Whirlybirds

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Whirlybirds
by Billy Ingram

Whirlybirds is one of those TV shows I remember fondly - even though I only got to see it once a year as a kid. Our local station didn't carry the syndicated adventure program but a station at the beach where we vacationed as a family did.

Whirlybirds aired from 1957 well into the 1960s, a was a syndicated show with a huge juvenile audience. 111 episodes were filmed between 1956 and 1959 but reruns continued to be popular for many years afterward; I saw it in the mid-1960s.

The adventures centered around Chuck Martin (Tobey) and Pete (P.T.) Moore (Hill), owners of 'Whirlybirds, Inc', and their faithful secretary Janet Culver (Sandra Spence).

Actually, Janet left after the first season and was replaced by Helen Carter (Nancy Hale) so I guess she wasn't so faithful after all.

Often the boys would be called in to help the police locate an escaped prisoner, or save some stranded fool out in the middle of nowhere. This would inevitably lead to one of the guys dangling at the end of a rope at some point in the episode - when they didn't just outright jump out of the helicopter. Don't try this at home!

Regards, R Hart

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