“Without Warning” is a TV movie featuring veteran news anchor Sander Vanocur and reporter Bree Walker as themselves covering a breaking news story of three meteor fragments crashing into the Earth’s northern hemisphere in October 1994. The film is presented mostly in real time as if it were an actual breaking news event, complete with remote reports from reporters. The executive producer was David L. Wolper, who produced a number of mockumentary-style films from the 1960s onwards but is best known as the producer of “Roots” and “Roots: The Next Generations”.
In order to avoid the sort of hysteria whipped up by Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast in 1938, several well known actors were cast in the film, such as Jane Kaczmarek, Philip Baker Hall and John de Lancie.
First broadcast: October 30, 1994, the 56th anniversary of the “War of the Worlds” broadcast.
Without Warning (1994) (par WeirdScience1990s)
