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- -Here's the lowdown on "ALTERNATIVE 3" from a TV-movie compendium.
- "ALTERNATIVE 3" (GB 1977; 52m, colour)
- Amusing spoof do commentary about the disappearance of various high-IQ
- citizens, allegedly to form nucleus of a standby civilization on Mars against
- the coming End of the World. Sly parodies of fashionable breathless TV
- journalism sweetened the joke, ex- newscaster Tim Brinton held it all
- together with po-faced gravity and needless to say some supernature fanatics
- refuse to this day to accept that it was anything but gospel truth, although
- it was orignally scheduled for April 1st (1977). Written by David Ambrose;
- directed by Chris Miles; for Anglia. Apparently the TV-movie was spawned by a
- book (or assuming the date is accurate, vice versa) of the same name. Written
- by Leslie Watkins, it was published by Sphere Books Ltd. in 1978.
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