History FriendToAllChildren / LiveActionTV

* ''{{Series/Dexter}}'' likes children, which means that he is particularly wrathful against criminals that harm children. When he's not being particularly wrathful he only stabs people in the heart. He's a compulsive serial killer with a strict "only-hunt-monsters" policy ''and'' a soft spot for children due to his own StartOfDarkness. This makes for a reaction to children in danger that goes far beyond PapaWolf territory into something frighteningly awesome.

** Old Ben from "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E90TheFugitive The Fugitive]]".
** Mr. Bevis from "Mr. Bevis" loves to play with the children in the street, has children Christmas Carolers come into the office, and who is also building a replica of an old iron ship for a kid. His guardian angel says that this part of his personality must go if he is to be successful; in the end, he decides to be the same, happier in the knowledge that he likes who he is and wouldn't want to change.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E72TheGrave The Grave]]", Johnny-Rob says that all children and [[FriendToAllLivingThings animals]] love him as they always follow him around.

** The grumpy, snarky, conspiracy-theorizing John Munch is routinely shown to have a very soft side for children. One episode had him reading ''Goodnight Moon'' to a little girl who was left hospitalized in a near-vegetative state by her mother's abuse.

** Sweets also became this in later seasons; when he temporary leaves the FBI to do some soul searching, he ends up working in a poor, gang-run town at a community center as a youth mentor and becomes so attached to the kids that he initially doesn't want to return to his official job. He also babysits Booth and Brennan's daughter Christine and becomes attached to her when he lives with them for a brief period of time, to the point that Christine later calls him Uncle Sweets.
** Agent Aubry fancies himself this and eventually proves himself to be very good with Christine, who is now in first grade when he is introduced. Most likely, it's because he is a big kid himself (his office at the FBI is full of candy, video games, and beginner crime scene investigation manuals).

** Detective Goren is shown to be pretty good with kids as well, as seen when he does a magic trick with a crayon for a little girl in "Crazy". Also doubles as TheCastShowoff, as Creator/VincentDOnofrio has practiced magic in RealLife.

** Detective Goren is shown to be pretty good with kids as well, as seen when he does a magic trick with a crayon for a little girl in "Crazy" to get her to open up to him. Also doubles as TheCastShowoff, as Creator/VincentDOnofrio has practiced magic in RealLife.

** Detective Goren is shown to be pretty good with kids as well, as seen when he does a magic trick with a crayon for a little girl in "Crazy" to get her to open up to him. Also doubles as TheCastShowoff, as [[Creator/VincentDOnofrio Vincent D'Onofrio]] has practiced magic in RealLife.

* In ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', there are a couple of {{Funny Background Event}}s of [[Creator/JeffGoldblum Detective Nichols]] playing with children, and he seems to be pretty natural at it, even though he doesn't have children of his own and is adamant that he doesn't intend for that to change.

** Later in the [[Series/KamenRider original series]], the Kamen Rider Squad is created, which is a national team of boy squads that help the Riders report activities from Shocker, and of course, both Hongo and Ichimonji take care of them. They became a fixture of the sequel ''Series/KamenRiderV3'', with Shiro of course very often taking care of and helping them.