episode #27 - Doomsday is Tomorrow, Part 2
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episode #27 - Doomsday is Tomorrow, Part 2
BoG Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:21 pm
episode #14 of 2nd season / Air Date: 1/26/77 
written and directed by Kenneth Johnson
In the 2nd part of this doomsday threat, Jaime undergoes a self-described "duel" with a super computer named "Alex" (the Alex 7000 is the more proper name). The supervillain (Lew Ayres) has already died - though he re-appears a couple of times in videotaped messages. But, he has left a chilling legacy - his avatar / creation, Alex, will carry out his last instructions / computations, meaning the destruction of the world. The problem is actually instigated by some middle-eastern country which does not believe in the threat; it (led by David Opatoshu) conducts a nuclear bomb test and so the 6-hour countdown to doomsday begins. Jaime must make her way through 8 levels of underground construction, to about a mile beneath the surface, where she hopes to deactivate Alex. Alex, a blatant copy of HAL from 2001:A Space Odyssey, will do everything it can to prevent this. As I wrote for part one, the scope is big.
written and directed by Kenneth Johnson In the 2nd part of this doomsday threat, Jaime undergoes a self-described "duel" with a super computer named "Alex" (the Alex 7000 is the more proper name). The supervillain (Lew Ayres) has already died - though he re-appears a couple of times in videotaped messages. But, he has left a chilling legacy - his avatar / creation, Alex, will carry out his last instructions / computations, meaning the destruction of the world. The problem is actually instigated by some middle-eastern country which does not believe in the threat; it (led by David Opatoshu) conducts a nuclear bomb test and so the 6-hour countdown to doomsday begins. Jaime must make her way through 8 levels of underground construction, to about a mile beneath the surface, where she hopes to deactivate Alex. Alex, a blatant copy of HAL from 2001:A Space Odyssey, will do everything it can to prevent this. As I wrote for part one, the scope is big.