@ 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 annoyingbr playlists that some of the lazy channels usebr br br The Flying Nun is an American sitcom produced by Screen Gems forbr 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 havingbr been involved in a protest; she then adopts the name of Sisterbr 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 inbr their footsteps. She instead became a nun, joining the Convento San br Tanco, after being impressed by the missionary work of her aunt, andbr broke up with her boyfriend of eight months, a toy salesman.