Sky follows the seeing-eye dog of a blind newsboy, who he believes will lead him to a holdup man living with a party of wolf hunters. Directed by: Paul Landres Writer: Dwight V. Babcock Kirby Grant as Sky King Gloria Winters as Penny King Ewing Mitchell as Sheriff Mitch Hargrove Harvey Grant as Johnny Henderson Initially broadcast on December 28, 1958. From out of the clear blue of the western sky comes Sky King" was the familiar opening to television's premier aviation program. Operating from his Flying Crown Ranch in Arizona, Sky King, his niece Penny and their Cessna 310 airplane "Songbird" were constantly involved in one adventure after another.