Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~49 min/episode
- Length
- 1 season · 11 episodes
- Status
- Cancelled
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
The story
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.
- helicopter
- based on movie
The bill
- Bubba Smith
- Troy Evans
- Joseph Whipp
- Darleen Carr
- Kurtwood Smith
- Elizabeth Hoffman
- Tracy Scoggins
- Scott Hylands
- Kelly Preston
- John Hancock
- Robert DoQui
- Directed
- Charlie Picerni, Guy Magar, Phil Bondelli, Bernard L. Kowalski, Earl Bellamy, Bernard McEveety & 1 more
- Created
- Guy Magar
- Written
- Fred McKnight, Mike Robe, Don Jakoby, Don Safran, Allison Hock, Craig Buck & 11 more
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 128 ratings
- Network & studio
- ABC, Columbia Pictures Television, Rastar Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
