Editing Gloria Winters (section)

===''Sky King''===
Winters' signature role was in the [[television drama]] ''[[Sky King]]'', starring [[Kirby Grant]] as rancher and pilot Schuyler "Sky" King in [[Arizona]] of the 1950s. Winters played the blonde, baby-faced, perky but earnest, and helpful teenage niece, Penny King, who lived with her uncle at the Flying Crown Ranch and often became involved in his varied adventures.<ref name=nyt /> She played the role in seventy-two episodes from 1952 to 1959. [[Ron Hagerthy]] appeared in nineteen episodes during 1952 as Sky King's [[Nephew and niece|nephew]] and Penny's brother, Clipper. ''Sky King'' ran on [[NBC]] and ABC,<ref name=lax /> and was filmed from 1951 to 1952 and from 1955 through at least 1959, as sponsors changed.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} It ran after that in [[Broadcast syndication|syndication]], but the actors received no [[Residual (entertainment industry)|residual]]s.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}

During the run of ''Sky King'', Winters and Kirby Grant performed as a song-and-dance team as headliners on the [[state fair]] circuit. Winters recalled a [[State Fair of Texas]] in [[Dallas]] in which the two signed autographs. Waiting for their signatures were [[astronaut]]s [[Gus Grissom]], [[Pete Conrad]], [[Alan Shepard]], and [[Wally Schirra]] in line with their children. As the magazine publisher ''Airport Journal'' noted, the series ''Sky King'' inspired several youngsters to take up flying when they became older.<ref name=airport />

Winters married Dean Stevens Vernon, a sound engineer on ''[[Sky King]]'',<ref name=lax /> and gave up acting following a 1960 appearance on [[Hugh O'Brian]]'s ABC western series, ''[[The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp]]''.