Bugs (TV Series)
TV Series (1995-1999)
Starring:
Jaye Griffiths (Ros)
Jesse Birdsall (Beckett)
Craig McLachlan (Ed)
Jan Harvey ('Jan')
Paula Hunt (Alex)
Steven Houghton (Ed)
Ed, Ros and Beckett are a team of surveillance and technology experts who investigate industrial espionage, international intrigue and high tech crime.
Series One
Hughes 369E
Ep.1.01 Out of the Hive
Ed's helicopter. It first appears in the opening sequence of 1.01 when Ed has to fly a box to a top secret government listening post. It appears again later in the episode during a chase.
Registration G-SIVA and serial 0372E.
Agusta A109A MK.II
Ep.1.01 Out of the Hive
The bad guys use this helicopter to chase Ed's Hughes 500. Ed shoots it in the tail rotor with a revolver which (somewhat unrealistically) causes it to crash and explode. It appears again in 3.08 Buried Treasure where it meets a similarly ignominious end.
Registration G-TELY and serial 7326.
BAC 111-518FG One-Eleven
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
When a saboteur starts hijacking planes by remote control the team investigate. Ros has a look round this plane and it takes off with her alone on board.
Registration G-OBWA and serial 232.
Cessna 500 Citation I
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Appears in the opening sequence of 1.03. An airport manager is flying back to the airport when it is hijacked by remote control.
Registration G-JEAN and serial 500-0339.
Reims-Cessna F172 Skyhawk
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
The villain plans to escape on board this plane but before he can Beckett arrives.
Avro B.2 Vulcan
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Following a car chase the villain Wyman's car crashes into this jet.
Kept at Southend Airport, XL426 is one of three preserved Vulcans.
Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Seen in the background in the hangar.
Registration G-BSRY. Serial F406-0046.
Piper PA-28 Cherokee
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Two Piper Cherokees are seen in the background during a car chase round a flying club.
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Seen in the background during a car chase round a flying club.
Registration G-EEAC and serial 31-761. A second is visible, G-SKKB and serial 31-7300956. Same aircraft seen in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Hawker Siddeley HS.125 F3B/RA
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Seen a few times around Stansted.
Registration G-IFTC and C/N 25171.
Hawker Siddeley HS.125
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
British Aerospace BAe 146-100
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Seen in the background at the airport London Stansted.
BAC 111-400 One-Eleven
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Seen in the background at the airport.
Piper PA-23-250 Aztec
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Seen in the background during a car chase around a flying club.
Piper PA-28R-200 Cherokee Arrow
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Seen in the background during a car chase around a flying club. (Light plane in front of the two PA-31s)
BAC 111-201AC One Eleven
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Seen in the background during a car chase at a flying club.
BAC 111-518FG One-Eleven
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Seen in the background during a car chase round a flying club.
Seen in the background during a car chase round a flying club.
Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 102
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Scale model.
Short S.29 Stirling
Ep.1.03 All Under Control
Wooden model.
Aerospatiale AS355F Ecureuil 2
Ep.1.08 Hot Metal
When a truck carrying a highly explosive new metal is stolen Ros uses this helicopter to track it down.
Registration G-SITE and Construction Number 5192. Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Series Two
MBB BK-117B-1
Ep.2.01 What Goes Up...
Registration G-HMBB and Serial Number 7184. Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Rockwell Space Shuttle
Ep.2.01 What Goes Up... and Ep.2.02 ... Must Come Down
Ed is sent undercover in the space program to unmask a saboteur. However, when the majority of astronauts on the program are wiped out in an explosion it is left to Ed to go into space on board the sabotaged shuttle.
Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk
Ep.2.04 Whirling Dervish
The plane is described as a 'Dervish F-117A' a VTOL fighter made by a rouge Eastern European state and it is used in a plot to shoot down a passenger airliner which the team must foil.
McDonnell Douglas DC-10
Ep.2.04 Whirling Dervish
This is the airliner that has been targeted by the saboteurs. In the story line it belongs to the made for movie airline 'Strate Air'.
Boeing 767-200
Ep.2.04 Whirling Dervish
Another Strate Air jet.
Aerospatiale AS355 Ecureuil 2
Ep.2.07 Schrodinger's Bomb
Used by Ed to board a ship.
Aérospatiale AS355 F-2 Ecureuil 2
Ep.2.09 The Bureau of Weapons
Fake air ambulance used by Jean-Daniel's people to abduct the victims of Cyberax.
Registration G-SASU, c/n 5302 built in 1983. Same aircraft seen in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Boeing 747
Ep.2.10 A Cage for Satan
The same stock footage (but darkened) in 2.04 Whirling Dervish
McDonnell Douglas MD-11
Ep.2.10 A Cage for Satan
Series Three
Dassault Falcon 20F
Ep.3.03 The Price of Peace
Registration G-BGOP and serial number 406. Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
British Aerospace BAe 3102 Jetstream 31
Ep.3.03 The Price of Peace
When Beckett welcomes the passenger off the plane the Falcon 20 has transformed itself into this Jetstream 31.
Registration G-OAKA c/n 640 or G-OAKK c/n 829.
Boeing 777-236/ER
Ep.3.04 Hollow Man
A man the team are investigating lives on the flight path from the airport. This plane flies above.
Series Four
Aerospatiale AS355 Ecureuil 2
Ep.4.01 Absent Friends
When Ros is kidnapped Ed takes to the skies to search for her car.
British Aerospace BAe 146-200QC
Ep.4.03 Girl Power
The British Government are taking delivery of a funeral mask and this is the plane that Ed and Beckett collect it from; a BAe 146 from Titan Airways.
Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III & Boeing 747-237B
Ep.4.03 Girl Power
Seen in stock footage of the airport. Location shots were done at London City Airport, but this is London Heathrow Airport. Caravelle on the runway, and Boeing 747 of Air India taking off.
Airbus A300B2-101
Ep.4.03 Girl Power
The Air France jet at the gate.London Heathrow Airport.
McDonnell Douglas MD-81
Ep.4.03 Girl Power
Two MD-80 series', one from Swissair (left) and other from Austrian Airlines (right). There is also a Lufthansa plane tucked away at the back.
Eurocopter AS332L1 Super Puma
Ep.4.05 Hell and High Water
Various Bristow Helicopters operated Super Pumas are shown all supposedly depicting the same one being used to transport the team onto an oil rig.
Registration G-BLPM and Serial 2122.
Registration G-PUMH and Serial 2101.
In the foreground G-BMCX, serial 2164. Was used in 1988 for Le Grand Bleu of Luc Besson.Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Another seen in a different colour scheme.
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See also
- Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde
- AgustaWestland AW109
- Airbus A300
- Avro Vulcan
- BAC One-Eleven
- Boeing 747
- Boeing 767
- Boeing 777
- British Aerospace BAe 125
- British Aerospace BAe 146
- British Aerospace Jetstream
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk
- Cessna 500 Citation I
- Dassault Falcon 20
- Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma
- Eurocopter AS355 Ecureuil 2/TwinStar
- Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk
- MBB/Kawasaki BK 117
- McDonnell Douglas DC-10
- McDonnell Douglas MD-11
- McDonnell Douglas MD-80
- MD Helicopters MD 500
- Piper PA-23
- Piper PA-28
- Piper PA-31
- Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II
- Rockwell Space Shuttle
- Short Stirling
- Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle
- Aeromega Helicopters
- Air France
- Air India
- Air UK
- Austrian Airlines
- Bristow Helicopters
- British Air Ferries
- British Airways
- British World Airlines
- Castle Air
- Dan-Air
- Lufthansa
- Swissair
- Titan Airways