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Old 27th Mar 2017, 8:38 pm   #200
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Default Re: Technology related anachronisms on TV and in films etc.

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Just watched "Lucan" he calls a London telephone number by dialling only three digits. He'd need to dial at least seven digits.
When it comes to phone numbers there's more than just realism to consider - if someone is seen or heard to be dialling a specific valid telephone number there is always a possibility that some lonely or disturbed person will dial it.

There is good cause never to state or show anyone dialling a number which might work from anywhere to somewhere else in the world.

I seem to remember a legend that at one time all telephone numbers seen or quoted in Hollywood films would start with the digits '555...' because no real phone numbers commenced with those digits.
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