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Special Bulletin is a 1983 American drama television film directed by Edward Zwick and written by Marshall Herskovitz, based on a story by both. It was an early collaboration between the two, who would later produce such series as thirtysomething and My So-Called Life.
- Edward Zwick
- Ohlmeyer Communications Company
- Ferdinand Jay Smith (promo and news music)
Mar 20, 1983 · With Ed Flanders, Kathryn Walker, Roxanne Hart, Christopher Allport. 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.
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- Drama
- Edward Zwick
- 1983-03-20
In this movie, a terrorist group brings a homemade atomic bomb aboard a tugboat in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina in order to blackmail the U.S. Government into disabling its nuclear weapons, and the incident is caught live on television. The movie simulates a series of live news broadcasts on the fictional RBS Network.
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Anchorman John Woodley (Ed Flanders) and his partner, Susan Myles (Kathryn Walker), reveal that terrorists have threatened to detonate an H-bomb off of the coast of South Carolina if the Navy...
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- Edward Zwick
- Mystery & Thriller
- Ed Flanders, Kathryn Walker, Roxanne Hart
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Sep 24, 2023 · Cold War, Edward Zwick, TV movie. Special Bulletin (1983) - YouTube. This copy of Special Bulletin is sourced from a high-quality orig. 1983 broadcast master tape. Special Bulletin was nominated for six Emmy awards and won four, including Outstanding Drama Special.
Anchorman John Woodley and his partner, Susan Myles, reveal that terrorists have threatened to detonate an H-bomb off of the coast of South Carolina if the Navy refuses to agree to their demands -- the disarmament of a key nuclear weapons facility.
