History BoundAndGagged / LiveActionTV

** In Season One, Episode 17 "Hat Trick," Emma Swan was drugged by Jefferson (aka The Mad Hatter) and woke up bound and gagged in his living room. Fortunately for her, she managed to break a nearby teacup and cut her bonds. She then discovered Mary Margret Blanchard (aka Snow White) bound and gagged in another room in Jefferson's house. She attempted to free her but unfortunate Jefferson forced her to tie her friend back up in order to meet his demands of making his magical hat work again. Later in the episode, Emma manages to free Mary Margret.

** In Season 5 Episode 7 "Nimue," Mary Margret is unfortunate bound and gagged again, this time by Zelena the Wicked Witch of the West after being tricked by the pregnant woman with fake contractions. The witch used Mary Margret as a hostage in order to get the rest of the group to not attack her and carry out her plan with King Arthur.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Occasionally happens. Dawn, Buffy, Spike and others get tied a few times throughout the series.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Occasionally happens. Dawn, Buffy, Spike and others are get tied a few times throughout the series.

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Did it with Christine, Mac's girlfriend, in "Seth and Apep," the NY half of the crossover where she was kidnapped.

* ''Series/TheAvengers'': Emma Peel. 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/{{Snobs}}'': Female protagonist Abby Oakley ends up like this in episode 5 of this Australian series after she gets caught snooping by a pair of computer thieves who have managed to get her friend and fellow protagonist [[GenderBenderName Marian]] [[FrameUp framed for one of their thefts]]. She is held captive below deck on their boat, where she is tied to a chair and has her mouth taped shut, with the thieves planning to drop her off unharmed at a relatively out of the way location so that she'll have no choice but to take the long way home afterward...by which point the thieves plan to already be long gone with the money they'll have hopefully obtained from selling the stolen computers. Thanks to Marian and their titular canine companion Snobs, she is able to successfully get free and escape.

* ''Series/Snobs'': Female protagonist Abby Oakley ends up like this in episode 5 of this Australian series after she gets caught snooping by a pair of computer thieves who have managed to get her friend and fellow protagonist [[GenderBenderName Marian]] [[FrameUp framed for one of their thefts]]. She is held captive below deck on their boat, where she is tied to a chair and has her mouth taped shut, with the thieves planning to drop her off unharmed at a relatively out of the way location so that she'll have no choice but to take the long way home afterward...by which point the thieves plan to already be long gone with the money they'll have hopefully obtained from selling the stolen computers. Thanks to Marian and their titular canine companion Snobs, she is able to successfully get free and escape.

* ''Series/TheFBI'': In "To Free My Enemy", a pornographer is kidnapped and his kidnappers keep him bound and gagged on the bed in the fleabag apartment they are using as a hideout.

* ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017'': In The Bad Beginning, Count Olaf captures Sunny Baudelaire, he ties her up with rope, puts tape over her mouth, and dangles her out of a tower window in a birdcage. This seriously impedes Sunny's ability to speak, even though most people cannot understand her to begin with, but her words are still translated for the audience. However, she doesn't stay like this for very long as the Netflix series added a humorous scene in which Sunny Baudelaire and Fernald (aka the Hook-Handed Man) play poker. Despite her bonds, Sunny is still able to deal cards and she ends up winning multiple hands to which the Hook-Handed Man ends up being tied up and have tape over his mouth due to him losing the game.

* ''Film/{{Endeavour}}'': In "Degüello", the crooks kidnap Max in order to lure Morse into an ambush. When Morse arrives at the quarry, Max is bound and gagged and lying in the back of a builder's truck.

* ''Series/TheMonkees'': This happened a number of times.

* ''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/{{CSI NY}}'': Did it with Christine, Mac's girlfriend, in 'Seth and Apep', the NY half of the crossover where she was kidnapped.

* ''Series/{{Batman}}'' (1960's): This happened quite a lot to several characters throughout the course of this show. The Dynamic Duo were often tied up during the cliffhangers, although they were gagged only a few times. And after being introduced at the beginning of the third season, Batgirl was tied up (while sometimes being gagged) quite a few times as well.

* ''Series/A Series of Unfortunate Events'': In The Bad Beginning, Count Olaf captures Sunny Baudelaire, he ties her up with rope, puts tape over her mouth, and dangles her out of a tower window in a birdcage. This seriously impedes Sunny's ability to speak, even though most people cannot understand her to begin with, but her words are still translated for the audience. However, she doesn't stay like this for very long as the Netflix series added a humorous scene in which Sunny Baudelaire and Fernald (aka the Hook-Handed Man) play poker. Despite her bonds, Sunny is still able to deal cards and she ends up winning multiple hands to which the Hook-Handed Man ends up being tied up and have tape over his mouth due to him losing the game.

* ''Series/Once Upon a Time'':

* ''Series/Once Upon a Time'': In Season One, Episode 17 "Hat Trick," Emma Swan was drugged by Jefferson (aka The Mad Hatter) and woke up bound and gagged in his living room. Fortunately for her, she managed to break a nearby teacup and cut her bonds. She then discovered Mary Margret Blanchard (aka Snow White) bound and gagged in another room in Jefferson's house. She attempted to free her but unfortunate Jefferson forced her to tie her friend back up in order to meet his demands of making his magical hat work again. Later in the episode, Emma manages to free Mary Margret.

** In Season 5 Episode 7 "Nimue," Mary Margret is unfortunate bound and gagged again, this time by Zelena the Wicked Witch of the West after being tricked by the pregnant woman with fake contractions. The witch used Mary Margret as a hostage in order to get the rest of the group to not attack her.

** 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."

** Happens to the Doctor himself in "The Caves of Androzani," Part 3.game
** 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/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]].