From the English adaptation of The Tunnel.
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Classic Dr Who
This is ‘Spearhead from Space’ where we first meet actor John Pertwee playing the Doctor.
Cartoon communication
From ‘The Simpsons’.
Film & TV
This is from the 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment.
What is a spy story without a phone box? Here’s a scene from a recent tv movie version, set pre-WWI, of ‘The 39 Steps’.
TV
From Derren Brown’s ‘Trick of the Mind’ series, here is the result of one of his mind tricks played out in a phone box at South Bank, London:
New TV, Old film
The Americans: S1 E1, set in the 1980s.
The Americans: S1 E4. Spies and phones go together. This is just one of a number of examples in the series.
The Boys from Brazil: 1978.
Film
This one is from a short film (1990) called ‘12.01pm‘. It was the precursor to ‘Groundhog Day’, but with a bleaker ending. I like the bubble-like design of this public phone.
The following is from a movie called Jeff, who lives at home, (2011):
Police Box
I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to include the classic police box/TARDIS on the blog. Here is a garden shed variety…
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