Film: Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
President: Barbara Adams
Played by: Loretta Swit
Sex/race: Female, white
Political Career: Tries to sort out the mess when a small British island group is invaded by a communist neighbour.
Film: Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
President: Jack "Kill The Commies" Preston
Played by: Murray Hamilton
Sex/race: Male, white
Political Career: A bit of an extremist, voted out in favour of Barbara Adams.
TV Show: Whoops Apocalypse (1982)
President: Johnny Cyclops
Played by: Barry Morse
Sex/race: Male, white
Political Career: A Republican in the Reagan mould, Cylcops was a former screen actor, recently lobotomized, and often depicted as being a puppet controlled by his security advisor, the Deacon. To regain popularity he engineers World War III.
TV Show: Sliders "The Weaker Sex" (1995)
President: Hillary Clinton
Played by: Teresa Barnwell
Sex/race: Female, white
Political Career: Poor old Hillary. She only ever got the top job in an alternate reality where women rule the world. Apparently. (Teresa Barnwell is a professional Mrs Clinton lookalike who’s appeared in a number of TV shows in that role).
TV Show: Lois And Clark "Meet John Doe" (1997), "Lois and Clarks"
President: John Doe
Played by: Lane Davies
Sex/race: Male, white
Political Career: Was, in fact, the nefarious time traveller Tempus, so his policies probably weren’t much troubled by green issues.
TV Show: Lois And Clark "I Now Pronounce You…" (1996), "Meet John Doe" (1997), "Lois and Clarks"(1997)
President: Garner
Played by: Fred Willard
Sex/race: Male, white
Political Career: Was briefly replaced by a frog-eating clone impersonator.
Film: The Puppet Masters (1994)
President: Unnamed
Played by: President Douglas
Sex/race: Male, white
Political Career: Had to deal with an America invaded by mind-controlling slugs.
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TV Show: Earth II (1971)
President: Charles Carter Durant
Played by: Lew Ayers
Sex/race: Male, white
Political Career: Near future president in power when Earth II, a space station built for the purpose of scientific research and world peace, is launched.
Film: Scary Movie 3 (2003), Scary Movie 4 (2006)
President: Baxter Harris
Played by: Leslie Nielsen
Sex/race: Male, white
Political Career: Bumbling president (it’s Nielsen – shocker) faced with an alien invasion.
TV Show: Seven Days, nine episode (1998-2001)
President: Maxwell
Played by: Holmes Osborne
Sex/race: Male, white
Political Career: Got in to all kinds of political scrapes, but strangely survived them all (possibly thanks to the fact that he was in power when Operation Back Set went live – time travel can be very useful…
TV Show: Heroes, "Five Years Gone" (2007)
President: Nathan Petrelli
Played by: Adrian Pasdar
Sex/race: Male, white
Political Career: Dodgy President from an alternate future, he was actually Sylar in disguise. Not a good time to be a mutant.
TV Show: Lexx, season four (2001)
President: Reginald J Priest
Played by: Rolf Kanies
Sex/race: Male, white
Political Career: President in the near future, he’s incompetence, cowardly, sex-crazed, lazy and with a gross lack of ethics, he once blew up Orlando.
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