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Machines (and more) in Movies, Books and Music
| TV/Radio Title |
Created by |
Date |
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A
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Astro Boy [Tetsuwan Atom] |
Tezuka, Osamu
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1951 |
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Famous cartoon robot that helped launch Japanese anime, and made into TV series ....
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B
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Batman |
Ross, Stanley Ralph
...et al
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1966 |
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Batman, Robin, and their valet Alfred use a map display in their Batmobile (pre ....
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Battlestar Galactica |
Rymer, Michael
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2003 |
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The last stand of humans against the Cylons, robots who have turned on them and ....
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Bionic Woman, The |
,
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1976 |
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Like the Six Million Dollar Man, the Bionic Woman was filled with computerized i....
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C
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Captain Video and His Video Rangers |
Boyd, Scudder
...et al
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1949-1955 |
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The first widely distributed space show on TV, with special effects that seem pr....
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation |
Bruckheimer, Jerry
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2000 |
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Forensic evidence investigation agents in Las Vegas routinely use a variety of c....
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D
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Doctor Who |
Newman, Sydney
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1963 |
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Long running British children's adventure serial. Dr Who is an unassuming shaggy....
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Doogie Howser, MD |
Bochko, Steven
...et al
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1989-1993 |
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Long before there were blogs, Doogie Howser, a sitcom child prodigy who became a....
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F
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Friends |
Bright, Kevin
...et al
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1994-2004 |
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Although the apartments of the friends are oddly free of computers except for th....
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Futurama |
Groening, Matt
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1999 |
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A pizza delivery guy from 1999 awakes in 2999. Among his companions is the drunk....
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G
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Game Over |
Sacks, David
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2004 |
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Animated sitcom depicting the everyday lives of video game heroes in their off-h....
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Get Smart |
Brooks, Mel
...et al
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1965-1969 |
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This sitcom popularized the use of the cell phone before it was invented. Howeve....
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I
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Inspector Gadget |
Chalopin, Jean
...et al
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1983 |
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Comic cartoon series of a bumbling bionic police officer trying to cope with the....
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J
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Jetsons, The |
Barbera, Joseph
...et al
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1962 |
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A family lives in the future in this cartoon comedy modeled after the prehistori....
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K
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Knight Rider |
Greene, Tom
...et al
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1982-1986 |
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Detective (pre _Baywatch_ David Hasselhof) solves crimes, greatly aided by a sup....
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L
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Law & Order |
Wolf, Dick
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1990- |
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The dramas in the Law & Order "franchise" - Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, and L....
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Lexx |
Donovan, Paul
...et al
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1997 |
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Fugitives on a starship include a zombie warrior, a former sex worker, and a sex....
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Lost in Space |
Allen, Irwin
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1965-1968 |
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The Space Family Robinson get lost in space and trapped on an alien planet. They....
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M
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Max Headroom |
Delia, Francis
...et al
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1987 |
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A roving reporter for "Network 23" in the a futuristic U.S. does his job with th....
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N
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NetForce |
Lieberman, Robert
|
1999 |
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In the near future (2005), the "Net Force" division of the FBI protects the Inte....
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Nikita |
Badiyi, Reza
...et al
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1997 |
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Nikita and the rest of her physically active team of government agents are great....
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Now and Again |
Caron, Glenn Gordon
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1999 |
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A government experiment rescues the brain of Michael Wiseman, a middle-aged insu....
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O
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Outer Limits [II], The |
, Pen Densham
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1995 |
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In the spirit of the original 1960s _Outer Limits_ this is more an anthology of ....
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P
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Pee-Wee's Playhouse |
Reubens, Paul
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1986-1991 |
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This popular Saturday morning children's show included vintage cartoon clips, pu....
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Prisoner, The |
McGoohan, Patrick
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1967-1968 |
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In this cult classic, the hero is a former spy who gets spirited away to a quain....
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R
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ReBoot |
Blair, Gavin
...et al
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1994 |
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Guardian human-like programs have adventures keeping the residents of Mainframe ....
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S
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Sex and the City |
Star, Darren
...et al
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1998-2004 |
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Newspaper columnist Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) chatters away with three frien....
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Six Million Dollar Man, The |
Caidin, Martin
...et al
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1973-1978 |
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After astronaut Steve Austin's body was wrecked in a crash, he is resurrected wi....
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Small Wonder |
Leeds, Howard
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1985-1989 |
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In this sci-fi sitcom, a robotics engineer brings home a robot known as a Voice ....
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Star Trek (original) |
Roddenberry, Gene
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1966 |
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The crew of the Starship Enterprise use both voice-activated and button-pushing ....
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Star Trek Voyager |
Berman, Rick
...et al
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1995 |
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The chief enemy is The Borg. A cyborg entity, which not only merges human and co....
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Star Trek: The Next Generation |
Roddenberry, Gene
...et al
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1987-1994 |
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"Data," a lovable human-like robot, is a leading officer of the crew with many r....
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T
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Time Tunnel, The |
Allen, Irwin
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1966 |
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Two scientists, working on perfecting a government-financed, computer-assisted "....
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Twilight Zone, The |
Serling, Rod
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1959-1962 |
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Although this classic science fiction series -- which ran from 1959 to 1964 (and....
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W
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Whiz Kids |
Gannon, Joe
...et al
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1983 |
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A teenage computer whiz and his tech-savvy pals solve mysteries with the help of....
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Wire, The |
Anderson, Brad
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2002 |
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Set in the Baltimore drug/homicide scene, this detective series featured electro....
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X
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X-Files, The |
Carter, Chris
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1993-2002 |
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Mulder and Skully, the FBI agents around whom this show focused, spent much more....
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