| Genre: | Action Drama |
| Teleplay: | Westbrook Claridge |
| Story: | Roderick Taylor |
| Director: | Paul Krasny |
| Starring: | Billy Dee Williams Merlin Olsen Joseph Bottoms Morgan Fairchild |
| Music: | Sylvester Levay |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Executive Producer: | Bari Carrelli |
| Producer: | James Duff McAdams (as James McAdams) Mike Snyder (as Michael Snyder) Barry J. Weitz (as Barry Weitz) Tom Thayer (uncredited) Clara George |
| Location: | Dallas |
| Cinematography: | Don Reddy |
| Editor: | Donald Hoskinson Donald R. Rode David A. Simmons |
| Runtime: | 95 minutes |
| Company: | Barry Weitz Films Universal Television |
| Network: | NBC |
Time Bomb is a 1984 made-for-TV action-adventure movie.[1]
Critic Robert Cettl described Time Bomb as an update on 1970s trucker films and noted the unusual move of casting a woman to play the leader of a terrorist ring.[2] The film was viewed as a slight departure from Fairchild and Olsen's images. Fairchild was cast to draw her large soap opera audience, Fairchild, who described her prior roles as largely "exploitative glitz," said she appreciated the grittier material. Some critics, however, were skeptical of the casting.[3]
The film features Renee DeSalles, a charismatic, seductive terrorist of Algerian descent known as the most wanted terrorist in the world. She and her gang target an armored truck taking weapons-grade plutonium across Texas. It is up to a three-man team of "transport specialists" sent there to stop them.