Blue Thunder - Season 1 - Eps 10: Godchild

1984-03-2349 min⭐ 6.9/10

A pair of professional killers, disguised as highway patrol officers, and organised crime connected, perform an unsuccessful attempt on the life of Lisa Ritchie at an exclusive restaurant, located near Farrow Beach of the Pacific Coast Highway. When tailing a man who could be linked to the shooting, Chaney and Wonderlove uncover a conspiracy between two members of the International Carrier's Union; Carl Suhonen, a suspected organised crime hitman, and the Union's President, Jake Cusak. What they want, lies in the secret being conceived by their target, Lisa Ritchie, granddaughter of the late organised crime's top man, Joseph Ritchie. Before he died, he told her where the records of all his organised crime dealings, happenings and secrets are, and until the men who are after her back off, she is being protected at her grandfather's exceedingly expensive hillside mansion, where numerous Federal Agents are body guarding her, whom have requested to assign the Blue Thunder Unit to them for

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About Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder

Title: Blue Thunder

First Air Date: 1984-01-06

Last Air Date: 1984-04-16

Status: Canceled

Rating: 6.9/10 (from 118 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 1

Total Episodes: 11

Network: ABC

Genres: Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Production Companies: Columbia Pictures Television, Rastar Productions

Synopsis

Blue Thunder is a 1984 ABC television series based on the movie of the same title featuring the Blue Thunder helicopter. The series uses the converted Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopter and large portions of stock footage from the 1983 film. A ground unit named "Rolling Thunder" backed up the helicopter in the television series. This was a large support van with a desert camouflage off-road vehicle stored inside. The television series cast includes James Farentino, Dana Carvey, and former professional American football players Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus. The series was canceled by ABC after they felt the similar Airwolf on CBS would win the ratings battle. Also, the series aired at the same time as the CBS soap opera Dallas on Friday nights, and lost. Eleven episodes were made before the series was cancelled.

Cast

James Farentino

James Farentino

Frank Chaney

Dana Carvey

Dana Carvey

Clinton Wonderlove

Sandy McPeak

Sandy McPeak

Captain Braddock

Dick Butkus

Dick Butkus

Richard Butowski

Bubba Smith

Bubba Smith

Lyman Kelsey

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