SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Genghis Rees I have just managed to acquire this series on a second hand DVD (watched all three hours of it in one session) and, despite the fact that it is around 36 years old, it is still as brilliant as I recalled it. Yes, there is audience laughter that sometimes obscures the dialogue. Yes, there is quite a bit of ham. Yes, it is more of its time than would be allowed now. Yes, each episode features around 1.5mins of front piece/titles before the action starts (and with each episode coming in at under 28mins that does strike me as a lot). BUT...it has some great great laughs, and that is what really matters. Stand outs: From the cast, John Cleese will always attract the most attention, the man was at his peak at the time and certainly giving it a go playing multiple characters in the guise of a nuke-smuggling mercenary. David Kelly as the Iranian servant Abdab, blindfolded so that he does not view his Shah; a hapless yet fawning foil in the same vein as Basil Fawlty's Manuel. Ed Bishop as motor-mouthed, omnipresent news presenter Jay Garrick, delivering the headlines at what seems like 150 words a minute. Good old Geoffrey Palmer, stalwart, playing his standard hangdog character to perfection as the British foreign secretary to a prime minister who suddenly declares himself to be Superman. John Barron, a US adviser running rings around his naive president by arranging for a nuclear bomb to be stolen and trying to boost the presidents miserable ratings percentage by staging an assassination attempt.Reading the other reviews here it does appear that this comedy has been difficult to get hold of - it has been issued(?) on DVD a few times, it seems, but how many were produced in each production run? I believe I borrowed a VHS from a mate in the early 1990s - so my advice is to get it if you happen upon it, it is a gem. My pre-owned DVD comes with the big screen 'adaptation' that I haven't yet watched (different story, different characters, different cast in a film that, by all accounts, was made for an American audience and seems to have suffered accordingly - don't think I've seen it this century, but will review it when I have), and the dust jacket does feature images from both productions, including (worryingly?) a still of topless newsreader Kirstie Pooley: wonder if she would be happy with that, all these years later!

Phil Davison This is one of the best, blackest, most satirical comedies you will ever find. Unfortunately most people will remember the abysmal big screen slapstick version. There are so many great performances, not least from Barry Morse and John Barron as the US president and his advisor; Peter Jones, Geoffrey Palmer and Richard Davies as members of the cabinet when the Labour Party wins the UK election; John Cleese as the terrorist and the brilliant double act of Bruce Montague and David Kelly as the deposed Shah of Iran and Abdab, the Shah's blindfolded manservant. You've got to see this.

Lars Finsen A hilarious comedy series which is also an shrewd political commentary of the 80s, complete with a brainless US president, a robotic Soviet premier and a British PM who thinks he's a well known comic book hero. You get here John Cleese at his exasperating best, and the inclusion of comic book characters add to the ever increasing pace toward the apocalyptic climax. And watch out, it's not 1982 anymore, but the world's still just as crazy, it could still happen!The show was made into a cinema movie (1986), but with a different cast and without the same comic flair.

Mark N. FOX Broadcasting had their own version of this show, simply named "Whoops!" which aired sometime in the late 80's or early 90's. In FOX's show, a group of ethnically-diverse people escaped the destruction of WW3 in a bomb shelter. After emerging, they found refuge in an old barn accompanied by a windmill in a lush green valley. To their dismay, they couldn't leave the barn due to the fact that a 3-story tall mutant ant wandered around the area. This show was a 30 minute sitcom, and was a comedy. It lasted for only one season. Although most people don't remember this show, I think of it as a cool TV memory from my childhood.