PINBALL ON TV

All In The Family	Merry-Go-Round, Gottlieb, 1960	Judging Books By Covers	Kelsie's Bar (*pin is missing backdoor, cabinet pretty beat)
All In The Family	Firecracker, Bally, 1970	?	Kelsie's Bar
All In The Family	Jungle, Gottlieb, 1972	?	Kelsie's Bar
All In The Family	Disco, Stern, 1977	Archie Gets The Business	Kelsie's Bar
The Anna Nicole Show	Funhouse, Williams, 1990	The Date (final ep. season 1)	pin is seen sideways in Anna Nicole's home when her date is ringing the doorbell.
Archie's Place	Hit The Deck, Gottlieb, 1978	assorted episodes	Archie Bunker's Place
The Bernie Mac Show	Mousin' Around!, Bally, 1989 and ?	Kelly's Heroes(episode #20)	arcade scene(19 minutes into the episode)
The Best D**n Sport Show	Silver Slugger, Gottlieb, 1990	________	in the background, no particular episode.
Beverly Hills 90210	Earthshaker, Willilams, 1989	Earthquake Weather	scene in the KEG house, Steve's playing the game in total ecstasy with the shaker rumbling and doesn't realize there is a real earthquake before lights go out.
Brilliant (aka The Fast Show)	The Simpsons, Data East, 1990; The Addams Family, Bally, 1992 and Whitewater, Williams, 1993	season 1, episode 5	second half of the show there is a sketch where a guy goes thru an arcade with 5 pins and lots of other games.
Challenge Of The Superfriends	An ice planet with a section as a pinball machine, created by Toyman to trap Black Vulcan, Hawkman, and Wonder Woman.	________	DVD, episode, "The World's Deadliest Game" Quotes: "Great lightning! What's that?" Black Vulcan "It looks like a giant pinball!" Hawk Man "But first we'll have a little flipper action." Toy Man "Wonder Woman in the hole. I get a thousand points and a free ball." Toy Man
Chapelle's Show	South Park, Sega, 1999	"Mad Real World" skit, episode 6, 14 min. into show.	apt. scene
China Beach	Royal Flush, Gottlieb, 1976	?Home? (not 100% sure this is the title of the correct episode)	Bar scene
Coach	Travel Time, Williams, 1973	?	?
Columbo	Flying Carpet, Gottlieb, 1972 4 Square, Gottlieb, 1971 and ?	The Conspirators	two different scenes where Columbo and the villian are discussing the case while they are both playing pinball in the suspect's home. They are using dimes instead of quarters to play the pins.
Der Alte (The Old One)	High Speed, Williams, 1986 Comet, Williams, 1985 Monte Carlo, Premier, 1987	"Die Braut ohne Gedächnis" (Bride without Memory)	bar scene in the beginning of the episode with the bad guys having a meeting
Der Alte (The Old One)	Contact, Williams, 1978	"Ende mit Schrecken" (End of Fear)	about 10 min. into the episode, with the obnoxious P.I. Uwe Weissman in a pub playing darts, and after leaving the pub is shot dead in his car. The game is seen a few times in the background and once or twice when the homicide squad is questioning the couple keeping the pub.
Der Alte (The Old One)	Centaur, Bally, 1981	"Kälter als der Tod" (Colder than Death)	murder house scene, seen 4-5 times throughout the episode.
Dragnet(the new)	Whirlwind, Williams, 1990	"The Redemption"	bar scene about halfway through episode.
Dukes Of Hazzard	Space Odyssey, Williams, 1976 and ?Bon Voyage, Bally, 1974 Capt. Fantastic, Bally, 1975; Freedom, Bally, 1975; Lost World, Bally, 1977	One Armed Bandits (episode #1)	DVD, scene 2, 11 min. into episode, Boar's Nest. DVD, 26 min. into episode, Civic house, right behind bartender. (in this episode, watch for the junkyard scene when Bo & Luke meet up with Cooter and some other guys to cut off the guys bringing in the slot machines. Cooter drives out of the junkyard in a Starsky and Hutch Gran Torino!)
Dukes Of Hazzard	Flying Carpet, Gottlieb, 1972 and ? a Gottlieb wedgehead with a blue and red musical note on the side of the head.	Luke's Love Story(episode #7)	DVD, 2 minutes into episode, Boar's Nest, Flying Carpet is in the corner and about 30 min. into episode, other Gottlieb cabinet is seen. Backglass lit at a distance is shown at beginning of episode.
Dukes Of Hazzard	Lawman or possibly Sheriff, Gottlieb, both 1971	?	Boar's Nest bar
Dukes Of Hazzard	Jungle, Gottlieb, 1972	?	Boar's Nest bar
ER	?	?	Carter is in a convienence store and there is a robbery and the crooks try to escape by climbing on a pin and going out the ceiling, but one falls back and crashes into the playfield glass
Friends	Funhouse, Williams, '90 Surf 'N Safari, Gottlieb, '91 The Getaway: High Speed II, Williams, '92	season finale(air date, 5/15/03)	Last half of the show-- Chandler, Monica, Mike, and Phoebe go downstairs in the hotel gameroom for some Ping Pong. The Getaway pin has an out of order sign on it.
The George Carlin Show	?	George Plays A Mean Pinball(air date, 5/8/94)	?
Good Times	Circus, Bally, 1973	Florida Goes To School	James is playing the pin at a local bar, he bumps it a few times, all the lights blink in the head, a sign pops up from the back of the head and says, "Right On!"
Happy Days	Pro-Football, Gottlieb, 1973	Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (featuring Laurette Spang from Battlestar Galactica)	Pin seen beside jukebox, by the bathroom. This episode, #9, is the first episode with a pin, with others to follow. Keep in mind, Pro-Football was made in 1973, the show first aired in 1974, and it takes place around 1955.
Happy Days	Klondike, Williams, 1971	Because She's There(episode #11)	Ritchie plays the pin. You get a good glimpse of the Klondike logo and some of the art and Fonz reaches behind the game head and uses his pocket knife to rack up points so Ritchie can get a replay.
Happy Days	Nip-It, Bally, 1972 and a pitch and bat pin.	Who's Sorry Now?(episode#19)	The unknown pitch and bat is used in a flashback scene that takes place in a diner, same footage used to feature some Happy Days characters in the sitcom "Love, American Style." The pin's cabinet has crescent shapes with stars. I have no idea what it is.
Happy Days	Time Zone, Bally, 1973	Fonzie moves in(episode #40)	pin is featured at "Arnold's"
Happy Days	Nip-It, Bally, 1972	Arnold's Wedding	watch closely for a slightly blurred shot of the backglass in this episode, it's fake. It shows a crocodile, and the words Nip It, and that's it. The other episodes showed the original glass.
Homicide	Popeye Saves The Earth, Bally, 1994	?	?
In Living Color	Mata Hari, Bally, 1978	episode #22, "Detective Head Goes Bowling"	about 4 1/2 minutes into episode, bowling alley bar.
The Invisible Man	Centigrade 37, Gottlieb, 1977	The Invisible Woman	about 10 mins. into the episode, Fawkes is playing the pin in a bar where he is to meet Mei Ling, the invisible woman. Even original Gottlieb chimes are present. Fawkes seems to be familiar with the early Gottlieb coin door way of sometimes having reject coins far away in the reject return slot, because after he has played, he examines the slot thorougly with his fingers.
The Jeffersons	Gun Smoke, Chicago Coin, 1968	?	the characters are in a "cowboy bar" and in a couple of scenes, you can just barely make out a pin in the distance.
The Jeffersons	Genie, Gottlieb, 1979	Alley-Oops	George is in charge of a bowling team. Look behind him and you will see the pin.
Kojak	King Of Diamonds, Gottlieb, 1967, 8 Ball, Williams, 1966 and ?	One For The Morgue	DVD, pool hall, 37 min. into episode. One other pin also shown
Law & Order	Genesis, Premier, 1986	?	bar scene
Mad About You	Monte Carlo, Bally, 1973	The Painter (episode 22)	DVD, 7 min. into episode, Paul and his cousin Ira play this pin in a bar.
Mannix	???? baseball themed woodrail pin with players on a dirt field with numbers 1-5, etc. on the top of the glass.	Sunburst	Mannix enters from the back entrance to the restaurant to get the bad guys. As he goes in the back door, through the store room, you can see the left side of the head of a woodrail pin barely.
M.A.S.H	Heat wave, Williams, 1964	?	?
Mr. Belvedere	Fireball, Bally, 1971	Pinball (air date, 11/29/85)	the family buys a pinball machine and Mr. Belvedere, their butler, gets so hooked on it, they have to get rid of it. The show ends with Mr. Belvedere going over the edge and playing one at the arcade, where the family arrives to take him back to reality.
My Wife & Kids	Stars, Stern, 1978	?	rec room or possibly garage
Nash Bridges	Liberty Bell, Williams, 1977	?	Don Johnson shoots a guy in his apartment who is trying to rape his daughter on a pool table.
Quantum Leap	Gottlieb, 1970's baseball pin????	?	In the corner of the malt shop place where all the other leapers are
Rhoda	Grand Slam, Gottlieb, 1974	I'll Be Loving You, Sometimes	Valerie Harper and Howard Hesseman at arcade
SCTV	Airport, Gottlieb, 1969	season 6 episode: segment, "Happy Marsden Hour"	Kids show which takes place in a bar. They show a cheesy cereal called "Six Gun Justice." Look for a clear shot of this pin as Happy gets trashed and bumps into the wall.
SCTV	Wild Fyre, Stern, 1978 Black Knight, Williams, 1980	season 6 episode: segment, "Al Peck's Hardware Store"	Al features outdated electronics in a sale called "Dinosaur Days." CB's, 10/$4.00(10-4, get it), 8 tracks free. Al comments how pinball is outdated, and we see the two pins, clean and working. He says, "Make an offer and I'll throw in a Pong for the kids."
Seinfeld	Fireball, Bally, 1971(just the backglass)	"The Serenity Now"(episode #159)	Elaine is in the room of a 13 year old kid who had kissed her at his Bar Mitzvah, explaining to him that she's too old for him. Behind the kid a Bally Fireball backglass is clearly seen for a few seconds.
Starsky And Hutch	Grand Slam, Gottlieb, 1972	Pilot (season 1, episode #1)	DVD, scene 2, 5 min. into episode, bar scene (*Grand Slam shows up in Huggy Bear's bar starting with episode 2)
Starsky And Hutch	Pro-Football, Gottlieb, 1973 and Twin Joker, Bally, 1972	Savage Sunday (season 1, ep. #2)	DVD, scene 3, 18 min. into episode, Huggy Bear's bar
Starsky And Hutch	El Toro, Bally, 1970 and Winner, Williams, 1972, and a bingo with a blue cabinet and a head with a bowling pin painted on it.	Savage Sunday (season 1, ep. #2)	DVD, scene 3, 25 min. into episode, Monty's bar, fight scene.
Starsky And Hutch	Pro-Football, Gottlieb, 1973 and El Toro, Bally, 1970	The Fix (season 1, episode #5)	DVD, scene 5, 40-45 min. into episode, bar scene (this is a different bar from episode #2. Notice how the same pins showed up on different sets for this show.
Starsky And Hutch	El Toro, Bally, 1970 and Grand Slam, Gottlieb, 1972	Snow Storm (season 1, episode #6)	DVD, scene 2, 9 min. into episode, Huggy Bear's place. Grand Slam shows up in scene 6, 48 min. into episode, also at Huggy Bear's.
Starsky And Hutch	? Williams pitch and bat. White cabinet with green baseball field, pitcher and batter painted black.	Kill Huggy Bear (season 1, episode #9)	DVD, scene 3, 22 min. into episode, Huggy Bear's. Two thugs show up to beat up and/or kill Huggy Bear. One lifts up the pitch and bat, and throws it down, breaking the head off the game.
Starsky And Hutch	Key West (bingo), Bally, 1956; Wild West, Chicago Coin, 1961; Captain Kid, Midway, 1966; Twin Rifle, Chicago Coin, 1971; Texas Ranger, Chicago Coin, 1963; Helicopter, Sega, 1968; Speedway, Chicago Coin, 1969; Hot Line, Williams, 1966; Spanish Eyes, Williams, 1972; Jumping Jack, Gottlieb, 1973; Summer Time, Williams, 1973; Triple Action, Williams, 1974; Grand Slam, Gottlieb, 1972; El Toro, Bally, 1970; Pro-Football, Gottlieb, 1973 and maybe a few others I missed?	The Bait (season 1, episode #10)	DVD, scene 2, 9 min. into episode, arcade scene, featuring a bunch of EM skill games and pinball machines.
Starsky And Hutch	Soccer, Gottlieb, 1975; Pro-Football, Gottlieb, 1973 and about 3 others too distant to identify. There is also a juke that lights up purple, 70's style cabinet, possibly a Seeburg SPS2.	Captain Dobey, You're Dead (season 1, episode #12)	DVD, scene 2, 10 min. into episode, Mac's Pool Room, a few pins and a jukebox.
Starsky And Hutch	King Pin, Gottlieb, 1973, Time Zone, Bally, 1973, Monte Carlo, Bally, 1973	The Psychic (season 2, episode 11)	DVD, 38 min. into episode, Don's Arcade
S.W.A.T	Nip-It, Bally, 1972	The Killing Ground	DVD, scene 2, 26 min. into episode, bar scene
That 70's Show	Future Spa, Bally, 1979	?	Background of a pop shop.
That 70's Show	Travel Time, Williams, 1973	?	?
24	Night Rider,(EM) Bally, 1976	5:00-6:00 PM(season 1)	DVD, 17 min. into episode, kidnapper's house