Whoops Apocalypse (1982)

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

M

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British sitcom about a series of escalating international crises that lead toward global catastrophe. The show uses exaggerated characters and ridiculous situations to mock political tensions and Cold War anxieties.

satiricalzanyfast-pacedabsurdcomedicpoliticalmadcapslapstick

What happens

Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 television sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film of the same name from ITC Entertainment, with almost completely different characters and plot. The British budget label Channel 5 Video released a compilation VHS cassette of all six episodes edited together into one 137-minute chunk in 1987. The American video distributor EDDE Entertainment released a compilation VHS cassette of all six episodes edited together into one 121-minute chunk in 1991. In 2010, Network released both the complete, unedited series and the movie on a 2-DVD set (Region 2) entitled Whoops Apocalypse: The Complete Apocalypse. (Rights issues were simplified by the fact that both LWT and ITC Entertainment productions were by this time owned by Granada Television). In March 2022 the series was made available for streaming on BritBox. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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