Network broadcast date: Wednesday,
October 28, 1964
Odds
on the Tower
Genre: Action melodrama
Author: Richard McCracken
Production number: 66
Production date: Tuesday,
October 6, 1964
Director: Warren Somerville
Plotline: Flat broke and getting squeezed by his loan shark, a Las Vegas air traffic controller reluctantly agrees to intentionally crash a private plane full of the loan shark’s rivals. But as the flight gets closer, it becomes clear this is one gamble the dispatcher never should have taken.
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Cast: Frank Thomas, Ivor Francis, David Kerman, Yaphet Kotto, Gilbert Mack
Notes:
Episode opens with a spoken plot description rather than an opening scene, and does not have Foy announcing over opening music; Foy can be heard in the control tower murmers and may be a background voice as a pilot talkig to the tower; Yaphet Kotto's second T5 appearance