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2008-04-25 00:03 Dark Season

The BBC children's series Dark Season is notable for being an early work of Russel T. "Dr Who" Davis, and an early role for Kate Winslet. It also stars an Acorn Archimedes and a Toshiba T1000 laptop.

2008-04-23 09:20 The Rachel Papers

This poor rendition of a Martin Amis novel is slightly redeemed by the inclusion of a Commodore Amiga 500 playing Battle Chess.

2008-04-22 23:00 Angry Red Planet

Of its many cinematic appearances, this must be the Burroughs B205's finest hour, being on screen for a very significant part of The Angry Red Planet.

2008-04-19 18:29 Turn that Coco up to 11!

The Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer makes a fleeting appearance in This is Spinal Tap, something that I'd not spotted in the many times I've seen it.

2008-04-18 09:03 The Philadelphia Experiment

This could be an early Commodore 64, but in the absence of other evidence I'm going to say that The Philadelphia Experiment features a Commodore VIC-20. Also, for the first time, a computer makes a meta-appearance: a DEC Rainbow appears in a TV advert in the film.

2008-04-14 09:34 Look Around Your Beeb

The first series of Look Around You features a BBC Micro in its title sequence, and the "Maths" episode has a Pet.

2008-04-08 14:00 More Angels, in the Outfield this time.

The 1994 remake of the 1951 film Angels in the Outfield features something the original could not: an Apple Messagepad.

2008-03-31 08:39 Charlie's Angels

The Sony-owned Columbia pictures film Charlies Angel's features a Sony Vaio C1.

2008-03-11 23:36 Big Fat Update 1

Assassins has Powerbooks everywhere, When Worlds Collide goes old-school with a Differential Analyzer, and Ghostbusters has a bevy of eighties favourites: a Cromemco System I, a DEC Rainbow 100 and a Franklin Ace 1000.

2008-02-24 13:15 Evilspeak

This horror film was banned in the UK as a so-called "video nasty", although it feels more comic than horrific these days. It does star an Apple II in a pretty central role, though.

2008-02-22 08:43 Nothing sucks like Seven VAXen!

Seven provides Starring-the-Computer with its first VAX.

2008-02-19 23:39 Arresting Groove

The Arrested development episode Family Ties has a brief glimpse of a Pet and nice shots of a Kaypro 10. There are very fleeting glimpses of an iMac, a Palm III, and IBM PC XTs in Groove.

2008-02-08 09:03 Independence Day

In one of cinema's less plausible plot lines, Jeff Goldblum infects alien technology with a computer virus he writes on his Apple Powerbook in Independence Day.

2008-02-07 23:46 Reptilian aliens use Sony Computers

At least they do in V: The Final Battle - an SMC-70 in fact.

2008-02-06 09:33 Terminator 3

A Commodore Pet is one of the computers in the disused bunker at the end of Terminator 3.

2008-01-31 18:00 The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Added this 1969 original to the database. It contains the tape drive of a B205.