Dead man's hand in popular culture it, suggesting to the viewer he is familiar with the implication of those cards. On "The X-Files" episode entitled "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", the title character is playing poker with Agent Scully and is seen holding a full house of aces and eights (the ace of hearts being the fifth card). In "The Assassin" (Season 3 Episode 11) of the television series "The Pretender", poker plays a key role, including the appearance of the dead man's hand at the end of the episode. In a first episode of "Quantum Leap" ("How The Tess Was Won") a character attempts to rig
Dead man's hand in popular culture episode in the short-lived U.S. radio drama series, "Frontier Gentleman." The story includes a fictionalized version of Wild Bill Hickok’s last card game as witnessed by J. B. Kendall, the London "Times" reporter who was the title character. In the story, Kendall is at the table, playing with Hickok and McCall. The story was presented twice during the 41-show run of the CBS series, using different actors (i.e., not a recorded rerun). The Dead man hand can be seen on an abandoned dust-covered table on the lobby of Walt Disney Studios Park's The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. Dead Man's