One of the earliest references on television, 1961, is in the The Twilight Zone episode, The Odyssey of Flight 33 where the radio operator actually says, "No soap" when he can't reach anyone on the radio.
Brother Rod Serling hired him as a consultant for the airplane sequences in the episode "The Odyssey of Flight 33" of his hit TV-show The Twilight Zone.
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His other TZ work was in the second season's "The Odyssey of Flight 33", where he played the co-pilot, and the fourth season's "The Parallel".