******MAINFRAME-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Two years after the homicidal HAL 9000 made its debut in “2001: A Space Odyssey” and 14 years before Skynet is mentioned in “The Terminator,” there was a lesser known but equally dangerous supercomputer-based artificial intelligence known as “Colossus: The Forbin Project” (1970). Based on the book “Colossus” by Dennis Feltham Jones (1918-1981),…
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Retro-Musings for the Holidays: TV’s Happy Days; “Guess Who’s Coming to Christmas?” (1974)…
*****CATHODE-RAY TUBE SPOILERS!!***** As I did with legendary TV producer Norman Lear’s recent passing, I’m taking a brief break from this site’s usual sci-fi/fantasy/horror fare for a look at a classic episode of the old sitcom, “Happy Days.” Happy Days began as a 1972 segment of the then-popular TV comedy anthology series, “Love, American Style”…
