As long as we have decided to talk about cheesy movies and slide rule sightings,

yesterday morning on MST3K they showed the movie: The Giant Spider Invasion. 

Although there was not a slide rule used by the actors, in the lab of Dr. Langer

there was a very nice 7 foot Pickett demo slide rule hanging over the blackboard.

I'll have to see the movie again to see if I can determine the model.

 

I might as well put in other sightings of slide rules I've seen on the old electronic

baby sitter, a/k/a the boob tube....

 

There were several TV shows that featured slide rules:

 

My 3 Sons, Steve Douglas being an aeronautical engineer was required to use a slide rule.

I have noticed him using bamboo slide rules, since I now need reading glasses I couldn't

tell what make.  But since I'm a "Pickett Man" myself, let's just say that he was using a B1.

The other day I did notice him using a white Pickett metal slide rule.  The end plates were

a dead giveaway.

 

For cheesy TV shows, The Brady Bunch takes the cake. Mike Brady being an architect

used a slide rule, but since the show was low budget (who else has astro-turf for a backyard)

Mike used a plastic Pickett slide rule. 

 

Maybe we can persuade Walter Shawlee II to put up a new section in the Slide Rule Universe for

other "sightings", I think it would be interesting to see how large the list can become.