Television:

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The Food That Built America [History Channel] (2020) Episode 5. Refers to the changing world and radio.

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Emergence (2020) Clancy Brown(Earth 2,The Flash), Donald Faison(Scrubs), Allison Tolman) In Episode 10, "15 Years", Ham radio is used to contact the AI little girl, Piper.

Rim Of The World (2019) [Netflix] A cute,but not for little kids,sci-fi,coming of age,adventure series. It had radios and Morse Code. Also it had a multitude of sci-fi references in it.

Stranger Things [Netflix]: ( 2016): (Winona Rider,Matthew Modine,David Harbour, Finn Wolfhar,Millie Bobby Brown) In the first episode it immediately starts off showing the kids with their science teacher getting a new ham radio. Many of the episodes actually feature them using the Ham radio!

Supernatural: (2015): (Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles) In season 8, Episode "Everybody Hates Hitler", we are introduced to the Supernatural "BatCave". They mention and show for the first time a ham radio which is in their set until they leave this location many episodes later. Other episodes which obviously "PacMan Fever"season 8, episode 20, "Sacrifice" season 8, episode 23, and "Do you believe in Miracles?"season 9 episode 23, among others.

Ascension:  (2014): (Tricia Helfer, Ryan Robbins) In the final episode one line states, "Unless you want all the Ham operators in the World to hear us...".

The Last Ship: (2014): (Adam Baldwin, Rhona Mitra,Kevin Kent,Travis Van Winkle, Jocko Sims, Eric Dane) In "Welcome to Gitmo", ham radio communications are mentioned, and then in "We'll Get There", the show's 4th episode there is a scene that shows the Captain and first Officer listening to Ham radio transmissions and then the captain talking about his dad having been a ham.

The Flash (2014) uses police and ht radios in various scenes.

Metal Hurlant Chronicles (2012) "Shelter Me", James Marsters (Spike from Buffy) has a ham radio in his bomb shelter that he and his guest try to use after a nuclear bombing.

Arrow (2012-2014): Many of Oliver Queen's,  undeserted island flashbacks have him with various radio scenes.

Prison Break (2007) Season 3, episode 8, "Bang and Burn", has a pretty cool looking base station fake ham radio in it.

Enterprise  (2001-2005) almost every episode of this has a radio or radio theory reference! Sometimes the theory is off,

but I loved this series the second time around- after I became a ham!

Married with Children- Season 5 episode 12 "Married...With Who?" (1991)(Just got this one referred from AB6HB- Haven't ever seen it yet)

Last Man Standing Baxter is a Ham and the series has actually had a Ham event on their set on the air (with PAPAS)! And a bunch of the people on the set have gotten their ham licenses! Episode where daughter talks on  ham radio extensively.

in the 9/23/16 episode at the end of the episode Mike's 2 minute dialog is set clearly in front of his ham radio rig, QSL cards etc.

Touch episode 8 season 1 "Zone of Exclusion"

Fringe: episodes "6995 kHz" & "The Recordist"

BBC's "Kingdom": series 3 episode 2-  sub story line where people on their radios are playing like they are extra terrestrials!

NCIS Uses police radios a lot of course, as do most Police /Detetive and Law oriented shows.

Burn Notice uses a lot of radios and radio "technology".

Gilligan's island

ALF

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (2005–2008) 

Dilbert  Flashback about "The Knack" references Dilbert using parts to build a ham radio ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlJsPa6UwcM ) 

The Simpsons  In one (unnamed) episode Principal Seymour (as WA3QIZ) tries to call out to fellow hams, but is interrupted by his mother.

   "Missionary Impossible" Homer has a ham radio on the island that he is a missionary on. Again in "Homer's Paternity Coot", Homer uses a Ham radio.

Futurama episode "1ACV03", Fry makes the following comment about Bender's antenna: "But it's a useless antenna, it's not like he's a ham radio or something." And the episode "Roomate" talks about Bender's Antenna causing radio interference.  Along this vein...

My favorite Martian had Uncle Martin with telescoping antennae on his head, and complaining about reception...(as I remember, it has been many decades since I've seen the series)

South Park & Family Guy supposedly have episodes of ham radio references, but I don't watch South Park at all, and I've only seen a few episodes of Family Guy.

Twilight Zone - episodes "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" and "Black Leather Jackets". 

The Munsters - episode, "If a Martian answers, Hang Up."  Aired Jan 21,1961.  After getting a ham radio, Herman thinks he is talking to martians when he is mainly actually talking kids on walkie talkies, until the end when he is actually talking to a Martian and he's rude because he thinks he's talking to the kids again. (So i saw this in reruns, because I wasn't  born yet when it first aired)

The Waltons (Season 6 Episodes 12 & 13), Jim-Bob uses ham radio to help 2 young guests speak to their mother in England. (I was a huge Walton's and Jim Bob fan in the '70's)

Jetson's (Space version of a Ham radio)

M*A*S*H (Military radios all the time) But there was an episode where I believe Colonel Potter performed a marriage via a ham radio?

Facts of Life (Don't remember this episode. Must have not seen it.) Molly Ringwold's character used a ham radio during a storm.

 

Movies:

Paranoia (Harrison Ford)

Tower Heist (Ben Stiller) uses Radios(?)

Super 8 (A Steven Spielberg film starring  a bunch of child actors & Kyle Chandler, from Early Edition) Contains Mr. Mcandles saying in a called emergency town meeting, "My ham radio has been a mess..",  and the Deputy Jackson Lamb (Chandler) responding. He then gives the frequecies to the Deputy.  It then shows the police listening to the specified frequencies on a radio. It also contains walkie talkies, military and police radios, and Morse code.

Nim's Island (Jody Foster) A fun family movie!

Journey to Mysterious Island (The Rock)

Mr. Popper's Penguin's (Jim Carrey)

Frequency (One of my favorite movies!)(Jim Caviziel)

Contact (Jody Foster)

Signs (Mel Gibson) has the characters use a baby monitor as a "one way" walkie talkie and monitor the "aliens" talking). (nother one of my favorite movies!)

Die Hard Movies (Bruce Willis) hand held radios that are used extensivley in the plot.

Phenomenom (John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker & Robert Duvall)

ET (phoning home? Also one of my favorite movies!)

Windtalkers (military radios)(Another one of my favorite movies!)

 

 

Internet:

HamNation on Twit.TV & Amateurlogic.tv are great shows on the internet.

 

It's hard to separate different forms of radio.  Military radios and police radios are always a part of stories with the military or police.   Examples are M*A*S*H* & NCIS. Cell phones are actually radios... So there is so much cross over.  I love all forms of radio! (Even my microwave oven which uses radio microwaves! lol!) :)

 

***Some of this list and descriptions are taken from a website by: Ham Radio as depicted on Television Compiled by David Bartholomew, AD7DB Revised November 7, 2002: http://www.qsl.net/ad7db/hamsontv.html