William Lundigan, Betsy Palmer, Jane Greer, Keenan Wynn, Cliff Edwards

South Coastal Airlines Flight 214, a DC-4 carrying 16 souls and a valuable cargo of frozen seafood, departs uneventfully from Miami International Airport one evening, bound nonstop through the stormy night for Idlewild Airport in New York City. Shortly after takeoff, Air Traffic Control loses all communication with the airplane. Then Flight 214 disappears from their radar scopes. Everyone assumes the plane has crashed or ditched in the ocean, and air/sea rescue is dispatched. We see how the plane's disappearance is received by people on the ground, including: the pilot's brother, a young airline operations officer; the pilot's girlfriend and the other man she is seeing, a hard-drinking newspaper reporter hungry for a story; a callous airline executive, seemingly more concerned about the cargo than the passengers; the pilot's ex-wife, a lounge singer, and her unscrupulous agent; the parents of a newlywed couple returning from their honeymoon in Miami Beach; a kind-hearted champion boxer and his gruff manager, in a title bout with a challenger whose wife and child were on the plane; and a henpecked coastal plane spotter living with his domineering mother. What happened to Flight 214? Is it really lost at sea? (IMDB)

Playhouse 90 was an American television anthology series that aired on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. The show was produced at CBS Television City near the Los Angeles district of Hollywood in California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s usually were hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual - 90 minute programs.