This show started my life long interest in aviation history and my love for the Corsair. My dad would allow me to stay up to watch it and I was obsessed with it. I completed two Revell kits and had just about every book on the aircraft. It doesn't hold water today, but back in the day, a 9 year old thought the world of it.
@Roger Enright Yeah, Rog, they prob. had to work within their budget..figured no one would notice the inaccuracies/discrepancies. Most people just dont know or care. It was great for what it was..I dug it!! But I do hear ya!!
Same here. I loved the show, watched every episode with my dad, built the models, paid special attention to the corsairs at every airshow I ever found one at. I actually would like to watch them again if I knew where to find the show.
Thats the same story for me, in Mexico the show was called "Los tigres voladores" (The flying tigers) and my love for aviation borned there and of course the fascination for the Corsair... man I LOVE THAT PLANE!... I havent watch a complete show since those times... but tha sound of the alarm at the start of the show moves me to thos times when I was 4 or 5 years old.
I love it, watched the whole series over the summer. Not a huge fan after they revamped it with the Lambs but it was still alright. If you are wanting historical accuracy or the flashiness of modern TV, don’t bother. But if you want a charming, fun, cheese filled show to keep you entertained it is awesome. In that way it is somewhat similar to Star Trek: TOS. And I say that as someone born a decade after it aired.
Same here. It was on opposite Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. We'd claim the living room TV and our mother had to watch on the small bedroom TV. She was outnumberd 3 to 1, lol.
I loved the show. I don't miss dad. He was an ass and pulvarised me when I was little. Cannot tell you how bad at 10 years old it feels to go threw a hollow core door!! Bastard!! Took years of therapy just to be able to talk about it
I was a military pilot for 4 years to include Vietnam and then a Commercial Pilot worldwide for another 38 years, retiring in 2012. I watched this show overseas and enjoyed the fact takeoffs, landings and airstrip scenes were filmed at Indian Dunes near Valencia CA, near where I grew up. And the island scenes were over Santa Cruz Islands, off our coast. What a hoot!
Absolutely loved this show and looked forward to it every week. Robert Conrad was great in this role and the chemistry among the cast members made it something special. Red West (aka MSgt Andy Micklin Maintenance Superintendent VMF214) also passed recently - may both of these stellar actors RIP.
I remember being at a CAF Airshow in the late 80s and Pappy was there signing his book and talking to all of us; and about 200' down was a former Japanese Pilot who had battled Pappy back in the war... have a picture somewhere of these standing together...
I'm here because I. just heard Bob Conrad passed away. He was good on this show and greater on Wild Wild West. One of the last of the real, men's men. R.I.P James West :(
What an indellible impression this show made with me. I was 7 in '78, but had a father who served in WWII, and we'd watch it together. And I absolutely loved the Corsair. Still do.
Memories of me and my dad watching these shows and hearing his war stories (I was 12 in '78). Dad's been gone for 24 years now. Thanks for posting this. 🙏
Sorry about your dad. We watched it together. He was a Navy pilot and of course he wanted me to be a pilot too. He was thrilled I showed some interest in pilot stuff.
Lol... I was 12 too. Thus was my favorite show hands down. I simply couldn't wait every week for this show to come around each week. I too fell in love with the F4U Corsair.
Hey we'rethe same age..😊 i'm an Oct bby myself. I used to love this & other programs like this. Ahhh those great memories of great innocent times .. how i wish i could go back.. just like mom always said would be the case & happen. Seems like a lifetime ago. :) 😊
This show put the Corsair in my sights as my fav plane... Until I started flying rc warbirds and the P51 became my favorite. Loved this show and "NEVER" missed one single episode
There's no telling how many "Baa Baa Black Sheep" Corsair models Revell sold after that show hit the air. I always appreciated the fact that the show didn't make the Japanese into caricatures, but as deadly opponents.
The episode when Boyington and Hirachi both shot each other down and ended up on the island showed how much they respected each other. It was a good episode.
This series, for those who lives in that era, is kinda like a Desert Storm movie-series for us who lives today. When this series was filmed, WWII ended 31 years before, while for us, the first Iraq War ended 30 years before. We now closer to 2050 than to 1990.
My all time favorite show as a kid. I still have an photo autographed by Robert Conrad with a f4u and the shows cast hanging on my wall. They don't make shows like that anymore.
And they'll never make anything like that these days. That's why it has to be on over the air stations. (It's on Saturday evening at 7 PM on H&I over the air.)
Awesome show! really brings back memories. Also loved the fact that if there was a Japanese fighter pilot who 'Pappy' could get really annoyed with, it was Hirachi!
Just a Great series in the late 70’s watched every show… and just love the way the Corsair looks and find it to be the best looking aircraft of WW2 and beyond.
I remember watching this show with my grandfather when I was 4 or 5 y/o. In my country the series was called "The Flying Tigers". Those were the good times!
My plane was getting worked on at Meadow Lake airport in Colorado last spring. Sitting right next to mine was an orange Vans RV-3 with the word "Pappy" hand-written on the cowl. The mechanic said it once belonged to Pappy Boyington. Small world.
I have always LOVED the gorgeous sounding French horns (starting at 0:35 ) in this intro!! You'll also find gorgeous French horn used in the intro to LA Law (from the 1980s)! 😍😍😍
This was the best show growing up! It really got me hooked on this journey of military aviation ,model building and game playing. Thank you so much for having on UA-cam so I can revisit it for inspiration.
12:00 High series is on H&I over the air Saturday night (I think it's midnight). The evening starts with "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and goes on from there with other series about WWII.
I love this show as a young lad!I have always been terrified of flying however, this show was the epitome of great shows in that era. I've always hoped somebody would remake this show so I could watch all the series over again
You’re in a Corsair facing a Zero? Throttle to the wall, you’ve got about 100mph over him level and even more in a dive. At speed, the Corsair outperforms the Zero in every aspect of dogfighting. Stay fast, stay alive.
Yeah, they obviously needed to make it more evenly matched for dramatic purposes. By the time the Corsair was widely deployed the Zekes were showing their age. The carrier Hellcats were more than a match for them too.
Not every aspect. The A6M series was far more maneuverable in a dogfight because it lacked armor. A corsair couldn't out turn a zero, so the preferred method was as you described: full power and dive to gain airspeed.
@@jeffburnham6611 - I believe the Zero’s controls would typically lock-up in a dive, or at the least they became too difficult to be any use (and no hydraulic assistance, remember?). The A6M could out-turn a Corsair in level or ascending fights, but not in a dive.
For the series, they used North American T-6 Texans modified to look like A6M Zeros. As I recall, they had been originally modified for the movie Tora, Tora, Tora, and also used in Midway. I’m guessing that they really had to throttle back the Corsairs when filming.
Loved this series..First year, baa baa black sheep, second year, black sheep squadron. Then canceled. Conrad went onto wild wild west, laroquette went onto night court. Dirk Blocker was Dan Blocker's brother, dan of Bonanza fame.
Wild Wild West was more than ten years *before* the Black Sheep Squadron. It was a couple years before Laroquette did Night Court. Larry Menetti went on to do Magnum PI, Jeff McKay appeared on that as well. Dirk Blocker was Dan Blocker's son.
Great show and I loved it when it was on. I still love it to this day. HOWEVER ... Japanese and American aircraft radios operated on completely different frequencies and could not communicate with each other.
I was in high-school when this show was on TV. I still love it. The National Museum of WW2 Aviation is in Colorado Springs. They have a flying Brewster F3-A Corsair.
Oh my, this brought back long forgotten memories, watching them on black & white tv (towards the end of 70s), without understanding a single bit of whats being said yet glued to watch the dogfight scenes shooting the enemy's (whoever they r, 😁) planes!
I briefly met the real Pappy Boyington at an air show. I was there with my father whot was only 10 years old when Boyington was fighting in the Pacific. I bought Boyington's book, waited in line for him to sign it. Pappy Boyinbton was an old man then, sitting at a folding table, cigarette dangling from his lips as he scratched his name in book after book. I was so happy to have a signed autograph book from a legend. As I returned giddily to my father, himself a former Marine, saw he had been watching from a short distance away. With eyes still on Pappy my father said, "Good Lord, he must hate this." I turned around and saw the whole scene in a completely different light.
Probably not personal though . . . Old man dealing with public was probably wanting to be somewhere else, and could have possibly been suffering from chronic pain of some form of another.
@@wynfrithnichtwo8423 Who knows. That said I think to make the real life experiences of war into a light hearted comedy probably wasn’t the best way to handle it. I think some things Hollywood could’ve done better. But I guess that’s why I’m a college student pursuing a degree in history and not a filmmaker.
When I was a kid there was a company in St Louis called Couples Products that built commercial windows and they had a Corsair that they used as a wind generator for testing purposes. It had the outer wings and tail section taken off but when I would see it I would think of this show. I knew what kind of plane it was.
Know a drummer friend of Mine in SoCal, worked @ TWA as a mechanic, met /worked with Red West's son..said his dad was really a pisser!! Quite a character. He was scripted in the 2nd Season..
My friend, Jake, and I would play the video game, "Tail Gunner" at the arcade. When the enemy was on our tail, one of us would always do the Hirachi impression.
I'd forgotten Jon Larroqette, Larry Manetti and Jeff MacKay were in the series. Loved it as a kid but I'm thinking I'll go be going through them again shortly. R.I.P Robert Conrad.
They wonder why gen X doesn't take any sh-crap...We had this AWESOME show to watch every week. I would've definitely knocked that battery off of Robert's shoulder...lol
used to LOVE this show as a little kid!...but i was too young to understand how scheduling worked, so only was able to randomly watch little bits like 5x over its whole run. lol, in the 80s and 90s i was convinced it was a phantom memory because none of my friends ever saw the show and no one knew what i was talking about (no wikipedia or youtube around back then to look up cultural artifacts). xD
My dad and i watched this show also. In 3rd grade, I would draw pictures of airplanes attaching attacking Japanese planes and would pretend I was a taking off in a corsair at the top of the slide with complete preflight checks.
I watched this show during the short time it was on, but I didn't know at the time that some of the real Black Sheep veterans didn't care for the show, and were not pleased that Pappy Boyington was involved with it. I read the book by VMF 214's intelligence officer, the late Frank Walton, he called it "Hollywood hokum," and that the Black Sheep flyers were wrongly portrayed as "fugitives from courts-martial." So they were not "misfits and screwballs." "Boyington's Black Sheep consisted of 49 pilots, one Flight Surgeon, one Intelligence Officer." A total of 12 Black Sheep pilots were lost during the squadron's two combat tours (4 during the first, 8 during the second).
This show started my life long interest in aviation history and my love for the Corsair. My dad would allow me to stay up to watch it and I was obsessed with it. I completed two Revell kits and had just about every book on the aircraft. It doesn't hold water today, but back in the day, a 9 year old thought the world of it.
Same here, I really don't want to look at these shows because I fear they will be a disappointment, but back in the day they were THE SHIT!!!
That's okay & good. Was an education for you, studied a great airplane. Ed McMahon was a Corsair pilot..
@Roger Enright Yeah, Rog, they prob. had to work within their budget..figured no one would notice the inaccuracies/discrepancies. Most people just dont know or care. It was great for what it was..I dug it!! But I do hear ya!!
Same here. I loved the show, watched every episode with my dad, built the models, paid special attention to the corsairs at every airshow I ever found one at. I actually would like to watch them again if I knew where to find the show.
Thats the same story for me, in Mexico the show was called "Los tigres voladores" (The flying tigers) and my love for aviation borned there and of course the fascination for the Corsair... man I LOVE THAT PLANE!... I havent watch a complete show since those times... but tha sound of the alarm at the start of the show moves me to thos times when I was 4 or 5 years old.
Omg I loved this show when I was a kid.
So did I. Now 40 years later all I can do it pick out the flaws. Getting old sucks.
@@donaldbadowski290 LOL it does suck when we were kids thinking about growing up was cool. Nope, it really sucks.
Me, too. Picking out the flaws, but still could go for a coupla episodes just to watch Corsairs fly in combat.
I love it, watched the whole series over the summer. Not a huge fan after they revamped it with the Lambs but it was still alright.
If you are wanting historical accuracy or the flashiness of modern TV, don’t bother. But if you want a charming, fun, cheese filled show to keep you entertained it is awesome.
In that way it is somewhat similar to Star Trek: TOS.
And I say that as someone born a decade after it aired.
Loving the old schools
I remember watching this with my dad. I was 10. Miss you dad.
Me too but I was like 8. Miss my dad too.
Same here. It was on opposite Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. We'd claim the living room TV and our mother had to watch on the small bedroom TV. She was outnumberd 3 to 1, lol.
Me too,probably 10 years or little more. Iloved those days when Iwatched new episodes. Happy days!
La squadriglia delle pecore nere.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I loved the show. I don't miss dad. He was an ass and pulvarised me when I was little. Cannot tell you how bad at 10 years old it feels to go threw a hollow core door!! Bastard!! Took years of therapy just to be able to talk about it
I loved this show when I was a kid! Hirachi episodes were the best. "Hey Boyington, you guy really bad today" Hilarious!
I was a military pilot for 4 years to include Vietnam and then a Commercial Pilot worldwide for another 38 years, retiring in 2012. I watched this show overseas and enjoyed the fact takeoffs, landings and airstrip scenes were filmed at Indian Dunes near Valencia CA, near where I grew up. And the island scenes were over Santa Cruz Islands, off our coast. What a hoot!
Welcome home and thank you for your service!!
Thank you for your service!
Absolutely loved this show and looked forward to it every week. Robert Conrad was great in this role and the chemistry among the cast members made it something special. Red West (aka MSgt Andy Micklin Maintenance Superintendent VMF214) also passed recently - may both of these stellar actors RIP.
Tommy was the best lol....
"Boyington, I don't like you!!"
@@Swlabr61 Micklin didn't like him but they both respected one another.
I remember being at a CAF Airshow in the late 80s and Pappy was there signing his book and talking to all of us; and about 200' down was a former Japanese Pilot who had battled Pappy back in the war... have a picture somewhere of these standing together...
I'm here because I. just heard Bob Conrad passed away. He was good on this show and greater on Wild Wild West. One of the last of the real, men's men. R.I.P James West :(
Me too. RIP Robert. :(
wtf is a Men's Men?
@@dennis141288 not any boys today, thats for sure.
I didn’t know he died ): wow these where a huge part of my childhood! I’m 20 now and watched these so much as a kid!
He was Made in Chicago, IL. (southside)
What an indellible impression this show made with me. I was 7 in '78, but had a father who served in WWII, and we'd watch it together. And I absolutely loved the Corsair. Still do.
Memories of me and my dad watching these shows and hearing his war stories (I was 12 in '78). Dad's been gone for 24 years now. Thanks for posting this. 🙏
@The Oxxidental Oxx 👍
Sorry about your dad. We watched it together. He was a Navy pilot and of course he wanted me to be a pilot too. He was thrilled I showed some interest in pilot stuff.
same here, i watch it every Saturday night now for the memories.
Lol... I was 12 too. Thus was my favorite show hands down. I simply couldn't wait every week for this show to come around each week. I too fell in love with the F4U Corsair.
Hey we'rethe same age..😊 i'm an Oct bby myself.
I used to love this & other programs like this. Ahhh those great memories of great innocent times .. how i wish i could go back.. just like mom always said would be the case & happen.
Seems like a lifetime ago. :) 😊
This show put the Corsair in my sights as my fav plane... Until I started flying rc warbirds and the P51 became my favorite.
Loved this show and "NEVER" missed one single episode
The Corsair was an awesome plane, and this was must see TV when I was a kid.
I loved Hirachi.... I had fun emulating him in multiple flight simulators (including the smack talk)
. I learned to love the A6M Zero!!!
I fly as Prey_4_U in cfs2 loved the zero
There's no telling how many "Baa Baa Black Sheep" Corsair models Revell sold after that show hit the air. I always appreciated the fact that the show didn't make the Japanese into caricatures, but as deadly opponents.
yeah...I wasted a few of them myself as a kid...accidents with fireworks happen
The episode when Boyington and Hirachi both shot each other down and ended up on the island showed how much they respected each other. It was a good episode.
So far I've built 8 Corsairs, and just got a Tamiya 1/48 scale one recently. Love em!
of course you don't want to turn your enemy into cartoon characters but into competent adversaries... otherwise all stories become boring.
Amazing how the coast of California looks like the jungles of the South Pacific.
This series, for those who lives in that era, is kinda like a Desert Storm movie-series for us who lives today. When this series was filmed, WWII ended 31 years before, while for us, the first Iraq War ended 30 years before. We now closer to 2050 than to 1990.
More like the Rat Patrol
My all time favorite show as a kid. I still have an photo autographed by Robert Conrad with a f4u and the shows cast hanging on my wall. They don't make shows like that anymore.
And they'll never make anything like that these days. That's why it has to be on over the air stations. (It's on Saturday evening at 7 PM on H&I over the air.)
@@Eyes-of-Horus Very sad, very true!!
BLACK SHEEP SQUADRON was one of my favorite series. Thanks for posting this!
You're welcome, William. More to come...
Awesome show! really brings back memories. Also loved the fact that if there was a Japanese fighter pilot who 'Pappy' could get really annoyed with, it was Hirachi!
This was my favorite show growing up!
Just a Great series in the late 70’s watched every show… and just love the way the Corsair looks and find it to be the best looking aircraft of WW2 and beyond.
I was a member of an Naval Aviation Patrol Squadron VP1 from '68-'71 including a tour in Vietnam. This show is a favorite.
Thank u!!
Awesome show. Whole family would gather to watch.
I remember watching this show with my grandfather when I was 4 or 5 y/o. In my country the series was called "The Flying Tigers". Those were the good times!
My plane was getting worked on at Meadow Lake airport in Colorado last spring. Sitting right next to mine was an orange Vans RV-3 with the word "Pappy" hand-written on the cowl. The mechanic said it once belonged to Pappy Boyington. Small world.
wow I used to watch this when I was little kiddo, its been decades since I watched. Forgot all about it and then YT randomly puts in my feed. Nice.
I have always LOVED the gorgeous sounding French horns (starting at 0:35 ) in this intro!!
You'll also find gorgeous French horn used in the intro to LA Law (from the 1980s)! 😍😍😍
This was the best show growing up!
It really got me hooked on this journey of military aviation ,model building and game playing. Thank you so much for having on UA-cam so I can revisit it for inspiration.
LOVED THIS SHOW GROWING UP, ACTUALLY I WANTED TO BE A PILOT 👨✈️ BACK THEN AND STILL.GREAT VIDEO 👍👍
REST IN PEACE CAPY
This was a great show.
I used to love this show, looking back now after many years it was so corny😂
Yep, and that's okay!
La squadriglia delle Pecore Nere.Bellissimi i film che peccato che non sono stati più fatti in televisione.Li guardavo da giovane.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Most beautiful plane ever built in my opinion.
We always looked forward to seeing Tommy H. He was hilarious. His classic "Hey Boyington" always gets me.
I loved watching this show with my dad, when I was a kid.
RIP Mr. Robert Conrad. 02/08/2020
The history channel needs to re air these shows and get rid of all those pawn
I totally agree.
Amen brother !!!!!!!
Yes!
It's on Saturday evening at 7 PM on H&I over the air.
@@Eyes-of-Horus clarify what H& I is?
12 0 Clock High reruns and this show got me into aviation. This and Bachmann mini planes. 1973-77. R.I.P my childhood hero. Robert Conrad.
12:00 High series is on H&I over the air Saturday night (I think it's midnight). The evening starts with "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and goes on from there with other series about WWII.
Clip also includes John Larroquette in his pre-Night Court days!!!
Loved this show as a kid in Sydney Australia.
I love this show as a young lad!I have always been terrified of flying however, this show was the epitome of great shows in that era. I've always hoped somebody would remake this show so I could watch all the series over again
Best television show ever
Hirachi: Hey bowintounge!
Pappy: What do you want tommy?
Hirachi: Jush wanna whish u gui's... Happy landngs :D
He helped make the show
You’re in a Corsair facing a Zero? Throttle to the wall, you’ve got about 100mph over him level and even more in a dive. At speed, the Corsair outperforms the Zero in every aspect of dogfighting. Stay fast, stay alive.
Yeah, they obviously needed to make it more evenly matched for dramatic purposes. By the time the Corsair was widely deployed the Zekes were showing their age. The carrier Hellcats were more than a match for them too.
Not every aspect. The A6M series was far more maneuverable in a dogfight because it lacked armor. A corsair couldn't out turn a zero, so the preferred method was as you described: full power and dive to gain airspeed.
@@jeffburnham6611 - I believe the Zero’s controls would typically lock-up in a dive, or at the least they became too difficult to be any use (and no hydraulic assistance, remember?). The A6M could out-turn a Corsair in level or ascending fights, but not in a dive.
For the series, they used North American T-6 Texans modified to look like A6M Zeros. As I recall, they had been originally modified for the movie Tora, Tora, Tora, and also used in Midway. I’m guessing that they really had to throttle back the Corsairs when filming.
I think the Corsairs had an 11-1 kill ratio over the Japanese planes. I don't think any Japanese pilots were mocking the USA at that point.
I loved this show as a kid ❤!
Loved this series..First year, baa baa black sheep, second year, black sheep squadron. Then canceled. Conrad went onto wild wild west, laroquette went onto night court. Dirk Blocker was Dan Blocker's brother, dan of Bonanza fame.
Wild Wild West was more than ten years *before* the Black Sheep Squadron.
It was a couple years before Laroquette did Night Court.
Larry Menetti went on to do Magnum PI, Jeff McKay appeared on that as well.
Dirk Blocker was Dan Blocker's son.
ohhh show was so good, i have alle the dvd's.....love it so much ;)
Great show and I loved it when it was on. I still love it to this day. HOWEVER ... Japanese and American aircraft radios operated on completely different frequencies and could not communicate with each other.
Most. Japanese fighters didn't even have a radio.
My favorite show to watch each week. Should have never been canceled. ❤😢
We all wish ... Knight Rider only had 4 seasons.
When they brought in "Pappy's Lambs", and Peter Frampton and the blonde hearthrob it was all but over. All good things must end.
@@marshmutt8975 Unfortunately Stephen Cannell wanted to edge Charlie's Angels.
I watched this show all the time
This was my favorite show when I was a kid. I'm so glad I didn't know then what I know now.
My grandpa & I would watch this show every Saturday afternoon. We were both enthralled.
Man I loved this Show. Still do.
Always liked this show
I had forgotten that John Larroquette was on this show. Loved this show as a kid.
This was great Television. Years from now this is what we will watch instead of this stupid reality television
Happy Memorial Day to all vets and their loved ones.
My favorite serie since 1984!!!!
☺☺☺☺☺
I was in high-school when this show was on TV. I still love it. The National Museum of WW2 Aviation is in Colorado Springs. They have a flying Brewster F3-A Corsair.
It is actually true that pappy use to speak Japanese and goad the pilots on the ground to come up and fight.
Wow!! Wasnt aware of that!!
I love this TV show and remember they had this TV show on the history channel before .
Love the show. Have it on dvd
Corsair was such a cool looking fighter
I used to hate that plane but after watching that show I started to like it!
Very distinct
Mean looking predator of the skies, love that gull wing. F4 phantom also looks mean, similar reasons.
It was an excellent show have a good day 👍😊.
Oh my, this brought back long forgotten memories, watching them on black & white tv (towards the end of 70s), without understanding a single bit of whats being said yet glued to watch the dogfight scenes shooting the enemy's (whoever they r, 😁) planes!
1978: There's a "zeek" on my tail. 2020: There's a nice gentleman from the nation of Japan on my tail.
first, it's a Zeke. Second, that's the nickname for the plane, you idiot.
@@jonnyb70 You are correct, you just don't need to be an ass about it.
@@jonnyb70 Fighters were named after boys and bombers named after girls.
"Zeke" was the nickname of the A6M Rei-sen (Zero) fighter. "Zeke" is obviously not a Japanese name numbnuts.
I briefly met the real Pappy Boyington at an air show. I was there with my father whot was only 10 years old when Boyington was fighting in the Pacific. I bought Boyington's book, waited in line for him to sign it. Pappy Boyinbton was an old man then, sitting at a folding table, cigarette dangling from his lips as he scratched his name in book after book. I was so happy to have a signed autograph book from a legend. As I returned giddily to my father, himself a former Marine, saw he had been watching from a short distance away. With eyes still on Pappy my father said, "Good Lord, he must hate this." I turned around and saw the whole scene in a completely different light.
Probably not personal though . . . Old man dealing with public was probably wanting to be somewhere else, and could have possibly been suffering from chronic pain of some form of another.
@@wynfrithnichtwo8423 Who knows. That said I think to make the real life experiences of war into a light hearted comedy probably wasn’t the best way to handle it. I think some things Hollywood could’ve done better. But I guess that’s why I’m a college student pursuing a degree in history and not a filmmaker.
When I was a kid there was a company in St Louis called Couples Products that built commercial windows and they had a Corsair that they used as a wind generator for testing purposes. It had the outer wings and tail section taken off but when I would see it I would think of this show. I knew what kind of plane it was.
I used to run around the house with a model Corsair when this show came out.
I like it when he calls him Tommy, or Rice ball, 😊😊😊
I forgot about ol Red West of The Memphis Mafia fame being in this.
I ALWAYS liked Red in everything he was in . What a shame Elvis dumped him for trying to save his life .
Red was in the Marines
He made a great Sergeant. Tough and taking no crap from anyone.
He was also in Roadhouse with Patrick Swayze
Know a drummer friend of Mine in SoCal, worked @ TWA as a mechanic, met /worked with Red West's son..said his dad was really a pisser!! Quite a character. He was scripted in the 2nd Season..
Love those bent wing birds...
My friend, Jake, and I would play the video game, "Tail Gunner" at the arcade. When the enemy was on our tail, one of us would always do the
Hirachi impression.
I'd forgotten Jon Larroqette, Larry Manetti and Jeff MacKay were in the series. Loved it as a kid but I'm thinking I'll go be going through them again shortly. R.I.P Robert Conrad.
Dirk Blocker as Jerry Bragg Dan Blockers son (Hoss on Bonanza) can see the resemblance
Good show!
Very good show 💪💜💜👍
Okay, I'll give you that one for sure. At that age, it must have been very exciting.
Would somebody please tell Hollywood that a 1970's tv show has better dogfighting scenes than anything Bay or Emmerich can serve up?
Yo las miraba de niño con mi abuelo estaban bien padre las pasaban en los 80 saludos desde Monterrey nuevo León México 👍👍👍
my father was a corsair pilot VMF 121. he fought at peleliu. he liked seeing the planes but thought it was pretty fakey
Salute to him. Peleliu was a nightmare.
Even Pappy Boyington admitted that the series was like 90% made up.
They had Corsairs,of course they would be the terror of the pacific.
Now a Captain at a major US airline. Thanks Bob!
I love this tv show and Robert conard played a good major boyington.
They wonder why gen X doesn't take any sh-crap...We had this AWESOME show to watch every week.
I would've definitely knocked that battery off of Robert's shoulder...lol
used to LOVE this show as a little kid!...but i was too young to understand how scheduling worked, so only was able to randomly watch little bits like 5x over its whole run. lol, in the 80s and 90s i was convinced it was a phantom memory because none of my friends ever saw the show and no one knew what i was talking about (no wikipedia or youtube around back then to look up cultural artifacts). xD
Douglas Harl
You needed to hang with better kids.
I love that plane
I LOVED this show! ✨👏🏼😎✨🇺🇸
I used to love this show
Step dad a marine used to watch this every week
Why didn't i cry in 1978 as a 10-year-old watching the opening with the theme song?
Hey I remember watching this when I was a pup.
The Devil in the Slot. One of my favorites.
My dad and i watched this show also. In 3rd grade, I would draw pictures of airplanes attaching attacking Japanese planes and would pretend I was a taking off in a corsair at the top of the slide with complete preflight checks.
Hitachi was my favorite!!!😂😂
Hitachi made televisions. Hirachi shot the shit out of Pappy's F4U
@@jimbosc well sorry I misspelled it, the AUTO CORRECT ON MY PHONE caused that, I guess you are the only person who has never had that Problem.
Still get goose bumps from this intro.
I dare you to knock this battery off my shoulder
"Come on, I dare ya": ua-cam.com/video/HA6mksFu2vc/v-deo.html
I watched this show during the short time it was on, but I didn't know at the time that some of the real Black Sheep veterans didn't care for the show, and were not pleased that Pappy Boyington was involved with it. I read the book by VMF 214's intelligence officer, the late Frank Walton, he called it "Hollywood hokum," and that the Black Sheep flyers were wrongly portrayed as "fugitives from courts-martial." So they were not "misfits and screwballs."
"Boyington's Black Sheep consisted of 49 pilots, one Flight Surgeon, one Intelligence Officer."
A total of 12 Black Sheep pilots were lost during the squadron's two combat tours (4 during the first, 8 during the second).
I fell in love with his dog lol
As a kid I loved this show it’s still my favorite from that time but the real stars for me were the planes.
Niño fue mi gran sueño y todavía recuerdo la serie
A normal day in War Thunder when you're playing with allied teams.