Geek Overture

Pan Am has successfully stayed on the air for a full season, much to the surprise of some of its critics who claim the show is enjoyable but lacklustre, that the storylines are slightly far-fetched with not a lot of gusto to back it up. While the show is entertaining and adorable, its struggle to [...]

After the winter break, Pan Am returned to screens across the UK and we’ve bundled the episodes to give you a recap of the 1960s mid-air mid-season events. Secrets and Lies Kate: The story picks up where the mid-season cliff hanger left us: with a smoking gun in Kate’s hand and her fleeing the scene. [...]

Romance is heating up this week on the mid-season finale of Pan Am. Captain Dean and Collette play hooky from their flight to London after Dean promises Collette he’ll teach her how to fly a single-engine crop duster out in the countryside. Oops, forgot to tell her that it’s at your parents’ farm, didn’t you [...]

Pan Am is taking off amid allegedly unfounded cancellation rumours. Set in 1960s America, the series follows the lives of one Pan Am Airlines crew. Made up of two pilots and four “stewardesses” as they were then called, the crew works out of a brand new aircraft, the airline’s finest, and flies coveted international routes. [...]

Following on from the success of the 1960s set television series, Mad Men, several other television dramas set in the same era are about to hit our screens.