Picks and Pans Review: Hanging by a Thread

UPDATED 08/17/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 08/17/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT

NBC (9-11 p.m. ET)

Films trap people in ocean liners, Concordes and towering infernos. This TV movie, presumably made on a lower budget, traps Patty Duke Astin, Bert Convy and Donna Mills, among others, in a mountain cable car. It won't fall until Monday, when Part II airs. (Repeat)