Television
- The Zodiac case forms the basis for "The Mikado," a second season installment of the television series Millennium. The episode, featuring a fictionalized version of the Zodiac Killer known as Avatar, was written by Michael R. Perry and first aired on February 6, 1998.
- The Zodiac killer is mentioned numerous times in Criminal Minds - a television program which follows a team of profilers at the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. On January 18, 2012, an episode set in the Bay Area with a Zodiac Killer copycat aired.
- The Nash Bridges season 2 episode "Zodiac" has the protagonists following a copycat using the same methodologies as the original killer.
- The show Psych has a recurring serial killer/killers 'Yin/Yang' whose crimes bear similarity to Zodiac
- The show Medium had a killer in a Season 6 episode named "The Libra Slayer", a serial killer with a proclivity for symbols whose case was decades old, much like the Zodiac Killer.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“So by all means let’s have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn’t it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)