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  1. The movie was the 16th ranked prime time television show in the United States for the week of its release, with a 22.0 Nielsen rating. The movie's success led to a one-hour Christmas special directed by Vincent McEveety in December 1981 called Skyward Christmas. Though Gilstrap reprised her role as Julie, the cast was largely new and the ...

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  2. Nov 20, 1980 · Skyward: Directed by Ron Howard. With Bette Davis, Howard Hesseman, Marion Ross, Clu Gulager. An aging Bette Davis is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport.

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    • Drama
    • Ron Howard
    • 1980-11-20
  3. Synopsis. A touching drama of a handicapped teenager and her quest for the freedom of the skies. Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating ...

    • Ron Howard
    • Anson Productions, Major H Productions
  4. Brief Synopsis. Read More. Teenage paraplegic Suzy Gilstrap made her TV acting debut as a wheelchair-bound girl with a desire to pilot her own airplane. Bette Davis, as a former stunt flyer who now runs a small airport's cafe, and Howard Hesseman, as the airport's easy-going watchman, team up to help her fulfill her dream. Fo.

    • Ron Howard
    • Cheryl Howard
  5. It's the little details like that which makes this TV movie stand up high and tall, showing that there is no dream too big for anybody to try to succeed when they have the drive and the heart. 10/10. Skyward - One to Remember! JLRMovieReviews 18 July 2016. A young girl bound in a wheelchair has dreams of flying.

  6. Nov 20, 1980 · Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Skyward is a 1980 GE Theatre presentation in the lofty tradition of TV's Golden Age. Bette Davis stars (what an inadequate word!) as a 60-year-old retired barnstorming airplane pilot. Real-life paraplegic Suzy Gilstrap portrays a wheelchair-bound team who is "tired of looking up all the time."

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  8. Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Koup Trenton runs an aircraft repair service and is trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together ...

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