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The Langoliers is a miniseries consisting of 2 episodes of 2 hours each (4 hours including commercials). It was directed and written by Tom Holland and based on the novella by Stephen King. The series was produced by Mitchell Galin and David R. Kappes. The miniseries originally aired May 14–21, 1995 on the ABC network.

A full aircraft is flying out of Los Angeles International Airport at night, heading east to Boston. Later in the flight, Dinah Bellman, a blind girl, awakens and asks her aunt for water. When she gets no response, she calls for help, but only Brian Engle, an airline pilot who is a passenger on this flight, awakens to Dinah's call for help. Other passengers then begin to rise up out of their seats. The mystery begins when these nine people discover they are the only ones left on the plane; not even the pilots are aboard. Brian and Nick Hopewell, a mysterious British man, discover the plane is on autopilot.

Brian attempts to radio for help, but receives no response, not even from Strategic Air Command, which should be on-air at all times. The other passengers discover that strange objects have been left behind in the passenger seats, such as watches, surgical pins and pacemakers. They subsequently introduce themselves; Bob Jenkins is a mystery novel writer, Laurel Stevenson is a schoolteacher on vacation to meet a man from a singles ad in a newspaper (though she omits this part out of embarrassment), Don Gaffney is a tool-and-die worker going to meet his new granddaughter, Albert Kaussner is a violinist on his way to music school in Boston, Bethany Simms is meeting her aunt where she will be taken to drug rehab, Dinah Bellman is on her way to Boston for optical surgery, a man later revealed as Rudy Warwick remains asleep, and a suspicious businessman remains silent. He is later revealed to be Craig Toomey, a mentally unstable man who has knowingly and proudly caused a $43 million loss to his company. Dinah, who possesses psychic powers, sees through Toomey's eyes and recognises him as a threat.

Brian takes over the plane and announces that, for safety, the flight will be redirected from Boston to Bangor, Maine. Toomey aggressively protests and announces that it is crucial that he attends his business trip in Boston. In a flashback, it is revealed that Toomey was abused as a child by his overbearing and sadistic father; when Craig failed to make straight A's, his father warned him about the "Langoliers"; creatures that chased down the lazy and devoured them. He is desperate to reach his appointment in Boston in order to announce his willful loss of finances to his boss and be freed of his father's wrath.

Langoliers has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.