We had all the tvs we needed, really, and it was the day before the shoot when I entered a second-hand store on a whim and saw the tv to end all tvs tucked away on a back shelf: a beautiful Philco Predicta. Fred had mentioned this very model in the early days of planning and I had never seen anything remotely like it in all my searching and yet... here it was. And I had already spent far too much on the set and props for this shoot. I walked away.

I went back.