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==In the media== {{in popular culture|Section|date=March 2020}} [[File:Blue Angels Newton-John Travolta cropped.jpg|thumb|[[John Travolta]] and [[Olivia Newton-John]] with Blue Angels, 1982]] * ''The Blue Angels'' was a dramatic television series, starring [[Dennis Cross]] and [[Don Gordon (actor)|Don Gordon]], inspired by the team's exploits and filmed with the cooperation of the Navy. It aired in [[Television syndication|syndication]] from 26 September 1960 to 3 July 1961.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053485/ |title= The Blue Angels |date=26 September 1960 |website=IMDb}}</ref> * ''[[Threshold: The Blue Angels Experience]]'' is a 1975 documentary film, written by ''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'' author [[Frank Herbert]], featuring the team in practice and performance during their F-4J Phantom era; many of the aerial photography techniques pioneered in ''Threshold'' were later used in the film ''[[Top Gun]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163870/ |title=Threshold: The Blue Angels Experience |date=1 September 1975 |website=IMDb}}</ref> * ''[[To Fly!]]'', a short IMAX film featured at the [[Smithsonian Air and Space Museum]] since its 1976 opening features footage from a camera on a Blue Angels A4 Skyhawk tail as the pilot performs in a show.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.si.edu/imax/movie/fly|title=To Fly! |website=[[Smithsonian Institution]]}}</ref> * In 1981, the Blue Angels along with the USAF [[United States Air Force Thunderbirds|Thunderbirds]] were featured on a [[LaserDisc|Laserdisc]] released in Japan called ''Blue Angels/Thunderbirds''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LaserDisc Database - Blue Angels/Thunderbirds [DW021-22TU] |url=https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/43454/DW021-22TU/Blue-Angels/Thunderbirds |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=www.lddb.com}}</ref> * The Blue Angels were featured in the 1986 music video for "[[Dreams (Van Halen song)|Dreams]]"<ref>{{Citation |title=Van Halen - Dreams 1986 (Blue Angels) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFmTwJ-LQMA |access-date=2024-01-02 |language=en}}</ref> by rock band [[Van Halen]], flying the A-4 Skyhawk. * In 1987, the Blue Angels were featured in ''Rolling in the Sky: F/A-18 Blue Angels''.<ref>{{Citation |title=Rolling in the Sky: F/A-18 Blue Angels |type=Documentary |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169191/?ref_=fn_al_tt_8 |access-date=2024-01-23 |publisher=Geneon Entertainment}}</ref> * In 1996, the Blue Angels appeared in the [[IMAX]] short film ''The Magic of Flight'', narrated by [[Tom Selleck]].<ref>{{Citation |last=MacGillivray |first=Greg |title=The Magic of Flight |type=Short, Documentary |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119595/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |others=Tom Selleck |publisher=MacGillivray Freeman Films}}</ref> * In 2005, the [[Discovery Channel]] aired a documentary miniseries, ''Blue Angels: A Year in the Life'', focusing on the intricate day-to-day details of that year's training and performance schedule.<ref name="discovery">[http://shopping.discovery.com/product-59147.html?jzid=40588004-59-0 Blue Angels: A Year in the Life] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080111022025/http://shopping.discovery.com/product-59147.html?jzid=40588004-59-0 |date=11 January 2008}}</ref><ref name="discovery2">{{cite web |url=http://imdb.com/title/tt0450901/ |title='Blue Angels: A Year in the Life' (2005) |website=IMDb |access-date=3 March 2012}}</ref> * In 2009, ''[[MythBusters]]'' enlisted the aid of Blue Angels to help test the myth that a sonic boom could shatter glass.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=d3efb603-f4f2-4120-bafb-3db867c52d90 |title=Mythbusters Episode Features Blue Angels, June 10 |work=Aero-News Network |date=8 June 2009 |access-date=25 August 2021}}</ref> * In 2024, the Blue Angels appeared in the IMAX feature film ''[[The Blue Angels (film)|The Blue Angels]]'', depicting the team's 2022 training and show seasons.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/amazon-studios-j-j-abrams-imax-the-blue-angels-documentary-1235476877/ | title=Amazon Studios Nabs J.J. Abrams, Imax's 'The Blue Angels' Documentary | website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] | date=May 2023}}</ref>
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