| 1. | Wings: Season 1 | 1990 |
| 2. | Wings: Season 2 | 1990 |
Wings
The series Wings, could best be described as Cheers 2, as it followed much the same pattern as the other series did. The similarities are numerous, such as both being easy going character comedies and being produced by the same team (David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee). The main difference being the setting. Instead of a Boston bar being the main setting, a small airport terminal on the island of Nantucket was used as the main backdrop. The regular "gang" included brothers Joe and Brian Hackett, both pilots, who ran a one-plane local cummuter service called Sandpiper Air. They had little else in common. Joe was button-down, organized and serious, and Brian, a hang loose, free spirit. Thier mutual best friend since childhood was Helen, a once chubby but now beautiful aspiring concert cellist who ran the lunch counter. These three lifelong friends were the "three musketeers". The other regulars included, Faye, Sandpipers rather flighty but always perky, sixtyish ex-stewardess who ran the ticket counter; Lowell Mather, the eccentric airport mechanic and Roy, the loud mouth blow hard who ran rival airline Aeromass.
Estranged brothers reunite at a small airport to try to find their recently deceased father's hidden fortune.
When Helen has another audition and is not chosen; Brian points out that she dresses too conservatively and that she should consider sexing it up a little. Meanwhile, Fay is attracted to a man who has been traveling around the world and is on the last leg of his journey. When Fay asks him why doesn't he complete it, he claims that if he does he will die.
A pilot who knows Brian has a layover at Nantucket and tells him that his ex-wife, Carol, is moving to London. Brian learns that she'll have a layover in Boston so sends her a message asking her to meet him. When Joe learns of this he tells Brian she won't be there. But Brian decides to go even with a fog covering the island. Joe and Helen decide to follow him.
Brian's ex-wife, Carol, shows up and he convinces her to go back to Nantucket with him. Helen is upset that Carol doesn't remember her. Later when Carol and Joe are alone she comes on to him.
Brian asks a girl out and she agrees on the condition that he find someone for her friend Cindy. And he volunteers Joe. Joe initially refuses but Brian guilts him into it. Later he learns that Cindy is very "popular", which makes him reconsider, but then Helen guilts him. And at their date one of her exes shows up and when he treats her crudely Joe stands up for her.
Joe suspects the worst when Brian and Helen spend an evening alone together.
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Thomas Haden Church | Lowell Mather |
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Steven Weber | Brian Michael Hackett |
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Tim Daly | Joe Montgomery Hackett |
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Rebecca Schull | Fay Evelyn Schlob Dumbly DeVay Cochran |
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Crystal Bernard | Helen Chapel |
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David Schramm | Roy Biggins |
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Kim Johnston Ulrich | Carol Hackett |
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Megan Mullally | Cindy |
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Peggy Roeder | Woman |
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Sy Richardson | Luther |
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Richard Erdman | Howard Banks |
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Sam Pancake | Deliveryman |
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Bryan Clark | Security Guard |
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Matt Roe | Man |
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John Dullaghan | Businessman |
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William Bumiller | Danny McCoy |
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Peg Shirley | Celia Stewart |
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Danny Nero | Airport Passenger |
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Steve Nevil | Frank Guttman |
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Ben Mittleman | Jimmy |
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Torrey Hanson | Frightened Passenger |
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Huck Liggett | Customer |
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Kenneth Zavayna | Bartender |
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Kelly Britt | Woman |
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Clara York | Attractive Woman |
| Director | Noam Pitlik |
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| James Burrows |
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| Writer | David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee, Dave Hackel, Philip LaZebnik | |
| Producer | David Angell, Maggie Blanc, Peter Casey, Roz Doyle, Dave Hackel, David Lee | |
| Musician | Antony Cooke | |
| Photography | Ken Lamkin | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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