How many of you had a crush on Penny? I was too young to even like girls back then, but Penny… she was a woman! A beautiful young woman who rode horses and flew around in airplanes helping catch the bad guys! I may not have known about lust back then, but I sure was in love! Schuyler (Sky) King was an Arizona rancher and former World War II naval aviator who rode a palomino horse named Yellow Fury and flew a couple of airplanes, the Songbird and Flying Arrow, while running the Flying Crown Ranch with his beautiful niece Penny. What boy of my generation can forget that strong voice belting out “Out of the clear blue of the western sky comes Sky King!” as the image of a Cessna 310 in flight flew across the television screen and rolled off in a turn to the left?
SKY KING PINS SERIES
But mostly I loved those good old black and white (that’s all there were back then) half-hour series of yesterday’s television heroes like Roy Rogers, the Lone Ranger, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, and Sky King. Sure, there were a few cartoons, but even Mighty Mouse wasn’t above dishing out a lesson or two to the bad guys. Sitting cross legged on the floor I learned about right and wrong and witnessed justice in action in thirty-minute segments. Our heroes were good guys in white hats who squared off with villains and stared them down with raw nerve and a steely eye.Īs a boy, I can remember Saturday morning television as the highlight of my week. Not the pampered, steroid-bulked athletes with multi-million dollar a year contracts, or rock stars whose greatest achievement seems to be ingesting as many illegal substances as the human body can stand in the shortest amount of time.
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