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Apocalyptic television programs


  • Television programs set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic event (e.g., nuclear war, an alien invasion), sometimes also including the period immediately preceding the event. For television programs set in an uncertain future, in a society ruled by an ineffectual, corrupt, or oppressive regime or by aliens, robots, etc., see [Dystopian television programs.]
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    • Doomsday television programs
    • End-of-the-world television programs
    • Post-apocalyptic science fiction television programs
    • Post-apocalyptic television programs
    • Postapocalyptic science fiction television programs
    • Postapocalyptic television programs
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    • found: Work cat.: Jeremiah (Television program). Season 1. Jeremiah. The complete first season [VR] c2004.
    • found: Wikipedia, Dec. 2, 2010:Jeremiah (Jeremiah is an American television series ... The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where most of the adult population has been wiped out by a deadly virus.) Survivors (Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series) Dark Angel (Dark Angel is an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television series ... Set in a post-apocalyptic Seattle) Thunderstone (Thunderstone is a 1999 Australian children's television series ... set in a post-apocalyptic world after Earth is hit by a comet)
    • found: Wikipedia, Dec. 2, 2010:Category: Post-apocalyptic television series (television-related post-apocalyptic fiction which includes television series, television movies and pilots) List of apocalyptic films (apocalyptic films; All films within this list feature either the end of the world, a prelude to such an end, and/or a post-apocalyptic wasteland setting) Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction (Apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a catastrophic event such as nuclear war, pandemic, impact event, alien invasion, dysgenics, Cybernetic revolt, economic collapse, Supernatural phenomena, ecological disaster, resource depletion, or some other general disaster. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten (or mythologized). Post-apocalyptic stories often take place in an agrarian, non-technological future world, or a world where only scattered elements of technology remain. There is a considerable degree of blurring between this form of science fiction and that which deals with false utopias or dystopic societies.)
    • found: Lopez, D. Films by genre, c1993(subcategory under Science Fiction Film: SF Disaster Films. The two main species of SF disaster movies are the end-of-the-world films, involving some catastrophic upheaval due to natural, man-made, or extraterrestrial causes, and films dealing with post-holocaust situations in which remnants of Earth's population strive to make a go of it.)
    • found: Post-apocalyptic TV series and shows, via WWW, Dec. 2, 2010(The Post-Apocalyptic landscape is one of the staples of blockbuster sci-fi adventure films and, surprisingly frequently, television series, including the most current series, The Walking Dead, which features a zombified post-apocalyptic setting ... In movies and tv, in particular, there's a growing sub-genre of pre-apocalyptic storytelling. Generally these are stories that give us glimpses of the results of worldwide devastation and then, through the wonders of time travel, give our heroes the opportunity to prevent the oncoming devastation)
    • found: Mitchell, C.P. A guide to apocalyptic cinema, 2001, via Choice reviews online, Dec. 2, 2010:in book review of Homer Simpson marches on Washington (the short-lived postapocalyptic television series Jericho)
    • found: Yee, M.M. Moving image materials: genre terms, 1988
  • General Notes

    • Television programs set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic event (e.g., nuclear war, an alien invasion), sometimes also including the period immediately preceding the event. For television programs set in an uncertain future, in a society ruled by an ineffectual, corrupt, or oppressive regime or by aliens, robots, etc., see [Dystopian television programs.]
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    • Note under [Dystopian television programs]
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    • 2011-10-19: new
    • 2015-12-01: revised
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