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Many of us grew up watching our favorite TV shows. Shows like Lassie, Gilligan's Island, and I Love Lucy. As a child, one of the most facinating things on TV for me was when a show featured an airplane or helicopter. It just seemed to make the program more exciting to me. Well, this cache celebrates these TV aircraft.
The puzzle is fairly simple if you know your TV shows. If not, it won't be that difficult to figure out with a little research, or just plain old trial and error.
Below are pictures of famous TV show planes and helicopters. Each of these aircraft were regularly featured on a specific TV series. All you need to do is match the aircraft picture to the correct TV show. Of course, I didn't add the names of the TV shows, just to make it a little more challenging. Have fun and good luck!
You are solving for N 27° AB.CDE W 080° FG.HIJ
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A – A television series that ran from 1984 until 1987. The program centers on a high-tech advanced prototype supersonic military helicopter with stealth capabilities, and its crew, Stringfellow Hawke and Dominic Santini, as they undertake various exotic missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme. The show starred Jan-Michael Vincent and Earnest Borgnine.
B – A television series that originally aired from 1977 to 1984. It starred Ricardo Montalbán as the mysterious Mr. Roarke, who grants the fantasies of visitors to the island for a price. The show starred many famous actors and actresses as guests. Each show began with Tattoo, played by Herve Villechaize in the bell tower shouting “Ze plane! Ze plane!”
C - A drama television series based on the movie of the same title that aired from January 6 until April 16, 1984 featuring a military-style police helicopter. The series uses the converted Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopter and large portions of stock footage from the 1983 film. A ground unit named "Rolling Thunder" backed up the helicopter in the television series. The cast includes James Farentino, Dana Carvey, and former professional American football players Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus. The series only ran 11 episodes.
D - A period military television series that aired from 1976 until 1978. Its premise was based on the experiences of United States Marine Corps aviator Greg Boyington and his World War II F4U Corsair Squadron". The opening credits read: "In World War II, Marine Corps Major Greg 'Pappy' Boyington (played by Robert Conrad) commanded a squadron of fighter pilots. They were a collection of misfits and screwballs who became the terrors of the South Pacific. They were known as the Black Sheep."
E - An adventure drama series broadcast in prime time on Wednesday nights from September 22, 1982 until June 1, 1983. The series featured the romance of early aviation, exotic locales, and cliff-hanging action. Set in 1938 in the South Pacific, the series is about an ex-Flying Tigers pilot named Jake Cutter (Stephen Collins). Now the operator of an air cargo delivery service based on the fictional South Seas island Bora Gora, he flies a red and white Grumman Goose called Cutter's Goose. He has a one-eyed Jack Russell terrier named Jack, which barks once for "no" and twice for "yes" (or the opposite if it suits him) that wears an eye-patch.
F - A syndicated drama/adventure television series, which aired for 111 episodes — broadcast from February 4, 1957, through January 18, 1960. It was produced by Desilu Studios, who also created the hit show I Love Lucy. The program features the exploits of Chuck Martin (Kenneth Tobey) and Pete "P. T." Moore (Craig Hill), owners of a fictitious helicopter chartering company in the American West. Martin and Moore sell their services to various clients at the fictional airport Longwood Field.
G – The original series was an crime drama television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator (P.I.) living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988. Magnum's two main companions on the islands are Theodore Calvin "T.C." (Roger E. Mosley), who runs a local helicopter charter service called "Island Hoppers", and often finds himself persuaded by Magnum to fly him during various cases, and Orville Wilbur Richard "Rick" Wright (Larry Manetti), who refuses to use his given name Orville and who owns a local bar.
H - A radio and television series. Its lead character was Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler "Sky" King played by Kirby Grant. The series may have been based on a true-life personality of the 1930s, Jack Cones, known as the "Flying Constable" of Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California. The series had strong Western elements. King usually captured criminals and spies and found lost hikers, though he did so with the use of his airplane, a Cessna T-50 named the Songbird.
I – A war comedy-drama television series that aired from 1972 to 1983. A rag-tag ensemble of medical and military characters – Hawkeye, Trapper John, Honeycut, Father Mulcahy, Margaret Houlihan, Radar, Maxwell Klinger, and others – brought laughter and serious thought about war to audiences for 11 seasons. Several other main characters departed or joined the program during its run, and numerous guest actors and recurring characters were used. Each episode began with, and many included a Bell 47 ambulance helicopter transporting patients to the military medical personnel for treatment.
J - A drama that aired for 22 episodes during the 1984–1985 TV season. The show focused on USAF pilot Colonel Raynor Sarnac (Craig T. Nelson) and his family, living near Edwards Air Force Base. Colonel Raynor Sarnac has to balance his family and his duty as head of a flight group facing the political tensions of the early 60's, where he flies many different military planes for different missions, including the T-38 Talon, the F-4 Phantom II, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, and the SR 71 Blackbird. The series also starred Elisabeth Shue in one of her early roles as the eldest Sarnac child, daughter Jackie.