History CoversAlwaysLie / LiveActionTv

* The cast photo and back cover of ''Series/TwentyFour'' season five prominently features Tony Almeida. [[AdvertisedExtra Although he is technically a member of the main cast]] it feels weird seeing him up there with the other cast members even though he barely has any relevance to the overall arc. Tony doesn't even wear the suit he has on in the photo any point.

* One version of the Season 4 set of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' features Rygel, Scorpius, Stark and Crais on the front. Stark is only in about five episodes in the whole season, and Crais ''died'' a season earlier and doesn't appear at all. Particularly bizarre because of the large amount of characters they had to pick from, nearly all of whom would be better.

* Creator/HBO's ''Series/{{Girls}}'' Season 1 poster made Hannah look very different from how she appears on the show. Hannah has been digitally altered to look thin and her hair was tampered with supposedly to make her look more attractive/appealing.

* For ''Series/TheMandalorian'' Season 3, Creator/DisneyPlus updated the show's thumbnail to an image of Din Djarin wielding the Darksaber, which he won at the end of Season 2, while striking an adventurous pose. This failed to prepare viewers for a four-episode span in which he doesn't draw the sword at all, then [[spoiler:gives it to Bo-Katan Kryze without a fight]].

* For ''Series/TheMandalorian'' Season 3, Creator/DisneyPlus updated the show's thumbnail to an image of Din Djarin wielding the Darksaber, which he won at the end of Season 2, while striking an adventurous pose. This failed to prepare viewers for a multi-episode span in which he doesn't draw the sword at all.

* For the second season DVD set of ''Series/FraggleRock'', released by Creator/HITEntertainment (and later reissued by Creator/Lionsgate), Mokey is not featured on the front cover.

* Most of the British merchandise for ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' featured artwork of various characters from the live action segments on the packaging, but the only merchandise those characters got were a brief page in the 2000 Noddy Annual, stickers and [[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Falcon-Noddy-Trio-Puzzle-Pack/dp/B0000XO3TG this puzzle set.]]

* Most of the British merchandise for ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' featured artwork of various characters from the live action segments on the packaging, but the only merchandise those characters got were a brief page in the 2000 Noddy Annual and [[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Falcon-Noddy-Trio-Puzzle-Pack/dp/B0000XO3TG this puzzle set.]]

** The biggest howler comes from Pinnacle Books' [[https://drwhonovels.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/day-of-the-daleks.jpg reprint]] of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks "Day of the Daleks"]], which features a (very cool) huge spaceship that wouldn't look out of place in ''Franchise/StarWars'', proudly bearing the word UNIT across its surface, UNIT spaceship, a Dalek with pink hemispheres and ''two'' gunsticks, and a which gave us a menacing, Mongol-like thing that's ''supposed'' to be an Ogron.

** The French novelisation of it went for cheap populism — it shows a poorly drawn but accurate First Doctor and some clearly recognisable Daleks, but also gives him the Fourth Doctor's [[IconicItem scarf]] which he most certainly never wore.

* A lot of early ''{{Series/Highlander}}'' promotional posters used Christopher Lambert, who was Connor in the films, on them and despite listing series star Adrian Paul’s name, he isn’t shown anywhere. Casual fans wouldn’t realize by looking that the series was focused on a new character rather than Connor.