TV Guide: Zero Hour!

Video: Zero Hour! -- (Movie Clip) Put Stryker On!

TCM — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:52:47 -0500

Sterling Hayden (as "Treleaven") and Dana Andrews (as "Ted Stryker") are giving Lloyd Bridges and Robert Hays (in Airplane, 1980) plenty to work with in the airliner-crisis thriller Zero Hour!, 1957.

Video: Zero Hour! -- (Movie Clip) Squadron Leader Stryker

TCM — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:52:47 -0500

That's William "Cannon" Conrad narrating as injured pilot Ted Stryker (Dana Andrews) foreshadows Airplane!, 1980, and converses with an RCAF doctor (Willis Bouchey) in Zero Hour!, 1957.

Video: Zero Hour! -- (Movie Clip) That's Not Important

TCM — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:52:47 -0500

Stupendous for fans of Airplane!, 1980, Geoffrey Toone (as Dr. Baird) in the Leslie Nielsen role, delivers a classic line about fish to stewardess Janet (Peggy King) in Zero Hour!, 1957.

Video: Zero Hour! -- (Movie Clip) Crazy About Planes

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Decker (Jerry Paris!) and stewardess Janet (Peggy King) lead into Stryker (Dana Andrews) introducing Joey (Raymond Ferrell) to pilot Wilson (Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch) as Airplane! (1980) ruminates in Zero Hour!, 1957.

Video: Zero Hour! -- (Movie Clip) Open, Wiesbaden

TCM — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:52:47 -0500

The name "Ted Stryker" may sound familiar as William Conrad narrates after the opening credits for Zero Hour!, 1957, which became the basis for the 1980 hit satire Airplane!.

Video: Zero Hour! -- (Movie Clip) Picked the Wrong Week

TCM — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:52:47 -0500

No mention of sniffing glue but Treleaven (Sterling Hayden) makes his feelings known to Burdick (Charles Quinlivan) in the airliner-crisis drama Zero Hour!, 1957, spoofed in Airplane, 1980.