Classic Television - Prime Time

The Tim Conway Show

Original channel

CBS

Original run

January 30, 1970 – June 19, 1970

Starring T

im Conway

Joe Flynn

Anne Seymour

Johnnie Collins III

Emily Banks

Fabian Dean

Dennis Robertson

The Tim Conway Show – the first of two television series of the name – is a 1970 United States comedic television series starring Tim Conway and Joe Flynn which centers around a single-plane charter airline. The show aired during periods between January 30, 1970, and June 19, 1970.

The show should not be confused with the The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, which aired later in 1970, or with the 1980-1981 comedy-variety series also called The Tim Conway Show.

Synopsis

Tim "Spud" Barrett is the well-meaning but bumbling chief pilot – in fact, the only pilot – and owner of Triple A Airlines, a charter airline based at Crawford Airfield in Los Angeles, California. His business partner, the inept co-owner and president of Triple A, is Herb Kenworth, who is cranky, terrified of flying, and prone to airsickness. Triple A – which stands for "Anywhere Anytime Airlines" – owns only one plane, a decrepit Beechcraft Model 18 named Lucky Linda, and is always on the verge of bankruptcy. Mrs. K. J. Crawford owns both Crawford Airfield and Crawford Airlines, a larger and more successful charter airline that is in direct competition with Triple A and based at the same airport; she also holds a mortgage on Lucky Linda. Her sycophantic son, Ronnie Crawford, helps her run the airport and her airline and is always trying to put Triple A out of business. Spud has a romantic interest in one of Mrs. Crawford's employees, Becky Parks, who is friendly toward Triple A. Spud and Herb often eat at the airport terminal's diner, the Chez Skyway, run by Harry Wetzel. Sherman Bell is the control tower operator.