Threads - Nuclear War In Sheffield

[willofgod]

This is the telly program from the 80's I was talking about in TS the other night... Didn't anyone else watch this? Scared the crap out of me when I was nowt but a wee nipper:

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[mrcol]

Can't say I did.

But you have reminded me of a program called "V" that i used to watch when I was far too young to watch it. [Only registered and activated users can see links]

That used to be pretty scarey, saying that, I was young(er).

[Maggot]

Having watched through the first section (1 of 13 ...wheee) of Willo's drama my immediate reaction was that nuclear war couldn't come fast enough for my liking.

I remember V and those jaws that could extend to swallow mice...very nasty.

Have to admit for me it was the Children of the Stones

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scared the crap out of me on a weekly basis :p

[r1ncewind]

im sorry but terrorhawks made me piss poo. :shock:

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[Falkwing]

Well, having watched all the trailers, I am suitably traumatised.

Bloody hell, that Mk II Cortina is worse than I remember.

[Maggot]

that Mk II Cortina is worse than I remember.

Oi! that's the first car I remember my family having.

It was green. (actually that's all I can remember about it)

[willofgod]

V! We used to watch that without fail, it was an event at our house. Having seen bits of it since... talk about low budget pap! Couldn't watch it now.

[Envoy]

V! We used to watch that without fail, it was an event at our house. Having seen bits of it since... talk about low budget pap! Couldn't watch it now.


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[willofgod]

But even without the same storyline, the original "V’s" bones will remain: As in the ’80s version, the show will open with an enormous army of spaceships hovering over the world’s major cities. The visitors say they’ve come to help Earth, but their motives are nefarious (in the original, they wanted to steal the world’s water supply).

WHAT? WHAT! WHAT?

What a load of tosh that plot was in retrospect.

Imagine the scene in V-HQ: "We need more water... but instead of mining the nearest large comet or moon, or uninhabited planet, or sucking it out of a nubula or whatever, we've decided to travel across the galaxy to earth, setup a huge supterfuge, dupe the locals and then steal some...."?????? WTF?

They made the same mistake with Independence Day and those idiotic resource stealing aliens too. Then theres War Of The Worlds... The Arrival and loads of others. If you ever watched the first couple of episodes of Star Trek Voyager they did it there too with Neelix's lot. You're telling me a race capable of building faster than light starships have a water shortage problem? Get fucking real.

If you have the technology to fly from one solar system to the next any resource you could possibly want would be freely available on a scale that would make conquering some primitive planet ridiculous. It'd be like turning up at Cadburys armed to the teeth, and backed up by the entire UK armed forces in order to steal a chocolate button off a baby!

Pfffffttt! I need to have a serious word with the Hollywood script writers!

[mrcol]

V! We used to watch that without fail, it was an event at our house. Having seen bits of it since... talk about low budget pap! Couldn't watch it now.

If you actually look what the directors of that show have done since, they musta have done something right.

[shifty]

Well, having watched all the trailers, I am suitably traumatised.

Bloody hell, that Mk II Cortina is worse than I remember.

OI dont knock the Cortina MK2, I had a MK 3 my first car, and there still Dagenham dustbins :razz::razz::shock:.

[Falkwing]

OI dont knock the Cortina MK2, I had a MK 3 my first car, and there still Dagenham dustbins :razz::razz::shock:.

No worries Shifty - I had a Cortina MK I automatic.... and that wasn't even my first car. :sqshockedl:

[CalamityJane]

This is the telly program from the 80's I was talking about in TS the other night... Didn't anyone else watch this? Scared the crap out of me when I was nowt but a wee nipper:

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Willo it scared the crap out of me at the time it was first shown, in the 80's then it got banned. I spent a long time last year trawling download sites for it & finally found a rapidshare download. Links are still working. It's not a brilliant copy but more watchable than You Tube. I have now got a new copy for xmas from amazon for a fiver but not had time to watch it again yet.

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Oh & Happy New Year everyone hope to see you on the battlefield soon.

[willofgod]

They banned it? Wow, I didn't know that. I can imagine it really putting the wind up people back then as Barry Hines seemed to tell it how it is, and didn't glamourise it or put any false hope into it. And the outcome was pretty bleak. At first you think the government might pull it all back together.... but no... in the end the army abused their power to take food from survivors, all the plans they put in place for after failed, the health service fell completely apart. Most people died... horribly. Infact the positive thing that happened was that Ruth successfully had her baby.... You think that everything might be ok... But then later... at the end....

I really enjoyed watching it again, even on Youtube and am now downloading it from your links. I'm also popping over to Amazon to see if the book is still in print.


Thanks Jane!