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Pow · Last edited by Pow on Tue Aug 20, 2024 3:34 pm; edited 1 time in total

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.

Gord Green · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:55 am Post subject:

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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Bud Brewster · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:54 am Post subject:

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The full movie is on YouTube™ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39GjSbiMzXY
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WadeVC · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 1:17 am Post subject:

Although dated now, I found this movie enjoyable enough. A good, fun and entertaining movie as a late-late night faire.

I saw it when it first came out, and at that time it was a bit of a shocker. I have seen it a few times in recent years, and still enjoy it well enough.
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Pow · Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 5:59 pm Post subject:

Lewis John Carlino (1932~2020), who co-wrote this television movie/pilot (with Sandor Stern), also co-wrote (with David Ely) the marvelous science-fiction-horror film Seconds.

scotpens · Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:15 pm Post subject:

The concept sounds a bit similar to Night of the Comet (1984) -- only without the tongue-in-cheek humor and the two cute Valley Girls.