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Flying High - Episode Guide

Season 1

Fear of Cheesecake

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1978

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Food poisoning hits the cockpit crew on a flight. Lisa Benton takes the biggest challenge of her life when a high-calorie time bomb in the form of a cheesecake is about to explode in the cockpit of a Boeing 747. That explosion of the bomb-hidden-in-a-cake is about to take place at 30,000 feet in — to be exact — the stomachs of Captain March and his co-pilot and flight engineer, all of whom consumed large helpings of the contaminated pastry. 

The Great Escape

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1978

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Lisa and Pam find themselves in a San Francisco hotel and at the mercy of a bunch of obnoxious, costume maniacs who are attending the uproarious convention of the Mystic Order of Imperial Otters. While aloft and en route to Denver, Marcy faces potential peril of a grimmer sort as a prisoner escapes from his escort . 

South by Southwest

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1978

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Lisa Benton succumbs to the charms of a handsome passenger, Sen. Sinclair. Her roommates, Pam, and Marcy aren't faring too well. The males pursuing them are more interested in the mistakenly picked up briefcase in the possession of Pam. 

It Was Just One of Those Days

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 20, 1978

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Marcy Bowers, flight attendant, becomes a baseball coach while fellow stewardesses Pam Bellagio and Lisa Benton try to cope with a Russian defector and a tyrannical senior stewardess. 

In the Still of the Night

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1978

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As ex-debutante Lisa Benton returns to Connecticut to visit the luxurious old family homestead, her Sun west chums Pam Bellagio, Marcy Bowers and Capt. Doug March are appropriately dressed for Halloween. 

The Vanishing Point

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1978

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A rekindled romance, a jewel theft, a stowaway, a nude medical student, and a fear-crazed passenger combine to turn a transcontinental flight into garish adventure for Sunwest "stews" Pam, Lisa and Marcy and Capt Doug March. Pam has a surprise reunion on the jetliner with an old flame whom she later suspects of having swiped a diamond pendant missing from the neck of a hardboiled old socialite on the plane. Lisa discovers the stowaway on board and takes on the responsibility of seeing that the slippery little runaway is returned to her parents. Marcy is stupefied to encounter the bare medical student on board, but recovers enough to press him into service when another passenger collapses due to fear of flying

Fun Flight

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1979

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The first suggestion of the new public relations expert of the Sun west Airlines immediately provokes a fuss: To better represent the image of the airline, stewardesses should wear jauntier uniforms. They fit so tightly and sexily that Marcy, Pam, and Lisa reject her new occupational clothes. In their opinion they look no more serious enough.

High Rollers

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1978

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The girls have fun in Las Vegas. Pam befriends a retired dentist. Marcy strikes it rich at the casino.

Palm Springs Weekend

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1978

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Captain March travels with his new conquest, Carmen, to Palm Springs to spend a romantic weekend. By chance, Pam and Lisa arrive at the same hotel for staying some days so they can recover. Because Carmen's boyfriend is also in search of her, the short trip becomes a stressful hide-and-seek for everyone. Lisa helps Captain March keep away from a jealous rival, while Pam tries to deal with a teenager's crush.

Beautiful People

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 8, 1978

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Pam and Marcy take on different assignments. Pam is sent to stewardess training school for temporary duty and clashes with Sofia, the spoiled daughter of the chairman of the board. And Marcy is startled to learn that Morgan, the lone passenger on her flight, is a multimillionaire.

Brides and Grooms

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 15, 1978

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Reggie Weston is the wealthy, fast-living publisher of the racy "girlie" magazine, "Bronco," with whom Sunwest pilot Doug March is feuding over the affections of an attractive woman. Old chums, Reggie and March, have always competed with one another, with March envying Reggie's luxurious lifestyle and Reggie envying March's glamourous jet-pilot image. Now, in Reggie's fabulous mansion, amid a zany toga party, they are battling over Reggie's curvy fiancée. Meanwhile. Sunwest stewardess Lisa Benton is trying to fend off a Bronco photographer who is determined to photograph her for a centerfold.

The Marcy Connection

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1978

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Marcy's new friend, Greg, turns out to be a drug smuggler. He tries to convince the shattered Marcy to become his accomplice. She should carry for him a package of opium from Mexico into the USA. Marcy tells her friends Lisa and Pam about it. They advise her to inform of the affair to the police. In order to arrest Greg, the stewardesses must pretend they're part of the smuggling ring.

Swan Song for an Ugly Duckling

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 22, 1978

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The stewardesses team up to try to patch up the romance between Marcy's ex schoolmate, Billy,  now a millionaire and his rejected wife, Essie May, also a classmate of hers.

Great Expectations

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1978

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Victim of an accidental conk on the Head, Captain Doug March suffers a loss of vision, but one thing he can see is the vast possibilities for luxury and hanky-panky that his infirmity can open to him. The doctor orders March to go home, arrange for nursing care and stay in bed until his temporary sight problem disappears. When his chums, stewardesses Lisa, Marcy, and Pam, insist that he move in with them so that they can care for him band and foot, the enthused March envisions nothing but fun and games ahead.

Ladies of the Night

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1979

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Sunwest Airlines flight attendants Lisa and Marcy are mistakenly arrested as call girls in San Francisco. Meanwhile Captain March, after locating an old Air Force buddy with the object of staying overnight with him, panics at the discovery that he is now a she.

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