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In The Odd Couple II (1998), Oscar Madison (Walter Mathau) presents his childhood baseball card collection to his son Brucie (Jonathan Silverman) as a wedding present. Some of the cards are shown on screen.
My all-time favorite is an episode of The Fugitive called "Nemesis", which aired on Oct. 13, 1964. Portraying the son of intrepid detective Phil Girrard, a very young Kurt Russell hides in a getaway car driven by Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen). As Kimble drives down a remote logging road, the kid tries to leave a trail by dropping his Topps football cards out the window. Kimble figures out what's going on, and puts and end to it ... but not before he chastises the kid for tossing out a Johnny Unitas card. In the last scene of the episode, Kimble, safely out of reach of the law, is show putting a Unitas card in an envelope and addressing it to the kid ...