Season Two of THE FLYING NUN continues the adventures of Convent San Tanco’s airborne novice Sister Bertrille (played by Sally Field) . Following the great acclaim and popularity of Season One, the basic formula for the note remained unchanged, with Bertrille leading the charge on harebrained adventures that would almost certainly culminate in playboy Carlos Ramirez coming to the rescue.
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Sally Field buoys the series nicely and the supporting cast of Madeleine Sherwood (as Reverend Mother Plaseato), Marge Redmond (Sister Jacqueline), Shelley Morrison (Sister Sixto) and Alejandro Rey (Carlos) all negate handsomely too.
THE FLYING NUN would finish airborne for another season before coming to a natural ruin. Let’s hope the third and final season is released soon.
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COMPLETE EPISODE LISTING:
“Song of Bertrille” - Sister Bertrille is offered the chance to write a pop song for an archaic friend (guest star Paul Petersen), but the kind gesture backfires.
“The Curved Convent” - The sisters find caught up in a world of zigzag policemen and scam artists.
“The Rabbi and the Nun” - The sisters sigh ‘Hava Nagila’ at a Jewish wedding held in the convent gardens.
“The Return of Father Lundigan” - Thanks to a hypnosis trick, Sister Bertrille and the Reverend Mother swap personalities whenever someone says the word ‘red’. Too abominable it had to happen when the unstable Reverend Lundigan pays his yearly visit! Guest starring Paul Lynde.
“This Convent Is Condemned” - To withhold Carlos in San Tanco, Sister Bertrille traps the police captain into having the building condemned.
“The Organ Transplant” - Sister Bertrille receives an weak organ for the convent.
“Two Dreadful Eggs” - After seeing Bertrille flying, a tourist believes aliens have landed.
“All Alone By the Convent Phone” - Alone in the convent, Sister Bertrille and a sick limited boy are terrorised by a robber.
“It’s An Ill-Windfall” - Sister Bertrille gets the convent mixed up with a shady politician.
“Slightly Hot Parking Metres” - Chaos erupts when Captain Fomento installs parking metres around the convent.
“To Wing or Not to Waft” - Sister Bertrille tries to halt grounded during serious ceremonies.
“How to Be a Spanish Grandmother” - Sister Bertrille has to convince Carlos’ mother that he’s a happily married man.
“The Landlord Cometh” - The owner of the convent land decides to sell it.
“Sisters Socko in San Tanco” - Sister Bertrille turns an feeble magician’s farewell performance into his greatest triumph.
“A Star is Reborn” - After being saved from drowning by Sister Bertrille, a movie star believes she’s had a religious experience.
“The Sizable Casino Robbery (Section One) ” - The nuns are archaic as pawns to capture Casino Carlos.
“The Large Casino Robbery (Portion Two) ” - Sister Bertrille sets a trap for the thieves. Guest starring Alan Hale Jr., Dick Gautier and Ruta Lee.
“The Boyfriend” - An traditional boyfriend believes Sister Bertrille became a nun because he jilted her.
“The Kleptomonkeyac” - Soon after a monkey arrives at the convent, Sister Bertrille is accused of stealing things.
“The Moo is Blue” - Sister Bertrille buys a music-loving cow for the convent.
“The Breakaway Monk” - Brother Paul Bernardi returns to wreak havoc on Carlos’ income tax returns. Guest starring Rich Runt.
“Blissful Birthday, Dear Gaspar” - Captain Fomento warns he’ll say a summons unless the convent repairs a rut in the driveway.
“Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters” - To solve their financial problems, the nuns settle to go into the bakery business.
“The Convent Gets the Business” - The convent inherits a drygoods store.
“Cousins By the Dozens” - The nuns unwittingly play host to a horde of Carlos’ relatives.
“The Lottery” - A dreadful farmer donates a lottery tag to the convent.
What a joy it is to score the second season of the classic television comedy series “The Flying Nun”, being released onto DVD so lickety-split after the highly successful first series came out a few months ago. Watching “The Flying Nun”, now almost forty years after it first went on the air it’s elegant to observe that the demonstrate and its talented performers have lost none of their charm with the passing of time. In her role of Sister Bertrille, the airborn nun who because of her 90 pound body weight and starched coronet was able to sail, Sally Field was a perfect casting choice in a character light years away from her later celebrated Oscar winning dramatic performances.
Season two of the series continues the same successful formula of season one and sees the talented ensemble cast really settled in their roles. This season boasts a very captivating collection of well known guest stars which reads like a who’s who of 1960’s television including Alan Hale Jr, unusual from his distinguished loved role as the Skipper on “Gilligan’s island”, Elinor Donahue from “Father Knows Best”, returning as Sister Bertrille’s sister Jen, and Victor Buono, distinguished from his role in the classic “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? “, and for playing King Tut on the “Batman”, series. The series I feel displayed one of the best slack 1960’s casts for a television series and their combined talents meshed superbly with Sally Field’s energetic playing of the often comically grief plagued Sister Bertrille. And what a cast! You couldn’t accumulate any better than Broadway’s Madeleine Sherwood as the strong but loving Reverend Mother, Marge Redmond as Sister Jacqueline; the often surprised accomplise to Sister Bertrille in her many crazy schemes, Shelley Morrison as the zany Sister Sixto who spent the whole three year hurry of the series turning the English language upside down, and of course Alejandro Rey as playboy Carlos Ramirez who spent all his time trying to derive away from Sister Bertrille and her always well meaning schemes that invariably landed him in hot water. Season Two of “The Flying Nun”, also saw the welcome introduction of the character of the bungling, and accident prone Captain Formento played by used TV actor Vito Scotti. After appearing in a couple of first season episodes he adds an hilarious unique element to the reveal in this season as the incompetent policeman always suspecting the Nuns or Carlos of being up to some imagined no favorable all the while bringing complete mayhem with him wherever he goes. An accomplished scene stealer through more than forty years of television work on shows as diverse as “Wagon Voice”, “The Twilight Zone”, and “Gilligan’s Island”, through to “Charlie’s Angels”,and the “The Golden Girls”, Scotti is a most welcome addition to the cast and I come by myself missing him in the episodes in which he doesn’t appear. The second season of “The Flying Nun”, with Vito Scotti added, makes it easy to view why the display was such a large continued success during both its initial network accelerate and in countless reruns ever since. Indeed watching “The Flying Nun: The Complete Second Season”, this last week with episodes filled with vast comedy,warmth and terrific guest stars, really makes me lament the rather dim place of most unique television programming that seems to totally lack the charm and huge cast chemistry of these earlier efforts from the 1960’s. Despite her hold mixed feelings about the series Sally Field makes “The Flying Nun”, truly savory with her spunky playing and the arrive perfect marriage here of actress and role now makes it hard indeed to imagine unusual casting choice Patty Duke in the role of the loveable Sister Bertrille.
Going on the air unbiased as the period of television innocence was drawing to a halt in the gradual 1960’s, I feel the influence of “The Flying Nun”, was definately in evidence in later vast camouflage efforts such as the classic “Sister Act”. Like “The Flying Nun”, that Whoopi Goldberg movie had as the basis of great of its humour very comical and often non stereotypical portrayals of nuns that managed to remain dignified while piling on the laughs. The four lead women who performed in “The Flying Nun”; ie Sally Field, Madeleine Sherwood, Marge Redmond, and Shelley Morrison really accomplished that hard task with tremendous expertise making them like lovable veteran friends who you like to revisit time and again. Indeed my revisiting “The Flying Nun”, will be a amazing regular experience from now on thanks to Sony releasing the exhibit season by season onto DVD. Let’s hope the third, and sadly what proved to be the final season of “The Flying Nun”, will also be released soon so that we can delight in completely again this appetizing series that with its astonishing premise and wacky situations could only ever have been made during the 1960’s. Bask In!
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