And that means she will be a very good spy. The pilots aren't what this show is about. They're prone to saying sexist things that they don't realise are sexist Ted or doing a bit of blue-eyed pining over beautiful stewardesses Dean.
This show also seems at pains to point out that they're a bit inadequate compared to the women, because they aren't trilingual, and pull funny faces when they are faced with another language.
It looks like Dean will get over Bridget and under Colette; will lothario Ted get together with Maggie, now she's made an effort to show him the error of his ways? In the pilot particularly, the music is incessant. And if there are any more songs about flying or travel from the 60s, expect to hear them. Perhaps we could have big-band covers of Fly by Nicki Minaj?
On A Plain by Nirvana plane. Oh never mind? Where are all the cigarettes? Wasn't flying in the 60s supposed to be a smoky haven? There's a strong emphasis on how educated these stewardesses are. They all have a degree and seem to speak three languages. But they also have to stop work when they're married, or reach 32, or rip their tights, or put on a pound too many. The rousing empowerment speeches are clunky: "This is your life, what do you wanna do?
But I couldn't help getting carried along with it all. Yes, they serve coffee, but they get to ride elephants! In Bangkok! After tonight, the show moves to Saturday evenings, with a double-bill from 9pm. Main content. This programme is not currently available on BBC iPlayer. Airline: The Story of Pan Am. Show more. Show less. Last on. Plus, fibbing about fluency in Portuguese is a rubbish dramatic flaw, and Laura is disproportionately upset about it.
In a plot twist that will come as no surprise to anybody who's ever seen a television show before, Kate ends up falling for ER's Dr Kovac, here a UN official, on whom she is supposed to be keeping tabs. At least she managed one job — getting fingerprints — without too much slapstick disaster. But if you could watch the scenes where she's discussing Martin Luther King and civil rights without rolling your eyes, then you're of stronger stomach than me. In the another desperately predictable storyline, Laura pawned her engagement ring, only to find she was asked to pay over the odds to get it back.
When she tried to do so, it had been bought already — by Ted, who sold his Rolex for it. Why rich Ted would have to sell his Rolex is not clear. Why Laura's fiance Greg had to save up for a ring is also not clear — everything that has gone before suggests she was doing the right thing by a wealthy family, which presumably would have meant marrying a wealthy man one who could, say, fly to Paris on a last-minute whim.
Will Laura and Ted get together? Does anyone care? Colette exhausted herself by being all upset with the Germans last week so she didn't show up much this time. So Ted's a tart with a heart, though keeping Laura's ring from her for so long did undo his good deed somewhat, even though it was necessary to drag out the "tension".
He calls it off, but not before Maggie presumably grasses him up to the boss, in order to save her own career.
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