Perhaps I watch too much TV but here are some more from the past.
Dark Skies (1996)
Noah’s Castle (1979)
Tag Archives: television
Some of our recent viewings
Headhunters (2011)
Utopia (2014)
A single man (2009)
TV
Not technically a classic as such but it will be with time… Fargo.
Fargo (2014)
An old tv series…(update Oct 2014: I watched the first 3 episodes of Dark Skies via Amazon Prime subscription service. Then all of a sudden the series was no longer available – not for free and not to pay for. No idea why. I have since talked to another who has experienced the same thing with other shows. Screw you Amazon.)
Dark Skies (1996)
Journalists and Spies
A couple from ‘All the President’s Men’ (1976) staring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman…
And again with ‘Person of Interest’ (season 2, episode 22, 2014) – where even in today’s world of mobile phones the pay phone plays an integral part in the plot (and pay phones in Manhattan are guarded by g-men)…
Film and tv
I hadn’t realised that Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) involved using a phone box as a time machine. More recent tv has a phone being used as … a phone, in True Detective:
An old one from the X-files (‘Pusher’, Season 2):
Classic tv
The scene itself might not be classic but the series certainly is. Here is one scene from ‘The X Files’, an episode from season 2 called ‘F.Emasculata’:
(must try to get with Scully…)
TV
Here is one from the third series of Mad Men 3 – we are a little behind in watching our box sets…
Bilingual TV
From the English adaptation of The Tunnel.
Classic Dr Who
This is ‘Spearhead from Space’ where we first meet actor John Pertwee playing the Doctor.
