The Flight of the Grey Wolf

*The Flight of the Grey Wolf*
The Flight of the Grey Wolf
Genre	Adventure; Drama; Family
Screenplay by	Calvin Clements Jr.; Mel Ellis;
Directed by	Frank Zuniga
Starring	Jeff East; Bill Williams; Barbara Hale; William Bryant;
Music by	Robert F. Brunner
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Walt Disney Productions
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	May 14, 1976

The Flight of the Grey Wolf was a 1976 television film produced by

The Wonderful World of Disney, the first part airing on May 14, 1976.^[1] The film was directed by Frank Zuniga, and stars Jeff East, Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, and William Bryant

.

In July 1975 Disney announced that the film would be part of its 1975-1976 line-up on The Wonderful World of Disney. It was to be one of two longer films which were to be broken down into two parts and be shown on back-to-back Sundays, the other being

The Wizard of Oz, which was airing on CBS.^[4] The second part aired the following Sunday, March 21.^[5]

Plot

As Russ is attacked by a dog, his pet wolf, Grey comes to his defense and kills the dog. Frightened, Grey runs away, and in the process frightens a rancher's daughter. When the town is roused to take action against Grey, Russ takes the wolf into the forest and realizes that he will never be able to bring Grey back to his former home, but he also understands he cannot simply release the wolf into the wild, so he starts trying to re-establishing the wolf's natural instincts.