Wings (1990 TV series)

  • Timothy Daly: Joe Hackett
  • Steven Weber: Brian Hackett
  • Crystal Bernard: Helen Chapel
  • Rebecca Schull Fay Cochran
  • David Schramm Roy Biggins
  • Tony Shalhoub: Antonio Scarpacci (from Season 2 )
  • Thomas Haden Church: Lowell Mather (1st - 5th season )
  • Amy Yasbeck: Casey Chapel Davenport (from Season 5 )

High-flyer (also: Wings - The high-flyer ) is an American sitcom that was produced by Grub Street Productions and Paramount Television.

Action

In the series, Timothy Daly and Steven Weber played the brothers Joe and Brian Hackett. The pivotal point was the ( fictional ) Tom Nevers Field, a small airport on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. There, the two dissimilar brothers launched the airline Sandpiper Air, which remains in close competition to the airline aeromass airline.

Characters

Main Characters

Joe Hackett is a neurotic, compulsive pilot, the charter airline Sandpiper Air (English: beach runners ) founded on Nantucket. Since his childhood he wanted to be a pilot when his mother left the family and his father lost his mind. Since then, he also takes care of Brian. Originally he founded Sandpiper with his fiancée Carol, but cheated on him with Brian. This led to a separation of the brothers.

Brian Hackett live a very carefree life and is the absolute opposite of Joe. Although he had many opportunities in life ( Princeton, NASA), he made it so far always to forgive them. After he had eloped with Joe's fiancée Carol, he emigrated to the Caribbean, but Carol also left him and he came back to Joe. So he took him into his house and gave him a pilot job at Sandpiper. Brian loves women, where he arrives also very good.

Helen Chappel Hackett works in the departure hall, although her ​​real dream job is cellist. All the time she has a problem with the food and always thinks that she might be too thick. She is in a relationship with Joe.

Fay Evelyn Schlob Dumbly Devay Cochran is next to Brian Joe's only employee who sells the tickets for Sandpiper. She takes care of maternal to the Hackett brothers and Helen, but has always small skirmishes with Roy.

Roy Biggins is the owner of " Aero Mass", the competition airline. He is always attentive to his advantage, arrogant and rude. His goal is to destroy Sandpiper.

Antonio Scarpacci is a taxi driver of Italian descent.

Lowell Mather is a very easy knitted aircraft mechanic who does all the work at the airport.

Alex Lambert is a helicopter pilot who operates a flight service to Nantucket. She was short with Brian and left because of him the island. It was only in the fourth season, she returns.

Casey ( Davenport ) Chappel is Helen's older sister, who, after her husband left her, moves to Nantucket. Since her ex-husband was rich, she has difficulty to find themselves in the working class and rightly so. Antonio is in love with her, what she wants but does not notice or notice.

Others

  • Tony Shalhoub managed with his role as a taxi driver Antonio Scarpacci, which he embodied in five seasons, his acting breakthrough. Meanwhile, he is best known for his eponymous lead in the detective series Monk. Ironically, in an airplane, he meets it on Timothy Daly, who plays himself. Approached by his assistant on Daly starred in Wings, Monk explains that he did not know the series and asks her if she was good. Your answer: " Well, he was good. "
  • The three -flyer creator David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee developed the successful 1993 series Frasier.
  • In guest-starring Kirstie Alley, Kelsey Grammer, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt and Bebe Neuwirth are seen from the television series Cheers. All take their Cheers roles during her guest appearance.
  • The series was dubbed from 1992 to 1997 at Studio Hamburg. Book and dialogue director of all 172 episodes: Andrew W. Schmidt, Thomas Haden Church in the role of naive aircraft mechanic Lowell Mather lent his voice.
  • Cast list with German voice actors:
  • Timothy Daly (Joe Hackett ) - Rolf Becker, Gerhard Hinze
  • Steven Weber (Brian Hackett ) - Lutz Mackensy
  • Crystal Bernard ( Helen Chapel ) - Monika Barth
  • Rebecca Schull ( Fay Cochran ) - Verena Wiet
  • David Schramm ( Roy Biggins ) - Edgar Hoppe
  • Tony Shalhoub (Antonio Scarpacci ) - Achim Schulke
  • Thomas Haden Church ( Lowell Mather ) - Andreas W. Schmidt
  • Amy Yasbeck ( Casey Chapel ) - Katja Bruges

Broadcast notes

In the U.S. television was the series between April 19 1990 and May 14, 1997 on NBC in the program. Begun in early 1994 by ProSieben German premiere was stopped again after only a few episodes due to low audience interest. Between 1994 and 1998, the remaining episodes on Comedy & Co., a television station were shown within the DF1 bouquets. Repetitions were carried out both on Comedy & Co. (1999), as well as Premiere Comedy (from 1999 ), a transmitter of the Premiere platform.

Tim Daly Steven Weber (actor)
789308
de