Pam and Lisa must cooperate with a defector from the Soviet Union and a tyrannical senior flight attendant on her last pre-retirement run; meanwhile, Marcy becomes coach of a baseball team and the coach of the opposing team is Captain March. And the reason it's funny is frequently because it's sophomoric, predictable, corny, etc". Airplane! It was the first film script they wrote, completed around 1975,[15] and was originally called The Late Show.

Cisco asks Mike to go to the butcher shop he own... ...to fill the heel with rotten meat and to tell Pat that the meat is the remains of his dog. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro". On her flight to Los Angeles, Pam becomes friendly with TV star Rod Hunter and, unlike the tough policeman he plays on screen, Rod is in reality charming and courteous; meanwhile, a pregnant woman begins to undergo labor pains. [15] The original script contained spoofs of television commercials but people who proofread the script advised them to shorten the commercials, and, eventually, they removed them. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. How does my face look today? As executive producer Mark Carliner recounted at the time, when he went to visit the CBS head of program planning Harvey Shephard to pitch the show with three models in tow, the networks sales head saw them on the elevator and after learning they were pitching a show, immediately called the head of programming to say "we need this show".

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", This page was last edited on 18 September 2020, at 13:57. [15], Paramount insisted that the film be shot in color rather than black-and-white as ZAZ wanted, and to be set aboard a jet airliner rather than propeller plane to better identify with modern filmgoers. as number ten on its list of the 100 funniest American films. Amigo, I would cry in happiness for your success if I wasn't wearing silk. In exchange, Paramount agreed with ZAZ's decision to cast serious actors for the film rather than comedy actors. You should fly each of the summer-themed kites and enjoy the summer breezes. Cisco has begun to make some shoes with empty heels, in order to smuggle drugs past metal detectors at Francis International Airport in Shoreside Vale. Yes! [1][2], In early May 1978, CBS announced its new schedule plan for the 1978-79 season, with eight new shows including Flying High planned for 10-11pm Friday time slot. "[9] Both shows were seen as trying to copycat the success of Charlie's Angels, but neither succeeded. [17] Nielsen, in contrast, was "just a fish in water" with his role, according to Jerry Zucker. When it was suggested that his role in Airplane!

During filming, ZAZ had explained to Graves that his lines spoken to a young boy, like "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

Lisa, Marcy and Pam and the passengers get stuck in a pilotless plane spinning out of control because the entire cockpit crew are ill with gastric pains after consuming poisoned cheesecake and the stewardesses must take control of the situation; meanwhile, Lisa learns that the cheesecake she fed the pilots was contaminated. Mike drives back to Cisco, who tells Mike to go to a butchers he owns and fill the heel with rotten meat and to tell Pat that the meat is the remains of his dog.

Captain March, who is suffering from temporary blindness due to a sport injury, takes full advantage of the girls when they offer to help him recover at their apartment, but when they discover that he is only simulating, they plot revenge on him; Marcy must face pilot Bill who turns to blackmail because of her unauthorized moonlighting. Cisco pages Mike and tells him that Ares, his main competitor, have informed the police about the shoes and the police the begin to chase Mike, who manages to lose them.

[22] The soundtrack was released digitally on February 19, 2013, by Paramount Music.[23].

Entertainment Weekly voted the film the "Funniest movie on video" in their list of the 100 funniest movies on video.

Mike drives to the third location, also in Bedford Point, and meets Pat, who refuses to take the shoes until Cisco pays him for work he had for Cisco the week before. Pam, Lisa and Marcy's flight to Los Angeles is filled with unusual travelers: a blind passenger, a nude medical student, a fear-crazed passenger, a stowaway and Pam has a surprise reunion with an old flame whom she later suspects of being a jewel thief when a diamond pendant is missing from an old socialite on the plane. His wartime girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson, now a flight attendant, leaves him before boarding her assigned flight from Los Angeles to Chicago.

Pam and Marcy are assigned on the flight to Miami but due to bad weather conditions, the jet is deviated to Georgia where they must spend Halloween night at a haunted hotel; meanwhile, Lisa attends a fashionable Halloween party in Connecticut and falls in love with an older, rich playboy. "[16], Eventually the Airplane! It plays during the opening of the season finale.. The script originally stayed close to the dialog and plot of Zero Hour!, as ZAZ considered they did not have a sufficient understanding of film at the time to structure a proper script. Marcy's new friend Greg turns out to be a drug smuggler who tries to convince her to become his accomplice and asks that she carry a package of opium from Mexico into the USA; when Marcy tells Captain March, the girls and the police about it, they pretend to be involved in the deal to help police break the drug-smuggling ring.