Susan Clark

And, yeah, he's the scientist that's dealing with Colossus.

And Susan Clark, Webster's mom, if you know your 80s sitcoms.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

She's the female scientist and everything, yeah.

Colossus, The Forbidden Project is an amazing movie that Joseph Sargent directed.

Eric Braden and Susan Clark star in it.

And it is all about an AI that takes over the world.

That's the best way to describe it.

Sure.

It's a 1970 film, Colossus, The Forbidden Project.

It starred Eric Braden and Susan Clark and a whole bunch of other great character actors.

We'll get into it as we do it.

It starred Martha MacIsaac as Emily, right?

Yes, with a much more intense adult cast around her, including Susan Clark, Sheila McCarthy, and Stephen McHattie.

So if they had the Avonlea blueprint, why didn't they just replicate it? How did the adaptation of Emily contrast with the massive pastoral machine they had already built?

The contrast was sharp and intentional.

So this week we had "Colossus: The Forbin Project," which is from 1970.

It stars Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, and Gordon Pinsent.

Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear weapons.

But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.