Series Description

The Wings TV show was a 30 minute comedy series on NBC about two brothers who ran a "one-airplane" airline and their friends and associates at a small airport on the island of Nantucket.

Wings Cast

Steven Weber .... Brian Hackett
Timothy Daly .... Joe Hackett
Crystal Bernard .... Helen Chappel
Tony Shalhoub .... Antonio Scarpacci
Rebecca Schull .... Faye Cochran
David Schramm .... Roy Biggins
Amy Yasbeck .... Casey Davenport
Thomas Haden Church .... Lowell Mather

Wings Trivia

There were only two airlines at the Nantucket airport. The one owned by Joe Hackett was called "Sandpiper Air". The other one was "AeroMass".

Brian and Joe Hackett had been living separate lives for years. They were brought back together in the first Wings TV show episode by a series of notes left by their deceased father. He had set them up with a kind of "Treasure Hunt" where, if they followed directions from note to note, they would find their inheritance (supposedly a fortune). They didn't find anything until the final episode of Wings when another note turned up. This one ultimately led to them finding $250,000 in an airport locker. They ended out using the money to send Helen to Vienna, Austria to study the Cello!

During its first four seasons, the Wings TV show aired immediately following "Cheers (1982)" on NBC and there were some similarities between the two shows. The producers were the same for both Cheers and Wings. The cast on Wings congregated on a regular basis in the waiting area and at the lunch counter at the airport. The cast on Cheers did the same at the bar.

Episodes List With Original Air Dates

Season 1

1... Legacy (4/19/1990)
2... Around The World In Eighty Years (4/26/1990)
3... Return To Nantucket - Part 1 (5/3/1990)
4... Return To Nantucket - Part 2 (5/10/1990)
5... There Once Was A Girl From Nantucket (5/17/1990)
6... All For One And Two For Helen (5/24/1990)
7... There's Always Room For Cello (5/31/1990)

Season 2

8... The Puppetmaster (9/28/1990)
9... The Story Of Joe (10/5/1990)
10. A Little Nightmare Music (10/12/1990)
11. Sports & Leisure (10/19/1990)
12. A Standup Kind Of Guy (10/26/1990)
13. It's Not The Thought, It's The Gift (11/9/1990)
14. Hell Hath No Fury Like A Policewoman Scorned (11/16/1990)
15. High Anxiety (11/23/1990)
16. Friends Or Lovers? (12/7/1990)
17. A Terminal Christmas (12/21/1990)
18. Airport '90 (1/3/1991)
19. Love Is Like Pulling Teeth (1/10/1991)
20. The Tennis Bum (1/24/1991)
21. My Brother's Back -- And There's Gonna Be Trouble (1/31/1991)
22. Plane Nine From Nantucket (2/7/1991)
23. Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places (2/14/1991)
24. Love Means Never Having To Say Geronimo (2/21/1991)
25. All In The Family (3/7/1991)
26. Mother Wore Stripes (3/14/1991)
27. Murder She Roast (3/21/1991)
28. Duet For Plane And Cello (3/28/1991)

Season 3

29. The Naked Truth (9/19/1991)
30. Is That A Subpoena In Your Pocket...? (9/26/1991)
31. The Taming Of The Shrew (10/10/1991)
32. I Ain't Got No Bunny (10/17/1991)
33. If Elected, I Will Not Live (10/31/1991)
34. My Brother's Keeper (11/7/1991)
35. Crate Expectations (11/14/1991)
36. Ladies Who Lunch (11/21/1991)
37. Try To Remember The Night He Dismembered (12/5/1991)
38. The Late Mrs. Biggins (12/12/1991)
39. The Bogey Men (12/19/1991)
40. Marriage, Italian Style (1/9/1992)
41. Divorce, American Style (1/16/1992)
42. Stew In A Stew (1/23/1992)
43. This Old House (1/30/1992)
44. Planes, Trains And Visiting Cranes (2/13/1992)
45. Das Plane (2/20/1992)
46. Take My Life, Please (2/27/1992)
47. Four Dates That Will Live In Infamy (4/2/1992)
48. The Bank Dick (4/23/1992)
49. Say It Ain't So, Joe (4/30/1992)
50. As Fate Would Have It (5/7/1992)

Season 4

51. Lifeboat (9/24/1992)
52. The Fortune Cookie (10/1/1992)
53. Noses Off (10/8/1992)
54. Blackout Buggins (10/22/1992)
55. Mathers Of The Heart (10/29/1992)
56. Two Jerks And A Jill (11/5/1992)
57. It's So Nice To Have A Mather Around The House (11/12/1992)
58. Just Say No (11/19/1992)
59. It May Have Happened One Night (12/3/1992)
60. The Customer's Usually Right (12/17/1992)
61. Exit Laughing (1/7/1993)
62. What The Cabbie Saw (1/14/1993)
63. Labor Pains (1/28/1993)
64. I've Got A Secre (2/4/1993)
65. The Gift - Part 1 (2/11/1993)
66. The Gift - Part 2 (2/18/1993)
67. I Love Brian (2/25/1993)
68. The Key To Alex (3/15/1993)
69. The Houseguest (4/8/1993)
70. Goodbye, Old Friend (4/29/1993)
71. Another Wedding (5/6/1993)
72. Date Package Number Seven (5/13/1993)

Season 5

73. Stop In The Name Of Love (9/16/1993)
74. Terminal Jealousy (9/23/1993)
75. Bye-Bye, Bunny (9/30/1993)
76. Business Or Pleasure (10/7/1993)
77. An Affair To Forget (10/14/1993)
78. Black Eye Affair (10/28/1993)
79. Joe Blows - Part 1 (11/4/1993)
80. Joe Blows - Part 2 (11/11/1993)
81. 2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten (11/18/1993)
82. Come Fly With Me (12/2/1993)
83. Happy Holidays (12/16/1993)
84. Ready, Teddy, Go (1/6/1994)
85. Oh, Give Me A Home Where The Mathers Don't Roam (1/20/1994)
86. The Faygitive (1/27/1994)
87. Say Uncle Carlton (2/3/1994)
88. Hey, Nineteen (2/10/1994)
89. Exclusively Yours (2/14/1994)
90. Moonlighting (2/17/1994)
91. Sleepless In Nantucket (3/10/1994)
92. Boys Will Be Girls (4/7/1994)
93. Roy Crazy (4/14/1994)
94. Long Distance Lament (4/28/1994)
95. Call Of The Wild (5/5/1994)
96. A Decent Proposal (5/12/1994)

Season 6

97. Whose Wife Is It Anyway? (9/20/1994)
98. Twisted Sister (9/27/1994)
99. The Shrink (10/4/1994)
100. The Spark And How To Get It (10/11/1994)
101. The Waxman Cometh (10/18/1994)
102. Is That A Ten-Foot Sandwich Or Are You Just Happy To See Me? (11/1/1994)
103. All's Fare (11/8/1994)
104. Miss Jenkins (11/15/1994)
105. If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother (11/22/1994)
106. The Wrong Stuff (11/29/1994)
107. Insanity Claus (12/13/1994)
108. She's...Back (1/3/1995)
109. Have I Got A Couple For You (1/10/1995)
110. Fools Russian (1/31/1995)
111. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (2/7/1995)
112. Remembrance Of Flings Past - Part 1 (2/9/1995)
113. Remembrance Of Flings Past - Part 2 (2/14/1995)
114. Gone But Not Faygotten (2/21/1995)
115. Ex, Lies And Videotape (2/28/1995)
116. Portrait Of The Con Artist As A Young Man (3/21/1995)
117. The Love Life And Times Of Joe And Helen (4/4/1995)
118. A House To Die For (5/2/1995)
119. Nuptials Off (5/9/1995)
120. Et Tu, Antonio? (5/16/1995)
121. Here It Is: The Big Wedding (5/23/1995)

Season 7

122. Burnin' Down The House - Part 1 (9/19/1995)
123. Burnin' Down The House - Part 2 (9/26/1995)
124. Death Becomes Him (10/10/1995)
125. She's Gotta Have It (10/17/1995)
126. The Person Formerly Known As Lowell (10/31/1995)
127. Hooker, Line And Sinker (11/7/1995)
128. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wrong (11/21/1995)
129. When A Man Loves A Donut (11/28/1995)
130. The Big Sleep (12/12/1995)
131. 'Twas The Heist Before Christmas (12/19/1995)
132. Honey, We Broke The Kid (1/2/1996)
133. B.S., I Love You (1/9/1996)
134. Sons And Lovers (1/16/1996)
135. Bye, George (1/30/1996)
136. The Team Player (2/6/1996)
137. Love At First Flight (2/13/1996)
138. Lynch Party (2/20/1996)
139. One Flew Over The Cooper's Nest (2/27/1996)
140. Driving Mr. DeCarlo (3/12/1996)
141. A Tale Of Two Sister Cities (3/26/1996)
142. What About Larry? (4/9/1996)
143. The Lady Vanishes (4/23/1996)
144. Life Could Be A Dream (4/30/1996)
145. The Lyin' King (5/7/1996)
146. Love Overboard (5/14/1996)
147. Grouses, Houses, And Bickering Spouses (5/21/1996)

Season 8

148. Porno For Pyros (9/18/1996)
149. ...Like A Neighbor Scorned (9/25/1996)
150. Maybe It's You (10/2/1996)
151. Single And Hating It (10/9/1996)
152. Too Beautiful For You (10/23/1996)
153. The Gift Of Life (10/30/1996)
154. Olive Or Twist (11/6/1996)
155. Wingless - Part 1 (11/13/1996)
) 156. Wingless - Part 2 (11/20/1996)
157. Wingless - Part 3 (12/11/1996)
158. All About Christmas Eve (12/18/1996)
159. Let's Talk About Sex (1/8/1997)
160. Hosed (1/15/1997)
161. Just Call Me Angel (2/5/1997)
162. Fay There, Georgy Girl (2/12/1997)
163. Escape From New York (2/19/1997)
164. House Of Blues (3/5/1997)
165. Ms. Write (3/19/1997)
166. Dreamgirl (4/2/1997)
167. Heartache Tonight (4/23/1997)
168. Oedipus Wrecks (5/7/1997)
169. Raging Bull... (5/14/1997)
170. Final Approach (5/21/1997)