Whoops Apocalypse
1982 British television sitcom for ITV / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 television sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film of the same name from ITC Entertainment, with almost completely different characters and plot, although one or two of the original actors returned in different roles.
Whoops Apocalypse | |
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Created by | Andrew Marshall & David Renwick |
Directed by | John Reardon |
Starring | Barry Morse Geoffrey Palmer John Cleese Peter Jones John Barron |
Composer | Nigel Hess |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Producer | Humphrey Barclay |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | London Weekend Television |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 14 March (1982-03-14) ā 18 April 1982 (1982-04-18) |
The British budget label Channel 5 Video released a compilation VHS cassette of all six episodes edited together into one 137-minute chunk in 1987.
The American video distributor EDDE Entertainment released a compilation VHS cassette of all six episodes edited together into one 121-minute chunk in 1991.
In 2010, Network released both the complete, unedited series and the movie on a 2-DVD set (Region 2) entitled Whoops Apocalypse: The Complete Apocalypse. (Rights issues were simplified by the fact that both LWT and ITC Entertainment productions were by this time owned by Granada Television).
In March 2022 the series was made available for streaming on BritBox.