1970: Doom Watch

As if to signal that the new decade would force these environmental monsters into our everyday lives, the BBC launched a television series in February 1970 called Doomwatch, about a governmental department whose brief was nothing less than the preservation of mankind against overwhelming natural (and extraterrestrial) threats. Hollywood extended the theme with the disaster movies that captured the popular imagination for much of the decade. [Doggett, Peter (2012-07-31). The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s (Kindle Locations 224-227)]