TV fans are only just discovering one "masterpiece" CBS miniseries from the 1990s based on one of the bestselling disaster novels of all time. The series - starring Jennifer Garner, Tom Skerritt, Sharon Lawrence and Charles S. Dutton, may have been released back in 1999, but it still feels just as timeless as ever.

The show follows five groups of people in the aftermath of a horrific earthquake that hits New York City and destroys everything in its path. Full of emotional moments - plus plenty of explosions and collapsing skyscrapers - the series follows how ordinary citizens would deal with a large-scale disaster.

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York featured just two episodes, but was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects. The casting was also praised by critics at the time.

The series is actually based on Chuck Scarborough's 1991 novel Aftershock branded "one of the great disaster novels of recent years".

And reviews for the series have remained positive, with one reviewer on IMDb branding it "eerily prophetic and moving" two years before the 9/11 bombings in 2001.

The poster said: "As a former New Yorker, and watching it in this post-9/11 era, it was truly eerie, especially since in this film, one of the few sites left standing and untouched was... the Twin Towers.

"Perhaps only a real New Yorker could have imagined and foretold such scenes and, knowing the essence of a true New Yorker, written such speeches that eventually proved so prophetic and so amazingly close to reality. Besides the story and text, the scenes and special effects were awesome."

Someone else said: "Although it's quite long, my attention never wavered. It had several sub-plots going on simultaneously, including a love story, the resolution of an old rivalry, and a parent's fight to absolve herself of guilt over a two-year accident. Yet the storyline was never blurred or confusing and the characters seemed real to me."