Cirrus@Austlit

List of episodes and broadcast dates

1. Man in a Hurry (17 March 1966)

Mediterranean Air Charter Services, operating from Cannes, are asked to fly a passenger to Tunis. At the last moment, a second passenger begs a lift. One of them is a criminal on the run. Half way across the Mediterranean the pilot is taken ill. (Radio Times, 10 March 1966, p.51.)

2. Our Man in Albania (24 March 1966)

Steve, Seppi, and Edwige are asked to pick up a passenger from an airfield in Yugoslavia and fly him back to Cannes. They realise this is cloak and dagger stuff. As Steve puts it, ' This could be dicey...' (Radio Times, 17 March 1966, p.59.)

3. Ambulance to Algiers (31 March 1966)

An Algerian businessman, taken ill on holiday on the Riviera, to be flown home, in charge of a doctor and a male nurse. Sounds a routine assignment–until Edwige reports to Steve that the doctor is carrying a gun. (Radio Times, 24 March 1966, p.61.)

4. Night Stop in Libya (7 April 1966)

Professor Gaunt, archaeologist, is charming and typically absent-minded. He wants, he says, to be flown to Libya to join a field team working there. But, in conversation, Seppi finds the Professor seems to know little about archaeology. (Radio Times, 31 March 1966, p.57.)

5. The Girl from Solemara (14 April 1966)

A routine assignment–to fly young Peter Bramley to Solenzara in Corsica and back again. But when Peter arrives at the airport for the return trip he asks Steve if he has room for another passenger–and when Edwige discovers who the passenger is ... (Radio Times, 7 April 1966, p.51.)

6. Appointment in Amsterdam (21 April 1966)

When Nick and Monica Bayliss book a charter flight to Amsterdam, Matt remembers that the cheque for a previous flight had bounced. Yet a month earlier Nick had bought his, wife a twenty-thousand pound diamond necklace–which seems a little odd. (Radio Times, 14 April 1966, p.61.)

7. Assignment in Sardinia (28 April 1966)

Claudia Cromwell plans to illustrate her travel articles with aerial photographs. But on the charter flight over Sardinia, Steve and Seppi find their passenger has little interest in the countryside—they spend their time flying to and fro over a certain car-testing track. (Radio Times, 21 April 1966, p.61.)

8. Rendezvous in Radagusta (5 May 1966)

When the Seafoam, cruising off North Africa with a party of tourists, cracks her propeller shaft, there is only one thing to do—fly a new shaft out to her, with a marine engineer to install it. But, as Edwige says, M. Laplage does not look like a marine engineer. (Radio Times, 28 April 1966, p.61.)

9. They Met on the Acropolis (12 May 1966)

Herr Strauss books a charter flight to Athens to attend a series of business conferences; and also, as Edwige discovers, to meet someone on the Acropolis. It could be coincidence, of course, that at the appointed time, Steve, Seppi, and Edwige are there too. (Radio Times, 5 May 1966, p.51.)