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2008-12-08 23:27 Back to the Mac

Back to the Future Part II has an Apple Mac in the window of an antiques shop in 2015. Never mind a Mac - the iMac will be an antique in 2015!

2008-12-06 10:31 Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes

Another foreign language film for Starring-the-Computer: the French film Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes features a French computer - the Bull Questar M.

2008-12-02 22:33 Bird on a Red Dwarf

Bird on a Wire provides Starring-the-Computer with its first Mac II, and there's another Commodore 64 appearance in an episode of Red Dwarf.

2008-11-24 23:05 Go Commodore!

Continuing a good run for Commodore, there's a role for a C64 in the TV mini-series Nightmares and Dreamscapes (based on a book of Stephen King short stories).

2008-11-21 21:00 Another VIC-20

Following last week's addition of What Waits Below, VIC-20s also appear in Airplane II.

2008-11-14 21:58 What Waits Below

There are some nice shots of a Commodore VIC-20 in the British science-fiction adventure What Waits Below.

2008-11-13 17:53 You've Got Mail

Having watched it absolutely ages ago, I've finally found time to add You've Got Mail to the database with its Apple and IBM laptops playing important roles.

2008-10-31 21:11 Friday the 13th on October the 31st

Rather appropriately for Halloween, I suppose, I've just added Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter to the database as it includes a brief appearance from a TRS-80 Color Computer.

2008-10-23 19:14 A View IIc a Kill

There's an Apple IIc in the Bond film A View to a Kill.

2008-10-14 23:11 The Peacemaker

The Peacemaker has large numbers of SGI machines: Indys all over the place and, a Starring-the-Computer first, a few Indigo2s as well. There's also a little DEC notebook in there too.

2008-10-13 23:17 Time Traveling B205

The 1964 B-movie The Time Travelers (I want to type Travellers, but it is Travelers) has lots of lovely shots of the Burroughs B205 standing in as the time machine.

2008-10-06 13:44 Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off includes an IBM PC XT.

2008-10-02 21:15 Hogan's Heroes

The Burroughs B205 make the most fleeting of appearances in a Hogan's Heroes episode.

2008-09-25 14:00 The Machattan Project

These titles keep getting sillier! The Manhattan Project has minor roles for an Apple Mac and a, Starring-the-Computer newcomer, DEC PDP-11/40.

2008-09-24 14:00 Get Smart, Amiga!

Get Smart, Again! adds the first Commodore Amiga 1000 to the Starring-the-Computer database, along with an IBM AN/FSQ-7. We've had a recent glut of the IBMs, not through any design on my part, but simply because of the order the rental company has sent the DVDs to me. It maybe because I added them all to the rental list at once after discovering Mike Lowen's excellent web page The AN/FSQ-7 on TV and in the Movies. As you can see from that page, we still have a fair few AN/FSQ-7 appearances to go!

2008-09-20 11:58 Stand By XT

An IBM PC XT makes a brief appearance in the 1986 film Stand By Me.