Oh yeah, every afternoon after school, I was down in the woods with a shovel digging my hole for a bunker. Just big enough for me. My sisters were screwed.

ZombieKitten said:

Saved.

I've never seen this or 'Threads' - would've been just before my time as I'd have been 2 or 3 when they were made. Watching them both in full today, I think.

ufoclub said:

you just want to see the bomb? it's a BBC teleplay ufo! it's probably all stock footage and use your imaginatation

Horsefeathers said:

I hope you painted the windows white to deflect the blast

ZombieKitten said:

i've seen them both programmes. i used to frequently have nuclear war nightmares as a nipper.

ZombieKitten said:

Threads = 5X more horror than The Day After.

Seriously around 43 to 45 seconds in I see E.T. getting burned.

For once something that I was actually too young to remember!

ufoclub said:

So does everyone that watches it.
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Weird, this was just on last week on one of the British channels I get here.

But they made us watch this back in grade school when it was on, like it was part of our education somehow. I had nightmares for months.

TheEnglishGent said:

Why is there a shot of E.T. getting burned?

ufoclub said:

I think they piled a whole bunch of dolls and stuffed animals against a door in one of the scenes. Maybe this was part of that pile that burned?

luv4u said:

oh I'm sure we will find other ways to destroy the world, or at least make it super miserable to live in...

ufoclub said:

I see a lady closing her curtains

ZombieKitten said:

after that, I think it is the stuffed toys they used.

Threads wasn't so bad. Life in Britain is that miserable most days.....

I couldn't sleep for a month after I watched that...and I was already in high school.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

do you remember when USA declared war on Libya (1986?)
our vice principal made an announcement over the PA at our school with the words: "may we live to see tomorrow"
we all cried ourselves to sleep that night and the next day the school was inundated with calls from angry parents for frightening the shit out of their kids. Thanks to mandatory viewing of both Threads and The Day After as part of our RE program, we were pretty certain of how things would be in the morning when we woke up.

ZombieKitten said:

OMG! That's horrible!!!!!

Oh God and when Chernobyl melted down, I was certain that purple clouds of radioactive fall-out were going to float over to England. I actually went into a chemist and asked if I could buy iodine tablets, because I'd read someplace that they'd flush the radioactivity out of your body.

I also designed a new British flag in art class, because I was convinced that once the bombs dropped, I'd organise a rebel army in the woods (to fight against the tyrannical British government which lead us all to nuclear doom).

GirlBrother said:

the fallout made the reindeers radioactive

And even when I was slightly older enough to know better, I'll never forget my mother coming into my room, to wake me for school one morning. She was unusually ashen-faced and told me to look outside my bedroom window...

When I opened my curtains, I was sure that the bombs had dropped.

There'd been a hurricane over England overnight. She never explained; she just left me staring out the window, surveying the uprooted trees and debris.

ZombieKitten said:

Whenever I think of Chernobyl, I always remember this awful joke...

Q. Why shouldn't you buy Russian underwear?
A. Chernobyl fallout.

i.e.: "Yer nob'll fall out." It's probably only funny if you read it aloud with a Mancunian accent.

GirlBrother said:

I worked it out, eventually

ZombieKitten said:

Rudolph with your nose so bright...

Nikademus said:

By golly he was gonna guide that sleigh alright

Anybody remember the mini series Amerika???? That was so lame, crap.

kpowers said:

Maybe that was why it was a short lived mini series and was lame n well noone remembers it