Hackers in the Media, List start: 10/28/92 - Doomsday.
Sneakers, Fall '92
- - 'mysterious crypto black box that deciphers anything'
WarGames, Spring 1984(5?)
- - Computer Whiz breaks into Norad, and nearly blows the world up
MacGyver, Spring Episodes, 1990
- - young computer hacker saves the day by bypassing
security/alarms/doors
Night Court, Old series (90?)
- - Young computer whiz threatens school records, credit reports, ad
naseum for attention
Batman Returns/Batman (92, 91 respectively)
- - Michele Pfeifer (Catwoman) guesses secret access code, computerish
incompetent, Batman taps into everything imaginable – more fictional than hackertype.
Lawnmower man (92)
- - "Someone is hacking the mainframe and putting 3 digit cipher locks
on all outgoing lines, we're cut off from the net!"
Mr. Bogus - Cartoon, Limited syndication WLVI (56 - Boston)
Mr. Bogus, bleeps into a computer and hunts out a virus, and combats
it.
Duck Tales (Disney Afternoon) 92
- - Scrouge and other go into the computer to recover his money that has
been moved electronically by the Beagle Boys (Guh)
Weird Science:
- - Teenage kids, accessing some secret project are able to create a
women – Far fetched, but the concept is there
[ed: Ok, I'm grasping here… Give me a break] Bloom County (Syndicated column, name change, Outland)
- - Oliver 'Technical whiz hacker' does neat-o tricks… Genius.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- - (Syndicated Cartoon, Nationwide) Common 'hacking into computer
themes. Donnatello maybe? I confuse those blasted turtles.
Foxtrot
- - Instances of main character changes things in school records, blah.
News Shows: 20/20, Dateline NBC, Nightline… A current affair, Donahue