History BetterThanItSounds / LiveActionTV

** [[spoiler:''Series/GenseishinJustirisers'']]: Teenagers are recruited to battle a hermit sealed inside a mountain.

** [[spoiler: ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon'']]: Guy from South America befriends children while encountering animals.

** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'']]: Guys fight over cards

** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderFourze'']]: OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent presses buttons while making friends.

** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderGhost'']] Guy gains superpowers by dying.

** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderGeats'']]: People get drafted to fight monsters in a reoccuring DeadlyGame that's not all what it's cracked up to be while dressed as robotic-looking animals. And one of them is on a ''massive'' winning streak.

* [[spoiler: ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'']]: After getting stranded on [[Series/OceanGirl Neri's home island]], three teenage girls are transformed into descendants of [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]] after coming into a contact with a [[GreenRocks strange pool]] -- and during a full moon to boot. First found recognition in the U.S. via an infamous SameLanguageDub on [[Creator/{{PBS}} public television]], then its original form airing on [[Creator/CartoonNetwork a certain channel]] [[NetworkDecay that was trying to be]] [[Creator/CNReal more inclusive to live-action]].

*** The StrawVulcan succumbs to a powerful mating urge and almost kills the ship's captain. (An actual ''TV Guide'' synopsis of the episode "[[spoiler: Amok Time]]")

*** The enlightened old man is stuck with a foreign counterpart who won't stop making pop culture references. His friends try desperately to rescue him. [[spoiler: Darmok]]

*** Or....literally going where no one has gone before. Anybody have a map??

*** Or...how Mankind got it done before the aliens started pitching in.

* ''[[spoiler:The Sunset Limited]]'': [[MinimalistCast Two old men]] [[SpeechCentricWork talk]] [[RealTime for 90 minutes]] about suicide.

* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'']]: ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' for kids.

* [[spoiler:''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' (Demon with a Glass Hand)]] (Single episode of anthology series): An emotionless man with amnesia does everything his hand tells him, including walking into a hail of bullets. (He gets better.)

** [[FairyTale "Fairy tales]], [[DarkerAndEdgier but]] [[HotterAndSexier for adults"]] [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories "fairy-tales-for-adults"]].

* [[spoiler:''[[Series/RetroGameMaster Retro Game Master/GameCenter CX]]'']]: A Japanese guy tries to play through [[RetroGaming old video games]]. The show also breaks to show him visiting arcades or interviewing video game developers.

** [[spoiler:''Film/UltramanZearth'']]: A germaphobic gas station janitor gets bullied by a shady customer who needs gold to live. Later on, the shady customer's BikerBabe wife exploits the janitor's phobias to promote her flying karate dojo.

* [[spoiler:''Wrestling/WWERaw]]'': A CorruptCorporateExecutive tries to put on a stunt show with lots of hidden cameras. His efforts are repeatedly thwarted by numerous overweight psychopaths, underweight sex kittens, and sometimes midgets. The most popular star is [[Wrestling/JohnCena a military impostor and former poet]].
** The former star was [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin an alcoholic redneck who beat up his boss and Santa Claus]]. Both are the SpiritualSuccessor to [[Wrestling/HulkHogan a man]] who was [[FakeNationality a fake Irish-American]] who suffered a lot of self-inflicted ClothingDamage.
* [[spoiler:''Wrestling/WWESmackDown]]'': A George Jefferson lookalike and a shrill Hispanic woman try to put on a stunt show with lots of hidden cameras, only you don't see the action until three days later. One of their employees is [[Wrestling/TheUndertaker a giant zombie who skips work a lot]].
* [[spoiler:''WWE ECW on SciFi]]'': A ponytailed Jew, a Cuban businessman, the George Jefferson lookalike mentioned above and a few others try to put on a stunt show with lots of hidden cameras in which a bunch of middle-aged Irish and Italian street punks battle a crop of young bucks over who best exemplifies a violent East Coast brand of entertainment that passed out of existence for almost four years. Arguably its biggest star is [[Wrestling/CMPunk a teetotaler with no first or middle name]].

** [[spoiler:''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'']]: Angels battle bugs.

* [[spoiler:''Series/TheTenthKingdom'']]: A waitress, a janitor, a golden retriever, and an obsessed ex-con chase a mirror, while pursued by three idiots who love the Bee Gees. Meanwhile, the BigBad teaches a dog how to be a man and spends the rest of her time talking to mirrors (or [[Series/MarriedWithChildren Al Bundy]]).

*** [[spoiler:The Fugitive Doctor (2020-)]]: Black ops agent tries to find a way to leave her employers.

** Or, a ControlFreak, DeadpanSnarker, EndearinglyDorky, LovableAlphaBitch, CloudCuckooLander and TheCasanova try to figure life out by never going to work, [[LimitedSocialCircle never interacting with anyone else]] and drinking lots of coffee.

* [[spoiler:''Series/MamasFamily'']]: [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior A crotchety old Midwestern woman]] raises her eccentric, slow-witted, feuding and ungrateful children, grandchildren and [[ObnoxiousInLaws in-laws]]. It's notable for the old woman of a VagueAge being portrayed by an actress who ranges from [[PlayingGertrude being years to even]] ''[[PlayingGertrude decades]]'' [[PlayingGertrude younger than her on-screen children.]]

** ''Franchise/JohnWick'' plus a baby, and {{IN SPACE}}

* [[spoiler: ''Series/ChouseishinGransazer'']]: 12 people discover their Zodiac signs, get giant animals as a bonus, and wind up fighting kaiju sent by aliens.

** [[spoiler:''Series/KidouKeijiJiban'']]: Cop becomes cyborg cop and gets a new boss who's a little girl.

* [[spoiler: ''Series/ChouseishinGransazer'']]: Four groups of 3 fight aliens in giant animals.

** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'']]: Three friends who run a dry cleaning business deal with their annoying neighbors and a MegaCorp

** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderSaber'']]: A novelist in search for his lost childhood friend finds a sword on fire.
** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderRevice'']]: Three siblings and their inner demons collect stamps to fight Mexican Satanists and end up uncovering a government conspiracy.

* [[spoiler: ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'']]: Wisecracking guy that died comes back to life to recruit a RagtagBunchOfMisfits to help his government agency. Together, TheyFightCrime, superpowered people and have {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST with each other.

* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Angel}}'']]: A broody vampire with a soul, a former RichBitch, an UpperclassTwit, a formerly enslaved scientist, a green demon who reads people's futures when they sing Karaoke and a gang leader live in a hotel, then run a law firm. TheyFightCrime.

* [[spoiler:''Series/BabylonBerlin'']]: He's a [[FunctionalAddict morphine-addicted]], [[ShellshockedVeteran shell-shocked]] [[ByTheBookCop vice squad cop]] with family issues. She's a [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold hooker]]-cum-LowerClassLout-cum-[[SassySecretary secretary]] with even more family issues. [[TheyFightCrime Together, they fight]] [[DirtyCommunists Communists]]! And [[GoodRepublicEvilEmpire Monarchists]]! And [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]]! And [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking porn]]! Not nearly as [[{{Narm}} moralistic]] as it sounds.

* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Chuck}}'']]: A nerd gets kidnapped [[TheyFightCrime and forced to fight crime]] by a hot blonde CIA agent who wants him and a hot but grumpy male NSA agent who hates him.

** [[spoiler:''Series/{{CSI}}'']]: An entomologist, a former stripper, a gambling addict, and a group of nerds and geeks perform obscure activities in a lab to musical accompaniment. TheyFightCrime...somehow.

* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Elementary}}'']]: A woman becomes a companion for a recovering junkie CloudCuckooLander from England who works with the NYPD. TheyFightCrime.
** Alternatively: Creator/LucyLiu babysits a twitchy recovering addict BunnyEarsLawyer. TheyFightCrime and have mostly-platonic femdom subtext.

* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Firefly}}'']]: A pair of bitter war veterans, a sexual ambassador for hire, a [[SociopathicHero mercenary with a cunning hat]], [[WrenchWench a hot mechanic]], a childish pilot, a preacher with a MysteriousPast, a medical genius and the [[{{Moe}} cutest little]] [[AxCrazy psychotic]] [[WaifFu killing machine]] ever all get together on a ship. [[TheyFightCrime They Do Crime!]]

* [[spoiler: ''Series/FirstWave'']]: A former criminal on the run from the law for murdering his wife (which he didn't) teams up with a paranoid hacker/online newspaper editor who lives in a trailer, and later also some chick with a private army. {{They Fight|Crime}} [[TheyFightCrime Aliens!]] Using ancient prophecies!

* [[spoiler:''Series/GetSmart'']]: An inept spy [[TheyFightCrime fights crime]] with his girlfriend to save the world from an age-progressed Hitler and his henchman.

* [[spoiler:''[[Series/InspectorLynley The Inspector Lynley Mysteries]]'']]: A Lord with a dysfunctional personal life and a cranky, foul-mouthed junk food addict [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]] while clashing over class issues, elitism, and everything else. Somehow, they wind up [[UndyingLoyalty best friends]] and [[UnresolvedSexualTension possibly fall in love]].
* [[spoiler:''Series/InspectorMorse'']]: He's an aging alcoholic frustrated academic singleton. He's a much younger family man from the North. Together TheyFightCrime

** [[spoiler:''Series/{{NCIS}}'']]: A retired Marine with a redhead fetish, a lecherous playboy, a malapropping Israeli assassin, a murder mystery writer / computer nerd and online gamer, an old British doctor and a PerkyGoth with a caffeine habit work for the US Navy. TheyFightCrime!
*** [[spoiler:''Series/NCISLosAngeles'']]: Robin (of ''[[Film/BatmanAndRobin Batman and...]]''), LL Cool J, and a short white woman famous for playing a Chinese man work out of a resort that's supposed to be a secret base in the middle of Los Angeles. [[TheyFightCrime They also fight crime!]]

* [[spoiler: ''Series/KnightRider'']] A man and his talking computer-controlled car wander the country, [[TheyFightCrime fighting crime]].

* [[spoiler:''Series/KtaiInvestigator7'']]: [[WunzaPlot one's an]] OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent. [[WunzaPlot One's a]] [[TransformingMecha transforming cell-phone robot]]. [[TheyFightCrime They Fight Cyber Crime]]!

* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Leverage}}'']]: A FiveManBand of criminals. TheyFightCrime.

* [[spoiler:''Series/TheLoneRanger'']]: A cowboy and an Indian [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]. Together.

* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Monk}}'']]: A man with [=OCD=] annoys everyone around him in the process of [[TheyFightCrime solving murders]].

* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Psych}}'']]: An immature slacker convinces the police that he has ESP. He and his reluctant best friend [[TheyFightCrime solve murders]] and sing a series of 80s references as they do it.

* [[spoiler:''Series/PushingDaisies'']]: A baker/necromancer brings his murdered girlfriend back to life; together with an undead dog, a cynical private eye, and a singing waitress, [[TheyFightCrime they solve gruesome yet hilarious murders.]] One-eyed synchronized-swimming aunts, homeopathic mood enhancers, disappeared dads, and a restaurant called the Pie Hole are involved.

* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Sherlock}}'']]: A sociopathic manchild teams up with a traumatised Army doctor. TheyFightCrime.

* [[spoiler: ''Series/StormChasers'']]: An IMAX filmmaker, a videographer, and an electrical engineer. [[TheyFightCrime They chase storms.]]

* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Supernatural}}'']]: Two hot, dysfunctional brothers drive around the country fighting monsters, later accompanied by a hot angel, with a revolving door of hot recurring stars/guest stars. [[TheyFightCrime They Fight Monsters]].

* [[spoiler:''Series/TerraNova'']]: The cop from the American ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2008}}'' and the [[JerkAss asshole]] [[ColonelBadass colonel]] from ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' travel back in time 85 million years and form [[HeterosexualLifePartners history's earliest recorded bromance]]. [[TheyFightCrime They Fight Dinosaurs]] (and an [[AngryBlackManStereotype Angry Black Woman]]).

*** [[spoiler: The Thirteenth Doctor (2017-)]]: Energetic blonde [[GenderBender woman]] travels with an old man, his step-grandson, and a young cop who has a crush on her, becoming much less bubbly and more secretive as time goes on. Her college buddy returns with [[GenderBender another facelift]] just to tell her that her past was a lie, which she struggles to deal with, not helped by her lost past deciding to stage a comeback. After the old man and his step-grandson leave, she and the cop (who's now left her job) adopt a himbo, who teaches the cop how to admit her feelings to the blonde.

* [[spoiler''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'']]:

* [[spoiler: ''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos'']]: People across America submit videos of themselves [[GroinAttack getting hit in the groin]] for a chance to win $100,000. The host makes [[{{MST}} snarky commentary]] over said videos.

* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Occupied}}'']]: TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain the Russians]] plot to steal all of Norway's oil and [[AndThatsTerrible book all the good tables in their restaurants]]. To add insult to injury, they then [[LeaveYourQuestTest try and steal away the bodyguard]] of the [[RulerProtagonist Norwegian prime minister]] as well. Meanwhile, an IntrepidReporter gets in trouble for writing headlines that are ''[[WorstNewsJudgementEver too]]'' juicy. Meanwhile, a couple of guys in [[TheHilarityOfHats very silly hats]] decide to re-enact ''Film/RedDawn''. Europe and America watch the whole thing from afar and PassThePopcorn. It's a serious ConspiracyThriller.