On the evening of September 25, 1983, the American Broadcasting Company, known as ABC, was broadcasting the latest episode of Hardcastle & McCormick titled "Man In A Glass House". The episode aired at 8:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and was scheduled to air for one hour. At approximately 8:52 PM, ABC News interrupted the episode with a special news bulletin concerning the launch of nuclear missiles by the Soviet Union. The following is a transcript taken directly from a videotape made at the time of the event and covers the period of time from approximately 8:52 PM EDT to 9:03 PM when the Emergency Broadcasting System took over.