Flight into Danger

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Flight into Danger is a 1956 Canadian television play starring Corinne Conley, James Doohan, Kate Reid, Zachary Scott and Philip Gilbert. The 60-minute play was written by Arthur Hailey, produced and screened by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and broadcast on August 20 1956 in the General Motors Theatre strand. In 1957, it was adapted into the feature film Zero Hour! and more famously parodied in the comedy, Airplane!. Hailey also later novelised the story as Runway Zero-Eight.

In the play, a small-plane pilot is forced to take the controls of a large passenger plane when the pilots fall victim to food poisoning.

The original play was purchased for screening by the BBC in the United Kingdom, and was a major factor in its producer Sydney Newman being brought across to work in the UK. There he made a significant impact on the British television drama industry.

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