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:
“Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.”
—Marc Fumaroli (b. 1932)
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)
“So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)