List of The Flying Nun episodes

Sister Jacqueline (Marge Redmond) and Sister Sixto (Shelley Morrison) go to pick up Sister Bertrille (Sally Field). Bertrille came to Puerto Rico to start her life as a novice at the Convent San Tanco. Before Jacqueline and Sixto arrive at the dock, a strong wind blows Bertrille into the water. She swims to a yacht belonging to Carlos Ramirez (Alejandro Rey), which was nearby. Carlos is the owner of the Carlos A-Go Go Discotheque and Casino. Jacqueline and Sixto finally get Bertrille to the Convent, which is in disrepair. A strong wind blows and because of the wing-like coronet of her nun's habit, Bertrille becomes airborne. Jacqueline tells Bertrille that the Reverend Mother Superior Placido (Madeleine Sherwood), who is away, is very traditional. Bertrille meets the orphan children she is to teach. Bertrille starts to find ways to raise money for the Convent. Mother Superior returns and doesn't like Bertrille's methods. There is a parcel of land that the Convent could really use, but it is owned by Carlos and he refuses to sell. Bertrille goes to see Carlos and asks him to donate his land, but he says no. Meanwhile, Bertrille figures out how to maneuver her head and coronet in order to actually fly. While flying over the ocean, Bertrille sees a submarine surfacing and lands on it. A sailor sees her and goes to tell the Sub. Captain (Dabney Coleman). When they go back out, Bertrille is already gone. Carlos is in a small plane with a woman when Bertrille flies up and looks at him through the window. Thinking he is having a religious experience, he decides to donate his land. It's getting dark and Bertrille lands in an Army restricted area. Major Overland (Henry Beckman) questions her thinking she may be a secret agent. She tries to explain that she flew in. Things get straightened out with the Major and Bertrille. Bertrille is worried that Reverend Mother will send her away, but she doesn't. Stanley Beck as Guard. Naomi Stevens as Sister Teresa. Linda Dangcil as Sister Ana. Vito Scotti as Captain Dominic Lopez. Margarita Cordova as Consuela.

Song: Sally sings "Felicidad (The Happiness Word)" by Dominic Frontiere and Diane Hildebrand.

Sister Bertrille is getting much better at flying. After an all night poker game on his yacht, Carlos Ramirez sees Bertrille flying. He tells his girlfriend Dottie (Arlene Golonka) that he's giving up drinking, gambling and girls. Carlos' friends Tony Petroni (John Gabriel) and Lou Cottrell (Noam Pitlik) come by his Discotheque. Dottie tells them that all Carlos has been doing is reading religious books. Meanwhile, the Reverend Mother tells Bertrille that Bishop Dillion (Ivor Barry) will visiting for a few days. She does not want Bertrille flying at all while he's here. Sister Sixto tells the Reverend Mother and Bertrille that Carlos has been going to mass, which he never did before. Carlos tells Dottie that he saw a nun flying. Dottie goes to see Bertrille and tells her that Carlos has been having religious visions. Dottie says that he saw a nun flying. Bertrille tells Sister Jacqueline that while she wants Carlos to have the faith, she wants it to be for the right reason. Bertrille finds Carlos on the beach and tells him it wasn't a vision, she can actually fly. After she flies for him, he decides to go back to his old ways. Bishop Dillion arrives and would like to meet Carlos to thank him for the land he donated to the Convent. Carlos is gambling with Tony and Lou and loses everything but his yacht. To get everything back, Carlos bets that the men will see Bertrille fly. Carlos begs Bertrille to fly but she's worried because of the Bishop. Bertrille agrees to fly over the yacht. Just then the Bishop shows up to thank Carlos. Tony and Lou see Bertrille flying. So the Bishop doesn't see her, Carlos bumps him overboard into the water.

Song: Sally sings "Paint Me a Picture" by Dominic Frontiere and Diane Hildebrand.

Despite being mechanically inclined, Sister Bertrille can't fix the convent's old station wagon. The nuns were going to take the children to the Feast of St. Anthony Carnival that day. Bertrille suggests to Reverend Mother that they trade the car in for another used car with the $800 they have. Bertrille makes a deal with used car dealer "Money Back" Hernando (Gino Conforti) for a car. On the way back to the convent, the car breaks down. It happened not too far from where Carlos and Diane (E. J. Peaker) are picnicking. In order to get rid of Bertrille, Carlos agrees to look at the car. Carlos is able to get the car started, but it will only drive in reverse. He tells Bertrille to get her money back from Hernando. Hernando will only give her $500 when he gets it from the bank. Carlos reluctantly lends Bertrille his car to take the kids to the Carnival. Bertrille goes back to get the $500. The Sisters think that Carlos' car is the one Bertrille got from Hernando. The convent's water heater then breaks down. To get money for the water heater, Sister Jacqueline takes Carlos's car to Hernando. Hernando is confused. Bertrille tells Reverend Mother about Carlos' car. Carlos finds a way to get Hernando to buy the convent's original car for $3000 and teach Hernando a lesson. Susan Howard as Sister Susan.

Note: Veteran character actor Gino Conforti credited this series with helping to launch his lengthy acting career in a 2018 interview on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast. Conforti appeared in two additional episodes.

The convent's 300-year-old bell is starting to show it's age. Sister Bertrille thinks she can repair it. Sister Jacqueline tells her that this bell was only meant to be temporary. 200 years ago the real one sunk on the ship, the Hidalgo, off the coast of Puerto Rico coming from Belgium. Bertrille's repair job didn't work. She wonders if the sunken bell could be salvaged. Bertrille goes to see Carlos on his yacht. Pedro (Michael Pataki) tells Bertrille that Carlos is in a business conference. Carlos is really with his date, Binkie Worsley (Louise Sorel). Carlos thinks it's crazy to try and find the bell. When Binkie says it will be like a treasure hunt and she'll go with him, Carlos agrees to find the bell. That night, Carlos takes Binkie to an old house that is now a tourist spot. They are looking for a map that shows the location of where the ship sank. Bertrille, Jacqueline and Sister Ana go there as well. They all run into each other. Bertrille offers to go with Carlos and Binkie to search for the bell. What Bertrille doesn't know is that Carlos made the map himself. Carlos had Pedro buy a bell and drop it in that location. When Pedro ruins the map, Carlos has a hard time finding the bell. After they finally find the bell, Binkie falls overboard. Bertrille takes to the air and finds her. Later, Carlos learns that he found the original bell. Julio Medina as Caterer.

Song: "I'm On My Way" by Diane Hildebrand and Dominic Frontiere.

The nuns mistakenly believe that Sister Bertrille might be dying after overhearing Reverend Mother's plans to transfer Bertrille to a new assignment.

Guest star: Irene Tedrow

Song: "Who Needs Wings To Fly?" (Theme) by Dominic Frontiere and Sid Wayne.

When the convent receives a visit from church psychologist Father Lundigan (John Astin), the nuns help Sister Bertrille try to prove to him that she can fly. However, an inner ear infection throws her off-balance.

Song: "I'm On My Way" by Diane Hildebrand and Dominic Frontiere.

Sisters Bertrille and Jacqueline try to hide an irascible parrot in the convent.

Guest star: Norma Crane

Bobbye Starr (Maureen Arthur), the girlfriend of notorious gangster Al Caine (Herb Edelman) hides out at the convent and ends up making fast friends with the nuns.

The nuns attempt to sell homemade wine, only to learn that when it comes to the business side, the glass is half empty.

A pelican falls for Sister Bertrille after she rescues the injured bird.

While the Reverend Mother is away, Sister Bertrille, in an attempt to retrieve an item, lands by accident on an island that is occupied by gamblers.

A boy with a knack for telling lies sees Sister Bertrille fly, but when he tells others, they refuse to believe him. At one point she stops the boy from trying to jump from a tree.

Sisters Bertrille and Jacqueline play peacemakers for two nearby feuding villages.

Sister Bertrille and Sister Sixto (Shelley Morrison) take the 1st graders on a picnic where they get lost and end up caught in a thunderstorm.

Song: "The Louder I Sing (The Braver I Get)" by Howard Greenfield and Helen Miller.

Sister Bertrille is trapped inside an abandoned mine with an escaped convict Bill Watkins (Henry Jaglom).

Note: No laugh track.

At Christmastime, Sister Bertrille attempts to make it snow at the convent for a visiting elderly nun, Sister Olaf (Celia Lovsky).

Song: "I'm So Glad I Can Fly" by Carole Bayer Sager and George Fischoff.

Sister Bertrille helps accident-prone Brother Paul Leonardi (Rich Little) repair the convent library.

A young boy believes that Sister Bertrille is a reincarnation of his late mother, thus complicating his father's plan to remarry.

Sister Bertrille agrees to help Sister Sixto's uncle Gus Mendoza (David Hurst) locate schools of fish by spotting them from the air.

Carlos transfers the ownership of the casino to the nuns — without their knowledge — to keep it out of the hands of gangsters.

Carlos falls for Sister Bertrille's sister, Dr. Jennifer Ethrington (Elinor Donahue).

Sister Bertrille becomes a gambler's (Michael Constantine) good luck charm.

Guest stars: Jamie Farr, Vito Scotti

Sister Bertrille helps sailor Otis Barnaby (J. Patrick O'Malley) who is attempting to sail from San Juan to Miami in a tiny boat, much to his son Conrad's (Jonathan Daly) concern.

Note: Reverend Mother Placido (Madeleine Sherwood) does not appear in this episode.

Sister Bertrille helps illiterate adult Pedro Alvarez (Albert Paulsen) learn to read and write.

Carlos is stunned when his visiting Jewish goddaughter Linda (Pamelyn Ferdin) decides to become a nun after spending time with Sister Bertrille.

Song: "The Ballad of Chopsticks" by Helen Miller and Howard Greenfield

Note: The home movies of Sister Bertrille's pre-nun-life as Elsie Ethrington are clips from Sally Field's previous series, Gidget.

Convent San Tanco inherits a boxer named Mike (Ron Masak) who would rather be a gourmet chef than a pugilist.

When Carlos is called up for his two-week Marine Corps reserve duty and sneaks a girl into a restricted area, a high-strung Marine Captain (John Dehner) seeks to have him court-martialed.

A teenage girl named Bridgett Faulkner (Cindy Cassell) has a crush on Carlos.

An orphan at the convent befriends a kleptomaniac canine with a habit of picking pockets.

Sister Bertrille as well as Carlos and his date, April Chance (Bridget Hanley), are stranded on a deserted island.

A rock band appearing at Carlos' casino, "Sonny & The Sundowners," offers to perform Sister Bertrille's new song.

Guest stars: Paul Petersen plays Sonny and The Sundowners appear as themselves.

Song: "A Whole New World" by Jack Keller and Bob Russell.

Note: Flying over breathtaking landscapes, Sister Bertrille is inspired to write her song, "A Whole New World." By coincidence, the Oscar-winning song in 1992's Aladdin has a similar airborne theme with the same title but completely different music and lyrics.

The new police captain (Vito Scotti in his debut as the accident-prone Captain Gaspar Fomento) suspects that the nuns are running an illegal gambling operation, so he hires a gardener (Frank Ramirez) to spy on the convent.

Sister Bertrille and Carlos help a gambler make money for his wedding by letting him use a pair of loaded dice. Reverend Mother invites the Rabbi (Harold Gould) and the Jewish couple to use the convent grounds for their wedding, and the nuns lead a rousing rendition of Hava Nagila during the celebration.

Just when church psychologist Father Lundigan (Paul Lynde previously portrayed by John Astin) returns to the convent after a year because earlier he thought the nuns were crazy, Sister Bertrille and the Mother Superior are hypnotized to act like each other.

Note: Paul Lynde replaces John Astin in the role of Father Lundigan

The nuns pretend to have the convent condemned so they can convince Carlos not to relocate his casino.

An actress (Patricia Barry) wants to become a nun after hiding out at the convent.

Guest stars: Alan Mowbray, Gavin MacLeod, Bill Quinn and Anthony Eisley

The nuns obtain an ancient musical organ that shatters glass when it hits high C.

Guest star: Abbe Lane sings "The Look of Love".

After Sister Bertrille rescues a pair of hawk eggs, she is mistaken for a UFO by a visiting tourist (Del Moore); Carlos tries to hide from a woman who he thinks wants to marry him.

Sister Bertrille is left alone with fugitive bank robber Ignacio Ferrante (Cliff Osmond) and a sick boy at the convent while everyone is attending an event.

The convent receives a generous donation from a former orphan, but they mistakenly believe that the boy has grown into a shady politician (Gino Conforti) with his usual unctuous charm.

Cpt. Fomento suspects Sister Bertrille of stealing money from parking meters.

Sister Bertrille tries to stay grounded during a solemn rededication led by the visiting Mother General (Spring Byington). Later, after the Reverend Mother tells Bertille that her special gift must be cherished, and used wisely and discreetly, the episode concludes with a two-minute flying sequence.

Sister Bertrille and her sister Dr. Jennifer Ethrington (Elinor Donahue) fool Carlos's grandmother (Lillian Adams) into believing that Carlos is a happily married man.

When the nuns learn that the owner of the convent's grounds (Jay Novello) will not renew its 99-year lease, they invite him to stay at the convent’s groundskeeper’s cottage so he can see first-hand the good works that they do.

Sister Bertrille helps an aging magician (Victor Buono) regain his spirit in time for a charity show and to reconnect with his nephew.

Songs: "Come to My Parade" by Helen Miller and Howard Greenfield. "Gonna Build a Mountain" (from Stop the World, I Want to Get Off) by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley (this version was released as a single by Colgems Records).

Note: The performance of "Gonna Build a Mountain" on this episode suggests the key scene in the 1992 hit comedy Sister Act. Sally Field, Marge Redmond and Madeleine Sherwood begin singing "Gonna Build a Mountain" in a slow, reverent style and are interrupted by the Reverend Mother (Sherwood), who asks the band to "pick up the tempo." The music instantly snaps into a sixties pop version of the song, similar to the Sister Act scene in which Whoopi Goldberg and the nuns choir changed from hymn to pop with "Hail Holy Queen".

When a couple (Dick Gautier and Ruta Lee) decides to rob the casino, with the female partner posing as a nun, suspicions fall on Sister Bertrille's visiting Uncle Reggie (Alan Hale, Jr.).

Sister Bertrille must find a way to clear both Uncle Reggie's name and the convent's reputation when she seeks out the real culprits.

When Sister Bertille's ex-boyfriend Randy Putnam (Dwayne Hickman) runs into her and later discovers that she is now a nun, he starts to blame himself for breaking off their eight-month relationship which he believes pushed her to be a nun.

Sister Bertrille is accused of stealing (yet again) after Pepe, a monkey with a habit of taking things, arrives at the convent.

Sister Bertrille obtains a lonely cow that won't give milk, and she uses Carlos' yacht to sail the bovine to St. Thomas to get advice from the cow's former owner.

Song: "What a Question" Music by Jack Keller.

Accident-prone Brother Paul (Rich Little) returns to the convent to help Carlos in preparing his taxes.

Guest star: Charles Lane

Captain Fomento hopes the nuns remember his birthday, and thinks they are throwing him a surprise party.

The nuns go into the bread-baking business using Sister Sixto's old family recipe.

When the nuns inherit a dry-goods store, Carlos' cousin Luis (Alejandro Rey in a dual role) is hired to run the business.

An off-handed comment results in almost all the members of Carlos's large family moving in with him.

Note: This is the only episode with narration by Alejandro Rey as Carlos instead of Marge Redmond as Sister Jacqueline. Unlike Redmond's episode-wide narrations, Rey's voiceover is heard only at the top of the episode and then in the conclusion, as he is showing a home movie about what has just happened.

Guest stars: Henry Corden and Lisa Gaye

A poor farmer (David Hurst) thinks Sister Bertrille has blessed his lottery ticket, causing all sorts of chaos when word gets out.

Sister Bertrille takes charge of the convent's baseball team.

Guest stars: Don Drysdale and Willie Davis

Sister Bertrille is concerned that fame might fame go to her head after a television executive takes notice of her talents.

Guest star: Paul Winchell

Songs: "A Whole New World" by Jack Keller and Bob Russell; "World Inside My Pillow" by Helen Miller and Howard Greenfield.

A new, scholarly priest arrives to take charge, but is shy and a poor speaker, often using Latin. Sister Bertrille pairs him up with Carlos's comedy writer friend before a sermon.

Guest star: Bob Cummings

Sister Bertrille plays matchmaker for an estranged couple so they can be a family for their baby. The twist in this episode is that the mother reveals to Sister Bertrille that the baby's father is the same guy she fell for but claimed it was someone else.

An orphan boy decides that he wants Carlos to be his father, so he places an ad in the newspaper so Carlos can have a bride and a mother.

Guest Star: Farrah Fawcett

Sister Bertrille is caught in the middle of a standoff between angry picketers and the company's management.

A tabloid reporter is determined to get a scoop on reports of a flying nun, which could mean trouble for both the convent and Sister Bertrille.

The nuns welcome a stranded man to stay with them, unaware that he is a millionaire.

A donkey shakes up things in more ways than one at the casino.

Sister Bertrille is grounded due to the wardrobe changes for the nuns that includes wingless bonnets.

The nuns find another chance to raise money, this time by taking advantage of the Mother General's past as a silent film star.

Guest Star: Miriam Hopkins as Mother General/Gloria Davenport

Note: Miriam Hopkins was Oscar-nominated for Best Actress in 1935's Becky Sharp, considered the first three-strip Technicolor feature film.

Sister Bertrille decides to spend time in jail to teach a boy the value of what happens when a person breaks the law.

Carlos decides to go for a conservative look in order to impress Sister Bertrille's visiting cousin from Boston.

A sports writer (Henry Corden) convinces Sister Bertrille to become an advice columnist for a newspaper, and her answers bring nothing but trouble for Carlos.

Sister Bertrille's sister Dr. Jennifer Ethrington (Elinor Donahue) returns for a stay at the convent that takes an unlikely twist involving an expectant mother posing as a pianist.

An orphan becomes a pool shark after Carlos donates a pool table to the convent.

Guest Star: Farrah Fawcett

Sister Bertrille casts Carlos's cousin in a play.

Note: Alejandro Rey again plays dual roles in this episode.

A trouble making orphan (Eric Shea) changes his ways in order to be adopted.

Note: This is the only episode in which Sally Field did not appear.

Sister Bertrille is caught in a bizarre triangle between a plumber (Gino Conforti) and a dog.

Note: The conclusion of this episode introduces Sister Bertrille's dog Horatio, who appears through the end of the series, an unusual move for a sitcom, in which a pet appears in early episodes of a series' run and soon vanishes.

Carlos thinks he saw Sister Bertrille flying in her sleep.

The 19-year-old Korean orphan whom Carlos adopted shows up to meet him at last.

A hidden-camera commercial for a detergent turns up an unlikely star: Sister Bertrille!

Guest Star: Pat Harrington, Jr.

Sister Bertrille helps a bullfighter when she volunteers to tutor him. But his manager is determined to steer him back to the ring after learning that he is staying at the convent.

A witness in a car mishap decides to protect Sister Bertrille from being accused, only to have a music duo end up taking the blame.

Guest star: Boyce and Hart appear as the duo.

Sister Bertrille tries to save a playground.

Sister Bertrille helps a groom (Frank Silvera) make it down the aisle on the fifth try by convincing him that he is not dying.