The Link below is Amazon deep discount and open box promotion, please <br />click the link, every click and every purchase you make after clicking <br />the link helps keep this channel free from commercials and those annoying<br /> playlists that some of the lazy channels use<br /><br /><br />The Flying Nun is an American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for<br /> ABC based on the 1965 book The Fifteenth Pelican, written by Tere <br />Rios. It starred Sally Field as Sister Bertrille. The series <br />originally ran on ABC from September 7, 1967, to April 3, 1970, <br />producing 82 episodes, including a one-hour pilot episode.<br /><br />Developed by Bernard Slade, the series centered on the adventures <br />of a community of nuns in the Convent San Tanco in San Juan, Puerto <br />Rico. The comic elements of the storyline were provided by the <br />flying ability of a novice nun, Sister Bertrille.<br /><br />In the hour-long series pilot, Chicago native Elsie Ethrington <br />arrives in San Juan from New York City after her arrest for having<br /> been involved in a protest; she then adopts the name of Sister<br /> Bertrille. It is also later learned (in the episode "My Sister, <br />The Sister") that Sister Bertrille comes from a family of physicians,<br /> and that she is the only member of that family who did not follow in<br /> their footsteps. She instead became a nun, joining the Convento San <br />Tanco, after being impressed by the missionary work of her aunt, and<br /> broke up with her boyfriend of eight months, a toy salesman.<br /><br />Sister Bertrille could be relied upon to solve any problem that came <br />her way by her ability to catch a passing breeze and fly. This was<br /> generally attributed to her weighing under 90 pounds (41 kilograms),<br /> high winds at the Convent high on the ocean bluffs, and the large,<br /> heavily starched cornette that was the headpiece for her habit. (The <br />cornette was based on one worn until the middle 1960s by the Daughters <br />of Charity, although Sister Bertrille was never said to belong to that<br /> order. Indeed, the order which included the Convento San Tanco was <br />never actually specified in the series.) Her flying talents caused as<br /> many problems as they solved. She explains her ability to fly by stating,<br /> "When lift plus thrust is greater than load plus drag, anything can fly." <br />In one episode, she tries to gain weight so she could stay grounded, but<br /> the attempt fails. Additionally, in the first-season episode "Young Man<br /> with a Cornette," she specifically tells a young boy who intended to use<br /> her cornette to fly that there were many factors other than her weight <br />(which was distributed differently from that of the boy) that made her <br />flying possible. She was unable to take off only when heavy rains or storms <br />caused her starched cornette to lose its shape, when she had to wear <br />something that would keep her grounded at all times, or, on one occasion, <br />when an inner ear infection caused her to lose her balance.<br /> (See the episode titled "The Flying Dodo.")
