"Without a bang" TV show?

Caspar · 31-05-2004, 18:30

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!

Richard M · 31-05-2004, 18:46

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

Caspar · 31-05-2004, 18:59

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!

Silent Wings · 31-05-2004, 19:19

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

Caspar · 31-05-2004, 19:45

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

Miss C · 05-06-2004, 19:48

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Originally Posted by Caspar

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

Well, apart from the fact it's the wrong decade, isn't called Without a Bang and didn't have Mark Williams in it,

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

**Chris** · 05-06-2004, 19:51

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Originally Posted by Miss C

Well, apart from the fact it's the wrong decade, isn't called Without a Bang and didn't have Mark Williams in it,

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

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)

Miss C · 05-06-2004, 19:58

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Originally Posted by towny

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)

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.

C

dilli-theclaw · 05-06-2004, 20:02

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Originally Posted by Miss C

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.

C

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

Caspar · 05-06-2004, 20:06

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.....

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!

05-06-2004, 20:10

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

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

05-06-2004, 20:13

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Originally Posted by Caspar

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.....

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!

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/

dilli-theclaw · 05-06-2004, 20:15

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

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Originally Posted by Caspar

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...

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

edit - too slow - bugger

**Chris** · 05-06-2004, 20:15

Wow, double whammy - - well done, Doc

Now, care to admit why you know all this?

05-06-2004, 20:22

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Originally Posted by towny

Wow, double whammy - - well done, Doc

Now, care to admit why you know all this?

"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.