When the SS Festivale sets sail from New York to France, its 3,000 passengers include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harold Columbine and 146 members of the Church of the Cosmic Path, led by Father Craig Dunleavy, their charismatic messiah. Seizing control of the ship, Dunleavy demands $70 million in gold, intending to kill everyone onboard once it's paid. Without knowing which passengers are cultists and warned that 12 will die for every hijacker harmed, Columbine and the captain search for a way to save 3,000 lives before Dunleavy makes good on his threat. Based on a novel by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, this mini-series was broadcast over three nights in November 1979.
Telly Savalas
Chad Everett
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Horst Buchholz
James Coco
José Ferrer
John Houseman
Carolyn Jones
Richard Jordan
Louis Jourdan
Michelle Phillips
Marie-France Pisier
Donald Pleasence
John Rubinstein
Stella Stevens
Shelley Winters
Rebecca Balding
Dan O'Brien
Martin Costi
Mark Gorman
Alain Chappuis
Don Parker
Sandy Silverthorne
Patricia Barry
Lance LeGault
William Lucking
Nehemiah Persoff
Dane Clark
Dennis Dimster
Richard Anderson
Corinne Calvet
Lee de Broux
Doug Heyes, Jr.
John Fitzpatrick
Michael Carr
John Shearin
Dennis Howard
Harvey Jason
Dana Hill
Bruce French
Jean-Paul Vignon
Army Archerd
Paul Verdier
Pete Schrum
Deborah Benson
Melissa Converse
Francis X. McCarthy
Ellen Blake
Duane Grey
Jacqueline Beer
Kenneth White
Peter Mamakos
Gwen Van Dam
Erik Holland
John Parr
Jerry Dunphy
M. Emmet Walsh
James Jeter
Edith Fields
Louis de Farra
Roger Etienne
André Landzaat
Roberta Storm
Michael Currie
Stanley Grover
Todd Martin
Curt Lowens
Philippe Léotard
Maurice Marsac
Roger Til
Billy Beck
Sandy Ignon
Peter Brandon
Lewis Charles
Ted Danson
Arielle Dombasle
Michael Fairman
Jean-François Ferreol
Patrick Gorman
George Keymas
Lloyd Kino
Rod Loomis
Ion Teodorescu
Paul Picerni
G.W. Bailey