Flight Into Danger
A small planes pilot must take the controls of a large passenger plane when the pilots fall victim to food poisoning.
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"Flight into Danger (1956) was the first to use this plot of passengers getting food poisoning on a flight. Next came Zero Hour (1957) and it was Zero Hour which starred Dana Andrews. He was not in Flight into Danger. In 1971 Terror in the Skies came along with Lief Ericson. And finally in 1980 the wacky, wonderful, Airplane blessed us all with it's release. A lot of movie buffs claim Airplane was based on Flight into Danger, or Terror in the Skies. But according to IMDb it was Zero Hour as explained in this IMDb Quote: "The makers of Airplane! (1980) bought the rights to Zero Hour! ..."
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This Canadian Broadcasting Company drama went out live on April 3, 1956, to instant acclaim. A kinescope was re-broadcast in August 1956 due to viewer demand to see it again. Hollywood took notice and the same script was used for an episode of the NBC series The Alcoa Hour (1955) on September 16, 1956. This version was so well received by the viewing audience and critics alike that Paramount released a feature film version in 1957 called Zero Hour! (1957) and later a CBS made-for-TV version called Terror in the Sky (1971), before the story was spoofed in Airplane! (1980). The story was even popular internationally: BBC adapted it for an episode of their series Studio 4 (1962), and a German-language remake was produced in 1964, under the title Flug in Gefahr (1964). In 1981, the drama was adapted for a radio play for Czechoslovak Radio (Ceskoslovenský rozhlas) as part of the radio series Let do nebezpecí (directed by Jirí Horcickra).
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A small planes pilot must take the controls of a large passenger plane when the pilots fall victim to food poisoning.