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K13 - SST DEATH FLIGHT

Genre:  ’70s TV-Movie Disaster Melodrama (1977, Color)

  

Don’s Review:  This was the first KTMA episode I saw and, if any others are this good, I’ll need to see some more!  This TV-movie rip-off of Airport in which a SST is sabotaged while it also has a deadly African virus loose on board (talk about a bad day) is actually about as “good” (for lack of a better term) as any of the Airport disaster movie sequels, although with much more cheesy special effects.  And this movie features a large, much cheesier cast of second-rate actors: Lorne Greene, Burgess Meredith, Doug McClure, Peter Graves, Ginger from Gilligan’s Island, Billy Crystal, the dad from The Brady Bunch, Bert Convy, Regis Philbin, and Q from Star Trek (whew!).  The riffing is actually pretty good for a KTMA episode – good enough that it’s hard to believe that they are improvising.  All-in-all, if you get only one KTMA episode – this may be the best choice.

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