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Second Thunder

In this ""Pilot"" episode of the ABC half season spin-off of the original 1983 blockbuster smash hit under the same name starring Roy Scheider, Warren Oates and Malcolm McDowell, The Blue Thunder Unit take on a ruthless pilot who has been recently aerially assassinating police helicopter units over Los Angeles. In an attempt to settle an old long-lasting score with Frank Chaney, the pilot and leader of The Blue Thunder Unit, the crazed comedian who calls himself ""P.V.C."" contacts Chaney, Braddock and the rest of the team and warns Chaney personally that he is going to blow him out of the sky for what he did a year ago when he destroyed his aircraft with a 12-gauge shotgun during an unsuccessful drug bust while he was a police officer, plus to make sure that he succeeds in transporting a scheduled shipment of drugs over the Mexican border. Still continuing to wipe out airborne police units when very cannily evacuating the entire Astro-Division Building, and with the acknowledge of how the

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  • Originally Aired January 6, 1984
  • Runtime 45 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
  • Network ABC (US)
  • On Other Sites IMDB
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Name Type Role
David Moessinger Writer
Fred McKnight Writer
Jeri Taylor Writer
David Wiley Guest Star
Robert Balderson Guest Star
Troy Evans Guest Star
Richard Lynch Guest Star
Ken Letner Guest Star
Ann Cooper Guest Star
Gilbert M. Shilton Director