PANIC! "Subway" (1957)

An episode from the rather obscure TV suspense anthology series, PANIC! (aka NO WARNING), which originally aired in 1957-58 on NBC.


The series plays somewhat like a hybrid of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (ordinary people thrust into harrowing, life-or-death situations... either murder plots, bad luck or natural disasters) and DRAGNET (dry, methodical narration, with an emphasis on the story being "true" and attention to time and place).


The narrator is Westbrook Van Voorhis, known as the voice of the MARCH OF TIME radio show (1931-1945) and newsreel series (1935-1951), and was the original choice to host THE TWILIGHT ZONE, before series creator Rod Serling stepped in (a wise choice).


This episode, "Subway", stars Eduard Franz (seen in such films as THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD ('51), THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ('56), THE FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE ('59) and THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST ('67), and a frequent TV guest star), Barbara Billingsley (Wally & Beaver's mom on LEAVE IT TO BEAVER and the jive-fluent airline passenger in AIRPLANE! ('80)), perennial movie/TV tough guys John Doucette and Frank Richards as the two thugs, and as The Law: Anthony Warde (who played lots of police detectives, as well as the villain "Killer Kane" in the 1939 movie serial version of BUCK ROGERS) and Mort Mills (best known as the highway cop who follows Janet Leigh in the first act of Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO ('60)).


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