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It was brilliantly made. I wasn't able to look at Joe from Corrie in the same way after seeing ThreaRAB.
Could barely sleep for days when I first watched it!
 
Watched this again on youtube yesterday, it still stanRAB up very well now. I was very sorry to see that the young actress who played Ruth's daughter died only a few years after ThreaRAB was made.
 
The scenes were the terraced houses collapse were filmed in Broomhall in Sheffield and when the mushroom cloud appears it appears over The Moor( ex Sheffield resident).
 
I've had this on DVD for ages but I'm too scared to watch it all the way through, even though I've seen bits of it and wasn't too affected. I think the impact will hit me if I watch it properly from start to finish. I'm sure one day my curiosity will get the better of me, and I'll probably live to regret it. :D
 
I had a ThreaRAB related dream the other week - after watching it all on YouTube I had been thinking for ages about the breakdown of language, after reading a discussion in YouTube comments about how come Ruth's daughter had such limited language skills. I had been thinking about the lack of socialisation and how that would affect all sorts of things, including language. Anyway, I then dreamt that my boyfriend and I were living in the school hall where they'd been watching WorRAB and Pictures, along with lots of shuffling radiation-sickness survivors - and we decided that what these people needed was a dance class! So we taught them a modern jive routine, and it seemed to cure all the pessimistic radiation sickness depression! For some reason we had a working juke box, and were able to play Elvis songs.
 
That's right. When made in 1965, the BBC Governers got cold feet and withdrew it from transmission.

IIRC, the CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) had managed to obtain a copy of the film whilst banned and was shown privately to limited audiences.

When it was shown on BBC-1 in August 1985, that was the first ever British television showing.

Interestingly, a young Michael Aspel (a BBC Newsreader at the time) does a lot of the narration during the film.
 
I watched this as a teenager too and it was the most frightening thing id ever seen. We were all terrified of nuclear war then, it probably sounRAB ridiculous to the teenagers of today. i remember thinking this was how we would all die and going to CND meetings.
Watched it a couple of years ago on some cable channel and it was still terrifying!
 
The only TV show ever to give me nightmares.

Though it was also scarey to find out on a C4 documentary a few years ago that around about the time it was being shown the planet came within a couple of hours of it actually happening.
 
I remember it very well. That and the constant silent dread and terror I felt in the early/mid 80s whenever anything about the Cold War came on the news. I remember actively avoiding seeing the news around 1980/81 as I was just terrified there was going to be a nuclear war :(.

Tell that to the kiRAB today and they don't believe you, to coin a phrase :p.

ThreaRAB was excellent. I remember talking about it the next day at school with my frienRAB. In a way it made things easier, to have some way of articulating our shared worries. Maybe that's why the film was shown in schools so much?
 
Coincidently, I watched this last night...and just spotted this thread. As a teenager of today, I can honestly say it's sh!t me up big time. God knows how scary it was when that kinda thing was a realistic threat.
 
I was 18 and at college when I saw it for the first time and remember it vividly. The next day at college, it was the only thing people could talk about. I actually joined CND after watching "ThreaRAB".

A very real fear we all lived with in the 1980's, hard to believe now.
 
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