World In Action Doomsday

World In Action Doomsday Originally Recorded 12/12/1983

[@amillionviews888]

Unbelievably great introduction theme. Brings memories back when I was a school boy in the 80s drinking my tea and watching World in action

[@patsyhowse1919]

My all time favorite film is Threads- it's the most disturbing film I've ever seen. It is very well done and so chilling

[@louwoods9278]

Yes, I saw it when it first came out. It gave me nightmares and still does.

[@paulmanton5050]

Watched it a school as a 8year old kid.scared the shit out of me.

[@zamiadams4343]

Such a great film and scared the shit out of me as a child.

[@stephenholmes1036]

Watch the war game 1965

[@amandeepv]

Yes I saw it at home in Uk in 1985 and at school

[@brianmarshall4753]

I used to watched it on every Monday night in the seventies eighties and nineties

[@juliemcleod9869]

My Dad did.

[@jockstrap]

Loved the closing music

[@thepenultimateninja5797]

It's amazing isnt it? It's called 'Jam for World in Action', and the full version is on youtube.

[@jockstrap]

I called it bedtime music , that and the closing music to The Sweeney. very relaxing. @@thepenultimateninja5797

[@mr.afrikaans1747]

What the heck has happened to our country? Compared to now seeing this seems like a bloody paradise.

[@Crocs4cats]

My mum always watched this and the intro music and graphics always creeped me out😅 Like a lot of 80’s programmes!

[@dodgydruid]

Loved the end adverts, I was actually featured in a C4 documentary in the start of 1984 how I was an abject hooligan etc etc, old bloke now lol

[@jackmilne9764]

What's it called I want to see it? I bet many a bloke who was naughty back then reminse to "I fort the law and the law won" ha

[@vanderark89]

Thanks for uploading this episode. It’s really interesting.

[@swanvictor887]

To me, its quite simple to understand: IF there was a brief nuclear war, the sheer destruction from just One Single Bomb....would bring what we call civilization, to an end. A sane person, would not want to survive. 'Threads'....was pretty accurate. The survivors would envy the dead.

[@louwoods9278]

Damned right. I wouldn't want to survive that's for sure.

[@StangerStrange]

Thank you for uploading this. I have been looking for it for ages.

[@jackmilne9764]

No problem mate

[@insertnamehere5146]

media and government never talk about this subject anymore. i assume they have their nice fallout shelters in mines sorted. the rest of us can just go and croak

[@shellsbignumber2]

We are 40 years on and still talking about a nuclear Armageddon hanging over us.

[@shaunxthexmod777]

90 minutes to midnight

[@michaelwhiles5282]

Wonder if any of these blokes are still with us ?

[@craiggilchrist4223]

The music terrified me as a kid.

[@jackmilne9764]

Sinister isn't it

[@jackmilne9764]

KZbin BBC ident 90 to 97 that's a creepy sound

[@jamiew1664]

the music made me think a few things, (i was born 79), a) that a really boring TV show was just starting, and, b) that mum would soon be telling me that its time for bed. However, now as an adult, i think WIA was a brilliant programme, good journalism, and i like to watch episodes thesedays as some form of nostalgia, coupled with an interest to learn about things in the past from the perspective of good investigative journo, and i think thats died a bit.

[@jackmilne9764]

@@jamiew1664 Definitely much better more factual sinister music. Watch 14 days in may on BBC iPlayer one of Lewis Theroux fravorites

[@johnk1639]

I think the home office tailored its casualty figures to be more in line with their ability to provide care, emergency services, and basic necessities to the survivors. If they admitted their model for number of deaths and wounded was wrong, their abilities to cope would come into serious question.

[@MarkSmith-tp6zc]

It's looming, looming in plain fucking sight.

[@nigelhall6714]

Not soon after Able Archer...

[@re-animatorrr]

Growing up at this time, I was fed tons of fearmongering and anti-Russian propaganda, both on TV and at school.

[@Munch-g7s]

Me too. Rocky 4 came out a year or two after this documentary, then in 1986 there was Chernobyl. We assume the Soviets were stronger than ever and ready to destroy us but they were on their knees and we were clueless feeding ourselves paranoia.

[@xeromoth9771]

Nuclear war was whilst not on the cards, something that feared with good reason. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the end of detente did push things to the brink, it was a result of seeing the Day After that Reagan became shit scared of nuclear war and when Gorbachev became Russian premier worked on scaling things back.

[@spidyman8853]

The cold war is back my son. Only this time it's for real. God help us.

[@numberstation]

Nothing’s changed.

[@user-hu1ii6os6q]

And they would be fed the same as us. The hate had to continue. In order to justify spending obscene amounts of money on these weapons. Weapons, which we are told to this day. Keep us safe. Its a lie.

[@Stu-SB]

Living a few miles from CSB Faslane and a huge armament depot we will all be fucked up here..

[@valerielegasov2841]

I've got Openshaw's book, Doomsday, Britain after Nuclear Attack, it's a very blunt and depressing read.

[@stephenholmes1036]

Watch threads or the war game 1965

[@user-hu1ii6os6q]

Aye. If you want to take a nervous breakdown.

[@adamsmith7058]

@@user-hu1ii6os6q Saw a review of that on KZbin that called it the scariest horror film ever made. Pretty accurate really. If you managed to survive, existing afterwards would be pure misery. Let's hope the conflict in Ukraine doesn't get out of control...

[@jamesmitchell8922]

​@@adamsmith7058Belarus is already causing a stir with Poland as things stand.

[@adamsmith7058]

@@jamesmitchell8922 It seems like Poland is trying to take advantage of the situation and possibly take back parts of Ukraine that were part of Poland, pre second world war. There has already been talk, among some of Poland's less than sensible political class, of going into Western Ukraine as a peace keeping force, as a unilateral force seperate to NATO . This is of course a ruse, which would most likely develop into some sort of confederation between the two countries with West Ukraine in an inferior position to Poland. Belarus is probably perturbed by this idea, since there are unresolved territorial disputes between these two countries as well. If Poland did this. all bets would be off, with Hungary and Romania all making claims to parts of Ukraine. After it was all over Ukraine would be a tiny rump state, with no access to the sea, a far smaller population, and little to no resources. The whole thing could of escalate of course, with Russia seeing these individual claims as a NATO intervention via the backdoor, with the consequences of this being exactly as bad as one could imagine. George Friedman, one of the heads of Stratfor, a private security consultancy, composed of ex CIA staff, talked about the possibility of this several years ago, I think maybe even even before the Maidan uprising. With all that in mind, following the Minsk 2 accords, which is what the majority of the Ukrainian population wanted, (when they voted for Zelensky, originally a peace candidate), seems like a good option in retrospect.

[@xeromoth9771]

Why didn’t you pull the bloody aerial out ?

[@ianwhitehead691]

Those that do survive would resort to cannibalism once all the food as run out. 💀☹️

[@deeppurple883]

The caliber of GB politicians has plummeted. Since Brexit on their knees. ☘️

[@13strange67]

only the cockroaches would survive

[@adamsmith7058]

Only for a short time. Cockroaches have a slow cell division, so are less susceptible to radiation poisoning initially. Eventually they would die like everyone/thing else.

[@jamesmitchell8922]

​@@adamsmith7058What about locusts?

[@adamsmith7058]

@@jamesmitchell8922 Your guess is as good as mine on that one.

[@davidbowie2046]

Yep. Also called Politicians.

[@mrandrew1243]

The film threads was a classic comedy 😂

[@THX-2208]

Douglas Hurd was a fantastic Minister Of State! We should bring him back today!!! 🇬🇧

[@MaterLacrymarum]

Not sure writing this in a thread attached to a video that shows him talking a load of horseshit is appropriate.

[@72boog]

Well, he lies more articulately than modern politicians

[@andrewnelson3681]

He seemed very plausible at the time, like a lot of them.

[@amandeepv]

What year please?

[@jackmilne9764]

December 1983

[@amandeepv]

@@jackmilne9764 many thanks

[@hendrixstrat6914]

Governments and "Experts". Seems nothing changes really.

[@jamesnicholson2503]

Now this takes make right back to 80 maybe.

[@jamesmitchell8922]

Tories uncover plans for Liverpool's future.

[@richardmark561]

Civil defence 😂

[@spunkychops7484]

Typical tories 😂😂😂speak total BS

[@wildone106]

23:18 WRONG. The smoke would dissipate much quicker.

[@numberstation]

Oh, that’s alright then.

[@wildone106]

17:40 I couldn't imagine any modern day politician in the UK talking this much sense. They would be more worried about saving the LGBTQUI Queer community

[@Munch-g7s]

Have we added another two letters to it? Since when? What does the U and the I mean?

[@paulhickie6974]

FFS 🤦‍♂️.

[@wildone106]

Who the fuck knows @@Munch-g7s

[@richiehoyt8487]

​@@Munch-g7s 'You & I'?!

[@spunkychops7484]

Super gammon

[@kevinwood5005]

Bring it on. Can't wait.

[@MatthewRogers-qw1iu]

I’m no conspiracy theorists but l must say at the age of 51, things are not looking good anymore.

[@robertjarman4261]

I live in Holy Russia.