Creator:Wilfred Greatorex / Music:Tony Hatch / Producer:Michael Ferguson / Executive Producer: David Cunliffe / Aviation Advisor:Dick Millward

An RAF pilot starts his own airline in the immediate post-war years.  In 1946 Jack Ruskin, demobbed after World War II but 
with flying still in his blood, struggled to find work with civilian airlines and so chanced his arm by founding his own. His partner in the new Ruskin Air Services was forces colleague Peter Witney. Operating with an old Dakota aircraft Ruskin had bought, they aimed to cut themselves a slice of the world cargo market. However, the business had difficulty getting off the ground, in
more ways than one. 
Ensnared by shady business deals and hampered by bad weather, Ruskin Air Services offered its staff and management an uncomfortable ride, as Jack lurched from one financial crisis to another. But his entrepreneurial spirit was not to be denied. He raised his sights, took on passenger transport and later became involved in the Berlin Airlift. Ernie Cade was the company's dodgy
backer, McEvoy was the company engineer and Jennie Shaw was Jack's girlfriend. Tony Hatch provided the music.
Roy Marsden, Polly Hemingway (Marsden's then real-life wife) and the whole Airline ethos was borrowed for a British Airports Authority commercial several years later, a move which brought an unsuccessful lawsuit from the show's creator, Wilfred Greatorex.

cast 
ROY MARSDEN as Jack Ruskin / RICHARD HEFFER as Peter Witney / SEAN SCANLAN as McEvoy / POLLY HEMINGWAY as Jeanie Shaw / TERENCE RIGBY as Ernie Cade