The Airbase is a black-and-white

Black-and-white

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 British

United Kingdom

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 sitcom

Situation comedy

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 that on BBC2

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 in 1965. It was written by John Briley

John Briley

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Cast

• David Kelsey - Sqdn-Ldr Terence Elgin Heatherton
• David Healy
  David Healy (actor)
  David Healy was an American-born actor who starred in many British and American television shows. His credits include voices for the Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 and The Secret Service, as well as parts in UFO, The Troubleshooters, Randall and Hopkirk , Space...
  
   - Staff Sgt. George Tillman Miller
• Eddie Matthews - Airman Randy Ricks
• Alan Gifford - Colonel Hoggart

Plot

The American

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 writer John Briley wrote this sitcom from his own experiences as a soldier stationed in England

England

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. The lead character is Sqdn-Ldr Heatherton who is the commanding officer at RAF

Royal Air Force

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 Wittlethorpe. Much of his time is taken up by him being the middle man between the local community and his US airmen

United States Air Force

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Episodes

1. Episode One (24 March 1965)
2. Episode Two (31 March 1965)
3. Episode Three (7 April 1965)
4. Episode Four (14 April 1965)
5. Episode Five (21 April 1965)
6. Episode Six (28 April 1965)

No episodes are known to exist in the BBC

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's archives as of 2009; the show was presumably wiped in the early 1970s.