Tag Archives: television

At home entertainment

Started watching Daisy May Cooper in ‘Rain Dogs’ (love her). First episode has a great phone box experience (although there isn’t currently a phone box in that spot in Picadilly Circus).

A few more television images

Found in the archives

I came across an exciting find in the archives recently – a tv script from June 1992 entitled ‘BT Payphones’. Written by Crystal Images, likely for the tv show Tomorrow’s World, it includes scenes extolling the virtues of the payphone and selling it’s latest development, such as multiple payment methods. It seems that by the early 1990s our favourite red box was already seeen as ‘quaint and traditional – a unique symbol of Britain’s heritage’.

Here are a couple of screen shots:

Fight scene

‘The Continental’, set in the John Wick universe, has a great fight scene in a phone box. Enjoy.

Mind palace

We’re currently watching The Undeclared War. The main character enters a mind palace when working on IT problems and the writers chose to use an iconic phone box in one representstion of this idea. Nice.

More entertainment

A scene from the recent production of Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre, London. Here is Daniel Mays as Nathan Detroit.

Continued viewing

TV moments

More of the same

Yes more phone boxes on tv. This first one is America’s Game…The Wheel of Fortune. We’ve just started watching this and there was no explanation of the set. I’m not sure if it’s a regular thing but on this episode they appear to being trying to set an English scene. There is naturally a phone box but what’s this about the word ‘Metro’ being imposed on an Underground logo? A little reserach on the topic wouldn’t go amiss 🙂

Lots more viewing

Exactly this

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