History ParentalIncest / LiveActionTV

* Scott Barringer, Hayden Christensen's character on ''Series/HigherGround'', was seduced and sexually abused by his stepmother. His love interest, Shelby, ''just happened'' to have had the same thing happen to her from her stepfather (who got her younger sister too).

* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', after a session with WideEyedIdealist psychiatrist Dr. Molly Clock, it is revealed that [[CasanovaWannabe The Todd's issues with women]] stems from his relationship with his mother (they made out once).

* On ''Series/{{Roar}},'' Fergus is initially quite attracted to Molly until he realizes that she's his daughter.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay Father's Day]]", Rose's father Pete (who is encountered long in the past, while his daughter is still a baby,) unknowingly invokes it in a hypothetical remark of "if I was going out with you" with the time-travelling adult Rose and is confused about her emphatic, repeated protests.
* In ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', this is revealed to be in the back story of [[spoiler:Jimmy Darmody and his mother Gillian]] and was at least partially the cause of [[spoiler:Jimmy enlisting in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI]].
* PlayedForLaughs in a sketch on ''Series/{{Jam}}''. A man is called over to help his godson's parents, who have recently discovered that their son has a gay friend. The father has been distracting the gay friend with sex to keep him away from the son, while the mother is trying to "keep her son interested in ladies" by disguising herself as a prostitute and having sex with him.
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'':
** Heavily implied between the Rainbirds in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS1E0 The Killings at Badger's Drift]]", with one scene having them angle for what looks like a kiss on the lips before FadeToBlack.
** Taken up a notch in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS13E5 The Master Class]]" in which the murders revolve around a family's secret eugenics scheme that paired a father with his daughter ''and with that daughter's daughter''. [[spoiler:The episode is "Master Class". A skilled young pianist is seduced by her world-renowned piano teacher, and nearly goes to bed with him, until she finds out that he's her father ''and her grandfather''. The pianist was trying to pass on an increasingly pure copy of his musical genes.]]
* In the miniseries ''Series/ThePillarsOfTheEarth,'' William Hambly and his mother are ''very'' close. They never actually have sex but the desire is obvious on both sides. [[spoiler:He finally kills her in a guilt induced rage]]
* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'':
** Grace's back story in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'' reveals that she murdered her father for molesting her, and her stepmother for not doing anything about it.
** In ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven'' [[spoiler:Kyle and his mother had a longstanding relationship. When he returns as [=FrankenKyle=], she renews the relationship. Unfortunately for her, the returned Kyle is not as submissive as he originally was and kills her.]]
** In ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryRoanoke'' , it's implied that the matriarch of the [[HillbillyHorror Polk clan]] has sex with her sons.
* Almost canon in ''Series/BatesMotel'' , Norma and Norman are basically a codependent married couple, head over heels in love with each other.
** In Episode 2.10, [[spoiler:Norma kissed Norman.]]
** In Season 3 [[spoiler:Norman confessed to his mother that he had sexual attraction to her.]]
* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Imprint", it's strongly implied that the disfigured prostitute was raped by her abusive father when she was a child. She was herself also a product of incest, as her parents were secretly siblings.
* Part of TheReveal on ''Series/TwinPeaks'' is that [[spoiler:[[PosthumousCharacter Laura Palmer]] was the repeated victim of sexual abuse by her father, Leland, who has been victim of a partial DemonicPossession ever since he was molested by a neighbour of his grandfather, as a child. ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe'', the movie prequel to the series, shows Laura trying, and failing, to repress the knowledge of her rapist's identity,]] in a plot that shows almost the exact opposite of what Freud thought was really going on in such cases.
* In ''Series/NightAndDay'', the affair between Alex Wells and (at the time, underage) Jane Harper, who learn at the end of the series that they are biological father and daughter, is a central plot point. In the late-night omnibus editions, Steph [=McKenzie=] also fights off a seduction attempt by her biological son Josh Alexander – and appears at one point to have a sexually-charged daydream involving being strangled by him.
* Implied in ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' with Ed, Sofia's father. As far as we know, he never actually did anything to her, but the intention was there. At one point he grabs her arm when the two are alone in a tent, and he's been accused of looking at her the wrong way.
* The LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek ''[[https://youtu.be/Jd-4EnFfVp8 A Long Way Home]]'' (also known as ''Aftermath'') essentially begins InMediasRes with a family trying to heal after such an incident--the mother walked in on the father fondling the daughter and dialogue reveals that this was the third time that this had happened, though they are both adamant that he never raped her. Unusually, the recovery process involves them trying to reconcile with the father, who is coming home after being kicked out. In the course of counseling, it comes out that both parents suffered this at the hands of their own fathers. Ultimately, everyone, including the father, is unable to trust him and constantly afraid that it will happen again, leading them to give up and him to move out for good.
** In another movie, titled ''[[https://youtu.be/qlWIjABi9gQ Shattering The Silence]]'', a woman slowly recovers her repressed memories of being abused by her father and realizes that this is the reason her sister has been estranged from the family for years (she remembered and left home as soon as possible). She resolves to seek counseling and get on with her life... until she notices that her niece (her brother's daughter) is acting strangely and comes to the horrified realization that he's now abusing ''her''.
* ''Series/OneLifeToLive''. During a confrontation between archenemies Viki and Dorian, the latter screams at her to stop defending her father, as he sexually abused her throughout her childhood.
* ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s SerialKiller Ryan Chamberlain was noted by several other characters to have a major UsefulNotes/OedipusComplex, yet at the same time, his victims were all blonde, like his mother was. Shortly after coming to town, his twin brother Kevin recalled always feeling jealous over the fact that their mother clearly favored Ryan over him. However, Kevin began to have flashbacks of their mother taking Ryan into the bedroom or bathroom with her and suddenly realized what her "favor" really meant.
* ''Series/Millennium1996'': The episode "The Well-Worn Lock" features Catherine Black in her job as a social worker having to deal with a domestic abuse situation. The father had already sexually abused one of his daughters and impregnated her, but [[ChildByRape she carried the child to term]] and continued to live with her parents because she had nowhere else to go. When she starts seeing signs that he's going to repeat it with his younger daughter/granddaughter, she finally goes to the authorities. Even then it's a long and arduous process to prove his guilt and get him convicted.
* ''Series/MillionYenWomen'': The background of one of the women, who was abused by her father. The same one later turns out to be a SelfMadeOrphan.
* On ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', Lewis once mentioned that he used to be such a HormoneAddledTeenager that he would have had sex with any woman who'd let him, even his own mother. After everyone else reacts with disgust, he adds, "Remember, I'm adopted, so it's not as sick as it sounds!"
* On ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', [[spoiler:Jane]] begins having flashbacks and depressive episodes when her father comes back into her life, eventually remembering that he [[spoiler:had molested her as a child.]]
* ''Series/HigherGround'': Step-parental incest, actually.
** We learn in episode one that Scott's issues and drug abuse stem from being repeatedly raped by his stepmother.
** Later it turns out [[spoiler:Shelby]] was raped by her stepfather, along with her sister.
* ''Series/DarkDesire'': [[spoiler:Darío]] it turns out was raped by his aunt/foster mother, who took advantage of him as a minor.
* ''Series/CityOnAHill'': Jenny was sexually abused by her father.
* ''Series/GuidingLight'''s Beth Raines was raped by her abusive stepfather Bradley. He'd been smacking her around for years, but it escalated to rape as she got older and began dating and he became jealous.
* ''Series/Flowers2016'': {{Subverted}}. We're led to believe George and Abigail are father and daughter, which makes the fact that they have sex in the sauna a straight example. However, they're really unrelated and in a bizarre, possessive relationship, having pretended otherwise.

* The ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "Won't Get Fooled Again" dropped John Crichton into a LotusEaterMachine which resembled a sick parody of present-day Earth. At first, John merely finds this ruse annoying, but things take a turn for the kinky as everyone (read: ''[[CrackPairing everyone]]'') on the series start making passes at him. At one point, John finds himself ambushed by his mother in a pink negligee.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Craster and his harem of daughter-wives.
* In ''Series/{{Sparkhouse}}'' the character Carol is a victim of incest by her father.
* ''Series/{{Skins}}'' implies this between Michelle's stepfather and stepsister and gangster Johnny White with his daughter.
* ''Buried'' has a prison bully revealed to be victim of rape by his father.

* In an episode of ''Series/WireInTheBlood'' a killer was having an incestuous relationship with his abusive mother.
* In ''Series/BadGirls'' the character Shell Dockley was raped as an adolescent by both her parents.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', in a very roundabout way involving clones: [[spoiler:Ellen Tigh sleeps with human-like Cylon Cavil in order to protect her husband. It's later revealed that Ellen is one of the Initial Five Cylon scientists who created the Significant Eight human-Cylons, and Cavil was modeled after Ellen's ''father'' and ''knew all along'' who she was (Cavil is an angry, spoilt, sadistic teenager with an Oedipus complex in an old human's body, which he hates Ellen for "blessing" him with). Then there's Saul Tigh himself, also a member of the Initial Five, who becomes infatuated with much younger-looking Caprica-Six, possibly because she looks ''a lot'' like a young Ellen. Tigh gets Six pregnant, but she suffers a ConvenientMiscarriage after Tigh switches (is forcibly switched?) his affections back to Ellen. Ellen calls Tigh out on basically screwing (one of) his own daughter(s). But doesn't do so to Tyrol, another member of the Five, even though he too was doing it to one of the Eights.]] [[spoiler:This calling out is doubly ironic given that Ellen slept with Cavil on New Caprica to get Tigh released.]]
* In ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'', [[spoiler:Valerie]] makes a sad example of this when her backstory is finally revealed.
* ''Series/BostonLegal'' had a plotline that involved a mother sleeping with her son.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
** "[[Recap/AngelS02E04Untouched Untouched]]" features a woman who was sexually abused by her father
** Cordelia, albeit Cordelia possessed by Jasmine, and Connor are also essentially this trope in season 4, since Cordelia acted as a surrogate mother to Connor as a baby in season 3.
* Attempted in ''Series/ForeverKnight'' when [=LaCroix=]'s daughter, Divia, attempts to get [=LaCroix=] to sleep with her after she brings him across (makes him a vampire.) [=LaCroix=] responded by staking her and killing her, though she revived centuries later and came after him and his vampire children.

* The ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E02Home Home]]" centered around an murderous family of inbred hicks, complete with mother/son incest. The eldest brother turns out to be his younger brothers' father.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'':
** An episode revealed that the [[MauveShirt recently introduced]] character Keppler [[spoiler:had, some years ago, murdered a man whom he believed had raped his wife (or possibly girlfriend or fiancée, it's not made clear). He is then blackmailed by his father-in-law, who has just murdered a prostitute, and a fellow officer, who had helped cover up the crime (which the [=CSIs=] are investigating). In the end he realises that his wife's rapist was her father. He proceeds to track down the villain to stop him murdering the last witness to his crime, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath getting shot for his trouble]] and [[HeroicSecondWind then getting back up in time to shoot him and protect the witness]], before he [[KilledOffForReal dies]].]]
** The episode "Burden of Proof" reveals in the end [[spoiler:that the murdered stepfather wasn't molesting his stepdaughter - the biological father was. When the daughter told the stepfather about it, the father murdered him, telling the daughter afterward that he'd kill anyone else she told and her too if the need arose. The father lies about it when arrested, saying he killed the stepfather because he was abusing the daughter. Then the team confronts him with the proof that it was him abusing the daughter. He tells his lawyer to get him out of it, mentioning that the lawyer just got him off the hook for murdering the stepfather. The lawyer, and the CSI, clearly explain to him that the rape of a child under Nevada law carries a mandatory sentence, for which there can be no plea bargains.]]
** In another episode, an investigation of a murder led to the discovery that the suspect, a married man with a teenage daughter, had seemingly had incestuous sex with said daughter (that had left her pregnant) and so the investigators theorized that the murder (of the man's wife) had been because she figured this out. It then turned out that [[spoiler:the daughter fantasized said relationship with her dad (to the point that her body started to show pregnancy-like symptoms out of sheer delusional willpower) and she killed her own mom out of murderous jealousy. Her father had been clueless about this all along]].
** A horrific episode from the first-season, "Blood Drops", features two sisters who survive the murder of their father, mother, and two brothers. In the end, the older girl is revealed to have arranged the murder of her father, who had raped her, fathered her sister/daughter (played by Dakota Fanning), and was now molesting the little girl. The others were killed because they had never stopped him.
** In the episode "Committed" from Season 5, [[spoiler:they are investigating a murder at a criminally insane institution of a male inmate, and find out that the victim was having an illicit affair with a fellow male inmate. Turns out that the mother of the patient with whom the victim was having an affair had lied her way into being a nurse at the mental hospital so that she could continue her lifelong Parental Incest relationship with her son. When she found out that he was "cheating" on her with an inmate, she demanded that he end it. When he refused, she killed the victim out of jealousy. The truly horrible part is that she used her power over her mentally ill son to force him to cover up the murder of his lover.]]
** Season 10 episode "Lost and Found" has the team assuming that dear old dad had knocked up his own daughter with their son/half-brother before disappearing. [[spoiler:Turns out she was raped by her mother's brother... but she and dad still lived together as husband and wife while raising the resulting son/cousin.]]
** Season 12, "Genetic Disorder". Mother does it with son, gets pregnant, dumps off baby to hide it. The kid goes AxCrazy later and lashes out at the genealogist who uncovered the secret, and the body gets left in the bed of Doc Robbins and his wife, the genealogist's next clients.
* ''Series/ShamelessUS'':
** When Mandy gets pregnant (and subsequently gets an abortion), her closest friends Ian and Lip learn that the father of the baby was Mandy's own father, who's an alcoholic to the extremes that he blacks out and has on occasions raped Mandy, because (according to her) of how similar she looks to her deceased mother. This is also the reason why Mandy asks the Gallaghers to look after her half-sister Molly when she has to take her in.
** There's also Steve/Jimmy's mother kissing him on the lips back in season 1, which Debbie comments was particularly disgusting.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Played with in an episode. Dean goes back in time to see his parents as teenagers. Dean comments on how his mom is a total babe and that he will be going to hell ([[BackFromTheDead again]]) for thinking that. Also in that ep, [[spoiler:the Yellow-Eyed Demon possesses Dean's mom's father and kills Dean's dad. The Demon makes a [[DealWithTheDevil deal]] with Dean's mom that promises he'll bring him back to life and Dean's mom accepts. How is the deal sealed? With a kiss. Dean's mom kisses her demon-possessed father.]]
** In an earlier episode, Agent Henriksen tells Dean that he thinks [[WellDoneSonGuy John]] brainwashed Dean into believing that demons and ghosts are real and probably molested him as a child. Of course, Henriksen said this just to make Dean angry.
** In "Family Remains", the antagonist is first believed to be the ghost of the daughter of the first victim. After all of the standard ghost-warding stuff fails, they figure out it was the dead daughter's daughter, who was a result of her father/grandfather raping her mother/half-sister. Jeez, these genealogies get complicated.
** Let's not forget poor Bela/Abby, who sold her soul to Lilith in exchange for having her father (and it may be implied her mother as well, though we never see her) killed because he was molesting her.
** Subverted in "Heartache". Sam and Dean break into the house of a deceased baseball player named Brick Holmes, but discover to their disgust that he apparently shared a bed with his mother Eleanor. It turns out that she was only posing as his mother, since "Brick Holmes" (born as a Mayan named Inyo) was an immortal man who met Eleanor when she was still a young woman, and [[MayflyDecemberRomance she continued to age while he remained young]].

* In Season 2 of ''Series/{{Carnivale}}'', [[spoiler:through a chain of heavily destiny-mediated consequences, [[BrokenBird Sofie]] winds up working as a maid for [[TheAntichrist Brother Justin]], who becomes creepily obsessed with her and vice versa. A good deal of Sofie's childhood trauma comes from having been raised by her batshit-crazy, telepathic, ''catatonic'' mother (roll with it, it's that kind of series) who hated her due to the circumstances of her conception: her mother was raped by a strange man who became obsessed with her when she was working as a fortune teller. In the city where Justin went to seminary. 20-odd years ago. You see where this is going, right?]] Ironically enough, the only person with enough information to put the pieces together is [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest Justin's sister Iris]], and even ''she's'' a little weirded out.]]
* Scott Barringer, Hayden Christensen's character on ''Series/HigherGround'', was seduced and sexually abused by his stepmother. His love interest, Shelby, ''just happened'' to have had the same thing happen to her from her stepfather (who got her younger sister too).
* ''Series/LawAndOrder'':
** There's an episode about the murder of a teenage girl. The cops keep pursuing the girl's father, as evidence indicates the girl was sexually abused, but he keeps protesting his innocence. It's ultimately revealed that [[spoiler:it was the girl's ''mother'' who was raping her and ultimately murdered her. The father didn't know anything about it, and is devastated by TheReveal.]]
** Used again by a young man facing a murder charge as part of an insanity plea that he'd regularly been pressured into sex with his mother. The court ordered shrink doesn't believe his insanity plea but does admit that the incest makes him look sympathetic in front of a jury. When his ''wife'' faces attempted murder charges for trying to kill his mother, he's offered a lighter sentence for himself and his wife if he'd testify against his mother. [[spoiler:He chooses to protect his mother instead, much to the wife's devastation.]]
** The horrifically abusive father in "Indifference" has this among his many crimes, raping his daughter to train her as his SexSlave.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', as a show focusing on sex crimes, has a long list of these:
** There's an episode about a college student caught dumping her unwanted baby. By her father. Whom she basically just met. Because she tracked him down. [[spoiler:And it's not the first time she's gotten pregnant by him.]] Naturally, their father is an upstanding pillar of the community. [[spoiler:After she's sentenced, he tries for custody of his (grand)son, but is shot down hard by Benson and Stabler.]]
*** [[spoiler:She's committed -- but not for the unwanted live baby they found; she is acquitted of that. But later they find that she had a "stillbirth" a couple years prior, and Benson confronts her with that - and the girl blurts out that her father was also THAT baby's father, and she'd actually killed that baby herself. So she's committed for that earlier murder. The fact that the father had been schtupping his daughter longer than they'd thought makes them all the more determined to deny him custody.]]
** A court judge was harsh on sex offenders after [[spoiler:he raped his 11-year-old stepdaughter and conceived a son]].
** A GoldDigger seduced her stepson and [[spoiler:convinced another man with whom she was having an affair to kill the father]].
** A murderer was in an incestuous relationship with his mother [[spoiler:and killed her to free himself from her control]].
** Two brothers from season 1 were molested by their father: one grew up to be a serial rapist, the other turned out normal but got drunk and [[MurderByMistake killed a man he thought was his brother]].
** There was also the episode with a man who wanted lots of kids so he [[spoiler:arranged for other men to impregnate his wife and, when she could no longer conceive, he artificially inseminated his daughter. It wasn't ''his'' sperm, but really that hardly matters.]]
** Then there was the infamous reveal that [[spoiler:Fin's stepson, Darius, was the result of his mother being raped by her father]].
** {{Subverted|Trope}} in one episode guest-starring Creator/JeremyIrons as a therapist specializing in sexual addiction. He's ridden with guilt because he, a recovered sex addict himself, believes he raped his daughter during an incoherent moment in the past, but [[spoiler:he finds out by episode's end that it was actually consensual sex with his daughter's friend, and the reason she was mad at him was that she was in love with her friend and was mad that her father came between them]].
*** A later episode in which Irons' character plays a supporting role involves two women sexually abused [[spoiler:by their mother. The older one managed to get through it and live a relatively normal life, but the younger sister was so warped by the abuse that she tried to molest a little girl and then killed her when she freaked out.]]
** A teenage girl goes missing and it's believed she was murdered by a man on trial. She's found having an affair with her music teacher and convincing herself they're in love. Her mother is upset as she [[spoiler: charges the teacher and slaps him. She then starts talking about his seduction methods with first-hand knowledge. With her husband and the cops all staring, she says she and the guy had a one-night stand... 17 years ago. "Do the math," she snaps as she reveals he's been sleeping with his own daughter. Unlike others from the show, he's more horrified than anyone else, begging "I didn't know" when the man everyone thought was the father has to be held back from throttling the guy. The girl's reaction? She ''smiles brightly'' as she's happy her father is a great musician rather than a garbage man, completely ignoring the incest part.]]
** In another episode, a slew of young girls have been seduced by a man they believe to be their biological father (the result of a sperm donation he made in college). Mercifully, he actually isn't (he's impersonating the real donor, jealous of his perfect life--beautiful house/family/career and trying to destroy it), but that doesn't change the fact that he used their supposed biological connection to cajole them into bed. By the episode's conclusion, he's bedded the man's actual daughter (a child that he had with his wife and raised, rather than just being a donor) under the same pretext, claiming that her mother had an affair with him and he's the daughter's real father.
** Another episode has the detectives investigating the apparent murder of a woman in her early thirties, who seems to have been thrown off of the building where she lived. [[spoiler:It was suicide, and it's only solved when her older sister comes forward with the information that the dead girl had mailed to her before she died. Both daughters had been repeatedly raped by their father as teenagers, and while the elder sister was able to get away and make a life for herself, the younger one became trapped in a cycle of bad relationships and substance abuse until she finally killed herself.]]
** The "Man Up/Man Down" two-parter has the teenage victim's [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] brutally rape him as punishment for "showing weakness" by not giving an animal he shot a MercyKill.
** In addition to being the focus of some episodes, this occasionally comes up as part of the backstory of a guest character, usually to explain some aspect of the character's situation or personality. In the most memorable example, a teenage girl who had been raped and pimped out by her biological father has lost her capacity to care about or empathize with anyone, to the point where she actively coerces her boyfriend into raping her adoptive sister (the reasons for which are never explained).
* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' had one in an early season: A stepmother, her stepson, and her son by her stepson's father are suspected in a series of church burnings. Goren thinks the arsonist has a FreudianExcuse, and it turns out [[spoiler:that the stepmother thought the best way to get to know her teenage stepson was to seduce him one weekend when his father was out of town on an extended trip. She got pregnant by her stepson and covered it up by inducing labor perilously early to create the illusion that she had been pregnant before her husband left. The child in question, now an adult, has recently been told of his true parentage by his church secretary, and has been lashing out at churches along with his adrenaline-junkie roommate.]]
** This is also part of the backstory of recurring antagonist Nicole Wallace. For most of her run on the show, this is only Goren's theory, but she seems to confirm it in her second-to-last episode when she tells [[MoralityPet Gwen Chapel]] that "sometimes daddies can love too much".
** A slimy politician in the Season 8 opener has a history of molesting his stepdaughter, who later became a drug addict. He also seems to be grooming his younger daughter [[spoiler:who is actually the stepdaughter's child born of the incest. And his mother put a hit on the stepdaughter's blackmailing boyfriend to cover it all up.]]
* Shane on ''Series/{{Weeds}}'' masturbates to pictures of his mother for a bit. After being discovered, his mother delivers an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dOxHc4Ix7c exquisitely uncomfortable discussion on the subject.]]
* In ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Reese finds a diary belonging to a girl he thinks goes to his school, and begins to read it. As he does, he gradually starts to fall for her, and fantasizes about kissing her. When Lois off-handedly reveals that the diary is hers, unaware of the fact that Reese has developed a crush on the girl in the diary, Reese imagines going to kiss his mother as she is now, and is horrified.
* An early episode of ''Series/AllSaints'' features an abandoned baby. When her teenage mother is found, she reveals, in a heartbreaking scene, that her father raped her and fathered her daughter, and that she abandoned her because she knew he'd do the same to another daughter.
* In the old original ''Series/DarkShadows'' TV 'supernatural soap', the modern-day character of Roger Collins makes a reference to his ancestors, but the actor bungles the line and says 'incestors' instead. This was ironic or prescient, because we later learn that his late wife and the mother of their son was also his own grandmother, having returned to life supernaturally after a failed attempt to murder Roger's father and aunt, Jamison and Nora Collins. Poor Roger never had any idea that he had married his grandmother, however... and neither did the writers until later.

* In the ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "Blackout" its discovered that the victim, a grandmother, was extremely abusive, regularly molesting her son when he was young. She had her sights set on her thirteen-year-old grandson when she was killed.
%%* ''Series/QuincyME'' investigated a case of this.
* Strongly averted in one episode of ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', where the {{body surf}}ing mother is [[WhodunnitToMe investigating her own murder]] and is suddenly kissed by her adult son. She quickly pushes him away and starts gagging.

* The teaser for the pilot of ''Series/TheMentalist'' involves a case of a murdered teenage girl. A neighbor boy is blamed but Jane deduces that the father is responsible. It turns out that the father and daughter were having a sexual relationship and the father killed the daughter when she wanted out.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Numb3rs}}'' that deals with an {{Expy}} of the FLDS, a girl finds out that she is the product of Parental Incest - her father married his own daughter, who was apparently so brainwashed that this didn't register as wrong or problematic to her. The girl, who has largely broken out of the cult brainwashing, was not happy about this.
** An earlier episode features a child pornographer who's been molesting his elementary-school-aged daughter; when the mother found out and tried to get the kid away from him, he claimed ''she'' was the abusive one and that she had kidnapped the child. Fortunately for everyone except him, the perpeterator was also a CopKiller, so the FBI had dug into his background and already found evidence that he was the abuser.
** In "Killer Chat", the KnightTemplar SerialKiller started [[PayEvilUntoEvil tracking down and murdering child molesters]] after [[spoiler: she found out her husband molested their daughter. In fact, [[MamaBear he was her first victim]].]]
* In an episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'', a little girl innocently reveals the "game" her father plays with her. The information causes Malucci to have a terrible HeroicBSOD: he charges into the other trauma room, where said father is being treated, and attacks him.
* ''Series/CriminalMinds'' had quite a few {{Serial Killer}}s with this backstory, but the one that takes the cake has to be the killer from "Reflection of Desire" whose mother was an actress from 1950s films. To perfect the romantic plots they staged and re-enacted when she was younger, he cut off the lips of his first victim [[spoiler:and affixed them onto his mother's long-rotted corpse, which he hallucinated was her, still alive]].
* ''Series/OutrageousFortune'' has Judd sleeping with his girlfriend's mid-twenties daughter during mid six season, [[spoiler:and they get married at the end of the season]].
* ''Series/LincolnHeights'': "Baby Doe". Jenn (a nurse) and Eddie (a police officer) find an abandoned baby in a dumpster. They track down the mother, a teenager with abusive parents. Her father is especially hateful and at one point at the hospital where Jenn works, he spits in his daughter's face. Jenn wipes it off and has the saliva tested for DNA. Yep, he's the father of his daughter's baby.
* ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'': Ricky was molested by his father, who claimed he was teaching Ricky "what it means to be a man." [[FreudianExcuse This led to Ricky]] constantly sleeping around in an attempt to feel in control of his sexuality.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Spike, as a fledgling vampire, turned his own mother, as she was dying of tuberculosis. His newly vamped mom then promptly accused him of doing so because he had a thing for Mommy. Spike, however, argued that he did it only to keep her alive, and ended up staking her when she started coming on to him.

** Taken up a notch in an episode in which the murders revolve around a family's secret eugenics scheme that paired a father with his daughter ''and with that daughter's daughter''. [[spoiler:The episode is "Master Class". A skilled young pianist is seduced by her world-renowned piano teacher, and nearly goes to bed with him, until she finds out that he's her father ''and her grandfather''. The pianist was trying to pass on an increasingly pure copy of his musical genes.]]

** Season 10 episode "Lost and Found" has the team assuming that dear old dad had knocked up his own daughter with their son/half-brother before disappearing. [[spoiler:Turns out she was raped by her mother's brother.]]

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Taken up a notch in an episode in which the murders revolve around a family's secret eugenics scheme that paired a father with his daughter ''and with that daughter's daughter''. [[spoiler:The episode is "Master Class". A skilled young pianist is seduced by her world-renowned piano teacher, and nearly goes to bed with him, until she finds out that he's her father ''and her grandfather''. The pianist was trying to pass on an increasingly pure copy of his musical genes.]]

* The LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek ''[[https://youtu.be/Jd-4EnFfVp8 A Long Way Home]]'' (also known as ''Aftermath'') essentially begins InMediasRes with a family trying to heal after such an incident--the mother walked in on the father fondling the daughter and dialogue reveals that this was the third time that this had happened, though they are both adamant that he never raped her. Unusually, the recovery process involves them trying to reconcile with the father, who is coming home after being kicked out. In the course of counseling, it comes out that both parents suffered this at the hands of their own fathers. Ultimately, we get SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome--everyone, including the father, is unable to trust him and constantly afraid that it will happen again, leading them to give up and him to move out for good.

* ''Series/DarkDesire'': [[spoiler:Dario]] it turns out was raped by his aunt/foster mother, who took advantage of him as a minor.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', in a very roundabout way involving clones: [[spoiler:Ellen Tigh sleeps with human-like Cylon Cavil in order to protect her husband. It's later revealed that Ellen is one of the Initial Five Cylon scientists who created the Significant Eight human-Cylons, and Cavil was modeled after Ellen's ''father'' and ''knew all along'' who she was (Cavil is an angry, spoilt, sadistic teenager with an Oedipus complex in an old human's body, which he hates Ellen for "blessing" him with). Then there's Saul Tigh himself, also a member of the Initial Five, who becomes infatuated with much younger-looking Caprica-Six, possibly because she looks ''a lot'' like a young Ellen. Tigh gets Six pregnant, but she suffers a ConvenientMiscarriage after Tigh switches (is forcibly switched?) his affections back to Ellen. Ellen calls Tigh out on basically screwing (one of) his own daughter(s). But doesn't do so to Tyrol, another member of the Five, even though he too was doing it to one of the Eights.]] [[spoiler:This calling out is doubly ironic given that Ellen slept with Cavil on New Caprica to get Tigh released.]]

* Implied in ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' with Ed, Sofia's father. As far as we know, he never actually did anything to her, but the intention was there. At one point he grabs her arm when the two are alone in a tent, and he's been accused of looking at her the wrong way.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', in a very roundabout way coupled with CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Ellen Tigh sleeps with human-like Cylon Cavil in order to protect her husband. It's later revealed that Ellen is one of the Initial Five Cylon scientists who created the Significant Eight human-Cylons, and Cavil was modeled after Ellen's ''father'' and ''knew all along'' who she was (Cavil is an angry, spoilt, sadistic teenager with an Oedipus complex in an old human's body, which he hates Ellen for "blessing" him with). Then there's Saul Tigh himself, also a member of the Initial Five, who becomes infatuated with much younger-looking Caprica-Six, possibly because she looks ''a lot'' like a young Ellen. Tigh gets Six pregnant, but she suffers a ConvenientMiscarriage after Tigh switches (is forcibly switched?) his affections back to Ellen. Ellen calls Tigh out on basically screwing (one of) his own daughter(s). But doesn't do so to Tyrol, another member of the Five, even though he too was doing it to one of the Eights.]] [[spoiler:This calling out is doubly ironic given that Ellen slept with Cavil on New Caprica to get Tigh released.]]

* ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s SerialKiller Ryan Chamberlain was noted by several other characters to have a major OedipusComplex, yet at the same time, his victims were all blonde, like his mother was. Shortly after coming to town, his twin brother Kevin recalled always feeling jealous over the fact that their mother clearly favored Ryan over him. However, Kevin began to have flashbacks of their mother taking Ryan into the bedroom or bathroom with her and suddenly realized what her "favor" really meant.

* '' series/shameless'': Zig-zagged with Frank and Samantha. They made out and dry-humped, but only Frank knew she was his daughter at the time.

* The LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek ''[[https://youtu.be/Jd-4EnFfVp8 A Long Way Home]]'' (also known as ''Aftermath'') essentially begins InMediasRes with a family trying to heal after such an incident--the mother walked in on the father fondling the daughter and dialogue reveals that this was the third time that this had happened, though they are both adamant that he never raped her. Unusually, the recovery process involves them trying to reconcile with the father, who is coming home after being kicked out. In the course of counseling, it comes out that both parents suffered this at the hands of their own fathers. Ultimately, SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome--everyone, including the father, is unable to trust him and constantly afraid that it will happen again, leading them to give up and him to move out for good.