trz1951 "Sky King" was MUST viewing when I was a kid in the 50s. Saturday mornings: "Mighty Mouse", Sky and reruns of Buster Crabbe "Flash Gordon" on WGN, I think, in Chicago. And I also remember something I liked: "Sealtest Circus" or something like that (have to do some research). After the television viewing on Saturday mornings, it was get the heck out of the house, go play baseball, baseball, baseball and other wholesome activities depending on the season. Thank God computers and smart phones weren't around. These poor kids today.

romero099 Sky King was also watched at my home when I was a kid. It was sponsored by NABICO and never missed by me; always watched it. I caught the flying fever, and my love for Cessnas, from watching this show on TV. Went to flying school after, high school, but didn't make it as a pilot for medical reasons. Still, I was able to pass the fever to my two son's and one of them is flying today. I was shocked when I heard about Kirby Grants' death, in an automobile accident, on his way to watch the Challenger lift-off from cape Kennedy.(This I heard as I watched the Challenger lift-off and explosion, on 1-28-86). As a child growing up in Brooklyn N.Y., he was my hero; and the Cessna...I'm still crazy about them...especially the twin engine. Something spooky you should know. I was designing the "Song bird" twin engine Cessna for the Microsoft Flight Simulator, back in Dec. 26, 2003, when I suffered a massive heart attack at the age of 52. I stay away from Flight Simulator now but I wish they would bring back Sky King. I'd be a kid again. Oh,yes, I was born Oct. 5, 1951.

gooelf50 This show accounted for so many hours of great entertainment during my childhood. The hero was Sky King, a rancher who preferred flying about in a great old twin engine Cessna along with his gorgeous blonde niece Penny. The plot was always simple and like so many of it's contemporary serials, the show always had a moral lesson, designed to keep it's young viewers on the straight and narrow. The aerial scenes were always thrilling and my young imagination kept me constantly in the co-pilot's seat, right beside Sky King. I, along with every other young boy in my neighborhood was in love with Penny. I believe they had a faithful German shepherd dog in the series as well and I believe the ranch was called the "Flying Wing" or "Flying Crown" or something like that. Sky was played by Kirby Grant, who later became the public relations director for Sea World in Florida. He died in the mid 1980s in a car accident. Gloria Winters who played Penny retired from show business after Sky King ended. I'm just waiting for "Deja Vu" or "TVLand" to bring the series back. I'll be watching when they do.

jonesy74-1 it's... SKY KING! Neeeeeeooooooowww (plane diving behind announcer's voice) I saw this show when I was a kid - around 5 yrs. old. The shows were syndicated releases shown on my local station. It was around 1959 or 1960 and the series had debuted in 1951. I don't remember much about the shows, other than Sky King wore Western Wear, Penny had blonde hair and they flew around in a plane looking for lost people and stopping baddies from doing dastardly deeds.I liked the plane, a Cessna T-50 named Songbird, but I was a little more impressed with jets at the time.Sky was friendly and Penny was "Golly-gee-whiz." It was a good show as I remember it.