New Zealand may be commonly associated with Middle Earth, but it wasn't the site of a sci-fi feature film until the October 18, 1985 of Geoff Murphy's "The Quiet Earth".  Paul Knauer of Half Measures Podcast explores the history of a unique Kiwi genre classic.

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