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Starring the Computer is a website dedicated to the use of computers in film and television. https://starringthecomputer.com/ Run by @jfc.org.uk.

In "Justice", the police show Will the footage implicating him in the murder of Alan Marsh on a Dell Latitude D5X0.
In "Dodger, Bonzo & the Rest", Dodger's accomplice has a CPC 6128 that he uses to show Dodger the merchandise.
Lisa uses an PC 6300 in her father's burger restaurant in "Coming to America".
Raymond and Amy uses a PS/2 to investigate the financial backgrounds of a crooked cop and his wife in "Internal Affairs".
In "Rambo: First Blood Part I", the base in Thailand from which the mission to find the PoWs is launched is equipped with GEC 635 panels.
In "The Blues Brothers", the Illinois Bureau of Investigation has an H100 computer that they use to track the movements of Jake and Elwood.
In "Death in Paradise", Seb and Mattie search the murdered woman's house and check her search history on her Macintosh SE/30.
Crockett uses an Amiga 1000 to work on his case files in "Miami Vice".
Malcolm and Reese get a hand-me-down computer from their neighbour Ed in "Malcolm in the Middle".
Purdey uses a Model 770 Intelligent Terminal in the headquarters of the Canadian security services in "The New Avengers".
In "Mission: Impossible", UNIVAC 1108 panels form part of the computer system in the mocked-up future command centre.
Jennifer and her room-mate have an iMac G3 in their college dorm room in "Boys and Girls".
Magnum visits a travel agency to track down a queue where the saleswoman uses an EX100.
In "The Rebound", Sandy discovers her husband has been cheating by finding a video on her iMac.
n "Terror Out of the Sky", the scientists use a TRS-80 model 1 to analyse the characteristics of the bees and determine that they are the strain they feared.
Against Paul's wishes, Caroline installs some mailing list management software on the office Amiga 500, but the disk has a virus.
There is an Apple IIe in the fire-house by the ghost containment unit.
In "Cheers", Rebecca moves into Robin's apartment where she finds a PS/2 printing out sensitive company information he stole from her.
A Commodore PET appears in a office that Purdey searches in "The New Avengers".
In "Accepted", the school's classrooms are equipped with eMacs.
Martin uses a Compaq Contura 400c in the court room in "Primal Fear".
Tony and Marty go to Willard's summer house to write what they have learned using an Acorn Archimedes.
In "Poke" the computer that is the main focus of the plot is a VIC-20.
Jack and his colleagues investigate the cause of an explosion killing a large number of drug barons using an Intergraph Interpro 2020 in "Clear and Present Danger".
In "New Police Story", the gang uses a Sony VAIO TR to keep score of their kills and to research Chan's background.
In "Motherhood", Eliza uses her iBook G4 for her writing.
In "Virtual Desire", Brad uses his Macintosh Performa 575 to communicate with the women.
In "Pursued", Ben uses his original Alienware Area 51-M to research Vincent's background and to track him.
One of the lawyers in mediation uses a Toshiba T4600C laptop.
In "Mercury Rising", Simon decodes a message on an HP Vectra XM at the library.
In "Silver Spoons", Rick writes a computer program to predict the outcome of football matches on his Apple II.
The school's headmaster has a PC XT on his desk in "To Sir, with Love II".
The US Marshal's base at the escape site has an unused IBM PS/2.
George has a Compaq Deskpro XE on this desk in his office at work in "Seinfeld".
Koma uses an Atari ST to compose his music in "Kako je propao rokenrol".
UNIT is equipped with an 405 panel in "Day of the Daleks".
In "Dark Star", nne of the crew, Talby, uses the ship's computer using an AGT control panel to locate the ship's malfunction.
Julia uses a Powerbook to write her speeches in "Speechless".
Jack uses a Toshiba T8500 to build up a photofit of one his prime suspects in "Another 48 Hrs.".
Martin uses his secondary school's Commodore PET to do his research in "Codename Icarus".
The police use an Inspiron for various tasks including surveillance in "The Departed".
In "Back Mirror" the 1990s the office of the games developer has a Acorn RISC PC.
The East Germans use a Robotron A5120 to monitor the bugs in "Deutschland 83".
Angela uses a Power Mac 7100 at a trade show to email evidence to the FBI and to shutdown the Praetorian's systems with a virus.
Mandy uses her iBook G3 to research her dream phone and too look at her crush's profile in "Picture This".
In Ted Kord's house the group encounter his old "Blue Beetle" lair in which there is a Commodore Plus/4.
Leigh Ann has a Macintosh SE in her bedroom in "Teaching Mrs Tingle".
Professor Kirrin has an ICT 1301 on Kirrin Island that he uses to do his research in "The Famous Five".
Johnny uses an Apple PowerBook G4 to research the people he sees in his visions.
Frankie's wife Isabella reorganises Julian's patient files using a Powerbook 5300 in "The Don's Analyst".
There is an Amiga 1000 for sale in the computer store that Ted visits.
Paul sits in a classroom full of Apple IIs in "Armageddon Time".
The native people look at Michael's Compaq LTE Elite with interest in "Jungle 2 Jungle".
Jessica uses her Toshiba T3300SL to do research for her latest book in "Murder, She Wrote".
Preston tries to get help from the police using an Apple Powerbook G4 in "Abominable".
IBM PS/2 in "Look Who's Talking Too".