Strands #248 “Strumming Right...
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Now I remember Private Fraser saying it in that rolling Scottish accent... but I still maintain that the memory bugging Mr Cheesefreek is from the old TV space opera, Lost in Space. Dr Smith was a camp, evil English scientist who unwittingly stowed away with the Robinson family. Smith had a few catchphrases, such as "Oh, the pain, the pain" and "Doomed! We're all doomed!"
If you don't believe me, we can take it outside and sort it out like men.
There's a movie called "Night Of The Big Heat" from 1967 which stars Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee.
The plot of the movie is While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties. The boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist suspects aliens are to blame.
Does that ring any bells?
On the Beach (1959) starring Gregory Peck contained the line: We're all doomed, you know. The whole, silly, drunken, pathetic lot of us. Doomed by the air we're about to breathe.
Plot outline: The residents of Australia after a global nuclear war must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
I would have said Dad's Army as well though.