Wings (1990)

Genre

sitcom

Country

United States

Length

8 seasons, 172 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 143 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two brothers run a tiny airline on Nantucket island, serving a handful of passengers while dealing with a rival airline and their own romantic entanglements. The show follows the daily chaos at the small airport and the relationships among the staff and locals.

lightheartedamusingwhimsicaleasygoingnostalgicsnappyquirkywarm

What happens

Wings is an American television sitcom that ran for eight seasons on NBC from April 19, 1990, to May 21, 1997, for a total of 172 episodes. The show is set at the fictional "Tom Nevers Field" airport, a small two-airline airport in Nantucket, Massachusetts (not to be confused with the actual Nantucket Memorial Airport), where brothers and pilots Joe and Brian Hackett operate Sandpiper Air, a single-plane airline. The majority of the episodes are set in the airport. Tim Daly and Steven Weber star as Joe and Brian. Crystal Bernard plays Helen, their friend since childhood and later Joe's love interest and wife, who runs the airport's lunch counter but dreams of becoming a concert cellist. David Schramm plays Roy Biggins, who runs a competing airline, Aeromass. Rebecca Schull plays Fay, Joe and Brian's employee at Sandpiper Air. Thomas Haden Church portrayed the mechanic Lowell in the first six seasons, Tony Shalhoub was taxi driver Antonio from season 3 onward, and Farrah Forke was Brian's love interest, Alex, during seasons 4 and 5. Amy Yasbeck played Helen's sister, Casey, from season 6 through the show's end in season 8. Brian Haley briefly played the mechanic Budd, Lowell's replacement, in season 7. The show serves as the second spin-off of the sitcom Cheers. Wings was created and produced by Cheers veterans David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee. The trio later created the sitcom Frasier, which was also a spin-off of Cheers. Wings exists in the same fictional universe as Cheers, and many characters from Cheers occasionally make special guest appearances on Wings. The series was produced by Grub Street Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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