"Without a bang" TV show?
 

My brother and I talked today about a TV show we once watched, might have been a film.

He is sure it was called "Without a bang" and had Mark Williams (from Harry Potter and the Fast Show) in it...but I've just spent the last 30 minutes trying to find anything about it online...and can't! Not a thing! :(


It was about an incident that caused all of mankind to dissappear after some lady dropped a test tube with some volatile substance in it! The show then centred around a few people, who managed to survive!

Anyway, anyone have a clue a) What I'm going on about and b) Where I can find info about this TV prog! :)

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Is this any help?
http://imdb.com/name/nm0931247/

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No, it doesn't! :p :)

I've found that page and I was even more confused cause the TV show/film is not on his credits! hmmm! :(

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What era are we talking ? 70's 80's 90's ??

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I'd say late 80s, very very early 90s

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Well, apart from the fact it's the wrong decade, isn't called Without a Bang and didn't have Mark Williams in it, :D sounds really like Survivors - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072572/

There's another Web site somewhere with more information about it but I can't rememember what it's called right now.

Let me know what you think because I'll continue to search otherwise - I love a mystery. :)

C

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Whether or not that's the right show, what Cas is describing has 1970s written all over it - and probably Terry Nation as well. Wouldn't be surprised if Dudley Simpson had something to do with the theme tune either. Aah, they don't make 'em like that any more.

Tomorrow People, anyone? (The original, BTW, not the naff 90s re-hash) :D

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I loved the (original) Tomorrow People!!

Would love to see Survivors again, though maybe it would be a mistake. I though it was pretty chilling when I was a kid, but then I thought Zoltan Hound of Dracula was scary then too. :D

C

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And old (Well to me anyway) series I'd like to see again is Knights of God - Used to love that.

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Nope def not the Survivors :( What I'm thinking of did not have a virus plague thing....the mass extintion of the human race was caused by a substance in a test tube.

The series/movie started with a Tommorrow world theme programme with a woman describing what this labratory company did, she said, holding a test tube "If a tiny amount of this subtance, contained in this test tube, ever got out it would be the end of mankind". She then accidentally drops the test tube..... :rofl:

There then exists 5 or so people who survive the mass people just dissappearing becuase something special happend to them at that very moment. One was in the process of commiting suicide, so she was close to death, but then recovered. Another were in a near fatal car accident, another pair were up a very high mountain...etc...

blimey, it's all coming back! :D

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I believe that the show you are thinking of is this one

http://imdb.com/title/tt0098879/

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You are getting your programmes/films confused together.

The first thing that you describe is definitely "Not with a Bang", the second thing that you are describing is an film called "The Quiet Earth".

http://imdb.com/title/tt0089869/

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Although defiantely NOT the proggy you are after......


Doesn't this also sound exactly like the premise to 'The Quiet Earth'?

edit - too slow - bugger :( :D

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Wow, double whammy - - well done, Doc :tu:

Now, care to admit why you know all this? :D

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"Not with a Whimper" I remember being on when I was in the first year of college. "The Quiet Earth" maintains that fine tradition of films from Down Under being utterly bizarre and kind of sticks in the mind as a result. I think I first saw it as part of a series of SF films on BBC2 in the late 80s.

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Ah well, at least that's solved then. :D

Wish I'd seen Not With a Bang - sounds quite fun.

Don't remember Knights of God - another interesting sounding one.

Note to self - must watch more TV. :rofl: Like that's possible.

C

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Hmm, I read the IMDB link the good doctor posted ... sounds like a good idea, but whether it was actually fun beyond the first 10 minutes is doubtful. Aah well, that's to be expected from ITV 'comedy', it's never been their strong suit.

I never saw Knights of God first time round, but I've seen a couple of episodes on video. It would have been absolutely at home in an early-evening Dr Who-ish kids' slot some time in the 1970s, were it not for the fact it was actually made in the late 80s (pleasantly surprised at that, I had no idea it was comparitively recent until I looked it up just now at the IMDB: http://imdb.com/title/tt0161158/ ). It was quite good, actually.

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Sorry to hijack your thread Caspar... But there has been a program i've been trying to think of. I considered starting a thread for it, but didn't know wether it was worth it or to join this one. I'll dump it here and let you decide. :) Here it is:

It was on when I was very young, so i'm guessing mid 80s. It featured a kid who had a magic t-shirt with a picture of a tiger's face on it. (T-shirt was white, tiger was in black print). Anyway, when the kid got angry or upset, or something, the tiger came alive and growled, and the kid got super human strength. It had quite an effect on me, but i've forgot the name of it/who was in it or anything.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Aah, the Children's Film Foundation, I believe. The film you're thinking of is Sammy's Super T-Shirt. Thanks to you, the irritating theme tune will rattle round my head for the rest of the evening. :( ;)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0078200/

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Is it this?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078200/

I`ll admit, this one took a bit of research.

*edit* Grr, my turn to be beaten to the post, well done Towny

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Well, slap my thigh and call me Noel Edmonds, I beat the doc to it. :D

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Damn you guys are good!

Kudos to you both Towny and Dr Wadd... cheers for telling me.. :tu:

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np, we had a film club at our primary school that used to show a CFF film every month. That one came round more than once. :mad: