Special Bulletin (1983)
An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news team have been taken hostage by a group of terrorists who are seeking to destroy the triggers of all local nuclear devices. Moreover, the terrorists threaten to detonate their own device if their demands are not met.
- Date of release
- 1983-03-20
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (32)
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- TV Movie, Drama, Thriller, Horror
- Director
- Edward Zwick
Casting
- Ed Flanders — John Woodley
- Kathryn Walker — Susan Myles
- Roxanne Hart — Megan Barclay
- Christopher Allport — Steven Levitt
- David Clennon — Bruce Lyman
- David Rasche — David McKeeson
- Rosalind Cash — Frieda Barton
- Ebbe Roe Smith — Jim Seaver
- Roberta Maxwell — Diane Silverman
- Mary Armstrong
- Bernard Behrens — Dr. Niels Johansson
- Ivan Bonar
Interesting facts
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. The film was first broadcast March 20, 1983 on NBC as part of NBC Sunday Night at the Movies.
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