Here is a still from the first episode of the US remake of Being Human (2011+):
This one is from Episode 2 of Mayday (2013):
Category Archives: Media
Film
Another one from cinema. This still is taken from the horror movie Creep, which is set in the London Underground. Of course it’s horror so the phone doesn’t work…
TV
All of a sudden I see loads of phone boxes on the small screen. I guess they are still an integral part of the modern world.
Vegas, (2012) S1 E5:
In the flesh, (2013) E3:
Shetland (2013):
Another from ‘Shetland’. I like this because it shows clearly why it is unlikely we will ever see the end of the phone box and landline, at least in some parts of the world.
Film & TV
The phone box plays a part in our culture that is expressed in film and television. With this in mind I thought of recognising moments in phone box screen history. Here are a couple of classic scenes from Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963):
Telephone songs
Click here for telephone song recommendations.
…Ahoy–hoy and welcome to Readers’ Recommend, where this week we’d like to hear your nominations for songs about telephones – and, ideally, songs that take place on the telephone, where the lyrics describe a phone conversation, or a message left on an answerphone, or … you get the idea. Phones.
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District 9
This was sent in from a London location.