In the infamous “Captain Planet” episode “'Teers in the Hood,” a chemical explosion/fire occurs in the Planeteers’ high school, and the alarm consists of a combination of a Simplex 4090 6" vibrating bell in Continuous and some kind of fast hi-lo tone.
Jurassic Park has one by the electric fence that sounds like a loose '9838, '9846 or a '9833 in slow march time!
(Just like a '9838 I tapped lightly on a wall before, where it was loose enough that I can hear it move!)
In the second episode of Criminal Minds, three RSG pull stations are pulled. And it’s actually quite accurate. The handle does not spring back up and the sprinklers don’t activate.
For once, the producers get it right!
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A Wendy’s commercial for some spicy burger back in like 2014. An office employee grabs a fire extinguisher and pulls an edwards 270-spo in the hallway.
At the 0:03 mark, a Simplex 4090 6" vibrating bell is heard.
I can’t believe I didn’t share this yet! A hilarious Robot Chicken segment involving a fire drill at the Justice League that Batman was unaware of just as he was in the bathroom and wearing nothing but his mask. The alarm is a 10" bell in Continuous (you’d think for a place like the Hall of Justice, they’d use a more modern fire alarm these days.) I especially love how Batman yells “WHO THE HELL PULLED THE FIRE ALARM?!”
Of course since this is “Robot Chicken,” it’s NSFW (some minor foul language and (censored) male nudity.)
With the fire alarm testing at Anthro New England this past weekend, I couldn’t help but think of this segment! I even called out “Who the hell pulled the fire alarm?!” at one point (since last year a drunk con attendee pulled the alarm at 2 AM.)
While my parents were watching “Survivor,” I heard a promo for another CBS show from the other room and at one point I heard what sounded like a classic SpectrAlert sounding on Code-3. Anyone know what the promo or what show it was for? (This could be a heads-up to let someone here know about an upcoming TV episode with an accurate fire alarm for once.)
I am sorry for bumping an old topic, but the Goosebumps TV show episode “Click” in the school there is a 270-SPO and in the episode “The perfect school” there are bells and I think Mircom pull stations.
I can’t believe no one has talked about this yet, but in the movie Resident Evil(original movie) when the Red Queen makes the fire system activate, one room had a SpectrAlert Classic sounding in Code 3.
I just saw a Simplex T-Bar on a TV Documentary.
Hey everyone I am back on the fire alarm forum after being away for a bit as I moved. My former landlord sold the house and in all honesty after nearly 11 years I think this move was for the best. My health actually improved. I have settled into the new apartment very quickly and again another basement apartment although this one has more of a look and feel of being on a main level of a house. Anyways getting back to the topic of fire alarms in movies I was watching Miracle (2004) last night and I noticed several 10 inch bells at the beginning of the movie which could be either Edwards or Amsecos. This movie takes place in 1979-80. Also in Good Will Hunting (1997) there are several bells in the hallways in the University scenes that could be Edwards or Wheelock bells. Sorry I have no pictures.
My class was watching “Miracle from Heaven” and in a few shots of the hospital scenes there are Wheelock E70 speaker strobes or RSS strobes
Just watched an episode of the White Shadow episode titled Spare The Rod dated February 17, 1979. When Ken Carver goes over to visit the Robinson household what appears to be a Sears Early One smoke detector can be seen on the ceiling in the living room of their home. The cover is too big to be a First Alert SA76RS. It isn’t sounding in the episode unfortunately it is just part of the background scenery. I was unable to post a video or still pic of the scene here but the episode is on youtube if anyone is interested. That is another show from the 1970’s to feature smoke detectors. The other being Eight Is Enough. Im going to have to check more WS episodes to see if there are more episodes featuring old smokes.
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Just watched an episode of the White Shadow episode titled Spare The Rod dated February 17, 1979. When Ken Carver goes over to visit the Robinson household what appears to be a Sears Early One smoke detector can be seen on the ceiling in the living room of their home. The cover is too big to be a First Alert SA76RS. It isn’t sounding in the episode unfortunately it is just part of the background scenery. I was unable to post a video or still pic of the scene here but the episode is on youtube if anyone is interested. That is another show from the 1970’s to feature smoke detectors. The other being Eight Is Enough. Im going to have to check more WS episodes to see if there are more episodes featuring old smokes. This was likely an on site location as most shows were back then and filmed in a real house not a studio so the detector was likely part of the house anyways.
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Dwight pulls an EST 270-SPO or some likeness in one of the episodes on the Office, it’s pretty humorous in that episode how he goes about a “safety drill.”
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I think I remember seeing part of that episode on YouTube which is the part you are talking about. That is a pretty old clip isn’t it?
If you are talking about the episode of White Shadow titled spare the rod you can see a shot of the smoke detector between 39:12 and 39:16. It definitely looks like a Sears Early One to me. Even though smoke detectors were very much available back then seeing them on episodes of TV shows were a rare thing. This episode is from February 1979. The only other 1970s show that featured them was Eight Is Enough in two different episodes. It wasn’t until at least the mid 1980s before they started appearing in shows and movies. But if I am wrong let me know. Im going to try and post the link to this episode below. Hope it works.
An episode of “Pink Panther and Sons” with a fire alarm in it; the scene starts at 7:56.
Since this is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon of the 80s, I wasn’t surprised they used the old H-B alarm bell stock sound effect for the fire alarm, not to mention the plot involves the Neanderthal panther being set off by ringing bells, so it makes sense, and he ends up destroying the alarm in a rage.
Jingle All The Way, released in 1996, IIRC, is on and there’s a smoke alarm that sounds like a shrunken Simplex 4050 and does Simplex 2001-like march time.