Manhatten

[CBStew]

If you aren't watching this you should be.  I am sure that you can find reruns of the first episodes on WGN.

[Yeti]

If you aren't watching this you should be.  I am sure that you can find reruns of the first episodes on WGN.

What's Manhatten?

[CBStew]

If you aren't watching this you should be.  I am sure that you can find reruns of the first episodes on WGN.

What's Manhatten?

A misspelled word.  I apologize.
It is a fictionalized version of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb in New Mexico.  As if the real life project wasn't dramatic enough, this version invents stories about the lives of people who were transplanted into the New Mexico desert in a makeshift community.  The scientists and their families were virtual prisoners surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed MPs, working for years on a project so secret that the vice president of the United States wasn't even informed of its existence, let alone its purpose.  The work was so compartmentalized that many of the scientists didn't even know what they were doing.  The dramatic event in the most recent episode was one scientist, working on developing a photographic process, was arrested for "stealing" copies of his own work so that he could get a patent on it once the war ended.

[Wheezer]

I actually just got hipped to the existence of this because there's apparently numbers traffic in the soundtrack.

I was worried for a moment that the Patagonian clearinghouse wouldn't have it.