Tag Archives: television

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

More tv

Fish Mooney, Gotham

Fish Mooney, Gotham

And this one, when a favourite character of mine lies dying while the phone rings in the foreground…

Person of Interest

Person of Interest

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)…

Person of Interest

Person of Interest

Old funny

Father Ted (S1, E1)

Father Ted (S1, E1)

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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The Man in the High Castle (Episode 1)

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…

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Then in Episode 5 a phone box is being used to stash some cassettes…

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Iconic London

This shot was used to set the scene in London, in an episode of ‘Bones’ from season 4:

Bones season 4

More phones on the screen

Cold Weather (2010)

Cold Weather (2010)

The Blacklist

The Blacklist

Spooks (season 1)

Spooks (season 1)

Seven days in May (1964)

Seven days in May (1964)

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…

Arrow

Arrow

Fortitude

Fortitude

Bones (S2 I think)

Bones (S2 I think)

More viewing

From the movie ‘No’, set in 1980’s Chile…

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And tv show ‘Girls’

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From Homeland

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