San Francisco International (1970) (TV)

Director:

John Llewellyn Moxey

Writers:

William Read Woodfield (written by) &
Allan Balter (written by)

Release Date:

29 September 1970 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Jet Packed Drama at a Giant Air Terminal!

Plot:

Pilot for the TV series, stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conred, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss...

Plot Keywords:

TV Series Pilot | Aviation | MST3K | San Francisco California | Talk Pilot To Landing

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy.

Cast

Pernell Roberts	...	Jim Conrad
Clu Gulager	...	Bob Hatten
Beth Brickell	...	Katie Barrett
Van Johnson	...	Lester Scott
Nancy Malone	...	Tina Scott
David Hartman	...	Ross Edwards
Ted Eccles	...	Davey Scott (as Teddy Eccles)
Walter Brooke	...	Clifford Foster Evans
Cliff Potts	...	William Sturtevant
Jill Donohue	...	Joan Edwards
Chuck Daniel	...	Frank Davis
Dana Elcar	...	George Woodruff
Tab Hunter	...	Stayczek
Robert Sorrells	...	Dan
Jim B. Smith	...	Amato

Also Known As:

San Francisco International Airport

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

Universal TV

Trivia:

This 1970-1971 television series Four in One (1970) rotated four separate shows. Night Galley (1970), McCloud (1970), this series and The Psychiatrist (1970). The two were renewed for the 1971-1972 season with McCloud becoming the most popular and longest running.

Goofs:

Continuity: Near the end of the movie, after Davey and his family are reunited and back in the terminal, a clock on the wall reads approximately 8:20. This is out of sync with the plot time, which would still be late afternoon at the latest at this point.

Quotes:

Ross Edwards: I said the wheel felt mushy!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Red Zone Cuba (#7.19)" (1994)

Wan Francisco International

Boring. Befuddled. Blah. These are all adjectives that could be used to to describe this lame 70's pilot for a really crappy t.v. show. Like Stranded in Space, this loser show never got off the ground. Can't imagine why. Although, to give it credit where credit is due, Stranded in Space was actually better and more coherent than this dreadful yellowish mess.

There's a lot of 70's b grade actors in this one, from Pernell Roberts to Tab Hunter to Clu Gullagher. Pernell plays the head of security at San Francisco International, and a more annoying, uptight, moralizing, ego-ridden jerk I haven't seen in a long time. That first scene, in which he scares the crap out of an entire plane load of people just so that he can teach a 'lesson' to some Congressman just leaves you shaking your head in disgust. Where's Homeland Security when you need them?

The 'plot', such as it is, is totally incomprehensible. There are so many trailing off plot lines that you could have woven a sweater from them. There was something about some boxes, the wife of a pilot being kidnapped, a weenie kid somehow stealing a plane, a secretary being held hostage, and a weird little scene with Pete from MacGyver getting into a fist fight with a guitar toting hippie kid. None of it makes much sense, and the only closure is the kid being brought down safely(too bad, he was a really irritating kid). The film is so yellow that it looks like the 'before' pics of coffee stained dentures. Everybody is drably uninteresting, and the whole thing could be used as a sleep inducer. A total waste of time, even as an MST3K episode.