Trivia / SST: Death Flight

• All-Star Cast: The cast is a veritable who's who of TV actors of the time the movie was made:
  • Barbara Anderson, a.k.a. Eve Whitfield of Ironside (1967) (or if you're a Star Trek: The Original Series fan Lenore Karadian) is Carla Stanley.
  • Billy Crystal has a small role as a flight steward.
  • John de Lancie, a.k.a. Q from Star Trek and Discord from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, is Bob Connors.
  • Peter Graves, a.k.a. Jim Phelps of Mission: Impossible, is Paul Whitley.
  • Lorne Greene, a.k.a. Ben Cartwright of Bonanza, is Marshall Cole.
  • Robert Ito, a.k.a. Sam Fujiyama of Quincy, is the flight engineer.
  • Tina Louise, a.k.a. Ginger Grant of Gilligan's Island, is a flight stewardess.
  • Doug McClure, a.k.a. Trampas of The Virginian, is Hank Fairbanks.
  • Burgess Meredith, a.k.a. The Penguin from Batman (1966) and Mickey from the Rocky films, is Willy Bassett.
  • Martin Milner, a.k.a. Tod Stiles of Route 66 and Peter J. Malloy of Adam-12, is Lyle Kingman. Milner's Route 66 co-star, George Maharis, plays the film's antagonist Les Phillips, although the two don't share a scene together.
  • Brock Peters of To Kill a Mockingbird is the WHO scientist Dr. Ralph Therman.
  • Regis Philbin appears in the beginning as a TV reporter.
  • Robert Reed (actor), a.k.a. Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch, is the pilot Jim Walsh.