History BetterThanItSounds / LiveActionTV

* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'']]: ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' for kids.

** ''[[Series/HouseOfCardsUK House]]'' ''[[Series/HouseOfCardsUS of Cards]]'' as a comedy.

* [[spoiler: ''Series/AmericanPickers]]'': Two best friends & co-workers travel around the United States buying old junk off mostly-eccentric people.

** Or: A man tells his children the story of how he met a bunch of women who AREN'T their mother with the help of Series/DoogieHowserMD.

* [[spoiler: ''Series/InspectorRex'']]: A cop show whose lead character is the K9 officer.

** [[spoiler: ''Series/AmericanRestoration'']]: The business which fixed up some items for the pawn shop became popular enough to warrant its own series, exploring the dynamics amongst the family who runs it as they worry about whether their clients' items will be properly refurbished.
** [[spoiler: ''Series/CountingCars]]: An auto workshop whose owner frequently appeared at the aforementioned pawn shop builds customized vehicles for obsessive gearheads.

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

** Or: A man tells his children the story of how he met a bunch of women who AREN'T their mother with the help of Series/DoogieHowserMD

* [[spoiler: ''Series/InspectorRex'']]: A cop show where the lead character isn't human.

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

* [[spoiler: {{Series/DesChiffresEtDesLettres}}]]: Game show from France that asks the questions, "can you combine these 6 numbers to achieve a target sum?", followed by "how long a word can you make from 9 random letters?"
** [[spoiler: ''Series/EightOutOfTenCats'']] UK remake of the above show, with more focus on banter.

** [[spoiler: ''Series/8OutOf10Cats'']] UK remake of the above show, with more focus on banter.

* [[spoiler:''Series/InspectorMorse'']]: He's an aging alcoholic frustrated academic singleton. He's a much younger family man from the North. Together they fight crime.

** [[spoiler:''Series/MaskedRider'']]: Alien prince with a Furby arrives on Earth to fight gold-masked Destro.

** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderDouble'']]: Two boys use USB Drives to [[SharingABody share a body]].
*** Or: Lovable poseur and amnesiac know-it-all work at a detective agency together. They Fight Crime.

** [[spoiler:''Series/BlueSWAT'']]: Three ex-SWAT members open a PI business after losing their jobs.

** [[spoiler: ''DenziSentaiDenziman'']]: A RagtagBunchOfMisfits are recruited by a dog to fight aliens.

* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Counterpart}}'']]: A lowly bureaucrat discovers that his AlternateUniverse doppelganger is a spy.

** Alternatively: [[FourLinesAllWaiting Way too many people for me to remember]] fight over who gets to sit on the world's most uncomfortable chair while nobody seems to consider the encroaching horde of unstoppable ice zombies important.

** Alternatively: [[FourLinesAllWaiting Way too many people for me to remember]] fight over who gets to sit on the world's most uncomfortable chair while nobody seems to consider the encroaching unstoppable horde of ice zombies important.

* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'']]: Teenagers act and behave like adults while going through the [[VerySpecialEpisode normal growing pains]] in a setting [[NoBudget one step above your average public access television program.]]

* ''[[spoiler: Series/{{Riverdale}}]]'': [[Series/TwoAndAHalfMen Jake Harper]] has been left behind by his family due to being MistakenForMurderer and forced to share an apartment room with [[Film/PowerRangers Zach]], while his love relationship with [[Series/FallingSkies Lexi Mason]] is starting to fall apart due to the infamous "lipstick incident." As his senior year of high school begins, newcomer [[Series/{{Victorious}} Tori Vega]] becomes attracted to him almost immediately, while fellow students [[Series/AustinAndAlly Dez]], [[Series/HowToRock Kacey]], and [[Series/EverybodyHatesChris Chris]] question Jake's innocence and who the real murderer is. [[spoiler: As it turns out, the victim's sister, a doppelganger of [[Series/{{Jessie}} Jessie Prescott]], is still alive after all.]]

* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Thunderstone}}'']]: When a teenager from AfterTheEnd messes with VirtualReality technology, he finds himself lost in the far past, where animals still thrive long before his time, but is also very treacherous to boot.

* ''[[spoiler: Series/Dark2017]]'': ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' as rewritten by Creator/StephenKing and then made into a TV show by German philosophy students who really loved the timey-wimey aspects of modern ''Series/DoctorWho''.

* [[spoiler:''Series/MiamiVice'']]: An hour long music video compilation about a set of SaltAndPepper [[CowboyCop cowboy cops]] who out-cool all the bad guys.

* [[spoiler:''Series/QueerAsFolk'']]: [[CastFullOfGay Everyone is gay.]] Sex is abundant.

%%*** A beautiful young woman with spots who loves waving a weird looking weapon around falls in love with an ape obsessed with his ancestors culture because that ape is even better at waving weird looking weapons around then she is.

* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}'']]: In a series that partly aired during Passover, a Jewish man serves an Egyptian god.

* [[spoiler:''Wolf Like Me'']]: [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Olaf]] finds himself dating a philosophical woman and finds out at the worst time that she's a closeted furry.

** Alternatively: [[FourLinesAllWaiting Way too many people for me to remember]] fight over who gets to sit on the world's most uncomfortable chair while nobody seems to consider the encroaching unstoppable horde of ice zombies important

** Alternatively: in a world with dangerously horrible weather, people fight over an uncomfortable chair.