r/wingstvshow

To narrow things down, I'm just looking at multi-episode appearances, but you can pick any you want. To get us started, I'll go with:

Carlton Blanchard (William Hickey)

Sandy Cooper (Valerie Mahaffey)

Cord Clayton (Jonathan Slavin)

There were of course other outstanding guest stars, like Laura Innes, Rose Marie, Ally Walker, John Ritter, Mitchell Ryan, Anne Francis, Pat Hingle, and Phil Leeds, among other notables.

The annoying Carlton Blanchard just plain annoyed me the first time through. On rewatch though, something clicked and I finally got it. He's hilarious. Sandy Cooper's whiplash craziness, that only Joe seems to notice, is too. Both of these characters have a lot of originality, and benefit not only from clever writing but also the considerable talents of William Hickey and Valerie Mahaffey. Jonathan Slavin's performance as Cord Clayton was one of the most realistic of the series.

Your favorites?

It’s Wednesday, August 19 and Wings is currently on the More Sitcoms channel on Pluto.

I'm currently on a sitcom raid when try to fall asleep and I have plowed through most of the series I watched as a child/teenager in the 90s.

I found out about Wings through some list online, and the strange thing is that I have never heard of it before.

Watching it has given me the strange feeling of nostalgia to something I didn't experience. Or like retroactively creating a new piece for my teenage years.

Anyway, I was a couple of episodes into season 7 when I started to feel that there was something important missing.. then it hit me. Lowell had disappeared! It really made me sad. And I have considerably less enthusiasm for finishing the last two season. He was the heart of the show.