On the Beach

On the Beach may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

  • On the Beach (1959 film), a 1959 film based on the novel by the same name
  • On the Beach (2000 film), a 2000 television film based on the novel by the same name
  • Literature

  • On the Beach (novel), a 1957 novel by Nevil Shute.
  • On the Beach (play), a 2009 play by Steve Waters.
  • Music

    Albums

  • On the Beach (Chris Rea album), a 1986 album by Chris Rea, and also its title track
  • On the Beach (Neil Young album), a 1974 album by Neil Young incorporating a song of the same name.
  • On the Beach, an album by Phil Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble
  • Songs

  • "On the Beach (In the Summertime)", a 1970 song by The 5th Dimension
  • "On the Beach", a song by the Chairmen of the Board
  • "On the Beach", a song by The Chameleons from their album What Does Anything Mean? Basically
  • "On the Beach", a song by Cliff Richard with The Shadows from his 1964 album Wonderful Life
  • Television

  • "On the Beach" (ER), a 2002 episode of the long-running television series ER
  • Business

    The Contingency Plan

    The Contingency Plan is the overall title of a pair of plays by the British playwright Steve Waters that opened at the Bush Theatre on 22 April 2009. The two full-length plays are On the Beach and Resilience. They are both set in the United Kingdom in the near future. Both involve the same couple, Will Paxton and Sarika Chatterjee. Paxton is a scientist who has returned from research in Antarctica with a new understanding of glacial melting due to climate change and the corresponding possibilities of a rise in sea levels and of coastal flooding. Michael Billington wrote of the pair of plays that their "flaws pale beside Waters' massive achievement which is to have made the most important issue of our times into engrossing theatre."

    On the Beach (2000 film)

    On the Beach is a 2000 apocalyptic made-for-television film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Armand Assante, Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward. It was originally aired on Showtime.

    The remake of the 1959 film, was also based on the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute but updates the setting of the story to the film's then-future of 2005, starting with placing the crew on the fictional Los Angeles-class submarine, USS Charleston (SSN-704).

    Plot

    The USS Charleston (SSN-704), a 688i variant Los Angeles-class submarine, is equipped with a caterpillar drive and is on station following a nuclear exchange, under the command of Dwight Towers.

    The nuclear war, vastly contaminating the northern hemisphere, was preceded by a standoff between the United States and China after the latter blockaded and later invaded Taiwan. Both countries are destroyed, as is most of the world. The submarine crew finds refuge in Melbourne, Australia, which the radioactive fallout has not yet reached (though radio communications with several radio operators farther north than Australia indicate that radiation has reached their countries and will be in Australia in a few months). Towers places his vessel under the command of the Royal Australian Navy and is summoned to attend a briefing.

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    On The Beach

    by: Van Der Graaf Generator

    If we had all the time in the world
    We might talk about how it used to be.
    We could have thrown in our cards
    When the going got hard
    But evidently we went on interminably.
    Right now I want to walk towards the sea,
    Hoping you're still in step with me.
    All joking apart let's play it from the heart
    Because at last even the Silver Surfer agrees:
    The wave you brave
    Rides on a deeper complexity.
    Ah, come on: surf's up!




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