Overview
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.
Created by: Guy Magar
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Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1: Second Thunder
Jan 06, 1984
In this ""Pilot"" episode of the ABC half season spin-off of the original 1983 blockbuster smash hit under the same name starring ...
Episode 2: A Clear and Present Danger
Jan 13, 1984
A paramilitary group who call themselves the ""Posse Magistratus"", have been the prime suspects for a series of bank robberies, a...
Episode 3: Arms Race
Jan 20, 1984
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 & gu...
Episode 4: Revenge in the Sky
Jan 27, 1984
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 s...
Episode 5: Trojan Horse
Feb 03, 1984
The witness, also his confidental secretary, who could put her employer, corrupted financier Richard J. Lassiter behind solid steel bars is rescued by...
Episode 6: Skydiver
Feb 24, 1984
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...
Episode 7: Clipped Wings
Mar 02, 1984
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
Episode 8: Payload
Mar 09, 1984
The Space Shuttle Argo, privately funded and arranged without any governmental interference, becomes under threat by a group of weapon dealers who don...
Episode 9: The Long Flight
Mar 16, 1984
Chaney must convince the granddaughter of a dead mobster to turn her grandfather's business documents over to the FBI before his old business ass...
Episode 10: Godchild
Mar 23, 1984
A pair of professional killers, disguised as highway patrol officers, and organised crime connected, perform an unsuccessful attempt on the life of Li...
Episode 11: The Island
Apr 16, 1984
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 Min...
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