TV SHOWS FEATURING LABS, SCIENTISTS, EXPERIMENTAL CONSTRUCTS

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  1. 4. single father and well-respected, beloved head of research & development dept. at soulless conglomerate Veridian Dynamics experiments on its employees, and has swayed presidential elections, created killer pandas and robots, and weaponized pumpkins
  2. 5. follows brilliant chemist who is fired from her laboratory job when she becomes a single mother in the 1950s; she takes a job hosting Supper at Six which becomes a beloved cooking show
  3. 8. follows an awkward coder-turned-reluctant CEO who challenges a corporate tech giant; show perversely captures the absurdity and ambition driving the tech worl
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  1. 1. noted physicist tests his time-project accelerator himself to keep project from being shut down. But he is instantly skewed back in time, but upon awakening, finds that he physically exists in the past, he appears to everyone as a person into whom he has "leapt"
  2. 2. follows the lives & struggles of 2 genius physicists at Cal Tech & their friends; girlfriends enter to further dismay thems
  3. 3. shows the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.
  4. 6. shows a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for all busy families is a 'Synth'--a highly-developed robotic servant so similar to real humans--is transforming how we live.
  5. 7. follows a U.S. Marshal who becomes the sheriff of Eureka, a remote Northwestern town where the best minds in the US have been secretly located to build futuristic devices for the gov't which often cause catastraphe