TODAY'S TIDDLYWINKYDINK: AE-TV

November 9, 1921:
Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.

From Wikipedia:

The photoelectric effect is a quantum electronic phenomenon in which electrons are emitted from matter after the absorption of energy from electromagnetic radiation such as x-rays or visible light. The emitted electrons can be referred to as photoelectrons in this context. The effect is also termed the Hertz Effect, due to its discovery by Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, although the term has generally fallen out of use.

Albert Einstein will soon be seen in Toobworld again, portrayed by Andy Serkis [pictured, left] in "Einstein And Eddington". (David Tennant, the current 'Doctor Who', will be playing Eddington.) Like Lincoln and Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein has had enough incarnations in TV movies and episodes of TV series to populate several of the alternate TV dimensions.

(The basic Toobworld idea regarding such distribution is that appearances in TV show episodes should remain in the main Toobworld, no matter how convoluted the splainin to keep them there. TV movies can be relegated to a different dimension each.)

Looking through the list of actors who have played Einstein on TV over the years, some of them were only fantasies in dream sequences, or people in costume as the man. (Let's face it - with that bushy mustache and mop of hair, he was probably the most recognizable man of science ever!) In the case of his appearance in the 'Star Trek' franchise, he was a holographic projection.

Here is a partial list of actors who have portrayed Albert Einstein on television:

Tálvialdis Abolins

. . . Albert Einstein (1990)

Nathan Adler

. . . "Voyagers!" (1982) {The Travels of Marco... and Friends (#1.9)}

Vincenzo Amato

. . . Einstein (2008)

Dee Bradley Baker

. . . "Fairly OddParents, The" (2001) {Boy Toy/Inspection Detection (#2.3)}

Peter Boretski

. . . Day One (1989)

Robert Budaska

. . . "Phil of the Future" (2004) {Good Phil Hunting (#2.11)}

George Coe

. . . "Celebrity Deathmatch" (1998) {New Celebrity Deathmatch: Bigger & Better Then Ever (#5.1)}

Fred Düren

. . . Ende der Unschuld (1991)

Martin Friend

. . . "Red Dwarf" (1988) {Meltdown (#4.6)}

. . . "Time Shift" (2002) {Parallel Worlds: A User's Guide}

Joseph Golland

. . . "Man Called Intrepid, A" (1979)

Elliott Gould

. . . "Mentors" (1998) {The Genius (#1.1)}

Harold Gould

. . . "Touched by an Angel" (1994) {The Face of God (#7.22)}

Takkô Ishimori

. . . "Animaniacs" (1993)

Arte Johnson

. . . "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures" (1992) {Stand Up Guy (#1.8)}

Joachim Król

. . . Mensch Einstein (2005)

Denis Manuel

. . . "Race for the Bomb" (1987)

Aidan McArdle

. . . "Nova" (1974) {Einstein's Big Idea (#32.13)}

Ed Metzger

. . . "Everybody Hates Chris" (2005) {Everybody Hates Being Cool (#3.19)}

. . . "Newton's Apple" (1983) {Muscles and Bones/Einstein/Falling Stars Chat/Raptor Center (#3.10)}

(also the theatrical film "Joe's Rotten World" from 1995)

Jim Norton

. . . "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) {Descent: Part 1 (#6.26)}

. . . "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) {The Nth Degree (#4.19)}

Ronald Pickup

. . . "Einstein" (1984)

Boleslaw Plotnicki

. . . "Wojna domowa" (1965) {Sila wyobrazni (#1.15)}

Andrew Sachs

. . . "Horizon" (1964) {Einstein: Fame}

. . . Einstein Revealed (1996)

Maximilian Schell

. . . "Giganten" (2007) {Einstein - Superstar der Wissenschaft (#2.2)}

Orlando Seale

. . . "Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells, The" (2001)

Andy Serkis

. . . Einstein and Eddington (2008)

Paul Soles

. . . Einstein: Light to the Power of 2 (1996)

Stuart Weiss

. . . "Teen Angel" (1997) {Honest Abe and Popular Steve (#1.5)}

BCnU!
Toby O'B