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[ozarkroots]

In regard to the armory article, Mash was not the first TV show about that chopper. That show was "Whirly Birds! Bell models 47G and 47J Ranger which look just like the Korean war model appeared in a TV show from January 1957-1960. The stars where Kenneth Toby and Craig Hill who owned a helicopter business doing all kinds of neat things. I enjoyed it very much!! There were 111 episodes

Another chopper made the movies in "The Bridges of Toko-Ri, 1954. That starred William Holden, Grace Kelly and Fredrick March and Mickey Rooney. The Author of this war movie was James A. Michener no less.
The aircraft in this movie was the Grumman F9F-2 Panther but the helicopter was the Sikorsky HO3S. There may be other early shows but I do not know what they are.

 

[Ascout]

In regard to the armory article, Mash was not the first TV show about that chopper. That show was "Whirly Birds! Bell models 47G and 47J Ranger which look just like the Korean war model appeared in a TV show from January 1957-1960. The stars where Kenneth Toby and Craig Hill who owned a helicopter business doing all kinds of neat things. I enjoyed it very much!! There were 111 episodes

Another chopper made the movies in "The Bridges of Toko-Ri, 1954. That starred William Holden, Grace Kelly and Fredrick March and Mickey Rooney. The Author of this war movie was James A. Michener no less.
The aircraft in this movie was the Grumman F9F-2 Panther but the helicopter was the Sikorsky HO3S. There may be other early shows but I do not know what they are.

The wonderful era of action-adventure TV that included "Sea Hunt", "Ripcord" (with Ken Curtis!), "Whirlybirds", "Sky King", etc. Programming that would influence this 10 Year Old's adult adventure choices later.

 

[ozarkroots]

Yes the 50's were the good old days when the kids shows were very simple morality plays where good overcame bad and even the cartoons, (that some people today say are to violent) did the same. I do not think that even little kids then
took them seriously. The western shows then were not serious and playing cowboys and Indians were OK except for the fact that my many friends who were real Indians may not have thought so. I grew up in the middle of t he Cherokee reservation in Oklahoma. Oklahoma ( Red Mans Land ) was good.