I first watched this when I was 15 and it scared the hell out of me. The Falklands war was going full blast between UK and Argentina on top of the Cold War and it seemed like the world was ending.
@AaronB999993 жыл бұрын
Weird, I have this distinct recollection that the episode ended with the sirens going off (not for a drill) and that the holocaust was being unleashed. And then it seemed odd when they were all there next week for another episode with no mention of it. Is it possible there was an alternate ending?
@MrMenefrego12 жыл бұрын
@@AaronB99999 Yes, it is a definite possibility.
@archivestereo3 жыл бұрын
I watched this show in first run every week but I don’t remember this one. Chances are I read the episode description and decided it would be too scary. It still is. One of the most important series in TV history.
@MrMenefrego12 жыл бұрын
"The Day After" from 1983. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After
@AaronB999993 жыл бұрын
It's amazing the social consciousness about nuclear war in the early 80s vs. close to none today. An accident or miscalculation could produce the exact same result today that people were so worried about back then.
@georgeelmerdenbrough69063 жыл бұрын
We are one hack away
@goldilox369 Жыл бұрын
Watching this now with the war in Ukraine... Sigh...I wish people would take the time to revisit these episodes.
@bayareaartist9992 ай бұрын
We came within a hairs length of nuclear war in the 80’s. There was a point when a soviet lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defense Forces, Stanislav Petrov didn’t launch against the west. That was in 1983.
@BruceK100327 жыл бұрын
This is very effective juxtaposition of the problems of treating a single burn victim with discussion of the possibility of millions of burn victims.
@PikeBishop652 жыл бұрын
This episode always stuck with me. Should have been the series finale.
@rondierice49226 жыл бұрын
Remember when Newspapers and Network Dramas were the thing !
@rogerlynch52792 жыл бұрын
Right afteer ALL THE PRESIDENT´S MEN and before this itn teh Fourties early Fifties
@Zoomer303 жыл бұрын
Odd foreshadowing: Balloons are a euphemism for nuclear weapons /war (Like the song 99 Red Balloons, which was a anti-war song). And then the show ends up being about war.
@WVRSpenceWestVirginiaRebel6 ай бұрын
I like how Mrs. Pynchon referenced the basis for Steven Spielberg's "1941"😄 Also if a war were imminent then Donovan wouldn't have been able to take his vacation, ambassadors would be expelled, NATO would have been put on alert, etc. I kind of wish they'd gone into this a little further. Also a Middle Eastern country wouldn't have gone Communist but I guess this was the Cold War era thinking here.
@michaelgryboski12 ай бұрын
This episode reminds me of "The Day After," sounds like it even has a couple of the same lines. I wonder if the people behind that TV movie watched this episode and were inspired.
@arttrombley73858 жыл бұрын
Burns hurt more than any other pain.
@watchgoose5 жыл бұрын
depends what degree. once the nerves have been burned away, the pain right there stops.
@kevinfitzmaurice40722 жыл бұрын
Directed by Allen Williams, who played "Adam," the business editor and provided many off-camera voices on the show.
@scheckingin7 жыл бұрын
pre-patient confidentiality laws - it was so easy to get details back in the day.
@ardeladimwit3 күн бұрын
sorry no, there were confidentiality laws then, too. Problem became when world went digital with online systems.
@jokerswildio6 жыл бұрын
I knew something was up when they kept showing the bus driver at the beginning of the show; I was like "no, no, please do not let an accident happen"...and, it did...oh well, stuff like this happens in life. I am not going to lie; I felt depressed watching this, but hopeful at the same time. Case in point--we do not have that nuclear "threat" with the Communists any more, now it's terrorists and madmen with guns. Hopefully, they have upgraded the treatment given to burn victims--that has to be one of the worse things a human can endure. I highly agree with BruceK10032's comment--the juxtapostion was very clever!
@watchgoose5 жыл бұрын
since this was made, more and more burn protocols have been developed all over the US
@inkyguy4 жыл бұрын
jokerswildio, the basic treatment is the same. Pain can not be controlled adequately. Dead skin must be scrubbed away. Infection is still the most likely cause of death. However, a number of advances have been made, including artificial skin, so in this episode the fact that the victim did not have enough skin to graft would not be as significant an issue now because artificial skin can be used. They have also developed innovative ways to better exploit the skin they harvest from a patient. Cosmetic reconstruction is amazing. People who would have once had lifelong horrific scars now look normal or very close to it. However, there is still only so much that can be done. The point of the episode, which is still germane today, is that even a single nuclear bomb would bring unthinkable - the title of the episode - and virtually unimaginable catastrophe upon a country.
@Zoomer304 жыл бұрын
Animal: The Smartest Guy in the Room. If possible, be at Ground Zero.
@SAPFM11 ай бұрын
in another episode, Charlie Hume was held prisoner in a Central American prison, and a gun was pointed at his head.
@kevinfitzmaurice40724 жыл бұрын
A good episode, but why was the city editor at the luncheon with Mrs. Pynchon and not the national and foreign editors? (I know, Asner was the star, but still... .)
@rolandosotelo37418 жыл бұрын
D best
@georgeelmerdenbrough69063 жыл бұрын
The Reagan Era episodes got more and more contemporarily politically charged . It moved from family issues to global issues
@annmiller13473 жыл бұрын
Ed Asher says that’s why Lou Grant was cancelled….he got too political….and the episodes did as well
@bayareaartist9992 ай бұрын
Ed Asner was a socialist and went right at the Reagan administration. It also cost him his show.
@michaelgryboski12 ай бұрын
I wonder if the 1,000 cranes subplot was in reference to "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr, which was about a Japanese girl dying from atomic bomb radiation poisoning who tried to make 1,000 paper cranes to get her wish to be cured. It would make sense.
@katiezee26 жыл бұрын
The nuclear weapons stuff was totally frightening, and what's more terrifying is the increase since this in 1982, in numbers, as well as capabilities of more countries.. like those insane N Koreans, who have been doing 'testing' lately
@arttrombley73856 жыл бұрын
I've been practicing duck and cover for 65 years.
@oldblackstock24995 жыл бұрын
1970s long gas lines. I was a kid. So I didn't have to deal with it. I think it was worse in big cities. I wasn't in a big city.
@inkyguy4 жыл бұрын
Old Blackstock, it was bad anywhere there was population of any density, such as towns, not just of cities. I remember in about 1979-80 gas was rationed by your license plate number. Those beginning with odd numbers could only fill-up on odd numbered days and even numbers on even days. To reduce hoarding people were sometimes limited to only a limited amount when they got gas.
@johnny-becker4 жыл бұрын
7:17 Ah the days before HIPAA law (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, basically says that a doctor, nurse, orderly, dentist or anyone in the medical field cannot talk about the health information to anyone but the patient or immediate family). It's also odd and interesting to see how life played out between the rocky relationship Soviet Union and United States before it was dismantled. 40:02 Boom mic alert... everyone take a drink!
@AaronB999993 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that doc gave the reporter everything except the kid's home address and school locker combination!
@mellamell74416 жыл бұрын
Is /Kular/ really a place? I've lived in the GCC for years and I have never heard of it. I can't find it on Google either.
@ssnoc6 жыл бұрын
No - its a fictitious place
@MrMenefrego12 жыл бұрын
👀
@paulmueller29572 жыл бұрын
Lou pronounced "Pseudomonas" correctly. The doctor got it wrong twice.
@MsYounghippie7 жыл бұрын
How did that one girl get burned while the girl sitting right next to her not have any injuries at all?
@1004Benny5 жыл бұрын
According to the story, that girl got trapped in the bus, but they did not explain how. Apparently, all other kids managed to escape.
@user-ll4tw9xp7h8 жыл бұрын
Don't suppose anyone else recognized the guy from Sesame Street in a few scenes.:)
@pynchonfan8 жыл бұрын
+甘明忠 Luis.
@tankstoner84968 жыл бұрын
Luis.
@MsYounghippie7 жыл бұрын
I did! He's in several episodes actually!
@vinylrecord686 жыл бұрын
Emilio Delgado as Ruben Castillo. Has been in several episodes since Season 2.
@thomash.schwed3662 Жыл бұрын
Yes. Emilio Delgado, who played Luis, was a reporter on the national desk here.
@mellamell74414 жыл бұрын
I can see the Persian Gulf from my window. and I have no idea wth “Coular” is. They made this country up, huh?
@georgeelmerdenbrough69063 жыл бұрын
Yes , this show angered President Reagan with its in the nose writing so the White House put huge pressure on CBS to rein back Ed Asner and the writers of this show . Reagan was a closeted fascist .
@georgeelmerdenbrough69063 жыл бұрын
My guess they wanted to evoke comparrisons to Qatar .
@billb24798 жыл бұрын
40:02 ~ Sound boom in shot
@Zoomer304 жыл бұрын
A staple of Lou Grant. Could be a new drinking game.
@georgeelmerdenbrough69063 жыл бұрын
Meh
@watchgoose5 жыл бұрын
pseudoMoNas, not pseudoNoMas
@ssnoc7 жыл бұрын
Good idea for an episode and nice writing, but bad ending.
@rogerlynch52792 жыл бұрын
15:27 HAD YOU EVER HAD A GUN POINTED AT YOUR HAED -LITERALLY ? Another script blunder In the episode about the Latin American Dictor´s Wife at the Truibune there was that subplot about Charlie thretened in his younger years in jail there.
@MrMenefrego12 жыл бұрын
"HAED"?
@vinnycarrocia75118 жыл бұрын
The bus driver looked a lot like Robert DiNero. I know it wasn't, but am I the only one that noticed?
@kevinfitzmaurice40724 жыл бұрын
No, noticed it too.
@georgeelmerdenbrough69063 жыл бұрын
I can see it
@ardeladimwit3 күн бұрын
this is sooooo 60ish.
@Zoomer304 жыл бұрын
I think "Kumar" is fictional. It's the same fictional country they used in The West Wing.