After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the six members of the Robertson family spend 37 days adrift in the Pacific with no maps, compass, or navigational instruments.They use every survival technique they can as they battle 20-foot waves, marauding sharks, thirst, starvation, and exhaustion.

• American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
• Von Zerneck Sertner Films
• Robert Urich
• Ali MacGraw
• Danielle von Zerneck
• David Franklin
• David Daniels
• Gus Mercurio
• Betty Bobbitt
• Peter Sumner