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I once got zapped that way by a movie done as a fictitious newscast
about terrorists with nuclear weapons [can't recall the title, it had to have been made before the early 1990s, because that's when I caught this on TV while flipping channels at about 3-something AM]. I know the movie you're talking about, Seanette, and I can't remember the title either. But it zapped me, too. :-) Sherry |
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I once got zapped that way by a movie done as a fictitious newscast
about terrorists with nuclear weapons [can't recall the title, it had to have been made before the early 1990s, because that's when I caught this on TV while flipping channels at about 3-something AM]. I know the movie you're talking about, Seanette, and I can't remember the title either. But it zapped me, too. :-) Sherry |
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:53:33 -0700, Seanette Blaylock
wrote: had some very interesting things to say about Crickets are FUN!: War Games was clearly a fictional movie. I'm talking about a TV show or radio broadcast written and performed to look and/or sound like real news. Someone tuning in in the midst of the show might not realize it's just a show, and think it's real news. We're too jaded now to fall for a fake news story about aliens landing on earth. But if it were done convincingly enough, I could certainly be taken in by a made-to-look-real news broadcast about nuclear missiles, terrorist attacks, etc. I once got zapped that way by a movie done as a fictitious newscast about terrorists with nuclear weapons [can't recall the title, it had to have been made before the early 1990s, because that's when I caught this on TV while flipping channels at about 3-something AM]. Would it be "Special Bulletin" from 1983? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086350/ According to IMDB: "A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met." IMDB Trivia says "When this film was first broadcast, the network superimposed the word "dramatization" on the bottom of the screen every few minutes and ran disclaimers after every commercial break, to remind people it was only a movie. That didn't stop some people in Charleston, S.C. from panicking anyway." Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:53:33 -0700, Seanette Blaylock
wrote: had some very interesting things to say about Crickets are FUN!: War Games was clearly a fictional movie. I'm talking about a TV show or radio broadcast written and performed to look and/or sound like real news. Someone tuning in in the midst of the show might not realize it's just a show, and think it's real news. We're too jaded now to fall for a fake news story about aliens landing on earth. But if it were done convincingly enough, I could certainly be taken in by a made-to-look-real news broadcast about nuclear missiles, terrorist attacks, etc. I once got zapped that way by a movie done as a fictitious newscast about terrorists with nuclear weapons [can't recall the title, it had to have been made before the early 1990s, because that's when I caught this on TV while flipping channels at about 3-something AM]. Would it be "Special Bulletin" from 1983? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086350/ According to IMDB: "A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met." IMDB Trivia says "When this film was first broadcast, the network superimposed the word "dramatization" on the bottom of the screen every few minutes and ran disclaimers after every commercial break, to remind people it was only a movie. That didn't stop some people in Charleston, S.C. from panicking anyway." Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:53:33 -0700, Seanette Blaylock
wrote: had some very interesting things to say about Crickets are FUN!: War Games was clearly a fictional movie. I'm talking about a TV show or radio broadcast written and performed to look and/or sound like real news. Someone tuning in in the midst of the show might not realize it's just a show, and think it's real news. We're too jaded now to fall for a fake news story about aliens landing on earth. But if it were done convincingly enough, I could certainly be taken in by a made-to-look-real news broadcast about nuclear missiles, terrorist attacks, etc. I once got zapped that way by a movie done as a fictitious newscast about terrorists with nuclear weapons [can't recall the title, it had to have been made before the early 1990s, because that's when I caught this on TV while flipping channels at about 3-something AM]. Would it be "Special Bulletin" from 1983? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086350/ According to IMDB: "A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met." IMDB Trivia says "When this film was first broadcast, the network superimposed the word "dramatization" on the bottom of the screen every few minutes and ran disclaimers after every commercial break, to remind people it was only a movie. That didn't stop some people in Charleston, S.C. from panicking anyway." Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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Jeanne Hedge had some very interesting things to say
about Crickets are FUN!: I once got zapped that way by a movie done as a fictitious newscast about terrorists with nuclear weapons [can't recall the title, it had to have been made before the early 1990s, because that's when I caught this on TV while flipping channels at about 3-something AM]. Would it be "Special Bulletin" from 1983? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086350/ According to IMDB: "A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met." IMDB Trivia says "When this film was first broadcast, the network superimposed the word "dramatization" on the bottom of the screen every few minutes and ran disclaimers after every commercial break, to remind people it was only a movie. That didn't stop some people in Charleston, S.C. from panicking anyway." And those precautions did not apply to the middle-of-the-night re-showing I caught about 20 minutes of. :-) This does sound like the movie I remember. I remember waking my grandfather [I was living with him at the time] to ask him if we had any family or friends in that area. :-) [He was sympathetically amused when we figured out what had happened, since his sister had been taken in by War of the Worlds. :-)] -- "The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL |
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Jeanne Hedge had some very interesting things to say
about Crickets are FUN!: I once got zapped that way by a movie done as a fictitious newscast about terrorists with nuclear weapons [can't recall the title, it had to have been made before the early 1990s, because that's when I caught this on TV while flipping channels at about 3-something AM]. Would it be "Special Bulletin" from 1983? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086350/ According to IMDB: "A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met." IMDB Trivia says "When this film was first broadcast, the network superimposed the word "dramatization" on the bottom of the screen every few minutes and ran disclaimers after every commercial break, to remind people it was only a movie. That didn't stop some people in Charleston, S.C. from panicking anyway." And those precautions did not apply to the middle-of-the-night re-showing I caught about 20 minutes of. :-) This does sound like the movie I remember. I remember waking my grandfather [I was living with him at the time] to ask him if we had any family or friends in that area. :-) [He was sympathetically amused when we figured out what had happened, since his sister had been taken in by War of the Worlds. :-)] -- "The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL |
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Jeanne Hedge had some very interesting things to say
about Crickets are FUN!: I once got zapped that way by a movie done as a fictitious newscast about terrorists with nuclear weapons [can't recall the title, it had to have been made before the early 1990s, because that's when I caught this on TV while flipping channels at about 3-something AM]. Would it be "Special Bulletin" from 1983? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086350/ According to IMDB: "A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met." IMDB Trivia says "When this film was first broadcast, the network superimposed the word "dramatization" on the bottom of the screen every few minutes and ran disclaimers after every commercial break, to remind people it was only a movie. That didn't stop some people in Charleston, S.C. from panicking anyway." And those precautions did not apply to the middle-of-the-night re-showing I caught about 20 minutes of. :-) This does sound like the movie I remember. I remember waking my grandfather [I was living with him at the time] to ask him if we had any family or friends in that area. :-) [He was sympathetically amused when we figured out what had happened, since his sister had been taken in by War of the Worlds. :-)] -- "The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL |
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:18:26 -0700, Seanette Blaylock
yodeled: Jeanne Hedge had some very interesting things to say about Crickets are FUN!: I once got zapped that way by a movie done as a fictitious newscast about terrorists with nuclear weapons [can't recall the title, it had to have been made before the early 1990s, because that's when I caught this on TV while flipping channels at about 3-something AM]. Would it be "Special Bulletin" from 1983? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086350/ According to IMDB: "A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met." IMDB Trivia says "When this film was first broadcast, the network superimposed the word "dramatization" on the bottom of the screen every few minutes and ran disclaimers after every commercial break, to remind people it was only a movie. That didn't stop some people in Charleston, S.C. from panicking anyway." And those precautions did not apply to the middle-of-the-night re-showing I caught about 20 minutes of. :-) This does sound like the movie I remember. I remember waking my grandfather [I was living with him at the time] to ask him if we had any family or friends in that area. :-) [He was sympathetically amused when we figured out what had happened, since his sister had been taken in by War of the Worlds. :-)] Yikes! The worst that ever happened to me, was that I awoke around 3 AM to a Ben Casey rerun. Dick Clark (DICK CLARK) was the guest star, playing a humanitarian jungle doctor, a la Albert Schweitzer, who was dying of some mysterious jungle disease. I am NOT making this up. Now THAT was disorienting. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:18:26 -0700, Seanette Blaylock
yodeled: Jeanne Hedge had some very interesting things to say about Crickets are FUN!: I once got zapped that way by a movie done as a fictitious newscast about terrorists with nuclear weapons [can't recall the title, it had to have been made before the early 1990s, because that's when I caught this on TV while flipping channels at about 3-something AM]. Would it be "Special Bulletin" from 1983? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086350/ According to IMDB: "A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met." IMDB Trivia says "When this film was first broadcast, the network superimposed the word "dramatization" on the bottom of the screen every few minutes and ran disclaimers after every commercial break, to remind people it was only a movie. That didn't stop some people in Charleston, S.C. from panicking anyway." And those precautions did not apply to the middle-of-the-night re-showing I caught about 20 minutes of. :-) This does sound like the movie I remember. I remember waking my grandfather [I was living with him at the time] to ask him if we had any family or friends in that area. :-) [He was sympathetically amused when we figured out what had happened, since his sister had been taken in by War of the Worlds. :-)] Yikes! The worst that ever happened to me, was that I awoke around 3 AM to a Ben Casey rerun. Dick Clark (DICK CLARK) was the guest star, playing a humanitarian jungle doctor, a la Albert Schweitzer, who was dying of some mysterious jungle disease. I am NOT making this up. Now THAT was disorienting. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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