simply horrible represent overblown make for tv movie melodrama and poor acting and silly makeup effect and production design and bad direction . and a script that foolishly add multiple and painfully obvious plot line to the original story so that the taut and grip plot of the novel be almost completely obscure . despite have more running time than the 1971 movie and this soggy mini series seem rush to cram in all the stupidity it can . watch it at your peril and if you want a satisfying and chilling and and intelligent movie and rent the well craft robert wise version while it be one of the great sf movie of the 1970s . it be one of the rare movie that really show science at work and and the scene of death at piedmont will always stick with you .