History BoundAndGagged / LiveActionTV

** In "The Dark Rider", the killer attempts to remove someone who is [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes afraid of the dark]] from the line of succession by driving them into a permanent state of trauma by leaving them bound and gagged inside a priest hole.

** In "Left for Dead", the murderer leaves Tom Barnaby bound and gagged on a mattress in the cellar. He has to be rescued by Jones.

** In "The Music Lovers", the Goodies have been kidnapped so they can produce a hit record for the Music Master. Unfortunately his brainless minion has them bound and gagged when they kept complaining, making that rather difficult.
** In "The Goodies Rule - OK?", laughter has been banned so a husband has to tie up and then gag his wife to stop her laughing at the Goodies antics. He then ends up laughing at the sight of her and gets beaten up government thugs.

* A sketch on ''Series/TheWeeklyWithCharliePickering'' in the aftermath of the controversial raid by the Australian Federal Police on Creator/TheABC headquarters has Charlie waking up in a basement tied to a chair with a bag over his head. He is interrogated by three shadowy figures silhouetted by a bright light. After Charlie vows not to tell them anything, it turns that his interrogators aren't anything to do with the AFP or intelligence. They are actually Tom, Lucy and Adam, and they were just bored.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': One episode sees the main character being bound and gagged by his daughter to see how he can escape [[ItsForABook for a book idea]]. Said daughter takes the chance to empty his wallet to go shopping.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': At one point or another, Jenny, Ziva, Paula Cassidy, EJ and Palmer all end up this way, not always with the gagging. It should be noted that while those are mostly female names on the list, the show does ''not'' have a fetish-based or DistressedDamsel bent. It seems to be mostly coincidence.

* ''Series/TwentyFour'': This will frequently happen to characters like DamselScrappy. Kim Bauer, daughter of Jack Bauer, was captured, bound, and gagged by the bad guys no less than three times over the course of the series (including by one FauxMole). And once more in the video game, to boot.

* ''Series/{{Better Call Saul}}'': Jimmy [=McGill=] gets tied up tightly by Lalo Salamanca, who thinks Jimmy had something to do with the assault on his home, and gags him while Jimmy is the middle of trying to tell him it wasn't him, it was Ignacio. All this explains why Saul Goodman was so terrified at being kidnapped by Walt and Jesse in ''Series/BreakingBad'', a part of his brain is always going to be trapped in that moment.

** Dawn, Buffy, Spike and others get tied a few times throughout the series.
** Glory is introduced interrogating a BoundAndGagged monk as an EstablishingCharacterMoment; she's so self-centered it takes her a while to realise he can't answer her questions with the gag in his mouth.

* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': In the {{Crossover}} Episode with ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'', the Ninja Rangers are called on by their mentor, who tells them of the return of their BigBad, then gives them the power discs for their morphers. However, these discs brainwash the three and it turns out the mentor was the BigBad in disguise. As for where the real mentor was, he was BoundAndGagged somewhere nearby and out of view.

* ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'': PlayedForLaughs, with the titular character bound and gagged by [[spoiler: the studio manager's selfish daughter]] for not taking her to see Chad.
-->'''Sonny:''' How come you didn't notice I was tied up!?
-->'''[[{{JerkWithAHeartOfGold}} Tawni]]:''' I don't know? How come you didn't notice my new nail polish? It's a two-way strike, Sonny.

* ''Series/WonderWoman'': This happened to Diana Prince regularly. Usually she affirmed her ActionGirl status by freeing herself, but occasionally was a true DamselInDistress. Wonder Woman herself found herself in this situation by the Nazis in World War II although frequently they either didn't understand her weaknesses or disbelieved them. [[{{BullyingTheDragon}} This rarely worked out well for Axis]].

* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''. In "Sad Clown A-Go-Go", Vicious plans to kill the leaders of TheSyndicate by having his fellow capos Mao and Santiago hand him over for treason, whereupon he will [[PlayAlongPrisoner throw off his fake handcuffs]] and kill the Elders. However they betray Vicious and he's handed over gagged and in shackles. Only after Mao cuts off his head does she discovers she's just killed Santiago wearing a HolographicDisguise; Vicious (wearing a similar disguise to make himself appear to be Santiago) knew they would betray them, overpowered Santiago and swapped places, binding and gagging Santiago [[AndIMustScream so he wouldn't give the game away]].