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CBSRMT Episode Information
Title:
Terror in the Air
Plot:
When the whole flight crew of a commercial airline falls ill due to food poisoning, a doctor must find a way to land the plane safely as well as attend to a woman in the throes of labor.
Episode:
0331
Air Dates:
First Run - August 22, 1975
Repeat - January 13, 1976
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5 Responses to Episode 0331


An airliner is flying from Miami to Seattle with a single stop in Kansas City. All is well on the first leg of the flight and a group of convention-goers depart the plane in Kansas City. A single passenger gets on. After departure on the second part of the flight the unthinkable happens. Assume nothing until the very end of the program.

A doctor is forced to land a plane and deliver a baby when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning (AND DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY!!).

I hope it's not a spoiler but the villain of the piece is the chiffon pumpkin pie. A good old fashioned airliner in distress story with the pilot and co-pilot incapacitated and a burnt out professional placed under stress to save the day... In this case the burnt out professional is a doctor who must treat the sick men as well as deliver a baby - not a traumatized pilot who's still not "over Macho Grande". Good performances and generally believable technical dialog improve matters. Pretty good if you can forgive the overly familiar plot.

Food poisoning strikes the pilots of a passenger plane. The stewardess seeks medical help from the only doctor on board, but the situation is critical and the pilots are out for the flight. The doctor is rather despondent over the loss of his own son, a pilot, who was killed in an air accident, and whose body is on this very flight. The doctor was a hobby pilot in the past and must take control of the plane. He is talked down by a friendly military pilot who knew his son.

This is one of the better episodes of Mystery Theater. A doctor delivers a baby and lands a plane with the help of air traffic control. But who *is* air traffic control?

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