Editing Ketchikan, Alaska (section)

== In popular culture ==
Several movies have been shot in Ketchikan, including ''[[The Silver Horde (1930 film)|The Silver Horde]]'', ''[[Spawn of the North]]'', ''[[Timber Tramps]]'' and ''[[Cry Vengeance]]'', as well as episodes of the television programs ''[[The Love Boat]]'' and ''[[Baywatch]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sitnews.us/DaveKiffer/100305_kiffer.html |title=Totem Land Tinsel Town |publisher=Sitnews.us |date=October 3, 2005 |access-date=November 21, 2010}}</ref> An episode of ''[[MythBusters|Mythbusters]]'' where the team sees if a ship made out of ice and sawdust can really float was filmed in Ketchikan in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/mythbusters/projects/4313387|title=Can you Build Ships Out of Ice? The Mythbusters Investigate|author=Jamie Hyneman|work=Popular Mechanics|date=May 2009}}</ref> The [[National Geographic Channel]] series ''[[Alaska Wing Men]]'' in the episode "Fatal Crash"<ref>{{cite web |author=Commercial Development Unit |url=http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=701411 |title=Alaska Wing Men – National Geographic |publisher=Shop.abc.net.au |access-date=December 28, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714164611/http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=701411 |archive-date=July 14, 2012 }}</ref> follows a [[National Transportation Safety Board]] investigator's site visit of a July 2010 [[bush flying|bush pilot]] fatal crash near Ketchikan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20100723X60734&key=1 |title=NTSB preliminary report |publisher=NTSB |date=July 23, 2010 |access-date=December 28, 2012}}</ref>

In ''[[The Young Pope]]'', the character Pope Pius XIII sends several cardinals who upset him to Ketchikan as a punishment, which is depicted as a frozen wasteland.

In [[Arthur Miller]]'s play ''[[Death of a Salesman]]'', Uncle Ben must leave Willy to go to Ketchikan, where he presumably made part of his fortune.