If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Of course, my high score may be distorted through the lens of childhood nostalgia since I haven't seen this series since I used to watch it after school back in the 60's, but it seems like it could have been at least part of the inspiration for "Emergency!" which ran in the 1970's. Of course, Emergency! was a TV series about two paramedics, friends as well as colleagues, that respond to all sorts of emergencies back when the paramedic program was in its infancy. Whirlybirds was about two helicopter pilots, friends as well as colleagues, who respond to all kinds of emergencies when the helicopter was first being used for difficult rescues and the tracking and pursuit of criminals.If this ever came out on DVD I'd buy the entire series in a moment. From what I remember it was not repetitive at all with all kinds of people in distress in all types of situations being rescued by these guys. Plus they were very effective at chasing the bad guys with their "birds' eye view". Highly recommended and fondly remembered.

Because of Whirlybirds TV show I dreamed of being a helicopter pilot just like Chuck & PT.Well that dream came true and I did become a commercial helicopter pilot.I have always wanted to watch Whirlybirds again on TV and had to go to the Radio & TV Broadcast Museum in NYC to view a couple of episodes.Well my wish again came true when I found a web site that had for sale all 111 episodes of Whirlybirds.They also had many other classic TV show DVD's for sale.Well for $79.95 plus $20.00 shipping I ordered Whirlybirds and gave my credit card info.For 3 weeks kept getting e-mails about how Whirlybirdes is out of stock and should be shipping soon.Well the day finally comes and the pack with 5 DVD's arrives.Of course I do not check the complete package but figured the 5 DVD's had all 111 episodes compressed on them.So occasionally I would watch an episode and I get to the 3rd DVD and it has 5 episodes of the TV show China Beach on it.Then I decided to check the rest of the discs.Out of the 5 which 1 had China Beach there was 7 episodes of Whirlybirds each on 4 discs.I called the customer service number and negotiated a return of $60.00 and I keep the DVD's.I have not received my refund and the customer service number is disconnected.So this is to warn my fellow Whirlybird lovers not to get burned like I did.

When we were kids, Whirlybirds was an "appointment watching" show. We had to drop everything to watch Craig Stevens and the rest of the cast tackle the day's events. I dreamed of being a helicopter pilot, my cousin eventually went to work for the Bell Helicopter plant outside of Amarillo in the 1970s. And, like others on the IMDb site, I'm amazed this series, and others like "Cannonball, "Highway Patrol," "Surfside 77,"The Real McCoys," and such haven't found a home on some cable channel. Vintage programming like these have some superb casts, adequate writing, good photography and great entertainment. I miss the days of black and white TV. "Whirlybirds" was a part of my childhood, as it was for my husband. He's in the industry, too, and misses working with B/W TV. Perhaps the folks who own the copyrights to the shows will bend a little and release the seasons on DVD. They make great learning tools for aspiring screenwriters, filmmakers, cinematographers and directors/producers.

A great show that was syndicated. Two guys run a Helicopter company (and of course have a good looking secretary) and help out the police, firefighters, Army etc, whenever they can. Which of course was every episode. They were either tracking escaped criminals or rescuing some bonehead who had gotten themselves stranded out in the middle of nowhere. Each episode managed to let the viewer know that the Helicopter was really the shows star. When this show was being run every helicopter pilot around must have thought "How come I never have any adventures like those Whirlybird guys" Blue Thunder and Airwolf came years later and featured helos but never seemed to match the magic of this late 50's gem.