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* ''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]].
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': 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.
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** 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 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.
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* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': In "Please Note We Are No Longer Accepting Letters of Recommendation from Henry Kissinger", a distraught woman takes over a preschool. She ties the director and a teacher to chairs and gags them. They are in the room as Goren attempts to talk her down.
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** Cersei has Ellaria and Tyene Sand chained to the wall and gagged so they can't spit, curse, or beg while she taunts them about their upcoming FateWorseThanDeath.
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* ''Series/{{Batman}}'' (1960's): The episode "Catwoman's Dressed to Kill". Catwoman orders an already bound Batgirl to be gagged to stop her backtalk.
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* ''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 FetishFuel or DistressedDamsel bent. It seems to be mostly coincidence.
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* ''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 FetishFuel fetish-based or DistressedDamsel bent. It seems to be mostly coincidence.
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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** After Jaime's failed escape, Catelyn orders, "Take him back to his cell. Bind him with every chain you can find," then adds "...and ''gag'' him!" when he continues to snark at her.
** Tyrion is treated to this after his capture in "The High Sparrow".
** After Jaime's failed escape, Catelyn orders, "Take him back to his cell. Bind him with every chain you can find," then adds "...and ''gag'' him!" when he continues to snark at her.
** Tyrion is treated to this after his capture in "The High Sparrow".
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* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': PlayedForLaughs. During a montage in which Will and Carlton are renovating an old apartment, Will gets fed up with Carlton bossing him around so he sticks him to a wall and gags him with an apple he was eating for good measure.
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* ''Series/RoundTheTwist'': In "The Whirling Derfish", Pete overhears Gribs and his lackeys discussing a plan to make Bronson, who had swallowed a magical fish that gave him the ability to swim incredibly fast, lose a swimming competition. When he confronts them about it, they promptly bind him in red tape and gag him, also keeping him from participating in said competition.
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* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': In "Convalescence", Mrs Kitchen is kept bound and gaged while the criminals search her house for the missing loot.
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* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': In "The Murder Channel", a friend of Jessica's accidentally stumbles on a plot of some thieves. The thieves kidnap and keep her bound and gagged in the back of their van as they commit the robbery.
* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': In "Convalescence", Mrs Kitchen is kept bound andgaged gagged while the criminals search her house for the missing loot.
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* ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'': Did it with Christine,Mac's girlfriend, in 'Seth and Apep',the NY half of the crossover where she was kidnapped.
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* ''Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles'':
** Sarah spends almost an entire episode like this in the back of a guy's van. One wonders why he bothered with the gag at all, since every time she woke up with it on she just pulled it off.
** Also, earlier in the series, Charlie's wife is kidnapped by Cromartie and bound and gagged in an old abandoned house.
** Sarah's tied up by Cromartie in the episode Mr. Ferguson is Ill Today. And in the first season, Dr. Silberman ties James Ellison up and sets the house on fire to kill him.
** Sarah spends almost an entire episode like this in the back of a guy's van. One wonders why he bothered with the gag at all, since every time she woke up with it on she just pulled it off.
** Also, earlier in the series, Charlie's wife is kidnapped by Cromartie and bound and gagged in an old abandoned house.
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** Also, earlier in the series, Charlie's wife is kidnapped by Cromartie and bound and gagged in an old abandoned house.
** Sarah's tied up by Cromartie in the episode Mr. Ferguson is Ill Today. And in the first season, Dr. Silberman ties James Ellison up and sets the house on fire to kill him.
** Sarah spends almost an entire episode like this in the back of a guy's van. One wonders why he bothered with the gag at all, since every time she woke up with it on she just pulled it off.
** Also, earlier in the series, Charlie's wife is kidnapped by Cromartie and bound and gagged in an old abandoned house.
** Sarah's tied up by Cromartie in the episode Mr. Ferguson is Ill Today. And in the first season, Dr. Silberman ties James Ellison up and sets the house on fire to kill him.
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* ''Series/{{Billions}}:'' The ''very first scene of the series'' has Creator/PaulGiamatti in said situation. It turns out to be a session with a dominatrix - [[spoiler:[[WhamShot who is also his wife!]]]]
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* ''Series/TheFlash2014: Snart and Rory leave Caitlin bound and gagged and StrappedToABomb in "Revenge of the Rogues".
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* ''Series/JonathanCreek'': In "The Sinner and the Sandman", Jonathan finds two people bound, gagged and tied to chairs, and unties them. Unfortunately for him, [[spoiler:they are a pair of burglars the real householders had overpowered and tied up to await the police]].
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* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'': Dot, Aunt Prudence and Mr Butler are gagged and tied to chairs by a killer who is waiting in ambush for Phryne in "Death at the Grand".
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* Veronica on ''Series/SirArthhurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'', despite being an ActionGirl who grew up in the jungle, is subjected to this more than anyone else in the series.
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* Veronica on ''Series/SirArthhurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'', ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'', despite being an ActionGirl who grew up in the jungle, is subjected to this more than anyone else in the series.
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* ''Series/{{Scorpion}}'': Happens to Cabe's ex-wife Rebecca when she is kidnapped in "Rogue Element".
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* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': Quarles likes to bind and torture male hustlers. In "The Man Behind the Curtain," Sammy Tonin mentions the rentboy back in Detroit whom Quarles left in a coma, an incident that played a role in Quarles' exile to Kentucky. Several episodes show Brady gagged, nearly naked, and bound to a bed in Quarles house before Quarles presumably kills him. At the end of "Guy Walks into a Bar," Donovan is shown bound and gagged in a bathroom as a naked Quarles approaches.
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* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': ''Series/{{Justified}}'':
** Quarles likes to bind and torture male hustlers. In "The Man Behind the Curtain," Sammy Tonin mentions the rentboy back in Detroit whom Quarles left in a coma, an incident that played a role in Quarles' exile to Kentucky. Several episodes show Brady gagged, nearly naked, and bound to a bed in Quarles house before Quarles presumably kills him. At the end of "Guy Walks into a Bar," Donovan is shown bound and gagged in a bathroom as a naked Quarlesapproaches.approaches.
** In "For Blood or Money", Clinton leaves both the manager of his halfway house and his mother-in-law bound and gagged in the string of crimes he commits while attempting to get to his son's 12th birthday.
** Quarles likes to bind and torture male hustlers. In "The Man Behind the Curtain," Sammy Tonin mentions the rentboy back in Detroit whom Quarles left in a coma, an incident that played a role in Quarles' exile to Kentucky. Several episodes show Brady gagged, nearly naked, and bound to a bed in Quarles house before Quarles presumably kills him. At the end of "Guy Walks into a Bar," Donovan is shown bound and gagged in a bathroom as a naked Quarles
** In "For Blood or Money", Clinton leaves both the manager of his halfway house and his mother-in-law bound and gagged in the string of crimes he commits while attempting to get to his son's 12th birthday.
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* ''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/TheAvengers'': Emma Peel. [[FetishFuelStationAttendant Routinely]]. The only times she ever seems remotely put out by this is when it looks like a related DeathTrap might go off while she's still, ah, indisposed.
* ''Series/{{Batman}}'' (1960's): The episode "Catwoman's Dressed to Kill". Catwoman orders an already bound Batgirl to be gagged to stop her backtalk.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Occasionally happens. Dawn, Buffy, Spike and others are get tied a few times throughout the series.
* ''Series/BurnNotice'': Features an interesting variation, in which Fiona willingly gets this treatment, and stuffed in a trunk, to [[BatmanGambit convince the villain of the week that Michael is a dangerous criminal]]. Several minor characters have been similarly tied up as bait in one of Michael's {{plan}}s as well. And then there's Mike pretending to be a crack addict, letting Sam tie him up and pretend to torture him.
* ''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/CriminalMinds'' features many [=UnSubs=] who do this to their victims. On the main character side, we have Morgan ("Our Darkest Hour"/"The Longest Night"), Reid (three times), Hotch ("LDSK"), Prentiss ("Minimal Loss"/"Lauren") and Blake ("The Replicator").
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Subverted in one episode where there was an apparent robbery of priceless antiques with the guard bound with a long length of duct tape. However Gil Grissom's first clue that the robbery was as a fake was when he discovered that by the position of the tied up guard and nearby fixtures, the evidence strongly suggested that the guard tied himself up.
* ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'': Did it with Christine,Mac's girlfriend, in 'Seth and Apep',the NY half of the crossover where she was kidnapped.
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': His playmates are mostly bound and gagged when he's having his... fun with them.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** This happens to one of the Doctor's companions seemingly every other episode.
** Romana gets tied up about five times in "The Androids of Tara," which must surely be some sort of record.
** Rose gets bound in three of the first four episodes of series two of the new series. She is bound by Cassandra in "New Earth," then ChainedToARock in "Tooth And Claw" to be eaten by the werewolf, then is bound to a torture rack in "The Girl In The Fireplace."
** Adric and Turlough also got tied up, so at least the writers weren't being sexist.
** Happens to the Doctor himself in "The Caves of Androzani," Part 3.
** And in "The End of Time," Part 2: [[WorstWhateverEver "Worst Rescue Ever!"]]
** The Third Doctor is bound and gagged in ''Day Of The Daleks'', as is Jo Grant.
** Jack gets chained up during "The Last of the Time Lords"
* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' did this most notably in "A Giant Gun, Filled With Drugs" to the daughter of one of Sherlock's old friends.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': It didn't feature a whole lot of gagging, it did feature a lot of binding, particularly toward the show's resident [[DamselInDistress Damsels In Distress]], River and Kaylee. As a point of irony, by the time of [[TheMovie the Big Damn Movie]], River's [[WaifFu newfound lethality]] allowed her to slip out of most of the binding she would have faced earlier in the series.
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': In the episode, "August" (which reveals the existence of more than one Observer), an Observer kidnaps Christine Hollis and has her bound and gagged for most of the episode at a motel.
* ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'': Early in the episode, Zhangliao captures Daigo, Kazu and Lin and ties them on three poles and gives each of them a gag.
* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': Quarles likes to bind and torture male hustlers. In "The Man Behind the Curtain," Sammy Tonin mentions the rentboy back in Detroit whom Quarles left in a coma, an incident that played a role in Quarles' exile to Kentucky. Several episodes show Brady gagged, nearly naked, and bound to a bed in Quarles house before Quarles presumably kills him. At the end of "Guy Walks into a Bar," Donovan is shown bound and gagged in a bathroom as a naked Quarles approaches.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': The season 2 finale saw Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley bound and gagged by the Others, though the gags were largely unnecessary.
* ''Series/TheMonkees'': This happened a number of times.
* ''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 FetishFuel or DistressedDamsel bent. It seems to be mostly coincidence.
* ''Series/PapinyDochki'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PDeUcitq7k Maria is caught by guards, tied, and gagged]].
* ''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/{{Revolution}}'': In [[Recap/RevolutionS1E4ThePlagueDogs Episode 4]], Charlie Matheson gets captured by Ray Kinsey, and ends up bound and gagged.
* ''Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles'':
** Sarah spends almost an entire episode like this in the back of a guy's van. One wonders why he bothered with the gag at all, since every time she woke up with it on she just pulled it off.
** Also, earlier in the series, Charlie's wife is kidnapped by Cromartie and bound and gagged in an old abandoned house.
** Sarah's tied up by Cromartie in the episode Mr. Ferguson is Ill Today. And in the first season, Dr. Silberman ties James Ellison up and sets the house on fire to kill him.
* Veronica on ''Series/SirArthhurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'', despite being an ActionGirl who grew up in the jungle, is subjected to this more than anyone else in the series.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': In the second episode, John and Sarah are kidnapped by Chinese gangsters and tied up, though only Sarah is gagged. Later in the second series, a CIA agent is bound and gagged with duct tape by Sherlock after he attacks Sherlock's landlady.
* ''Series/SheSpies'': Uses ropes and gags for its frequently-captured main characters. The show's mood is so light-hearted as to be downright corny.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
** This occurs, but they seem to like convenient unconsciousness better. Plus, the bad guys usually need the captive to talk so the gagged part is rarer.
** Chloe gets a straight one in ''Checkmate'' though, and Clark rescues her in an epic BulletTime StopMotionLighting scene.
* ''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.
** It happens to Chad, Nico, Grady, and Tawni in another episode.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** In the episode "Hunted", you would be forgiven for thinking that Dean like this was the main attraction, considering as most of the pictures released/trailers shown have him tied up. [[{{Fanservice}} Guess they know who their audience is]].
** And when Castiel had duct-tape over his mouth in "Changing Channels", livejournal icons of the scene popped up almost instantly.
** ''Supernatural'' also has its fair share of girls tied up, either needing to be rescued by the heroes, or having been tied up by the heroes because they are monsters or possessed by demons.
* ''Series/TeenWolf'': The hunters seem to like this method a lot, seeing as how Chris had himself and Allison bound up and gagged as a training exercise and Gerard did this to Erica and Boyd once they'd been captured.
* ''Series/TomTurbo'': An example of fantastical fare from Germany. This is a series about a talking bicycle and the random kids who help it solve mysteries, has someone tied up in more than half the episodes. That someone could be anyone from an adult who needs rescuing to one of the main child characters. Or both at the same time.
* ''Series/TopGear'': Clarkson is bound and gagged to a tree so May can make fun of... er, review the Ford GT in peace. Clarkson later gets revenge by locking May [[PunkInTheTrunk in the trunk of his own car]].
* ''Series/UchuuKeijiSharivan'': The villains captured four young girls. Those girls were blindfolded, tied each other, and placed in the cliff. The villains threaten to kill them if Sharivan interfere their plan.
* ''Series/UnnaturalHistory'': A fond approach for the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villains of the Week]].
* ''Series/VRTroopers'': Kaitlin, the ActionGirl, was captured, bound, and gagged as bait to lure her friends into a DeathTrap.
* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'': Happens to ''Artie'' of all people in the Season 1 finale. The gag is a NUKE that [[spoiler: [=MacPherson=] put in his mouth]].
* ''Series/WhiteCollar'': Happens to Neal in season 4. Needless to say it resulted in much fangirling.
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* ''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/TheAvengers'': Emma Peel. [[FetishFuelStationAttendant Routinely]]. The only times she ever seems remotely put out by this is when it looks like a related DeathTrap might go off while she's still, ah, indisposed.
* ''Series/{{Batman}}'' (1960's): The episode "Catwoman's Dressed to Kill". Catwoman orders an already bound Batgirl to be gagged to stop her backtalk.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Occasionally happens. Dawn, Buffy, Spike and others are get tied a few times throughout the series.
* ''Series/BurnNotice'': Features an interesting variation, in which Fiona willingly gets this treatment, and stuffed in a trunk, to [[BatmanGambit convince the villain of the week that Michael is a dangerous criminal]]. Several minor characters have been similarly tied up as bait in one of Michael's {{plan}}s as well. And then there's Mike pretending to be a crack addict, letting Sam tie him up and pretend to torture him.
* ''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/CriminalMinds'' features many [=UnSubs=] who do this to their victims. On the main character side, we have Morgan ("Our Darkest Hour"/"The Longest Night"), Reid (three times), Hotch ("LDSK"), Prentiss ("Minimal Loss"/"Lauren") and Blake ("The Replicator").
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Subverted in one episode where there was an apparent robbery of priceless antiques with the guard bound with a long length of duct tape. However Gil Grissom's first clue that the robbery was as a fake was when he discovered that by the position of the tied up guard and nearby fixtures, the evidence strongly suggested that the guard tied himself up.
* ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'': Did it with Christine,Mac's girlfriend, in 'Seth and Apep',the NY half of the crossover where she was kidnapped.
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': His playmates are mostly bound and gagged when he's having his... fun with them.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** This happens to one of the Doctor's companions seemingly every other episode.
** Romana gets tied up about five times in "The Androids of Tara," which must surely be some sort of record.
** Rose gets bound in three of the first four episodes of series two of the new series. She is bound by Cassandra in "New Earth," then ChainedToARock in "Tooth And Claw" to be eaten by the werewolf, then is bound to a torture rack in "The Girl In The Fireplace."
** Adric and Turlough also got tied up, so at least the writers weren't being sexist.
** Happens to the Doctor himself in "The Caves of Androzani," Part 3.
** And in "The End of Time," Part 2: [[WorstWhateverEver "Worst Rescue Ever!"]]
** The Third Doctor is bound and gagged in ''Day Of The Daleks'', as is Jo Grant.
** Jack gets chained up during "The Last of the Time Lords"
* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' did this most notably in "A Giant Gun, Filled With Drugs" to the daughter of one of Sherlock's old friends.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': It didn't feature a whole lot of gagging, it did feature a lot of binding, particularly toward the show's resident [[DamselInDistress Damsels In Distress]], River and Kaylee. As a point of irony, by the time of [[TheMovie the Big Damn Movie]], River's [[WaifFu newfound lethality]] allowed her to slip out of most of the binding she would have faced earlier in the series.
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': In the episode, "August" (which reveals the existence of more than one Observer), an Observer kidnaps Christine Hollis and has her bound and gagged for most of the episode at a motel.
* ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'': Early in the episode, Zhangliao captures Daigo, Kazu and Lin and ties them on three poles and gives each of them a gag.
* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': Quarles likes to bind and torture male hustlers. In "The Man Behind the Curtain," Sammy Tonin mentions the rentboy back in Detroit whom Quarles left in a coma, an incident that played a role in Quarles' exile to Kentucky. Several episodes show Brady gagged, nearly naked, and bound to a bed in Quarles house before Quarles presumably kills him. At the end of "Guy Walks into a Bar," Donovan is shown bound and gagged in a bathroom as a naked Quarles approaches.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': The season 2 finale saw Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley bound and gagged by the Others, though the gags were largely unnecessary.
* ''Series/TheMonkees'': This happened a number of times.
* ''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 FetishFuel or DistressedDamsel bent. It seems to be mostly coincidence.
* ''Series/PapinyDochki'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PDeUcitq7k Maria is caught by guards, tied, and gagged]].
* ''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/{{Revolution}}'': In [[Recap/RevolutionS1E4ThePlagueDogs Episode 4]], Charlie Matheson gets captured by Ray Kinsey, and ends up bound and gagged.
* ''Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles'':
** Sarah spends almost an entire episode like this in the back of a guy's van. One wonders why he bothered with the gag at all, since every time she woke up with it on she just pulled it off.
** Also, earlier in the series, Charlie's wife is kidnapped by Cromartie and bound and gagged in an old abandoned house.
** Sarah's tied up by Cromartie in the episode Mr. Ferguson is Ill Today. And in the first season, Dr. Silberman ties James Ellison up and sets the house on fire to kill him.
* Veronica on ''Series/SirArthhurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'', despite being an ActionGirl who grew up in the jungle, is subjected to this more than anyone else in the series.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': In the second episode, John and Sarah are kidnapped by Chinese gangsters and tied up, though only Sarah is gagged. Later in the second series, a CIA agent is bound and gagged with duct tape by Sherlock after he attacks Sherlock's landlady.
* ''Series/SheSpies'': Uses ropes and gags for its frequently-captured main characters. The show's mood is so light-hearted as to be downright corny.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
** This occurs, but they seem to like convenient unconsciousness better. Plus, the bad guys usually need the captive to talk so the gagged part is rarer.
** Chloe gets a straight one in ''Checkmate'' though, and Clark rescues her in an epic BulletTime StopMotionLighting scene.
* ''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.
** It happens to Chad, Nico, Grady, and Tawni in another episode.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** In the episode "Hunted", you would be forgiven for thinking that Dean like this was the main attraction, considering as most of the pictures released/trailers shown have him tied up. [[{{Fanservice}} Guess they know who their audience is]].
** And when Castiel had duct-tape over his mouth in "Changing Channels", livejournal icons of the scene popped up almost instantly.
** ''Supernatural'' also has its fair share of girls tied up, either needing to be rescued by the heroes, or having been tied up by the heroes because they are monsters or possessed by demons.
* ''Series/TeenWolf'': The hunters seem to like this method a lot, seeing as how Chris had himself and Allison bound up and gagged as a training exercise and Gerard did this to Erica and Boyd once they'd been captured.
* ''Series/TomTurbo'': An example of fantastical fare from Germany. This is a series about a talking bicycle and the random kids who help it solve mysteries, has someone tied up in more than half the episodes. That someone could be anyone from an adult who needs rescuing to one of the main child characters. Or both at the same time.
* ''Series/TopGear'': Clarkson is bound and gagged to a tree so May can make fun of... er, review the Ford GT in peace. Clarkson later gets revenge by locking May [[PunkInTheTrunk in the trunk of his own car]].
* ''Series/UchuuKeijiSharivan'': The villains captured four young girls. Those girls were blindfolded, tied each other, and placed in the cliff. The villains threaten to kill them if Sharivan interfere their plan.
* ''Series/UnnaturalHistory'': A fond approach for the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villains of the Week]].
* ''Series/VRTroopers'': Kaitlin, the ActionGirl, was captured, bound, and gagged as bait to lure her friends into a DeathTrap.
* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'': Happens to ''Artie'' of all people in the Season 1 finale. The gag is a NUKE that [[spoiler: [=MacPherson=] put in his mouth]].
* ''Series/WhiteCollar'': Happens to Neal in season 4. Needless to say it resulted in much fangirling.
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