[GreenKeys] Teletypes featured in TV and film - UPDATED LIST

Doug kolchak1 at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 23 13:22:58 EST 2013


Thanks to Greenkeyers, and some more research on my own, we have greatly expanded the teletype film and TV list.
An updated list is below.  New submissions always welcome.

TV:
Kolchak - The Night Stalker
Lou Grant
Man From Uncle
Mary Tyler Moore
Mission Impossible (TV)
Murphy Brown
Remember WENN
The Prisoner - ‘Dance of the Dead’
Twilight Zone - ‘Where is Everybody’
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV)
WKRP in Cincinnati
Yes Prime Minister (British sitcom)


FILM:
-30-                                    1959
All the President's Men        1976
Andromeda Strain            1971
Argo                                2012
Being there                        1979
Brazil                                    1985
Colossus: The Forbin Project        1970
Dick Tracy                            1990
Fail-Safe                            1964
Good Morning Vietnam        1987
Hudsucker Proxy            1994
Ice Station Zebra            1968
The Good Shepherd        2006
The Hoax                         2006
The Rum Diary                    1990
The Spy Who Loved Me        1977
The Taking of Pelham 123        1974


MISCELLANEOUS:

The Boomtown Rats - "I Don't Like Mondays" (1979).  Lyrics contain - “The Telex machine is kept so clean”.

The Six Million Dollar Man - Their was an episode entitled “The Ghostly Teletype”, unknown if it actually featured a teletype.

Thunderbirds - “The Mighty Atom”.  British science fiction television (1965-66), using a form of marionette puppetry (supermarionation).

Twilight Zone - “Printer’s Devil”  Episode with Burgess Meredith operating a linotype machine.

Wall Street Week - "TWX in 12 Bars" teletype sampled music theme

Walter Cronkite's CBS News - row of 28RO machines in background


A few new photos have been added to my Flickr page below.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14994379@N08/

If the link does not work, just copy and paste it into your browsers search box, or go to Flickr.com, and type “kolchak teletype” in the search box.

I’m looking for a functional model 15 unit, and/or empty cabinets close to New Jersey.

Doug W.

email:  kolchak1 at yahoo dot com
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