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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:33 am    Post subject: Where Have All The People Gone? Reply with quote

Hadn't thought of this made for TV movie in many years until recently with what our world is dealing with regarding this frightening Corvid-19 virus.

NBC, October 08,1974. Run time is 74 minutes.

Steven Anders (Peter Graves) has taken his family for a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

While exploring a cave they experience an earthquake.

Emerging from the cave, Steven, his teenage daughter Deb (Kathleen Quinlan) & teenage son Dave come across a ranch hand who tells them that he saw a bright solar flash just prior to the earthquake.

The man later becomes ill and his body disintegrates into a powdery substance.

The family proceeds to make their way back home to Malibu hoping to find that their wife/mother will be fine.

Along the way they discover that many people have succumbed to whatever this cataclysmic event is and been rendered into powder. Cities and streets are eerily devoid of humans.

Some have managed to live through this event owing to their genetic resistance.

Dangerous roving gangs of humans have risen up, wild dogs attack, and humans in stunned shock are all encountered by the Anders family along their journey home as they also deal with the emotional trauma of it all.

I recall watching this TV movie when it first premiered and liking it at that time, but I've not seen it since then. Not sure how well it holds up, but it certainly parallels what we are currently going through these days with the pandemic.

I'm not sure but I thought I read somewhere that this TV movie also served as a pilot for a weekly series but it was not picked up by NBC.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Peter Graves was excellent in this TV movie.



A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune to the effects.

Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing.



A handful of survivors attempt to rebuild their lives on the depopulated Earth.



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pow wrote:
I'm not sure but I thought I read somewhere that this TV movie also served as a pilot for a weekly series but it was not picked up by NBC.

Perhaps the series would have been picked up if the producers had accepted the networks' suggestion concerning a slight change in the basic premise.

Instead of the animals going insane and the people turning into powder, leaving just their clothes, the people turn insane when all their clothes turned into powder!

The movie would then have been called —

Where Have All the Clothes Gone, and Why Are These Crazy People Running Around Naked?



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The full movie is on YouTube™ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39GjSbiMzXY
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