Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder

1984 1 Seasons ⭐ 6.929
Action & Adventure Crime Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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.

Seasons

1. Second Thunder

1984-01-06

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, …

2. A Clear and Present Danger

1984-01-13 • ⭐ 5.5

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 W…

3. Arms Race

1984-01-20 • ⭐ 5.5

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 pl…

4. Revenge in the Sky

1984-01-27 • ⭐ 5.0

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 Bruc…

5. Trojan Horse

1984-02-03 • ⭐ 4.0

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 a…

6. Skydiver

1984-02-24 • ⭐ 4.0

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…

7. Clipped Wings

1984-03-02 • ⭐ 4.0

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

8. Payload

1984-03-09 • ⭐ 4.0

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 bacter…

9. The Long Flight

1984-03-16 • ⭐ 4.0

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

10. Godchild

1984-03-23 • ⭐ 4.0

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 re…

11. The Island

1984-04-16 • ⭐ 4.0

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

Top Cast

James Farentino
James Farentino
Dana Carvey
Dana Carvey
Sandy McPeak
Sandy McPeak
Dick Butkus
Dick Butkus
Bubba Smith
Bubba Smith

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