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    Drama TV Shows - 1980s 1 Min Read

    Amerika

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    Broadcast on ABC over the course of seven nights in the middle of February 1987, Amerika was a miniseries depicting life as imagined in the United States in the late 1990s, ten years after the Soviet Union had taken control of America employing a Russian controlled UN peace-keeping force.

    Most of it takes place in Nebraska and Kris Kristofferson stars as a presidential candidate who’s sent to a political prison.

    At the time, Amerika was the most controversial television event ever broadcast by ABC, with critics coming from all sides: Liberals feared the series would antagonise the Kremlin and jeopardise arms control and détente.

    The right thought the miniseries inadequately portrayed the brutality of the USSR, while the United Nations thought it would erode its image.

    Despite a near-hysterical pre-broadcast level of controversy, most of the public did not object to the $40 million miniseries. Unsurprisingly, the USSR protested vociferously.

    Devin Milford
    Kris Kristofferson
    Marion Milford
    Wendy Hughes
    General Samanov
    Armin Mueller-Stahl
    Peter Bradford
    Robert Urich
    Amanda Bradford
    Cindy Pickett

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