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Okay, so we have the big, media-covered maiden flight for Starflight One, a hypersonic jet that can travel from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia, in two hours. along with the Star Wars and Airport connections says it all, right?ĭistributed by Orion Pictures in the overseas markets, where it was also known as Airport ’85 and Airport 2000.
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And yes, that is Terry “Uncle Bernie” Keiser on board - who also co-starred with Majors in Steel (1980 also reviewed this week).
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And if it all seems a bit familiar, like ABC-TV’s SST Death Flight familiar from 1977, then it probably is.Īs is the case with the Big Three network flicks of the pre-cable epoch, the passenger cabin is loaded with lots of familiar character actor and TV series faces, in this case we have Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton, Gail Strickland, George DiCenzo, Tess Harper, and the always game Ray Milland - who you’ll remember was in ABC-Universal’s Battlestar Galactica feature film, but opted out of the series. The script also bears striking similarities to the 1982 novel Orbit by Thomas Block ( Amazon Kindle), but those similarities were chalked up to coincidence and not plagiarism. Brooke didn’t take any chances in concocting their Star Wars TV cash-in: they simply pinched from the 1969 Gregory Peck sci-fi borefest that was Marooned (1969) - and changed out the “Ironman One” capsule from that film with Starflight One, an SST-styled supersonic jet successor, and the Doppelganger Rescue shuttle with the Columbia. So, Star Wars meets Airport, it is!Īnd to whip that pitch into shape, TV scribes Robert Malcolm Young and Peter R. And the Airport series* of films were box-office hot in the ’70s and, as we learned from our 2020 end of the year “TV Movie Week” tribute, the Big Three networks relished stuffing their disaster hangers with a slew of low-budgeted airline action flicks**. The brains behind this production is Henry Winkler - and “The Fonz” made sure John Dkystra’s contributions to the film were front and center in those promo materials.
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(Jameson also gave us the TV movie knockoff of 20th Century Fox’s The Towering Inferno with Terror on the 40th Floor (1974).) The duo previously worked together on High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980) and The Cowboy and the Ballerina (1984). Of course, Lee Majors is here, and the reason he’s here is because Jameson directed Majors in several episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man. And since this ABC-TV “Movie of the Week” was known during its overseas television and theatrical runs as Airport ’85, you know why Jameson is here. Jameson was also behind one of the ‘70s quintessential box office “disaster” smashes : Airport ’77, which was backed by Universal Pictures. We ballyhooed the TV career of Jerry Jameson in our review of one of the few times the prolific director was called up to the bigs with the 1974 A.I.P release The Bat People.