On May 5, 5:53=A0pm, Joseph DeMartino  wrote:
> On May 5, 5:15=A0pm, Amy Guskin  wrote:
>
> > Sole Survivor (there's no episode with this title; if it's
"Probe 7, Ove=
r and
>
> If David is working purely from memory, he might mean a 1970 TV movie
> called "Sole Survivor". =A0It had a distinctly
"Twilight Zone" (or maybe
> E.C. Comics) feel and a cast list that reads like a "Zone" reunion
> special - including Richard Basehart, William Shatner and Vince
> Edwards. =A0 It was about the discovery of an American bomber which had
> crashed in the Lybian desert during WWII. =A0Basehart plays an Air Force
> General, the only member of the crew to escape the crash and make it
> back to civilization. =A0The story of his heroism (as he has told it)
> did wonders for his career in the years since the war. =A0In the desert
> he literally confronts the ghosts of the men he left behind, and faces
> the truth about what he really did to survive.
>
> The movie was mostly based on the real discovery of the B-24 "Lady Be
> Good" by British oil engineers flying over the area in 1959. =A0That
> incident also appears to have inspired an actual "TZ"
episode, "King
> Nine Will Not Return" in which Bob Cummings, a pilot on a modern jet
> airbase finds himself back in the desert alongside the wreckage of the
> bomber he flew during the war. =A0(David may have conflated the TV movie
> and the "TZ" episode in his memory or just applied the movie title to
> an episode he clearly remembered.) =A0Both "Sole Survivor"
and "King
> Nine" substituted the more photogenic B-25 Mitchell bomber for the
> actual B-24 Liberator from the "Lady Be Good" tragedy.

OK. I remember that one, I was thinking of the one where a US navy guy
is on a ship sent to explore the wreck of his old sub from WW2. My
apologies if I missed a title, I was indeed going from memory.

> Regards,
>
> Joe
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