Whirlybirds Season 2, Episode 4: The Runaway

1

Seven Were Trapped

While radioing for a weather check, Chuck and P.T. hear of a mine cave-in. They fly to the rescue, but the operation is not as easy as they first supposed.

2

The Ashley Case

Donald Ashley, confined to a wheelchair, is appealing his conviction for the murder of his wife. Chuck and P.T. find a battered license plate of the car in which Ashley's wife disappeared. This means the body and the car are in one

3

Hit And Run

Chuck and P.T. are aloft on an inspection job when they witness a hit-and-run accident. They notify the police and transport the victim to a hospital. With the copter they tow the victim's car out of a gully to where the police arrive to pick it up. However when the police arrive to take it, the car has disappeared.

4

The Runaway

An illegal Mexican immigrant has contracted dread pneumonia plague and is on the run with his pregnant wife, from what he believes to be deportation. The disease is so contagious that the life of anyone he contact is endangered. Chuck and P.T. are hired to fly a doctor to a mysterious rendezvous. They arrive too late.

5

The Brothers

Chuck and P.T. learn that the seven-year-old boy they are searching for has gone to look for his older brother who he thinks has run away from home after a quarrel with their father. The boy is exhausted when found.

6

Search For An Unknown Man

Chuck and P.T. receive a letter from a prospector asking them to fly him out of a mining town. When Chick and P.T. arrive in the lonely spot, they are met by toughs who claim there's no such person as the one being sought.

7

The Killer

A young featherweight boxer, with a hard punch, hears that his last opponent has died of injuries inflicted by him. His spirit is broken by this as his championship bout approaches.

8

The Unwanted

The teenage son of a wealthy family disappears after a quarrel with his beautiful stepmother. Chuck and P.T. search until a ransom note is found and then the hunt takes a different turn when his auto is found abandoned..

9

Mister Q

From their helicopter, Chuck and P.T. spot a boy who has just been thrown from his horse. When they stop to help the rider, they see that the horse is unable to get to his feet.

10

Seven Orchids

P.T. gets a package containing seven bruised orchids and half of a $500 bill from an unknown woman. The phone for the address has been disconnected so P.T. flies there for a look.

11

Father and Son

Chuck and P.T. are hired for a day's outing in which they are hired to fly a boy - a leukemia victim - and his father to the Grand Canyon and then to an all-star football game. The poignant pilots learn that their adult passenger is the head of a crime syndicate.

12

Time Out Of Mind

An unknown man tests Chuck and P.T.'s new helicopter without their permission and claims he is trying to recapture his lost memory.

13

Buy Me A Miracle

A mild-mannered man charters a midnight helicopter ride to a Mexican hamlet on the towns peoples "Day of Miracles" observed only once every ten years. He wishes to repay a long-standing debt by staging a "miracle".

14

Infra-Red

The sheriff's office has tabbed the regular movements of three known drug peddlers but loses them in traffic at the same spot every time they try to follow them. Only two of the sheriff's men, & Chuck and P.T. are in on a plan to trace the "pushers" to their source of supply from the air.

15

An Apple For The Teacher

Miss Churchill, Chuck's former high school teacher- apparently a very self- contained woman hires Chuck and P.T. for her first copter ride to take her to a resort hotel. After the trip Chuck realizes that the day the teacher began her vacation is the first day of school. On inquiring he learns that no one named Churchill has registered at the hotel.

16

Blind Date

Chuck and P.T. are about to fly Julie Cavanaugh to a vacation given her by the "Daily Star" as a promotion stunt. When the photographer is told to "shoot", shots ring out from an uninvited car which speeds away. The shots were all aimed at Julie who was on a "blind date" that ended in murder.

17

Blind Victory

Chuck P.T. are in a aerial search for a murderer-on -the-run, when they see an auto crash and rush a beautiful blonde victim to a hospital. Unknown to them, the blonde has just left the murderer they seek. As a result of the accident, the girl is in danger of losing her sight unless a donor for a corneal transplant can be found.

18

Copters and Robbers

A runaway bride hires the boys to fly her back to he husband's side,but on reaching there they find him murdered. Chuck, P. T. and Helen, their secretary, calm the distraught girl. While they are waiting for the police they encounter a succession of "brothers" all unknown to their supposed "sister".

19

If I Were King

A would be assassin shoots at a man who has come 12,000 miles for a two-hour visit. Chuck and P.T. are hired to take him to the secret rendezvous.

20

Dog Gone

A business tycoon asks Chuck and P.T. to cancel their fishing trip in order to search for his daughter's lost dog.

21

Fear

Three youths, volunteers from a juvenile detention camp, are forced to retreat to a canyon when they are surrounded by the fire they are fighting, Chuck and P.T. take them to an aid station. There they encounter a doctor of whom the youths are terrified.

22

Time To Kill

A top investment counselor feels the only way he can make good for a loss, for which he feels responsible, is to have himself murdered and use the insurance to pay off.

23

Two Came Back

Diane invites teenagers John and Bob to join her a biology trip into a lonely wooded spot. When only Diane and John return, Chuck and P.T. start a search for the missing youth, said to have lost his way in returning to the car.

24

Summit Meeting

Army Intelligence hires Chuck, P.T. and their whirlybird to carry a closely guarded scientist to a secret rocket test. By not using an Army Carrier they hope to avoid drawing attention to their very important passenger, but after an attempt to substitute a fake scientist, they are dogged every inch of the way.

25

Robert Dixon, M.D.

A doctor has a heart attack when summoned to a mysterious rendezvous, and his M.D. son asks Chuck and P.T. to help him keep the appointment.

26

Uncle Pete

On arriving at the Rollins ranch for a job of crop-dusting, Chuck and P.T. find the foreman, Pete Novack, beaten and unconscious, his life-savings missing. They rush him to the hospital where they are told he has a fighting chance, but seems to have lost his will to live.

27

Hideout

Chuck and P.T. innocently carry a young man to the hideout of a murderer.

28

Baby Face

Chuck and P.T. put down in the desert to help a couple they think are eloping, only to find they are escaping from a charge of robbery and murder.

29

Glamor Girl

A movie star involves Chuck and P.T. in the pursuit of a car thatis traveling on a road that is about to be blown up.

30

Address Unknown

Chuck and P.T. attempt to reunite a Korean hero and his sweetheart.

31

The Story of Sister Bridget

Chuck and P.T. fly Sister Bridgit to see one of her former charges. They arrive minutes after the boy has left, armed with a gun.

32

Midnight Show

Chuck and P.T. fly a ventriloquist and his female partner to a benefit performance. Hearing that there is no benefit scheduled, the two performers take a walk along the cliffs. It is here that the girl learns that the man's former partner fell from this cliff to her death.

33

27 Pieces of Gold

Chuck and P.T. meet danger when they answer a young wife’s request that they find her treasure seeking husband.

34

Dead On Arrival

Chuck and P.T. fly a sleepy passenger to his destination but find him dead when they arrive.

35

An Act of Fate

Chuck and P.T. fly a reporter who is assigned a story "Mr. Average American" when they arrive, they find the subject from average. They find a hard-labor camp.

36

Always A Gentleman

Pursuing an escaped prisoner, Chuck and P.T. discover they have flown into an Army firing range.

37

Road Block

Chuck and P.T. are delivering a payroll when they are asked to aid police in pursuing a robber.

38

C.O.D.

Chuck and P.T. fly a wife to meet her husband as he is released from prison, having served time for robbery. When the ex-prisoner returns home, he finds three criminals waiting for him.

39

Rest In Peace

Invited to attend a secret business meeting, Chuck and P.T. witness a murder.