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Chopper One
An LAPD Bell 206 JetRanger
Format	police procedural
Starring	Jim McMullan Dirk Benedict Ted Hartley Lou Frizzell
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producer(s)	Aaron Spelling Leonard Goldberg
Running time	22 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	January 1974 – July 1974

Chopper One was a short-lived ABC drama/adventure television series in early 1974 depicting the activities of a California police helicopter team. The program aired in a half-hour time slot on Thursdays at 8 p.m. Eastern.^[1]

It aired adjacent to Firehouse, an action-drama series about a Los Angeles fire station. Chopper One was cancelled after six months and Firehouse ended in the following month.

Story and Characters

Chopper One was directed by E.W. Swackhamer and was about two flying police officers (a pilot and an observer) and their adventures in a police helicopter. The helicopter was a Bell 206 Jetranger. It starred Jim McCullen as Officer Don Burdick and Dirk Benedict as officer Gil Foley. Benedict would later earn fame as Lt. Starbuck int the original 1978 TV show Battlestar Galactica and as Lt. Templeton 'Faceman' Peck in the TV show The A-Team.

Ted Hartley played their boss Capt. McKeegan and Lou Frizzell played Mitch, the crusty mechanic.

The show lasted one season (13 episodes).

References

^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle. The complete directory to prime time network and cable TV shows, 1946-present. ISBN 0345455428.

External links

Chopper One on ABC at TV Guide
Chopper One at the Internet Movie Database
Chopper One at TV.com

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After parting ways with Restless, Chopper One broke up and Jason began a new project called Fliptop. This punk/pop super group featured Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle, Guns N'Roses, Vandals, Devo) on drums and Scott Shiflett (Face to Face, Jackson United) on bass. Although a full-length album was recorded, only five of the fourteen tracks were mixed down (for demo purposes). Unfortunately, scheduling turmoil caused disbanding and the album was never released.

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