History FriendToAllChildren / LiveActionTV

* Two notable examples from ''Series/{{Leverage}}'':

** Nate has a soft spot for sick kids being screwed over by the rich and the powerful thanks to his son dying because his insurance company (his employer) refused to pay for an experimental life-saving procedure.

** Sonny Carisi, as the older brother to three younger sisters, is ''fantastic'' with children, including taking to surrogate fatherhood like a duck to water ([[spoiler:His partner, Amanda Rollins, becomes unexpectedly pregnant and has no idea how to raise a kid; as one of her closest friends and very experienced at caring for youngsters, Carisi helps her out considerably with her daughter]]). He's also great with kids in the interview room.

* ''Series/TheBarrier'': Julia gets along very well with both her niece Marta and Sergio, the boy she's caring for as part of her job. She's also implied to have gotten attached to a baby during the short time for which she helped with smuggling him out of Madrid. It's implied to be a factor in her being able to pass as Marta's mother (who was her identical twin sister), as Sergio's legal guardian interpreted Julia's first interaction with the boy as her using parenting skills despite the fact that Julia doesn't have any children of her own.

* Dean Winchester from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' seems to like children. When they have to work with a kid, [[TheFace Dean seems to do a lot of the talking]], but Sam seems to like them, too. Ironically, in the third episode, Dean uses the "I think kids are great" as a cheesy chat-up line to a [[StacysMom MILF]], and Sam calls him out on it, pointing out [[NameOne "name three kids you even know."]] However, for the rest of the series, including that episode, Dean does indeed get on well with children. Naturally, harming or refusing to protect children is a pretty good way to [[BerserkButton piss him off]].

--->'''Kenda:''' I said, "Absolutely ''not''. I'll take this boy home with me ''and'' his dog before I let that happen. This boy's lost enough today. He's ''not'' going to lose his dog too."

%% ** His partner Lisbon has a soft spot for them, too.

%% * ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Probably because his own daughter died young.

%% * Clark Kent of ''{{Series/Smallville}}''.

* ''Series/CSIMiami's'' Horatio Caine is a huge JerkAss... unless there's a little kid around. Then he's the nicest, most compassionate friend the kiddo will ever have. '''[[PapaWolf And woe betide anyone who hurts a kid near him]]'''.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor.

** The Ninth Doctor seems perfectly at home among a group of orphans in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild The Empty Child]]", chatting and joking over dinner while he tries to gather information.
** The Eleventh Doctor in particular is this, due to being OneOfTheKids.

** Clara Oswald is introduced as a nanny and later becomes a teacher. The version of her from Victorian England likewise was a governess. In the endgame three-parter of Series 9, a combination of her Doctor-esque ChronicHeroSyndrome and this trope leads to her [[spoiler:being Killed Off for Real]] when she takes a risk to save Rigsy's life so he can return to his infant daughter.
** The Twelfth Doctor takes a different approach than his predecessor. Eleven was OneOfTheKids, Twelve behaves more like a prickly, yet caring grandfather.

--->I said, "Absolutely ''not''. I'll take this boy home with me ''and'' his dog before I let that happen. This boy's lost enough today. He's ''not'' going to lose his dog too."
:Similarly, he isn't nearly as hard on juvenile suspects as he is on adult ones. In one case, when he realizes that the two teenage boys who found the victim's body also stole money from his wallet, he chews them out good and proper -- but ultimately lets them go.[[note]] ''After'' making sure he got the money back. [[/note]]

* While he's usually a sarcastic, ill-tempered JerkWithAHeartOfGold, Creator/LarryDavid in ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'' is surprisingly quite patient and cordial with children most of the time. In "Larry vs. Creator/MichaelJFox", Larry is quite accepting to his girlfriend's [[AmbiguouslyGay "flamboyant"]] son, Greg, and gives him a sewing machine for his birthday, much to his absolute delight.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E3FullCircle "Full Circle"]]: The Doctor frightens off the marsh-man child and observes it's odd, he's usually good with children. Later, he would have managed to calm it [[spoiler:if he hadn't been [[TapOnTheHead knocked out]]]].

[[FriendToAllChildren People who like kids]] in live-action TV.

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* While he's usually a sarcastic, ill-tempered JerkAss, Creator/LarryDavid in ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'' is surprisingly quite patient and cordial with children most of the time. In "Larry vs. Creator/MichaelJFox", Larry is quite accepting to his girlfriend's [[AmbiguouslyGay "flamboyant"]] son, Greg, and gives him a sewing machine for his birthday, much to his absolute delight.

[[FriendToAllChildren People who like kids]] in live-action TV.

** The Twelfth Doctor takes a different approach than his predecessor. Eleven was OneOfTheKids, Twelve behaves more like a big brother.

** In the story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E3FullCircle Full Circle]]" the Doctor frightens off the marsh-man child and observes it's odd, he's usually good with children. Later, he would have managed to calm it [[spoiler:if he hadn't been [[TapOnTheHead knocked out]].]]

'''Eleven:''' ''[grinning]'' Yes.

*** Early in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven "Face the Raven"]], he coos over Rigsy's child and later saves [[spoiler: Anahson's mum]] to reunite a parent and child despite the peril this places him in. Shortly after the latter event Clara is quick to remind him during his FreakOut, in which he's swearing revenge against [[spoiler:Ashildr, the trap street, and everyone in it over Clara's imminent death]], that his rampage would be stopped the moment a child started to cry.

** Eliot abandons a job in one episode to champion an abused child in a hospital, [[TranquilFury almost throwing the kid's father]] [[PapaWolf down several flights of stairs]]. He arranges for the team to donate tons of money to mistreated children, mentors an underage miner, and drops character in a con to [[{{Omniglot}} help an Iranian girl]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments find her family in an airport]]. He even turns out to have a knack for teaching kids, as shown in an episode where members of the team pose as private school instructors. When he receives a 911 call for a domestic disturbance while disguised as a Boston police officer, he insists on going to the scene on the chance that there are children present.

* Most of the [[''Franchise/KamenRider Kamen Riders'']] are shown to be very caring and kind towards children.

* Most of the [[Franchise/KamenRider ''Kamen Riders'']] are shown to be very caring and kind towards children.

* Most of the [[Franchise/KamenRider ''Kamen Riders'']] are shown to be very caring and kind towards children.

* Most of the [[Franchise/Kamen Riders ''Kamen Riders'']] are shown to be very caring and kind towards children.

* Shiraishi Mako from ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'', being an ex-kindergarten teacher, is shown to be caring and nurturing to them. In fact, this goes to extend that if there's someone having HeroicBSOD, she sees that friend like 'a kid that needs care and nurture' and will do her best to comfort that person and sometimes with CooldownHug. One episode Akumaro abducted children so he could use their fear and sorrow. And what did Mako do in the end? She went [[SuperMode Super Shinken Pink]] and whupped his Ass!

* Percival's EstablishingCharacterMoment in Season 4 of ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' is endangering his own life to save three frightened children by carrying them all to safety in his arms.

* The Halliwells on ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' are all shown to be very fond of children, such as when they willingly take in an abandoned infant to protect him from a vengeful ghost, and being open and supportive of their young neighbor Jenny for the short time she lived next door. Other examples include Prue going to the rescue of a young witch when he signals for help and acts as a guardian and mentor. Piper helps a young fire starter to accept and learnt to control his magic while protecting him from demonic bounty hunters. Paige worked for Child Services and was shown to be very affected by the plight of some of her cases. But of them all Phoebe seemed to be the most compassionate, comforting a hospital bound boy, getting a little girl being hunted by trolls to safety and using her empathy to understand her infant nephews struggles.

* ''Series/HomicideHunter'': Homicide detective Lieutenant Joe Kenda takes it upon himself to try to emotionally protect children at crime scenes as much as possible.
** In one episode, a young boy and his dog are brought into the station after his mother's murder. When someone insists that the dog be sent to the pound, Kenda becomes incensed:

** Similarly, he isn't nearly as hard on juvenile suspects as he is on adult ones. In one case, when he realizes that the two teenage boys who found the victim's body also stole money from his wallet, he chews them out good and proper -- but ultimately lets them go.[[note]] ''After'' making sure he got the money back. [[/note]]

** Olivia Benson, natch, has quite the knack with kids despite never having any of her own, for various reasons. She loves kids, and they love her right back. [[spoiler:In season 15, she winds up taking custody of, and later legally adopting, an infant boy caught up in a major sex trafficking bust. Needless to say, she ''loves'' getting to finally be a mom.]]

* Patrick Jane from ''Series/TheMentalist'' loves kids, particularly little girls due to the loss of his daughter, and will abandon everything else when they're around. His partner Lisbon has a soft spot for them, too.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Probably because his own daughter died young.

* Clark Kent of ''{{Series/Smallville}}''.