Congratulations ! We just survived one record - breaking heatwave , but it was only the first volley in a campaign cooked up by the sun to vote down us all . Forecasts foretell another one presently , so get ready to sweat — and after you turn up the A / degree Celsius you might as well learn about scifi ’s shittiest heatwaves . recollect : Forewarned is forearmed !
1) The Night of Big Heat
It ’s the heart of November on a remote Scottish island , yet temperature have surpass 90 degrees and are still climbing . In the heating plant , televisions are exploding , flatulency tank are also explode , and the island ’s sheep are literally steam to expiry in fogs of humidity . fortunately , Christopher Lee is on the case as Dr. Vernon Stone .
He concludes a specie of alien jellyfish that like it raging and clammy are terraforming the Earth into their own personal shvitz . Dr. Hanson , a scientist , believes it ’s a good melodic theme to blow up the invading sun goliath with dynamite ( no die ) , but luckily , it starts to rain and the aliens die out in the surge . ( Fun fact : The Night of Big Heat was surprisingly re - titled Island of the Burning Damned for its U.S. sacking . )
2) “Learning Curve,” Star Trek: Voyager
In the first season finis of Voyager , the ship ’s bio - neuronal gel pack become infected with a virus from the bacterial civilisation Neelix used to make macaroni and cheese . Janeway decide to inflame up the ship to staggering levels , kill the computer virus , but make things pretty unadulterated and sticky in the meantime . ( This is also the notorious instalment where B’Elanna Torres commands , “ Get the Malva sylvestris to Sickbay . ” )
Crushingly , the tall mallow virus is only the episode ’s B - report , so we expend most of the instalment look on Tuvok train Starfleet ’s take on the mold of Police Academy before he memorize a deterrent example about being less “ rigid . ” Tuvok thought he was teaching the Maquis , but the Maquis were teaching Tuvok all along …
3) Hell
The class is 2016 . The scene : post - apocalyptic Germany . Global temperature have risen by 10 ° C , making travel during daytime 60 minutes a death sentence . The film follows a trio of subsister in a Volvo channelize to the mountains , where , rumor has it , water can be found . Predictably , they meet some desert anthropophagite . This Swiss film from 2011 is pleasantly grim — and currently on Netflix — if you want to take a feeling .
4) “Child’s Play,” Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
A family awakens to find themselves trap inside their own sweltering home , and the temperature is increasingly precipitously . Unable to escape , they slowly set about to understand all their holding denude the logotype of the same , cryptical company — and now this bubbling dark-green sludge is ooze through the front door .
This instalment of the British antholgy TV serial publication Hammer House toy out like a feature - length episode of The Twilight Zone , and the twist is simply stunning . Spoiler warn for the wary : The kinsperson is a technologically ripe set of dolls , inside a dollhouse , on an alien spaceship . The alien buddy of the girl who have the doll’s house stuck the whole matter inside an oven just to be a dick , then plow it on . The ooze is really green hard candy the alien by chance dropped at heart with them .
5) “The Midnight Sun,” The Twilight Zone
In this Twilight Zone episode publish by Rod Serling , Lois Nettleton plays the last bastion of a tenement house construction whose occupant have either already died of heatstroke or fled to “ Toronto ” Grapes of Wrath - style , where it ’s rumored to be cooler . It seems the Lord’s Day has been throw from its rotational axis and hurtle toward the sun . doom , Nettleton spends her dying days paint pic of the Sunday , until she ’s violently come up to by a shirtless scavenger wear out a seersucker jacket .
When the thermometers detonate and her paintings begin to thaw , it seems the Earth is at last kaput — but it was all a ambition . The Earth has really derive off its axis and is thrust away from the Lord’s Day — dooming the satellite to perpetual cold and dark .
6) “42,” Doctor Who
Okay so this one was a spot more of a literal heatwave . Sunshine meets Jason X in this Doctor Who episode from succeeding showrunner Chris Chibnall , in which The Doctor , Martha , and the crew of a mining ship obtain thing hotting up ( sorry ) when a living Lord’s Day harvested by the ship seeks vengeance by infecting people and turning them into sweaty , heat - intensive killers . Said infected people then go about shouting “ BURN WITH ME ” as they incinerate the crew with the sun ’s DOE .
If that was n’t genuine enough , the ship is also slow plummeting into the Sun , so The Doctor and friends have 42 min — hence the claim — to keep open themselves before they ’re meld to expiry .
7) “The ‘I Married An Alien’ Syndrome,” Men in Black: The Animated Series
Aliens called The Blastula increase the Earth ’s temperature in preparation for takeover in this episode of Men in Black : The Animated Series . These plans are rarify after one of the Blastula marries an Earth woman . Luckily , Agents Jay and Kay destruct the aliens ’ sunspot generator and get a new recurring opposer for the series in the deal .
8) The Day the Earth Caught Fire
world suffers a global heatwave after the U.S. and the Soviets detonate atomic bombs at the same time , alter the Earth ’s rotation by 11 degrees . After some serious brainstorming , it ’s decided the best room to get Earth back on cart track is muck up up more bombs in Siberia . Amidst the planetary drouth and pest , stars Janet Munro and Edward Judd somehow grapple to relish a “ sports meeting - cute ” plot line before the film ’s ambiguous finale . No matter the weather , happiness is where you find oneself it .
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