• 1984
  • 1h
Blue Thunder

Summary An advanced prototype police helicopter and their ground support crew battle crime. View more details

  • 1984
  • 1h

Blue Thunder

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : James Farentino Dana Carvey Sandy McPeak Dick Butkus

All cast & crew

6.1

Details

Genres : Action Thriller Sci-Fi Crime Drama

Release date : Jan 5, 1984

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Production companies : Columbia Pictures Television Rastar Productions Public Arts

Summary An advanced prototype police helicopter and their ground support crew battle crime. View more details

Details

Genres : Action Thriller Sci-Fi Crime Drama

Release date : Jan 5, 1984

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Production companies : Columbia Pictures Television Rastar Productions Public Arts

Photos

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jan 05, 1984
Second Thunder
Before an assembly of police brass that includes his boss Captain Braddock, LA chopper pilot Frank Chaney demonstrates the Blue Thunder, an advanced attack helicopter with powerful surveillance equipment and a 20-mm. Gatling cannon capable of shredding anything. The demonstration goes well despite some hot-dogging by Chaney to the displeasure of Braddock. Braddock, Chaney, and his new co-pilot Clinton Wonderlove (nicknamed JAFO for Just Another Foolish Observer) are teamed with a ground support unit of officers Richard Butowski and Lyman Kelsi as the city is attacked by an old enemy of Chaney, who goes by the name PVC and flies a former Army attack plane that can destroy Blue Thunder.
Episode 2 • Jan 12, 1984
A Clear and Present Danger
A criminal gang using military raid tactics and military weapons to rob banks gets the attention of APEX. When the Blue Thunder crew trace a ground-attack plane to the estate of a local Sheriff, he becomes their prime suspect in the crimes.
Episode 3 • Jan 19, 1984
Arms Race
Frank's friend Aggie Mills has been caught carrying cash destine for arms dealer Harold Longstreet. Frank tries to help his friend and must battle drones in the air.
Episode 4 • Jan 26, 1984
Revenge in the Sky
A fighter jet is stolen. The Feds go to the team and ask for their help in locating the jet. When they find it, the agent who joins them, tells them to shoot it down which they were not told they were going to do. The jet escapes. Frank then asks what's going on, the agent in charge doesn't tell them much, only to do what they are told to. Frank gets close to the agent and she wants to tell him but can't. Later she goes to Frank shot and dies before she can say anything.
Episode 5 • Feb 02, 1984
Trojan Horse
The team helps rescue a person who could give testimony that could send a white collar criminal to prison. The man is sentenced to minimum security prison. Some men try to get him from the transport bringing him to prison. But Frank and Blue Thunder stop him and bring him to prison. Frank tells the Captain that he should ask the powers that be to send him to a maximum security prison. But he doesn't think it's necessary. Later one of the inmates at the prison overhears a conversation he has with his lawyer and it's obvious he is planning something. So he tells Frank and the others. Frank decides to send Ski and Bubba into the prison as a prisoner and guard respectively. Ski gets close to the man to find out what he is up to. He thinks they know what they are planning so Frank gets ready but the man might be on to them.
Episode 6 • Feb 23, 1984
Skydiver
The guys befriend parachutist Gretchen Terrell during an air show. Blue Thunder is tasked with security for a troubled foreign country's embassy party. Unbeknownst to them, Gretchen is married to the leader of the revolt.
Episode 7 • Mar 01, 1984
Clipped Wings
Frank is grounded when another helicopter pilot claims that he interfered with him doing his job. The man turns out to be he who was considered for the Blue Thunder project along with Frank, which Frank got. And he ends up replacing Frank on the team and he is so difficult for the guys to work with, that Ski and Bubba walk off. At the same time, they're looking for someone who was kidnapped. Later Jafo and the man are tasked with delivering the ransom. And Frank, who is now in uniform, finds a lead that takes them to an unexpected person.
Episode 8 • Mar 08, 1984
Payload
It's the space shuttle's first privately funded mission doing a gene splicing experiment that could end germ warfare. Blue Thunder designer Prof Von Hartig helps design an ECM for the helicopter.
Episode 9 • Mar 15, 1984
The Long Flight
Braddock's daughter is kidnapped. Later on instructions of her captor she calls her father who tells him they want Blue Thunder. Frank and the others get a lead on who kidnapped her. They eventually find the man problem is that he is in Mexico so it'll take a lot of work to get them permission to enter the country. The man calls Frank and offers to give the Captain's daughter back if Frank delivers Blue Thunder to him. He gives Frank three hours so while Frank finds a way to get Blue Thunder in the air without the Captain's knowledge, Ski and Bubba go into Mexico and try to find where the Captian's daughter is before he turns blue Thunder over to the man.
Episode 10 • Mar 22, 1984
The Godchild
The team tries to protect a girl who's the grandchild of a recently deceased mobster. It's believed that before the man died he entrusted to her all of his records of his criminal activities. And some of the people he did business with are worried that they could be incriminated. So they've been making attempts on her. Frank tries to convince her to turn them over to them.
Episode 11 • Apr 15, 1984
The Island
Frank is surprised with a special mission. JAFO is replaced by Terry Burke as his co-pilot. They have to stop KGB paid American mercenaries out to assassinate a Caribbean island prime minister.

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