History Foreshadowing / LiveActionTv

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS11E1 Shot at Dawn]]", Lionel Hicks looks awfully excited for a man who's just almost been blown up. [[spoiler:He actually set it off himself and was never in any danger]].

* In ''Series/ServantOfThePeople'', one of Vasiliy's favorite phrases that he uses to get attention in crowded and noisy places is "[[spoiler:Putin has been overthrown!]]" Come the first season finale, [[spoiler:he receives a phone call from the newly elected President of Russia, and is shocked to learn who they are]].

** Hoshi is the only one who doesn't know the GhostStory about "Cyrus Ramsey", even though Phlox, an alien, knows.\

* In the ''Series/QuantumLeap'' episode "Double Identity", upon learning he's in 1965, Sam remarks that Vietnam is going on, to which Al glumly remarks "Don't remind me...". Fast forward to Season 2 with the episode "M.I.A.", where we learn Al served in Vietnam... and was captured by the Vietcong until being repatriated in the 1970s.
*** Similarly, in "Sea Bride," Al casually mentions his one true love. The very next episode is "M.I.A.", which greatly expands on this.

* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Season 8's ''Threads'': Daniel's in an Ascension "half-way house" that looks like an American diner. He's reading an Ascended newspaper that headlines his limbo status, focussing on an article about Anubis' future plans. On the same page, a barely visible article headlines "Wraith on the way to Atlantis" and indicates a fleet of more than 9 hive ships are involved. ''Threads'' aired one week after the Season 1 finale of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' where three hive ships are already besieging Atlantis. A month later, Season 2 opens with Atlantis defeating the three ships only to discover a second wave of 12 ships heading straight for them.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' pilot episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]". While talking with Doctor Boyce, Captain Pike talks about the battle on Rigel Seven and two activities he might partake in after retiring: going on a picnic on Earth or becoming an Orion trader. Each of these is used as the basis for one of the telepathic illusions the Talosians use on him later.
* If an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' has its cold open on the holodeck (and it's not a HolodeckMalfunction), the program will indicate the theme for that episode. In "Devil's Due", for example, Data is playing the scene with Scrooge and Marley's ghost--the power of fear and sensory illusion are a big part of the episode's plot. In "Clues", Picard plays one of his Dixon Hill stories with Guinan, and (if the title wasn't a, you know) the rest of the episode is about a shipwide mystery that human nature compels them to solve.

** In "The Sound of Her Voice", the penultimate episode of Season 6, O'Brien makes mention of how they've all grown apart and how he dislikes it because "someday we're going to wake up and we're going to find that someone is missing from this circle, and on that day we're going to mourn, and we shouldn't have to mourn alone." Just as he says they're going to "find someone missing", the camera cuts over to Jadzia. The shot then begins cutting between the other characters in the room, but [[RewatchBonus if you watch carefully]], it's not until O'Brien begins talking about how the people left behind are going to mourn that this happens, and the first person it cuts to is Bashir. In the Season 6 finale, Jadzia is killed, and Bashir is particularly hard-hit because he had her in his infirmary but couldn't save her.

*** In "Rivals", Bashir says he won the sector championship in racquetball by beating out, among others, a Vulcan, something that would be very difficult for an ordinary human. The same episode has O'Brien repeatedly complaining that Bashir has more stamina than he does.
*** In "Armageddon Game", Bashir is able to effectively repair a broken-down transmitter, albeit with verbal guidance from O'Brien, after O'Brien is incapacitated. O'Brien might have been right that Engineering Extension courses in medical school wouldn't cut it for most people, but for a man with vastly improved memory and intelligence, it just might.
*** In "Distant Voices", Bashir admits that he deliberately knocked himself out of the running for valedictorian. This makes a lot more sense when you realize that he was afraid of being too perfect and thereby being exposed.
*** And long before that episode, he’d mentioned the mistake that cost him the valedictorian spot. What was it? He mistook a preganglionic fiber for a postganglionic nerve. If you had no idea what either of those words mean, you might think that’s an easy mistake to make, because, well, one “ganglionic”-related medical... thing... must be a lot like the next, right? Well, if you DO know what they mean, you’d instantly know there’s absolutely no way in hell to make that mistake. It’d be akin to seeing a copy of the Guinness Book of World Records and mistaking it for an actual juke box: Yes, the terms “record player” and “record book” both have the word “record” in them; no, the two objects are not even a little bit similar in appearance or function. Similarly, Bashir’s mistake would be utterly, ridiculously impossible even a first-year medical student in THIS century, let alone a medical expert in the Star Trek universe.

** These are particularly noteworthy because not one of them was intentional. The idea of Bashir being genetically engineered was something that was thought up so much at the last minute that they filmed the immediate preceding episode without the slightest idea of what was to come; the fact that the twist was so perfectly foreshadowed was complete happenstance. (Oh, that “preganglionic nerve” thing? Bashir made an impossible mistake because the writer didn’t know anything about medicine; MostWritersAreWriters, after all. When his wife, who did know, complained once too many times, he had Bashir admit it had been on purpose. The reason he, at the time, seemed to have no reason to sabotage himself like that was because, at the time, the character didn’t -- the writer was just making a nod to the missus.)
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': "Vanishing Point" has several hints that [[spoiler:the episode is AllJustADream]]:

** The episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E1WhereIsEverybody Where is Everybody?]]". When he finds himself in a diner, the man accidentally knocks over a clock and the glass breaks. Later, he breaks the clock inside the small box where he's confined.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E15IShotAnArrowIntoTheAir I Shot An Arrow Into The Air]]", two of the surviving crewmembers stranded on the asteroid notices that the Sun appears to be the same size as on Earth, meaning that the asteroid has the same orbit as Earth. [[spoiler: Their rocket crash-landed on Earth instead of on a unknown asteroid.]]

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet A Little Peace and Quiet]]", while on the phone to her friend Fran, Penny says that it is WorldWarIII in her house as her children are bickering and making a lot of noise. She later ignores the radio and television reports of the deteriorating arms talks between the United States and the Soviet Union. [[spoiler:A nuclear war breaks out shortly afterwards.]]
** In "The Once and Future King", the ElvisImpersonator Gary Pitkin tells his manager Sandra that he may look like Music/ElvisPresley but that doesn't mean that he has to make all of the same mistakes that Elvis did. She says that Elvis once pulled her up on stage and invited her to his dressing room, where he told her that he wasn't the King. [[spoiler:Gary is later sent back in time and [[DeadPersonImpersonation assumes Elvis' identity after accidentally killing him]]. [[YouWillBeBeethoven He proceeds to live out Elvis' life]] and does everything the same way as he remembers. Gary reveals that he isn't the real Elvis to a younger Sandra in the 1970s but [[CassandraTruth she does not believe him]].]]
** In "Nightsong", Andrea Fields reminds her ex-boyfriend Simon Locke that he planned to sell his van for more studio recording time but that he crashed it because of his [[DrivesLikeCrazy reckless driving]]. [[spoiler:It turns out that Simon is a ghost and that he died five years earlier when he was driving his motorcycle too fast on a dirt road and drove over the edge of a cliff.]]
** In "The After Hours", Marsha Cole is dressed very similarly to the mannequins in the department store Satler's. She later describes her landlord as "a real doll." [[spoiler:It turns out that Marsha is an [[AnimateInanimateObject animate mannequin]] who had forgotten her true nature after spending a month in the real world.]]

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'':

** In the first episode, Nami rejects a marine's advances at the bar and goes to flirt with another Marine because he is shorter. It's later revealed that she needed a Marine clothes to steal for infiltration.

* The theme song of ''Series/UltramanAce'' name drops Seiji Hokuto and Yuuko Minami, Ace's two hosts, in the first verse, but the second verse only mentions Seiji. [[spoiler:Yuuko is eventually one of the {{Lunarians}} and has to leave TAC and Ace, passing her Ultra Rink to Seiji.}}

* In the ''Private Eyes'' episode "The Hills Have Eyes" the detectives question a cop who admits he has been expanding his basement despite knowing it is illegal. Late in the episode it's revealed [[spoiler:he's a dirty cop who has been stealing drugs from evidence and selling them to anyone who buys, even kids]].

* The episode ''Elsewhen'' of the 1974 ''Series/LandOfTheLost'' series may have foreshadowed this in the fact that Rani [[spoiler: a future version of Holly who judging by appearances looks like she eventually got back home due to the absence of rough edges of any kind...read: she's gorgeous!]] departs giving Holly some wisdom to "Cherish her loved ones...they won't always be there." This could be simply interpreted AnAesop about the death of loved ones being part of life. With the abrupt and clumsy writing out of Rick Marshall in the first three minutes of the first episode of the third season, it could be interpreted as foreshadowing if you didn't know the circumstances regarding actor Spencer Milligan's decision to leave the show and that Rick was actually PutOnABusToHell, making his return pointless now that Uncle Jack showed up.

** In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'', The reveal that the small zord they have been trying to wrangle in for most of the episode is not the Paca smash zord but it’s daughter Was foreshadowed five years earlier in a line of dialogue from''Film/PowerRangers2017'' in the scene where the megazord first appears, the first thing says;

** In "Narkina 5", Cinta refers to her as a "rich girl who's running away from her family", indicating that Vel is an upper-class background and status originally.

!!Shows with their own pages:

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
** In the first episode, Lestat discloses that he's cursed with his father's temper, who had physically abused him when he was a child. In the fifth episode, Lestat violently lashes out at Louis and Claudia.
** Louis asks Lestat "That's your thing, then? You like to watch?" when he notices that Lestat is ogling at him while Lily unbuttons Louis' shirt and later performs oral sex on him. In the third episode, Jonah does the same thing to Louis when they're at the bayou, and Louis is enraged when he finds out that Lestat had spied on them and "[[ThePeepingTom watched the whole thing like some creeper]]."
** Lestat's closed music box resembles a casket, and it's adorned with a lilies design at its center. It foreshadows Lestat's murder of Lily.
** Shortly before Paul commits suicide, he tells Louis that he should get married next. Louis later undergoes a figurative marriage to Lestat after accepting the latter's proposal to be his immortal companion and lover for all eternity (which actually requires a greater commitment than human marriages because mortals are limited to "Till death do us part"). Louis and Lestat's "wedding" even takes place on the altar steps of a church, they kiss, and they exchange blood in lieu of vows and rings.
** In the second episode, Lestat stealthily checks out a prostitute who exposes her breast while Louis is talking to Finn. Lestat's wandering eye becomes an integral part of the next episode's plot when he fools around with Antoinette, who also bares her breasts to him.
** In the fourth episode, after Claudia learns that Lestat is bisexual, she asks Louis if he's sleeping with women when he goes out alone. A naïve Louis believes that Lestat is merely indulging in his "extravagant" kills out of sight from him, but the next episode reveals that on at least some of those nights, Lestat was bedding Antoinette, his [[TheMistress mistress]].