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Season 1

  • S01E01 Operation Urgent

    • April 5, 1952
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E02 Carrier Pigeon

    • April 19, 1952
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E03 Stagecoach Robbers

    • May 3, 1952
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E04 Deadly Cargo

    • May 17, 1952
    • NBC

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

  • S01E05 Jim Bell's Triumph

    • May 31, 1952
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E06 Designing Women

    • June 14, 1952
    • NBC

    Sky becomes suspicious when a Eastern woman shows up in Grover claiming to be the long-lost niece and heir of a dead rancher.

  • S01E07 One for the Money

    • June 28, 1952
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E08 Danger Point

    • July 12, 1952
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E09 Desperate Character

    • July 26, 1952
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E10 The Man Who Forgot

    • August 9, 1952
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E11 The Threatening Bomb

    • August 23, 1952
    • NBC

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

  • S01E12 Speak No Evil

    • September 6, 1952
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E13 Two-Gun Penny

    • September 20, 1952
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E14 Formula for Fear

    • October 4, 1952
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E15 The Giant Eagle

    • October 18, 1952
    • NBC

    Sky investigates a series of mysterious payroll robberies, where the police chase the robbers only to see their getaway car mysteriously disappear.

  • S01E16 Blackmail

    • November 8, 1952
    • NBC

    A local banker is blackmailed by two former confederates who aware of a crime he committed over twenty years ago and was never apprehended.

  • S01E17 Wings of Justice

    • November 22, 1952
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E18 Destruction from the Sky

    • December 6, 1952
    • NBC

    Sky teams up with a military intelligence officer to track down a foreign agent who blew up a secret government project.

  • S01E19 The Porcelain Lion

    • December 20, 1952
    • NBC

    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.

Season 2

Season 3

  • S03E01 Mystery Horse

    • December 29, 1957
    • NBC

    A thoroughbred in a canyon.

  • S03E02 Double Trouble

    • December 29, 1957
    • NBC

    Sky pilots a Navy jet to stop a lookalike flying with explosives in the Songbird toward a military base.

  • S03E03 Note for a Dam

    • January 5, 1958
    • NBC

    Sky and Penny are held captive by a maniac planning to dynamite a waterworks.

  • S03E04 Bad Actor

    • January 5, 1958
    • NBC

    A film unit on location isn't everything it seems.

  • S03E05 Fight for Oil

    • January 12, 1958
    • NBC

    An oilman faces opposition.

  • S03E06 Lost Boy

    • January 12, 1958
    • NBC

    The way to find a boy in the desert is with the Songbird.

  • S03E07 The Brain and the Brawn

    • January 26, 1958
    • NBC

    Mind over matter at the county fair.

  • S03E08 The Feathered Serpent

    • January 26, 1958
    • NBC

    Sky's on the trail of a homing pigeon carrying a jewel.

  • S03E09 The Circus Clown Mystery

    • February 22, 1958
    • NBC

    An unusual suspect description leads Sky and Penny to the big top.

  • S03E10 Dead Man's Will

    • February 22, 1958
    • NBC

    A land dispute takes some investigating to settle.

  • S03E11 Cindy, Come Home

    • March 9, 1958
    • NBC

    A little girl pines away for her absent father.

  • S03E12 Rodeo Decathlon

    • March 9, 1958
    • NBC

    Sky fills in for an injured athlete.

  • S03E13 Abracadabra

    • March 9, 1958
    • NBC

    A famous magician hocus-pocuses a diamond.

  • S03E14 Triple Exposure

    • March 9, 1958
    • NBC

    Philately and the press.

  • S03E15 The Haunted Castle

    • March 16, 1958
    • NBC

    Strange phenomena under investigation.

  • S03E16 Manhunt

    • March 16, 1958
    • NBC

    A fugitive under a misapprehension flees to Mexico.

  • S03E17 Danger at the Sawmill

    • March 16, 1958
    • NBC

    Trouble in the works.

  • S03E18 Sleight of Hand

    • March 23, 1958
    • NBC

    Sharpers lay a snare.

  • S03E19 The Runaway

    • March 23, 1958
    • NBC

    Davey heads for the hills with desperadoes at his heels.

  • S03E20 Stop That Train

    • March 30, 1958
    • NBC

    Dynamiters kidnap Penny.

Season 4

  • S04E01 The Wild Man

    • December 28, 1958
    • NBC

    Someone is against a logging company.

  • S04E02 Sky Robbers

    • December 28, 1958
    • NBC

    A charity pilfered by an air racer.

  • S04E03 A Dog Named Barney

    • December 28, 1958
    • NBC

    A seeing-eye dog trails a stickup artist.

  • S04E04 Bullet Bait

    • December 28, 1958
    • NBC

    Nuptials are interrupted by kidnappers.

  • S04E05 Money Has Wings

    • January 4, 1959
    • NBC

    An undercover job to protect cargo pilots.

  • S04E06 Frog Man

    • January 4, 1959
    • NBC

    Trouble in Reno for a ranch hand's boy.

  • S04E07 Terror Cruise

    • February 1, 1959
    • NBC

    Penny is hijacked on a friend's yacht.

  • S04E08 Runaway Truck

    • February 1, 1959
    • NBC

    The driver has taken an overdose of sleeping pills, and the truck is full of children on a picnic.

  • S04E09 Bounty Hunters

    • February 1, 1959
    • NBC

    Coyotes attack Sky's livestock.

  • S04E10 A Mickey for Sky

    • February 22, 1959
    • NBC

    Overheard mischief on an airliner.

  • S04E11 Dead Giveaway

    • March 1, 1959
    • NBC

    A stolen car ring.

  • S04E12 Ring of Fire

    • March 1, 1959
    • NBC

    A chief refuses medical treatment.

  • S04E13 Mickey's Birthday

    • March 8, 1959
    • NBC

    At an amusement park, smugglers put one over on him.