What's on TV? Thursday, May 27, 1965

The matinee movie on KRON is one that should bring a smile to any fan of the Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker team: Zero Hour!, the movie that served as the model for Airplane! Dana Andrews stars as Ted Stryker, the ex-fighter pilot haunted by guilt who's called on to land a passenger airlineer after the crew becomes sick from eating bad fish; Linda Darnell is his wife, who's preparing to leave him because of his inability to pull his life back together; and Sterling Hayden is Captain Treleaven, Stryker's old commanding officer, who's called in to help talk Stryker down. If all this sounds familiar, it should; ZAZ paid $2,500 for the rights to the screenplay in order to make sure they didn't run into a problem with copyright while working on Airplane! (See the comparisons here.) Today's listings come from the Northern California edition. -2- KTVU (SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND) (IND.) Morning 9:50 RELIGION TODAY—Protestant 10:00 NEWS—Walt Harris 10:30 JACK LA LANNE—Exercise 11:00 ROMPER ROOM—Children…

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