Airline (1982)

Genre

drama television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 9 episodes

Rated

12

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former World War Two pilot starts his own small air freight business in postwar Britain. He deals with the challenges of running the company and the personal lives of his crew.

nostalgicdramaticgroundedbritishperiodearnestseriousunderstated

What happens

Airline is a British television series produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1982. The series starred Roy Marsden as Jack Ruskin, a pilot demobbed after the end of the Second World War who starts his own air transport business. Airline was created by Wilfred Greatorex and lasted for one series of nine episodes broadcast in January and February 1982, with a repeat in the summer of 1984. Other leading cast members were Polly Hemingway, Richard Heffer, Nicholas Bond-Owen, Sean Scanlan and Terence Rigby, while noted guest stars included Anthony Valentine and Walter Gotell (better known for his numerous guest stints as KGB General Gogol in a string of James Bond films during the Cold War era). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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