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A popular and well-regarded comedy that ran for eight seasons in the
'90s, Wings was created by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee,
the team that worked together on Cheers and later created Frasier.
Tim Daly and Steven Weber play two brothers, Joe and Brian Hackett,
respectively, who parted ways many years ago when a woman left Joe
to marry Brian. Joe, the straitlaced do-everything-right brother, is
running Sandpiper Air, a small airline on the island of Nantucket
that runs commuter flights to the New England coast, when he
reluctantly offers a job to Brian, the carefree brother who's also a
pilot. Others who work at the airport are Helen (Crystal Bernard),
the former girl-next-door who now works the lunch counter and
aspires to be a professional cello player; Lowell (Thomas Haden
Church), the not-all-there mechanic; Roy (David Schramm), the owner
of the rival airline AeroMass; and Fay, who handles Sandpiper's
front desk. Over the short (six episodes) first season, Joe and
Brian develop romantic triangles over both Helen and Brian's
ex-wife, Carol (Kim Johston Ulrich), and Brian tries to set up Joe
with the island tramp (Megan Mullaly). In the second season, the
romantic entanglements continue, Joe develops a health problem that
keeps him from flying, and we meet the last major member of the
cast, Italian cab driver Antonio Scarpacci (Tony Shalhoub). Guest
stars include Cheers' George Wendt and John Ratzenberger, Abraham
Benrubi (ER) as Roy's son, and David Ogden Stiers as a conductor
whom Helen tries to impress. While much of the regular cast faded
from view after Wings, Shalhoub and Church garnered critical acclaim
for their work on Monk and Sideways, respectively. --David Horiuchi
