Where Have All the People Gone (1974) (TV)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

John Llewellyn Moxey

Writers:

Lewis John Carlino (screenplay)
Lewis John Carlino (story)

Release Date:

8 October 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects...

Plot Keywords:

Powder | Vacation | Solar Explosion | Fossil | Geiger Counter

Cast

Peter Graves	...	Steven Anders
Verna Bloom	...	Jenny
George O'Hanlon Jr.	...	David Anders
Kathleen Quinlan	...	Deborah Anders
Michael-James Wixted	...	Michael
Noble Willingham	...	Jim Clancy
Doug Chapin	...	Tom Clancy
Jay W. MacIntosh	...	Barbara Anders
Dan Barrows	...	Man with Gun
Ken Sansom	...	Jack McFadden

Runtime:

74 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Metromedia Productions

Goofs:

Factual errors: David took a 12 volt/6 cell battery out of the 1970s Chevrolet Blazer, and replaced it with a 6 volt/3 cell battery. A 6 volt system can usually be used with a 12 volt battery in an emergency, but not the opposite. Only vehicles made before the '60's use 6 volt electrical systems.

Quotes:

David Anders: [thinking about having their car forcibly taken earlier by a man] I wish I'd had the rifle, he wouldn't have gotten the Blazer.
Steven Anders: Why? Would you have shot him?
David Anders: Yeah.
Steven Anders: Has it come to that already, David?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Night of the Comet (1984)

White Powder and other remembrances

Yup, I was a kid when I saw this, just like nearly all the others. Oddly, I recall it was similar to the Star Trek episode "Omega Glory" as well, what with the white powder left spilling out of people's clothes. I always wondered, since I recall that the main characters' camping companion was feverish and in seeming pain for half the day after being exposed to the solar flare before he tuned to white powder, why so many of the empty clothes with powder spilling out they happened across were in positions that indicated that the occupants had disintegrated immediately without undergoing a period of suffering (e.g. on a playground carousel, behind the wheel of a car, etc.). Oh well, I overanalyze. I remember being likewise bothered by a recent movie where an airline pilot captain had to deal with nearly half his passengers vanishing, leaving empty clothes behind (minus white powder). brr...getting' the shivers.