Abraham Lincoln in Sci-fi...how many times?

[vertpurple]

Hey everybody...I'm a big classic Twilight Zone fan and I was watching one last weekend that--because I'm working on a sci fi web series myself with Abraham Lincoln (eventually) in it--struck me particularly "hard." It's called 'Passersby.' Ever seen it?

What I'm really curious is...how many times can we count how often Abraham Lincoln has appeared in sci-fi?

I know he's featured in at least 3 classic TZ episodes. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (if you count this as sci-fi). There was that 'Vampire Hunter' movie or whatever ten years ago back if that counts. Anything else?

 

[Droflet]

He had a spot on a Star Trek TOS episode as well. Hmm, a terrible episode called (I think) The Savage Curtain.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Here's a list from Wikipedia. Not just SF though

Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Some of the more relevant ones:
The Chase, a 1965 episode of Doctor Who, played by Robert Marsden
Death Trap, a 1966 episode of The Time Tunnel, played by Ford Rainey
In the Red Dwarf episode "Meltdown", Lincoln (played by Jack Klaff) was featured as a Waxdroid in a theme park planet called Waxworld, where evil waxdroids and good waxdroids are fighting.
In Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel The Guns of the South (1992)
In Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel How Few Remain (1997)
Futurama featured different depictions of Abraham Lincoln

 

[AllanR]

We Can Build You by P.K. Dick has an Abraham Lincoln (simulacrum). They build a Stranton and a Booth as well.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Does the movie Planet of the Apes (2001) count ?

Btw I'm surprised that Sam Beckett never got to meet him.

 

[vertpurple]

He had a spot on a Star Trek TOS episode as well. Hmm, a terrible episode called (I think) The Savage Curtain.

Yeah...somebody I know loves that episode.

 

[vertpurple]

We Can Build You by P.K. Dick has an Abraham Lincoln (simulacrum). They build a Stranton and a Booth as well.

Cool. Never heard of that one.....short story I guess?

 

[vertpurple]

Does the movie Planet of the Apes (2001) count ?

Btw I'm surprised that Sam Beckett never got to meet him.

why not?

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Does the movie Planet of the Apes (2001) count ?

Btw I'm surprised that Sam Beckett never got to meet him.

I thought he could only 'leap' within his own lifetime

A quick wiki ( qwiki?) reveals

Sam Beckett - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[paranoid marvin]

I thought he could only 'leap' within his own lifetime

A quick wiki ( qwiki?) reveals

Sam Beckett - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ah , I didn't realise that. And I don't think that he ever 'leapt' outside of the US of A?

Some very good, emotional episodes, and respectful handling of some key moments in US history (from what I remember).

 

[Vladd67]

I thought he could only 'leap' within his own lifetime

A quick wiki ( qwiki?) reveals

Sam Beckett - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He did leap back to the civil war into an ancestor.

 

[Danny McG]

If you move away slightly from SF into fantasy then we see him in Night at the Museum 2

 

[BAYLOR]

Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure
Touched By An Angel
Timeless

 

[Jubal_Harshaw]

Btw I'm surprised that Sam Beckett never got to meet him.

Sam could only jump within his own lifetime. Lincoln died a bit before he was born.

 

[Vladd67]

Sam could only jump within his own lifetime. Lincoln died a bit before he was born.

See post #11

 

[Toby Frost]

The novel Lincoln In The Bardo would count as fantasy.

A robot model of Lincoln appears in the computer game Bioshock Infinite, equipped with a gatling gun.

And if that's not crazy enough, Lincoln's ghost helps the hero fight Richard Nixon in the comedy Black Dynamite.