Info on the "Alternative 3" TV-movie

 -Here's the lowdown on "ALTERNATIVE 3" from a TV-movie compendium.
 "ALTERNATIVE 3" (GB 1977; 52m, colour)         Amusing spoof
 documentary about the diasappearance of various         high-IQ
 citizens, allegedly to form nucleus of a standby civilization
 on Mars against the coming End of the World. Sly parodies of
 fashionable breathless TV journalism sweetened the joke, ex-
 newscaster Tim Brinton held it all together with po-faced gravity
 and needless to say some supernature fanatics refuse to this day to
 accept that it was anything but gospel truth, although it was
 orignally scheduled for April 1st (1977).         Written by David
 Ambrose; directed by Chris Miles; for Anglia. -Apparently the
 TV-movie was spawned by a book (or assuming the date   is accurate,
 vice versa) of the same name. Written by Leslie Watkins,   it was
 published by Sphere Books Ltd. in 1978.


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