Red Alert

CBS, 5/18/1977, 120 mins). A suspense thriller about an accident at a nuclear power plant in which a mysterious breakdown causes a giant computer to erroneously detect escaped radiation and seal off the building, trapping 14 technicians inside. Adapted from the 1974 novel “Paradigm Red” by Harold King.

Production Companies The Jozak Company, Paramount Network Television. Director William Hale. Executive Producers Gerald I. Isenberg, Gerald W. Abrams. Producer Barry Goldberg. Teleplay Sandor Stern. Based on a Novel by Harold King. Photography Ric Waite. Music George Aliceson Tipton. Editor John A. Martinelli. Art Director James Spencer. Associate Producer Richard Briggs.

Cast William Devane (Frank Brolen), Michael Brandon (Carl Wyche), Adrienne Barbeau (Judy Wyche), Ralph Waite (Henry Stone), David Hayward (Larry Cadwell), M. Emmet Walsh (Sheriff Sweeney), Malcolm Wittman (Lou Banducci), Don Wiseman (Bill Yancy), Howard Finch (Harry Holland), Charles Krohn (Parker), Dixie Taylor (Mrs. Kerwin), Jim Siedow (Howard Ives), Lois Fleck (Marie Ives), Don Rausch (Dryer), Jim Danko (Perkins), John Martin (Ajax), Mike Scott (Security guard), Dan Ammerman (Rogers), Arnie Shayne (Businessman), Charles J. Bailey (Airline clerk), Arnold Lipin (Patron).