Threads (1984 TV Movie)

Paul Vaughan: Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Narrator : In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable.

• Narrator : It is 8:30 a.m. 3:30 in the morning in Washington. Over the past few days, neither the President nor his senior staff will have had more than a few hours rest. This is when they may be asleep. This is when Western response will be slowest.

• Narrator : [after showing graphic hospital casualties]  By this time, without drugs, water or bandages, without electricity or medical support facilities. There is virtually no way a doctor can execute his skill as a source of help or comfort, he is little better equipped than the nearest survivor.

• Narrator : [during a showcase of a nuclear winter]  Hanging in the atmosphere, the clouds of debris shut out the sun's heat and light. Across large areas of the Northern Hemisphere it starts to get dark, it starts to get cold. In the centers of large land masses like America or Russia, the temperature drop may be severe, as much as 25 degrees centigrade. Even in Britain, within days of the attack it could fall to freezing or below for long, dark periods.

• Narrator : [during a montage of people descending upon a hospital in Buxton]  The entire peacetime resources of the British Health Service, even if they survived, would be unable to cope with the effects of even the single bomb that's hit Sheffield.

• Narrator : [after showing graphic hospital casualties]  By this time, without drugs, water or bandages, without electricity or medical support facilities. There is no way a doctor can virtually execute his skill as a source of help or comfort, he is little better equipped than the nearest survivor.