The day after tomorrow

Russell Oakes , a doctor in Kansas City, Missouri, travels to by car to teach a class at the University of Kansas hospital there	United States: Embassy Home Entertainment
VHS version Anchor Bay Entertainment, Troy, Michigan lists a running time of 122 minutes	McCoy and Oakes, both outside immediately after the explosions, have been exposed without their knowledge to lethal doses of radiation

The Day After

Meyer figured the more The Day After resembled such a film, the less effective it would be, and preferred to present the facts of nuclear war to viewers.

The Day After: Leonard Maltin's TV Movies And Video Guide 1987 edition
The Day After: There were no commercial breaks after the nuclear attack
The Day After Tomorrow (2004): There was no Lawrence, Kansas in the story, although there was a small Kansas town called "Hampton"

For several months, this group worked on drawing up storyboards and revising the script again and again; then, in early 1982, Butler was forced to leave The Day After because of other contractual commitments	Frequent warnings are sent over television and radio, and Kansas City begins to empty, outbound freeways clogged
Commentator , critical of the movie's message i	Back in Los Angeles, the idea of making a TV movie showing the true effects of nuclear war on average American citizens was still stirring up controversy

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Oakes, at last aware he has sustained lethal exposure to radiation, returns to Kansas City on foot to see the site of his home before he dies.

The Day After: Suddenly, less emphasis was put on Kansas City, the decision was made to have the city completely annihilated in the script, and Lawrence was made the primary location in the film
The Day After: The Lawrence people were urging ABC to change the name "Hampton" to "Lawrence" in the script
The Day After Tomorrow (2004): In this scene, an officer reads the charges, verdict and sentence, as a bandaged chaplain reads the

Some footage was reinstated for the film's release on home video	The film was written by , produced by Robert Papazian, and directed by
As the threat of large-scale nuclear attack grows, begins, and so does evacuation of major cities in both the Soviet Union and United States	In 1987, during the era of 's and reforms, the film was shown on

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Although he recorded just under 30 minutes of music, much of it was edited out of the final cut.

The Day After: The Dahlberg family lives on their farm twenty miles away from the Sweetsage launch site, in , 40 miles from Kansas City
The Day After: One cut scene shows surviving students battling over food
The Day After Tomorrow (2004): Meyer's original single-night cut ran two hours and twenty minutes, which he presented to the network