The most important TV movie you've NEVER seen.

[@DiamandaHagan]

Here's a copy of Flight into Danger, the abridged audiobook. The one I used for the video, there's a couple more short bits that made it all the way to Airplane but none as funny as the fish bit: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jovZc3d_pNWMsM0&pp=ygUcZmxpZ2h0IGludG8gZGFuZ2VyIGF1ZGlvYm9vaw%3D%3D Also, here's the most important domino I didn't mention, a small kids Lego remake of the film: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4XTfImff92Si9U

[@justinsheppherd1806]

Your mind is one of The Seven Wonders of The Information Age. I'm constantly in awe, and count myself blessed to be living at the same time as you.

[@longlivethesheet4561]

Honestly, I was just expecting the video to end at Airplane; did NOT expect the transition to the histories of Doctor Who/Star Trek/ Lord of the Rings

[@johnkirby8939]

When the Mistress dives into a story she dives deep.

[@leekalba]

No Dr Who means no Dr Who comics, means no early Alan Moore or Alan Davis; it means no Douglas Adams and no Hitch Hiker - no Adams means Neil Gaiman doesn't get his start, which means Sam Kieth doesn't do those early Sandman comics and end up leaving to create The Maxx which had a thriving, pre-internet personals section.

[@leekalba]

I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue

[@alfje5492]

I picked the wrong day to stop smoking.

[@MaxLSilver]

I'm excited to learn about the predecessor to Zero Hour, I didn't even know there was one (let alone a book as well). I also didn't know how involved Doohan was with the Trek animated series. Thank you so much (and I'll absolutely watch a part 2 if there is one).

[@LadyLunarSatine]

Death's Head agrees that Doctor Who is within Marvel, yes?

[@divingeveryday]

How has no one mentioned that Zero Hour itself was a remake!?! So awesome! Thanks!!

[@danaeckert6824]

Really love your history explorations. Thank you, Mistress!

[@MissSallyB1]

Flight Into Danger and Roger Corman: two things with the biggest ripple effect in movies.

[@westheriault3797]

Now I'm so mad this movie is lost

[@PeterWritingThings]

No Doctor Who, no Audio Visuals, no Big Finish, and without Big Finish myself and many of my friends may never have been inspired to begin writing our own audio dramas, hell, I'd never have met a lot of them. Also, no 2005 DW revival, no Merlin, Robin Hood, or Primaeval, Saturday night TV may have been a lot different. Forget the mind of Tommy Westvault, or 5 degrees of Bacon, its Flight Into Danger that truly connects everything 😱

[@DrIzixs]

I did find this interesting! Thank you

[@michalseeman]

Well, this was a very interesting and entertaining video. Thank you for your work, it's great.

[@martinsriber7760]

Czech radio adaptation exists. It's called "Let do nebezpečí" and easy to find.

[@TroubleToby3040]

Great video. Didn't know about almost any of that. Except the Zero Hour/Airplane thing.

[@georgewhiteandtotalbratani7914]

Ken Tobey (in Airplane at 2.28) is the Captain in Terror in the Sky. Dr. Baird in Zero Hour, Geoffrey Toone was in Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon, and he's Temmosus in Dr Who and the Daleks - the Movie. He's also the lord who hires Del Boy, Rodders and Grandad to clean his chandelier in Only Fools and Horses. Technically, Sydney Newman was poached by Associated British Corporation Weekend Television, part of ITV, and there he created the Avengers and Armchair Theatre. Then, he was so successful the BBC poached him from there. And he created the Avengers, which arguably helped kick off the whole spy boom , influenced Bond (hence the casting of Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg in the films), influenced US TV. He also commissioned the Forsyte Saga, the series which basically helped launch PBS, and proved that there was a massive market in the US and internationally for British TV period drama. The success of the Forsyte Saga and Masterpiece Theatre directly influenced US TV, and without that, then we woukldn't have the American miniseries, which was basically devised as a slightly schlockier, more populist, more filmic, less theatrical version of the British television serial. So, without Newman, you don't get Roots, Rich Man Poor Man, Shogun, Holocaust, the Thorn Birds, etc. What's even more interesting is the foremost director of the miniseries who did Roots and Rich Man, and was instrumental in the way these things were directed, was David Greene, the original director or 'presenter' of Flight into Danger. He was a Brit who was working for the CBC, later spent the 60s between the US and UK, directing various US and UK shows (including for ITC), and also films like the Shuttered Room and I Start Counting in Britain. And though he did a few US feature films like The People Next Door and Grey Lady Down (a disaster film, natch), he was more in demand as a master of the miniseries.

[@DiamandaHagan]

I totally missed that the captain in Terror in the Sky was in Airplane! I wonder if that was deliberate or if it was (like George Buza in X-men1) an accident. Must rewatch Terror in the Sky sometime. Total brainfart on my part to miss the small Sidney Newman domino between the CBC and the BBC, if I do a sequel video about other stuff that wouldn't (or might not) exist without Flight into Danger I'll put a correction in. And I knew Newman was important but holy crap!

[@ngarewyrd]

Dang, and here I was thinking that a: Zero Hour was the original story, and b: the biggest influence was the rule about pilots having to eat different meal types to avoid both being taken out by food poisoning.

[@simoncurry5336]

Sydney Newman also created "The Avengers" and "Adam Adamant Lives!" I enjoyed your reviews of the latter.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

I always assumed that Airplane was a parody of Airport. Interesting. Never heard of this one.

[@BOTHthosearetaken]

Fantastic stuff

[@natp8387]

I would love to see you write a book on pop culture history someday.

[@DiamandaHagan]

It'd probably be very confusingly structured and full of details no one else cares about lol.

[@DiamandaHagan]

If I ever find the time I'd love to write a book on interesting films.

[@natp8387]

@@DiamandaHagan I would buy and read either one! I love interesting trivia and weird stuff.

[@Shadowcthuhlu]

My mom say this movie and was able to explain the jokes in Airplane that referenced it

[@arklestudios]

😮Wild.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

I dunno if the Matrix would not exist without Doctor Who - it was a movie mostly inspired by William Gibson's cyberpunk novels, and virtual realities have been used in many other sci-if books.

[@DiamandaHagan]

Ahh but I never said it wouldn't exist, I said it would need a new name. But I wonder if Gibson had any influence from that ep of Who, its the earliest mainstream example of a digital reality that I've found

[@TraineeHero]

Holy crap on a candlestick

[@ryandowney9383]

While I do like Airplane!, by the time I saw it I had already seen so many of it's jokes used in other things so it lessened the impact for me.

[@DiamandaHagan]

One of the signs of a truly important work, if you see it later on, it's been copied so much that it's already old hat.

[@a_lethe_ion]

define; crap= obscure yet interesting trivia about media hagan you are full of crap (obscure yet interesting trivia about media)

[@bigaliceenergy7578]

A world without doctor who? don't tempt me with a better reality

[@butchdeadlift10]

Well with Trek the animated series, there would be a domino for Filmation, Heman, Shera, and Mattel as a whole

[@DiamandaHagan]

Dominos...

[@butchdeadlift10]

@@DiamandaHagan Dominoes from Heman would probably tumble over into Hanna Barbera and the WB. Most of the talent for Batman tha animated series got their starts on Heman.

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

@@DiamandaHagan Greasy pizzas...