Radios in Movies and Television

Here's an atomic age style radio in an 50s atomic age TV series, "Leave It To Beaver."

This radio is actually a 1957/58 General Electric 861. It was available in turquoise, red, and brown and cream color front. This image is black and white only because this series was aired in the days before color TV! Whoa.

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Here's a late fifties GE T-141a in a scene in The Help (2011) starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, and Jessica Chastain.

As Minny Jackson, Octavia Spencer's character says, "Y'all two brought me into this, but I'm gonna finish it."

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Here's a scene from what looks like Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954)

Looks like a 1952 Zenith R733.

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The big Luftansa heist is heard through this sweet Marilyn Pink 1957 Motorola 56CD while Henry, played by Ray Liotta, is in the shower in this scene of Goodfellas.

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The 1952 General Electric 517 F spotted in the TV series, The Wonderful Mrs Maisel.

A fairly common radio. If you have one, I’d like to buy it.

Also in the same show, is a 1956 RCA 8C7A.

The 1953 Zenith L622F purchased from an Australian prop house which was purported to be in the new Elvis movie.

Sure enough, it appeared on screen, much to my joy, delight, and unbridled pride, at the 30 minute mark. Here it is in the movie:

And here it is on my shelf.

An unknown wood radio behind Jack Nicholson in the film, Chinatown.

This badly taken photo is of a Fada Cloud from a liquor store scene in LA Confidential.

1948 Philco from a scene in LA Confidential.

It is a lousy pic but I think I recognize the 1959 GE 914B seen in the TV series, Succession.

1941 Philco 41-226 Sled from tv show M*A*S*H.

Clock radio from Mad Men.

Maybe an Admiral or Silvertone from Mad Men.

1948 Emerson 520 from Sesame Street.

1967 Zenith X316 from Bewitched.

Addison Courthouse from Hill Street Blues.

Unknown wood table radio from Laverne and Shirley.

Crosley D 25 from 2020 movie Let Him Go.

Pink Westinghouse from That Thing You Do! by Tom Hanks, 1996.

Radios from That Thing You Do by Tom Hanks, 1996