train
Mar 30, 1958
E1The Wild Man
Dec 28, 1958
Sky and Penny try to clear a gentle, animal-loving "wildman" who has been blamed for the robbery of a logging company payroll.
E2Sky Robbers
Dec 28, 1958
Sky and Penny enter an air race, and it's soon discovered that the main office has been robbed and all of the receipts have been stolen. Sky suspects that one of the contestants in the race is the culprit and is using the race to make his getaway.
E3A Dog Named Barney
Dec 28, 1958
Sky follows the seeing-eye dog of a blind newsboy, who he believes will lead him to a holdup man living with a party of wolf hunters.
E4Bullet Bait
Dec 28, 1958
Sky is holding a wedding at the Flying Crown Ranch. The ceremony is interrupted, however, when two gangsters kidnap the groom and threaten his fiancé.
E5Money Has Wings
Jan 4, 1959
Four pilots for Wellman Air Freight Lines are injured in the first month of a contract for the company to carry s large payroll. In order to find out what's going on, Sky goes undercover as a security guard.
E6Frogmen
Jan 4, 1959
E7Terror Cruise
Feb 1, 1959
While Sky is training with his naval reserve unit, Penny visits friends who cruise Central America on their large sailboat. When three escaped prisoners commandeer their vessel, it's up to Sky and the U.S. Navy to rescue his niece and her friends.
E8Operation Urgent aka Runaway Truck
Feb 1, 1959
E9Bounty Hunters
Feb 1, 1959
When marauding coyotes begin to kill his calves, Sky hires two flying bounty hunters to kill the animals. When more dead calves are found, Sky discovers that the men he has hired are using his ranch to smuggle jewels, not kill vermin.
E10Dead Giveaway
Feb 1, 1959
E11A Mickey for Sky
Feb 22, 1959
Young Mickey, a distant relative of Sky's, is traveling to visit the Flying Crown Ranch while his guardian is out of the country. En route, he overhears two men discuss shooting a foreign visitor and is determined to warn the man of his peril.
E12Ring of Fire
Mar 1, 1959
Sky tries to help an old Indian chief who is very sick, but he won't go to the hospital for treatment because he would rather die on his own tribe's land.
E13Mickey's Birthday
Mar 8, 1959
While visiting an amusement park on his birthday, Mickey wins a model airplane at a shooting gallery. Unfortunately, two smugglers have hidden a valuable pearl in the airplane and will stop at nothing to get it back.
Storyline
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 Cones, the "Flying Constable" of Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California, although this claim is unverified. Although the series had strong western elements, King mostly captured criminals and spies, and found lost hikers with the use of his plane, the Songbird. Though the planes used changed during the course of the series, the later model was not given a number, but was still known as the Songbird. King and his niece, Penny, lived on the Flying Crown Ranch, near the town of Grover, Arizona. Penny and Clipper were also pilots, though still relatively inexperienced and looking to their uncle for guidance and mentoring. Penny was an accomplished air racer and rated multi-engine pilot, whom Sky trusted to fly the Songbird. In the third TV episode, Penny refers to Clipper as "my brother", so they are siblings. The musical score was largely the work of Herschel Burke Gilbert.






















