He Wanted Wings is the twenty-first episode of the first season in this television sitcom on Step by Step, which was aired on ABC on March 27, 1990. It was directed by John Tracy and written by Joe Fisch.
Plot[]
As Frank gets close to turning forty, Carol begins to worry that he will have a mid-life crisis and run off with a younger girl. She starts prodding him about dreams he may have missed out on, and when he mentions that he used to want to get his pilot's license, she gets him flying lessons. The instructor is going through a rough time, though, and almost crashes the plane in an effort to end it all. Carol knocks him out, and Frank has to take control of the plane. They end up getting down safely and apologizes to Frank for trying to give him a mid-life crisis, when he didn't have one. Meanwhile the girls fight over making Frank's cake. Also, Cody and J.T try to install a showerhead for Frank's birthday.
Cats and Characters[]
Main[]
- Patrick Duffy as Frank Lambert
- Suzanne Somers as Carol Foster Lambert
- Staci Keanan as Dana Foster
- Sasha Mitchell as Cody Lambert
- Brandon Call as J.T. Lambert
- Angela Watson as Karen Foster
- Christine Lakin as Al Lambert
- Christopher Castile as Mark Foster
- Josh Byrne as Brendan Lambert
- Patrika Darbo as Penny Baker
- Peggy Rea as Ivy Baker
Guest[]
- George Wyner as Mel
- Joseph Chapman as Jim (voice)
Trivia[]
- Although the story focuses on Frank turning 40, in reality Patrick Duffy, who plays Frank, was 42 at the time.
- George Wyner previously co-starred with Suzanne Somers on the sitcom She's the Sheriff.
- It is revealed that Frank's first wife left him and his kids to be a lounge singer in Las Vegas two years before he met Carol
Goofs[]
- When Dana sits down at the kitchen table to talk with Carol, she has an empty cup and a tea bag, there's no water in the cup when the camera shows Dana reading the title of the book. Camera pans to Carol and when it pans back to Dana her cup is full of water, but never once did it show her pouring water from the teapot on the table.
- When Dana sits at the table and talks with her mom, she puts on hand on the book but in the next scene her hand is now holding the tea bag in her cup.
Quotes[]
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