shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom and was a major factor in the supervising producer of CBC's television dramas, Sydney Newman, being brought across to work in the UK. There he made a significant impact on the British television drama industry. In 1957, Flight into Danger was adapted into the feature film Zero Hour! and, in 1962, the story was adapted for an episode of the BBC series Studio 4. In 1964, a German version of the television film was produced under the title Flug in Gefahr. Czechoslovak radio (Československý rozhlas) has produced it as part of the radio series Let do nebezpečí, directed by Jiří Horčička. An Australian television version was produced in 1966. In Flight into Danger, Hailey created the template for future disaster films. Character-driven plot lines built up among diverse characters would dominate, with brief episodes or flashbacks giving back stories, and all the individual stories coming together at the climax. Hailey and John Castle novelized the story as Runway Zero-Eight (1958), which was dramatized in 1971 as Terror in the Sky, a Movie of the Week. The story was more famously parodied in the 1980 comedy Airplane!. References Notes Hailey's story was adapted as a novel by John Castle (a pseudonym for Ronald Payne and John Garrod), with Hailey receiving credit as co-author. The book was called Flight into Danger (Souvenir Press) for its British publication in 1958, but retitled Runway Zero-Eight (Doubleday) for its American publication in 1959. Citations Bibliography Fromow, D. L. Canada's Flying Gunners: A History of the Air Observation Post of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Air O.P. Pilot's Association, 2002. . Haliley, Sheila. I Married a Best Seller: My Life with Arthur Hailey. New York: Open Road Media, 2014. . Kay, Glenn and Michael Rose.Disaster Movies: A Loud, Long, Explosive, Star-studded Guide to Avalanches ... Oakville, Ontario, Canada: Mosaic Press, 2006. . Sparber, Max. Ultra-Actors: William Shatner. Seattle, Washington: Ultramod, 2011. . External links English-language Canadian films 1956 television films 1956 films Canadian aviation films Canadian drama television films CBC Television original films Films set on airplanes Films with screenplays by Arthur Hailey 1950s English-language films Films directed by Gabriel Axel 1950s Canadian films Canadian black-and-white films