About this season
Sky King is an American radio and television adventure series. The title character is Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler "Sky" King. The series was likely based on a true-life personality of the 1930s, Jack Cones, the "Flying Constable" of Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California, although this claim is unverified. Although the series had strong western elements, King mostly captured criminals and spies, and found lost hikers with the use of his plane, the Songbird. Though the planes used changed during the course of the series, the later model was not given a number, but was still known as the Songbird. King and his niece, Penny, lived on the Flying Crown Ranch, near the town of Grover, Arizona. Penny and Clipper were also pilots, though still relatively inexperienced and looking to their uncle for guidance and mentoring. Penny was an accomplished air racer and rated multi-engine pilot, whom Sky trusted to fly the Songbird. In the third TV episode, Penny refers to Clipper as "my brother", so they are siblings. The musical score was largely the work of Herschel Burke Gilbert.
Episodes (20)
1. Mystery Horse
Aired 29 December 1957 • 30 min
2. Double Trouble
Aired 29 December 1957 • 30 min
3. Note for a Dam
Aired 5 January 1958 • 30 min
Sky and Penny are held captive by a maniac planning to dynamite a waterworks facility.
4. Bad Actor
Aired 5 January 1958 • 30 min
5. Fight for Oil
Aired 12 January 1958 • 30 min
6. Lost Boy
Aired 12 January 1958 • 30 min
7. The Brain and the Brawn
Aired 26 January 1958 • 30 min
Sky investigates some suspicious happenings at the county fair.
8. The Feathered Serpent
Aired 26 January 1958 • 30 min
After a bird with an emerald attached to its leg lands in penny's garden, Sky King releases it to see where it goes.
9. The Circus Clown Mystery
Aired 22 February 1958 • 30 min
10. Dead Man's Will
Aired 22 February 1958 • 30 min
11. Cindy, Come Home
Aired 11 March 1958 • 30 min
12. Rodeo Decathlon
Aired 9 March 1958 • 30 min
13. Abracadabra
Aired 11 March 1958 • 30 min
14. Triple Exposure
Aired 9 March 1958 • 30 min
15. The Haunted Castle
Aired 16 March 1958 • 30 min
16. Man Hunt
Aired 16 March 1958 • 30 min
Fearing he has killed another boy, Joe Belden, recently released from reform school, flees into the desert. Sheriff Hargrove knows that the Joe's opponent survived the fight, but also knows that Joe, now heavily armed, will think that the law officers are intent on arresting him. He calls upon Sky, whom Joe trusts, to join the man-hunt.
17. Danger at the Sawmill
Aired 16 March 1958 • 30 min
18. Sleight of Hand
Aired 23 March 1958 • 30 min
19. The Runaway
Aired 23 March 1958 • 30 min
20. Stop That Train
Aired 30 March 1958 • 30 min