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Recent tv
SPOILER ALERT (Wayward Pines) further down the page…
More spy action…
Even in the far distant future, on a ruined earth, phones are still working…
More tv
And this one, when a favourite character of mine lies dying while the phone rings in the foreground…
Followed in the next series with a flashback to the past and a ‘phreaker’ in action (for more details on phreaking -the manipulation of phone call routing – click here)…
New uses for a phone box
I like the creativity that phone boxes can bring out in scriptwriters.
In Person of Interest (Season 3 Episode 1) we find a new use for the phone box – ring a specific number and the back panels opens to become the door to a dodgy strip joint, frequented by sailors and cops…
Then in Episode 5 a phone box is being used to stash some cassettes…
In the news
I’m sure I woke yesterday to the news that the UK phone box design had won an award but I couldn’t find a recent story – this link is older news but still relevant
Design Museum adds red phone box to collection
And some more phones on tv…
























False history
So this phone box never existed but in another reality (thanks to Phillip K. Dick and ‘The Man in the High Castle’)…
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