Phil needs your help!

[Philip Ayres]

Phil needs your help!

I've come across a plot point in a Doctor Who story that I recognise from somewhere but can't remember where:

We have a bunch of people in an Underground shelter believing they're hiding from a war on the surface. But it's all a con - there's been no war.

So if this rings any bells with you please reply and lmk where from!

Could be film, TV or Book....

[The Doctor]

It rings several dozen bells in my head!

Buggered if answers come to me though.

-Ralph

[legios]

Hmmm....

It did seem familiar, a bit of research suggests The Defenders, a Philip K Dick story:-

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defenders_(short_story)

Not sure whether that is of any help?

Karl

[Grand Moff Muffin]

The movie 'Blast From the Past' has Brendan Fraser and family spending 35 years in a nuclear fallout shelter due to a plane crashing in their back yard during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is taken by them to be a nuclear bomb.

Martin

[Philip Ayres]

Nah, too modern. I'm thinking something I'd have seen/read when I was younger.

[jameso]

Sounds like the Casa Bonita episode of South Park!

[Andy Turnbull]

It rings a bell with me, but for the life of me I can't recall from where.

Andy