Bishop's life was depicted in the 1978 Canadian play "Billy Bishop Goes to War". It also led indirectly to a 1983 CBC Television documentary called "The Kid Who Couldn't Miss", produced by the National Film Board of Canada. The show, a "docudrama" combining known history for credibility with fictitious "mock interviews" with actors portraying Bishop and others, suggested that Bishop faked his famous attack on the German aerodrome. In one particularly contentious scene, his mechanic claims that the damage to his fighter was confined to a small circle in a non-critical area, implying that Bishop had landed his aircraft off-field, shot holes in it, and flown home with claims of combat damage.