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Fail Safe (2000) (TV) More at IMDbPro »

• Broadcast live on 9 April 2000.
  
  
• The first feature-length fictional show broadcast live on CBS in 39 years.
  
  
• George Clooney's cousin Miguel Ferrer was cast to play Colonel Cascio, but was replaced by John Diehl.
  
  
• The movie was performed on live television in black and white and required two sound stages on the Warner Brothers studio lot. Harvey Keitel had to run between the two stages for some of his scenes.
  
  
• The big board depicting the bomber's position was designed to automatically compensate for the actors accidentally jumping ahead in the script.
  
  
• In the archive footage, the bombers (which are called "Vindicators" in the novel) are actually B-58 Hustler supersonic bombers.
  
  

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