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):
Tag Archives: sci-fi
Classic tv
‘The X-Files’, naturally. So many episodes have shots of phone boxes.
Roadrunners
Surekill
Classic Dr Who
This is ‘Spearhead from Space’ where we first meet actor John Pertwee playing the Doctor.
Film & TV
This is from the 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment.
What is a spy story without a phone box? Here’s a scene from a recent tv movie version, set pre-WWI, of ‘The 39 Steps’.
Film
This one is from a short film (1990) called ‘12.01pm‘. It was the precursor to ‘Groundhog Day’, but with a bleaker ending. I like the bubble-like design of this public phone.
The following is from a movie called Jeff, who lives at home, (2011):
