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"Wings" is a comedy that ran on "Must See TV" Thursday
from 1990 to 1997 about an airline run by two brothers at
Nantucket Airport in Maine. The series revolved around the
comedic hi jinks of Joe (Timothy Daly), Helen (Crystal Bernard),
Brian (Steven Weber), numb skull Lloyd (Thomas Haden Church),
Roy (David Schramm), the often clueless Fay (Rebecca Schull)
and Antonio (Tony Shalhoud). "Wings" helped pick up the
slack for NBC helping them to continue to win their time
slot on Thursdays. The fourth season of the show is equally
as funny as the first three and for me this is among the
best. We actually had a comedic/dramatic cliff-hanger of
sorts; Helen is given the opportunity to play with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra. Joe and the gang pile into one of Joe's
planes and it crashes. Needless to say Helen's dream of
playing with a symphony and Joe's of expanding his charter
airline service goes down with the plane. Yep, Sounds like
a comedy to me. No, really it is quite funny and with the
introduction of a new love interest (Farrah Forke) to generate
competition from brothers Joe and Brian (plus the fact that
Joe and Helen were once engaged to be married) creates plenty
of comic tension. ---
Image & Sound:
Originally shot on video, the comedy looks pretty good
given its age (13 years old). Occasionally the video gets
a bit unsteady probably due to either too much compression,
too many episodes on each disc or low frame rate (or all
three). We do have occasional compression artifacts that
suggest that definitely a factor as well but the show looks
better than it did on TV. Audio sounds fine with dialogue
clear although it doesn't have much depth or spread over
in stereo. ---
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