Television Premiere
For the film's September 1976 television premiere on NBC, additional footage was added to expand the running time of the film so it could be shown over two nights. The "Sensurround" audio was simulcast in FM stereo in the Los Angeles and New York markets. This allowed the home viewer to experience a similar effect as in the theater. Contrary to popular belief, this "television version" made no use of material originally left out of the theatrical release (save one brief scene featuring Victoria Principal and Reb Brown), but rather new footage was shot some two years after the original, using some of the stars from the theatrical version. New scenes included a young married couple (Debralee Scott and Sam Chew) on an airplane. The husband seeks a job with Graff, while his wife has the eerily accurate ability to see the future with cards. They are on an airliner attempting to land at Los Angeles International Airport during the earthquake. The airliner is barely able to take off a second time and divert to San Francisco.
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