I thought Dr. Schreber explained all the Dark City backstory – at least, all that he could remember.
Find the Alan Smithee version. It has an extended intro with a brief history of the universe until that point, done in oil paintings no less. It made me want to read the book.
Sci-fi shows it once in a blue moon, and I have no idea if it’s out on DVD
In the orignal night of the living dead, they just mention something about a venus probe. Little more then that. I suspect this is before things got too hairy and they were able to mention this.
Or like “Shaun of the dead” where the entire day leading up to the zombie apcolypse has little snippets of impending doom(but nobodys paying any attention, except for shaun who keeps getting distracted by other things). The mention on the radio of a sat breaking up over england, the crash site on the news, the military trucks driving around.