View Today's Active Threads (No Chit Chat/Chit Chat Only) / View New Posts (No Chit Chat/Chit Chat Only) / Mark All Boards Read / Chit Chat Board
General TV News and Discussion / View Latest Threads in General TV and Sub-Forums
TV Series on DVD/Streaming News and Discussion / Fantasy TV Channels/Schedules and Fictional TV Networks / Classic TV Schedules Archive / TV Theme Songs / Theme Song Lyrics: Requests and Archive
Broadcast Networks / ABC / CBS / Fox / NBC / The CW / UPN (1995-2006) / The WB (1995-2006) / MyNetworkTV / TV Ratings
Cable TV/Digital Channels / Antenna TV / BET / Bounce TV / Canadian Channels (CHCH) / Catchy Comedy /
CMT / Comedy Central /
Cozi TV / Dabl / Disney Channel / FETV / Freeform / FX / FXX /
Great American Family /
Great Entertainment Television (Great.) (formerly Get (get.) and getTV) / Hallmark Channel / H&I (Heroes & Icons) / The Hub / IFC /
INSP / ION Television / Laff / Lifetime /
Logo TV /
MeTV / Nick at Nite / Nickelodeon / TeenNick / Oxygen / Retro TV / Rewind TV / Start TV / TBS / TNN / Spike TV / TNT / TV Land / TV One / Up TV (UPtv) / USA Network (USA) / WGN America / YTA TV (formerly GoodLife and AmericanLife)
|
|
|||||||
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
04-19-2017, 09:28 PM
|
#1 |
|
Member
Forum Idol
Join Date: Jan 09, 2001
Posts: 125,622
|
"Futuristic" TV shows of the past
How accurate were the "predictions" of past TV programs set at some point in the future? I can't really think of too many examples from TV shows (the jury is still out on The Jetsons, which was first broadcast in 1962 yet was set in 2062), but I will give one from the movies: In Back to the Future II, it was predicted that the Chicago Cubs would win the World Series in 2015. Okay, so they only missed it by a year. Not bad!
 There was however an episode of The Jeffersons in which George has a dream, and it was some time in the future (the 1990s) in his dream. He picks up a newspaper, only to see that Amy Carter (then President Jimmy Carter's young daughter) was president! 
|
|
|
|
|
|
