Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Monarch Home Video
• VHS Release Date: February 23, 1999
• Run Time: 48 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305300224
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #250,017 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Unless you've been living in a cave, one problem you've heard a lot about is Y2K, the question of what will happen at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2000, if computers fail to recognize the new millennium. Leonard Nimoy hosts Y2K Family Survival Guide, a 48-minute program that, depending on your particular point of view, either provides a solid grounding in how to prepare for mass-computer failure or hypes the panic and incites fear about something that may not transpire. This slickly produced video includes interviews with government and computer-industry figures to gain an understanding of how the problem originated and what is being done to rectify the situation. Yet, even with the efforts being made today, a 2 to 5 percent failure of compliance could cause a chain reaction that could knock out water and electricity and have an extreme consequence on the financial world. How will you and your family deal with such an event? This video gives concrete suggestions (how much food and water to stock, how to deal with hygiene issues, how to use a toilet) on how your family can prepare. The music and narration can be overdramatic, but if you're concerned about how Y2K could affect you, this video will give you a basic understanding of the issue and a starting plan on how to prepare. --Jenny Brown

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Pretty Decent Effort, March 25, 2002

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M. Andres-larsen "pwerfect" (Santa Cruz, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Y2K Family Survival Guide [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I tend to procrastinate quite a bit, and just got around to watching this. It gives a sobering perspective of what happened just two short years ago. Now that society has essentially broken down, the advice in this video is a must have. I deducted two stars because Nimoy didn't wear Spock ears. I would have taken it much more seriously, as Spock never engaged in hyperbole. Also, without the Spock ears, Nimoy was unable to calculate probabilities with any substantive accuracy. Had Nimoy engaged in such shoddy work aboard the Enterprise, Kirk would have been dead early in the series, and there would have been no one available to gallavant through space kissing alien women while speaking in halting dramatic speech.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST SEE FOR PREPARING FOR THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, March 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Y2K Family Survival Guide [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This survival kit video is very vital to anyone who will be on this planet during the turn of the of century.It not only provides a brief history of the Y2K problem ,the cause and effect, but it tells the viewer how to survive in every aspect of our daily living and how to prepare for the uncertain days ahead.

5.0 out of 5 stars Leonard Nimoy Saves My Life...Twice!, September 11, 2011

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Johnny Fargo "soul vigilante" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Y2K Family Survival Guide [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Thank God I had bought this movie in 1999 before it was too late, and heeded it's words with unwavering reverence. Having followed the advice of this film to the letter, and being still alive today, I wonder sometimes what would have come had I not been enlightened. And now, the Rapture is upon us again. On December 21, 2012, we face the same imminent crisis, and there is no better a time to review the vital survival points outlined in this invaluable program. I have already begun to stock up on trash cans for toilet water, but remember, DO NOT use plastic bags for your toilet. JUST DON'T, okay?!

Thank you, Leonard Nimoy and company, for not only ensuring my survival eleven years ago, but again next year when Michele Bachmann is elected President of the United States.