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Cake

If anyone else is ever old enough or like me was forced to watch it at school you might find this interesting.

nuclear attack

 

Peter Collins

I remember this well. One of the most terrifying things I've ever watched.

Mr Puffy

Yes it made a real impact didn't it?

 

PhilPub

I was too young to remember Threads but I do remember feeling that there might be more than just a theoretical possibility that the world would end in the not too distant future, and that hiding under a door armed with several tins of baked beans probably wouldn't change that.  Scary shit!!

Cinders

There was also "When the wind blows".

[Deleted User]

I remember this well (around the same time the US produced a similar drama called 'The Day After'). Scary stuff.

A thing I'll never forget is that at the time I was a young lad working in Croydon, and a few weeks after these were both aired, the sirens went off. Not just the continuous 'all clear' but the full on rising and falling alert. Being at the time of the Cold War, this was absolutely terrifying. Cars on the Croydon flyover were slowing down/stopping and the drivers were leaning out of their windows. The sirens continued for a couple of minutes before stopping.

I heard later that it was something to do with the testing of the sirens in case of the Thames flooding, but it was bloody scary at the time, and talk about bad timing!

Philomena Cunk

Does anyone remeber a kids teatime programme called "Changes" It had a Kraftwerk type themetune.

seren nos

Cinders wrote (see)

There was also "When the wind blows".

 

 

 I love that...I tracked down the book and the video.....

 

Philomena Cunk

Written by the same bloke who wrote "The Snowman" ?

seren nos

never heard of threads.but then I'm older than you cake  

 

Screamapillar

Runs with the Hound wrote (see)

I remember this well (around the same time the US produced a similar drama called 'The Day After'). Scary stuff.

A thing I'll never forget is that at the time I was a young lad working in Croydon, and a few weeks after these were both aired, the sirens went off. Not just the continuous 'all clear' but the full on rising and falling alert. Being at the time of the Cold War, this was absolutely terrifying. Cars on the Croydon flyover were slowing down/stopping and the drivers were leaning out of their windows. The sirens continued for a couple of minutes before stopping.

I heard later that it was something to do with the testing of the sirens in case of the Thames flooding, but it was bloody scary at the time, and talk about bad timing!

I remember them doing this, (I was in a geography lesson!) but being in London we knew it was goign to happen. Before the Thames Barrier was finished, there used to be maps outside tube stations showing which areas of london would be under water if it ever happened.

 

Cinders

Yes it was PC.  Raymond Briggs.

Lilytoo

All terrifying.  I'm old enough to have been a member of CND, went on marches and protested at RAF bases against the siting of cruise missiles.  I'm genuinely pleased that my twenty something daughter doesn't spend her time being scared witless and that she thinks that we all overreacted in the 70s and 80s  

candy ollier

That was the weird thing about cnd; they were trying to make it more likely that Britain would get nuked!

JT141

I never saw Threads but I remember as a kid seeing The Day After when it aired. I have a recollection of Michael Fish or someone doing a weather report afterwards mocking up what a nuclear winter would be like. I don't think I imagined it.