More Trivia: Katerina "Katia" Lycheva (aka "Soviet Sam") didn't like ROCKY IV. And conservative columnist George Will referred to both Samantha Smith and Lycheva as victims of "child-mongering."
GOLDEN GIRLS episode that aired on Halloween 1987 written by Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan was clearly inspired by Samantha Smith and her correspondence with Andropov.
Bonus late period Cold War jokes from The Golden Girls episode, "Letter to Gorbachev" [NBC, S3:E6, 10/31/87].
The peace-seeking, letter-writing "Jeremy" (Damian McLawhorn) in SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE (1987) was clearly inspired by Samantha Smith. Jeremy's letter to Superman (at least for a little while) gets results!
GOLDEN GIRLS episode that aired on Halloween 1987 written by Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan was clearly inspired by Samantha Smith and her correspondence with Andropov.
Bonus late period Cold War jokes from The Golden Girls episode, "Letter to Gorbachev" [NBC, S3:E6, 10/31/87].
The peace-seeking, letter-writing "Jeremy" (Damian McLawhorn) in SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE (1987) was clearly inspired by Samantha Smith. Jeremy's letter to Superman (at least for a little while) gets results!
“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” — Marshall McLuhan, from Culture Is Our Business, 1970