TV seasons lasted longer then, and if you're going to live up to the premise — at least one movie per week — you had to churn out a lot of films. And they did — 248 of them over six seasons ...

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 ...

“The Day After,” a two-hour epic following a few weeks in the lives of small-town Midwesterners before and after a nuclear strike, was one of the most controversial and most-watched TV movies when it ...

As a made-for-TV movie airing in a primetime Sunday night slot, “The Day After” couldn’t depict true nuclear horror, though there were still shocking scenes of mass death and the aftermath ...

"The Day After," a 1983 made-for-TV movie that aired on ABC days before Thanksgiving, provided a shocking depiction of what a nuclear blast could look like in Middle America.

ABC’s 1983 film overcame censors, political interference and spooked advertisers to become one of the most-watched TV events of all time. This TV movie from the 1980s helped change the course of ...