Sky King - Season 1

First aired: 4/5/1952 19 episodes

Episodes

1. Operation Urgent

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.

2. Carrier Pigeon

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.

3. Stage Coach Robbers

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.

4. Deadly Cargo

Aired: 5/17/1952

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

5. Jim Bell's Triumph

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.

6. Designing Woman

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.

7. One for the Money

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.

8. Danger Point

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.

9. Desperate Character

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.

10. The Man Who Forgot

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.

11. The Threatening Bomb

Aired: 8/23/1952

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

12. Speak No Evil

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.

13. Two-Gun Penny

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.

14. Formula for Fear

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.

15. The Giant Eagle

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.

16. Blackmail

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.

17. Wings of Justice

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.

18. Destruction from the Sky

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.

19. The Porcelain Lion

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.