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11 Tonight’s, Thursday Feature (8 on Two) is “Flying High,” a merciless spoof on a genre of serious dramas which star desperate amateurs guiding down -jumbo jets after the pilot has expired in the cockpit or Keen shot by terrorists. In this instance, passengers on a flight from CJhicago have been poisoned by their: fish dinners. |-|jThe. film’s I j best moments are filched ifrphi the “Airport” series -ofi-the seventies, like the 'jovial nun dislodging the stricken child’s iritravenknis drip and merrily Stinging on. , ‘ ■
i .1 Robert Hays, who recently starred i i “Starman,” is | ’the tero, la shell-shocked Vietnam iveteran with a drinking problem. (Julie lagerty, Peter Graves an! Leslie ; Nielsen also star, but Lloyd Bridges steals the show, playing straight as an air-traffic controlled. Gravelly-voiced I singer Ethel Merman makes la cameo appearance, with Lorna “Ffrivate Benjamin” Pattersom and Robert Stack of “The Untouchables.” | I Elmer Bernste n wrotje the mock-'Stirrin:;l score, which parodies the musical style of the melodramas under attack! <
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