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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