Released in 1981, the BBC Micro was a popular computer in the UK, particularly in education as a result of its use in a BBC computer literacy programme.
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•Ashes to Ashes - Season 3, Episode 1 (2010) •Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) •Clockwise (1986) •Code of a Killer - Season 1 (2015) •Damon and Debbie - Episode 1 (1987) •Dempsey and Makepeace - Season 2, Episode 1, "Silver Dollar" (1985) •Electric Dreams (1984) •The Fourth Protocol (1987) •Gabrielle and the Doodleman (1984) •Grange Hill - Season 11, Episode 5 (1988) •The IT Crowd - Season 1 (2006) •Loki - Season 2, Episode 5, "Science/Fiction" (2023) •Look Around You - Season 1 (2002) •Matt's Millions - Season 1 (1996) •Micro Men (2009) •Out of This World - Season 1, Episode 5 (1995) •Secret Invasion - Season 1, Episode 6, "Home" (2023) •Supergirl (1984)
The kidnapped girl's father runs a computer company called Dot Matrix, where the staff use BBC Micros to develop games.
The game's graphics are a little advanced for the BBC Micro.
A BBC Micro appears in the background of the Microplay TV show.
Mr Stimpson uses the Beeb to manage the school's timetable.
The inventor of the fingerprinting technique, Dr Jeffreys, has a BBC Micro in his laboratory.
The computer lab is equipped with a number of Beebs.
Consolidated Westmore receive a ransom demand and the team investigate with equipment including a BBC Micro.
The store that Miles buys his computer from also stocks BBC Micros.
These weren't common in the USA. Did Richard Branson take one with him, I wonder...?
On the shelves at the back, middle of the frame.
John Preston uses a Viglen-modified BBC Micro to research the recent movements of Soviet block citizens.
Gabrielle uses her father's BBC Micro to play games and it is through the computer than the Doodleman reaches her.
Gonch comes up with the idea of a PE reminder system, using one of the school's BBC computers to print reminder slips for pupils so that they do not forget their kit.
The Beeb is among the junk stacked up in the office.
There is a BBC Micro in Ouroboros's lab.
The Beeb is used in this series' title sequence - a very simple BASIC program being typed in to display "Look Around You" repeatedly..
Matt uses his BBC Micro to write a game that later earns him over a million pounds.
Acorn struggle to complete their computer for the BBC in time, but win the contract and are catapulted to success.
The computer on which Ken receives the messages is a BBC Micro he beings home from his school.
G'iah uses a BBC Micro to release the captured humans from New Skrullos.
Supergirl assumes the identity of a normal schoolgirl she calls Linda Lee. Whilst at school she joins a computer class and BBC Micros are seen at the back of the classroom.
This would have been spot on if the film was set in Britain, but the BBC Micro was a major flop in the USA.
