Tag Archives: television

TV

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Here is one from the third series of Mad Men 3 – we are a little behind in watching our box sets…

Bilingual TV

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From the English adaptation of The Tunnel.

Classic Dr Who

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This is ‘Spearhead from Space’ where we first meet actor John Pertwee playing the Doctor.

Film and TV

From a strange but lovely film from 2003 called ‘The Big Empty’.

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The IT Crowd finale (2013)…

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Cartoon communication

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From ‘The Simpsons’.

Film & TV

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This is from the 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment.

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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’.

TV

From Derren Brown’s ‘Trick of the Mind’ series, here is the result of one of his mind tricks played out in a phone box at South Bank, London:

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New TV, Old film

The Americans, S1E1

The Americans: S1 E1, set in the 1980s.

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The Americans: S1 E4. Spies and phones go together. This is just one of a number of examples in the series.

The Boys from Brazil (1978)

The Boys from Brazil: 1978.

TV

From the mini-series Spies of Warsaw (2013, set 1930s), staring man of the moment David Tennant…

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TV

Here is a still from the first episode of the US remake of Being Human (2011+):

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This one is from Episode 2 of Mayday (2013):

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