For lots of Threads content and general re-awakening of your “Growing up as a teen in the 80s nuclear angst” I can heartily recommend the Atomic Hobo podcast.
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Or Raymond Briggs’ “When the Wind Blows”. Inexplicably this didn’t join his Snowman as a Christmas classic.
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I was too young to watch Threads, but the perfect age to pick up Where the Wind Blows, assuming that it would be similar to Briggs’ other children’s books (as did whoever in the library filed it in the children’s section). It really shook me, and is one of the only times in my childhood I remember thinking “I’m probably too young to be reading this”.
Not that it was a surprise, I knew during most of my childhood that nuclear war could break out at any time and that there was no chance of surviving.
Although now I think about it, growing up with the threat of apocalypse was better in some ways than growing up with the sure knowledge that the climate is fucked, and is going to go on getting worse for your entire life, as kids today have to.
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Or just the shortened version “The Day After”.
See also Special Bulletin
If we are traumatising British people then it needs to be called When The Wind Blows.
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That would be the perfect name for an Instagram competitor where you can view quant little farmhouses.
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I found Permanent Midnight on Tubi, where at one point my weak gut spun around like a machine machine, then I was served McNuggets.
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I did say it might be a dumb question! I guess I got caught up in other references.
Thank you for such an informative answer 
This whole thread has been so informative about many things I hadn’t even heard of. I saw The Day After when it first aired, and that’s all.
I love the bbs, I learn so much from everyone here!
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Just saw this movie in the last year (after it was referenced and record in another bbs post)
I seem to recall that there is also a scene in the movie which is supposed to be a school classroom (post-apocalypse) where the kids are watching some old educational video while unraveling clothes and blankets to collect the threads.
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If you are referring to ZuckThreads, I think it’s here, but it is not in EU Europe as it may not be compliant with their regulatory requirements.
Oh - must rush and tell Jacob Rees-Mogg that this is another major Brexit benefit. (Do I really need to say /s?)
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youre right. good catch!
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THAT! is one sophisticated joke, dr. professor!
Soon as I read the announcement my first thought was, “A whole new generation are going to be traumatised. Just don’t let them watch ‘Blake’s 7’ next.” Just thinking of that last shot of Avon is still traumatising.
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That’s one of my clearest early memories of watching TV as a kid.
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