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The Twilight Zone Helicopter Crash - Original

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

July 23, 1982. Three people are killed when a helicopter crashes on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie.


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0:00.0

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or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at IntoHistory.com. It's the middle of the night on July 23, 1982, on a movie set in Valencia, California, 30 miles north of Los Angeles.

0:34.5

There's a hive of activity. Keeping out of the way by the craft service table, 53-year-old actor Vic Morrow sips on a cup

0:41.8

of coffee.

0:42.8

He needs the caffeine for these long night shoots, but it isn't helping him calm his anxiety.

0:48.3

As a veteran television actor, Vic knows he can remember his lines, but he's being called

0:53.0

to do much more than that.

0:54.7

Tonight he'll be filming the biggest stunt of his career.

0:58.1

This area is usually home to a quiet, shallow river in the California Mountains,

1:02.7

but tonight it's been transformed by Hollywood set directors into the jungles of Vietnam.

1:07.7

The film in production is Twilight Zone, The Movie,

1:12.3

and Vic is playing a racist bigot who finds himself supernaturally transformed into the people that he hates.

1:17.4

Tonight's big scene is when his character redeems himself by rescuing two small children

1:21.9

from an American attack during the Vietnam War.

1:25.5

A production assistant tells Vic the crew's almost ready to begin

1:29.1

and then leads him to his mark as lighting and pyrotechnic experts make last-minute adjustments.

1:34.9

The air will be filled with explosions as the helicopter flies over Vic,

1:39.0

who will be waiting through water with two children tucked under his arms.

1:43.2

Vic takes a moment to say hello to his two young co-stars,

1:46.0

Micah Din Li and Renee Sinyi Chen.

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