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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Two questions on "Back to the Future"
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 17:43:03 EDT
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Summary: probably not a coincidence


In article <412@oliven.UUCP> martin@oliven.UUCP (Martin L.W. Hall) writes:
>I have an interesting question: Is November 5 .... an important day for time
>travel?  Both _Back_to_the_Future_ and _Time_After_Time_ (about H.G. Wells
>and Jack the Ripper) use that day as either a takeoff or arrival date....are
>there other movies that use this day...or is it just a coincidence?

Given the nature of _Back_to_the_Future_, it's probably not a coincidence.
There's a good chance it copied the date from _Time_After_Time_ -- there
are many such references in the movie.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108


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