{"id":63008,"date":"2025-05-27T08:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63008"},"modified":"2025-05-24T08:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T12:32:53","slug":"spotted-in-countdown-can-you-identify-this-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/spotted-in-countdown-can-you-identify-this-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted in Countdown: Can You Identify This Radio?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Robert, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Thomas – I am a huge fan of space movies and recently watched the 1967 film \u201cCountdown<\/a>\u201d starring James Caan and Robert Duvall. There is a radio sitting on the nightstand in a hotel room in this scene.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Maybe your readers can identify it?<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n

Robert<\/p>\n

Thanks, Robert! This photo isn’t high definition, but I bet some of our intrepid radio sleuths will soon find the model number of this tabletop radio. Please comment!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Robert, who writes: Hi Thomas – I am a huge fan of space movies and recently watched the 1967 film \u201cCountdown\u201d starring James Caan and Robert Duvall. There is a radio sitting on the nightstand in a hotel room in this scene. Maybe your readers can identify it? Cheers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,4796],"tags":[10822,5506],"class_list":["post-63008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-vintage-radio","tag-countdown","tag-radios-in-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gog","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36959,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/can-you-identify-this-radio-from-the-1992-film-sneakers\/","url_meta":{"origin":63008,"position":0},"title":"Can you identify this radio from the 1992 film, ‘Sneakers’–?","author":"Thomas","date":"April 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Emilio Ruiz, who writes: Hi Thomas, I'm sending you and The SWLing Post readers these screenshots from the cult movie Sneakers; a great movie about incipient world of hacker security (phreaking, hacking, cryptography, etc). 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