Similar to Escape From New York, depicts a portion of New York sealed off from the rest of the city and handed over to street gangs. The series correctly predicted that parliamentary speeches would be televised by 1990. At this time, the United States had its own equivalent of the National Health Service. The Isle of Man declared independence prior to 1990. There were major riots in 1985 as a result of 18,000 houses being demolished and ghettos being established in their place. The House of Lords was abolished and converted into a dining club. The House of Commons has only 400 MPs and only 20% of the population voted in the last general election. The government is attempting to curb population.
The Magna Carta, the Constitution and habeas corpus were "thrown out." There was a failed coup to overthrow the regime in 1986. In 1990, poverty and starvation are rampant in the US.Ī bureaucratic dictatorship has ruled the UK since it went bankrupt in 1983.
Written at a time when trade unions in the United Kingdom had reached a peak of power prior to the union-breaking policies of Margaret Thatcher, it predicts a 1985 in which the UK is completely in thrall to unions, and unions exist for every conceivable profession. Adapted into several media, including twice for film once in 1956 and once in 1984. Refers to several dates throughout the latter half of the 20th century, including a nuclear war in the 1950s. Set in a dystopian future in which totalitarian superstates exist in a state of perpetual war. ĭepicts a world in which political uprisings cause the collapse of the US in 1900. In the TV series, the scientists are sent back to 2015 to try to stop the virus pandemic from happening in 2017.
Per the opening titles in the film, "Five billion people died in 19, almost the entire population of the world.
Scientists are sent back in time to try to stop the spread of a virus. This episode accurately predicted that the Y2K bug would not turn off "a single lightbulb." The Millennium Gate, a self-contained biosphere, was completed in 2012. Austria is still being closely watched over by the Allies, 55 years after the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II.
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