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Doomsday Virus (1996)

Doomsday Virus poster
Original title
Pandora's Clock
Directed by
Eric Laneuville
Genre
disaster film
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 2 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A passenger plane traveling from Germany to New York is quarantined after a deadly virus is discovered on board. Government officials and the flight crew race to contain the outbreak while dealing with panicked passengers.

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What happens

Pandora's Clock (also known as Doomsday Virus) is a 1996 NBC miniseries based on a novel by John J. Nance about a deadly virus on a Boeing 747-200 from Frankfurt to John F. Kennedy International Airport. Directed by Eric Laneuville, the film stars Richard Dean Anderson, Stephen Root, Jane Leeves, Robert Loggia and Daphne Zuniga and the script closely follows the book. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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