Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series) Last One for Hutch (1977) User Reviews

Sorry to see you go Hutch

[rgw4-561-140570 · 9/10 · 7 May 2018]

I remembered watching this episode on the first run, and I never forgot it. Hutch was one of those people in a show that made the show fun and enjoyable.

The moment he was killed, I was at a lost for words. Many years later, I still am at a lost for words. I know people died in WW2... this is a fact... but there is still that moment when you want to hope for the best. It did not happen in this episode.

I am sorry this series only had two seasons... it was a fun show to watch.

One of the BEST episodes in the series

[rodney_h · 9/10 · 5 October 2023]

I watched the entire series way back in the 70's when it was on TV and as a young man I loved it!

I was able to watch this episode "Last One for Hutch" again recently. As my review title says, this is one of the very best episodes in the entire series. Seldom did the Black Sheep really and truly tug at your heartstrings but this one did.

Hutch was one of those supporting characters in a television series that everyone just had to like. He was always a true friend to everyone else, reliable, trustworthy, dependable and solid. To watch him get killed off was a shocker! And just as the previous reviewer mentioned "people died in WW2...this is a fact...but there is still that moment when you want to hope for the best." I felt that way too.

Sorry to see Hutch go. I just wonder WHY this character was killed off! Did the actor (Joey Aresco) just decide to leave? Was he forced out? Or did the writers simply want to show how war IS Hell and people DO die, even the ones we may care about or love?