Wings (1990 TV series)

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Wings
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	David Angell Peter Casey David Lee
Starring	Tim Daly Steven Weber Crystal Bernard Thomas Haden Church David Schramm Rebecca Schull Tony Shalhoub Farrah Forke Amy Yasbeck
Theme music composer	Franz Schubert
Opening theme	Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959, Rondo: Allegretto
Composer	Bruce Miller
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	172 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	David Angell Peter Casey David Lee Ian Gurvitz Mark Reisman Howard Gewirtz David Hackel
Producer	James Tibmolap
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22–23 minutes
Production companies	Grub Street Productions Paramount Network Television
Original release
Network	NBC[1]
Release	April 19, 1990 (1990-04-19) – May 21, 1997 (1997-05-21)
Related
Cheers Frasier
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Wings is an American sitcom television series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from April 19, 1990, to May 21, 1997, for a total of 172 episodes.

The show is set at the fictional "Tom Nevers Field" airport, a small two-airline airport in Nantucket, Massachusetts (not to be confused with the actual Nantucket Memorial Airport), where the Hackett brothers operate Sandpiper Air, their single-plane airline. The majority of the episodes are set in the airport.

Tim Daly and Steven Weber starred as brothers and pilots, Joe and Brian Hackett. Crystal Bernard played Helen, their friend since childhood and later Joe's love interest and wife, who ran the lunch counter at the airport but dreamed of becoming a concert cellist. David Schramm played Roy Biggins, who ran a competing airline called Aeromass. Rebecca Schull played Fay, Joe and Brian's employee at Sandpiper Air. Thomas Haden Church portrayed the mechanic Lowell in the first six seasons, Tony Shalhoub was taxi driver Antonio from season 3 onward, and Farrah Forke was Brian's love interest, Alex, during seasons 4 and 5. Amy Yasbeck played Helen's sister, Casey, from season 6 through the show's end in season 8. Brian Haley briefly played the mechanic Budd, Lowell's replacement, in season 7.

Wings was created and produced by Cheers veterans David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee. The trio later created the sitcom Frasier, which was a spin-off of Cheers. The series exists in the same fictional universe as Cheers and Frasier and characters from Cheers occasionally made special guest appearances on Wings. All three series were produced by Grub Street Productions in association with Paramount Network Television.