Blue Thunder
tv show

11 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired January 06, 1984
Overview
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.

Trojan Horse
Season 1 - Episode 5 - 1h 49m
Air Date
February 03, 1984
Overview
The witness, also his confidental secretary, who could put her employer, corrupted financier Richard J. Lassiter behind solid steel bars is rescued by the Blue Thunder unit from an estate where her kidnappers were previously holding her hostage, until Lassiter's court-trial was finished. He has been sentenced for 25 years for fraud, extortion and imtimidation, and is scheduled to be transferred to Greenlake Penitentiary, a medium-security facility, located in the Central part of the state. Complaining of a gut instinct that Lassister will have his associates prepared to rescue him from lifetime imprisonment while being transferred in a police motorcade, Braddock warns Chaney not to go anyway near the transportation, however he does so. If he hadn't, then Lassiter would have got away scot free, thanks to a truck parked in the middle of the routed road with heavy automatic weapons, which is blown away by Blue Thunder's 20mm 6-barrel Vulcan electric cannon. Now in prison, Lassiter already
Crew
Guest Stars
Elizabeth Hoffman
as
Mrs. Moynihan
Ralph Manza
as
Willie
Leigh Lombardi
as
Asst. Dist. Atty. Minelli
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Ann Cooper
as
J.J. Douglas
Dennis Holahan
as
Richard J. Lassiter
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Brian Kale
as
Duffy
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Nigel Bullard
as
TV Reporter
Vince Howard
as
Sheriff
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Dean Wein
as
Jones
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Cynthia Ream
as
TV Newsperson
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Ralph M. Clift
as
Attorney
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Chad Dee Block
as
Tower Guard