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Without Warning (1994)

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Without Warning is a CBS Made-for-TV Movie from 1994, directed by Robert Iscove, that interrupts the regularly scheduled program with a breaking news story about a meteor impact in Wyoming that is quickly joined by bizarre phenomena (including an apparent Rapture) and a pair of other meteor impacts in France and China which, together with the first, form a pattern that appears to some scientists as deliberate.Like Orson Welles' 1938 radio production of The War of the Worlds, this movie is a Phony Newscast that was broadcast on Halloween, and allegedly more than a few people were taken in by the realism. This wasn't the first time American network TV had aired a realistic newscast: in 1983 a nuclear terrorism incident was dramatized in Special Bulletin.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not to be confused with the 1980 sci-fi film of the same name.
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Alliterative Title: Without Warning
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Artistic License – History
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Artistic License – History: Zig-zagged. At roughly the halfway mark, the White House press secretary mentions that the president has directed NASA to look for objects which might enter the atmosphere. While NASA didn't start doing that until late the following year, someone on the production staff must've asked the right person about it, because the telescope named in the show as having spotted the second impactor is indeed the one NASA would use when they started their program in 1995. It should be noted that at no point is a year ever actually given for the events of the film, so anyone watching a rebroadcast or DVD in 1995 or later wouldn't notice the discrepancy.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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Apocalypse How
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Apocalypse How: Class 5-6. Best case scenario still involves millions of deaths by Colony Drop barrage. Worst case scenario is total extinction.
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Apocalyptic Gag Order
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Apocalyptic Gag Order: The government tries to keep quiet about the third wave of impactors coming to Earth, but this is defied by Dr. Mandel, who quits his work and announces the incoming doom in an impromptu news conference before leaving to live what he believes are his final hours with his family.
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And Mission Control Rejoiced
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And Mission Control Rejoiced: For about a minute. (See Hope Spot.)
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