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COLLECTION · Series · 1984

Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder is a 1984 ABC television series based on the movie of the same title featuring the Blue Thunder helicopter. The series uses the converted Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopter and large portions of stock footage from the 1983 film. A ground unit named "Rolling Thunder" backed up the helicopter in the television series. This was a large support van with a desert camouflage off-road vehicle stored inside. The television series cast includes James Farentino, Dana Carvey, and former professional American football players Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus. The series was canceled by ABC after they felt the similar Airwolf on CBS would win the ratings battle. Also, the series aired at the same time as the CBS soap opera Dallas on Friday nights, and lost. Eleven episodes were made before the series was cancelled.

Source: TMDB
* 6.9 (126)ActionAdventureCrimeDramaFantasyScience FictionUnited States
Creators
Guy Magar
Countries
United States
Studios
ABC · Columbia Pictures Television · Rastar Productions
Runtime
49 min/ep
Release
06/01/1984
Score
6.9 / 10 (126)
Where to watch
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
11 episodes · 1984
Second Thunder
Episode 1. Second Thunder
1984-01-06 · 49 min

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…

A Clear and Present Danger
Episode 2. A Clear and Present Danger
1984-01-13 · 49 min

A paramilitary group who call themselves the ""Posse Magistratus"", have been the prime suspects for a series of bank robberies, and one particulary involving a heavily-modified World War II fighter plane. In order to track down this…

Arms Race
Episode 3. Arms Race
1984-01-20 · 49 min

Aggie Mills, an former flame of Chaney's who he knew back in the Vietnam War, comes for help via the FBI to distort a much-growing drugs & gun smuggling ring, extending to more places than just Los Angeles. When the first operation is not…

Revenge in the Sky
Episode 4. Revenge in the Sky
1984-01-27 · 49 min

An F-86 Sabre jet is stolen from an airfield by a group of KGB mercenaries, followed by an intense but unsuccessful chase by security personnel. The subsequent day, FBI agent Bruce Walsh informs Captain Braddock, Chaney and the Blue…

Trojan Horse
Episode 5. Trojan Horse
1984-02-03 · 49 min

The witness, also his confidental secretary, who could put her employer, corrupted financier Richard J. Lassiter behind solid steel bars is rescued by the Blue Thunder unit from an estate where her kidnappers were previously holding her…

Skydiver
Episode 6. Skydiver
1984-02-24 · 49 min

Madame Eva Parada, the president of Sumora, is inviting major U.S. business corporations to set-up branchs in her country, by signing lease agreements, however a small rebel group, who call themselves ""The Revolutionary Forces of…

Clipped Wings
Episode 7. Clipped Wings
1984-03-02 · 49 min

Chaney's arch rival is given control of Blue Thunder after Chaney is reassigned for breaking off a drug stake out in order to pursue kidnappers

Payload
Episode 8. Payload
1984-03-09 · 49 min

The Space Shuttle Argo, privately funded and arranged without any governmental interference, becomes under threat by a group of weapon dealers who don't want their sales of bacterial weapons falling down heavily because of this. This is…

The Long Flight
Episode 9. The Long Flight
1984-03-16 · 49 min

Chaney must convince the granddaughter of a dead mobster to turn her grandfather's business documents over to the FBI before his old business associates kill her to get them

Godchild
Episode 10. Godchild
1984-03-23 · 49 min

A pair of professional killers, disguised as highway patrol officers, and organised crime connected, perform an unsuccessful attempt on the life of Lisa Ritchie at an exclusive restaurant, located near Farrow Beach of the Pacific Coast…

The Island
Episode 11. The Island
1984-04-16 · 49 min

The Blue Thunder team journeys to a small Caribbean island to prevent American mercenaries, who have been hired by the KGB, from killing the Prime Minister

Cast by season
James Farentino
James Farentino
Frank Chaney
Dana Carvey
Dana Carvey
Clinton Wonderlove
Sandy McPeak
Sandy McPeak
Captain Braddock
Dick Butkus
Dick Butkus
Richard Butowski
Bubba Smith
Bubba Smith
Lyman Kelsey
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