Golden Globes: Nominees for Best Typewriter in a Movie or Television Series?

As I’m watching the Golden Globes, it’s painfully obvious that it is missing some important analog representation. In an effort to remedy the error, shall we collect the nominations for Best Typewriter in a Movie or Television Series? (The only requirement for nomination is that the movie or television show was released in the 2025 calendar year. Bonus points if you include a photo of the typewriter from the show with your nomination.)

I’ll start with a first nominee:

The 1930s Juwel 3 from the Netflix series WEDNESDAY.

Thing, a disembodied hand, types on a black portable Juwel 3 typewriter.

What other machines deserve a nomination?

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  4. I was watching Columbo the other night – a completely bonkers episode called “Identity Crisis.”

    The Selectric Stunner (at the 1 minute mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Tf62eIGTk

    I stumbled on a Facebook post honoring all the typewriters appearing the series:

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/permalink/10154711160809678/

    I cannot stress enough, though, how cuckoo this episode is. Patrick McGoohan cuts it up as you would expect. Add in Leslie Nielsen in his villian/badass era (he walks around a carnival with Patrick McGoohan with his shirt unbuttoned past his navel) and that’s just for starters. I probably need to watch less t.v.

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    1. Thanks for these Jessica. I think I’ve got a list of most of the typewriters used in Columbo over the years. Let me know if you run across any nominations for typewriters from movies/TV that were made in 2025!

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        1. Jessica, you can do some internet research to see if there are any photos of him with a typewriter which we can use to identify a make and model. However, his letter in the video is so clean, crisp and even that I’m almost certain that it was printed from a computer in a courier-style font that makes it look typewritten. (Most screenwriters still use this font for printing their scripts.) Some of us are collecting photo examples of writers and their typewriters (preferably working together), so if you find one, let me know. Richard Polt keeps a current repository on his website at https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/typers.html.

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