Legends of Airpower Producer Comments on Popularity of Pearl Harbor Movie

Bios for the new season of Legends are now available online.

Twenty-six men and women who made America's air power the most respected in the world have been profiled since 2001. Twenty-six more legendary aviators will be profiled nationally on public television stations and the Discovery Wings cable channel during 2003.

The series, Legends of Airpower, will focus on household names like John Glenn and Chuck Yeager. But it will also profile lesser-known airpower figures such as General Benjamin O. Davis, the WWII leader of the Tuskegee Airmen, Jimmy Doolittle - profiled in "30 Seconds Over Tokyo," and Billy Mitchell, who correctly predicted the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor a decade before it happened. Also to be profiled: actor Jimmy Stewart, who flew combat missions in Europe during World War II and retired as a Brigadier General in the U.S. Air Force Reserve.

Each Legend will be profiled in a separate, thirty-minute biographical program that traces their personal and professional lives.

"We're trying to show that these people were really ordinary people who did extraordinary things when called upon by their country," said Russ Hodge, Executive Producer of the series. "Coming on the heels of 'Saving Private Ryan,' 'The Thin Red Line', 'Pearl Harbor' and others, we feel that audiences are hungering for old-fashioned, patriotic television programs."

The production staff for Legends of Airpower has a combined half-dozen Emmy Awards. They have produced programming for NBC, Fox, HBO and others. Their weekly series Frontiers of Medicine is seen on more than 150 PBS stations nationally.

Legends of Airpower is narrated by Gene Pell. Gene Pell has spent the last three decades as an award-winning broadcast journalist. He has been both Moscow Bureau Chief and Pentagon Correspondent for NBC News, and was an anchorman for the NBC affiliate in Boston for 20 years. He's also the former Director for Voice of America, and the President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Legends of Airpower is partially underwritten by a grant from the Aerospace Education Foundation and the National Aviation Hall of Fame.

Legends of Airpower is presented on Public Television by South Carolina Educational Television, one of the premier production stations in the PBS system, and American Public Television.

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