Pan Am TV show coming soon... (and other flying drama series)

[NorthernKestrel]

New show on Pan Am airing next month in the US (and also snapped up by BBC2) - seems to be aining to do Mad Men with 707s...

Good summary here on the RAeS site of previous attempts to bring flying to the small screen - with mixed results...

Does flying make good TV drama? | Community | The Royal Aeronautical Society (http://media.aerosociety.com/aerospace-insight/2011/08/22/does-flying-make-good-tv-drama/5164/)

Don't know why some of these (better) ones can't be repeated - like The Plane Makers, Pathfinders, or Piece of Cake... especially considering the dross that makes it on our screens... (Total WipeOut?????)

[Tankertrashnav]

Not drama I know - but I loved "Diamonds in the Sky" about the early days of airlines, presented IIRC by Brian Pettifer.

There were a couple of dramas about post war civil aviation as I recall, one with Roy Marsden flying a DC3 (?) and another one I vaguely remember about an airline which operated a single Britannia - anyone else remember that one or did I make it up :confused:

One big mistake they always make with the military ones are the actors playing the pilots are always too young and handsome - not enough fat bald ones to give it that true-to-life feel!

[Phileas Fogg]

The Britannia, or CL44, or whatever, I recall as being 'Redair' using the airline 'Redcoat' ... I think, but my brain cells aren't what they were :)

The Roy Marsden one I recall being quoted to be actually based on the early days of British Air Ferries.

Talking of PanAm ... How's Gaddafi getting along, have they got him yet?

[JEM60]

Phileas, you are correct. A Britannia was used. Sadly, shortly after the series was filmed, I believe this aircraft crashed near Boston Mass. after icing problems, only the engineer surviving.

[Phileas Fogg]

Here we go, it was called 'Buccaneer':

Buccaneer (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccaneer_(TV_series))

[Groundloop]

The Roy Marsden series was simply called "Airline" and his airline was called Ruskin Air Services.

[merlinxx]

Which US network ?

[teeteringhead]

And the name of the pilot character in Buccaneer was ..........









........... Tony Blair!!!!:sad:

[NorthernKestrel]

It's ABC in the US - but BBC2 will be showing it in UK at some unspecified date.

'Buccaneers' - never watched that but amused that lead character was T Blair!! (Don't tell me - chief financial officer of that fictional airline was a bitter rival - G Brown...!)

[merlinxx]

Starts 10pm central on 25 Sept. Check Watch Full Episodes for Free Online - Pan Am - ABC.com (http://www.abc.go.com/shows/pan-am)

Tis free :ok:

Thks again Kestral

PS. just been told by a chum in SJC

[compton3bravo]

Yes Buccaneer used the Redcoat Britannia with most of the ground shots being filmed at Cranfield in Bedfordshire just a short hop from Luton where Redcoat was based.
A much earlier BBC children's series - around the late 1950s had a Captain Halliday who was played by Terence Longdon who unfortunately has just passed away. I cannot remember the title but it used a Silver City DC-3 and even though it was a children's programme it had a large adult following. Will give the Pan Am programme a look - if it is made by HBO then I think it will be good.

[cliver029]

C3B

It was called Garry Halliday.;)

CDR