Yesterday I was in Best Buy looking for some movies and I happened to come across the box set of the hit show "Baa Baa Black Sheep". The box set that I saw said that it had 11 episodes in it. Does anyone know how many episodes this show had for future references? Do you know if they are going to put out the entire series on DVD? When I was younger this was my favorite show in this time period!!!

I have never seen this programme- though the film version was on TV here not long ago- but my gf (who is French) keeps going on about it as it used to be on TV when she was a girl. As it's her birthday soon, this might be a labour-saving purchase!!!

Well the movie was called Baa Baa Black Sheep the TV series was called Black Sheep Squadron. The series basically used almost all the same actors as the movie so it was an easy transition.

Sorry, not trying to nit-pick here but the movie was called Flying Misfits. The series was Baa Baa Black Sheep. However I have seen it called Black Sheep Squadron.

Yeah you're right. It is Flying Misfits.

I think the show lasted a year The producer was Don Bellasario who has brought out such series as Magnum, Quantum Leap, Jag and NCIS. Though Baa Baa Black Sheep is fun...it is so Historically inaccurate as to rank with the Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Battle of the Bulge movies. To think Col Boyington was actually the technical advisor to the show.

Apparently in France it's called Les Tetes Brulees- the Hot Heads....
Not their greatest retitling of foreign series'- The Six Million Dollar Woman became' Super Jamie', and the Avengers The Melon HAt and Boots of Leather'.

What a great series. I remember the first few times i watched it, my dad made me sit down with him to view it..Of course im a little girl, and thats just not something girls watched..lol...Wasnt long before i was reminding my dad its time to watch the show..LOLOL..
Anyway, to answer your question Jody, the series debuted in 1976 and ran through 1978. There were a total of 37 sixty min. episodes. Not sure if all 37 plan to be released on DVD or not..but i would buy them..
I can remember when the nurses were first introduced to the show, i believe during the last season..they were referred to as "Pappy's Lambs" i believe. They made me want to be a nurse:)

Mary (++)

After doing a bit of research on the subject at hand i found this..It seems that the series was during the first season was called BaaBaa Black Sheep, and when it came back for its second season, it was called Black Sheep Squadron..Below is also a list of all the episodes, with air dates..Enjoy...

Season 1: Baa Baa Black Sheep

1. 1- 1 21 Sep 76 Flying Misfits (1)
2. 1- 2 21 Sep 76 Flying Misfits (2)
3. 1- 3 46201 23 Nov 76 Best Three Out of Five
4. 1- 4 46204 28 Sep 76 Small War
5. 1- 5 46202 5 Oct 76 High Jinx
6. 1- 6 46205 12 Oct 76 Prisoners of War
7. 1- 7 46207 26 Oct 76 Presumed Dead
8. 1- 8 46209 9 Nov 76 The Meatball Circus
9. 1- 9 46206 16 Nov 76 Up for Grabs
10. 1-10 46210 23 Nov 76 Anyone for Suicide?
11. 1-11 46211 30 Nov 76 New Georgia On My Mind
12. 1-12 46203 21 Dec 77 The Cat's Whiskers
13. 1-13 46214 14 Dec 76 Love and War
14. 1-14 46212 4 Jan 77 The War Biz Warrior
15. 1-15 46218 11 Jan 77 The Deadliest Enemy of All (1)
16. 1-16 46219 18 Jan 77 The Deadliest Enemy of All (2)
17. 1-17 46216 25 Jan 77 Devil in the Slot
18. 1-18 46217 1 Feb 77 Five the Hard Way
19. 1-19 46221 8 Feb 77 The Last Mission Over Sengai
20. 1-20 46222 15 Feb 77 Trouble at Fort Apache
21. 1-21 46225 22 Feb 77 Poor Little Lambs
22. 1-22 46224 1 Mar 77 W*A*S*P*S
23. 1-23 46220 8 Mar 77 Last One for Hutch
24. 1-24 46226 22 Mar 77 The Fastest Gun

Season 2: Black Sheep Squadron

25. 2- 1 49313 14 Dec 77 Divine Wind
26. 2- 2 49309 21 Dec 77 The 200 Pound Gorilla
27. 2- 3 49312 28 Dec 77 The Hawk Flies on Sunday
28. 2- 4 49303 4 Jan 78 Wolves in the Sheep Pen
29. 2- 5 49306 11 Jan 78 Operation Stand-Down
30. 2- 6 49304 18 Jan 78 Ten'll Get You Five
31. 2- 7 49317 22 Feb 78 Forbidden Fruit
32. 2- 8 49316 1 Mar 78 Fighting Angels
33. 2- 9 49314 8 Mar 78 The Iceman
34. 2-10 49318 15 Mar 78 Hotshot
35. 2-11 49301 22 Mar 78 The Show Must Go On... Sometimes
36. 2-12 49319 30 Mar 78 Sheep in the Limelight
37. 2-13 49321 6 Apr 78 A Little Bit of England

Wow, I'm impressed with your reasearch Mary!

Hopefully the whole thing will come out on DVD. Full frame of course. I can't stand that letter box crap!

You know....DVD's are one of the great blessings given to us lately. Look at all the wonderful old TV shows that we grew up with that are now available on DVD's. THe cost is't prohibitive, and now people who weren't even born when some of these shows were on TV can enjoy them too. We live in interesting times.

Monte,
Lol...now it's my turn to "not nitpick". All TV shows (until Babylon 5... I believe) were shown in 4:3 (also called 1.33:1) format for Television. There were other shows that shot using film so they *may* have been able to be shown in a wider format, but I think in most of these cases the film was simply transfered to video and eventually lost (the film).

Cheers,
Jim

No problem Jim. Call it what you will. All I know is that I can't stand watching movies and shows like I'm viewing it through a mail slot! There's a reason why I bought a big screen tv, for the BIG SCREEN! Not the 2/3 of black bars.

Im with you Monte..i hate the "letter box" or "widescreen" viewing options. I always make sure that i check my dvds before i buy them and buy the full screen version. It just irritates me for some reason if the whole screen isnt filled with a picture..
Mary (++)

I do the same thing Mary, at least with the DVD's I'm going to buy. Fortunatly my DVD player has a feature that automaticly fits the picture to the screen but it dosen't always work for every DVD.