Tag Archives: television

Current TV favourite

I’ve become very fond of Father Brown. He’s a follow up to Miss Marple so what’s not to love. This scene cracked me up – another fab use for a phone box. Make a phone call to a cross-dressing club and when you give the right code phrase the door in the wall behind the phone box will open and let you into the club.

Father Brown

Fargo 2

The second Fargo TV series (wonderful) showed us a few phone shots and one box in particular got a lot of use:

Fargo again (1)

Fargo again (2)

Fargo again (3)

Fargo S2 2

Recent viewing

I don’t actually know this programme but couldn’t ignore the ad, for obvious reasons;

Better call saul

This shot is from the penultimate episode of ‘Humans‘:

Humans penultimate episode

From the recent adaptation of  Jekyl and Hyde:

Jeykll and Hyde

The iconic red box even turns up on a US highway in ‘Austin Powers: the spy who shagged me’.

Austin Powers 2

Man in the High Castle again

Finally the second episode of this fabulous programme has appeared on my Amazon watchlist. In an earlier blog I posted a shot of a bubble covered phone but in this scene it’s something more traditional:

Man in the High Castle 2 comp

Last night’s ‘Dr Who’

This from the latest episode of ‘Dr Who’:

Before the Flood

Doctor Who, Series 9 Episode 4 of 12

On a remote army outpost, a fearsome alien warlord called the Fisher King sets in motion a twisted plan to ensure his own survival. The ripples will be felt around the universe. Is this chain of events inevitable? And can the Doctor do the unthinkable?

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Holiday viewing

We finished off the 2nd series of Extant on holiday in Cyprus. There was a scene with a decrepit phone box that was part of a high tech security system:

Extant - security (1) comp

Extant - security (2) comp4

Post-apocalyptic phone box

Even after the zombie hoards have taken over the phone box continues to be relevant – as seen in this episode of Z Nation

Z nation

 

Nightime viewing

Here  I like the use of the phone to reflect the woman making the call

New TV show set in older times

Aquarius (2016)

Aquarius (2016)

Agent Carter

Agent Carter (2015)

The same phone being dusted for fingerprints later in the show

The same phone being dusted for fingerprints later in the show

Recent tv

SPOILER ALERT (Wayward Pines) further down the page…

More spy action…

The Game

The Game

The Game

The Game

Even in the far distant future, on a ruined earth, phones are still working…

Wayward Pines

Wayward Pines