After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a writer full-time during 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC television drama, Flight into Danger (in print as Runway Zero Eight).
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Runway Zero-Eight (1958) – in-flight medical emergency, caused by food poisoning.
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This story started as the CBC TV movie Flight into Danger, then became the 1957 Paramount Pictures movie Zero Hour!, and was finally published as the novel Runway Zero-Eight (ISBN 0-440-17546-1).
In 1957, it was adapted into the feature film Zero Hour! and, more famously, parodied in the 1980 comedy, Airplane!.
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Hailey and John Castle novelised the story as Flight Into Danger: Runway Zero-Eight (1958), which was dramatized in 1971 as a Movie of the Week, Terror in the Sky.
Terror in the Sky is a low budget 1971 television movie remake of 1957's Zero Hour!, which itself was based on the 1956 television play Flight into Danger.
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