Metal Dectectors in Movies and TV.

[Demolition]

CSI had one and they were looking for bullets. They had the coil to high and hardly swinging lol

 

[Old Prospector]

Silver dollar? BORING!

I like how Metal Detector Man has no interest in nuisance items like Morgan Silver dollars lying right on the surface of the local swimming beach.

 

[dan]

I like how Metal Detector Man has no interest in nuisance items like Morgan Silver dollars lying right on the surface of the local swimming beach.

Yeah, people walk the beach with Morgan dollars in their pockets all the time nowadays. Darned litterbugs.

 

[Dustyloins]

Yeah, people walk the beach with Morgan dollars in their pockets all the time nowadays. Darned litterbugs.

My border collie looks just like yours!!!!!!!!

Dusty

 

[midwest]

Someone earlier mentioned "Meteorite Men". It is a great show and they always use different types of detectors. Their personal detectors are always Fisher F75, but I've seen them use huge hand made detectors that will detect metal (usually iron due to the meteorites) that go as far as 4-6 feet.

 

[dan]

My border collie looks just like yours!!!!!!!!

Dusty

All border collies look just like mine.

 

[dan]

My border collie looks just like yours!!!!!!!!

Dusty

Have you tried tossing a soft playground ball to him to see if he will bop it back to you?

 

[John W.H.]

Saw an episode Baywatch where a guy was using a detector, along with the infamous gieger counter sound! Also saw a recent cartoon my daughter was watching called Kipper the dog where one of his dog buddies had a metal detector that they were hunting with.

 

[djc1026]

The movie E.T. had a scene with detectors in it.

Dave

 

[AJinNJ]

Same NCIS episode today, using to what looks like a F75. Def a Fisher.

 

[murph6531]

For those of us with little kids... Phineas and Ferb... Doofenschmirtz was metal detecting on a deserted island with a stick and coconut.. I had to laugh!

I love Phineas and Ferb! Great cartoon!

 

[Rammjäger]

I wouldn't say a whole movie, short film at 10 minutes in length and an estimated budget at $100. And we won't go into the tiny little detail that he would never, ever find anything

With the coil some 8 inches away from the ground,I guess
he will never ever find his lost wife wedding ring !
Should he become very lucky to find a surface pulltab,not a
morgan dollar !

 

[mrdjfeltimo]

There is a really good movie that has Michael Douglas in it called "King of California" where he breaks out a detector and does some night hunting. Here is the link to movie at youtube. It is in 9 parts, but movie is full and worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKSdKacwWjw

i see this movie recently very cool

 

[pan4au]

That was the third time I've seen a metal detector featured on Bones. The first time they were looking for a sword, used as a murder weapon, in a park. The guy using it made a crack about "being the creepy guy with the metal detector". Ha.

The second time an old fella was metal detecting a beach at the beginning of the show and ended up finding a nice necklace...but it was still connected to its dead owner who was buried just below the surface of the sand.

The funniest part about seeing metal detectors in Hollywood is that they almost always make them sound like Geiger counters! Unlike real detectors that are generally quiet until a target alerts the device into beeping, Hollywood makes detectors sound like they're in a nuclear radiation area (tick tick tick- ticks get faster and faster until almost like a hum when they're on the radiation mother load).

Makes me laugh every time. Plus they swing them about 6" off the ground like some of you have already said.

ditto... when I've seen them on tv they also sound like Geiger counters..

 

[CaliPullTab]

Saw one on NCIS, I love that show!! Well I love Cote Depablo (Ziva David) I think she is the perfect woman

 

[jewaugh]

There is a show called "Gold Fever" that occasionally has episodes about metal detecting. I think it is on the Outdoor channel.


Jack from SE Virginia

 

[Vethraxx]

These are screenshots of an episode of Forensic Files. It's an old show and they were looking for a 15 year old shell casing and hired a man who owns he own detector store. Some pictures of his store supply of Garretts and him using a Whites detector with sniper coil.

 

[Stevo]

I see occasionally see one used on the various Law and Order shows. There is also a commercial now running which shows a guy holding a Garrett Ace.

 

[pale rider]

There is also a commercial now running which shows a guy holding a Garrett Ace.

That is a Arby's commercial.

 

[mdtrapper]

I saw a movie years ago, I asked about it on a thread. About some guy's who go down under to MD for gold that is on the surface. I don't know what it was called.