Burned Heads

the burned Heads ( Baa Baa Black Sheep then Black Sheep Squadron ) is a Televised series American in a 120 minute old pilot and 35 47 minutes episodes, created by Stephen J. Cannell and diffused between the September 21st 1976 and the April 6th 1978 on the network NBC. In France, the series was diffused starting from the March 27th 1977 on Antenne 2.

Synopsis

Freely inspired by the exploits of Gregory “Grandpa” Boyington and of his “Black Sheep Squadron” during the war of the Pacific at the time of the Second world war, this series puts in scene the adventures of these anticonformist and bold pilots controlling their valorous Corsair.

Distribution

Robert Conrad (VF: Jacques Thébault) : Major Gregory “Grandpa” Boyington
Dana Elcar: Colonel Thomas Bacon
James Whitmore Jr (VF: Bernard Charlan) : Captain James W. Gutterman
Dirk Blocker: Lieutenant Jerry Bragg
Robert Ginty: Lieutenant Theodore Joseph “T.J”. Wiley
John Larroquette: Lieutenant Robert “Bob” Anderson
W.K. Stratton: Lieutenant then Captain (starting from the episode Promotion ) Lawrence “Larry” Casey (1976-1978)
Jeff MacKay: Lieutenant Donald “Gift” French
Larry Manetti: Lieutenant Robert “Bob” Boyle
Joey Aresco: Corporal John David Hutchinson “Hutch” (1976-1977)
Red West: Sergeant Andrew “Andy” Micklin (1977-1978)
Katherine Canon: Captain Dottie Dixon (1977-1978)
Jeb Adams: Lieutenant Jeb Pruitt (1978)
Simon Oakland: General Thomas Moore
Nancy Conrad: Lieutenant Nancy Gilmore

Episodes

First season (1976-1977)

1 (1- 1) : Pilot ( Flying Misfits ) 120 minutes
2 (1- 2) : A plane for two ( Best Three Out off Five )
3 (1- 3) : The Small war ( Small War )
4 (1- 4) : Rejected ( High Jinx ) the
5 (1- 5) : The Prisoner ( Prisoners off War )
6 (1- 6) : Carried disappeared ( Presumed Dead )
7 (1- 7) : Funny of circus ( The Meatball Circus )
8 (1- 8) : Stratagem ( Up for Grabs )
9 (1- 9) : Candidate with the suicide ( Anyone for Suicide? )
10 (1-10) : The Commando ( New Georgia One My Mind )
11 (1-11) : Operation radar ( The Cat' S Whiskers )
12 (1-12) : Infernal triangle ( Coils and War )
13 (1-13) : Hollywood is gone-T from there war ( The War Biz Warrior )
14 (1-14) : Objective Rabaul ( The Deadliest Enemy off All '')
15 (1-15) : Objective Rabaul ( The Deadliest Enemy off All '')
16 (1-16) : The Knife in the wound ( Devil in the Slot )
17 (1-17) : Five for have ( Five the Hard Way )
18 (1-18) : Last Mission with Sengai ( The Last Mission Over Sengai )
19 (1-19) : The Massacre of Strong Apache ( Disorder Strong At Apache )
20 (1-20) : The Orphans ( Poor Little Lambs )
21 (1-21) : These ladies from go away war ( W*A*S*P*S )
22 (1-22) : Hutch ( Last One for Hutch )
23 (1-23) : The Duel ( The Fastest Gun )

Second season (1977-1978)

24 (2- 1) : The Prayer of the Irishman ( Divine Wind )
25 (2- 2) : Promotion ( The 200 Pound Gorilla )
26 (2- 3) : Alarm with the falcon ( The Hawk Flies one Sunday )
27 (2- 4) : Wolves in the sheep-fold ( Wolves in the Sheep PEN )
28 (2- 5) : The Examination ( Operation Stand-Down )
29 (2- 6) : Organization ( Ten' L Get You Five )
30 (2- 7) : Forbidden fruit ( Forbidden Fruit )
31 (2- 8) : The Angels combatants ( Fighting Angels )
32 (2- 9) : Invulnerable ( The Iceman ) the
33 (2-10) : A spectacle of genius ( Hotshot )
34 (2-11) : Burned Famous persons ( The Show Must Go One… Sometimes )
35 (2-12) : Prisoner of his glory ( Sheep in the Limelight )
36 (2-13) : Help at sea ( has Little Bit England off)

Comments

A success in France

Delivering the portrait of a team of fighter pilots insolents on the theater of operations of the Pacific, the series was the subject of an important success on behalf of the televiewers in France.

The heroic prestige of the pilots mixed with the lovesong edulcorated with the flirts with the nurses with the military hospital, the whole in the paradisiac islands of the Pacific where the action proceeded.

Environments

This exoticism was reinforced, for the French televiewer, by the fact that this zone of the conflict was then little known of the public, at the same time historically and geographically; from where the success of the series.

The portrait given was Hollywood and gave a succinte impression hardness of the engagements on the Pacifique theater during the Second world war.

In this respect, the series is contemporary unconcern of cruising has fun . American side, the series made it possible to remember the time of a war “right” that the fathers had delivered, whereas the servant boys returned from the stagnation of the Guerre of Vietnam.

Well after the the Seventies, the film Pearl Harbor would take again this alchemy made up of war for the good cause, fray of out of date romanticism.

Anecdotes

the original title of the series, Baa, Baa Black Sheep , is inherited the book of Gregory Boyington, ace of the Campagnes of the Pacific, of which it is inspired. It is a reference to famous. However, this counting rhyme is not the song which one can hear at the beginning of each episode, covered in the VF by the opening speech read by Jacques Thébault. The song in question is ( " We are poor little lambs/Who cuts lost our way/Baa! Baa! Baa! " ). The connoted direction of which does not follow the herd is identical in English. Although immature, the pilots do not let themselves any more tell by the administration of the Navy…

the pilot episode is a film in itself, very different from the format of the later episodes of the serial (50 min); one sees Greg Boyington there, already ace of the volunteers flying Tigres in China on board a Curtiss P-40 to realize that the arrival of the Mitsubishi Zero SEN outclassed its apparatus. The way in which Boyington subtilizes at its own ends a flotilla bases its legend and its very paternal authority on its pilots, finally equipped with the Chance Vought F4U Corsair. Throughout the episodes, technical capabilities of the plane will be tested and exceeded (missions of bombardment, torpedes, tanks additional, landings in atypical conditions).

truth Gregory Boyington makes an appearance in the episode Organization , it plays a general who takes part in a festival.

the visible zero in the series are in fact of the North American T-6 made up to resemble the famous Japanese plane as much as possible.

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