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Commodore 64

This computer is the most popular single model of computer ever produced, eventually selling 17 million units. Good graphics and sound and a low price made it a hugely popular home computer.

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• 23 (1998) • Airwolf - Season 2, Episode 3 "Moffett's Ghost" (1984) • Being Erica - Season 1, Episode 1 "Dr. Tom" (2009) • Desmond's - Season 1, Episode 1 "French Lessons" (1989) • Electric Dreams (1984) • G.O.R.A. (2004) • Hide and Seek (1984) • Der Himmel über Berlin (1987) • Klatwa doliny wezy (1987) • MacGyver - Season 1, Episode 15 "The Enemy Within" (1986) • Micro Men (2009) • Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King - Episode 4 (2006) • Primeval - Season 1, Episode 4 (2007) • Psych - Season 4, Episode 7 "High Top Fade Out" (2009) • Red Dwarf - Season 1, Episode 5 (1988) • Smallville - Season 9, Episode 11 "Absolute Justice" (2010) • Sotto il vestito niente 2 (1988) • Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005) • Tangents (1994) • To Computer Tou Thanatou (1987) • Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella (2001) • Trois Couleurs: Rouge (1994) • Whiz Kids - Episode 6 "Airwave Anarchy" (1983)

23 (1998)

The 64 is in use at the computer fair Karl visits.

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Airwolf - Season 2, Episode 3 "Moffett's Ghost" (1984)

A C64 appears in the control room of The Firm's headquarters.

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Being Erica - Season 1, Episode 1 "Dr. Tom" (2009)

Erica's father is frustrated attempting to load a program on his Commodore 64 and asks Erica for help.

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Desmond's - Season 1, Episode 1 "French Lessons" (1989)

Sean is shown using a C64 and trying to explain how it works to his Dad, Desmond.

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Sean hands Desmond a manual, but it is a manual for an Amstrad PCW.

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Electric Dreams (1984)

The store that Miles buys his computer from also stocks Commodore 64s.

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G.O.R.A. (2004)

Garavel uses the C64 to upload knowledge of kung fu into Arif's brain!

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Hide and Seek (1984)

The nuclear power plant has a number of Commodore 64s controlling it, and there is also a C64 in the computer room at the school.

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Der Himmel über Berlin (1987)

One of the angels passes through a house where the children are playing a game on the Commodore 64.

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Klatwa doliny wezy (1987)

The 64 is used in the lab to analyse the mysterious amphora.

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MacGyver - Season 1, Episode 15 "The Enemy Within" (1986)

MacGyver analyses a mysterious material removed from the arteries of a heart attack victim using his Commodore 64.

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Micro Men (2009)

The Commodore appears in a contemporary news programme and an advert.

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Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King - Episode 4 (2006)

The Fornoy's buy Robert a Commodore 64 as a means of expressing himself and curing the stress headaches he has been suffering.

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It's a bit weird - there are lots of tight close-ups but no overall view of the machine. The best view of it is the picture on the box.

Primeval - Season 1, Episode 4 (2007)

Tom and Duncan have a C64 sitting on top on a television in their room.

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Psych - Season 4, Episode 7 "High Top Fade Out" (2009)

A scene at the beginning of the episode shows Shawn, as a child with his father, in a store in 1989. He plays with a Commodore 64 whilst asking his Dad for a computer, but is given a detective kit instead.

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Only a fleeting glimpse of the corner of the keyboard here.

Red Dwarf - Season 1, Episode 5 (1988)

Lister erases Holly's memory of Agatha Christie so that he can enjoy rereading them (having already read every book ever written).

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Smallville - Season 9, Episode 11 "Absolute Justice" (2010)

When Chloe asks the JLS if she can use a computer they pull back a dustsheet to reveal a Commodore 64.

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Sotto il vestito niente 2 (1988)

Alex, the owner of the modelling agency, plays an "adult-interest" game on a Commodore 64.

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Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005)

A pair of Commodore 64s control the reactor of a Russian nuclear power station where Captain Pirk locates the Vulgar ship.

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Tangents (1994)

The Commodore 64 is an integral part of the time machine.

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To Computer Tou Thanatou (1987)

The C64 is part of Paris' computer systems.

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Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella (2001)

Torrente has a C64 in his office, although he never uses it.

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Trois Couleurs: Rouge (1994)

Augustine spies on Karin, his girlfriend, and sees the computer she uses for her weather forecasting - the C64.

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Whiz Kids - Episode 6 "Airwave Anarchy" (1983)

Richie visits an electronics shop that has the Commodore on sale.

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