Amazing, Simply Amazing.
Long Long ago there use to be a television show called Hawaii 50, the main character had a habit of talking into the back of the microphone in his police vehicle. I use to get a good laugh out of that.
Hawaii Five-0. I remember one episode where they are doing to match a finger print to a suspect... the detective used a standalone 029 card punch machine, a card was punched and... voila! they got their suspect. Whenever an American show features random beeps as data is appearing on a monitor, or there is a WHOOSH sound as a spaceship is passing, it's time to walk out of the cinema and ask for your money back.
Another classic fail that people who worked in commerical two way radio always laughed about was on the television series The Highway Patrol. The series was based on the California Highway Patrol back in the late 1950s. The main character would open his trunk to get something out, usually flaires or a shotgun. In the trunk there was no T/R package for the radio he used.
This was long before dash mount radios, the box in the trunk should have been about 3 cubic feet, and should have been accompanied by the sound of a Dynamotor, since this was before transistors that could handle DC to DC converter service. (they didn't have large enough vibrators back then to handle the 35-40 amps those two way radios drew.
An old friend did police and fire equipment installations back in the fifties and they had to find a way to fit a second generator and a second battery.
Television is rife with all kinds of electronic fails.....
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