TV Shows/Movies featuring Cards....I'll start Hart to Hart (1982)

[sando69]

A classic movie (1985) starring cher, sam elliott & eric stoltz.
teenager, rocky dennis, with a massive skull deformity attempts to live a normal life.
much of the story line revolves around rocky completing his 1955 brooklyn dodger team set.
well worth the watch!

[mr2686]

The opening moments of the movie "Big" shows the 2 kids playing stick-ball and then sitting out front of a store opening up BB card's. They don't show which cards, but they have the classic "need it, got it, got it, need it".

[Jerry G]

Most of our members have never heard of this late 50's TV show. Anyway, Joey and Packy were baseball card collectors. When the mysterious new ranch hand shows up at the Broken Wheel, the boys notice a strange similarity between the him and a guy on one of their cards. It looked to my young eyes and my seasoned citizen's memory as a 1958 Topps style card. As it turns out, the ranch hand was the guy on the card. He had changed his name and gone underground from guilt after he beaned and killed a batter. I don't remember what role Fury played in the solution, but he always did.

This is possibly Episode 96, originally aired on October 17, 1959. Title, "The Big Leaguer". I watched Fury every Saturday morning.

By the way, 1958T's were the first cards that I collected. I still have some of them.

Hey! I just found confirmation! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0584393/?ref_=ttep_ep2

[Seven]

The Accountant with Ben Affleck has a brief scene where you see some old tobacco cards it looks like, in his trailer. I won't spoil anything for those who want to watch the movie.

There's a scene from Blast From The Past with Brendan Fraiser, where he's trying to ascertain the value of his fathers vintage collection and a card dealer tries to rip him off. Nice watch to pass the time. I think His father (played by Christopher Walken) also mentions something about having a bunch of Ty Cobb cards at the start of the movie but it's been years since I've seen it.

[jakebeckleyoldeagleeye]

Did anyone see Diminished Capacity? A big scene was at a baseball card show.

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by Seven

The Accountant with Ben Affleck has a brief scene where you see some old tobacco cards it looks like, in his trailer. I won't spoil anything for those who want to watch the movie.

There's a scene from Blast From The Past with Brendan Fraiser, where he's trying to ascertain the value of his fathers vintage collection and a card dealer tries to rip him off. Nice watch to pass the time. I think His father (played by Christopher Walken) also mentions something about having a bunch of Ty Cobb cards at the start of the movie but it's been years since I've seen it.

One of those tobacco cards in the accountant was a t206 Wagner. I doubt a real one was used though.

[Gary Dunaier]

The Larry Sanders Show, Season 6, Episode 6, "Adolf Hankler" (original airdate 4/19/98).

There's a scene where Larry's brother pays him a visit, and Larry gets out the old baseball cards. They're going through them, but all his brother wants to do is talk about investment schemes he's trying to get Larry to finance. We don't see specific cards, but I recognize backs of '65 and '87 Topps, and at the end of the scene the brother offers to buy Larry's Roberto Clemente card off him.

[ALR-bishop]

In the movie Ruby Cairo (1992) a group of baseball cards with clues left behind by a missing husband send a wife on a search for money and him.

[sbfinley]

In Memphis Belle one of the airmen kept Play Ball cards in his Bomber jacket if I remember correctly.

[ronniehatesjazz]

Originally Posted by sando69

A classic movie (1985) starring cher, sam elliott & eric stoltz.
teenager, rocky dennis, with a massive skull deformity attempts to live a normal life.
much of the story line revolves around rocky completing his 1955 brooklyn dodger team set.
well worth the watch!

Rocky Dennis was still a better looking chap than Don Mossi!

[cardsagain74]

Family Matters

Urkel trades Johnny Gill one of his two "gem mint" '52 T Mantles (so that he'll sing to Laura).

You can see the cards from a distance, and I gave them kudos for actually using the Mantle. Given that Jaleel White was a serious collector back then, I wondered if they could've possibly been real. But since it was just the third season and White hadn't been a big star for long, dunno if he would had the $$ to land those during the junk wax era

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0577147/

[TexasDan]

I remember an episode of Ray Donovan about two seasons ago when he went to the basement of a house in New York and some T205s were on the wall.

[skil55voy]

The Sandlot:

The Babe taking Aaron's 54 Rookie card. The scene at the kitchen table at breakfast and a full box of Post Cereal from 1962 with cards on back.

The box box was borrowed for the scene from Dr. James McAvoy.

[dealme]

Originally Posted by skil55voy

The Sandlot:

The Babe taking Aaron's 54 Rookie card. The scene at the kitchen table at breakfast and a full box of Post Cereal from 1962 with cards on back.

The box box was borrowed for the scene from Dr. James McAvoy.

I think there was also a '62 Lou Brock pinned up in the treehouse

[jchcollins]

It's not a tv show, but a commercial I've been trying to find forever and can't. I want to say it was a Hallmark commercial, but since I have never been able to find it on YouTube or otherwise throughout the years, it's possible I'm wrong. Anyway, this would have been from the holiday season of around 1988 if I'm remembering correctly - but the premise is there is a girl that is a baseball (softball?) player and for gifts everyone knows she's a tomboy, but it's one special uncle who gives her baseball stuff. At the end of the commercial there is a '52 Topps card (I'm not sure who...but I want to say a Cardinal...) tacked to her dresser. It was just a neat, nostalgic piece - maybe she also got a catcher's mitt for Christmas? I did too around the same time, maybe that's why I remember it so fondly.