View Full Version : The History of BLUE THUNDER: The One That Wasn't Airwolf


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09-12-2024, 08:39 PM
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In the early 1980s, John Badham made a gritty, ambiguous movie about surveillance and the militarization of the police called Blue Thunder.

As a result of the success of Knight Rider, ABC took that movie , stripped out the message and made a TV show about a kick a** helicopter called Blue Thunder (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125231/http://www.jumptheshark.com/b/bluethunder.htm) that made it to air BEFORE Airwolf.

History shows that out of BLUE THUNDER and AIRWOLF, one was way more successful than the other.