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[YPU]

In an episode of Sandbaggers the Russian agent was using a London wargames club to get state secrets. The members were all 'highly intelligent' city people. No figures on show though.
There was an episode of that Navy CSI show (that I haven't seen) where the murderer was a roleplayer who committed suicide because he thought he was his character (real bollox that one, read a review on the net).

Actually the show also has one of the main characters playing the same game, so at least it has some depth to it, showing that not every player is a murderer.

[The Breaker]

In the IT Crowd Moss runs a game of D&D for a group of visiting collegues. In the X Files the lone gunmen are playing LOTR roleplaying game. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer the three nerdy villains were playing a roleplaying game.

[fastolfrus]

NCIS has an episode featuring 2 online RPG players who are US navy crew. Needless to say both maniacs.

[thebinmann]

Doesn't Lemmy say

"Hey I played D and D at school"

In a film somewhere?

[white knight]

Airheads?

[Papa Spanky]

Doesn't Lemmy say

"Hey I played D and D at school"

In a film somewhere?

his recent documentary i think.

[thebinmann]

Airheads?

Bingo!

[dampfpanzerwagon]

No one has yet mentioned Chitty Chitty Bang bang!  Then there was the film Ronin (not a wargame but model soldiers.

Tony
http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/

[AKULA]

In Red Dwarf, Rimmer keeps a War Diary of his Risk games....

 

[Malamute]

What about "Keef" from Eastenders painting an Airfix 20mm plastic Napoleonic figure in an episode a couple of years ago. He was attempting to paint it with a sort of drybrush action. Not at all convincing...

[HerbyF]

The TV serries Star Gate Atlantis has an episode Where a couple of the main chariters are playing a wargame on a 3D electronic table that is playing out live on a nearby planet.

[joroas]

CSI: In the last episode of Season 7 Grissom goes into a hobby store.  The clerk tells him that some guys come in to buy soldiers to refight Civil War battles to see if they can change the outcome.

[tanktastic43]

I don't know if this fits into this thread. But here goes.

Many years ago, BBC TV's Look North came to the wargaming club I attend to do a segment on 'alternative pastimes and hobbies'.
I was lucky enough to be interviewed and to have it shown on the programme.

The little group I game with, had decided to put on a 28mm Samurai display, including a scratchbuilt Samurai castle!.
The interviewer told us later that he'd chosen ours because it was colourful, and also that the figures were large enough to be seen on screen.

tt43.

[joroas]

There was a series about military modelling some time ago that I may still have on video.  One episode was on converting Airfix figures, the other was a Napoleonic wargame.  I will go and look for them tonight.

[Steve F]

In Great Catherine, Catherine the Great (Jeanne Moreau) and a British officer (Peter O'Toole) play a refight of Bunker Hill on a room sized layout featuring real water and real explosions.

In Red Cliff, the Southern commanders use a wargames table to plan their operations.