Fail Safe
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Search complete. 8 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Fail Safe".
Sep 25, 2026
KurtHOST
He's comparing Mars Attacks! to Independence Day.
KurtHOST
He says Independence Day is more like a movie called Fail Safe, which is a movie I love-
KimberlyUNKNOWN
Oh
KurtHOST
... deeply.
Juzo GreenwoodHOST
But in a way, I think it's kind of part of the charm of it.
Cameron TuttleHOST
Did Frears direct a TV remake of Fail Safe?
Juzo GreenwoodHOST
Yes.
Juzo GreenwoodHOST
Yes, he did.
Juzo GreenwoodHOST
It might have been a live movie, actually.
Juzo GreenwoodHOST
Like a live broadcast.
Cameron TuttleHOST
We might have talked about that when we did the Fail Safe episode.
Cameron TuttleHOST
Did you watch that or no?
Heather Anne CampbellHOST
Okay.
Nick WigerHOST
Next up, Fail Safe.
Heather Anne CampbellHOST
[laughs]
Matt ApodacaHOST
Oh, man, that could really go either way.
Heather Anne CampbellHOST
Yeah, and it also, it's funny that we got cut off out of the tutorial at such hard titles.
Matt ApodacaHOST
Yes.
Heather Anne CampbellHOST
Fail Safe.
Heather Anne CampbellHOST
Fail Safe.
Peter HuessyGUEST
That's countervalue.
John BatchelorHOST
The plot of Fail Safe, early 1960s, Henry Fonda is the president.
John BatchelorHOST
Yes.
John BatchelorHOST
A B-52, a flight of B-52 go to their fail safe point.
John BatchelorHOST
And one of them, they all get the go number because it's given to them, but it's an accident.
John BatchelorHOST
And they're all recalled except one B-52 that keeps on its target is Moscow, two 20 megaton bombs.