Sky King(1952–1959)

Operation Urgent

During a fierce thunderstorm, Sky picks up a mayday call from a Air Force courier plane which is about to run out of gas. The Air Force request Sky's assistance in locating the downed aircraft because the pilot is transporting secret documents that are of interest to foreign governments. Sky locates the plane wreck, but the pilot is nowhere to be found. When he discovers that the navigational instruments have been tampered with, Sky fears that enemy agents may have located and stolen the secret plans and are headed for the nearby Mexican border.

Carrier Pigeon

When Penny discovers a wounded carrier pigeon carrying a valuable ruby attached to its leg, Sky suspects a gang of jewel smugglers is operating in the area. With the help of a Mexican police detective, Sky sets up to break up the criminal operation.

Stage Coach Robbers

A crooked express agent fakes a hold-up to steal gold from his company's vault. He uses an old stagecoach to get the stolen loot out of town.

Deadly Cargo

While helping a friend run his freight airline after an accident, Sky stumbles across a gold-smuggling operation.

Jim Bell's Triumph

Sky's efforts to prove corruption in the county clerk's office nearly result in disaster, when Sky's foreman, a non-pilot, must land the Songbird when Clipper becomes too ill to fly the plane.

Designing Woman

Sky becomes suspicious when a Eastern woman shows up in Grover claiming to be the long-lost niece and heir of a dead rancher.

One for the Money

Penny picks up the wrong suitcase at the airport and discovers it's full of counterfeit money. Sky suspects that a young former engraver might be involved.

Danger Point

A rancher disinherits his nephew in favor of his young son. When the rancher is murdered the young man is blamed. Sky hopes that by faking a jailbreak, the real murderer will be forced into the open, but the plan backfires when Clipper and the young man are kidnapped.

Desperate Character

Sky King picks up a young hitchhiker who refuses to divulge his identity, or where he's been or going. Determined to fill in the blank spaces on the young man's resume, Sky learns that he is an escapee from a boy's reformatory who was involved in a recent bank robbery.

The Man Who Forgot

A young rancher disappears after the man attempting to foreclose on his mortgage is murdered. Sky is convinced that the man is innocent and that there's another explanation for the man's apparent flight.

The Threatening Bomb

Eastern gangsters set up a protection racket near Grover and the local ranchers appeal to Sky for help.

Speak No Evil

The drug Sky delivers to a critically ill man does more than save his life; the medicine causes the man to confess that he's a former criminal who has attempted to go straight.

Two-Gun Penny

Angry that Sky and Clipper won't allow her to join the search for a missing refugee professor, Penny slaps on a pair of six-shooters and launches her own investigation.

Formula for Fear

Penny sees a man escape from a doctor's office, and is informed that the man is a dangerous mental patient. Sky looks into the incident, and soon finds himself mixed up in foreign spies and poison gas.

The Giant Eagle

Sky investigates a series of mysterious payroll robberies, where the police chase the robbers only to see their getaway car mysteriously disappear.

Blackmail

A local banker is blackmailed by two former confederates who aware of a crime he committed over twenty years ago and was never apprehended.

Wings of Justice

A couple of Easterners claim to have traveled west to visit a dude ranch, but are actually a pair of con artists willing to commit murder to obtain a ranch with a rich uranium deposit on it.

Destruction from the Sky

Sky teams up with a military intelligence officer to track down a foreign agent who blew up a secret government project.

The Neckerchief

Sky attempts to help a young man recently paroled from prison get started again, but the ex-convict's former friends frame him for a bank robbery.

Manhunt

The Plastic Ghost

The Rainbird

The Crystal Trap

Red Tentacles

Boomerang

Sky King and Penny turn the tables on foreign agents conspiring to blackmail a refugee scientist.

Geiger Detective

Golden Burro

Rustlers on Wheels

A young rancher is losing cattle fast so Sky King investigates.

The Silver Grave

Uninvited Death

Sky and Penny unwittingly become involved in sabotage when they visit their friends Major Dave and Denise McKay. An enemy agent has attached a time bomb to Major McKay's car, setting the fuse to explode while the Major is working at an army special-projects base. When Denise and Penny borrow the Major's car, they are placed in grave peril.

Fish Out of Water

Diamonds on a Sky-Hook

Flood of Fury

During a major flood, Sky, Penny and Bob assist the authorities in their rescue efforts. Unfortunately, three of the men they rescue are murderous escaped felons who force their rescuers to help them rob a flooded bank.

Rocket Story

Rodeo Round-Up

A mock holdup paves the way for a real holdup and Sky King comes to the rescue.

Showdown

Land o' Cotton

Mystery Horse

Double Trouble

Note for a Dam

Sky and Penny are held captive by a maniac planning to dynamite a waterworks facility.

Bad Actor

Fight for Oil

Lost Boy

The Brain and the Brawn

Sky investigates some suspicious happenings at the county fair.

The Feathered Serpent

After a bird with an emerald attached to its leg lands in penny's garden, Sky King releases it to see where it goes.

The Circus Clown Mystery

Dead Man's Will

Cindy, Come Home

Rodeo Decathlon

Abracadabra

Triple Exposure

The Haunted Castle

Man Hunt

Fearing he has killed another boy, Joe Belden, recently released from reform school, flees into the desert. Sheriff Hargrove knows that the Joe's opponent survived the fight, but also knows that Joe, now heavily armed, will think that the law officers are intent on arresting him. He calls upon Sky, whom Joe trusts, to join the man-hunt.

Danger at the Sawmill

Sleight of Hand

The Runaway

The Wild Man

Sky and Penny try to clear a gentle, animal-loving "wildman" who has been blamed for the robbery of a logging company payroll.

Sky Robbers

Sky and Penny enter an air race, and it's soon discovered that the main office has been robbed and all of the receipts have been stolen. Sky suspects that one of the contestants in the race is the culprit and is using the race to make his getaway.

A Dog Named Barney

Sky follows the seeing-eye dog of a blind newsboy, who he believes will lead him to a holdup man living with a party of wolf hunters.

Bullet Bait

Sky is holding a wedding at the Flying Crown Ranch. The ceremony is interrupted, however, when two gangsters kidnap the groom and threaten his fiancé.

Money Has Wings

Four pilots for Wellman Air Freight Lines are injured in the first month of a contract for the company to carry s large payroll. In order to find out what's going on, Sky goes undercover as a security guard.

Frogmen

Terror Cruise

While Sky is training with his naval reserve unit, Penny visits friends who cruise Central America on their large sailboat. When three escaped prisoners commandeer their vessel, it's up to Sky and the U.S. Navy to rescue his niece and her friends.

Operation Urgent aka Runaway Truck

Bounty Hunters

When marauding coyotes begin to kill his calves, Sky hires two flying bounty hunters to kill the animals. When more dead calves are found, Sky discovers that the men he has hired are using his ranch to smuggle jewels, not kill vermin.

Dead Giveaway

A Mickey for Sky

Young Mickey, a distant relative of Sky's, is traveling to visit the Flying Crown Ranch while his guardian is out of the country. En route, he overhears two men discuss shooting a foreign visitor and is determined to warn the man of his peril.

Ring of Fire

Sky tries to help an old Indian chief who is very sick, but he won't go to the hospital for treatment because he would rather die on his own tribe's land.