Kenneth Tobey also appears in Airplane ! 1980 .
The film is a remake of Zero Hour! (1957), which was later parodied extensively in Airplane! (1980).
Roddy McDowall and Robert Dowdell, two actors well associated with Irwin Allen productions, would later also be castmates in the episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) titled Planet of the Slave Girls (1979), in which Dowdell's character was named Galen, also the name of McDowall's leading TV series character in Planet of the Apes (1974).