Cold Weather (2010)
The Blacklist
Spooks (season 1)
Seven days in May (1964)
Tag Archives: television
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
Fortitude
Bones (S2 I think)
More tv
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple
Transparent
X-Files, John Doe
The Intruders
The Intruders
Toast of London (after losing his mobile at an audition)
and some more…
Ok so I understand why I see phone boxes in older tv shows and films, but they are still a feature in many current plots such as The Blacklist (USA), The Code (Australia) and Being Human (USA). You’d be forgiven for thinking that the popularity of the mobile phone would mean that the phone box would disappear from many cultural products, but not so.
The Blacklist (S2)
The Code
Being Human (USA, S3)
The X-Files – The Amazing Maleeni
The X-Files – Trevor
The X-Files – Roadrunners
The X-Files – Surekill
More viewing
Perhaps I watch too much TV but here are some more from the past.
Dark Skies (1996)
Noah’s Castle (1979)
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)…
Iconic London
This shot was used to set the scene in London, in an episode of ‘Bones’ from season 4:
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