Special Bulletin (1983)
Special Bulletin (1983)
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Plot.
A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.
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Cast & Crew.
Ed Flanders
John Woodley
Kathryn Walker
Susan Myles
Roxanne Hart
Megan Barclay
David Clennon
Dr. Bruce Lyman
Christopher Allport
Steven Levitt
David Rasche
Dr. David McKeeson
Edward Zwick
Director
Rosalind Cash
Frieda Barton
Marshall Herskovitz
Writer
Arden Rynew
Editor
Ebbe Roe Smith
Jim Seaver
Robb Wilson King
ProductionDesigner
Roberta Maxwell
Diane Silverman
Robert Kay
George Takasima
J. Wesley Huston
Bernard Frost
Frank Dent
Dr. Jason Halpern
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Wiki.
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.In the film, a terrorist group brings a homemade atomic bomb aboard a tugboat in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina in order to blackmail the U.S. government into disabling its nuclear weapons, and the incident is caught live on television. It simulates a series of live news broadcasts on the fictional RBS Network.