“The Day After” was the brainchild of then-ABC Entertainment chief Brandon Stoddard, inspired in part by the 1979 movie “The China Syndrome,” which imagined a possible meltdown at a ...

The 1983 ABC movie “The Day After” was a landmark moment that proved contentious even before it aired, as a new documentary shows. Listen to this article · 3:35 min Learn more.

Apocalypse Then: 40 Years Ago, A TV Movie Saved the World from Nuclear Annihilation. ABC’s 1983 film 'The Day After' — the subject of a new documentary as well as a book —not only blew ...

It wasn’t the day after a TV movie that aired 40 years ago this month that network executives, advertisers, mental health experts and parents across the country were worried about.. It was the ...

Sixteen years ago I co-wrote the ecological disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow” along with director Roland Emmerich. Since other movies had already destroyed planet Earth by asteroid ...

“The Day After” was the brainchild of then-ABC Entertainment chief Brandon Stoddard, inspired in part by the 1979 movie “The China Syndrome,” which imagined a possible meltdown at a ...