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Terror in the Sky
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Wikipedia article
'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'. Arthur Hailey recycled the premise in his book 'Runway Zero-Eight' which was co-written with John Castle in 1958. The film stars Doug McClure, Lois Nettleton, Roddy McDowall, Leif Erickson, Kenneth Tobey, and Keenan Wynn.
Plot
Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest to the West Coast (Winnipeg to Vancouver in the book; 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 book, helicopter/war choppers in the film), is reluctantly pressed into flying the plane, where he makes an emergency landing.
Cast
*Doug McClure - George Spencer
*Leif Erickson - Marty Treleavan
*Roddy McDowall - Dr. Baird
*Lois Nettleton - Janet Turner
*Keenan Wynn - Milton
*Kenneth Tobey - Captain Wilson
*Jack Ging - Controller
*Sam Melville - Stewart
*Leonard Stone - Harry Burdick
References
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