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{{Infobox television
{{Infobox television
| genre = [[Drama|Period drama]]<br />[[Historical fiction]]
| genre = [[Period drama]]<br />[[Historical fiction]]
| show_name = Pan Am
| show_name = Pan Am
| image = [[File:PanAm tvpromo image.jpg]]
| image = [[File:PanAm tvpromo image.jpg]]
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| num_seasons = 1
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 7
| num_episodes = 7
| list_episodes = #Episodes
| list_episodes = List of Pan Am episodes
| location =
| location =
| executive_producer = Nancy Hult Ganis<br />Jack Orman<br />[[Thomas Schlamme]]<br />[[Steven Maeda]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/lost-producer-joins-pan-am-252522 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |title='Lost' Producer Joins 'Pan Am' as Showrunner |author=Lesley Goldberg |date=2011-10-24 |accessdate=2011-11-11}}</ref><br />[[Sid Ganis]] (co-exec.)
| executive_producer = Nancy Hult Ganis<br />Jack Orman<br />[[Thomas Schlamme]]<br />[[Steven Maeda]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/lost-producer-joins-pan-am-252522 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |title='Lost' Producer Joins 'Pan Am' as Showrunner |author=Lesley Goldberg |date=2011-10-24 |accessdate=2011-11-11}}</ref><br />[[Sid Ganis]] (co-exec.)
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*[[David Harbour]] as Roger Anderson, a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[MI6]] agent and Kate's covert intelligence operations contact in London.<ref name=imdb.com />
*[[David Harbour]] as Roger Anderson, a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[MI6]] agent and Kate's covert intelligence operations contact in London.<ref name=imdb.com />
*[[Goran Višnjić|Goran Visnjic]]<!--DO NOT restore diacritical marks to Visnjic's name. His English-language work is credited without diacritics, and will be removed.--> as Niko Lonza, a Yugoslavian diplomat attached to the [[United Nations]], serving in the [[United States]]. He becomes involved with Kate, and finds himself torn between his love of his homeland and the advantages of his new home. Visnjic will appear in a four-episode arc beginning with the season's fifth episode.<ref name=visnjic>{{cite news|last=Hibberd|first=James|title={{-'}}ER' vet cast in 'Pan Am' arc|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/08/17/goran-visnjic/|accessdate=September 6, 2011|newspaper=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=August 17, 2011}}</ref><ref name=upi-visnjic>{{cite news|title=Goran Visnjic to guest star on 'Pan Am{{'-}}|url=http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2011/09/07/Goran-Visnjic-to-guest-star-on-Pan-Am/UPI-36191315425566/|accessdate=September 10, 2011|publisher=[[United Press International]]|date=September 7, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite press release|url=http://www.abcmedianet.com/assets/pr/html/100311_17.html|title=The Crew Goes to Monte Carlo, and Kate and Maggie Compete for the Attentions of a Handsome Passenger, on ABC's 'Pan Am{{'-}}|publisher=ABC|date=October 3, 2011|accessdate=October 17, 2011}}</ref>
*[[Goran Višnjić|Goran Visnjic]]<!--DO NOT restore diacritical marks to Visnjic's name. His English-language work is credited without diacritics, and will be removed.--> as Niko Lonza, a Yugoslavian diplomat attached to the [[United Nations]], serving in the [[United States]]. He becomes involved with Kate, and finds himself torn between his love of his homeland and the advantages of his new home. Visnjic will appear in a four-episode arc beginning with the season's fifth episode.<ref name=visnjic>{{cite news|last=Hibberd|first=James|title={{-'}}ER' vet cast in 'Pan Am' arc|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/08/17/goran-visnjic/|accessdate=September 6, 2011|newspaper=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=August 17, 2011}}</ref><ref name=upi-visnjic>{{cite news|title=Goran Visnjic to guest star on 'Pan Am{{'-}}|url=http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2011/09/07/Goran-Visnjic-to-guest-star-on-Pan-Am/UPI-36191315425566/|accessdate=September 10, 2011|publisher=[[United Press International]]|date=September 7, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite press release|url=http://www.abcmedianet.com/assets/pr/html/100311_17.html|title=The Crew Goes to Monte Carlo, and Kate and Maggie Compete for the Attentions of a Handsome Passenger, on ABC's 'Pan Am{{'-}}|publisher=ABC|date=October 3, 2011|accessdate=October 17, 2011}}</ref>

== Episodes ==
{{main|List of Pan Am episodes}}


==Production==
==Production==
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The series will air in Canada on [[CTV]] on the same night as the ABC telecasts, but will be shown in different timeslots by region. It will also air on CTV's sister cable channel [[Bravo! Canada|Bravo!]] on Saturdays.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.falltvpreview.com/show.php?id=1144|title=Pan Am|work=Fall TV Preview|accessdate=October 10, 2011}}</ref> Beginning November 16, 2011, the series will be broadcast in the UK by [[BBC Two]], who said "''Pan Am'' captures the excitement and optimism of travel in the 1960s, when being an air hostess was the most glamorous occupation you could possibly have. With a love story at its heart and a great unfolding plot that hints at the danger and mystery to come, viewers will be in for an exciting but turbulent ride."<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/07_july/28/pan.shtml|title=Airline drama Pan Am comes to BBC Two|date=July 28, 2011|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=October 10, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=When does the drama series Pan Am begin?|url=http://faq.external.bbc.co.uk/questions/television/pan_am_sched/|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=November 3, 2011}}</ref> In Ireland, the show airs on [[RTÉ Two]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/tv/panam/|title=About the Show|work=Pan Am|publisher=[[RTÉ Two]]|accessdate=October 17, 2011}}</ref>. The series premiered in [[Portugal]] on November 6, 2011.The show airs on [[SIC]].<ref>http://www.lowcostportugal.net/viajar/companhias-aereas/serie-pan-am-emitida-a-partir-de-hoje-na-sic/2011/11/</ref>.
The series will air in Canada on [[CTV]] on the same night as the ABC telecasts, but will be shown in different timeslots by region. It will also air on CTV's sister cable channel [[Bravo! Canada|Bravo!]] on Saturdays.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.falltvpreview.com/show.php?id=1144|title=Pan Am|work=Fall TV Preview|accessdate=October 10, 2011}}</ref> Beginning November 16, 2011, the series will be broadcast in the UK by [[BBC Two]], who said "''Pan Am'' captures the excitement and optimism of travel in the 1960s, when being an air hostess was the most glamorous occupation you could possibly have. With a love story at its heart and a great unfolding plot that hints at the danger and mystery to come, viewers will be in for an exciting but turbulent ride."<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/07_july/28/pan.shtml|title=Airline drama Pan Am comes to BBC Two|date=July 28, 2011|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=October 10, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=When does the drama series Pan Am begin?|url=http://faq.external.bbc.co.uk/questions/television/pan_am_sched/|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=November 3, 2011}}</ref> In Ireland, the show airs on [[RTÉ Two]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/tv/panam/|title=About the Show|work=Pan Am|publisher=[[RTÉ Two]]|accessdate=October 17, 2011}}</ref>. The series premiered in [[Portugal]] on November 6, 2011.The show airs on [[SIC]].<ref>http://www.lowcostportugal.net/viajar/companhias-aereas/serie-pan-am-emitida-a-partir-de-hoje-na-sic/2011/11/</ref>.

== Series overview ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" width=70%
|-
! style="padding: 0 8px; colspan="2" rowspan="2"| Season
! style="padding: 0 8px; rowspan="2"| Episodes
! colspan="2"| Originally aired
! colspan="3"| [[DVD]] release date
|-
! [[Season premiere]]
! [[Season finale]]
! [[DVD region code|Region 1]]
! [[DVD region code|Region 2]]
! [[DVD region code|Region 4]]
|-
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|'''[[#Episodes|1]]'''
|style="padding: 0 8px;"| 13
|style="padding: 0 8px;"| {{Start date|2011|9|25}}
|<span style="color:gray;"><small>TBA</small></span>
|{{n/a}}
|{{n/a}}
|{{n/a}}
|}

== Episodes ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%; margin-right: 0;"
|- style="color:white"
! style="background:#28589C;"| No.
! style="background:#28589C;"| Title
! style="background:#28589C;"| Directed by
! style="background:#28589C;"| Written by
! style="background:#28589C;"| Original air date
! style="background:#28589C;"| U.S. viewers<br />(million)
|-
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|Title = Pilot
|DirectedBy = [[Thomas Schlamme]]
|WrittenBy = [[Jack Orman]]
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|9|25}}
|Aux4 = 11.06<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/09/27/sunday-final-ratings-desperate-housewives-csimiami-the-simpsons-adjusted-up-60-minutes-adjusted-down/105018|title=Sunday Final Ratings: 'Desperate Housewives', 'CSI: Miami', 'The Simpsons' Adjusted Up; '60 Minutes' Adjusted Down|work=[[TV by the Numbers]]|last=Gorman|first=Bill|date=September 27, 2011|accessdate=September 28, 2011}}</ref>
|ShortSummary = Dean pilots the ''Clipper Majestic''{{'}}s first [[New York City|New York]] to [[London]] flight and searches for his girlfriend, Bridget, learning some shocking news. Maggie, a stewardess on probation for not wearing her [[girdle]] to work, is unexpectedly reinstated when the scheduled [[purser]], Bridget, does not show. Kate takes a U.S. intelligence assignment. Meanwhile, Laura must deal with people coming up to her, asking if she is the stewardess on the cover of [[Life (magazine)|''Life'' magazine]], and trying to do her best while not bothering her sister, Kate. Colette sees a former lover on the flight, only to find out he is accompanied by his wife and son.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 2
|Title = We'll Always Have Paris
|DirectedBy = [[Christopher Misiano|Chris Misiano]]
|WrittenBy = Mike Daniels & Jack Orman
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|10|2}}
|Aux4 = 7.76<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/04/sunday-final-ratings-desperate-housewives-pan-am-adjusted-up-unscrambled-amazing-race-the-good-wife/105907|title=Sunday Final Ratings: 'Desperate Housewives', 'Pan Am' Adjusted Up + Unscrambled 'Amazing Race', 'The Good Wife{{'-}}|work=[[TV by the Numbers]]|last=Seidman|first=Robert|date=October 4, 2011|accessdate=October 5, 2011}}</ref>
|ShortSummary = During a trip to [[Paris]], Laura's mother tries to settle some unfinished business, Maggie deals with attention from an aggressive passenger, and Dean looks for information on Bridget. Kate's intelligence agency control gives her a small package to deliver to a person in Paris who will contact her using a code. Kate is surprised when the contact is the missing stewardess, Bridget. The package contains a passport and other identification for Bridget's new identity, which she must assume as she is being deactivated from intelligence service due to her failure to follow orders.

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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 3
|Title = Ich Bin Ein Berliner
|DirectedBy = [[Alex Graves]]
|WrittenBy = Yahlin Chang
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|10|9}}
|Aux4 = 6.38<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/11/sunday-final-ratings-desperate-housewives-adjusted-up-cbs-unscrambled-packersfalcons-averages-22-million/106756|title=Sunday Final Ratings: 'Desperate Housewives' Adjusted Up; CBS Unscrambled; Packers/Falcons Averages 22 Million|last=Gorman|first=Bill|date=October 11, 2011|work=[[TV by the Numbers]]|accessdate=October 11, 2011}}</ref>
|ShortSummary = On a press junket to [[Berlin]] for President [[John F. Kennedy]]'s [[Ich bin ein Berliner|speech]], Maggie tries everything she can to meet the president, while the crew tries to find a place to see him deliver his speech. Colette struggles with memories of the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] occupation of Paris and being orphaned when she was a child during [[World War II]]. While on a covert intelligence operation, Kate aids an [[East German]] intelligence courier who is in hiding from the [[Stasi]] and wishes to defect. Near the end of the episode, the crew is present for a party at the United States Embassy. In the midst of the festivities surrounding Kennedy's presence there, Colette spontaneously and emotionally sings aloud the first verse of the "[[Deutschlandlied]]" &ndash; the verse associated with the Nazi regime. She later explains to Kate, "Your president tries so hard to lift [the Germans'] shame, but they should feel shame. I came to Germany to forgive, but I still hate them. And I don't know how to stop."

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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 4
|Title = Eastern Exposure
|DirectedBy = Thomas Schlamme
|WrittenBy = Jack Orman & [[Moira Walley-Beckett]]
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|10|16}}
|Aux4 = 5.84<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/18/sunday-final-ratings-amazing-race-the-x-factor-adjusted-up-vikings-bears-averages-16-57-million/107561/ |title=Sunday Final Ratings: 'Amazing Race,' 'The X Factor' Adjusted Up; Vikings-Bears Averages 16.57 Million |work=TV by the Numbers |last=Seidman |first=Robert |date=October 18, 2011 |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref>
|ShortSummary = A last-minute scheduling change lands the crew in [[Rangoon]] before heading to [[Jakarta, Indonesia]]. While there, Maggie takes Laura out on the town. Kate is given a covert assignment that requires her to make a delivery in a seedy part of the city and almost misses the drop deadline. Ted is reminded of his past as a [[United States Naval Aviator|naval aviator]] and harbors anger and resentment about his powerful family connections, which landed him his current job with Pan Am. He and Dean have a disagreement upon landing in [[Hong Kong]] that ends with him punching Dean, but they make up upon landing back in New York. The end of the episode shows Kate, expecting to come home and find Laura in the apartment they share, coming home to an empty apartment, and Laura moving in with Maggie.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 5
|Title = One Coin in a Fountain
|DirectedBy = [[Andrew Bernstein (director)|Andrew Bernstein]]
|WrittenBy = Lydia Woodward
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|10|23}}
|Aux4 = 5.68<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/25/sunday-final-ratings-once-upon-a-time-adjusted-up-final-ratings-for-world-series-game-4-saintscolts/108354/|title=Sunday Final Ratings: 'Once Upon A Time' Adjusted Up + Final Ratings For World Series Game 4 & Saints/Colts|work=TV by the Numbers|last=Gorman|first=Bill|date=October 25, 2011|accessdate=October 26, 2011}}</ref>
|ShortSummary = The crew flies to [[Monte Carlo]]. Maggie is attracted to Niko Lonza ([[Goran Visnjic]]), a Yugoslavian [[UN]] attaché who has a personal connection to a female [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] spy ([[Barbara Schulz]]). Kate's assignment is to get the spy's fingerprints, which puts her directly between Niko and Maggie, much to Maggie's consternation. Laura returns to the pawn shop in order to retrieve the engagement ring she pawned more than 60 days previously after leaving her groom-to-be at the altar. When she discovers that it has been sold, she goes to [[Harlem]] to find the buyer in order to buy it back and get closure in her open-ended relationship with her former fiancé. During an earlier flight between New York and London, Dean meets Ginny ([[Erin Cummings]]), a passenger who, as he finds out en route to Monte Carlo, is the [[mistress (lover)|mistress]] of Pan Am's vice-president.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 6
|Title = The Genuine Article
|DirectedBy = [[Matthew Penn|Matt Penn]]
|WrittenBy = [[Todd Ellis Kessler]] & Nick Thiel
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|10|30}}
|Aux4 = 5.46<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/11/01/sunday-final-ratings-pan-am-adjusted-down-unscrambled-cbs-shows-sunday-night-football/109135|title=Sunday Final Ratings: 'Cleveland Show' Adjusted Up; 'Pan Am' Adjusted Down + Unscrambled CBS Shows & 'Sunday Night Football'|work=TV by the Numbers|last=Seidman|first=Robert|date=November 1, 2011|accessdate=November 2, 2011}}</ref>
|ShortSummary = Despite being very close to losing her job, Maggie is able to get herself assigned to the flight going to [[Rio de Janeiro]] by claiming she is fluent in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]. As she looks back on the path she took to get her job, she realizes she would do anything to keep it. Kate is given an assignment that involves discovering Niko's political sympathies. After learning that the CIA wants her to recruit Niko, she tries to balance both the task at hand and her growing relationship with him. Dean is annoyed as Ginny continues to romantically vacillate between him and her boss, Pan Am's vice-president. During the flight to Rio de Janeiro, a photographer for ''Life'' magazine takes pictures of Laura. After being arrested by Rio de Janeiro police, Laura discovers Maggie is not fluent in Portuguese and makes her disappointment in her new roommate clear. Still facing the possibility of losing her job, Maggie solicits the assistance of Pan Am's vice-president on the flight back to New York and after their arrival at the [[Worldport (Pan Am)|Worldport]]. When he refuses for the second time, she offers to provide information that might be of interest to him. At the end of the episode, we see a triumphant Maggie with her job still intact.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 7
|Title = Truth or Dare
|DirectedBy = [[Julie Anne Robinson]]
|WrittenBy = Mike Daniels & Jack Orman
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|11|6}}
|Aux4 = 5.17<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/11/08/sunday-final-ratings-once-upon-a-time-family-guy-adjusted-up-pan-am-down-cbs-sunday-night-football/109878/|title=Sunday Final Ratings: 'Once Upon a Time,' 'Family Guy' Adjusted Up; 'Pan Am' Down + CBS & 'Sunday Night Football'|work=TV by the Numbers|last=Seidman|first=Robert|date=November 8, 2011|accessdate=November 9, 2011}}</ref>
|ShortSummary = The crew has been assigned to shuttle [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] sailors belonging to a submarine crew from [[Madrid-Barajas Airport|Madrid-Barajas]] to [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|Idlewild]]. While waiting for the sailors to arrive, Maggie, Colette, Laura, and Kate sit in the back of the plane and play a game of [[Truth or Dare?|Truth or Dare]]. During the game, Laura reveals she posed nude for the ''Life'' magazine photographer, upsetting Kate. Once airborne, the sailors hold an impromptu [[bachelor party]] for one of their own, during which an [[African-American]] sailor from [[Mississippi]] ([[Gaius Charles]]) toasts the groom, producing a warm smile from Laura. After landing, Maggie invites the sailor to spend the night on a couch in the apartment she now shares with Laura. The following day, he and Laura tour New York City until his train departs for Mississippi that evening. In the train station, the sailor falls victim to a racially motivated assault. Laura takes him back to the apartment where she tends to his wounds; the two share a passionate kiss. Kate and Niko spend the night together; afterward, she is upset when Niko is forcibly taken away from her apartment for a CIA interview. After realizing Kate has been working to recruit him as an operative, Niko becomes angry with her, accusing her of lying to him in regard to the true nature of their relationship. At the end of the episode, Niko and Kate work out their differences in the Worldport before she boards Flight 2, a flight around the world.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 8
|Title = Unscheduled Departure
|RTitle = <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/pan-am-unscheduled-departure/EP014194950009|title=Pan Am: ''Unscheduled Departure''|work=Zap2It|accessdate=November 6, 2011}}</ref>
|DirectedBy = [[Millicent Shelton]]
|WrittenBy = Jill Abbinanti & Nick Thiel
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|11|13}}
|Aux4 =
|ShortSummary =
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 9
|Title = Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
|RTitle = <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/pan-am-kiss-kiss-bang-bang/EP014194950010|title=Pan Am: ''Kiss Kiss Bang Bang''|work=Zap2It|accessdate=November 11, 2011}}</ref>
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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2011|12|4}}
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|}

== Ratings ==
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#fff;"
! No. !! Title !! Air date !! 18–49 rating !! Viewers<br />(millions) !! Weekly rank
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1 || "Pilot" || {{Start date|2011|9|25}} || style="text-align:center;"| 3.1 || style="text-align:center;"| 11.06 || style="text-align:center;"| TBA
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2 || "We'll Always Have Paris" || {{Start date|2011|10|2}} || style="text-align:center;"| 2.6 || style="text-align:center;"| 7.76 || style="text-align:center;"| TBA
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|3 || "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" || {{Start date|2011|10|9}} || style="text-align:center;"| 1.9 || style="text-align:center;"| 6.38 || style="text-align:center;"| TBA
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|4 || "Eastern Exposure" || {{Start date|2011|10|16}} || style="text-align:center;"| 1.8 || style="text-align:center;"| 5.84 || style="text-align:center;"| TBA
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|5 || "One Coin in a Fountain" || {{Start date|2011|10|23}} || style="text-align:center;"| 1.8 || style="text-align:center;"| 5.68 || style="text-align:center;"| TBA
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|6 || "The Genuine Article" || {{Start date|2011|10|30}} || style="text-align:center;"| 1.8 || style="text-align:center;"| 5.46 || style="text-align:center;"| TBA
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|7 || "Truth or Dare" || {{Start date|2011|11|6}} || style="text-align:center;"| 1.7 || style="text-align:center;"| 5.17 || style="text-align:center;"| TBA
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|8 || "Unscheduled Departure" || {{Start date|2011|11|13}} || style="text-align:center;"| TBA || style="text-align:center;"| TBA || style="text-align:center;"| TBA
|}


==Critical and industry reception==
==Critical and industry reception==

Revision as of 07:03, 12 November 2011

Pan Am
File:PanAm tvpromo image.jpg
GenrePeriod drama
Historical fiction
Created byJack Orman
Developed byNancy Hult Ganis
StarringChristina Ricci
Margot Robbie
Michael Mosley
Karine Vanasse
Mike Vogel
Kelli Garner
ComposerBlake Neely
Country of originTemplate:TVUS
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes7 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersNancy Hult Ganis
Jack Orman
Thomas Schlamme
Steven Maeda[1]
Sid Ganis (co-exec.)
ProducersRebecca Moline
Marta Gene Camps
Toby Conroy
CinematographyJohn Lindley
Ron Fortunato
EditorsRob Seidenglanz
Gregg Featherman
Kevin Casey
Camera setupSingle
Running time43 minutes
Production companiesJack Orman Productions
Out of the Blue Entertainment
Shoe Money Productions
Woodbridge Productions
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseSeptember 25, 2011 (2011-09-25) –
present

Pan Am is a television series centered around the iconic airline Pan American World Airways during the early 1960s. The period drama, from writer Jack Orman[2] (ER) and director Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing), has a storyline that begins in 1963 and focuses on the pilots and stewardesses working for the world-famous airline.

Sony licensed the rights to the Pan Am name and logo from Pan Am Systems, a New Hampshire–based railroad company that acquired the Pan Am brand in 1998.[3]

Pan Am premiered on September 25, 2011.[4]

Cast

Main cast

Recurring cast

  • Annabelle Wallis as Bridget Pierce,[7] an English stewardess and former purser. She was dating Dean Lowrey before she quit her job with Pan Am and vacated her flat in London following her deactivation as a covert intelligence operative; she recommended Kate as a candidate for recruitment.
  • Jeremy Davidson as Richard Parks, Kate's covert intelligence operations handler in New York.
  • Kal Parekh as Sanjeev, the crew's flight engineer.[8]
  • David Harbour as Roger Anderson, a British MI6 agent and Kate's covert intelligence operations contact in London.[7]
  • Goran Visnjic as Niko Lonza, a Yugoslavian diplomat attached to the United Nations, serving in the United States. He becomes involved with Kate, and finds himself torn between his love of his homeland and the advantages of his new home. Visnjic will appear in a four-episode arc beginning with the season's fifth episode.[9][10][11]

Episodes

Main article: List of Pan Am episodes

Production

The pilot episode cost an estimated $10 million.[12][13] The series, produced by Sony Pictures Television, was picked up by ABC in May 2011 for the 2011–2012 television season.[14] ABC ordered five additional scripts in November 2011.[15]

Although episodes of the series depict the characters in various cities around the world, the show is filmed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and other locations around New York City.[16] The pilot was filmed, in part, at Gold Coast Studios in Bethpage on Long Island.[17]

According to Entertainment Weekly magazine, a life-size re-creation of a Pan Am 707 jet is "the biggest star of the series—in all senses". The 707 model is kept in a hangar near the Brooklyn waterfront.[18]

Nancy Hult Ganis, a Pan Am stewardess from 1968 to 1976, is one of the show's executive producers, writers,[dubious – discuss] and series developers;[19][20] her research for the series was conducted at the Pan Am Historical Foundation and the University of Miami, the location of Pan Am's archives. In addition, Ganis advises the actors, props department, production designers, and costumers in making details of the show as accurate as possible.[21]

Advertising

The September 12, 2011 edition of TV Guide's Fall Preview issue included an advertisement on the back of the magazine, tilted upside down, featuring Ricci, Garner, Vanasse, and Robbie appearing as their characters for a fictional cover for TV Guide, using the magazine's 1960s logo.[22]

International broadcasts

The series will air in Canada on CTV on the same night as the ABC telecasts, but will be shown in different timeslots by region. It will also air on CTV's sister cable channel Bravo! on Saturdays.[23] Beginning November 16, 2011, the series will be broadcast in the UK by BBC Two, who said "Pan Am captures the excitement and optimism of travel in the 1960s, when being an air hostess was the most glamorous occupation you could possibly have. With a love story at its heart and a great unfolding plot that hints at the danger and mystery to come, viewers will be in for an exciting but turbulent ride."[24][25] In Ireland, the show airs on RTÉ Two.[26]. The series premiered in Portugal on November 6, 2011.The show airs on SIC.[27].

Critical and industry reception

The show was given a 67 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 18 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews.[28]

Heather Hogan of AfterEllen rated the show highly, commenting, "I continue to be impressed by the unapologetic way Pan Am pushes the women to the forefront of every story... I don't think Pan Am really knows what kind of show it wants to be just yet. But I also don't think that's a problem because every variation—Cold War drama, nostalgic soap opera, feminist dramady—has something to offer." Later episodes, however, received lower reviews for the loss of focus on the women, and stereotypical romantic storylines.[29]

Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe gave the show a "B" grade, commenting, "Next to The Playboy Club it's the better network 1960s drama. The romance and the attractively stylized innocence of the era is addictive, but the espionage plot, with its link to political history, is absurd. And the female empowerment message grows feeble."[30]

The Insider included Pan Am in its list of "10 Best New Fall TV Shows".[31]

Anachronistic omission of characters on the show who smoke has been noted by critics and entertainment writers alike. Entertainment Weekly news editor Lynette Rice commented, "...ABC-Disney nixed the use of tobacco by key stars like Christina Ricci and Margot Robbie, despite the fact that smoking was de rigueur on flights – and throughout the terminal – in those days." Citing "an enormous impressionable element", Thomas Schlamme called the anachronism "the one revisionist cheat" and said he had encountered a similar restriction directing a previous show for ABC. Other characters will be seen holding cigarettes in the background.[32][33][34]

The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, the world’s largest Flight Attendant union, released a statement following the premiere of Pan Am. In the page-long statement, the union recognized that the show is a reminder of where flight attendants are today in comparison to where they once were in the framework of social injustice:

"The premiere episode of the new Pan Am drama on ABC may be a nostalgic escape to the days before deregulation, but it also highlighted the myriad of social injustices overcome by the strong women who shaped a new career. Weight checks, girdle checks, the no marriage rule, sexism, gender discrimination, racism – all of this was challenged by intelligent, visionary women who helped to usher in the call for social change throughout the country and around the world. As union members, the generation that crewed 1960s Pan American World Airways and their other airline counterparts, Flight Attendants fortified their voice to press airline management and Capitol Hill for equal rights, recognition of their work and improved aviation health and safety standards that benefit the traveling public. Negotiating contract improvements for middle class pay, proper rest, health care and retirement benefits ensured the skilled ‘stewardesses’ set career standards that provided new opportunities for all women and men..."[35]

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  3. ^ Schneider, Michael (September 20, 2010). "Pilot flies Pan Am". Variety. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
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