 Abdul-Jabbar played a genie in a lamp in a 1984 episode of "Tales from the Darkside".He also played himself on the February 10, 1994 episode of the sketch comedy television series "In Living Color".He also appeared in the television version of Stephen King's "The Stand", played the Archangel of Basketball in "Slam Dunk Ernest", and had a brief non-speaking cameo appearance in "BASEketball".