will this movie ever come out on DVD?
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Squonkamatic — 19 years ago(August 30, 2006 09:15 PM)
Yeah the things people will make DVD-R copies of these days; I'd be interested to know how long that version runs. If you guys went to the COMBINED DETAILS link, you'd find:
Production Companies
- David Greene Productions
- Finnegan Associates
- National Broadcasting Company (NBC) <
Distributors - National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (original airing) <
==
I remember seeing this at about the age of 16 and enjoying every minute of it and am pretty sure it was an NBC broadcast spread over 2 nights. The ending really had a whallop, and I recall the Alaskan based combat vividly. This, Nicholas Meyer's THE DAY AFTER, something called SPECIAL BULLETIN and that first King Crimson album with "Schizoid Man" convinced me our world was doomed before I was even 17, still have yet to see evidence otherwise.
There was a home video release in Britain during the late 80's, probably the 186 minute runtime stated when corrected to 25fps PAL spool rate & combined into a single feature. I would imagine that's what your DVD-R was sourced from; They aren't that difficult to find & for $25 or so you could have an original. You'd still need a PAL converter to watch but them's the breaks.
I would imagine that the reason for no DVD or re-release in North America would be a soundtrack royalties issue, older made for TV films have a tendancy to have musical scores which can be difficult to re-license. Or NBC could simply be not interested in doing so for whatever reason.
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nickamies330 — 18 years ago(September 14, 2007 06:03 AM)
I've been after this for years and eventually found it on Amazonde. but unfortunately, only in German! While this is a massive gripe in itself, it leads me to another. Why is it that people insist on making DVDs in only one language? I thought the beauty of the technology was the option to see films in whatever language you wanted. Anyway, luckily my German is good enough to understand but it's really not the same to hear Rock Hudson and David Soul speaking Deutsch. If anyone finds the English version, it'll fly off the shelves, I'm sure. Keep us all posted!
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OPatriot — 18 years ago(January 12, 2008 01:24 PM)
"It was CBS/Fox."
No, tgs333, it first aired on NBC! I remember watching it on NBC when I was in college. It wasn't on CBS, and the Fox network didn't begin broadcasts until 1986. WWIII aired in 1982on NBC.
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turtletommy — 18 years ago(February 24, 2008 02:36 PM)
LOL tgs333 is so sure and the NBC 2-parter came out years before the FOX network even existed as you said, plus NBC shows up under Company Credits. I would love to see it again like many have said it was such an above average entertainment and very topical in that day and age. Someone mentioned Rock Hudson in The Martian Chronicles, on NBC in 1980, which was a very good adaptation of the Bradbury story. It appears that Hudson had an exclusive contract with NBC because he had been doing the McMillan And Wife tv series for them between 1971-77. He had quite a roll going on then as those two mini-series and the regular series were all big ratings hits.
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rockhunter666 — 17 years ago(April 15, 2008 05:40 PM)
Hi turtletommy,
You are absolutely correct. I clearly remembering watching good old ROCK HUDSON IN WW III on NBC as a two part Sunday and Monday movie. Don't forget that in addition to the other shows you mentioned he also had a major success in WHEELS,
I would love to see WW 3 again. I remember renting it on VHS about 15 maybe 20 years ago in a huge 2 tape box. (That's the movie where BORIS SAGAL{OMEGA MAN} was killed during production in a helicopter accident.he is also the father of KATY SAGAL). There is a new site called:
iOFFER: http://www.ioffer.com/info/home
That offers a ton of great old TV shows and movies on DVD-R legally! I think I'll check it out myself.
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blooker68 — 17 years ago(February 11, 2009 11:19 AM)
Try this to get a DVD:
http://www.ioffer.com/i/World-War-III-RARE-TV-Movie-Never-Released-63568561 -
alex-2684 — 17 years ago(March 16, 2009 04:04 PM)
The syndicated version that now air throught US stations have about 10-12 mins edited out of it due to there being more commercial time than in 1982.
A 4 hour miniseries in the late 70s to early 80s had about 50-53 mins worth of commercials compared to 1hour 5mins these days.
Same for TV shows. Star Trek episodes originally ran 50-52 mins in it's original airing compared to the edited down syndicated 42-45 mins versions they now show.
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pbrayard — 14 years ago(August 17, 2011 12:21 PM)
you can watch a VHS copy online..3 hours or so. vintage definition i would say..:
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TigheJaffe — 14 years ago(December 18, 2011 02:15 AM)
The movie World War III, which is CBS/FOX, is available on YouTube in it's entirety. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CoA3KcYMvc
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