The Americanization of Machiko
- Eloi Bronze Medal
- by Charlie Coffey, directed by Gilbert Shilton
- TV Episode
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Americanization of Machiko” by Charlie Coffey, directed by Gilbert Shilton (NBC-TV, USA, 11 October 1989).
In 1953, Sam steps off a bus as a sailor returning home from Japan with—surprise! to Sam and everyone else—a new bride named Machiko.
—Michael Main
“I try to find a husband . . . to find my husband”
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: August 1953
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Tethers: with an uncooperative retrieval mechanism
- Themes
- Identity Illusion
- Incorporeal Traveler: Al
- Touched by a Time Traveler: Sam touches the lives of Charlie MacKenzie, his wife Machiko, his mother, and his former girlfriend.
- Real-World Tags
- Baseball: 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
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- “The Americanization of Machiko” by Charlie Coffey, directed by Gilbert Shilton (NBC-TV, USA, 11 October 1989).