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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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I turned 13 in November of that year, but I really can't remember much about that period of time...  _________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry I'll behave now. Promise 
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Paul1965
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Yes, Threads was great TV even though it was very grim. There was a similar American show that aired at about the same time....might have been called The Day After...but it was poor in comparison to Threads gritty realism. Threads is on YouTube in 12 parts, but it would be better seen on TV. This clip shows the first nuclear strike. Still very effective even after a quarter of a century.
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okenobi
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:59 pm
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Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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Grim isn't the word. It was downright [LIFTED] up!! When I saw it it must've been 20yrs old already and I still couldn't quite believe that they would make a show that full on, even in the noughties.
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brataccas
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Location: Scotland
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how noughty of them  _________________
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belchingmatt
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IIRC there was an ET toy melting in a fire. Strange what you remember.
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paulzolo
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Threads had an interesting history. It was the first collaboration between BBC Drama and BBC’s science programming. The BBC had already done nuclear devastation in the form of an imagined atomic strike over St Paul’s Cathedral, London. It was part of their usually light-weight science programme QED.
Threads was written by gritty Norther writer Barry Hines, and I think he showed how idiotic guides like Protect and Survive were. Hines spent time with various local authorities on training courses for nuclear attacks. In an interview on Pebble MIll, he delighted in the absurdity of simulations of running the country after a nuclear attack, interspersed with tea breaks on the croquet lawns at the course’s location.
We had no idea. We still don’t.
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cloaked_wolf
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I'll have to think about this but I don't think my parents had actually met back then!
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mikepgood
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Mid way through university. Drinking lots and pre major HIV alerts.
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okenobi
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Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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That was quite enough of an idea for me thanks. The chances of it happening have always been low and ignorance is bliss.
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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30 years ago I was a baby.
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tombolt
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Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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Just watched that Charlie brooker programme that mentioned threads hadn't heard of it before. I was three in 1981. Dealing with the addition of my sister to the family and my mum's decision to give my weeble bus to my school without consulting me. The only two things I remember about the first five years of my life and they both happened in the same year, spooky!
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timark_uk
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Location: Belfast
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?!? Three words : Cuban, missile, crisis. Mark
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pcernie
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I wasn't even a rude thought (not even sure my parents had met!)...
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paulzolo
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I reember the Radio Times cover for that week. A traffic warden with a machine gun. I think he may have been wearing a gas mask. Edit: it was bandages: 
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rustybucket
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Indeed. We got to within less than 10 hours of Goodnight Vienna. _________________Jim
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