YMMV / Billion Dollar Brain

• Aluminium Christmas Trees: Suspicious about the package he's to deliver, Palmer puts the thermos into a pedoscope to get an X-Ray image of what's inside. Shoestores used pedoscopes to check the fit of shoes, before concern about cumulative radiation poisoning caused them to be abandoned.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The sign on the foot X-Ray machine: Have A Pedoscope. It's a good idea!
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Donald Sutherland plays one of Midwinter's computer technicians. He's also the uncredited voice of the computer's speech synthesizer.
  • A pre-Straw Dogs (1971) Susan George is one of the Latvian girls on the train.

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