120 minSeason 1 • Episode 2
LatestAmerican President McKenna and Soviet Premier Gorny negotiate to avoid an escalation. Meanwhile Colonel Caffey and his platoon try to stop the Soviet commando from reaching its objective in Alaska.
When starving mobs begin rioting in the streets of Moscow, Soviet leaders believe they have no recourse but to seize the Alaskan pipeline to force the United States to end the grain embargo that has brought turmoil to the U.S.S.R.
Acting
Rock Hudson's final role: a weary president facing armageddon
Direction
Split directing credit due to Boris Sagal's tragic on-set death
David Soul
Colonel Jake Caffey
Rock Hudson
President Thomas McKenna
Jeroen Krabbé
Colonel Alexander Vorashin
Cathy Lee Crosby
Maj. Kate Breckenridge
Robert Prosky
Gen. Aleksey Rudenski
James Hampton
Richard Hickman
Lee Wallace
Dr. Jules Farber
Harry Basch
Adm. Vernon Blanchard
Rick Fitts
Maj. George Devery
Jerry Hardin
Gen. Philip Olafson
Art Evans
Buford
Bob Minor
Trimble
Brian Keith
Secretary General Gorny
Katherine Helmond
Dorothy Longworth
Frank Dent
Tim Hardy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Boris Sagal was killed in a helicopter accident on set; David Greene completed the miniseries.
Shot during the actual 1980-88 US grain embargo against USSR—this was uncomfortably current events.
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