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Deadline

It's the most lethal deadline in history and if it's not met, three and a half million people will die!

1982★ 6.3 · 41h 34mThrillerTV Movie

Overview

A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the tremor was a result of a small nuclear explosion - part of an extortion threat that has the government fearing nuclear blackmail. With the help of local reporters, and despite the harassment of the security agencies, he sets out to avert the crisis.

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Cast

Bruce Spence
as Towie

Vincent Ball
as Prime Minister

Barry Newman
as Barney Duncan

Sean Scully
as Army Officer

Trisha Noble
as Gillian Boles

Howard Vernon
as Doorman

Wallas Eaton
as Goodman

Carole Skinner
as Sybil

Danny Adcock
as ASIO Agent

Bill Kerr
as Willliam Ashby

Alwyn Kurts
as Jack McGinty

Noel Trevarthen
as Kimball