Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestSupercarrier is a 1988 ABC television series aired during the Top Gun trend of the late 1980s. It features US Navy Pilots aboard the fictional aircraft carrier USS Georgetown, and ran for eight episodes before being cancelled.
Practical Effects
Real Navy cooperation means actual carrier footage and planes.
Costume
Flight suits so authentically 1986 you'll smell the Brut cologne.
Acting
Dale Dye before he became Hollywood's military advisor king.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real F-14 Tomcat footage was so expensive that episodes reused identical landing sequences with different dialogue dubbed over.
The show premiered March 6, 1988 — exactly 22 months after Top Gun's release, when the Navy recruitment boom was already cooling.
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