When "Flight into Danger" was broadcast live-to-air on April 3, 1956, on the network's "General Motors Theatre", it was seen by two million people and received a resounding positive reaction. "In the words of one journalist, it was 'probably the most successful TV play ever written anywhere'." A kinescope of the live production was broadcast in August 1956 due to viewer demand. After being shown with a new cast and production staff on NBC's anthology series "The Alcoa Hour" on September 16, 1956, the original play was purchased for screening by the BBC in the United Kingdom and was a major factor in the supervising producer of CBC's television dramas, Sydney Newman, being brought across to work in the UK. There he made a significant impact on the British television drama industry.