Berlin airlift drama series 70's

[agric]

To settle an arguement,
Who can offer the title of this series,
Don't remember any charactors beyond the central deskbound one, but can't begin to remember his name.

Not that it helps but I feel he was in lots of other thing of that era

It was watching Chris Barrie this afternoon in a Dakota
Jogged my memory,

(Or have I confused it with some other airborne drama)

[jagracer]

I seem to remember something along those lines, and now it's driving me mad thinking what it could be.

[anonymous-user]

Airline? Ruskin Air Services.

Featured Roy Marsden.

[jagracer]

Thanks, I thought it was Airline but couldn't find anything on IMDB

[anonymous-user]

There was a clip on YouTube a while ago. Do a search for Airline and Marsden.



Here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOr5UbFl4uY

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 29th May 18:54

[agric]

Roy Marsden,
thats brilliant thank you, and he's been in a lot of things I'm going to look him him up next,
see what exactly

[agric]

Born 1941, that puts him firmly in 'Last of the summer wine/Eastenders' territory I suppose

although he was in the sandbaggers' which I sort of remember.

during the filming of airline in his role as Ruskin's air,
his Wife polly (who co-starred) was pregnant

[Eric Mc]

Definitely "Airline".

It was made by Yorkshire TV and starred Roy Marsden as Jack Ruskin. Ruskin was loosely based on the "characters" who inhabited the immediate post war civil scene - such as Freddie Laker, Mike Keegan (father of racing driver Rupert) and Hughie Green (the TV presenter).

There was a plan to make a second series using a Lockheed Constellation which had been abandoned at Dublin Airport in 1974 (N7777G). However, when the airframe was examined in 1983, it was found that the salty air of Dublin had corroded the aluminium too much and it would have been too costly to restore the aircraft. Instead, Aces High, whio had purchaed the aircraft, dismantled it, took it to the UK by car ferry, and donated it the the Science Museum. The Constellation is now part of the display at Wroughton Airfield - painted in 1940s TWA colours.

DC-3 Dakota in the colours of the ficticious Ruskin Air Services



The Constellation intended for series two - firstly as she was when abandoned at Dublin and secondly, how she looks now

Edited by Eric Mc on Monday 31st May 20:28