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This is driving me crazy. On broadcast tv, I've forgotten the network, in the early 80s, there was a fake news broadcast about some greenpeace type of terrorist that hold Charleston harbor under threat of a nuclear detonation. It was a movie ala'"war of the worlds". What is the name of this movie? HELP
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It was a TV-movie called "Special Bulletin" (1983). It was made by the same folks who brought you the TV series "thirtysomething".
I remember watching it at the time. It was shown on NBC-TV.
A dock workers strike in Charleston, South Carolina was taking place, so a TV reporter and camera crew were there to cover it. But at the same time, they were taken hostage.
The entire TV-movie was shown as if you were watching an actual news broadcast. But NBC had to put in a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen saying that it was a "dramatization".
Still, some people in Charleston actually got panicked!
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