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Scripted series · ABC

Pan Am

Buckle up... adventure calls.

6.5IMDb140 votesWorth your time
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2011 – 20121 season · 14 episodes~43 min per episodeTV-PGCanceled
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TV DNA

How Pan Am actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.

Signature profile

Pan Am reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Bingeability.

Character DepthVery strong7.4

How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.

Emotional WeightStrong6.2

How much the series is designed to affect you.

BingeabilityStrong6.0

How hard it is to stop after one episode.

SerializedStrong5.5

How much each hour depends on the one before it.

Cliffhanger IntensityPresent4.0

How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.

TensionPresent4.0

The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.

SpectacleLight3.5

Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.

World BuildingLight3.5

The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.

HumourLight2.5

How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.

The story

What it's about

In this modern world, air travel represents the height of luxury and Pan Am is the biggest name in the business. The planes are glamorous, the pilots are rock stars and the stewardesses are the most desirable women in the world. They're trained to handle everything from in-air emergencies to unwanted advances—all without rumpling their pristine uniforms or mussing their hair.

The run

Seasons

1 season · 14 episodes.

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    Season 0 · Complete

    Specials

    20117 episodes

  • Official poster for Season 1

    Season 1 · Complete

    Season 1

    201114 episodes

    7.6IMDb

    Best episode · S01E02 We'll Always Have Paris

Where the series peaks

Best Episodes

The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

Still from Pilot

S01E01

Pilot

8.2IMDb5 votes

Dean takes on his first assignment since his promotion, piloting the Clipper Majestic on its inaugural New York to London flight. Bridget is supposed to be his lead stewardess, until she's a no-show for the flight. Grounded purser Maggie is called in to fill in for her. On the same fateful flight, Kate adds another dimension to her work as she takes on her first assignment from U.S. intelligence. Her stress is compounded when she discovers that newly minted stewardess, Laura, her sister, is also working the same flight.

25 Sept 201143 min
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S01E05

One Coin in a Fountain

7.0IMDb6 votes

The Pan Am crew rolls the dice in more ways than one in glamorous Monte Carlo: Kate and Maggie square off for the attentions of a handsome passenger, but things get more complicated when Kate learns the sexy stranger is involved in her next covert mission; and Dean gambles with his career when an attractive, wealthy woman on the flight tempts him -- and he later discovers who her flying companion is.

23 Oct 201143 min
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S01E06

The Genuine Article

7.0IMDb6 votes

Maggie is perilously close to losing her job for insubordination, but still manages to maneuver her way onto the flight down to Rio de Janeiro. She reflects back on the rocky path she took to land her dream job, but it's her decision to do whatever it takes to keep it that surprises even her. Meanwhile, Kate has earned her stripes as a courier, but when she is given a difficult mission involving Niko, a Yugoslavian diplomat, she's unsure how to manage the task, as she tries to juggle their deepening personal relationship with her assignment. Finally, Ginny and Dean continue to play with fire in Rio, but Ginny's game playing with both Dean and her boss and lover, a Pan Am executive, is a source of contention with Dean.

30 Oct 201143 min
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S01E03

Ich Bin Ein Berliner

6.8IMDb5 votes

When the crew gets a flight taking journalists to Berlin to cover an important speech by President Kennedy, Maggie, who campaigned for him, is determined to meet JFK no matter what. Meanwhile, when her contact's safety is compromised, Kate tries to help the young woman escape East Germany; and painful memories of World War II force Colette to face her tragic past.

9 Oct 201143 min
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S01E04

Eastern Exposure

6.8IMDb5 votes

After a last minute change sends the crew on a flight to Rangoon, a routine courier mission for Kate turns harrowing as she struggles to make a drop by the deadline. Meanwhile, Maggie takes naive Laura under her wing and shows her the wilder side of the city; and news of a space mission leads Ted to reflect on his own past and what his powerful family connections have cost him.

16 Oct 201143 min
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S01E07

Truth or Dare

5.4IMDb5 votes

Sparks fly between Laura and a sailor on a special – and unusually wild -- Pan Am flight bringing servicemen home, leading Laura to realize what she’s really looking for in a man, as well as opening her eyes to the malicious racial climate in the country. Meanwhile Kate’s complicated mission to turn Niko to work for the U.S. government culminates in dramatic fashion, threatening their personal relationship.

6 Nov 201143 min

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S00E02

The Berlin Set

4.0IMDb1 votes
17 May 2017
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S01E14

1964

8.0IMDb4 votes
19 Feb 201243 min
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S01E11

Diplomatic Relations

8.0IMDb4 votes
15 Jan 201243 min

The craft

Key Crew

Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.

Executive production

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