Pre-viewed for quality and plays great except for one bad rolling line just before the end credits roll. Out Of Print in all formats and no longer being manufactured.

This cable TV movie was produced by Jonathan Heap (he wrote the story) and his old school chum Philip Morton who also wrote the screenplay. Jonathan Silverman ('Weekend at Bernie's'), a lot more likeable here than Bill Murray, portrays a clerk working for electronics corporation UTREL, which is running tests of "particle physics", an attempt to accelerate molecules and harness energy.

After a bad day at the office, during which lab assistant Helen Slater ('Supergirl') is murdered on the campus, he is spared the effect of memory loss by an electrical shock at the moment of the time bounce, 12:01 AM. Silverman wakes up the next morning, and the next, only to realize that the day is repeating itself and he is the only one at UTREL who has the foresight to stop it.

He stops being an intellectual nerd and sets out to prevent Slater's murder and the test-firing of the disintegrator ray. Needless to say, it takes several attempts to accomplish this task all in one day before midnight. Anyone who has worked in an office will appreciate the funny scenes of the hero playing around with the fact that he knows exactly what everyone there is going to say or do.

While this may sound like 'Groundhog Day' or 'Edge of Tomorrow', this premise came first in 1973 in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a short story by Richard Lupoff on which Heap & Morton's script is based. It's a pretty good thriller, and once the time-loop idea is underway, the pacing picks up noticeably under Jack Sholder's direction.

Martin Landau plays Dr. Thadius Moxley, the dedicated scientist in charge of the project; Nicolas Survoy is a sinister lab technician, Robin Bartlett is Silverman's bitchy boss, and Jeremy Piven (TVs 'Ellen') is Silverman's prankster pal.