Bigfoot has been featured in a wide variety of television and has been the focus point such as in
documentaries and programs depicting the search for the creature, or referenced in many other ways within shows of varying genres and types. •
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond in October 1959 presented one of the earliest television series episodes referencing a Bigfoot-like creature that rescues a little boy, Davey Morris, who is lost in the woods. Davey insists that a giant, furry friend helped him and visits him at home where the creature leaves giant footprints and an unpleasant, lingering odor. Davey's father and friends hunt the creature and set the woods on fire to flush it out but with no success. One horrified hunter does glimpse the creature but can't come to terms with what he has seen. •
Finding Bigfoot on
Animal Planet follows a team of Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) members searching for the creature. •
Destination Truth on
Syfy features multiple episodes of host
Josh Gates searching for Bigfoot or related creatures such as the Yeti. •
Survivorman season 6 depicted
Les Stroud searching for the creature while surviving in the wilderness alone. It was titled -
Survivorman Bigfoot. •
Unsolved Mysteries seasons one and six featured episodes regarding eyewitness accounts of Bigfoot encounters. • The
Animal X series on the
Discovery Channel featured an episode related to Bigfoot in which a research team discovered the
Skookum cast in the year 2000. The 2004 spin-off "Animal X - Natural Mystery Unit" showcased an episode in where a team searched for Bigfoot in
Texas. •
Ancient Aliens on
History aired an episode on May 23, 2012, entitled "Aliens and Bigfoot", which explored theories between extraterrestrials and Bigfoot. •
The Six Million Dollar Man and its spin-off, The Bionic Woman featured three separate stories (two of them two-part episodes) featuring a bionic Bigfoot which was created by aliens (and the source of the legend owing to the aliens' extended time taking refuge in the wilderness of northern California); initially an antagonist, Bigfoot eventually becomes a friend and ally to the heroes. In the first two-part episode, the creature was played by professional wrestler
André the Giant while in the latter episodes he was played by
Ted Cassidy. •
The Beachcombers episode "The Sasquatch Walks By Night", aired January 13, 1974 and depicts a storyline involving a hoaxed Bigfoot sighting. •
Bigfoot and Wildboy, which started as a segment of the second season of the
Krofft Supershow before spinning off into a series, has the title character joined by a young orphan. •
Harry and the Hendersons was a 72 episode show that ran from 1991 to 1993 and was based on
the film of the same name. •
Trailer Park Boys depicts one of the characters frequently mispronounces Sasquatch as a "Samsquanch". • Sasquatch was also featured in the
Tenacious D (The Greatest Band in the World) TV show and wanted to join the band but was unable to. Sasquatch did, however, cause
Jack Black and
Kyle Gass regained their trust in the rock star mythos. • Bigfoot makes an appearance in a
Futurama episode entitled "
Spanish Fry", where
Philip J. Fry attempts to find Bigfoot. • A female Bigfoot appears near in the end of
The All New Popeye Hour episode "Popeye and Bigfoot" and carries Bluto. • In the TV series
The Invisible Man, the title character of Darien Fawkes is turned invisible by a chemical derived from Bigfoot; Bigfoot has escaped detection over the centuries by turning invisible. • In
The Simpsons episode "
The Call of the Simpsons",
Homer Simpson gets covered in mud and is mistaken for Bigfoot. • In
DuckTales episode "The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck!", Bigfoot (voiced by
Sam Riegel) was found with a thorn in his paw by Huey, who removed the thorn, hoarded him in McDuck Manor, and named him Tenderfeet. • In
Tom and Jerry Tales episode "Sasquashed", while on a camping trip, Tom, Jerry and Tuffy find a Bigfoot named Sheldon. • In
Phineas and Ferb episode "Get That Bigfoot Outta My Face!", Candace was eaten by a Bigfoot, mistaking with real, however, it turns out that was a Bigfoot costume instead of real. • In
The Newsroom episode "I'll Fix You", news researchers discuss and (often jokingly) debate the reality of Bigfoot as a future story for the news. • The
iCarly episode "iBelieve in Bigfoot" focuses on the main characters visiting a forest in search of Bigfoot. • In
The California Raisin Show, the Raisins, sick and tired of autograph hounds and obsessive fans, elect to go camping in the deep woods for a much needed vacation. One of the Raisins tells of a Native American (portrayed as potatoes) legend of a monster called "Sasquash". In the fruit & vegetable manner of the show, the Raisins come across a race of gigantic anthropomorphic squash and appease them by performing an impromptu concert, then return to civilization leaving a boombox of their music and an autograph for the Bigfoot-type creatures. • Bigfoot makes an appearance in the "Summer Camp!" episode of the family comedy series
The Aquabats! Super Show!, turning out to be the boyfriend of a female shapeshifting "Were-Ape" which has been terrorizing a summer camp. • In the
Brickleberry episode "Steve's Bald", one of the park rangers, Steve, is mistaken for Bigfoot after overuse of a black-market baldness cure leaves his whole body covered in hair, playing along with the misconception until being accused of killing Steve - prompting a chase which leads to the discovery, and death, of the real Bigfoot. • The
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode "Cryptozoology" discusses Bigfoot and the
Loch Ness Monster. • The
Spike reality show
10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty has nine teams trying to find proof of Bigfoot's existence. • In the
Littlest Pet Shop episode "Littlest Bigfoot", Penny Ling encounters a juvenile bigfoot in a forested National Park. Her friends are skeptical of her findings, until they encounter the creature themselves later in the episode. • In the Australian YouTube series
The Big Lez Show, Sassy the Sasquatch is one of the main protagonists, accompanied by other Sasquatch like creatures. Sassy and his friends frequently engage in
recreational drug use. • In
Gravity Falls, Bigfoot appears for a split second in the theme song and is parodied in the series.. At the Mystery Shack, Grunkle Stan has a statue in one of his exhibits called the "Sascrotch", which appears as Bigfoot wearing underwear. • In
Timon & Pumbaa episode “Bigfoot, Littlebrain”,
Timon and Pumbaa meet Bigfoot (voiced by
Bill Fagerbakke). When they accidentally eat Bigfoot's bug friends, Bigfoot makes them keep him company so that he won't be lonely. • In
Animal Mechanicals, Sasquatch is a blue Bigfoot with the ability to stretch his arms and/or legs to an incredible length. • In
How I Met Your Mother,
Marshall Eriksen (played by
Jason Segel) has often declared himself a 'believer' of Sasquatch, although being frequently mocked for this by his friends. • Bigfoot is a recurring character in
Back at the Barnyard. • In the
Goof Troop episode "Winter Blunderland", Pete convinces Goofy to play Bigfoot in order to bring business to his car lot. Instead of customers, the real female Bigfoot is attracted. • In the
SheZow episode "SheSquatch", SheZow and Maz help a female Sasquatch named SheSquatch from an evil park ranger from forcing her to scare campers. • In the
Round the Twist episode "The Nirandathal Beast", the title creature is based on Bigfoot. Bronson gets mistaken for the beast after growing a long beard due to using the family razor before Pete and gets the attention of the authorities and eventually bounty hunters. • In the
Cartoon Network series
We Bare Bears, the character Charlie is an
anthropomorphic Bigfoot. • In
The A-Team episode "Timber", Murdock (played by actor
Dwight Schultz) searches for Bigfoot. • A childlike version of Bigfoot is a recurring character in
Wabbit, voiced by
Matthew Mercer. • In
Mr. Pickles, a mafia hit-man is turned into Bigfoot. • "Bigfoot: The Convincing Evidence", released on April 14, 2017, is episode 2 of season 2 of
BuzzFeed web series,
BuzzFeed Unsolved: Supernatural in which evidence suggesting the existence of Bigfoot is discussed and investigated. • In the
Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "Courage Meets Bigfoot" the titular character befriends a Bigfoot and protects him from a mob. • In the ''
Dexter's Laboratory'' episode "Sassy Come Home", Dee Dee befriends a Bigfoot due to their mutual huge feet and they have to contend with Dexter, who is determined to capture the sasquatch. • In
The Powerpuff Girls episode "Say Uncle", The girls take a Bigfoot-like Beastman (vocal effects provided by
Dee Bradley Baker) home by mistake thinking he is their uncle Eugene, but problems ensue when they take the Beastman to Townsville. • In the
Blaze and the Monster Machines episode "Gasquatch!", the guest character is a large, fur-covered Bigfoot-like monster truck who lives in the forest and loves mud. • In the
CatDog episodes, "The Great Parent Mystery" and "Vexed of Kin", the titular characters' adopted mother is a blue-furred sasquatch married to a big-nosed frog. • In the
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi episode "Camping Caper", Ami gets kidnapped by a giant Bigfoot, Yumi attempts to rescue Ami before being eaten by the Bigfoot. • In the
MacGyver episode "Ghost Ship", MacGyver encounters BigFoot on an abandoned boat in an Alaskan bay. • The 2010
Super Sentai series,
Tensou Sentai Goseiger featured the antagonistic cryptid-themed monster group
Yuumajuu. Their second-in-command,
Kinggon, is a bigfoot with secondary theme of
tarantula. • In the second season of
The World According to Jeff Goldblum, the 2021 episode entitled "Monsters" has
Jeff Goldblum joining Bigfoot hunters at
Mount Shasta. • In
The Pentaverate, Sasquatch is depicted as the "guard dog" of The Pentaverate secret society. In episode four,
Shrek knocks Sasquatch unconscious. • In the
fifth series of the British version of
The Masked Singer reality game show, runner-up
Alex Brooker wore a Bigfoot costume. • In the
Fugget About It episode "Sasquatchewan", Jimmy and Petey go on a hunting trip and come home with a Sasquatch. • In the
Smiling Friends episode "A Allan Adventure", a Bigfoot steals an assortment of paperclips from the character Allan following a helicopter crash, and is subsequently beheaded when they are again stolen by a group of skeletal pirates. • In the television series
Sanctuary, a sentient, talking Bigfoot is one of the principal characters, portrayed by
Christopher Heyerdahl. • In the television series
Tulsa King, professional wrestler Mike "Cash Flo" Walden portrays a character named "Bigfoot",
bodyguard to Dwight Manfredi, played by
Sylvester Stallone. ==Theatre==