Okay, now I'm glad I have to go to bed. This has been a really depressing three and a half hours...good, but DAMN. #TCMParty #TheDayTheEarthCaughtFire #SilentRunning

I always got a kick out of how they used that song towards the beginning of "Independence Day." 😀

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'Threads.' Snarky as this movie was, you can definitely see a throughline of sorts to THAT.

[thirty seconds later] Shut up, Ben, I was here first. On a techincality!

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I arrived late for #TheDayTheEarthCaughtFire
It's pretty cool. I'll never forget it.

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🎶It's the end of the world as we know it/It's the end of the world as we know it/It's the end of the world as we know it/And I feel fine🎶 #TheDayTheEarthCaughtFire #TCMParty

I recall seeing #TheDayTheEarthCaughtFire on the old 4:30 movie here in New York. The ending is quite the image.
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😂 Your governments in action! 🤪

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Yes, the Earth could be doomed, but at least a MEGATON of newspapers got sold...

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Definitely not easy to pull off a science-fiction disaster film on a £200,000 budget.

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If the bombs broke it then the bombs will fix it. Yeah. Yeah! That's it!! ##TheDayTheEarthCaughtFire #TCM #TCMParty

Director Val Guest also directed the first two Quatermass movies, "The Quatermass Xperiment" and "Quatermass 2."

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Director Val Guest shot episodes of my favorite hard science-fiction show of all time, "Space: 1999."

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It's a little encouraging and discouraging at the same time that we are probably better at it since the time of this movie, yet there is a long way to go.
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Hopefully, the powers that be will see tonight's movies and decide that something must be done to protect our environment...nah, I'm just fucking with you. 🤪

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I know Leo McKern best from the first two "Omen" movies as Carl Bugenhagen.

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"People only care about the news when it becomes personal."

[waves hands]

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The Earth being knocked off its axis by nuclear weapons is very similar to "Damnation Alley," the 1977 film from the 1969 novel by Roger Zelazny.

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London apartments are shoeboxes. ##TheDayTheEarthCaughtFire #TCM #TCMParty

I have met a few of the cast, including an uncredited Michael Caine.
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Ha! Flashbacks are the rule of the evening with "The Day The Earth Caught Fire" on #TCMParty and "The Guilty" on #TheNoirCollective both going the flashback route. 😉

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