 Charlie Day portrayed Pinkerton in a Season 2 episode of "Drunk History".Pinkerton is also a recurring character in the 2014 series "The Pinkertons", played by Angus Macfadyen.Pinkerton is also portrayed in an episode of "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams", by Don Galloway, and in the 1994 American biographical western film "Frank and Jesse" by William Atherton.