Disco Inferno
- by Paul Brown, directed by Gilbert Shilton
- TV Episode
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Disco Inferno” by Paul Brown, directed by Gilbert Shilton (NBC-TV, USA, 27 September 1989).
Sam finds out what it’s like to be a stuntman in a family with broken dynamics and (to him but not Al) in an era with broken music.
—Michael Main
Disco’s not gonna last forever. I got a feeling it’s probably gonna die in a couple of years.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: April 1976
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Tethers: with an uncooperative retrieval mechanism
- Themes
- Identity Illusion
- Incorporeal Traveler: Al
- Touched by a Time Traveler: Saves Chad’s younger brother Chris and softens their father.
- Real-World Tags
- Gerald Ford: a small, but important, appearance on TV
- Lorne Greene: Footage from the 1974 movie Earthquake is spliced into the episode, showing Lorne Greene trying to save Sam from falling.
- Regis Philbin: left of Lorne Greene
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Disco Inferno” by Paul Brown, directed by Gilbert Shilton (NBC-TV, USA, 27 September 1989).