Blue Thunder - Season 1 - Eps 2: A Clear and Present Danger

Name: Eps 2: A Clear and Present Danger
Released: 1984-01-13
Rating: 3.5

1984-01-13 • 49 min • ⭐ 6.9/10

A paramilitary group who call themselves the ""Posse Magistratus"", have been the prime suspects for a series of bank robberies, and one particulary involving a heavily-modified World War II fighter plane. In order to track down this plane and stop the whole game, Chaney and Wonderlove attempt to track it down, based on various aerial police sightings. When accomplishing this, Chaney spots gun mounts on a plane that they performed an unauthorised thermograph upon, and results in not in the state of valid evidence to charge the Sheriff who owns it for the state-threatening operations. However that same day, the same World War II figher plane attacks them, and ends up being shot down by Chaney in Blue Thunder. To posess reliable and sufficent evidence to charge the ''Posse Magistrates'' of the crimes they have took out, Ski goes undercover as a mechanic, but it isn't long until Chaney and Wonderlove discover that the group plan to kill one of the cities' main councilmen at the Queen Mary s

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About 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.