In the 2008 pilot of the crime drama television series Breaking Bad, Walter White poisons two rival gangsters by adding red phosphorus to boiling water to produce phosphine gas. However, this reaction in reality would require white phosphorus instead, and for the water to contain sodium hydroxide. An episode of Homicide: Life on the Street depicted a murder suspect who  adulterated beverages, including Sacramental wine, with a poison called "Phosphozine."