History FamilyUnfriendlyDeath / LiveActionTv

** Two fairly notorious examples from the classic episodes would be a guard falling into a pool of acid in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Vengeance on Varos]]'' (mostly notable because the Doctor seems to make a [[BondOneLiner mean-spirited quip]] about it afterward) and Kane, the low-temperature-lifeform villain in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire Dragonfire]]'', exposing himself to direct sunlight, resulting in his face melting off, ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''-style (one of the few occasions on which the series' special effects managed to be memorably gruesome).

** Two fairly notorious examples from the classic episodes would be a guard falling into a pool of acid in ''Vengeance on Varos'' (mostly notable because the Doctor seems to make a [[BondOneLiner mean-spirited quip]] about it afterward) and Kane, the low-temperature-lifeform villain in ''Dragonfire'', exposing himself to direct sunlight, resulting in his face melting off, ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''-style (one of the few occasions on which the series' special effects managed to be memorably gruesome).

** Flashbacks in ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]'' showed ''vines assault and grow through the bodies of two terrified humans''. Apparently, a bloodless death can't possibly disturb anyone.

* ''Gimmie A Break!'': One of the earliest episodes of this 1980s series, "Your Prisoner is Dead," depicts Carl shooting a robber in self-defense; the suspect dies at the hospital, and Carl -- explaining to his daughters and Nell that he had been placed on administrative leave while the investigation ensues -- tells Samantha that the robber did not die a bloodless death, and likely felt pain in his final moments, [[TruthInTelevision a stark contrast to what they had seen on television]].
* ''The Great Space Coaster'': An early episode showed a live-action clip of a man pulling a drain plug, and the suction pulled everything in sight, including people, into the drain, until all existence is wiped out! Played for laughs, of course.

* ''Zoom''. Jittery, terrified talking paper collage vegetables in a garbage disposal, waiting and waiting for the horrific moment when the memorably nasty-looking blades would start spinning and puree them all.

* ''TheMuppetShow.'' A large monster eats a smaller, cuter monster ''while singing a very eerie version of "I've Got You Under My Skin" to his victim.'' Did the person who came up with that gem have a vore {{fetish}} or something?
** Even worse is the glowworm sketch, which involves a lizard-esque creature sits on a wall while humming a tune ("Glow Little Glowworm") and eating worms that poke at him until it bites a worm that's actually the nose of a bigger monster that proceeds to eat the lizard. If only Jim knew that people would take that sketch in a different way decades later.
** The Swedish Chef was strangled by his own spaghetti bolognese.
*** And beaten by a sentient pile of dough, shot by a turtle, hit in the head with his own cleaver...yikes.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' is well known for having ostensibly started off as a somewhat educational sci-fi series that would be fun for the whole family... but quickly led to the tradition of kiddies hiding behind the couch. From Dalek {{Death Ray}}s, to being eaten alive by a [[PrimalFear giant spider-thing]], to [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E1SmithAndJones having your blood sucked out of your neck through a straw]], almost every other adventure brought a new and painful way to die.
** Two fairly notorious examples from the classic episodes would be a guard falling into a pool of acid in ''Vengeance on Varos'' (mostly notable because the Doctor seems to make a [[BondOneLiner mean-spirited quip]] about it afterward) and Kane, the low-temperature-lifeform villain in ''Dragonfire'', exposing himself to direct sunlight, resulting in his face melting off, ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''-style (one of the few occasions on which the series' special effects managed to be memorably gruesome).

* While their deaths aren't actually seen, ''{{Kenan and Kel}}'', in "Two Heads Are Better Than None", find three severed heads on a table. Of innocent victims. Who had been previously introduced.
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'' is generally a PG-rated, family-friendly show, but the pre-credits sequences often feature gruesome and disturbing death scenes. Usually, ones that involve blood.
* While most ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series simply have [[MonsterOfTheWeek kaijin]] [[MadeOfExplodium blow up when killed]], ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon'' shows the titular hero decapitating and removing limbs, with copious amounts of blood; this actually caused the series to be canceled when MoralGuardians complained. When the World of Amazon is revisited in ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'', Amazon's attacks simply cause a brief fountain of blood, followed by an explosion.
* Series/KamenRiderRyuki introduces Kamen Rider Scissors/Masashi Sudou who gets a particularly memorable send-off when he is eaten alive by his own Mirror Monster.
** [[spoiler: The titular rider]] gets himself stabbed in the back in the penultimate episode, complete with BloodFromTheMouth
** Not to mention [[spoiler: Kamen Rider Ohja]] getting gunned down by dozen of police.
* Series/KamenRiderDouble: [[spoiler: Isaka]] basically dies from a GRatedDrug overdose that causes his entire body to blacken and crumble into dust.
* Caleb's death in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' - bisected from the groin up. Being a psychotic, misogynistic serial killer seems to make this acceptable viewing, however.
* [=SuperMagic PowerMan=] and Lanolin Lady in ''TheAquabatsSuperShow'' episode "Showtime!" are vaporized using [=SuperMagic PowerMan=]'s magic headband worn by the young girl they just saved, who turns into Space Monster M.

** Two fairly notorious examples from the classic episodes would be a guard falling into a pool of acid in ''Vengeance on Varos'' (mostly notable because the Doctor seems to make a mean-spirited quip about it afterward) and Kane, the cryogenically-preserved despot of Iceworld in ''Dragonfire'', exposing himself to direct sunlight, resulting in his face melting off, ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''-style (one of the few occasions on which the series' special effects managed to be memorably gruesome).

** Two fairly notorious examples from the classic episodes would be a guard falling into a pool of acid in ''Vengeance on Varos'' (mostly notable because the Doctor seems to make a mean-spirited quip about it afterward) and Kane, the cryogenically-preserved despot of Iceworld in ''Dragonfire'', exposing himself to direct sunlight, resulting in his face melting off, ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''-style.

* ''GameOfThrones'' has several deaths of this kind, most which were carried over from the books, but some of the most gruesome ones were created for the show only.
** [[spoiler: Theon Greyjoy]] takes three swings off his sword to take [[spoiler: Rodrik Cassel's]] head off, while the people of Winterfell scream and watch.
** [[spoiler: Talisa Maegyr]] gets repeatedly stabbed in the stomach and left to bleed out, ''while pregnant''. Complete with a lingering shot of her futily pressing her hand against the wound.

* ''{{Monk}}'' is generally a PG-rated, family-friendly show, but the pre-credits sequences often feature gruesome and disturbing death scenes. Usually, ones that involve blood.
* While most ''KamenRider'' series simply have [[MonsterOfTheWeek kaijin]] [[MadeOfExplodium blow up when killed]], ''KamenRiderAmazon'' shows the titular hero decapitating and removing limbs, with copious amounts of blood; this actually caused the series to be canceled when MoralGuardians complained. When the World of Amazon is revisited in ''KamenRiderDecade'', Amazon's attacks simply cause a brief fountain of blood, followed by an explosion.
* KamenRiderRyuki introduces Kamen Rider Scissors/Masashi Sudou who gets a particularly memorable send-off when he is eaten alive by his own Mirror Monster.

* KamenRiderDouble: [[spoiler: Isaka]] basically dies from a GRatedDrug overdose that causes his entire body to blacken and crumble into dust.
* Caleb's death in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - bisected from the groin up. Being a psychotic, mysoginistic serial killer seems to make this acceptable viewing, however.

** The Master's hatching from Matoombo's body near the end of ''[[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Force]]'' was almost ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''-level bad. The exact same thing happens to Titan of ''MahouSentaiMagiranger''.
** A rather nasty, MechaMooks loophole exploiting death in ''[[Series/PowerRangersZeo Zeo]]'' where [[EvilVersusEvil two groups of enemy mooks have a battle royale]]. The mooks are Tengas (bird men) and Cogs (spandex robots) You see Tengas and Cogs sluggin it out for a few shots, then it cuts to one Tenga holding down a struggling Cog while another Tenga ''tore open its stomach and ripped out its electronic guts.'' This wasn't ''ChourikiSentaiOhranger'' footage that slipped past the censors, either - Tengas were ''Power Rangers''-exclusive mooks, so it was all original footage.

** ''SuperSentai'' was far worse when it came to this. Especially in the early 80s. In the first episode of ''DenshiSentaiDenziman'', for example, construction workers are skeletonized into piles of sludge and bones. The BigBad leader's name is Queen Hedrian, after the Japanese word "Hedoro", which means sludge.

** [[Spoiler: Theon Greyjoy]] takes three swings off his sword to take [[spoiler: Rodrik Cassel's]] head off, while the people of Winterfell scream and watch.

* Same can be said of {{Bones}}, and it's probably so parents can tell the kids to bugger off for the first five minutes and come back after the titles. The show uses up its terror quota nice and early, while the parents get to revel in the {{Squick}}, totally guilt-free and without having to worry about sudden violence or unexpected horror later in the program.
** This troper would be very worried about any parent with children under the age of 12 or 14 letting said children watch Bones. Despite the fact that the gruesome reveal of the body reliably occurs in the pre-credit sequence, the remains are then shown repeatedly throughout the episode. Also, several episodes have had the killers attack other people, including the main characters, and main characters have become victims themselves.

** The Master's hatching from Matoombo's body near the end of ''[[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Force]]'' was almost ''{{Alien}}''-level bad. The exact same thing happens to Titan of ''MahouSentaiMagiranger''.

** Even worse is the glowworm sketch, which involves a lizard-esque creature sits on a wall while humming a tune ("Glow Little Glowworm") and eating worms that poke at him until it bites a worm that's [[NightmareFuel actually the nose of a bigger monster that proceeds to eat the lizard]]. If only Jim knew that people would take that sketch in a different way decades later.

* Same can be said of {{Bones}}, and it's probably so parents can tell the kids to bugger off for the first five minutes and come back after the titles. The show uses up its NightmareFuel quota nice and early, while the parents get to revel in the {{Squick}}, totally guilt-free and without having to worry about sudden violence or NightmareFuel later in the program.

* ''PowerRangers'' had its share of gruesome deaths, even if [[NeverSayDie it's not fond of the]] ''[[NeverSayDie word]]'' "[[NeverSayDie death]]."
** Frax's death in ''[[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' was a DiesWideOpen involving a scream and parts of his robotic face falling apart. This after his having been reprogrammed into a mindless automaton by the BigBad.
** Flashbacks in ''[[PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]'' showed ''vines assault and grow through the bodies of two terrified humans''. Apparently, a bloodless death can't possibly disturb anyone.

** ''[[PowerRangersNinjaStorm Ninja Storm]]'' had a cyborg villain suffer melting at the hands of another, treacherous villain. His half-slagged body is seen in a rare exception to PR's EverythingFades tendency. His executioner [[BondOneLiner quips]] that he was "having a little meltdown".

** The Master's hatching from Matoombo's body near the end of ''[[PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Force]]'' was almost ''{{Alien}}''-level bad. The exact same thing happens to Titan of ''MahouSentaiMagiranger''.
** A rather nasty, MechaMooks loophole exploiting death in ''[[PowerRangersZeo Zeo]]'' where [[EvilVersusEvil two groups of enemy mooks have a battle royale]]. The mooks are Tengas (bird men) and Cogs (spandex robots) You see Tengas and Cogs sluggin it out for a few shots, then it cuts to one Tenga holding down a struggling Cog while another Tenga ''tore open its stomach and ripped out its electronic guts.'' This wasn't ''ChourikiSentaiOhranger'' footage that slipped past the censors, either - Tengas were ''Power Rangers''-exclusive mooks, so it was all original footage.

** Many [[MechaMook Grinders]] in ''PowerRangersRPM'' are also destroyed in very gruesome ways.

* Caleb's death in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - bisected from the groin up. Being a psychotic, mysoginistic serial killer seems to make this acceptable viewing, however.

* ''{{Monk}}'' is generally a PG-rated, family-friendly show, but the pre-credits sequences often feature gruesome and disturbing death scenes.
** Same can be said of {{Bones}}, and it's probably so parents can tell the kids to bugger off for the first five minutes and come back after the titles. The show uses up its NightmareFuel quota nice and early, while the parents get to revel in the {{Squick}}, totally guilt-free and without having to worry about sudden violence or NightmareFuel later in the program.

** Frax's death in ''[[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' was a DiesWideShut involving a scream and parts of his robotic face falling apart. This after his having been reprogrammed into a mindless automaton by the BigBad.