December 29, 1998 - T.V. Show,
"Sanford and Son"
In 'Sanford and Son' On the outside of the house,
directly to the left of the door. It looks like its one
of those paper boards. Sighted by :
ZamBoni
October 24, 1998 - T.V. Show,
Nickelodeon, "Sister Sister"
There is a dartboard on the floor in the
girls' bedroom. Sighted by :
Liam
Rice
October 24, 1998 - Commercial,
Saturn Autos
Guys in a dorm room at college place orders on
the Web. First they get a pizza delivered, then a Saturn
auto. There is a bristle dartboard on the wall in the
dorm room, but no one is actually playing during the
commercial. Sighted by :
Rick Osgood, CyberDarts
Editor
October 24, 1998 - Movie,
"Casper the Friendly Ghost"
The movie, "Casper the Friendly Ghost", is now
showing on TV. While the ghost psychologist and his three
ghostly friends are getting drunk in the neighborhood
pub, a bristle dartboard is visable on the wall over his
shoulder. Sighted
by : Sighted by : Rick
Osgood, CyberDarts Editor
October 12,1998 - TV, PBS, "The Art
Of Magic"
On the PBS documentary "The Art of Magic". One
magician who specializes in card tricks plies his craft
in a tavern. In the background is a Top Gun Challenge
coin-op dart machine. Sighted by :
G. Raymond
Eddy
October 2,1998 - Movie "Chasing
Amy"
In the motion picture Chasing Amy (released 97?),
the two main characters (Ben Affleck and whoever the
hottie with the squeaky voice is) get to know each other
over some beer and steel tip in a bar. One of the camera
angles is directly over the dartboard facing the
characters as they throw. From this angle, it looks like
some of the darts dive down and wind up in the wall (you
can also review some fine "hop and throw" technique).
Still, it's a good scene with the dart play taking a far
back-seat to the budding romance between the two
principals. Sighted by :
Pat Meusel
September 28, 1998 - Movie
"U.S.Marshalls"
In an early scene of the movie "US Marshalls",
the marshall breaks into an apartment to arrest a
fugitive. On the wall, just inside the back door, there
is a steel-point type dartboard.
September 15, 1998 - Mark Maguire,
Baseball - Televised Speech
After breaking Roger Maris' 35 year old record
of most homeruns, Mark Maguire said thata "hitting
homeruns is like throwing darts." Although he has ended
the season with 70 homeruns, whenever the record-breaking
speech is replayed, the sport of darts will be forever
mentioned.
August 24, 1998 - Movie
"Avengers"
In the movie "Avengers", the evil Weather
controlling villian uses darts (with real feathers) to
kill his enemies. Nothing realistic here, but at least
Darts gets a little visibility.
August 23, 1998 Television
In the made-for-TV movie "Nothing Lasts Forever",
a group of doctors are playing darts at an office party,
using steel point darts. They use appropriate terminology
when saying such things as "go for the triple 20!" The
darts are held and thrown in a reasonable manner, and
this was a fair representation of our game.
August 22, 1998 - Author, Dick
Francis
Dick Francis, an English ex-jockey
(steeplechase) turned writer often references darts in
his books. One in particular is his novel FOR KICKS,
copyright 1965, published by Ballentine Books. The
protagonist uses darts matches to try to meet people from
other horse training facilities (they have a travel
league between all of the local rival racing barns) in an
effort to uncover information on drugging racehorses. The
terminology and descriptions are well-done, and used as
an important (if minor) part of the story. --
Michelle Gaffney of the Capital
Area Dart Club Raleigh, NC
July 22, 1998 - TV Show,
"Frazier", NBC
On an episode of Frazier, Daphne and Frazier
play a game of darts to see who gets to continue going to
a bar they both enjoy going to. They play Cricket, but
from the way they talk about the game, you can tell the
writers didn't really know what they were talking
about.
May 28,1998 - The Coca Cola
Web Site: CherryCoke.com
The site uses a large dartboard and darts as
the background and design motif for the web site. The
design is apparently a custom graphic derived from a
paper dartboard, with toy-style darts and incorrect
number sequence on the board. But, a LOT of people see
that Page!
May 14,1998 - TV Show, "Seinfeld",
NBC
The final episode. At the very end, when
Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer end up in jail together,
what is hung on the wall next to their cell - a
dartboard. Yadda Yadda Yadda.
April 1998 - TV Show, "Beverly
Hills 90210", Fox Network
In the "High School Reunion" episode there is
a scene in the bedroom of Jason Priestley's character
(any relationship to Dennis...or Elvis?.ha ha ..anyway,
lo and behold he and his girlfriend have a Bristle board
set up in there and it looks to be about the right
height!
April 1998 - TV Commercial
There is a new car (Pontiac I think)
commercial where a guy buys anew "bigger" Pontiac and has
to empty his garage to make room for it. Thereis a
Bristle board hung at the back of the garage that is
visible throughoutthe commercial. After removing tons of
souveniers and typical garage stuff the guy still can't
get his garage door closed with the new bigger Pontiac in
it so he looks at the back of the garage at the dart
board and a gigantic rollaway tool chest.......the next
scene shows him shoving this tool chest out of the garage
and the garage door finally closing.....as it closes all
you can see are the dartboard and the car.
April 13, 1998 - TV
Show - "Cheers"
On one episode of "Cheers", Sam the bartender
gets into a dart game with some rich british guy.....each
trying to out do the other. I don't remeber who won but
was surprised to see them actually playing. On another
episode some guy asks Norm if he'd like to "play a game
of darts for a beer", Norm says sure and the guys says
"lets go!" Then Norm says "I don't think you understood
me, I meant I'll play 'for a beer'! Thanks
Saxmann, for
reporting these two!
April 1998 - TV show - "The Odd
Couple" Rerun
Rick Osgood
spotted
a
dartboard on a wall in the
"Couple"'s apartment. It wasn't apparent whether the
board was ever actually played on.
March 23, 1998 - TV Show -
"Walker, Texas Ranger"
Walker (Chuck Norris) and his lady friend are
playing darts in a bar, on a bristle dartboard. They are
using what appears to be brass darts with real feather
flights, and then Walker tells her to try for the Bull,
which she immediately hits (double bull). Her throwing
style leaves something to be desired, throwing right
handed from the ear, with left foot forward.
February 9, 1998 - "In The Heat of
the Night" TV Show
If you ever watch the "In the Heat of the
Night", you will notice a dartboard hanging up in the
police station. Ever wonder why there are so many murders
in a small Mississippi town. Maybe Bubba spends too much
time playing darts instead of catching criminals. Thanks
for this report Don
Walker!
January 11, 1998 - "ER", TV Show,
NBC
Darts made it on the show ER last night. One
of the doctors was out with an English woman who was a
dart player. She was making bets with him for drinks. It
didn't look like there was any rhyme or reason to her
shooting as the darts were all over the board. Also, on a
following episode the two returned to the bar for some
more darts. Maybe they can get the other doctors together
and start their own league!
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