As I set up this post on August 12th, the news is filled with the march by Klansmen, neo-Nazis, and other hate-spewing "alt-right" bigots in Charlottesville, Virginia. I suppose it was the name of the city that triggered my memories of this 1983 TV movie.
"Special Bulletin" took place in Charleston, South Carolina, and I don't want to reveal anything more about it. But in the last decade of the official "Cold War", this served as a modern version of Orson Welles' radio production of HG Wells' novel "The War Of The Worlds".
From the perspective of the greater Toobworld multiverse, this movie takes place in the TV dimension known as Disaster Toobworld. (And I just realized that by saying that, it's a bit of a giveaway. Sorry about that, Chief.)
That's the world of those "Sharknado" movies, but "Special Bulletin" was a well-made, thought-provoking, and disturbing production that raises the quality of the viewing experience for that dimension.
BCnU!
Ah...memories....
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