Depictions in Media and Popular Culture
The 1981 CBS made-for-TV movie We're Fighting Back, featuring Bronx-born Ellen Barkin, was based on the Guardian Angels. The 1982 song "Red Angel Dragnet" by The Clash was inspired by the murder of Frank Melvin, and praises the Guardian Angels for their work.
The Guardian Angels were spoofed in the 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories as "The Avenging Angels" but with green bomber-type jackets. In the sketch-comedy TV show In Living Color, Jim Carey plays "Dickie Peterson, Cherub of Justice," a thinly veiled spoof of the Guardian Angels. In the Channel 4 comedy-sketch show Trigger Happy TV, Dom Joly played a spoof of a Guardian Angel on the London Underground railway service and at a bus stop.
In the Ultimatum episode of The Office, Dwight Schrute is seen to be secretary of a group wearing red beanies called Knights of the Night which, although often compared to the Guardian Angels, "could not be more different than them".
In the episode Bums: Making a Mess All Over the City of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Mac and Dee dress up like the Guardian Angels in order to clean up the streets of their neighborhood.
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