History AfterTheEnd / LiveActionTv

* "Series/TribesOfEuropa" follows the storylines of three survivors of an attack on their community through which we see the aftermath of a worldwide technological collapse some decades before.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': Many episodes dealt with survivors of nuclear war. One of the most famous of the lot is "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough at Last]]", in which a neurotic bookworm (Burgess Meredith) survives an apocalyptic nuclear war (only by his sheer luck of being inside a bank vault at the time a random nuclear war breaks out). The man stumbles among the ruins of his hometown, finding he is the lone survivor and then comes upon a huge library of books. (It's all for naught, as he breaks his glasses, and the man -- blind without the specs -- is unable to engage in a lifestyle of uninterrupted reading.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Quarantine", Matthew Foreman is awakened from [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] in 2347, 304 years after a [[WorldWarIII devastating nuclear war]] wiped out 80% of the world's population.

* Franchise/TheWalkingDeadTelevisionUniverse is a ZombieApocalypse setting, with the various shows depicting different groups of people in different locations reacting after the dead rise:

** ''Series/TheWalkingDeadDeadCity'' starts a few years after the conclusion of the mother series and follows Maggie and Negan into a post-apocalyptic [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Manhattan Island]] cut off from the mainland in search of Maggie's kidnapped son, Hershel. 

* The UK equivalents are ''Film/TheWarGame'' (1965, broadcast 1985) and ''Film/{{Threads}}'' (1984). Both build up to and feature a full-scale thermonuclear holocaust, then - ''Threads'' in particular - keep going and get worse. ''Threads'' continues to scare those who watched it almost 40 years ago.

* The UK equivalents are ''Films/TheWarGame'' (1965, broadcast 1985) and ''Film/{{Threads}}'' (1984). Both build up to and feature a full-scale thermonuclear holocaust, then - ''Threads'' in particular - keep going and get worse. ''Threads'' continues to scare those who watched it almost 40 years ago.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' is a ZombieApocalypse example, beginning some time after the dead started coming back and consuming the living, which rapidly led to the collapse of modern civilization.
** Spin-off show ''Series/FearTheWalkingDead'' initially starts JustBeforeTheEnd, right at the point the dead start walking, but by the start of Season 2, society has collapsed. Season 7 would later add another layer to this trope's usage, following Season 6 ending with [[spoiler: an ApocalypseCult nuking Texas]] and collapsing the burgeoning new civilization in the region.

* The Season 4 finale of ''Series/BabylonFive'' [[spoiler: shows Earth being bombed back into the Dark Ages about 500 years after the end of the series only to emerge as Vorlon-like creatures a million years later]].

* ''Series/{{The 100}}'' takes place 97 years after a nuclear holocaust destroys civilization on Earth. The only survivors are the inhabitants of a space station called "The Ark" which was cobbled together from a dozen other stations in orbit at the time of the war. The plot is about an attempt at recolonization of the Earth's surface using juvenile deliquents. They find a world inhabited with mutant flora and fauna and tribes of primitive humans. [[spoiler:The Season 4 finale ends with Earth being completely cleansed of life outside of a single valley, and ''that'' gets destroyed at the end of Season 5.]]

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': [[spoiler: The 2000s version takes place "after the end" of the Colonial civilization but "before the beginning" of ours. Colonial civilization was in turn "after the end" of civilization on Kobol, which was in turn "after the end" of civilization on the original Earth. All of this has happened before, and will happen again.]]
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': "The Wish" causes Cordelia to be transported to an [[AfterTheEnd Post-Apocalyptic]] world, because she wished Buffy never moved to [[HellGate Sunnydale]].

* In ''Series/{{Community}}'' epsiode [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare Modern Warfare]] invokes this trope (and related tropes) [[PlayedForLaughs For Laughs]] in a PaintballEpisode. After Dean Pelton announced the prize to the school's paintball competition (priority scheduling), almost all of the students destroy each other and their school almost immediately.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': Many episodes dealt with survivors of nuclear war. One of the most famous of the lot is "Time Enough at Last," where a neurotic bookworm (Burgess Meredith) survives an apocalyptic nuclear war (only by his sheer luck of being inside a bank vault at the time a random nuclear war breaks out). The man stumbles among the ruins of his hometown, finding he is the lone survivor and then comes upon a huge library of books. (It's all for naught, as he breaks his glasses, and the man -- blind without the specs -- is unable to engage in a lifestyle of uninterrupted reading.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': "The Wish" causes Cordila to be transported to an [[AfterTheEnd Post-Apocalyptic]] world, because she wished Buffy never moved to [[HellGate Sunnydale]].

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' is a ZombieApocalypse example, beginning some time after the dead started coming back and consuming the living, which rapidly led to the collapse of modern civilization.