Network: ABC
Episodes: 14 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: September 25, 2011 — February 19, 2012
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Christina Ricci, Mike Vogel, Michael Mosley, Kelli Garner, Margot Robbie, and Karine Vanasse.
TV show description:
This dramatic TV series takes place in 1963. It’s a time when only a lucky few could afford to take flight, experience a global adventure, or gain a front-row seat to history. The lucky few that could afford it flew on Pan Am, the largest, most prestigious airline in the world.
Pan Am’s Clipper Majestic plane is about to embark on its inaugural flight with Captain Dean Lowrey (Mike Vogel) at the helm. Dean, recently been made captain and wouldn’t trade this moment for anything in the world. His First Officer and Co-Pilot is Ted Vanderway (Michael Mosley), a former Navy test pilot. He finds the commercial skies every bit as turbulent as he struggles to overcome past mistakes and prove his worth as an aviator.
The Clipper Majestic’s Purser is Maggie Ryan (Christina Ricci). She’s climbed her way up to a better life and is at last riding high; determined not to fall. Kate Cameron (Kelli Garner) left her sheltered life in East Granby, Connecticut to brave the intrigue of a wide new world. Now, she must brave even more intrigue as an international agent for the CIA.
Kate’s sister, Laura Cameron (Margot Robbie), left her past and future by running off on her wedding day. She’s following her older sibling to the skies of Pan Am. It’s a bold move and one with serious personal consequences.
Colette Valois (Karine Vanasse) was born and raised in France and has an innate understanding of international affairs. In affairs of the heart however, she’s still struggling to find her way.
The crew of the Clipper Majestic travel to intoxicating cities such as Paris, Berlin, Monte Carlo, and Rome. Along the way, they also happen to bump into history.
Episode 14 — 1964
Ted becomes increasingly nervous as wedding plans race forward; Kate wrestles with suspicions about those around her; Laura receives a startling offer from Amanda; Maggie is placed is a perilous position.
The crew is flying back to New York, but this time the plane’s a little light. Prince Omar and his staff are the only passengers, and in fact the Prince is serving Colette as another of his charming ways of wooing her. Their romance is going so well, in fact, that he asks for her permission to formally court her. She would come live in her own wing of his family’s palace with her own staff and an unlimited clothing allowance—NICE!—while she meets his family and his parent’s staff investigates her background. Oh, and she’d have to take a six-month leave of absence from . Colette decides to take a few days to think it over.
Dean doesn’t need quite that long to realize he doesn’t like it at all. He’s still very much in love with Colette, but thanks to his last night of passion with Bridget, he’s lost her for what now seems like forever. To add to the captain’s woes, he’s just been grounded pending a hearing on his actions when he was forced to land in Haiti. It looks like the rich, jerk passenger from that flight is suing , and one of the stipulations for settling the suit is that they have to fire Dean. The hearing’s not going well, until Captain George Broyles shows up to testify on Dean’s behalf and deliver a letter from Juan Trippe, the founder and owner of , stating that Captain Lowrey gets to keep his wings. Instead, he gets a six-month suspension. Too bad he can’t spend that in a palace like Colette.
So why did Captain Broyles save the job of a guy who socked him in the jaw a few months before? That’s because Maggie Ryan came to the rescue! It turns out she decided to go into business with Broyles after all, and the two have opened up a nice little smuggling operation over the past couple of months. Most recently, she smuggled in some antique jewelry for some new buyers. She insists on going with Broyles for the exchange, and that’s when her new, genuine knowledge of Portuguese saves them from getting robbed by some gangsters. She comes back herself later, and negotiates the deal herself. Broyles is impressed, and the two of them celebrate by fooling around on a bed covered in cash.
Ted is still faced with a dilemma. Amanda loves him and is a great match for him and their families are an even better one, but he doesn’t love her. He loves Laura, and he finally tells her so. The two of them finally kiss, and Ted calls off the wedding. But it turns out not to be so easy when Amanda meets Ted to tell him that she just found out that she’s pregnant. It looks like the marriage is going to be back on.
Prince Omar continues wooing Colette as the background check commences. She tells some investigators about her childhood in an orphanage in France, and they uncover a shocking truth about her and her family. Her real name isn’t Valois—the nuns in the orphanage changed it to hide the fact that Colette is Jewish—and her parents weren’t members of the French resistance. They were killed in a concentration camp. On top of all of this, she finds out that, somewhere out there, she has a younger brother who probably survived and was adopted by another family not long after they were taken to the orphanage. Due to these revelations, the official courtship ends, but Colette is excited at the opportunity to find her lost brother, and Dean insists on helping to lead the search. After all, he’s got six months off of work.
Kate opens her front door one evening to find Richard there, bleeding from a gunshot wound. He has a microfilm that the Russians are after and a double agent sold him out. He sends her off to the CIA to deliver the microfilm, and tells her that no one knows he’s missing, so if anyone asks about him, they’re the double agent. Not far from her front door, Anderson, her contact at MI-6 stops her and tells her Richard is missing and believed to be a double agent himself. Kate’s not quite sure who to trust when she rushes home and finds the microfilm canister empty and Richard gone. But he turns up again a few minutes later with the microfilm, now knowing he can trust her and that Anderson is the double agent. Later, Kate meets Anderson at the train station and tells him she has the microfilm. He insists she hand it over, but when she suggests that they take it to the CIA together, he pulls a gun on her. But where he’s got one gun, Kate’s got several as it turns out everyone in the train station is a spy and the whole meet was a sting.
As everyone gathers at Ted’s apartment on New Year’s Eve to watch the ball drop, we’re left wondering what 1964 will bring for the crew of the Clipper Majestic. What will happen when Ted has a chance to tell Laura that Amanda is pregnant? Will Maggie get caught at her new smuggling operation? Can Kate continue to survive in the spy game? And will Dean and Colette find their way back to each other while they try to find her long, lost brother? As always in the Jet Age, the future is full of possibilities. Courtesy ABC.
First aired: February 19, 2012.
Image courtesy ABC.
I love Pan Am, is there any updated information regarding the show? Has it been cancelled or what?
James » Nothing official but it won’t be back.
Pan Am is very classy and exciting. I always look forward to watching it. Its much better than all the trash and reality crap being shown on tv. Please continue it!!! Please!
I love this show. My mom even loves this show. Please don’t cancel it. I was a Pan Am Flight Attendant and this show is very accurate. In the 1990’s Pan Am still had a silver tray 1st Class food service. I still have my uniform, purse, flight manuel. I love the series. Working for Pan Am was very exciting and unpredicatable and it had World Wide appeal. I was often referred to as an air hostess. I can’t even find any information regarding if the series is cancelled. The last show aired and mentioned nothing. Every week my mom… Read more »
Pan am was and still is a program that really caught my my interestest from day gone by, and I still try to live in those days when I can, now back to the program I looked forward to every week, only to fid that it was reempted by another program or another excuse by the tevelision programing idiots or orther morons who seem to think what is better for our entertainment, the characters on this program did it very good justice, have to admit I do have a soft spot for (Karine Vanasse) , please bring this program back,… Read more »
keep Pan Am on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do they let us viewers down like this. It hasn’t been on t.v. for very long & right in the middle of a season, they just take it off! I’m mad about this & really don’t wanna start watching any new series because I never know if they will take them off or not! They will lose viewers for new series coming because of this! I’m pissed off at them & they need viewers to keep running! I will find something else to do instead of watching t.v.. It has happened too many times now….Shark, Lie to Me &… Read more »
ABC, why are you cancelling all the great shows?
[…] Pan Am is gone (and likely cancelled) so ABC is trying another series at 10pm, GCB. It’s the newest […]
Pan Am is a fabulous show which would have had a much higher following if they aired the show on a regular basis. The show is always getting pre-empted or something else substituted in it’s place. The show has been sabbotaged since the beginning because of this practice. The network should also look at the way they market the show. Sure there is fashion, glamour and sex appeal, but the show is also smart and deals with very interesting historical events of the time and how they impacted peoples lives. Give this show a chance and do not replace it… Read more »
I agree totally..this pre -epted crap is very distracting!
I just heard that last Sunday’s airing of Pan Am was its last. Why haven’t you guys mentioned this?
Watcher » It hasn’t been officially cancelled but if you read pretty much any of our Pan Am posts you’ll see that we believe there’s no chance it will be back.
I love this show – the characters are not all goody-goody or evil but a believable mix. Some of my friends are ex-stewardesses (or attendants) and pilots and some of this stuff really does happen. I also was frustrated at not being to find the show some weeks so I monitor hulu for new episodes.
I agree with others that the schedule has been confusing and disappointing. I really enjoy the show but am never sure when it will be on. I have been pleased to watch it on internet since I missed some shows. Some of us dreamed of being stewardesses so I imagine it is enjoyable for women like me. The espionage is a great addition. I hope this show will not be cancelled.
[…] Pan Am is currently one of ABC’s lowest-rated shows and currently averages a 1.8 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 5.76 million total viewers. That’s the same as now-cancelled Work It. The most recent episodes have been garnering a 1.2 in the demo, ensuring that the season average will keep dropping. […]
I have enjoyed Pan Am, when it’s playing. I have also enjoyed Once Upon a Time. There have been weeks that Pan Am was either pre-empted or something else substituted in it’s place, so that has been frustrating when I have looked forward to watching it all week. Last week it was a Hallmark show instead. Now this week not only was it not on ABC, but neither was Once Upon a Time. American Family and the Middle are on. I have never watched those shows. Please bring back both Once Upon a Time and Pan Am! I am hooked!
This is a great show with interesting stoty plots that keep you going. Its fun to watch how flying use to be and how it is now. the stewardesses were almost like models and had to be attractive and smile a lot. They had to be perfect in many ways. No metal detectors and no taking off of shoes and al this stuff that happens nowadays. The show moves quicky and is not at all boring maybe some people expected to be the life of a Pan-Am stewardess that would have been dull and a bore but so far the… Read more »