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: television
Classic tv
‘The X-Files’, naturally. So many episodes have shots of phone boxes.
Roadrunners
Surekill
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.
Cartoon communication
From ‘The Simpsons’.
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’.
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:
New TV, Old film
The Americans: S1 E1, set in the 1980s.
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.