Pre-War cards shown on TV/Movies

[JollyElm]

Did anyone mention that old movie, "Mask," yet? Rocky wanted to get his hands on a Rube Walker card. Part of his 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers collection, I believe.

[geor952]

"Mask" was mentioned, but I recall a 1973 Munson being place on his headstone after he dies. I also want to say his cards are pinned on his wall in sandwich baggies. It has been 25 yrs since I have seen this movie, I could be making it all up, but I think I am right???

[sniffy5]

Just for clarification, and maybe someone already mentioned this, the framed poster in or near George Costanza's office at Yankee stadium is a poster produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it features a selection of cards from the Burdick Collection that is housed there.

[Steve D]

An episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had Jake Sisko bidding on a 1951 Bowman Willie Mays to give to his dad on his birthday. When he didn't win it in the auction, he spent the rest of the episode trying to buy it from the guy who did win it.


Steve

[Writehooks]

In a classic second-season episode of The Fugitive (1963-67), a very young Kurt Russell, in his guest-starring role as Lt. Gerard's son, hides in Dr. Richard Kimble's car when the good doctor-on-the-run flees a police dragnet. The kid eventually reveals himself and he and Kimble agree that he won't try to make a run for it -- but in order to leave a "trail," the boy secretly starts flipping his football cards out the car window. When Kimble catches him, he confiscates the remaining cards ... then strikes up a conversation with the kid, who laments that he's never been able to pull a Johnny Unitas. In the final scene of the episode, after Kimble is back on the lam and the kid has been reunited with his parents, there's a close-up of the doc slipping a Unitas card into an envelope addressed to young Mr. Gerard.