Les Chevaliers du Ciel (Scripted, French)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Children
Status: Ended
Premiered: 1967-09-16
Ended: 1970-03-03
Network: TF1
Country: FR
Airs on: Tuesday
Runtime: 25 minutes
Les Chevaliers du Ciel was a French children's TV series about two fighter jet pilots Michel Tanguy (Jacques Santi) and Ernest Laverdure (Christian Marin) and their adventures. It was based on a comic book series by Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo titled Tanguy et Laverdure. The fighter aircraft featured were the Dassault Mirage III.Made by French production company Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) between 1967 and 1970, its original French title was Les chevaliers du ciel("The Knights of the Sky").