Truth Serum (pentothal) on TV

A truth serum is a drug used for the purposes of obtaining accurate information from an unwilling subject,
most often by a police, intelligence, or military organization on a prisoner.
Drugs used for this purpose have included ethanol, scopolamine, and sodium thiopental
(known as Sodium Pentothal)
In episode 12 of season 5 in 24 (TV series), Jack Bauer contacts CTU
to tell them to prep an interogation room and for a medic to stand by with hyocine pentathol,
another form of truth serum
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In episode 118 of MacGyver, a prisoner is given the choice of confessing freely or being injected with Sodium Pentothal.
Jonathan Adams' alternative comic book originally published by Slave Labor Graphics and later self-published by City Cyclops is titled Truth Serum.
In Thomas Harris' first Hannibal Lecter novel Red Dragon, FBI agent Will Graham mentions that when previous attempts to gain information from Lecter, regarding the location of one of his victims' bodies, using truth drugs like sodium pentathol, they only succeeded in him giving them 'a recipe for dip'.
Karin Boye's dystopic novel Kallocain, originally published in 1940, is named after, and based around a fictional truth serum.
In the James Bond film Octopussy, the villain Kamal Khan tells Bond that a combination of curare and a psychedelic agent gave "guaranteed results" as a truth drug, although at the cost of permanent insanity for the recipient.
The U.S. television series Alias features repeated references to Sodium Pentothal as a truth drug.
In the True Lies motion picture Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger), subjected to sodium amytal, details his precise plan of killing the interrogator to the same interrogator, but still manages to carry it out.
In Meet the Fockers, Greg Focker is injected with sodium pentothal by his father-in-law.
In Johnny English, agent Johnny English (played by Rowan Atkinson) accidentally injects Pascal Sauvage's assistant with truth serum when trying to inject him with muscle relaxant. The assistant later proceeds to tell English how to get out of the building without being seen when asked.
In [[Terminator 2: Judgment Day]], Doctor Silberman orders Sarah Connor subdued by hospital employees using Sodium Pentathol.