Film and TV
Powers appeared as himself in the Dennis the Menace TV episode, "Junior Astronaut", first aired on January 13, 1963. He also was the narrator for the 1966 Jerry Lewis space comedy, Way...Way Out.
He is referenced in the 1988 cult film, Miracle Mile, by actor Kurt Fuller when, as Soviet warheads appear over Los Angeles, he states, "Beam me up, Shorty Powers".
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