The Sons of the Desert two years since 1978. Most have been located in the United States but some have been held in the United Kingdom and other countries. Actors and technicians who worked with Laurel and Hardy are frequent guests, and rare films and memorabilia are exhibited. The Sons organization has been profiled periodically in media outlets, usually in a newsworthy context (as when long-lost films have been discovered). In 1974 the British Broadcasting Corporation featured the Sons in its documentary film "Cuckoo." NBC's whimsical reality show "Real People" brought the Sons to a national audience in 1980. The CBN cable-television network scheduled a
The President's Plane Is Missing (film) turned the President into an action hero. In 1988, the reviewer for the "Sydney Morning Herald" wrote that it was a "dull film despite an excellent cast." The President's Plane Is Missing (film) The President's Plane Is Missing is a 1973 American television film directed by Daryl Duke with a screenplay by Ernest Kinoy and Mark Carliner based upon the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name. It aired on the "ABC Movie of the Week." With diplomatic tensions building and the United States facing a possible military confrontation with China, Air Force One mysteriously crashes in the desert