Airline is a British television

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 series produced by Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

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 for the ITV

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 network in 1982.

The series starred Roy Marsden

Roy Marsden

Roy Marsden is an English actor, who is probably best known for his portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh in the Anglia Television dramatisations of P. D. James's detective novels.- Education :...

 as Jack Ruskin, a pilot demobbed after the end of the Second World War who starts up his own air freight business.

Airline was created by Wilfred Greatorex

Wilfred Greatorex

Wilfred Greatorex was an English television and film writer, script editor and producer. He was creator of such series as Secret Army, 1990, Plane Makers and its sequel The Power Game, Hine, Brett, Man At The Top, Man From Haven and The Inheritors. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film...

 and lasted for one series of nine episodes broadcast in January & February 1982, with a repeat in the summer of 1984. Other leading cast members were Polly Hemingway, Richard Heffer

Richard Heffer

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, Sean Scanlan and Terence Rigby

Terence Rigby

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, while noted guest-stars included Anthony Valentine and Walter Gotell

Walter Gotell

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 (better-known for his numerous guest stints as KGB

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 General

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 Gogol in a string of James Bond

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 films during the Cold War

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 era).

It was partially filmed at the former RAF Rufforth

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 in Yorkshire

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..

Series 1: ITV, 1982

Episode Title	TX Date	Time
Look After Number One	3rd Jan 1982	2100
Brave New World	10th Jan 1982	2115
Conscience	17th Jan 1982	2100
Touch and Go	24th Jan 1982	2100
Fools' Errands	31st Jan 1982	2100
Captain Clarke Plus One	7th Feb 1982	2100
Not Much of a Life	14th Feb 1982	2100
Officers and Gentlemen	21st Feb 1982	2100
Too Many Promises	28th Feb 1982	2100