For your consideration...

Every old TV show seems to be streaming somewhere, but not this critically acclaimed John Sayles series from the early '90s.

AMERIKA premiered on ABC on this day in 1987. Here's David Letterman ridiculing it. youtu.be/FLHVEeRzJ74?...

Gus Borden (Brian Doyle-Murray) and a radioactive Chris Peterson (Chris Elliott). GET A LIFE, S2:E8, FOX, Jan. 12, 1992.

Megan Draper's acting colleague thinks Jon Hamm would have made the perfect Rockford. #RockfordFiles #JamesGarner #MadMen

When fiction meets reality... Director John Frankenheimer and his crew filmed the opening to SEVEN DAYS IN MAY outside the White House one day after JFK announced the limited nuclear test ban treaty. The great Myra McPherson [1934-2026] captured the scene for the Washington Evening Star.

Happy Valentine's Day!

On this day in 1964 John Frankenheimer's SEVEN DAYS IN MAY opened in Washington, DC at the Trans-Lux (a week ahead of DR. STRANGELOVE at the Dupont Theatre). Written by Rod Serling.

In 1987, the controversial red scare ABC miniseries AMERIKA premiered the day after Valentine's Day.

Happy Atomic Valentine's Day! h/t @jimyoung.bsky.social

GET A LIFE is now on TUBI.

Air Force One Is Haunted.

Every 15 years or so... nypost.com/2010/03/01/m...

Guess that final defense didn't quite work...

Bad Seed indeed... Wonder how many of Marcus Marymont's local theater castmates knew he poisoned his wife to death in 1958 while he was stationed at Sculthorpe Air Base in the UK. Sentenced to life at court martial, he somehow got paroled in 1967 and became a DJ in Arkansas.

SEVEN DAYS IN MAY opened in Raleigh, NC at the Ambassador Theatre and in Minneapolis (and probably elsewhere) on this day in 1964. It opened in DC on 2/14/64. It opened in NYC on 2/19 and in Los Angeles on 3/4/64. It opened in Chicago on 2/26/64. #RodSerling

This week in unnecessary censorship...

SEVEN DAYS IN MAY opened in Columbia, SC and Jacksonville, FL (and probably elsewhere) on this day in 1964. It opened in DC on 2/14/64. It opened in NYC on 2/19 and Los Angeles on March 4, 1964. It opened in Chicago on 2/26/64.

Goldman Sachs employee of the month, Kathryn Ruemmler.

Fallout Shelter Sign cameo in the PARADISE season 2 trailer.

Records for sale at a USSR record store in 1967. Via Soviet Visuals. Yes, that's Dean Reed on the left.

The season 2 trailer of Hulu's PARADISE dramatizes what every government bunker manager fears: Angry survivors wanting in. youtu.be/wQfqQ-oIXiA?...

Flint Journal Flackery for Stimson. Jan. 28, 1947. cc: @harpers.bsky.social

Concerned...

Did he just stand there and yell insults at the audience?

Bluesky cannot abide Bud Cort in his underwear. So prudish. cc: @moderation.bsky.app

R.I.P. Bud Cort.

July, 1962. Randy fallout shelter humor in PLAYBOY. Art by John Dempsey [1919-2002].

Journalist Helen Mears' [1900-1989] letter to the editor of Harper's (March 1947). The letter is in response to the Feb. '47 Stimson "Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb" issue. She had more to say about the Bomb and Stimson in her 1948 book, "Mirror for Americans, Japan." @nuclearanthro.bsky.social

Kablooey! Promotional still for THE BEGINNING OR THE END (1947). That's Brian Donlevy up top as Gen. Leslie Groves.

"Simple Queue" is music to my ears... I'm this much closer to the Comey Firing Day Oval Office pics featuring Donald J. Trump and Keith Schiller. #FOIA. cc: @carolleonnig.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social

Blue Boy died so that Michael Burns, author, could live. In 1992 he published the well received book "Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789-1945." One article that appeared during his book tour quoted him: "I was always being cast as this kind of nice, normal-looking guy who was somehow psychotic."

Wonder whatever happened to that 1957 Joe McCarthy biopic that audiences were clamoring for.

Bicentennial red scare...

A few pre-THREADS UK civil defence posters from the collection.

Colorful!

Movie tie-in...

Got our copy. Nice foreword, @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

On this day in 1977, TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING opened in theaters.

Rod Taylor *and* Paul Tibbets. How Much Can a Woman Take? Excerpts from my ABOVE AND BEYOND press book.

CHOSEN SURVIVORS Certificate of Courage. 1974.

A glum Lindsey Graham watches the Bad Bunny halftime show while Trump devotes all of his attention to another Lindsey - Failed US Attorney Lindsey Halligan. Nowhere to be seen on the Mar-a-Lago screens? Kid Rock.

WHEN THE WIND BLOWS is dedicated to the future of Charlotte William Nicholas Katherine & Jessica Leo Khan Keenan who were born while the film was being made

Old Man President yells at cloud...

Riveting. Lol.

Of possible interest to @maddow.bsky.social and others...

On this day in 1987, WHEN THE WIND BLOWS opened wide in the UK. Kiddies got a preview... cc: @nuclearwar.bsky.social

The Catholics really did not like PICNIC. "The unrestrained emphasis on lustful actions, dialogue and situations throughout this film, tends to debase the virtue of purity and to condone immoral actions..."

The Catholics on INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS...