Wings
Final Approach (2)
TV Flash files “Final Approach (2)” as a desk essential hour — Wings (1990–1997) on NBC, season 8, episode 24, aired 1997-05-21, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S08E24: listed hour 172 of 172 in the Wings guide, last listed hour of season 8. It aired 1997-05-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Final Approach (1)” (S08E23). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Final Approach (2)”. Final Approach, part two: closer as a last taxi — the terminal finally grounded, bar-stool cousins included.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Brian and Joe have different ideas about what to do with their new-found fortune. And Helen has a dream she'd like to pursue, too.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Final Approach (2) sit in the Wings guide?
S08E24 is listed hour 172 of 172 — last listed hour of season 8, season 8 episode 24.
When did Wings S08E24 air?
Final Approach (2) aired 1997-05-21 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is this a Cheers spinoff?
Not a spinoff — same producing brain trust (and later Frasier architects) with seaside ensemble energy instead of a Boston bar.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Nantucket as a one-plane airline sitcom: brothers, a cello, and Cheers-adjacent producers with salt air instead of bar stools. Tim Daly and Steven Weber bicker through Hackett Aviation while Crystal Bernard and Thomas Haden Church keep the terminal human. Must-See depth-chart comedy — gentler, seaside, and sneakily well-built if you like ensembles that actually clock in.
In medias res on a Nantucket tarmac: one-plane logistics, two brothers, a cello, salt air instead of bar stools. David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee — later *Frasier* architects, here the *Cheers*-adjacent brain trust — built NBC comfort multi-cam from 1990 to 1997. Max can keep his vending-machine culture; this is Must-See depth-chart comedy, a hangout that actually flies. Tim Daly and Steven Weber bicker through Hackett Aviation. Crystal Bernard, Thomas Haden Church, Tony Shalhoub's Antonio, Rebecca Schull…
Filed against
- Tim Daly as Joe Hackett
Tim Daly landed Wings as Joe Hackett — Nantucket as a one-plane airline sitcom, brothers, a cello, Cheers-adjacent producers with salt air instead of bar stools. Must-See depth-chart comedy. TV Flash files him as 1990s sibling craft, the…
- Steven Weber as Brian Hackett
Steven Weber bickered through Wings as Brian Hackett — Nantucket as a one-plane airline sitcom, brothers, salt air instead of bar stools, Cheers-adjacent producers with a cello in the terminal. Must-See depth-chart comedy. TV Flash files…
- Crystal Bernard as Helen Chapel
Crystal Bernard’s Helen Chapel kept Wings’ Nantucket terminal human — cello, one-plane airline, Cheers-adjacent producers with salt air instead of bar stools. Tim Daly and Steven Weber bicker through Hackett Aviation; Bernard is the…
- Thomas Haden Church as Lowell Mather
Thomas Haden Church mechanic'd Wings as Lowell Mather — Nantucket one-plane airline sitcom, Cheers-adjacent producers, salt air instead of bar stools, a terminal kept human by a man who treats the wrench as a personality. Must-See…
- Tony Shalhoub as Antonio Scarpacci
Tony Shalhoub’s Antonio Scarpacci cabbied Wings’ Nantucket one-plane sitcom — brothers, a cello, Cheers-adjacent salt air — then wiped down crime scenes in his head as Monk’s Adrian, USA’s gentle-procedural mascot. Must-See depth-chart…
- Rebecca Schull as Fay Cochran
Rebecca Schull played Fay Cochran on Wings, 1990s Nantucket as a one-plane airline sitcom — brothers, a cello, Cheers-adjacent producers with salt air instead of bar stools. Tim Daly and Steven Weber bicker through Hackett Aviation while…