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Wings: Season 4

22 episodes Premiered Sep 24, 1992 Updated Sep 23, 2026

Wings Season 4 continues the overarching saga across 22 episodes.

Previously on Wings

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Wings Season 3.
  • Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.

Season overview

Wings Season 4 continues the overarching saga across 22 episodes.

Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (19): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S4·E1 Mytharc

Lifeboat

Sep 24, 1992

After their plane plunges into the Atlantic en route to Boston, the whole gang finds themselves at each others throats and struggling for survival in a leaky lifeboat.

S4·E2 Core

The Fortune Cookie

Oct 1, 1992

Joe's future is up in the air when Sandpiper Air is grounded by his insurance company, but Brian's plan to save the airline doesn't fly right with Helen.

S4·E3 Core

Noses Off

Oct 8, 1992

Sandpiper is finally back in business but Joe's nose is broken by a man who mistakes him for Brian. At the surgeon's office, the doctor's observation of a bump on Brian's nose has

S4·E4 Core

Blackout Biggins

Oct 22, 1992

Roy is struck out at Fenway Park by his own rendition of the National Anthem, and Fay commits a costly personal foul at work.

S4·E6 Core

Two Jerks and a Jill

Nov 5, 1992

Antonio upstages Lowell in front of the Tuesday Night Rat Club, while Brian and Joe are grounded by an attractive helicopter pilot.

S4·E8 Core

Just Say No

Nov 19, 1992

Brian's ex-flame arrives from New York to rekindle the fire and it's up to his friends to keep him from getting burned again.

S4·E9 Core

It May Have Happened One Night

Dec 3, 1992

After having a few drinks, Alex asks Joe to drive her home and when he arrives late the next day everyone assumes that they spent the night together.

S4·E10 Core

The Customer's Usually Right

Dec 17, 1992

Joe is irritated about getting charged a rewind fee for a returned video tape which he believes was rewound.

S4·E11 Core

Exit Laughing

Jan 7, 1993

Helen dates a guy with an annoying laugh. Antonio has trouble with his jerk neighbor.

S4·E12 Core

What the Cabbie Saw

Jan 14, 1993

Antonio performs his civic duty when he helps bring to court a suspected robber and then testifies against him. But then the suspect gets released on a technicality, and Antonio st

S4·E13 Core

Labor Pains

Jan 28, 1993

When Lowell demands a raise from Joe and Roy, shrewd bargaining tactics by Antonio and Roy leave Lowell dejected and jobless.

S4·E14 Core

I've Got a Secret

Feb 4, 1993

When Alex tells Antonio and Helen that she posed nude for Playboy while in college, the secret is just too good to keep quiet.

S4·E15 Core

The Gift (1)

Feb 11, 1993

With an opening in a quartet, Helen wants to try out but her cello is on the bottom of the ocean. She gets a second job to purchase a new cello but things don't go as planned. Lowe

S4·E16 Core

The Gift (2)

Feb 18, 1993

Helen gets the quartet role but hates it. However, she doesn't know how to quit without letting Joe and Brian down. Faye, Roy, Antonio and Lowell practice for their awful play.

S4·E17 Core

I Love Brian

Feb 25, 1993

Hoping to impress Alex, Brian claims to know Clint Black. Helen and Alex are entertained while they expect Brian's scheme to attend a concert and meet him will backfire.

S4·E18 Core

The Key to Alex

Mar 15, 1993

Joe and Brian, in heated competition, pull out all the stops in a transparent attempt to get closer to Alex.

S4·E19 Core

The Houseguest

Apr 8, 1993

Helen throws a surprise birthday for Nantucket's most unpopular resident, 70-year-old Carlton Blanchard, who threatens to become a permanent household fixture after suffering a fal

S4·E20 Core

Goodbye, Old Friend

Apr 29, 1993

Weeb Gilroy's death has Lowell searching for the right words to eulogize his long time friend. Words fail him at the end and all he can think of is to finish working on the plane t

S4·E21 Mytharc

Another Wedding

May 6, 1993

The crew is invited to the wedding of the air traffic controller.

S4·E22 Mytharc

Date Package Number Seven

May 13, 1993

Alex finally agrees to a date with Brian, only to find out later it was all a set-up.