The best TV shows mirror our reality in some way. They may reframe it through science fiction and fantasy, or heighten certain characteristics to the point of parody, as in sitcoms or comedy sketch shows. No matter how fantastical the premises of these shows are, there has to be something real for audiences to latch…
Welcome inside the TODAY Vault, where we revisit memories from our show when celebrities and newsmakers started discourse, made us laugh or shaped our culture. This latest installment, highlighting the growth of movies based on comic books, is from June 11, 1982.
There are a number of TV shows that correctly predicted the future, but more often than not, it amounted to a lucky guess. That, or it was something that was more or less bound to happen eventually, like a certain team winning a championship or the climax of an event that was already somewhat in…
