Seeria tegevus käib üle kogu ühendriikide - väikelinn Ida-Texases, viirusteuurimise labor Vermontis, New York'i tänavatel - katk levib, põhjustades surma, paanikat ja kaost. Pärast sissejuhatavat osa muutub sari loiumaks, meenutades natukese tüüpilisi seebioopereid. Jutt keerleb edaspidi paari ellujäänu ümber (kes millegipärast on katkule immuunsed). Nende hulgas on muretu Texasest pärit Gary Sinise, rase noor naine Maine'ist, rokilaulja Adam Storke ja ingellik kurttumm Rob Lowe. Need mõned ellujäänud on mõistatuslikult tõmbunud leeridesse: ühte juhib messiaslik must naine ja teist saatanlik "must mees". Hea ja paha võitluses on tunda 60-nendate aastate suhtumist. Sõjavägi peidab tõde katku kohta, kuigi see pääses valla just sõjaväelisest laborist. Hea leer on enda peakorteri üles seadnud Boulderisse Colorados, pahad aga Las Vegasesse.
Television Network. He agreed to pay $3.3 million for a single television showing of the movie The Poseidon Adventure. The figure is noteworthy in that it greatly ex- ceeded the highest price ever before paid for a one-time movie showing-$2 mil- lion for Patton. In fact, the payment was so excessive that ABC figured to lose $1 million on the Poseidon showing. As NBC vice president for special programs, Bill Storke, declared at the time, "There's no way they can get their money back, no way at all." How could an astute and experienced businessman like Diller go for a deal that would produce an expected loss of $1 million? The answer may lie in a second note- worthy aspect of the sale: It was the first time that a motion picture had been of- fered to the networks in an open-bid auction. Never before had the three networks been forced to battle for a scarce resource in quite this way
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