Terror in the Sky

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Terror in the Sky
Based onFlight into Danger
by Arthur Hailey
Written by Elinor Karpf [1]
Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
Starring Doug McClure
Leif Erickson
Lois Nettleton
Roddy McDowall
Music by Pat Williams
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time74 minutes
Original release
Network CBS
ReleaseSeptember 17, 1971 (1971-09-17)

Terror in the Sky is a 1971 television film remake of 1957's Zero Hour! , which itself was based on the 1956 television play Flight into Danger by Arthur Hailey. The film stars Doug McClure, Lois Nettleton, Roddy McDowall, Leif Erickson, Kenneth Tobey, and Keenan Wynn. Terror in the Sky originally aired on September 17, 1971 on CBS. [2]

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Plot

Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest to the West Coast (Winnipeg to Vancouver in the original; Minneapolis to Seattle in the film) get quite ill after eating the chicken pot pie entree. Both pilots also eat the chicken. Passenger George Spencer, a man who has not flown since the Vietnam War (single-engine planes in the original, helicopter/war choppers in the film), is reluctantly pressed into flying the plane, where he makes an emergency landing.

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References

  1. Deal, David (2011). Television Fright Films of the 1970s. McFarland p. 45. ISBN   978-0-7864-5514-0.
  2. "Made-For-TV Movie Rankings". Variety . January 25, 1972. p. 81.