The BEST episodes of Wings
Every episode of Wings ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wings!
Two brothers, Joe and Brian Hackett, run a one-plane commuter service from a small Nantucket airport. Along with Joe's on-again/off-again girlfriend, there are more hilarious and eccentric characters who work out of or at the airport.
#1 - Fay There, Georgy Girl
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/1997
After selling off the valuables of her Georges,Fay is visited by their ghosts,demanding that she buy back their items. Meanwhile,Joe's Valentine's Day efforts seem paltry to Helen compared to the man intending to propose to his beloved with a banner flying from the Sandpiper plane (problem is she's not his beloved,and she can't even stand him.) and Brian and Casey prepare to go out on a sham date.
#2 - As Fate Would Have It
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/7/1992
The gang accompanies Helen to Boston after she lands a gig with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Caught up in a heavy storm and their fate uncertain, Helen recounts the bizarre way in which they got to that point.
#3 - B.S., I Love You
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1996
Joe and Brian are thrilled at the return of Grandpa Hackett, but Helen isn't so sure he is who he claims to be. Meanwhile, Antonio refuses to continue a chain letter, which everyone else gets and passes along, and begins to suffer for it.
#4 - What the Cabbie Saw
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/1993
Antonio performs his civic duty when he helps bring to court a suspected robber and then testifies against him.But then the suspect gets released on a technicality and Antonio starts to fear for his life.
#5 - Miss Jenkins
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1994
Joe, Brian, Helen, and Lowell struggle with the return of their 9th grade English teacher on whom the boys had a serious crush. Meanwhile, Roy is dubious about why a "Simon Says" expert wants to marry his mother.
#6 - The Person Formerly Known as Lowell
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/1995
Back from vacation, Lowell goes out for a meal of hot wings with Antonio and lands in hot water when he witnesses a mob hit. After he is threatened by the gangster's lawyer, he decides to join the Witness Protection Program and leave Nantucket forever.
#7 - The Spark and How to Get It
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1994
After his therapist pronounces him fully recovered from his break-up with Alex, Brian plunges back into the dating world and Antonio insists he go along. Meanwhile, Lowell prepares a commencement address for his Alma Mater and Casey has trouble getting a good haircut.
#8 - The Big Sleep
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/12/1995
After fighting with Helen over the architect's plans for their new house (he wants a big screen TV in the bedroom, she wants a walk-in closet), Joe has a strange dream involving Tigers, Clowns, Roy bellying dancing and the two of them dying in a plane crash with Antonio. As one by one the dreams events come to pass, Brian tries to convince Joe to heed the dream's warnings, but he fails and soon Joe, Helen and Antonio find themselves plunging to earth in the plane...
#9 - Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young Man
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/21/1995
Casey is enamored with a sculpture that Lowell made out of old plane parts and convinces him to make more for a prestigious art gallery. Brian finishes a roll of film not knowing that it will soon go to her parents.
#10 - 'Twas the Heist Before Christmas
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/19/1995
Nothing goes right at Helen's christmas party:Joe wants to hit the road to head for the slopes before they are snowed in.Antonio gives but does not receive,Roy misses his mother,Budd tries to be social,and Casey invites Carlton's annoying nephew Lewis.
#11 - Honey, We Broke the Kid
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/2/1996
Joe and Helen volunteer to babysit but it's far from the learning experience that they hoped it would be. Meanwhile, Casey gets a big time Hollywood star to come to the island to appear in her Nantucket Tourism commercial.
#12 - Sons and Lovers
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1996
It's Roy's 12th birthday (he was born on a leap year), and Helen contacts Roy's son R.J. and convinces him to come back to Nantucket for the party. But the initial reconciliation is dashed when R.J. brings his significant other to the party. Meanwhile, Brian helps Antonio out by driving the cab while Antonio waits for his driver's license.
#13 - Bye, George
Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/30/1996
Fay quickly falls for Lyle, the dashing man she met on a cruise, but the wedding is jeopardized when Fay learns the awful truth about him. His real first name is George, just like her first three dead husbands. Armed with this new knowledge Fay decides against making it a fourth George and calls off the wedding.
#14 - The Team Player
Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/6/1996
A publicity disaster occurs when Antonio (running the desk while the brothers go to a hockey game) bumps the Bruins abrasive star goalie Danny "Dead End" Connelly off a Sandpiper flight to a critical game, causing the Bruins to lose. Meanwhile, winter tourism on the island takes an upswing when Casey welcomes the International Society of Masochists to Nantucket.
#15 - Love at First Flight
Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/13/1996
Brian falls in love with a woman while flying her to Nantucket for her wedding. Meanwhile, Antonio has mixed feelings after finding out Roy is dating Edna, "The Big Faced Girl."
#16 - Lynch Party
Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/20/1996
When news arrives that Davis Lynch has re-surfaced, Helen recounts the tale of how she never broke off her engagement with him, then tries to break the news to Davis, while not alerting Joe.
#17 - One Flew Over the Cooper's Nest
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/27/1996
Sandy's return sends Joe to the psychologist, as no one believes his stories of her obsession with him. The psychologist does wonders to calm Joe down, but the real psycho is revealed when Joe meets Sandy in the vacant psychologist's office. Meanwhile, Roy, Antonio, Fay and Casey try to deal with the news they may have suffered food poisoning from Helen's tuna.
#18 - Driving Mr. DeCarlo
Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/12/1996
Antonio thinks his fortunes have taken a turn for the better when one of passengers hires him to be his personal chauffeur. But some overheard conversations seem to indicate that his new boss is a mobster. Meanwhile, Helen hurriedly reads "Don Quixote" when her old english lit teacher from highschool drops by for a visit.
#19 - A Tale of Two Sister Cities
Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/26/1996
On the verge of losing her job with the Tourism Board, Casey sees a solution when her sister city idea is accepted. But things go downhill when Brian sleeps with the visiting princess of prospective sister city Khirinan. Meanwhile, Antonio offers to take the little princesses for their hair care appointment. It turns out to be two dogs, which he promptly loses.
#20 - What About Larry?
Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/9/1996
The contractor Joe and Helen hires to build their new house falls apart when his wife kicks him out, and the Hackett's try to rebuild his confidence and get him back to work. Meanwhile, a Vacationing George Kennedy is bothered by an annoying fan: Brian.
#21 - When a Man Loves a Donut
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/28/1995
Spurned by Joe (who's too busy with his new wife to spend time with him), Brian turns to food, but ends up trying to deal with his problems at a meeting of the "Eat-A-Holics." Meanwhile, Antonio tries to get used to tight shoes, after he pays $200 for them, and Casey gets hired by the Nantucket Tourism Board.
#22 - She's Gotta Have It
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/1995
Joe and Helen reap unpected benefits after getting a large insurance settlement for Helen's burnt down house. But Joe soon finds soon faces the task of stopping Helen's shopping spree, before it leaves them broke. Meanwhile,Brian and Casey try to find something in common and Antonio returns to Edna, "The Big Faced Girl."
#23 - Hooker, Line and Sinker
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/1995
To lift Antonio's spirits after he's dumped by the "Big Faced Girl," Joe and Brian set him up with a girl at the Club Car only to discover later that she's a very expensive hooker.
#24 - Death Becomes Him
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1995
The sad news of Richard Kingsbury's death in Miami is occasion for celebration at Sandpiper, as Kingbury's oldest daughter hires the Hackett's to bring the body back to Nantucket for the Memorial. But the brother's fly the wrong body back to the island, and it's up to Joe to impersonate the late Kingsbury at the funeral.
#25 - Burnin' Down the House (2)
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1995
When digging through the rubble of Helen's home, Brian and casey unearth a suitcase and photgraph that had been the hackett brother's only inheritance from their late father. Brian's attempts to remind Joe of that fail,but Joe later sees a vision of his late father and forgives Brian. Meanwhile,Antonio executes his revenge on Brian and Casey and Helen takes out her anger on Casey's clothes.