The BEST episodes of Black Sheep Squadron season 2
Every episode of Black Sheep Squadron season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Black Sheep Squadron season 2!
In World War II Marine Corps Major Greg 'Pappy' Boyington commanded a squadron of fighter pilots. They were a collection of misfits and screwballs who became the terrors of the South Pacific. They were known as the Black Sheep.
#1 - Operation Stand-Down
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/11/1978
The Black Sheep are pulled out of action and given a series of tests to reevaluate their physical fitness, combat tactics and flight proficiency.
#2 - The Iceman
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/8/1978
Pappy gets transferred back to the States to boost morale, denying him a rematch with a top Japanese air ace and placing the Black Sheep under the command of a no-nonsense by-the-book commander.
#3 - Ten'll Get You Five
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/18/1978
Pappy meets his match in a sergeant who is escorting civilian VIPs around the Pacific theatre, and who cons Pappy into trading whiskey for oil that fails in the Black Sheep's engines during combat.
#4 - Hotshot
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/15/1978
The Black Sheep play uneasy hosts to a hotshot army pilot whose amiability masks his ambition to become the war's best fighter pilot.
#5 - Forbidden Fruit
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/22/1978
As the Black Sheep are preparing for a dangerous night strike against Japanese bombers, things are disrupted by two new arrivals, an underage pilot and a nurse who happens to be Pappy's old flame -- and General Moore's daughter.
#6 - A Little Bit of England
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/6/1978
The show starts with Boyle and French trying to get a closer look at a showering Nurse Ellie. They throw a golf ball into the water barrel and pretend they're looking for it. Ellie is none the wiser, but the other nurses come upon the scene and are none to happy with the little trick they are playing. Nurse Nancy tells Boyle that he can forget about that night and the next and the next and that she never wants to see him again. On their mission that day the squadron strafes a harbor at Raubaul and comes out okay. But as they are leaving the area Boyle spots a train and asks permission to go after it. Greg has a feeling that he should not let him go as they have just enough fuel to get back to La Cava. He lets Boyle and Casey take a run at the train. Casey goes first and hits the target, passing over the train afterwards. Boyle makes a better hit, causing a large explosion. His plane flies through the explosion and catches on fire. Greg tells him to try to make it to England. T
#7 - Fighting Angels
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/1/1978
Vella La Cava is overrun with Japanese commandos. Col. Lard and Pappy must work together to keep the island out of enemy hands. Is this possible? A number of surprises in this one!
#8 - The Hawk Flies on Sunday
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/28/1977
The Squadron's chances of being assigned the mission to kill Admiral Yamamoto are lessened by T.J.'s romance with a Eurasian girl suspected of giving information to the Japanese.
#9 - Wolves in the Sheep Pen
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/4/1978
A Navy squadron, composed of cocky pilots fresh out of flight school, falsely claims to have sunk a Japanese radar ship in the Solomon slot.
#10 - Divine Wind
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/14/1977
A chaplain comes to visit Vella La Cava. Through some paperwork error Bob Anderson is declared dead. Anderson gets the feeling that he has bad karma and that he will die soon. The chaplain and Pappy both try to snap Bob out of this morose line of thinking. But have little luck. Bob spends alot of time contemplating his death. We also find him playing the clarinet. He uses some music that he says he found on the island after it was abandoned by the Japanese. All the while the Seabees are building a hospital on the other side of the island. This interferes with regular operations at 214's base. Boyington finally figures out that through yet another paperwork error, they are building an ammo depot instead of a hospital and it becomes the target of enemy fighters. Bob's obsession with death ends when the chaplain finally looses his patience and decks Bob. Shortly after this the Seabees realize their mistake but the enemy is coming in for an attatck. The chaplain dies when he goes t
#11 - The 200 Pound Gorilla
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/21/1977
The promotion list arrives, giving Gen. Moore another star and making Sgt. Micklin a warrant officer, which causes him to become even more hostile towards the ""college boy"" pilots.
#12 - The Show Must Go On...Sometimes
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/22/1978
Pappy cons a unit of lecherous Seabees into repairing the bomb blasted runway with a trumped up promise of a bawdy USO show after the work is done, only the only girls around are the island's four nurses.
#13 - Sheep in the Limelight
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/30/1978
While out on a mission, the squadron saves a transport plane from being shot down by zeros. Unbeknownst to them one of the passengers in Eleanor Roosevelt. The sheep become media darlings and get caught up in their own press. This leads to problems on the ground and in the air.