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Network: NBC
Episodes: 172 (half-hour)
Seasons: Eight
TV show dates: April 19, 1990 – May 21, 1997
Series status: Cancelled/ended
Performers include: Tim Daly, Steven Weber, Crystal Bernard, David Schramm, Rebecca Schull, Tony Shalhoub, Thomas Haden Church, Amy Yasbeck, and Farrah Forke
TV show description:
The Hackett brothers own and operate Sandpiper Airlines, a charter plane service based on the small island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Joe (Timothy Daly) is neurotic and compulsively neat while his younger brother Brian (Steven Weber) is much more easy-going and carefree.
Others at the small Tom Nevers Field airport are lunch counter operator Helen Chappel (Crystal Bernard); Helen’s sister Casey (Amy Yasbeck); batty ticket counter Fay Evelyn Schlob Dumbly DeVay Cochran (Rebecca Schull); sleazy charter flight competitor Roy Biggins (David Schramm); dim-witted mechanic (Thomas Haden Church); Italian immigrant and taxi driver Antonio Scarpacci (Tony Shaloub); and helicopter pilot Alex Lambert (Farrah Forke).
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