Sequel series to the 1979 "Connections" where historian James Burke walks the viewer through the tenuous threads of history that link seemingly obscure scientific breakthroughs and the events and products that we have today. For example, why the winner of the Le Mans owes his victory to photography or what do police detectives, billiard balls, clear glass and Darwin have to do ...
The Burke Special was a TV series broadcast on BBC1 in the United Kingdom from 15 June 1972 to 13 May 1976. The host was James Burke. The show had a "circus" format, with Burke on a radio microphone walking around interacting with a studio audience that surrounded him on three sides.
Science historian James Burke roams the Hotel del Coronado, using its services as a metaphor for the neuro-chemical activity of the human brain.
With expert guests:
Dr Eugene Roberts, City of Hope Research Institute
Dr Steven M. Paul, NIMH
Dr John F. Tallman, NIMH
Dr Floyd Bloom, Neurophysiology Lab, Salk Institute
Dr Eric Kandel, Columbia University College of Physicians & Sur...
When a young woman is found lying in the street, savagely beaten and near daeth, she's taken to a big city hospital where two young doctors try to save her life. As she recovers, she refuses to talk about it, as she fears the gangster who was responsible will come after her again. Unknown to all is the fact that the gangster's chief henchman is in the hospital with orders to fi...
電力控制了20世紀生活的每一個層面，而主導人類社會運作的一切科技產品，也是非電力便不可行。一天，電力供應突然中斷，每一件事都陷入了混亂：電燈熄滅、電視罷工、電話也一片死寂，在這突如其來、永無止盡的黑暗中，人與人之間的連繫，開始逐漸瓦解，非法之徒趁機而起，每一個都市人面對這般情景，都是不知所措。
這齣帶有啟示的驚悚片，是新生代導演大衛寇普（曾為「侏羅紀公園」、「不可能的任務」編劇）的首作，描寫住在南加州近郊的一對夫婦麥特（凱爾麥克拉蘭 飾）與安妮（ 伊莉莎白 蘇 飾），一日晚上忙 偷閒，外出看電影，卻因電力中斷陷入一片混亂。好不容易回到一片漆黑的家後，女兒生病卻找不到藥房、鄰居趁機挑逗妻子、強盜趁虛而入......
導演企圖藉此片試圖檢討現代人類社會的疏離與愚蠢，試想，如果我們每天早上在黑暗中醒來，社會是否會因此瓦解崩潰呢？
