Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is the Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist who helped develop the general theory of relativity and is responsible for what is, at least arguably, the world’s most well-known equation.
Einstein has been a near regular player in cult-TV history.
His equation, E=MC2, was seen weekly, at least for a full season, on the opening montage of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone (1959 -1964). The equation appears when Serling observes that the Zone is a dimension of “mind.”
His equation, E=MC2, was seen weekly, at least for a full season, on the opening montage of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone (1959 -1964). The equation appears when Serling observes that the Zone is a dimension of “mind.”
The
physicist has appeared in person in many series, especially those involving
time travel.
In
Voyagers!
(1982 – 1983), he met time travelers Phineas Bogg (Jon-Erik Hexum) and Jeffrey
Jones (Meeno Peluce) and they saved him (and his wife) from an accident.
In
the era of the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) on Doctor Who (1963 – 1989),
Einstein was enslaved by the Rani, a Time Lord renegade, who had traveled to
Earth to attempt to build a “time brain” in the 1940s.
In
Star
Trek: The Next Generation (1987 – 1994), Lt. Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner)
played poker with Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Sir Isaac Newton – or at least
holographic representations of them – in the seventh season cliffhanger, “Descent.”
Einstein
has also appeared on Family Guy, on a poster in South
Park, and was even terrorized and tortured by the Warners on Animaniacs.
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