Help Identify an OLD T.V Show

radikus

Hello all,

I needed some help, there was an old T.V. show that I want to find, but cant remember that name of. I think it was a T.V. mini Movie, and all I have is this.

It came on one of the Big two (NBC or ABC)
It was about an Airplane that dissapeared for some small about of time (13 min mabye)
When it came back it landed and not one passenger recalled anything about missing time
I think some of them who came back where robots of some kind
The series or Movie never went anywhere after that.

any help or idea will be greatly returned in Karma x2 fold

ChrisDude

Sounds like the TV Movie adaptation of Stephen King's The Langoliers. Did it have Bronson Pinchot (the guy who played Balki in Perfect Strangers) in it?

MushroomStick

Did it have something to do with time travelers from the future going back to save people that died in plane crashes and stuff?


edit:
Is it this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7v9ozrTkMI

SkyCaptain

Wow, I remember wanting to watch that show when I saw previews as a kid. Now... ugh.

radikus

Sry no. Not either of those. I am def gonna see millennium thought.. forgot about that one!
It has one guy who gf tried to kill him, and then he started looking for others who were on the plane, and most of them had no memory, or had a strange nightmare while on the flight.
Or try to kill him.

TalonSE

Some more details would help. You say it's an old show, that's a relative term. Could you narrow it down to a specific decade? Was it a 1-night movie or a miniseries? You mentioned the Big two, are you in the US? (Usually people here say the Big 3: ABC, CBS and NBC which is why I'm wondering because I know there's an ABC in Australia as well.) Do you have any idea what time of day it aired? Was it during primetime (8pm - 11pm eastern)?

Fletcher

looks like it might be the pilot for the series Annihilator (1986). Sounds like it wasn't picked up, but the pilot was aired as a "movie" for some reason

the actual synopsis on the IMDB page isn't of much help, but this section of a user review seems to contain a lot of what you've mentioned

Told the tale of a newspaper reporter(Chapman) who has to miss a vacation(having won a "contest")with his girlfriend Angela, a scenario which, in the style it was filmed starts off very prosaic and normal until, as he narrates the entire film as a flashback, he finds her return plane had "gone off the radar" for 90 minutes, and returns, but delayed. He gets unnerved watching Angela speaking to a mysterious man in sunglasses,who seems to be watching the passengers leave the plane, asks who it was- and she denies having spoken to anyone. She is also unaware the plane was "delayed and missing". She begins acting strangely and having odd meetings with unknown people, and as the reporter begins to investigate things and ask more questions, she tries to kill him and he finds she's now a terminator-like robot (complete with the same kind of eye-tracking visuals from that film). Truly panicked he finds himself a wanted man, framed, and on the run with nothing more than the passenger list he got after dispatching the Angela robot. The only hint or clue we're ever given is one passenger who appears to be normal who claims "nothing went wrong on the flight, I slept, then felt a bump..and I had that awful nightmare.." .

radikus

WOOT thats it! I knew you guys would get help me figure this out... now to just find this movie somewhere! I am building an old childhood fav collection. Just to say I have one. Thank all! thank you very much!

Sipex

You know, that sounded pretty cool up until she turned out to be a robot.

radikus

yeah.. an Alien/robot hybrid did seem cooler? but still for its time, should have been tweaked and released.

Zombiemambo

Wait, Brion James died?

Chanus

That's old? I want to die now, thanks. :P