Countdown to Looking Glass
Brief Synopsis
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A drama, shown through the eyes of a network television news team, focusing on the events that occur when an international crisis in South America brings the world to the edge of nuclear disaster and then over that edge in only nine days. The special uses real events written up in daily newspapers t
Cast & Crew
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Fred Barzyk
Director
Steve Blum
Michael Dongaghue
Vincent Murray
Jerry Hyman
Don Francks
Film Details
Genre
Drama
Release Date
1984
Technical Specs
Duration
2h
Synopsis
A drama, shown through the eyes of a network television news team, focusing on the events that occur when an international crisis in South America brings the world to the edge of nuclear disaster and then over that edge in only nine days. The special uses real events written up in daily newspapers to give the drama a realistic feel.
Director
Fred Barzyk
Director
Cast
Steve Blum
Michael Dongaghue
Vincent Murray
Jerry Hyman
Don Francks
Don Dickinson
Michael Murphy
Maida Rogerson
Ray Landry
Richard Comar
Barbara Barnes-hopkins
Patrick Watson
Faye Dance
Rex Hagon
Helen Shaver
Murray Cruchley
Nancy Dickerson
Herself
David Main
Michael Beattie
Eric Sevareid
Himself
Eugene Mccarthy
Himself
John Thomson
Murray Westgate
Seymour Horowitz
Scott Glenn
Matsu Anderson
Robert Lesko
David J Nichols
Crew
Fred Barzyk
Executive Producer
Catherine Basaraba
Art Assistant
Lincoln Bloomfield
Creative Consultant
Gordon Chacra
Boom Operator
Bernie Clayton
Editor
David Fast
Assistant Director
Jackie Fields
Props
Peter C Frank
Editor
Stuart French
Sound Recordist
Shonaugh Jabour
Makeup
Lynn Kressel
Casting
Miklos Lente
Director Of Photography
David Loxton
Producer
Ivan Lynch
Hair
Albert Ruben
Screenplay
Leah Siegel
Editor
Norman Smith
Key Grip
Marilyn Stonehouse
Production Manager
Dale Taylor
Unit Manager
Kathy Vieira
Costume Designer
Ted Watkins
Art Director
Ned White
Creative Consultant
Film Details
Genre
Drama
Release Date
1984
Technical Specs
Duration
2h
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States October 14, 1984
The drama was broadcast on HBO as a special, and later syndicated as a television movie.
