Those wonderful flying men back

Press, 10 April 1978, Page 15

Those wonderful flying men back

Those wonderful World War I men and their flying machines return to TVI in another series of “Wings” tonight. It is now the autumn of 1915 and the young airmen have come to realise that they are fighting a combat in deadly earnest, not taking part in a game. Their purpose is the destruction of the enemy; their own casualties are heavy; and they are not equipped either mechanically or mentally for the perils they have to face. Tim Woodward, Michael Cochrane and Nicholas Jones return to play Alan Farmer, Charles Gaylion and Captain Triggers, the three young pilots who are the heroes of “Wings” and with them is David

Troughton as the observer, Lieutenant Bravington. Michael Jayes joins the cast as Starling who replaces Alan Farmer when he is reported missing. On the home front, Alan becomes engaged to Lorna Collins — an engagement that runs into trouble when he is reported missing and she meets Charles Gaylion. Alan’s uncle, Harry Farmer, leaves Becket’s Hill when he realises that there can be no future for him with his sister-in-law — at that time English law forbade a man to marry his dead brother’s wife. There are more action flying sequences than before in this new series, filmed with old machines, iwth replicas, and with models.