Show Info

Status: Ended
First Aired: April 19, 1990
Seasons: 8
Episodes: 172
Networks: NBC
Genres: Comedy, Drama

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Wings(1990)
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Look, up in the air. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a high-flying comedy - where the laughs always arrive on schedule!

TMDB Rating: 6.9 (126 votes)

Overview

Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.

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Season 1

6 episodes • 1990Avg: 8.0Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Legacy	Apr 19, 1990	8.0
2	Around the World in Eighty Years	Apr 26, 1990	0.0
3	Return to Nantucket (1)	May 3, 1990	0.0
4	Return to Nantucket (2)	May 10, 1990	8.0
5	There Once Was a Girl from Nantucket	May 17, 1990	8.0
6	All for One and Two for Helen	May 24, 1990	8.0

Season 2

22 episodes • 1990Avg: 8.2Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Puppetmaster	Sep 28, 1990	9.0
2	The Story of Joe	Oct 5, 1990	8.0
3	A Little Nightmare Music	Oct 12, 1990	8.0
4	Sports & Leisure	Oct 19, 1990	0.0
5	A Standup Kind of Guy	Oct 26, 1990	8.0
6	It's Not the Thought, It's the Gift	Nov 9, 1990	8.0
7	Hell Hath No Fury Like a Policewoman Scorned	Nov 16, 1990	0.0
8	High Anxiety	Nov 23, 1990	0.0
9	Friends or Lovers?	Dec 7, 1990	0.0
10	There's Always Room for Cello	Dec 14, 1990	0.0
11	A Terminal Christmas	Dec 21, 1990	0.0
12	Airport '90	Jan 3, 1991	0.0
13	Love Is Like Pulling Teeth	Jan 10, 1991	0.0
14	The Tennis Bum	Jan 24, 1991	0.0
15	My Brother's Back—And There's Gonna Be Trouble	Jan 31, 1991	0.0
16	Plane Nine From Nantucket	Feb 7, 1991	0.0
17	Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places	Feb 14, 1991	0.0
18	Love Means Never Having to Say Geronimo	Feb 21, 1991	0.0
19	All in the Family	Mar 7, 1991	0.0
20	Mother Wore Stripes	Mar 14, 1991	0.0
21	Murder She Roast	Mar 21, 1991	0.0
22	Duet for Plane and Cello	Mar 28, 1991	0.0

Season 3

22 episodes • 1991Avg: 7.9Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Naked Truth	Sep 19, 1991	8.0
2	Is That a Subpoena in Your Pocket...?	Sep 26, 1991	0.0
3	The Taming of the Shrew	Oct 10, 1991	0.0
4	I Ain't Got No Bunny	Oct 17, 1991	8.0
5	If Elected, I Will Not Live	Oct 31, 1991	8.0
6	My Brother's Keeper	Nov 7, 1991	7.0
7	Crate Expectations	Nov 14, 1991	0.0
8	Ladies Who Lunch	Nov 21, 1991	8.0
9	Try to Remember the Night He Dismembered	Dec 5, 1991	0.0
10	The Late Mrs. Biggins	Dec 12, 1991	7.0
11	The Bogey Men	Dec 19, 1991	8.0
12	Marriage, Italian Style	Jan 9, 1992	0.0
13	Divorce, American Style	Jan 16, 1992	0.0
14	Stew in a Stew	Jan 23, 1992	8.0
15	This Old House	Jan 30, 1992	0.0
16	Planes, Trains and Visiting Cranes	Feb 13, 1992	8.0
17	Das Plane	Feb 20, 1992	9.0
18	Take My Life, Please	Feb 27, 1992	0.0
19	Four Dates That Will Live in Infamy	Apr 2, 1992	0.0
20	The Bank Dick	Apr 23, 1992	8.0
21	Say It Ain't So, Joe	Apr 30, 1992	8.0
22	As Fate Would Have It	May 7, 1992	8.0

Season 4

22 episodes • 1992Avg: 7.8

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Lifeboat	Sep 24, 1992	0.0
2	The Fortune Cookie	Oct 1, 1992	8.0
3	Noses Off	Oct 8, 1992	8.0
4	Blackout Biggins	Oct 22, 1992	8.0
5	Mathers of the Heart	Oct 29, 1992	0.0
6	Two Jerks and a Jill	Nov 5, 1992	7.0
7	It's So Nice to Have a Mather Around the House	Nov 12, 1992	8.0
8	Just Say No	Nov 19, 1992	7.0
9	It May Have Happened One Night	Dec 3, 1992	0.0
10	The Customer's Usually Right	Dec 17, 1992	8.0
11	Exit Laughing	Jan 7, 1993	0.0
12	What the Cabbie Saw	Jan 14, 1993	8.0
13	Labor Pains	Jan 28, 1993	8.0
14	I've Got a Secret	Feb 4, 1993	8.0
15	The Gift (1)	Feb 11, 1993	0.0
16	The Gift (2)	Feb 18, 1993	0.0
17	I Love Brian	Feb 25, 1993	0.0
18	The Key to Alex	Mar 15, 1993	0.0
19	The Houseguest	Apr 8, 1993	0.0
20	Goodbye, Old Friend	Apr 29, 1993	0.0
21	Another Wedding	May 6, 1993	0.0
22	Date Package Number Seven	May 13, 1993	8.0

Season 5

24 episodes • 1993Avg: 7.7

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Stop in the Name of Love	Sep 16, 1993	7.0
2	Terminal Jealousy	Sep 23, 1993	0.0
3	Bye-Bye, Bunny	Sep 30, 1993	7.0
4	Business or Pleasure	Oct 7, 1993	0.0
5	An Affair to Forget	Oct 14, 1993	0.0
6	Black Eye Affair	Oct 28, 1993	0.0
7	Joe Blows (1)	Nov 4, 1993	8.0
8	Joe Blows (2)	Nov 11, 1993	8.0
9	2 Good 2 B 4 Gotten	Nov 18, 1993	0.0
10	Come Fly with Me	Dec 2, 1993	0.0
11	Happy Holidays	Dec 16, 1993	8.0
12	Ready, Teddy, Go	Jan 6, 1994	8.0
13	Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Mathers Don't Roam	Jan 20, 1994	0.0
14	The Faygitive	Jan 27, 1994	8.0
15	Say Uncle, Carlton	Feb 3, 1994	0.0
16	Hey, Nineteen	Feb 10, 1994	0.0
17	Exclusively Yours	Feb 14, 1994	7.0
18	Moonlighting	Feb 17, 1994	8.0
19	Sleepless in Nantucket	Mar 10, 1994	0.0
20	Boys Will Be Girls	Apr 7, 1994	8.0
21	Roy Crazy	Apr 14, 1994	8.0
22	Long Distance Lament	Apr 28, 1994	8.0
23	Call of the Wild	May 5, 1994	7.0
24	A Decent Proposal	May 12, 1994	8.0

Season 6

26 episodes • 1994Avg: 7.9

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Whose Wife is it Anyway?	Sep 20, 1994	8.0
2	Twisted Sister	Sep 27, 1994	0.0
3	The Shrink	Oct 4, 1994	0.0
4	The Spark and How to Get It	Oct 11, 1994	0.0
5	The Waxman Cometh	Oct 18, 1994	7.0
6	Is That a Ten-Foot Sandwich or Are You Just Glad to See Me?	Nov 1, 1994	0.0
7	All's Fare	Nov 8, 1994	0.0
8	Miss Jenkins	Nov 15, 1994	8.0
9	If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother	Nov 22, 1994	8.0
10	The Wrong Stuff	Nov 29, 1994	8.0
11	Insanity Claus	Dec 13, 1994	0.0
12	She's ... Back	Jan 3, 1995	8.0
13	Have I Got a Couple for You	Jan 10, 1995	0.0
14	Fools Russian	Jan 31, 1995	8.0
15	Let's Call the Whole Thing Off	Feb 7, 1995	8.0
16	Remembrance of Flings Past (1)	Feb 9, 1995	0.0
17	Remembrance of Flings Past (2)	Feb 14, 1995	0.0
18	Gone But Not Faygotten	Feb 21, 1995	0.0
19	Ex, Lies and Videotape	Feb 28, 1995	7.0
20	Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young Man	Mar 21, 1995	7.0
21	The Love Life and Times of Joe and Helen	Apr 4, 1995	0.0
22	A House to Die For	May 2, 1995	8.0
23	Nuptials Off	May 9, 1995	9.0
24	Et Tu, Antonio?	May 16, 1995	8.0
25	Boys Just Want to Have Fun (1)	May 23, 1995	8.0
26	Here It Is: The Big Wedding (2)	May 23, 1995	0.0

Season 7

26 episodes • 1995Avg: 7.0

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Burnin' Down the House (1)	Sep 19, 1995	0.0
2	Burnin' Down the House (2)	Sep 26, 1995	0.0
3	Death Becomes Him	Oct 10, 1995	0.0
4	The Person Formerly Known as Lowell	Oct 31, 1995	0.0
5	Hooker, Line and Sinker	Nov 7, 1995	0.0
6	She's Gotta Have It	Nov 14, 1995	7.0
7	So Long, Frank Lloyd Wrong	Nov 21, 1995	0.0
8	When a Man Loves a Donut	Nov 28, 1995	0.0
9	The Big Sleep	Dec 12, 1995	0.0
10	'Twas the Heist Before Christmas	Dec 19, 1995	0.0
11	Honey, We Broke the Kid	Jan 2, 1996	0.0
12	B.S., I Love You	Jan 9, 1996	0.0
13	Sons and Lovers	Jan 16, 1996	0.0
14	Bye, George	Jan 30, 1996	0.0
15	The Team Player	Feb 6, 1996	0.0
16	Love at First Flight	Feb 13, 1996	0.0
17	Lynch Party	Feb 20, 1996	0.0
18	One Flew Over the Cooper's Nest	Feb 27, 1996	0.0
19	Driving Mr. DeCarlo	Mar 12, 1996	0.0
20	A Tale of Two Sister Cities	Mar 26, 1996	0.0
21	What About Larry?	Apr 9, 1996	0.0
22	The Lady Vanishes	Apr 23, 1996	0.0
23	Life Could Be a Dream	Apr 30, 1996	0.0
24	The Lyin' King	May 7, 1996	0.0
25	Love Overboard	May 14, 1996	0.0
26	Grouses, Houses and Bickering Spouses	May 21, 1996	0.0

Season 8

24 episodes • 1996

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Porno for Pyros	Sep 18, 1996
2	... Like a Neighbor Scorned	Sep 25, 1996
3	Maybe It's You	Oct 2, 1996
4	Single and Hating It	Oct 9, 1996
5	Too Beautiful for You	Oct 23, 1996
6	The Gift of Life	Oct 30, 1996
7	Olive or Twist	Nov 6, 1996
8	Wingless (1)	Nov 13, 1996
9	Wingless (2)	Nov 20, 1996
10	Wingless (3)	Dec 11, 1996
11	All About Christmas Eve	Dec 18, 1996
12	Let's Talk About Sex	Jan 8, 1997
13	Hosed	Jan 15, 1997
14	Just Call Me Angel	Feb 5, 1997
15	Fay There, Georgy Girl	Feb 12, 1997
16	Escape from New York	Feb 19, 1997
17	House of Blues	Mar 5, 1997
18	Ms. Write	Mar 19, 1997
19	Dreamgirl	Apr 2, 1997
20	Heartache Tonight	Apr 16, 1997
21	Oedipus Wrecks	May 7, 1997
22	Raging Bull*&@!	May 14, 1997
23	Final Approach (1)	May 21, 1997
24	Final Approach (2)	May 21, 1997

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