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Big Sky
Overview
Big Sky is an Australian television drama series produced by John Edwards that ran for two seasons on Network Ten from 1997 to 1999. The show centred on the adventures of the pilots of a small aviation company in Australia called "Big Sky Aviation" and the battles of the owner to keep the company running. Chief pilot Chris Manning is determined to look after his team, even if that conflicts with the new boss, Lauren Allen, who has inherited the company following the death of her father.
Key Crew
Producer: John Edwards
Top Cast
Seasons
Season 1 (1997)
No overview available.
40 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Principle
1997-02-17Episode 2: Navstar
1997-02-17Episode 3: The McCourt Family
1997-02-24Episode 4: It Only Takes One
1997-03-03Episode 5: Growing Pains
1997-03-10Episode 6: Good Luck Baby
1997-03-17Episode 7: No Turning Back
1997-03-24Episode 8: Lost & Found
1997-04-01Episode 9: Coming to Terms
1997-04-01Episode 10: Balloon Girl
1997-04-08Episode 11: Great Expectations
1997-04-15Episode 12: Sweet Revenge
1997-04-22Episode 13: Mortal Stakes
1997-04-29Episode 14: The Sky Is Calling
1997-05-06Episode 15: The Duke Of Yarrigul
1997-05-13Episode 16: Simple Twist Of Fate
1997-05-20Episode 17: Mile Low Club
1997-05-27Episode 18: Triskadelaphobia
1997-06-03Episode 19: Mac's Time
1997-06-10Episode 20: Boxed In
1997-06-17Episode 21: Paradise
1997-06-24Episode 22: It's No Secret
1997-07-01Episode 23: The Return Of Jimbo
1997-07-08Episode 24: Fly Me To The Moon
1997-07-15Episode 25: Future, Past & Present
1997-07-22Episode 26: The Ticking Croc
1997-07-29Episode 27: Down The Slot
1997-08-05Episode 28: Have A Little Faith
1997-08-12Episode 29: You Must Remember This
1997-08-19Episode 30: The Right Thing
1997-08-26Episode 31: Fade To Black
1997-09-02Episode 32: Blind Spot
1997-09-09Episode 33: Getting Warmer
1997-09-16Episode 34: Searching For You
1997-09-23Episode 35: Wishing & Hoping
1997-09-30Episode 36: The Choice
1997-10-07Episode 37: Dark Horses
1997-10-14Episode 38: Edge Of Reality
1997-10-21Episode 39: Just Between Us
1997-10-28Episode 40: Phase Five
1997-11-04Season 2 (1999)
No overview available.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Light Foot
1999-01-02Lightfoot arrives at Big Sky with a deal to do special undercover, customs related work for him. Chris, under financial pressure from the new board, eventually agrees to one job to ascertain any further interest.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 2: The Price Of Freedom
1999-01-09Jimbo is in denial about Jodie's condition, enjoying Max's company and pretending nothing will happen to change this. Despite trying to make Jimbo understand the reality of her situation, Jodie is also swept up by his optimism, desperately wishing it could be true.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 3: Stand By Your Man
1999-01-16Jimbo suddenly has cold feet about marrying Jodie. The responsibilities of looking after not just Max, but a sick woman, for an indefinite period, frighten him. He offers to take a long flight and finds himself contemplating escaping to a whole new life when he meets Marie, a country woman running her property alone.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 4: The Things We Do For Love
1999-01-23Scotty and Rosie make an emergency landing on a beach to rescue a man, Ramon. Taken to hospital, the staff want to report the illegal immigrant. Scotty and Rosie discover him stowed away on their plane on their return to Sydney. He pleads for their help.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 5: A Family Affair
1999-01-30Paula's apparent secret other life as a volunteer charity worker for street kids comes to Chris attention when Lightfoot expresses interest in one of the kids she helps, a boy named Dean, who is in dire straits, trying to help his drug addict girlfriend Angie kick her habit.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 6: The Wrong Box
1999-02-06As a result of the capture of Klenner, Lightfoot hopes to expose his entire network. Whilst police swoop on his operatives in various major cities, the Big Sky pilots are to attempt identification of rural distributors by tracking bugged packages of heroin to their ultimate destinations.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 7: Friends In High Places
1999-02-13Lightfoot entrusts Big Sky with their most important brief so far: to find a missing plane that was carrying one of Lightfoot's agents, Joy. She was on her way to give Lightfoot some highly valuable, but unspecified photographic evidence. Lightfoot considers the mission too important to entrust to Jimbo, and he is banished to a milk run.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 8: Shadow Chasers
1999-02-20Lightfoot apologises to Chris. If Chris wishes to know the truth about Lightfoot, then he makes the decision to step into the shadows with him and swear to the utmost secrecy. Chris agrees to the deal, then must cancel a date with Grace to fly Lightfoot to meet a senior military figure, Major Ellison and for the first time is included in the top level meeting.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 9: The Heart Of The Matter
1999-02-27Lightfoot is determined to find the remainder of the guns stolen from the army, as masterminded by Major Ellison. Keeping Ellison under constant surveillance, he is followed to a property owned by well known criminal figure, Mick Kounos. Kounos denies any involvement.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 10: Secrets & Lies
1999-03-06Chris vows to stand by Grace as she faces an internal enquiry regarding her apparent theft of drugs from the customs evidence room. She presents a plausible explanation for her actions to an internal investigations panel, and all seems well... until she receives a call informing her the panel cannot accept her explanation and will turn the matter over to the police.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 11: Desperate Measures
1999-03-20Consumed by grief at Grace's funeral, Chris gets involved in an altercation with a driver who accidentally hits Grace's mother. Charged by the police, he is shaken by the incident and takes off in his car indefinitely. Along the way he acquires a hitch hiker, Leisa, a young girl running away from an abusive father.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 12: Missing In Action
1999-04-24On a routine flight, Chris and Jimbo divert to answer a medical emergency in the bush. On landing, they discover a man with a serious leg wound, whom Chris recognises as Cooley, one of the airforce pilots who had been charged over the theft of guns from the army.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 13: Ultimate Commitments
1999-05-01Given the sinister nature of events uncovered involving an armed militia, a Pentagon connection, and the suspicious circumstances of Ian's death, Lightfoot asks Chris if he is willing to continue. Their own lives could be at stake now. Chris gives his pilots time to consider their decision, and all agree to carry on.
Runtime: 60 min
