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* Jimmy Ford on ''[[Leverage]]''.
* Frank Burns, of all people, runs a crooked bookie operation in one early episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'', by listening to late-night broadcasts of baseball games which will be rebroadcast the next day, and taking bets on each game from the rest of the camp while already knowing the outcome.
* Bookies occasionally showed up as arrestees in ''[[Barney Miller]]'', usually offering odds on various
* An episode of ''[[Bottom]]'' revolves around [[A Simple Plan]] to raise £500 to place a bet at long odds on a three-legged blind horse called Sad Ken, after the bookie tricks them into thinking it's a dead cert.
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