When the Whistle Blows

📊 Series Specifications

Network ABC
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 11
Original Language EN

When the Whistle Blows (1980)

⭐ 2.5 / 5 (1 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 11 Episodes 🏷️ Comedy 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Short-lived comedy about construction workers enjoying themselves. The crew was all male except for Lucy – Randy the college grad; Buzz the extrovert; Martin the hunk; Norm, an older man married to Dottie; Bulldog the foreman; Hanrahan; and Darlene, who runs the bar that's "their place."

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Rodeo Blues (Pilot)
E2 Love Is a Four-Letter Word (1)

Accidentally Hunk hits a young woman with his car. Striven and fretful he takes her to a hospital for a medical checkup. Soon afterwards Hunk finds that he has fallen for her, but he also finds that she is in trouble with the law.

E3 Macho Man
E4 The Inheritance (aka The Wildcatters)

Hunk is bequeathed a heritage from a distant relative and this turns out to be a well of oil. Using the savings of relatives and friends he decides to explode the well, but an oil baron accuses him of robbing the oil that belongs to him.

E5 God's Country

Hunk, Randy, Buzz and Norman travel to Reno where they stay at a luxurious hotel-casino. There, they meet to a beautiful woman, a friend of Hunk's, who proceeds to involve them in a scheme.

E6 Beauty Pageant (aka Miss Hard Hat USA)

Hunk courts a beautiful participant in a beauty pageant. The only obstacle that prevents a romance is the girl's ex-boyfriend, who resorts to abduct her to force a wedding.

E7 Somebody's Daughter
E8 The House that Roared
E9 Love in the Fast Lane

Lucy is deeply in love with a car racing champion, who is constantly performing dangerous feats that may lead him to death.

E10 Run for the Roses
E11 Love Is a Four-Letter Word (2)