Baa Baa Blacksheep

1 9 7 6 - 1 9 7 8 (USA)
1 x 95 minute episode
35 x 60 minute episodes

Based loosely on the book of the same name by real-world US flying ace, Gregory Boyington, this series was the story of a squadron of misfit flyers in the South Pacific during World War II. 

Squadron 214 was composed of men who had been on the verge of court martial before Boyington provided them with reprieves. They were general pests and non-conformists who had been charged with everything from fighting with officers to stealing alcohol. 

Pappy  was the "old man" compared to his men (he was 35!), and maintained almost no discipline, ignored all military regulations and did not care at all what his men got up to when they weren't on missions.

The series  was renamed Black Sheep Squadron in the 1977-1978 season and Captain Dottie Dixon was added to the cast. Dixon was in charge of the nurses on Vella La Cava, the island where Pappy and his men were based, and four of her nurses became regulars in early 1978. They were christened "Pappy's Lambs". 

Nurse Nancy was played by Robert Conrads' real daughter, Nancy Conrad.