Way back, when I was watching the BBC series "Downton Abbey" I mentioned in a discussion group a scene where a butler anxiously awaited the new KGV stamp issues. I haven't thought about looking for similar references since.
However, I just started watching a Netflix series "New Girl" (in its 6th season but I had never heard of it before last weekend). Charming and funny - if perhaps not LOL hilarious.
In Season 1 - Episode 17 - Minute 17:47 - in the background of the school principal there appears to be a large picture frame of stamps. For anyone who is interested in TV/Film references to stamp collecting...Comments?
There is the old Audrey Hepburn / Cary Grant film 'Charade' and a more recent Argentinian one called 'Nueve Reinas' (nine queens). Both have a plot that has a swindle with valuable stamps (real and/or forged) as a starting point.
The original Mission Impossible TV series had an entire show about a stamp, and often you can see Minkus stamp album binders being used as props in different episodes.
If I remember correctly there was an episode of the New Statesman, starring Rik Mayall as Alan Beresford B*stard MP, where he grabbed some stamps off of Piers Fletcher Dervish MP, and pretended to throw them out the train window.
or has the old memory gone?
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Sometimes our hobby has been ridiculed or even maligned in media entertainment.
There was an episode of 'Law and Order' yeas ago about a child molester who was using a kids stamp club to attract victims. Bad enough but there was also the script with detectives saying stuff like'I didn't know adults collected this junk' You get the drift.
I recall the APS wrote the network as did several other APS members. Never heard what came of it.
Another one is Black Book (Zwartboek), the Paul Verhoeven film from 2006 about the Dutch resistance in WW2 where the assistance of a high ranking German officer is bought with stamps from the Netherlands Indies he needs for his collection.
There were two Wilson's in the live-action TV show, Dennis the Menace (1959-1963). George Wilson was the original through part of Season Three I think, before the actor, Joseph Kearns died. George was a retired salesman and for sure collected both stamps and coins, but was also a treasure hound. John Wilson, George's brother, played of course by Gale Gordon, took over after George died. John was a struggling writer. There was one episode in which John sold a rare dime for some dumb reason, that may have implied he was a collector of coins. He was a stamp collector also.
There was an episode I recall in which George's stamp collection figured in the plot of the live-action TV show (season 2 ep 35) and probably others in which he incidentally was working on his collection.
Now in the comic strip I think Mr Wilson was a retired postal worker (maybe) and he definitely was shown collecting stamps. There was also an animated TV series in which stamp collecting also appeared.
In more recent Christmas movie, "A Dennis the Menace Christmas" Mr Wilson leaves his stamp collection out and Dennis, left in Wilson's house alone, pastes Mr Wilson's stamps from his collection on paper.
Some of the collector-related live-action TV episodes:
Season 1, episode 15 - George Wilson's rare coin
Season 2, episode 14 - Dennis starts a penny collection
Season 2, episode 35 - George Wilson sells a stamp collection
Season 3, episode 34 - John Wilson sells a rare coin
Others sort of related to collecting/treasure:
Season 1, ep 21 - Pieces of eight - treasure themed
Season 2, ep 5 - George Wilson's stock certificate
Season 2, ep 7 - Dennis' rock collection
Season 3, ep 11 - George Wilson tricks Dennis into taking a bogus coin
Season 3, ep 28 - George Wilson buys a treasure chest at auction
season 4, ep 15 - John is chairman of a saving stamps campaign