[3] In the national tour of the original Broadway production of The Pajama Game Barbara Bostock would perform "Steam Heat" with accompaniment from Lee Capo and Cy Young.
)[6] The recording featured a replication of radiator being pounded, an effect performed by Mac Ceppos, a career session violinist who previously had been heard barking on Page's 1952 #1 hit "The Doggie in the Window".
[7] Page's recording was prominently featured at the end of "Hot Water", Episode 20 of Season 3 of Pretty Little Liars broadcast February 19, 2013: Spencer Hastings (played by Troian Bellisario) had been endangered by being locked in an overheating sauna earlier in the episode, which ends with the series' unseen stalker putting the finishing touches on a funeral wreath while listening to the Patti Page recording of "Steam Heat".
The November 27, 1976, broadcast of The Mary Tyler Moore Show titled "Murray Can't Lose", featured Georgia Engel performing a sultry song and dance number to "Steam Heat".
The Good Times episode broadcast December 20, 1978, featured cast members Esther Rolle, Ja'net Dubois, BernNadette Stanis and Janet Jackson performing "Steam Heat", with the quartet introduced as "the Pointless Sisters."