Pensacola: Wings of Gold – The Complete Second Season (5 DVD Set)

Season 2 of James Brolin as career marine Lieutenant Colonel "Iron" Bill Kelly began nothing like season 1 hence the changes in the supporting cast. As season 1 ended, Kelly was faced with the dilemma of cutting 1 member of his Sea Dragons team. Having gotten to know his 4 lieutenants personally and as well as professionally a lot better than he had in episode 1 made his job tougher. The finale ended with him signing the order, but the viewer never saw who got the cut. The new season began with Kelly (now inexplicably call signed "Raider" instead of "Raven") having to face several changes. 1) his daughter (who he had a strained relationship with but had patched things up) had gone back to school, 2) his commanding officer (who had created the Sea Dragons) and the base doctor (who had been his love interest) had both been reassigned and 3) the entire Sea Dragons program (not just the 1 cut) had been disbanded. After thinking about calling it a career seeing no sign of making full colonel, Kelly is reassigned by new base Colonel Drayton (Marshall Teague) to teach and train a class of "Nuggets" young officers who wanted to fly F18 Hornets like he did. Assigned as his executive officer is Bobby Hosea as Major Macarthur Lewis (call sign Hammer for obvious reasons). Although the class contained several students, like before, the immediate focus was on 3 lieutenants. Kenny Johnson as Butch Barnes (call sign Burner) the Pete "Maverick" Mitchell of the class, Sandra Hess as Alexandra Jensen (call sign Ice) a Switzerland born flyer similar in attitude to Stinger last season and Michael Trucco as Tucker Henry III (call sign Spoon) a rich kid whose divorced father was a retired colonel and now successful businessman in a relationship with his young secretary Teri (Ali Landry) who finds herself falling for him. Like before the show focused on the Nuggets in class, training exercises (both on and off base) or hanging out at The Bucket, the local bar and restaurant owned and run by marine widow Kate Anderson (Barbara Niven) who was also once Kelly's love interest after her husband died. The season ended with most of the class graduating (1 woman candidate had died during an exercise in her plane) and receiving their first assignments from Lewis at Kate's but as before the scene faded as he was about to read Barnes, Jensen and Henry their assignments. For that go to Season 3. As I previously mentioned the back notes on the back of the Season 2 set accidentally mention the costars for Season 1 and vice versa.

Enjoyed the series when it first came out and still enjoyed it watching it again. Only disappointment is the quality of the picture... it’s definitely not dvd quality it’s more like a 480p. It should of been release in better quality

Love this-had been looking for it for years-first heard of it on visit to Pensacola on tour in 1999-never on British TV-saw some episodes dubbed in german on sat'TV-unable to find even that since Sky went digital!

The first season was great, and was hoping to see it continued to season two. Totally different story and cast, somehow it was written to be more like Top Gun.

First time in my 10 year Amazon usage experience the delivered good was not as expected. Packaging and delivery speed was very good. Also from out side the DVD pack looks nice and printing quality is good. However the DVDs seems "home burned" intead of official manufactured. The many video files cannot be read either by DVD player or compuder DVD-ROM.

Dad absolutely loved it! I won Christmas.