Blue Thunder (1984–1984)

TV ShowEndedABCAction, Adventure1 season, 11 episodes
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Plot

Based on the action-packed blockbuster film of the same name, Blue Thunder stars James Farentino (Police Story), Dana Carvey (Saturday Night Live) and NFL greats Dick Butkus and Bubba Smith, dishing out their own brand of justice. The high-tech, turbo-speed aircraft known as the Blue Thunder was created by the federal goverment as the ultimate weapon in the war on crime. It can see through walls, record a whisper or even level an entire city block in seconds. When terror rains down, Blue Thunder will always follow.

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  1. 01Blue Thunder S01E02A Clear and Present DangerS01E02 · 5.5A 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 plane and stop the whole game, Chaney and Wonderlove attempt to track it down, based on various aerial police sightings. When accomplishing this, Chaney spots gun mounts on a plane that they performed an unauthorised thermograph upon, and results in not in the state of valid evidence to charge the Sheriff who owns it for the state-threatening operations. However that same day, the same World War II figher plane attacks them, and ends up being shot down by Chaney in Blue Thunder. To posess reliable and sufficent evidence to charge the ''Posse Magistrates'' of the crimes they have took out, Ski goes undercover as a mechanic, but it isn't long until Chaney and Wonderlove discover that the group plan to kill one of the cities' main councilmen at the Queen Mary s
  2. 02Blue Thunder S01E03Arms RaceS01E03 · 5.5Aggie 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 a success, and turns out to be a smokescreen, Bubba and Ski are assigned to go undercover as truck mechanics, but they also accidentally discover that Aggie Mills is not all what she says she is, and happens to be associating with the man in-charge of the whole operation, Harold Longstreet. When Bubba and Ski are caught red-handed while placing a radar receiver on one of the trucks, in order for Chaney and Braddock to know where the drugs and the weapons are being ferried from, its a race against time for Chaney and Wonderlove to save their two crew members, and prevent Longstreet and Mills from getting away, unconvicted.
  3. 03Blue Thunder S01E04Revenge in the SkyS01E04 · 5.0An 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 Thunder crew to participate immmediately in an in-depth search for the lost jet fighter, which with the proper treatment could be converted into a lethal weapon which could not be recovered by the government. Chaney is dis-satisifed with Walsh not providing substantial information regarding the hi-jack but Walsh covers his own with the excuse of Apex having their full acceptance with the FBI on this case. Throughtout the assignment, Chaney soon starts to develop a very romantic and cosy relationship with Walsh's assistant, Kate Cunningham, who unforuntely later on is killed just before she arrives at Chaney's house and mumbles the words ""K.G.B."". The search turns into an evenmore vengeful one, but when revealing the location of the Sabre jet, Blue Thunder i

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode11Episodes1984Aired 4.4Season avg
  1. S01E01Blue Thunder S01E01Second ThunderJanuary 6, 1984—In this ""Pilot"" episode of the ABC half season spin-off of the original 1983 blockbuster smash hit under the same name starring Roy Scheid
  2. S01E02Blue Thunder S01E02Season's bestA Clear and Present DangerJanuary 13, 1984 5.5A paramilitary group who call themselves the ""Posse Magistratus"", have been the prime suspects for a series of bank robberies, and one par
  3. S01E03Blue Thunder S01E03Arms RaceJanuary 20, 1984 5.5Aggie 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 & g
  4. S01E04Blue Thunder S01E04Revenge in the SkyJanuary 27, 1984 5.0An F-86 Sabre jet is stolen from an airfield by a group of KGB mercenaries, followed by an intense but unsuccessful chase by security person
  5. S01E05Blue Thunder S01E05Trojan HorseFebruary 3, 1984 4.0The witness, also his confidental secretary, who could put her employer, corrupted financier Richard J. Lassiter behind solid steel bars is
  6. S01E06Blue Thunder S01E06SkydiverFebruary 24, 1984 4.0Madame Eva Parada, the president of Sumora, is inviting major U.S. business corporations to set-up branchs in her country, by signing lease
  7. S01E07Blue Thunder S01E07Clipped WingsMarch 2, 1984 4.0Chaney's arch rival is given control of Blue Thunder after Chaney is reassigned for breaking off a drug stake out in order to pursue kidnapp
  8. S01E08Blue Thunder S01E08PayloadMarch 9, 1984 4.0The Space Shuttle Argo, privately funded and arranged without any governmental interference, becomes under threat by a group of weapon deale
  9. S01E09Blue Thunder S01E09The Long FlightMarch 16, 1984 4.0Chaney must convince the granddaughter of a dead mobster to turn her grandfather's business documents over to the FBI before his old busines
  10. S01E10Blue Thunder S01E10GodchildMarch 23, 1984 4.0A pair of professional killers, disguised as highway patrol officers, and organised crime connected, perform an unsuccessful attempt on the
  11. S01E11Blue Thunder S01E11The IslandApril 16, 1984 4.0The Blue Thunder team journeys to a small Caribbean island to prevent American mercenaries, who have been hired by the KGB, from killing the

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Cast

James FarentinoJames FarentinoFrank ChaneyDana CarveyDana CarveyClinton WonderloveSandy McPeakSandy McPeakCaptain BraddockDick ButkusDick ButkusRichard ButowskiBubba SmithBubba SmithLyman Kelsey

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TrailerABC Monday Night promo April 1984

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