Off-screen the 1980s was giving consumers a technological revolution - videotapes, mobile phones, home computers and video game consoles. On-screen we saw this sudden attraction to scientific exploration and life-changing tech characterised by a number of memorable scientists and inventors. Here we check out some of our favourites.
The poster boy for this niche is undoubtedly Back to the Future’s Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), the time machine inventor with the wild white hair who inadvertently sends Marty McFly on a mission into the past to ensure his mother and father fall in love. But he isn’t the only memorable character to dabble with science and similarly get into a bit of bother.
What "mad scientist" springs to mind for you?
Seth Brundle, a narcissistic but brilliant scientist, has developed a transportation device that, after initial tests, appears to only work with inanimate objects. Further development sees him successfully transport a baboon prompting him to consider using the device himself. However, when he does so, a house fly finds its way into the transportation pod with him causing his agonisingly slow transformation into a humanoid-fly crossbreed. Amongst other things, it plays havoc with his love life!
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