Role Association / Live-Action TV: N to Z

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• The Nanny: After breaking up with her boyfriend and losing her job at a bridal suite (her boyfriend owned the bridal suite), Pamela Finklestein becomes a door-to-door cosmetics salesgirl, until one day, she convinces widower British Broadway producer Shane Donovan into hiring her as the new nanny for his three children Supergirl, Ben Harvey, and Mia Ross. Shane's butler, a holographic Professor Moriarty, takes an immediate liking to Pam, but Shane's longtime business partner, Julie Rayburn, sees her as an obstacle to winning Shane's affections, even though he never regards her as anything more than a business partner.
  • "The Nuchshlep": Shane agrees to let Supergirl go on a date with her boyfriend Cyclops, provided Pam accompanies them.
  • "The Gym Teacher": Pam helps Supergirl deal with her tyrannical gym teacher Anita, while Shane has to deal with overbearing actor Dan Turpin.
  • "Ode to Barbara Joan": Pam finds herself bonding with Julie's father, Kelly Robinson, much to the irritation of Julie.
  • "The Playwright": In order to teach Ben a lesson about not looking down on his classmate Rubber Woman, Pam must make amends with former classmate Paul Lassiter.
  • "Pishke Business": Pam must pose as Julie in order to persuade businessman Vizzini to invest in Shane's latest play after Julie unwittingly attacks him.
  • "Stock Tip": Pam introduces Shane to Arnie Becker, who works on Wall Street, but not in the way Pam thought...
  • "The Nanny Behind the Man": Pam sets her grandmother Millie up with playwright Admiral Hansen, whom Shane hopes will let him produce his play.
  • "Frannie and the Professor": Julie makes a bet with her brother David St. Hubbins about whether Pam can go on Jeopardy! and win.
  • "The Tart with Heart": To prove she's more than a pretty face, Pam dates blind man George Costanza.
  • "Educating Fran": Fran starts dating Supergirl's college professor Perseus as Shane has difficulty conveying his feelings for her.
• Narcos (Netflix): Oberyn Martell hunts the world's biggest cocaine dealer, Captain Nascimento.
• Nash Bridges: Detectives Sonny Crockett and Pedro De Pacas are in charge of an elite police unit in San Francisco. Their detectives include Cyrus Beene, Mark, and Mr. Banks.
• Nashville: Country Strong: The Series with Tami Taylor playing Gwyneth Paltrow to Claire Bennet's Leighton Meester. Martin Fitzgerald is Tami's husband, and Cy Tolliver is her dad; Lucky Spencer is a bad boy musician and Morgan Ross is a guitarist and ex of Tami (and one of the somewhat slutty Claire's bedmates); Nina Bailey and Stoke are singers, and both Stoke and Lucky fancy Nina. The tight end for the Titans is Claire's producer and another of her bedmates, and Jim Belushi's sister-in-law is Martin's ex. Marcel Hollis and Melinda May are record company execs (and Skye also works in the business), and Luke Ward moves in next door to Nina and Stoke; meanwhile, Claire's unfit mother Tracy has a sponsor, Paul, who Claire also sleeps with.
  • In season two Claire has professional competition from Cassidy, who like Claire and Tami works for label head Adam Rhodes to boot; and hooks up with wealthy polo-playing (and married) Demetri. Meanwhile, Michael Swift is the biggest thing in country music, and Nina's abusive mother Angela comes back into the poor girl's life.
    • Alternately: as per the first Season 2 soundtrack album, Kate and Garth finally become a pair (duet-wise, that is).
  • In season three Stoke's ex Carmen arrives, Morgan hooks up with Martha Wayne, and Nick Amaro's wife and Ali Rose go into country music.
    • Season four features Clara Forrester, Cinderella and Todd Schellinger.
  • Teddy Duncan comes along in season five.
• NCIS: Dr. Robert Caldwell leads a federal investigative team consisting of Logan Cale, Marguerite Cisneros, and Thackery Binx. Illya Kuryakin is the medical examiner. Alice Wisdom is the Perky Goth lab rat. Dr. Keith Wilkes is the agency's director. Fez and Jackie Curatoli join the team after original team member Logan gets a Promotion to Parent.
  • Dr. Maura Isles used to be on the team, and Chihiro's mom was the director, but they were both killed off in separate incidents.
  • Livingston Dell is a guy who basically manipulated Alice's Stalker with a Crush to go Romeo and Juliet on her.
  • ADA Casey Novak is Robert's Coast Guard counterpart.
  • Bernard appears to be Illya's foil.
  • Imhotep is make that was an Israeli secret agent.
  • Parker is a Gamer Girl who gets scared of a little gunfire.
  • Nero's (dead) wife is a love interest for DiNozzo while he's undercover.
  • Laurie Strode is a master mind-screwer.
  • River Song is (naturally) a mysterious woman with dangerous connections who (of course) has known Gibbs for years.
  • Counselor Troi is the new head of Mossad.
  • Ducky's childhood friend grew up to be the Borg Queen
  • Speaking of Trek, Gibbs' elusive second ex-wife is eventually revealed to be none other than Seven of Nine
  • Ellie's husband is finally revealed and he's make that (non-lethally except to his marriage) was Constable Adama!
  • And her mother? The Bionic Woman herself!
  • Eleven loves her Navy SEAL dad! So much so she murders her mother so he'll stay home permanently.
  • ADA Serena Southerlyn is a horse-mounted policewoman.
  • When SECNAV Porter resigns, her successor is Tasha Yar
  • When Gibbs retires, his successor is Bill Lumburgh
  • the Emergency Medical Hologram is a FLETC instructor who taught many NCIS agents during his career. His death unites the Hawaii, Washington and LA teams to expose a CIA conspiracy.
  • Jack Hodgins is the creator of the Bandium app used by NCIS to flag new cases.
  • Tuvok is a military heart surgeon who gets kidnapped and killed.
• NCIS: Los Angeles: Robin and an undersea chef fight crime under the watchful eyes of Grandmother Willow and the vice president of the USA.
  • Lady Deathstrike is a Cold Sniper assassin.
  • ADA Rubirosa is a government courier who didn't want her partner and only friend to leave her to get married so she dragged him into drug running behind his back.
  • Probable pilot for the NCIS Red Team (wasn't there already a series about a red team?): Aiden has to earn back Teddy Altman's trust.
  • Someone's leaking intel to the Taliban, and worse their shenanigans is coming between the couple who finally got over their Belligerent Sexual Tension-riddled relationship! I suspect it's the psychotic evil genius who came between the couple who finally got over their BST-riddled relationship (unless he's a red-herring for people who watch too many crime dramas and he was, he had nothing to do with anything)!
  • Agent Granger (no relation to this series' Agent Granger) is once again a jerkass who attacks Nell, a four-foot-nothing computer tech! Fortunately Nell is Not So Harmless.
  • Machete is a deadly assassin and the subject of Hanna and Callen's first case together.
  • Commander Riker is a naval doctor who is treating a suspect's PTSD
• NCIS: New Orleans: Capt. Archer and Amanda Waller are defenders of justice. Joining them is Sean Boswell.
  • Doctor Father General Song Wu Van Pelt is a dead man walking.
  • Agent Brody's mom is Bo Peep.
  • Sebastian's mom is Mary Sunshine.
  • "Squintern" Wendell killed three people and caused a blackout just to make sure his illegitimate half-sister didn't get her hands on half of his inheritance. Ironically if he had just talked to her he would have learned she wasn't interested in money.
  • Aiden Burn is a straight-laced FBI Agent who joins the team "for convenience" and says she'll leave when her case is done. Considering Brody left and Aiden's in the opening credits...
  • Naval intelligence agent Geordi LaForge's op goes wrong leading to a potential pandemic (yeah, that episode aged well…)
• Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: Peter Parkes writes a guide that gives tips on how to survive school. Kat Stratford and Kojo are his friends. Peter has a huge crush on Rosita Espinosa. Agent William Stryker is the science teacher, Cosmo is the janitor, and Anthony Bouvier is the history teacher and later principal.
• Never Have I Ever: Priya is in high school in the USA.
• Neverland: Ser Otto Hightower leads a band of pickpockets. Tywin Lannister is also in there.
• New Girl: Summer moves in with a bunch of guys, one of whom is a dangerous addict. Mikaela rents her room while Summer's sequestered for jury duty.
• The New Statesman: Rik gets into politics.
• Newsradio: Flik becomes the news director of a news radio station where the staff includes Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, Owen Kronsky, Bill Dauterive, Posey Tyler, the host of Fear Factor, Alexx Woods, and Abby Lockhart. After Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer's untimely death, Master Thespian comes in to replace him.
• The Newsroom: Jack McCoy, Zuko, and Harry Dunne (who's just recovered from a Freak Out on live TV) work at a 24-hour news channel.
• Nicky Deuce: Nickelodeon Made-for-TV Movie in which Gibby has to spend the summer with his Uncle Bobby and Grandma Carmen. He soon suspects his uncle's in the mob; strangely, Johnny Sack, Paulie Walnuts, Christopher Molisanti and Tony Soprano all turn up.
• Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn: Arwin Hawkhauser and Tina Haven raise four quadruplets.
• Night Court: Harry the Hat oversees cases at nighttime. For the majority of the show's run, the court clerk is Wilfred, with Carl Sack prosecuting, June Darby as a public defender, and Two-Face and Maxine Douglas as baliffs.
• The Night Manager: MI-6 agent Loki has to bring in evil arms dealer Dr. House.
• Ninja Warrior: Kakashi is the announcer for a Le Parkour competition.
• Nip/Tuck: The Stepfather and Dr. Doom are amazingly talented but neurotic and vain (respectively) plastic surgeons. Betty Rubble wants a better body after winning the lottery; Starbuck (and later Paige Matthews) is an anesthesiologist; other Scilons are money-grubbing villains. Sephiroth recently joined the cast.
• No Appointment Necessary (1977): Mr. Salt is a shifty Cockney greengrocer/salon owner, who hires Elizabeth Warden to manage the latter. Their staff includes Mrs. Truscott and Miranda Pollard, while Elizabeth's father is Lewis Potter.
• The Noddy Shop: Frank Rittenhauer runs a magical toystore inhabited by Jean Grey, Mr. Owl, Junior Gorg, Loonette, Auntie Macassar and Teddy. He's often visited by his grandkids Charles and Gwendolyn Killerby, as well as Gwendolyn's friend Christopher Dickie. His sister, Mrs. White, runs a hat shop.
• No Ordinary Family: Vic Mackey, his wife Rita Bennett, and their children (one of whom is young Jim Kirk) win the Super Power Lottery.
  • D'Anna and Six are up to no good. As is Reverend Camden.
• Normal (2003) (HBO Made-for-TV Movie): Carmine Falcone tells his wife Constance that he's going to transition into being female. Constance has trouble with it, as does their son Ginger; their daughter Juliette and Carmine's boss Mr. Krabs are more understanding.
• North and South (U.S.): Mr. Woods and Johnny Castle are US military academy classmates turned soldiers who soon find themselves and their families on opposing sides of the American Civil War. Mr. Woods' siblings include Lt. Saavik, Cmdr. Riker, and Cougar. Olga Bariosova is Johnny's love interest.
• November Christmas (TV movie): Carter Slade and Aiden team up to give a Littlest Cancer Patient an early holiday.
• Nowhere Man: Roderick Usher is the target of a conspiracy because of a photograph he took.
• NUMB3RS: An elf uses math to help his brother, Dr. Joel Fleischman, now an FBI agent, solve crimes; his father is a retired Taxi driver while his best friend and colleague is Renfield.
  • Wade Wells stopped sliding and became an FBI agent.
  • Doc Brown is an Expy of Stan Lee.
  • The Fonz is a disgraced FBI agent.
  • Sandusky taught himself advanced math for fantasy baseball.
  • Peggy Hill was briefly the elf's boss.
  • Mr. Fox was a Chinese spy.
  • A guy from Orange County is the elf's professional nemesis.
  • The Arbiter is the head security goon for a corrupt corporation.
  • Gaius Baltar is a deranged cult leader.
  • Lionel Luthor is a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane psychic (we'll never know, his last vision was getting killed by a car).
• Nurse Jackie: Carmela Soprano is a tough, Jerk with a Heart of Gold nurse who works with Carlisle Cullen.

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• The Odd Couple (1970): Neat Freak Dr. Lao shares an apartment with slob Quincy, M.E..
• The Odd Couple (2015): Slob Chandler Bing and Neat Freak Jim Dangle are mismatched roommates.
• The Office (UK): A small-time actor and a one-eyed pirate ineptly lead a cubical farm that has a zombie apocalypse survivor as their receptionist and Arthur Dent as their foil.
• The Office (US): Evan and an eccentric science teacher ineptly lead a cubicle farm that has a put-upon ex-figure skater as their receptionist and a Basterd as their temp, plus a future gynecologist.
  • Evan's departure prompts the need for a replacement, marking the appearance of said small-time actor, Bruce, Ron, Ray, Donna, and Redd.
• Oh, Doctor Beeching!: A rural train station is run by stationmaster Ted Bovis, station buffet manager (and Ted's wife) Marsha Klein, booking clerk Peggy Ollerenshaw, signalman Inspector Blakey, odd job woman Mabel Wheeler, engine driver Mr. Barnes, fireman Henry Livingstone, and guard Fred Quilley. Tensions rise with the arrival of new stationmaster Spike Dixon, a former flame of Marsha's.
• Once Upon a Spy: a 1980 unsold pilot/Made-for-TV Movie in which The Baroness assigns computer expert Sam Malone to work with spy Mandy Pepperidge to stop Saruman.
• Once Upon a Time: Dr. Allison Cameron struggles to understand that she is living in Boston. She is aided by her son Bobby Draper, who is also Angie Ordonez's son. Dr. Nicholas Rush brings magic into Storybrooke.
  • Liessa Dragonlady is the Princess of Agrabah.
• One Foot in the Grave: Gaius is the Grumpy Old Man.
• One Piece (2023): The story once again tells of Juan Ruiz and his journey to become the King of the Pirates by assembling a crew called the Straw Hat Pirates and journeying to the Grand Line to find the One Piece — a mysterious treasure belonging to the notorious pirate, Tom Griffin. After rescuing and recruiting Pegasus Seiya as the first member of the Straw Hats, they set off on a journey to the Grand Line. They soon join forces with Cindy Berman, a thief and navigator with a dream to draw charts on the Grand Line; AJ Delajae , a marksman and liar with a dream of becoming a brave warrior; and Billy, a chef with a dream to find the mythical All Blue. Now all Juan has to do is convince his would-be new friends to take a gamble on their dreams... and deal with the ocean of enemy pirates and marines between them and their goals.
  • It was all thanks to Juan's role model, Mister Mxyzptlk, who saved his life while sacrificing his own arm. Also his grandfather, The Captain, for training him to fight.
• Only Fools and Horses: Granville and Gary Sparrow are brothers who sell dodgy goods in Peckham. Owen Newitt is a dim roadsweeper and Gunner 'Nobby' Clark is the landlord of their local pub.
• Only Murders in the Building: Lucky Day, Ned Nederlander and Alex Russo are crime podcast geeks and residents of a New York City apartment complex who start their own podcast after their neighbor Edgelord dies under mysterious circumstances. Max Bialystock is their producer, Holly Flax is Lucky's love interest, Sue Sylvester is Lucky's former stunt double, Liz Lemon is a celebrity podcaster and Feyd-Rautha is a famous resident.
• On the Buses: Smiler is the Inspector at the local bus depot. His nemesis is a lazy bus driver who lives at home with his mother, Mrs. Lea, and sister, Aunt Sal.
• On the House: A building site is run by foreman Mr. Whitemonk, shop steward Monsieur Alfonse, and builders Morgus, Arthur Thomas, Charlie Moffitt, Rod Blake, SuperTed, and Timmy Lea.
• Open All Hours: Norman Stanley Fletcher runs a corner shop, assisted by his nephew Del Boy.
• Orphan Black: She-Hulk, a Street Smart English orphan fostered in Canada, is heading home when she witnesses a woman throw herself in front of a train. Reeling as the woman looked exactly like her, She-Hulk takes advantage of the resulting panic and takes the woman's discarded handbag. Examining the purse's contents, Sarah identifies the woman as Ghost due to their eerie resemblance, decides to assume her identity in order to rob her home and clean out her huge savings account with her foster brother, U.S. Ex Delivery Guy. Not long into her plot, however, She-Hulk suddenly finds herself in too deep. Not only was the late Ghost a troubled police detective with a boyfriend and plenty of secrets, but She-Hulk soon uncovers a huge conspiracy that changes everything: she is one in a series of clones living across the world. Meeting with two of her "genetic identicals", soccer mom Tatiana and biology student Zeppelin Dyer, She-Hulk learns that she and her clones are being killed off — turning what looked like an easy con into an investigation to unravel top-secret conspiracies.
• Our Friends in the North: The Ninth Doctor, James Bond, Frank D'Amico and Judy Molloy go through thirty years of political and social changes in Britain. Nine's dad is Maester Aemon, Brian Lane is a dodgy businessman, Argus Filch is a kindly Labour MP and Alex DeLarge is a Soho porn baron.
• Our Flag Means Death: Murray Hewitt abandons a privileged life to take a stab at becoming a pirate captain, commanding a crew that includes Spud Murphy, Hizdahr zo Loraq, Hodor, Elton John, Lindsey, Alan Lawford and Elfo. Along the way, they meet naval captain Bill Tanner, feared pirate Patty Tolan, aristocratic couple Louise Belcher and Maury the Hormone Monster plus an out-of-work Lego Batman, while running afoul of dread captain Viago and his first mate Mackenzie Bock.
• Outlander: Madam Maxim is an unusual nun (and friends with Johan-Sebastian Bach).
• Over the Top: Dr. Frank N Furter is an out-of-work actor who goes to work at a hotel. There he meets his ex-wife Little Bo Peep as well as the Mayor of Whoville.
  • Oh and, Jack Tripper is his rival in one episode.
• Oz: J. Jonah Jameson is a very dangerous neo-nazi, Dr. Huang is a priest, Det. Elliot Stabler is a bisexual serial-killer, Mr. Eko is a terriying criminal and Link is an omniscient narrator, among many interesting characters.

P-Q

• The Pacific: Tim Murphy, Simon, King Ahkmenrah, and others go through hell in World War II.
• Pair of Kings: Oliver Oken and Marcus Little are twin brothers who are brought to a faraway island by Kincaid, where they discover they are kings. Gigi Silveri is Kincaid's daughter, and Chuck Chamber is their vengeful cousin. Eventually Oliver and Marcus discover they are triplets with Luther Waffles.
• Pam & Tommy: Cinderella and The Winter Soldier create a sex tape that leaks onto the internet and becomes the stuff of legends.
• Parenthood: Mr. Incredible is a loud-mouthed patriarch; his daughter is Lorelei Gilmore and his son is Nate Fisher.
• Parker Lewis Can't Lose: Jonas Quinn is the ever-scheming high school student who's friends with Brett Camber, Michael Lacey, and Darth Vader. Jonas is the arch-nemesis of Principal Didi Pickles as well as his sister Sara Anderson. Jonas and Sara's parents are Lampy and Frosty Kimelman (later Dr. Stephanie Woods).
• Parks and Recreation: Hillary Clinton works in the parks department under Burt Shlubb and alongside Raaaaaaaandy! She's determined to fix up a pit near Karen Filipelli's house. Klee appears in one episode.
• Partners: Marc is the male "Will & Grace" with Prof. Epps, but despite dating Superman he's rather jealous of Epps' fiancee.
• Partners in Crime (or Fifty/Fifty, outside North America): Jennifer Marlowe and Wonder Woman used to be married to the same private eye; they fight crime after he's murdered,inherit his agency and find his killer. Jacques Trenault, Annie MacDuggan-Paradis' mother and Joey Dinardo help out.
• Party of Five: Dr. Jack Shepard becomes the defacto parent of his siblings, who include Sydney Prescott, Gwen Stacy, and Chad Decker, who is dating Melinda Gordon after their parents die, which commences a very long Trauma Conga Line. Archie Bunker is their grandfather.
• The Path (Hulu): Jesse Pinkman and his wife Maggie Hart dedicate their lives to a Path of Inspiration (which per Word of God is absolutely not based on the Church of Happyology) with interim leader (TV) Will Graham while Bowman, having founded the faith, now supposedly writing the final steps to salvation, is actually dying in Peru. Meanwhile, Creb, evolved to a Cro-Magnon, is still a wise and insightful devotee, dedicated to helping others in distress: and Egeria plans to use Jas Mitra in her skulduggery.
• Peacemaker (2022): Agent Burns is recruited into a mission to stop a secret alien invasion. His team includes Taystee Jefferson (secretly the daughter of Annalise Keating), Dr. Eli Mays, Nurse Blackwell and Dutch, later joined by the psychotic killer HG Wells. Molly Chen and Hal Cooper investigate Burns' activities, the T-1000 is Burns' abusive white supremacist father and Captain Rex is Burns' beloved pet.
• Peaky Blinders: Jonathan Crane leads a gang with his brothers Sebastian Moran, Frank, (and Tyler post Season 4). Their aunt Narcissa Malfoy is the Treasurer of the gang while Crane is attracted to Mia, and Emilia Ricoletti after Mia's death). Dr Alan Grant eventually becomes Crane's Arch-Enemy. Crane's aided by Bane after Season 2, and Littlefinger after Season 4. Vicky Budd, Crane's sister, later joins the gang after it diversifies into a legitimate business stronghold.
• Penny Dreadful: James Bond and Vesper Lynd team up with a modern day high school Iago for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen-era supernatural shenanigans.
• Pennyworth: Not only does Bruce Wayne/Batman's future butler sleep with Her Majesty the Queen, he also did with Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales. Bruce's aunt is actually from Iceland, and Alfred has a talk with General DeSaad.
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023): Young Adam Reed is unexpectedly thrust into a world of gods and monsters when he is revealed to be the demigod son of Gustav Graves and the accused thief that stole the Master Bolt that the sky god Charon wields. Now the young demigod must lead a quest with his two friends across America to prevent a war among the Olympian gods and restore order between his father and uncle.
• Perry Mason: Ironside never loses a case.
• Person of Interest: Ben Linus built a Precog machine (or for latecomers, an early version of Project Insight). He hires Edmond Dantès to help him. Together, they fight crime. They later encounter dirty cop Vel Savage.
• The Persuaders!: James Bond and Joe/Josephine are crime-fighting playboys.
• The Player: Blade and his associates are bored betting on sports so they're betting on crime.
• Please Sir!: Fireman Sam is a form teacher for an unruly class of students including Mrs. Edelman, Herr von Trap, Ross Baxter, Muriel Pawcett, Batty, and Freddie Smith. Other faculty members at the school include headmaster Richard Greatham, senior mistress Mrs. Richards, teachers Jim Sloan and Uncle Titus, and caretaker Corky Turnbull. Sam later gets married to Maggie Redman.
• Poirot: Inspector Japp, now a private detective, solves crimes using his "little grey cells". Other people who have appeared with him, either as victims, witnesses, or criminals, include the Eighth, Ninth, and Twelfth Doctors, two Doctor Watsons, Inspector Lestrade, Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, Mary Poppins, Barty Crouch Sr., Madam Hooch as one of his recurring friends, Murph Cooper, Nicholas Brody, Dr. Julian Bashir, Magneto, and Orson Welles.
  • Cat Among the Pigeons: Japp investigates a series of affairs at a girls' boarding school headed by Queen Adelaide, with the assistance of Qyburn. The school's faculty includes Cassandra Pentaghast, while Ignis Scientia is the school gardener who's more than meets the eye. Cho Chang somehow transfers to this school as well.
  • Elephants Can Remember: Madam Hooch is asked by a friend of hers, Tuppence Beresford, to ask her goddaughter Sue Storm if her father shot her mother first or if it was the other way around, just as Sue is engaged to Hamza Bey. Meanwhile, Japp investigates the murder of Ser Jorah Mormont's father, with him and his secretary Queen Anne as the main persons of interest. It later turns out that these ostensibly separate cases were connected all along.
• Police Squad!: Dr. Rumack is a police detective. Guest stars get killed in each episode, including Ben Cartwright, Carol Brady and Captain Kirk.
  • Is it any wonder Johnny the Shoeshine Boy knows everything? He's been alive since before the Declaration of Independence was signed.
• Political Animals: Ripley is an ex-president's ex-wife running for office. Said ex-president is Gaius Julius Caesar.
• Power Rangers: Among the many people who have starred in the entire franchise include Mother Talzin, Tina Sharp, Rondel Robinson, Kali, Wizardmon, Nero, Vergil, Cameron, Anne-Marie Vicksey, Areola, Archie Johnson, Zim, Jill Valentine, Doctor Doom, Haruhi Suzumiya, Elliot Burch, Walter White, Lois Griffin, Gimmy Adai, Edwin Alva, J, Bennett, Heather Mosby, Felix Tagarro, Akuma, Gen, Hal Stewart, Ryan Steele, The Riddler, Jiraiya, Tobi, C.C. White, Alex Rosewater, Dewey Novak, Sid the Dummy, Chapel the Evergreen, Legato Bluesummers, Uryu Ishida, Magno Vivian, Malcolm Powder, Tuesday Warner, Liv Moore, Vladimir Ranskahov, A.J., John Ibrahim, Zoey Sandin, Laeta, Charlotte Monroe, Bennet Ahmed, the female Monk, Detective Brigid O'Reilly, Kali, and Nicole Parker.
• Powerless (2017): Abed Nadir and K2-SO are members of a team of muggles who clean up after super-battles in the DC Universe.
• Prime Suspect: Edie Stall is the American version of The Queen's tough detective.
• Prison Break: John Doe, a petty crook from Chicago, has been tried, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of the Vice President's brother. The evidence is damning, all appeals have been denied, the government has been railroading proceedings from the outset and John is left to wait out the last few months of his life in Fox River State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison. Only one person believes that John was framed for the crime: his brother, Chris Redfield, a structural engineer, genius and chronic do-gooder. Armed with an incredibly intricate scheme, in-depth intelligence on both the staff and prisoners, cleverly hidden tools and blueprints for the entire prison tattooed on his body, Chris gets himself incarcerated at Fox River in order to break himself and his brother out of prison.
• The Prisoner (1967): John Drake is trapped in a quaint village. Among those keeping an eye on his actions are Horace Rumpole, Count Lippe, and Jason King.
• The Prisoner (2009): Jesus is trapped in a mysterious Village headed by Magneto, whose son is Young!Gellert Grindelwald.
• Prohibition: Paul, Melinda, Mace Windu, Scar, DA MaCoy, Harvey Pekar, and Dick Solomon narrate the title era.
• Psych: Slacker detective Gary Mendez pretends to be a psychic and solves crimes with his best friend Charlie Young, gets advice from his father Arnie Becker, and matches wits with Phil Constantino.
  • He also investigates serial killer Allison Reynolds with the help of Liam McPoyle.
• QB VII in this 1974 Mini Series bestselling author Brad Wesley is sued for libel when he claims that kindly London doctor Odin (whose wife is Gigi) participated in Nazi atrocities during WWII. Odin wins... but the trial unearths such damaging revelations about the good doctor that Brad only has to pay a halfpenny in damages
• QI: Melchett (for a while, at least) quizes Jonathan Creek and others on various things.
• Quantico: When an attack on Grand Central Station in New York City is named the most devastating act of terrorism in the United States since 9/11, newly minted FBI Agent Victoria Leeds finds herself in a precarious situation: being framed for it. Barely evading the FBI's custody following an arrest, Victoria takes it upon herself to prove her innocence and figure out who's behind the attack—all the while avoiding their clutches. The real clincher? This unknown perpetrator is somebody she attended the FBI training academy at Quantico with. Told partly through flashback to her days at Quantico, Victoria is running on borrowed time and needs to act fast, or else she'll spend the rest of her life behind bars.
• Quantum Leap: Captain Archer and his best bud Cavil the Cylon battle the Timey-Wimey Ball.
• The Queen's Gambit: Thomasin is an orphan who becomes gifted at chess with the tutelage of Gerald Ford, but also develops substance abuse issues. After being adopted by the director of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, she begins putting her chess skills to the test as enters competitions of increasing intensity, playing against Dudley Dursley, Ferb Fletcher and the Polish Kylo Ren.

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• Raising Dad: Danny Tanner is a widower (again) raising his daughters Darcy Lewis and Captain Marvel with his father Hesh Rabkin.
• Rawhide: Dirty Harry goes on cattle drives.
• Ray Donovan:
  • Angelina Jolie's dad is now Lotario Thurgot's dad.
  • Cotton Weary now works as a hitman.
  • Trixie married Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw.
  • Brian Etheridge is now a boxer with Parkinson's.
  • Shane McKutcheon now works for Sabretooth, while Carmen de la Pica Morales is Armenian pop star Hasmig but uses the voice of someone else entirely.
• Reading Rainbow: Geordi La Forge teaches the joys of reading, with stars like Kang, George Costanza, Darth Vader, Mr. Houseman, Amy Wong, Yzma, Simka, Gomez Addams, Mrs. White, the Dude, David Lightman, and Big Tom Callahan narrating different stories.
• Red Dwarf: Lloyd Mullaney and Gordon Brittas are crewmates on a spaceship under the command of Simpson. Lloyd is imprisoned in stasis for three million years and when he is released, he finds that his pet cat is the ancestor of Barrington. Later, they're joined by the British Prime Minister. The love of Lloyd's life is Susan; when he meets Susan from an alternate universe, she is now Holly Turner.
• Reno 911!: The Wright Brothers, Gravitina, Rocko, Denise Hemphill, Tom Dubois, Beverly Goldberg, and Kai Mitchell are all incompetent cops. They run into Eddie and Dean Pelton frequently. In the last season, Francis the Driver and Ken Fitzgerald join the team.
• Resident Alien: Wash crashed his spaceship and wants to Kill All Humans but keeps questioning whether he really should as he gets to know them, while he's pretending to be a doctor. And he ate Captain Mal
• Resident Evil (2022): The plot is centered both on a global Zombie Apocalypse caused by the mysterious Umbrella Corporation, and the events leading up to it. Charon, Jane Kano and Minerva Marble is deeply involved in these events.
• Reverie: Mohinder Suresh develops a virtual reality program for people to experience fantasies and memories of favored moments. But then clients stop coming out, so President David Palmer enlists the help of Sameen Shaw to rescue them.
• Ringer: Daphne Blake witnesses a mob murder and runs to be with her twin sister Helen Shivers, who's married to Mr. Fantastic and having an affair with a former high school footballer/bar owner. Meanwhile, Big Willie Little is the only one - apart from Helen (The Chessmaster who faked her own death) and Billy Abbott - who knows Daphne is pretending to be Helen, Helen/Daphne's stepdaughter Maya Bennett has trouble at school and with her teacher Logan Echolls, cop Señor Senior Jr. is determined to find Daphne so she can testify, Stacie Monroe is Mr. Fantastic's Evil Brit of a business partner, and Janet Gavin is Mr. Fantastic's ex-wife who falls in love with Stacie as well as trying several times to kill Daphne, who she thinks is Helen.
• Riverdale: Ethan not only has to deal with Love Triangle with the original Betty and Veronica and his significantly aged down although not really music teacher, there's also a murder! PS: Barb lives!
• Roadies: Sally Jupiter, Pai, and Matt are with the band.
• RoboCop: The Series: Brick Wallace is a cyborg police officer who fights crime in near-future Detroit with his partner Sasha Roberts and their sergeant Flutterguy. Janet Gavin is a friend of Brick's who was converted into a Brain in a Jar Wetware CPU Virtual Ghost by her boss Linwood Murrow and scientist Brad Majors. Milo Armitage is a disfigured criminal who's made it his life's mission to kill Brick and Peter Malloy is Brick's father. Tig Trager was Brick's partner before Sasha.
• The Rockford Files: Bret Maverick is an ex-convict-turned-private investigator.
  • The opening scene of "The Big Ripoff" has none other than Chrissy Snow.
  • Jim's first client is The Bionic Woman, her father is Dr. Melnix, and her brother is Will Robinson.
  • Thomas Magnum honed his detecting skills under the alias Lance White.
    • And in Lance's second appearance, Orville Wright shows up as the nephew of Vern St. Cloud.
    • And T.C. is a ruthless loan shark in "Dirty Money, Black Light".
  • J.R. Ewing is (gasp!) a crooked investor, and his right hand man is Mort Metzger.
  • Beth's troublesome cousin is a young Arvin Sloane.
  • Odo is a highly eccentric, egotistical fashion designer.
  • Krystle Carrington shows up as one of Jim's old girlfriends.
  • Mike Stivic is a minor league football player.
  • Sheriff Bart is a fellow P.I. who teams up with Jim and Vern St. Cloud in "Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Waterbury Will Bury You".
  • Frank Burns is an unlikable doctor who, under false pretenses, involves Rockford in a behavioral psychology experiment.
  • Dennis' wife Peggy Becker is also Bob Hartley's sister Ellen.
  • Joe the Bodyguard is a former cop-turned-television star.
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again: Sophia Burset is a sweet transvestite(?) from Transsexual, Transylvania and the original Dr. is a criminologist.
• The Romanoffs:
  • "The Violet Hour": Harvey Dent and his girlfriend Adèle Blanc-Sec are forced to spend their vacation with the former's aunt, Elsa Opel (the Romanoff of the episode).
  • "The Royal We": Peter Russo (the Romanoff of the episode) and Donna Clark are a struggling couple who are planning on going to a cruise that celebrates the formers bloodline. When Russo goes on jury duty, he bails out on the vacation to have an affair with Olivia Maine. Clark, meanwhile, goes on the cruise and spends time with Tom Mason, another Romanoff-by-marriage.
  • "The House of Special Purpose": Joan Holloway is forced by her agent Paul Buchman to star in a mini-series directed by Erika Kohut (the Romanoff of the episode), which is about the final days of the Romanov family. During this, she has a fling with the actor playing Rasputin, Richard Harrow.
  • "Expectation": Jules James has busy schedule; having breakfast with her daughter, picking up her son-in-laws' parents, who are Adaleen Grant & Roland Foulkes, from the airport, and having confrontation with Roger Sterling (who previously appeared on the cruise two episodes ago). All while having to struggle to tell her husband Fritz Howard (the Romanoff of the episode) an ugly truth.
  • "Bright and High Circle": Connie Sumner (the Romanoff of the episode; who also appeared in a phone call in the previous episode) begins to suspect that her children's piano teacher, Elder Price (the other Romanoff of the episode), of doing horrible things. In order to get answers, she shares this information with her husband Peter Gibbons and her friends, Giselle Barker and Faye Miller.
  • "Panorama": While doing investigative work for his boss Paul Hackett, a reporter falls for Carolyn Fry (the Romanoff of the episode).
  • "End of the Line": Raquel Fein (the Romanoff of the episode) and Stan Rizzo go to Russia to adopt a child with the help of Nina Krilova. At one point, Fein ends up befriending Marjorie Palmiotti.
• Rome: Soap MacTavish and Frank Castle are two Roman soldiers who got mixed up in various historical events.
• The Rookie Malcolm Reynolds starts a career as a cop later in life. He runs into Wash who's a janitor.
• Room at the Bottom (1967): Monsieur Alfonse leads a group of maintenance men made up of Charlie Moffitt, Sammy Coin, and Foggy Dewhirst, while working in a high-up position for the same company is Corky Turnbull. Sir Ralph Shawcross is from a rival company and often tries to take over, but is stopped by Corky.
• Roseanne: Focusing on the trials of the working-class Julie's family of Lanford, Illinois. It was beloved for its realistic portrayal of the average American family. There was mother Julie, father Sully, preppy daughter Elliot, sarcastic daughter Sylvie, son Gregg and Julie's younger sister Mary.
• Rosemarys Baby: Neytiri is pregnant with the ultimate Enfant Terrible after her husband makes a deal; Lucius Malfoy (heehee) is her neighbor.
• Roots: Geordi Laforge is sold into slavery.
  • 2016 remake: Rogue thinks slavery is A-OK.
• Rubicon: Leckie and Rita Skeeter are surrounded by strange goings-on after 9/11.
• Runaways (2017) (Hulu): Braniac casts a long shadow on his son's life.
  • Carmen took up Elena's politics and got a goth best friend of her own.
• Running Wilde: Granola Girl Felicity has to deal with Upper-Class Twit Stranz when her daughter declares she just wants to be normal.
• Rutland Weekend Television: Mr. Smokes-too-much, Mr. Turkentine, Ron Nasty and the Indian guru come together to form a TV station.

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• Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Clarissa Darling is a magicall powered teen living with her aunts Linda and Dee Dee, as well as her talking cat Norbert.
  • Sabrina Goes to Rome and Sabrina Down Under: Clarissa has adventures with a British witch named Twilight Sparkle.
• The Saint: James Bond is a suave, charming criminal who travels the world righting wrongs.
• 'Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries ): Hutch is a writer who returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot in search of inspiration, only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by Ambassador Shras and his business partner Humbert Humbert, leading him to band together with Dr. James Kildare, Dr. Donald Westphall and No. 44 to fight it. Along the way, Hutch also meets up with Holly McClane, Ed Harken, Jill Pembroke , Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Orville Boggs, Josie, Grace Edwards, Detective Gus Moran, Watson Pritchard and Dorothy Jennings.
• Salvage 1: Sheriff Andy Taylor is a junkman who wants to build a rocket to the moon. Joining him is former astronaut Edward Stratton III.
• Sanctuary: Captain Samantha Carter recruits Hayden Cruise to join Genii leader Ladon Radim and Wraith commander Todd to protect "abnormals" from harm and persecution. Also starring a lot of people from Battlestar Galactica and the various Stargate series.
• Santa Clarita Diet: Casey and Mickey would love to have you for dinner.
• Sapphire and Steel: Ilya Kuryakin and Purdey try to prevent bad stuff from happening during breaks in the flow of time.
• Saturday Night Live: Some of the many cast members include Bluto, Ty Webb, Peter Venkman, Elwood, Mushu, Iago, Elaine Benes, Austin Powers, Bill McNeal, Bobby Boucher, Tommy Callahan and Richard Hayden, Ron Burgundy, Liz Lemon and Leslie Knope. Famous hosts include Rufus (who hosted the first telecast), Lucky Day, Jack Donaghy, Mike Wazowski and James Sullivan, and Forrest Gump.
• Saving Grace: Elastigirl is a hard-drinking slut of a cop working for Almond Joy who gets a chance to change her ways by untraditional angel Tom Nuttall. Her best friend Maya Gallo knows about the "new person" in her life, and Odo is a priest who abused our heroine as a child and who gets killed in the season two premiere.
• Scandal: Broomhilda von Schaft is President Tarzan's Ms. Fix-it. When he dumps her for Broomhilda, the First lady retaliates by hiring her own fixer, Captain Jack Harkness.
• Scarecrow and Mrs. King: John Sheridan is a spy who joins up with divorced housewife Sabrina Duncan.
• Schitt's Creek: Mitch & Mickey are so rich from their movie rental chain that they bought a town for their kid's (Mitch's real-life son) birthday because the name amused them, and then people stopped renting video tapes. The son briefly hooks up with Jennifer Goines before falling in love with Franklin while their daughter has a fling with Doc Holliday before falling for Sgt. Hugo Friedkin.
• Scorpion: Rakharo is the lead genius, Paul Finch is the world-class shrink, and they are under the supervision of T-1000.
• Sea Hunt: Steve McCroskey goes on underwater adventures.
• SeaQuest DSV: Chief Brody and Teen Genius Mozenrath have adventures under the sea in a cool submarine with a talking dolphin!
• SEAL Team: Angel (or Agent Booth leads a team of US Navy SEALS.
• The Second Coming: The Ninth Doctor turns out to be Jesus.
• Seinfeld: Barry B. Benson gets involved in wacky hijinks with Duckman, Old Christine, and Stanley Spadowski. His nemesis is Officer Don. Also, Christine has an on-again off-again relationship with Brock Samson; she also dated Walter White. Monica Geller, Janice, Skyler White and Saul Goodman also appear occassionally.
• Selfie: Harold and Amy navigate social media.
• Sense8 (Netflix): Elle Driver is extremely troubled; Sayid hunts Differently Powered Individuals.
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017) (Netflix): After Robin Scherbatsky and a Portland hipster perish in a fire OR DID THEY?!, their orphaned children (incuding Young Supergirl, Young Alaric, and Bubbles) are forced to live with their distant relative Dr. Horrible. Lok narrates their various escapades.
• Sex Education; Bruno, his best friend Variant Ken and Variant Barbie, local outcast and Bruno's crush, three students about to start sixth form. Bruno's mother Dana Scully is a renowned sex therapist, and Bruno and Barbie start up a sex clinic at his high school based on the knowledge he absorbed growing up around his oversharing mother.
• Shades of Blue: Someone in Henry Hill's crew is an FBI rat! Is it Selena or maybe Adriana? It's Selena
• Shake it Up: Margeaux Darling and Sequoia, childhood buddies, are dancers in a Chicago dance show who have zany adventures with charming friend Max Russo's conscience's conscience, Sequoia's girl crazy dancer brother Sander, Margeaux's pesky little brother Tyler Harmon and Funny Foreigner on-again-off-again brother-and-sister dancing team younger Chuck Pierce and Barbara Winslow. Brian Winters was the dancing show's original host. Loretta Geargrinder (the British one) is the school principal.
• Shameless (US): Christine Daae lives with her dad, shady car salesman with alcoholism, who promotes her to parent when her mom leaves. Other Christine family are Kerry von Erich, Jerome Valeska, Harris Connor-Healy, Henry Mesner and Young Andre.
• Sharpe: Boromir Stark's adventures as a rifleman in the Napoleonic Wars.
  • Sharpe's Eagle: Alec Trevalyen duels with James Bond.
• Sherlock: Smaug and Bilbo Baggins fight crime in present-day London.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe Version: Doctor Strange and Everett K.Ross fight crime in present-day London.
  • In "The Hounds of Baskerville", they help a guy who was attacked by a large dog as a kid, and turned into a werewolf.
  • Dean Thomas fears he's being stalked.
• Sherlock Holmes: Both Steppenwolf and DeSaad have been part of Sherlock's cases over the course of the series.
• Shine a Light: O.J. and Corporal Marsh are lighthouse keepers, regularly visited by Daddy, the captain of the supply ship.
  • "The Great Relief": Sergeant Wilson arrives at the lighthouse as a relief lighthouseman.
• Shōgun (2024): Sebastian, a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him; Scorpion, a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals; and Eiko Fukuhara , a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties, who must prove her value and allegiance".
• The Singing Detective: The Second Dumbeldore is a writer with a skin disease undergoing hallucinations.
• Six: Billy Crash is a Navy SEAL.
• The Slap US version: The apparent peace of Beatrix and Nya's extended family shatters when Syler gives his nephew corporal punishment.
• Smallville: Bo Duke is Charlie Baker's adoptive father and Lana Lang is his mother. The Riddler is the Flash's father and Spike (created by Jimmy Olsen is an android hellbent on destroying humanity. Dean Winchester shows up briefly, but gets crushed by a meteor. General Zod (later The Doci) and Supergirl are Charlie's birth parents. Charlie's enemies include Jack Arnold, Iceman, Marlena Diamond, Randy Taylor, Vincent, Anthony Knivert, The Son, and Colonel Saul Tigh.
• Smash: Grace and Morticia produce a musical about Marilyn Monroe; later on Beatrix Kiddo tries to steal the show.
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: The Phantom of the Opera is an accident-prone incompetent who can't hold a job and is married to Margaret.
• Something About Amelia: In this controversial Made-for-TV Movie, Michael and Nova Prime are a typical married couple with two daughters, Maggie and Cassandra Cooper Ingalls. One day Maggie discloses a terrible secret to her school counselor Lois: her father has been molesting her. Also starring Matilda, Kahless and D.A. Jim Trotter III.
• The Son: Remington Steele has an adventurous life in The Wild West.
• The Song of Lunch: Snape and Trelawny are old lovers who reunite over the title meal.
• Sonny with a Chance: Mitchie Torres gets the opportunity to star in her favorite sketch comedy show and moves to Hollywood, where she meets Susan, Christopher Wilde, Stubby, Duke Habberman, and Heather Wilmore. Christopher Wilde is on a rival show and falls in love with Mitchie.
• Sons of Anarchy: Killer Croc and Leela are a couple of bikers. Also, Darkseid is a mook.
• Space: 1999: Cinnamon Carter and Rollin Hand have a love affair IN SPACE!!! Inspector Gerard is part of their crew.
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Slade loses Cassie, and finds Tal-Miriel in the mines, but she is not herself anymore.
• The Special Relationship: HBO TV movie about the relationship between Prime Minister Aro and President Jack, with Narcissa Malfoy and Joyce as their respective wives.
• Spin City: Alex P. Keaton helps Mayor Brad Majors ("ASSHOLE!") run New York City, whose coworkers include Cameron Frye and Stacy Sheridan. Then Topper Harley takes over.
• St. Elsewhere: John Woodley, KITT, and Mr. Nolan (who is married to Amanda Greyson) head up a crumbling teaching hospital in the South End of Boston.
  • The staff includes Dr. Sidney Walden, plastic surgeon Leroy Jethro Gibbs, nurses Judy Gellar and Cmdr. Amy Helfman, and psychiatrists Luther Rizzo and Rabbi Polonski.
  • Members of the residency program include Stan Sitwell, Det. Michael Tritter, Bobby Generic, Malcolm X, Judge Susan Andaahl, Flounder, Mrs. Bueller and Captain Pike.
• The Stand (1994): A plague wipes out most of the world's population. The survivors all get visions from either the heavenly Mother Sister or the demonic Robert Queen. Among the survivors are Lt. Dan, Samantha Baker, Sodapop Curtis, Patrick Star, Charles Gordon Windsor Jr., The Martian, Officer Vinnie Schtulman, Da Mayor, Bob Morton, Maya Gallo, Max Headroom, Parker Lewis, Bernard Nadler, Linda, Willie Lopez, a real life retired Chicago police officer, and the director of the Spider-Man Trilogy.
• The Stanley Dynamic: Luis is a cartoon boy in the real world. He and his twin brother, Sid Swashbuckle, little sister Daisy Ryder, mother Margaret Matlin, and father Gran Malabar get into wacky hijinx.
• Star: The Wiz is at odds with Bail Organa.
• Star Trek: The Original Series: Jimmy Barrett explores the galaxy alongside his crew which consists of Master Xehanort, Elgin Clark, Commander Canarvin, Nana Dawson, Yoketron and Alfred Bester.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation: A century after Jimmy Barrett and company, Captain Charles Xavier and his crew comprised of Commander David Xanatos, Lt. (later Lt. Commander) Kunta Kinte, Lt. Rachel Creed during season 1, the Klingon Lt. I.M. Weasel, Dr. Caroline Ryan with her son Gordie LaChance, Counselor Demona, and the android Lt. Commander Brakish Okun boldly go where no one has gone before. Oda Mae Brown occassionally appears as the ship's bartender.
  • "Encounter at Farpoint": During their first mission, Discord tries to put them on trial for humanity's crimes, but decides to let them prove themselves by uncovering an alien world's secret which Chaz Finster knows about.
  • "Home Soil": General Gogol is leading a terraforming mission when it encounters an unusual lifeform.
  • "The Arsenal Of Freedom": The Enterprise gets a message by the Organ Grinder, but discovers that this was part of a world long destroyed by their own automated weapons systems that's now threatening them.
  • "We'll Always Have Paris": Xavier reunites with his former lover, Abby Malone, who's since married temporal research scientist Dr. Sigmund Frood, whose latest experiments may inadvertantly threaten to unravel the fabric of time.
  • "Where Silence Has Lease": Dr. Silberman is a space entity who starts to psychologically torment the Enterprise crew.
  • "Elementary, Dear Data": In a holodeck program, Dr. Okun, as Sherlock Holmes, takes on Holmes's greatest nemesis, Niles the butler, who is slowly gaining awareness of his existence as a hologram.
  • "The Outrageous Okona": Cliff Secord is a "charming rogue" who puts the moves on Susan Mayer.
  • "Q Who": Discord appears and causes trouble for the Enterprise crew while also warning them of the Borg.
  • "The Emissary": Judy Eriksen works with the Enterprise crew to stop a Klingon Sleeper Ship from attacking the Federation. Oswald Lee Harvey also appears as a tactical officer.
  • "Déjà Q": One of the pair of fantasy women (specifically, the blonde one) Discord conjures to irritate David and Weasel is Sandra Wild. She would also later appear in Deep Space Nine as one of General Skarr's dabo girls.
  • "Yesterday's Enterprise": Rachel Creed returns within an alternate timeline and finds herself falling for Shooter McGavin.
  • "Suddenly Human": Professor X debates with alien captain Derek Powers/Blight over who has custody over an orphaned human boy.
  • "The Wounded": Duncan Malloy's former captain, Samuel Norton, is conducting unauthorized attacks against the Cardassians.
  • "Darmok": Ed Traxler is an incomprehensible alien captain whom Professor X must learn to communicate with.
  • "A Matter Of Time": "A Matter Of Time": The Enterprise crew meets Max Headroom, a 26th century time-traveler who's actually a 22nd century conman.
  • "Cause and Effect": The Enterprise finds itself stuck in a time loop with a 23rd century Federation ship commanded by Captain Frasier.
  • "The Perfect Mate": Jean Grey is the perfect woman for Xavier. Unfortunately, she wasn't intended for him.
  • "Imaginary Friend": Heidi's imaginary friend appears in the form of August Leffler.
  • "True Q": Karen Arnold discovers that she's also a Sufficiently Advanced Alien like Discord.
  • "Chain of Command" (Parts I and II): Starfleet Captain Vilos Cohaagen gets assigned as the new Enterprise captain, so Professor X is assigned to undertake a covert mission. But during the mission, he gets captured and is ultimately tortured by Cardassian interrogator Ra's Al Ghul.
  • "Ship in a Bottle": Niles the butler is back, and he wants H.M. Murdock to help him break free from the holodeck.
  • "The Pegasus": Xanatos is called upon by his former captain, now Admiral John Locke to salvage a top-secret cloaking device.
  • "Interface": Kunta Kinte defies Professor X's orders in order to save his mother, Sarabi.
  • "Homeward": Weasel's adoptive brother Eddie Valentine seeks help from the Enterprise crew in saving an alien civilization from planetary destruction.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Hawk is commander of a space station with his crew including Father Mulcahy, Valerie Desmond, David Hunter (who previously worked on Xavier's ship), Doran Martell, and Pamela Vorhees. General Skarr is a bartender, and I.M. Weasel and Sarah Bannerman later join the crew. Tom Robinson is Hawk's father.
  • "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?": Johnny Cab wants to make a holoprogram based upon Doran, but it's revealed that Doran's father, Babu Bhatt, had given him genetic enhancements as a child, which puts his Starfleet career in danger.
• Star Trek: Voyager: Red Reznikov and Raoul Mendoza are stranded on the far side of the galaxy and have to work together with a blended crew made up of Principal Franklin, Angela Rooker, Coach Cutlip, Kevin Corrigan, Roger Merman, Chow-Ping Yen, and Agent L, the last of whom leaves soon after Tara Cole arrives.
  • "Caretaker": Red Reznikov destroys an alien array so that Chuck Cunningham can't get his hands on its advanced technology.
  • "Scorpion": Confronting a new, dangerous alien species, Red Reznikov ponders the possibility of striking some of deal with the Borg after meeting with the holographic Sallah.
  • "Year Of Hell": Red Forman tries to put his foot up the space-time continuum's ass, but not if Red Reznikov has anything to say about that.
  • "Message In A Bottle": Joachim attempts to steal a prototype Starfleet vessel, but Coach Cutlip, with Matthew Brock's help, try to thwart his plans.
  • "Meld": Principal Franklin investigates a murder on board. The perpetrator is none other than Chucky.
• Star Trek: Enterprise: Sam Beckett is the Captain of the Enterprise.
• Star Trek: Discovery: Captain Malfoy explores space with Commander Sasha Williams, Lt. Sapien, Commander Mark Cohen, Lt. Tariq Masood, Dr. Rickie Vasquez, and Captain Yu Shu Lien. Black Bolt and Manchester Black later join the series.
• Stargate SG-1: MacGyver leads a team of scientists and military explorers, including military scientist Dr Helen Magnus, alien Magneto, and an archaeologist, where no man has gone before. His immediate boss coached the Racine Peaches women's baseball team, and the base doctor is MOM.
  • Season 9: John Crichton and Aeryn Sun join the team of explorers, while Magneto is replaced by Director Tom Gage, and Romy becomes the base's doctor.
  • Season 10: The team has to defeat the new Big Bad: Inara.
  • Methos is a Tok'ra host
• Stargate Atlantis: The Holographic Doctor is beset by enemies Charles "Trip" Tucker and Miles O'Brien. (Star Trek Civil War!) Appropriately enough, Aquaman assists the Atlantis team.
• Starman: Based on the movie. The alien returns, this time taking the form of the late Ted Striker; Ted finds his son Electro, and with government agent Joseph O'Laughlin on their tail, the two go in search of Electro's mother Marion Ravenwood. And yes, they do find Marion (now Wilma Deering).
• Step by Step: Bobby Ewing and Chrissy Snow get married and unite their families.
• Steptoe and Son: Paul McCartney's Grandfather and Sergeant Bung are a father and son who work as rag-and-bone men.
• The Strain (TV series): CDC doctors Peter Russo, Elise Martin, and Mikey Walsh investigate when the vampire Kurrgan kills and turns a plane full of passengers (including Teri Bauer). Miguel Escobar is then hired by Bruce Ismay to transport Kurrgan into Manhattan in exchange for clearing the criminal record of his brother Weevil. Argus Filch realizes what's going on and teams up with Russo, Martin, and Jeeves Tremor to defeat Kurrgan and his minions.
• Stranger Things: Richie Tozier, Gavroche, Simba and (in Season 2) Lizzie are dealing with an Eldritch Abomination while head of police Reed Akley discovers a goverment conspiracy while trying to find Veronica Sawyer's son, Charlie Brown.
• The Streets of San Francisco: Father Barry and Gordon Gekko are police detectives on that city by the Bay (the latter was replaced by Captain Apollo). They fight crime.
• The Sunny Side Up Show: Hatty Hamster takes part in a morning live show for preschoolers full of viewer-submitted content and educational themes. Some of Hatty's many friends include Rexy, Patty, and Meekah.
  • On an interesting note, Hatty was played by Curtis E. Owl several times.
• The Sunset Limited: TV movie adaptation of a play by Cormac McCarthy wherein reformed murderer Jules saves Agent K from throwing himself in front of the title train and tries to theologically argue him away from suicide.
• Supah Ninjas: Hiro Hamada is trained by Hikaru Sulu in the art of Ninjutsu.
• Supernatural: Alec and Dean fight monsters while they look for their dad, The Comedian. Later on, they meet quite a few interesting people, including some angels (specifically one of the many terrorists from 24 and one of the many scary guys from Prison Break), the Army husband from Army Wives, Penhall and his Captain, and one of the dudes from Jericho (2006).
  • At one point, they have to save two elderly magicians: Brad and a scary subway ghost.
  • As of Season 7, Spike and Cordelia are a married pair of homicidal witches.
  • Uncle Rico is an ex-hunter who checked himself into a mental hospital after an incident in Albuquerque.
  • In Season 5, they have to save the world from Jacob. They also run into the Woody the coroner from Psych a few times.
• Supergirl (2015): Marley Rose is the cousin of a superhero Sephiroth and decided to follow in his footsteps. When she's not a hero, she works for Ally McBeal. Terrance "TK" King and Randy Garrity also work for Ally. Lexie Grey is Marley's adopted sister and works under a government agency run by David Estes. Meanwhile, Morgana runs her brother's company and allegedly works to change its formerly shady direction. Her mother is an Ice Queen. Marley's immediate boss is Jerkass editor Javier Clemente Quintata.
• Superstore: Betty works retail, possibly as the Only Sane Employee.
• Surviving Jack: Det. Stabler is a stay-at-home dad (good luck, kids).
• The Sweeney: Inspector Morse and Terry McCann feel plenty of collars as detectives in the Flying Sqad.
• Swindle (TV movie): Nickelodeon Made-for-TV Movie in which Nelson Baxter, Kevin Reed, Katie Knight, Gibby Gibson, Sam Puckett and Cat Valentine team up to heist a valuable baseball card which Hank Yarbo tricked Nelson and Kevin into selling for way less than its worth.
• Sykes: Frank Bryce and Matron are twins who live together.

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• T.J. Hooker: Captain Kirk is a tough cop.
• Taboo (unrelated to the docu-series Taboo): Bane returns from an adventure with a stash of loot and a need for revenge.
• Tales from the Crypt: Deadpool hosts a horror anthology with a hurricane of bad puns:
  • "The Man Who Was Death": President Ellis becomes a vigilante killing murderers who have been declared innocent in court.
  • "Top Billing": Jay Sherman and TRON compete against each other to play Hamlet, but casting director Gomez Addams has a different role for them in mind.
  • "The Reluctant Vampire": Alex DeLarge is a vampire who works at a blood bank to satisfy his blood cravings. But after his schemeful boss Norm Peterson begins to notice something is amiss, Alex goes after criminals for his blood fix. Trillian Astra is Alex's love interest. In addition to Norm, Alex is also pursued by vampire hunter Pluto and police detective Richard Vernon.
  • "Undertaking Parlor": Max Goof and his friends try to expose mortician Lionel Luthor's shady activities.
  • "What's Cookin'": Hot Rod serves up people at SupermanFilmSeries's diner.
  • "Werewolf Concerto": The Fourth James Bond hunts a werewolf. It couldn't be Ellen Griswold, could it?
  • "People Who Live in Brass Hearses": Criminal John Garrett and his brother Chucky try to rob Garrett's former employer Jack Lipnick.
  • "Well Cooked Hams": Stage magician Cal Hockley is taught a dangerous trick by President Josiah Bartlet.
  • "Half Way Horrible": Byron Hadley tries to find a way to suppress his evil side.
  • "You, Murderer": A man gets plastic surgery to look like Sam Spade and is killed by Dick Solomon.
  • "The Third Pig": When Pain kills Chicken and Robert Barone, their brother Leonardo is set up for their murder and is broken out of prison to avenge them.
• Talking Dead: Craig Patel hosts a show where discussion of each new episode of The Walking Dead takes place.
• Taxi: Julius Levinson, Tony Clifton and Doc Brown work together for Martin Weir.
• Ted Lasso: The eponymous David Clark is an American college football coach who is hired as the new manager of the fictional English Premier League soccer club AFC Richmond, despite having absolutely no experience with the beautiful game. The woman who hired him, Septa Unella, is deeply resentful of her ex-husband Rupert's infidelity; since AFC Richmond is the one thing that Rupert truly loved, she's hoping that David's coaching will cause the team to tank just so she can spite him. Despite this, David is undaunted by his lack of experience, and he sets about bringing his unique style of coaching to the club and works to win over everyone he comes across.
• Telenovela: Gabi Solis could be the greatest actress on Spanish-language TV if she knew Spanish.
• Telling Stories With Tomie De Paola: Tomie DePaola, accompanied by his squirrel friend Mr. C, tells stories featuring a family consisting of Pepe the King Prawn and Yolanda Rat.
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Queen Gorgo is on the run with her son (who was sometimes Littlefoot) and River Tam.
• Terry and June: Sergeant Major MacNutt and Edina Monsoon's Mother are a middle-class married couple.
• That '70s Show: Venom is a kid growing up in 1970s Wisconsin. His social circle includes Alex Vause, Milo Foster, Walden Schmidt, Meg Griffin, and Manny Garcia. Venom's parents are Clarence Boddicker and Alice Knight and Alex's parents are the Rhino and Stacy Sutton. Milo frequently hangs out with Man Stoner.
  • "It's A Wonderful Life": After a painful breakup with Alex, Venom wishes they'd never been together. Venom's guardian angel, Newman, arrives and shows him what life would've been like if they weren't.
• That's So Raven: Galleria as she gets herself, her friends Dobbs and Jennifer, and her family Mackey, Raynelle and Officer McWiggins out of various situations, usually by using her Psychic Powers and skills as a "Master of Disguise", neither of which help.
• The Thick of It: The Twelfth Doctor swears a lot while ensuing that the British government runs smoothly.
• The Thin Blue Line: Edmund Blackadder is a Police Inspector. Working with him includes Detective Inspector Gerald Wright, Constables Bill Reynolds, Tom Farrell, and Gita Chandra, and Detective Constable Andy Richmond.
• 3rd Rock from the Sun: Lord Farquaad, Icarus, Holly Franklin, and Jim Hawkins are aliens. Prymaat Conehead is a Professor. the Aliens boss is Captain Kirk. Holly dates Dennis Nedry.
• This Is Us: Rapunzel and Peter Petrelli are expecting triplets! Two of them grow up to become Ima Wiggles and Oliver Queen (not that one).^note Well he is that one, but you get the idea. They adopt a boy who becomes Gordon Walker.
• Three's Company: Clifford the Big Red Dog pretends he's gay so that he can live with two girls (including dumb blonde Carol Lambert) without rousing the suspicions of his landlords, stick-in-the mud Mr. McCleery and his sex-starved wife Frances Temple. Carol later moves out and is replaced, first by klutzy farm girl Jamie Ewing Barnes, then by intelligent nurse Della Churchill. Mr. McCleery and Frances also move away and are replaced by goofy, flamboyantly-dressed Barney Fife as the new landlord.
• Threshold: Aliens are attempting to take over the planet, so Dillon and Bobby Cobb enlist Ingrid Cortez to come up with a plan to counter them. Her plan requires enlisting the help of Data, Tyrion Lannister, and Milt.
• The Terror: James Moriarty, Marcus Brutus, and Mance Rayder struggle to survive a real-life doomed Arctic Expedition, as Vasily Ignatenko ferments discontent and mutiny amongst their crews.
• The Tick (2016): In a World… where superheroes have been a thing since a huge space object plunged into the Tunguska River Basin back in 1908 during what became known as "the Dawn of the Age of Superheroes", mild-mannered (if mentally troubled) accountant Straight Wallace is following what he believes is the secret trail of Rorschach, an infamous super-villain many believe was already killed years ago by Eli Loker , the first superhero. Wallace comes to the conclusion that Rorschach is running The City from underground. However, as he tries to blow the lid off the conspiracy, things take a turn for the bizarre when he inadvertently sparks the interest of a big, blue, nigh-invulnerable, shamelessly hammy and rather enigmatic superhero who calls himself Darth Maul. But can Wallace and Darth Maul really save The City from its own seedy underbelly? Or are the two of them (especially Wallace) truly in over their heads?
• Tiger Cruise: Rarely-screened and never released to buy Disney Channel Original Movie with Kirby Reed and Sam Puckett as daughters of Navy commander Thomas J. Whitmore; Kirby goes on the title cruise along with Patti Perez, Eggs and crew including Doogie Howser's ex-girlfriend in a bid to get her dad to come home from the Navy, but then September 11, 2001 arrives...
• Till Death Us Do Part: Marco Di Cesari is a conservative working-class bigot married to Mrs. Lea. Their daughter is Mrs. Hudson, who is married to Sid Noggett.
• Timeless: When criminals steal a time-machine, our heroes — Dr. Alice, a history professor, Sergeant 1st Class Edward Sullen, a US Army Green Beret, and Lem Hewitt, a genius engineer who helped design the time machine — must travel back in time to protect history as we know it. What follows is the crew going to famous points in history, foiling Principal Snyder's plans, and attempting to maintain the status quo of the pre-established timelines, in order to stop Principal Snyder shaping history to their will and taking over the world.
• Tipping the Velvet: Emma Peel's lesbian daughter, working as an oyster-girl in Victorian Whitstable, falls in love with music-hall drag king Alex Drake.
• Tokyo Vice: Baby has settled in Japan from the US after he attended Sophia University to study Japanese literature. From there, he's recruited to the Meicho Shimbun newspaper as the company's first non-Japanese staff member. Baby later works alongside veteran police officer Doctor Ishiro Serizawa of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Organized Crime Control Bureau as he investigates and reports on incidents in the Greater Tokyo Area that concern the Yakuza.
• Top Gear (UK): British Marv joins two friends on a series of automotive-themed adventures...until he gets fired after punching a producer. Then he's replaced by Joey Tribbiani and his five friends.
  • In the American version, Needles Nelson and his two friends go on automotive-themed adventures.
• Top of the Lake: Peggy investigates the disappearance of a pregnant twelve-year-old in the creepy little town ruled by her drug-dealer father. Also starring Faramir and a slightly unhinged Elastigirl.
  • In season 2 Satine joins the motley crew.
• To the Manor Born: Margo Leadbetter is forced to sell her Big Fancy House, which is bought by Nouveau Riche Guthrie Featherstone. Basil Makepeace is a gardener and temporary butler.
• A Touch of Frost: Del Boy is a serious and devoted detective, determined to put criminals behind bars, while hoping the police don't notice him selling dodgy DVDs and microwaves.
• Tracker (2001): Duncan Macleod tracks down alien criminals including Nick Knight. Constable Turnbull is Mel's friend who's a detective and Detective Huey appears in an episode.
• The Train Now Standing...: Sergeant Major Snudge is the station master of a sleepy branch line station, who has to deal with Mr. Little for a porter and Charles Vaughan and Frank Haskins for area managers. Visitors to Snudge's station include Mrs. Fox, Nobby, Ernie Trigg, and Arnold Swain.
• Training Day: Hudson is a bad influence to his young partner.
• Transparent (Amazon): Hilarity Ensues when an irresponsible patriarch comes out as transgender and alters her Big, Screwed-Up Family's dynamics, particularly her Adult Children.
• Treme: Dr. Alexx and Sulley are among many people in The Big Easy dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
• Trial & Error: The Trinity Killer probably didn't murder his wife but bizarre behavior like rollerskating through her blood isn't helping his defense team.
• Trinkets: Negasonic Teenage Warhead is the perfect blend of awkward and shy that would lead nobody to expect she's a shoplifter. Though she comes to a new city with her head down, in hopes of nothing but getting help from her unexplained trauma, her new friends Deena and Cyclone ensure that her life from here on out will be nothing but eventful.
• Trollied: Bubble is the deputy manager at a supermarket, desperatly in love with the store manager, Gordon Shakespeare. Also working at the supermarket are store assistants Stylax Euristices, Ronnie Croft, Lavender Brown, and Dodger Savage, head butcher Detective Constable Boyle, deputy butcher Lance Hunter, deli counter assistant Nana Booth, customer service assistant Fleur Bugden, checkout operators Kelly Jenkins, Dr. Bell, and Professor Sprout, head baker Sue, security guard Jack Boswell, head of strategy Jimmy Shive-Overly, fishmonger Wilson Wilson, assistant manager Danny Pink, daughter of the owner Áine, pharmacist Damien Day, and night manager Tilly.
• The Trouble With You Lilian: Mrs. Cravatte is Else Garnett's meek lodger.
• True Blood: Rogue and her evil owl brother discover All Myths Are True when Vampires break the masquerade. Dangerous characters include Reed Strucker, Janis Ian, Ensign Ro, Aunt Petunia, Aubrey Posen, Jillian 'Lady Manhands', Spalding, a very depressed woman's bridegroom, Deathstroke, and Elliot Stabler.
• True Detective:
  • Season 1: Mickey is the initially normal, well-adjusted, Happily Married Yang to David's weird, troubled, Freaky Loner Yin. They fight crime.
  • Season 2: Colorized Norman Bates teams up with Tony #4. Also there is Regina and John Carter.
• Tru Calling: Faith Lehane solves murders via "Groundhog Day" Loop.
• Twin Peaks: FBI agent Paul Atreides investigates a murder. Also starring Miss Fox Mulder.
  • 2017 revival: Among the many, MANY new and returning characters are Dr. Ellie Sattler, Scott Pilgrim, Libby Parsons, Lisle, Linda Lovelace, Persephone, Director Granger, House's nightmare patient, Randy Hickey, and 2005 Ann Darrow.
• Twisted Metal (2023): Falcon/Captain America III, an amnesiac milkman in a heavily armed car who is offered a chance at a better life in his post-apocalyptic world by driving a package across the wasteland. Along the way, he must contend with a legion of enemies in their own deadly hotrods - including the notorious killer A Wrestler/George Oscar "G.O.B." Bluth II.
• Two and a Half Men: Womanizer Topper Harley finds his life uprooted when his brother Ducky moves in with his son Hunter.
  • After Topper is kidnapped by Pauline Parker and locked in her basement, Michael Kelso moves in after splitting from his wife Kitty.
• Two Up, Two Down: Vince Pinner and Peggy Ollerenshaw are two squatters living in the home of newlyweds Idas and Miranda Pollard.

U

• Ugly Betty: Carmen Lowell is a sweet but dowdy young woman from Queens, who hopes to one day run her own magazine. Despite her lack of experience, and her appalling fashion sense, Carmen ends up hired at the high-end fashion magazine MODE, as the personal assistant to the editor-in-chief The Crow. However, it's quickly revealed that Carmen was only hired for her lack of sex appeal, so the infamous womanizer The Crow wouldn't be tempted to sleep with her. Unable to fire Carmen, The Crow instead tries to humiliate her so that she'll quit on her own terms, leaving him free to hire a personal assistant of his own choosing. Carmen ends up entangled in the office politics involving the entire The Crow family Angela Bower, Mystique and Councilman Rockwell along with facing off against Dr. Lee Cullen, who intends on taking over MODE magazine, no matter what it takes. Along the way, Carmen learns to stand up against those who judge her for her dowdy looks, and how to balance her career with her family, to whom she is incredibly close to.
• Uncle Buck (Race Lifted Series): (the other) Doug takes care of his brother's kids.
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Fifteen years after being abducted into a cult by Don Draper, Erin Hannon moves to New York with Sebastian as her roommate and works for Jenna Maroney.
• Underbelly: Let's start with the narrator, after Tess of Blue Heelers left to have a baby (actually worked into the show as she alludes to a child) she took a demotion, then was called up as a detective and eventually Task Force Purana. Her old boss used to be a judge, who here was on the take and accepted bribes. Her old boyfriend was one of the detectives on the Silk/Miller murders. The girlfriend of one of the deceased police is an old colleague. A former Heeler became a hitman. The detective she worked with is now a mafia lawyer. The old sergeant she was at odds with also works for the mafia. To cut a very long story short both series are ripe for this with many of the actors being cop, crook and everything in between in one show or the other.
• Underground: Det. Stabler and his epic goatee is "conflicted" about this whole slavery thing.
• Unforgettable: Agent Samantha has a Photographic Memory.
• Up All Night: Kelly Bundy and GOB Bluth take care of the infant daughter of her boss, an average prostitute.
• Up Pompeii: Francis Bigger is a Roman slave in the time before the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
• The Upper Crusts: When Ernst Stavro Blofeld dies in a hunting accident, his son the Criminologist discovers that the family fortune has run out. To make ends meet, the Criminologist has to move into a council house with his wife, Mrs. Maudsley, and children, Romana II and Mr. Beasley.

V

• V (1983) : Man-Bat, with help from Darryl Revok and Victor Basta, forms a team of Earthlings to fight against man-eating aliens led by Miss Peacock. Freddy Krueger is one of the few good aliens in the series.
• V (2009): Inara says her people are of peace, always, but they really want to eat people.
• The Vampire Diaries: Boone is evil to his little brother. Mia is caught between Boone and his brother, and finds out that her Uncle Sark is actually her father.
• Veep: Elaine is a heartbeat away from being the first female president; Buster is her aide.
• Vegas (not Vega$ or Las Vegas): Dr. Jack Hall, Det. Vic Mackey, and Trinity live in new (old) Las Vegas.
• Veronica's Closet: The head of a lingerie company, Mollie Jensen in New York City after she leaves her cheating husband Goose McKenzie and begins her new life.
  • Star Trek Version: The head of a lingerie company, Lieutenant Saavik in New York City after she leaves her cheating husband Lt. Richard Castillo and begins her new life.
• Veronica Mars: Lucy Stillman is a schoolgirl who fights crime with her dad, Elliot DiMauro PI. Josef Kostan is her classmate whose father Michael Kuzak is an action star who murdered Lucy's best friend. Carey Mahoney is a former baseball player who becomes mayor and who molested the Little League team he managed and Jessica Jones is his daughter. Plus, Deb is a computer expert.
• The Vicar of Dibley: Amanda Ripley is a female vicar and Honey Thacker is her verger. Members of the church council include Detective Sergeant Bob Pulver, Tom, Trigger, Papa Claus, Corporal Clotski, and Nana Speakman.
• Vice Principals: When Principal Venkman retires, long-time educator Kenny Powers is itching to take his place but his plans are disrupted by the arrival of Boyd Crowder.
• Vicious: The Master and The Grey/White Wizard are an Attention Whoreing couple, Madam Maxime is their friend, and Ramsey Bolton is their friendly neighbor who is constantly getting unwanted attention from Madam Maxim.
• Victoria: Clara Oswald becomes THE queen of practically everything.
• The Voice UK: Reality show where Pedro, Effie, Theme Song Guy and Gavin Rossdale coach singers for a record contract.
• VR Troopers: A trio of teenagers Goblin Slayer, Constance and actor Music Video for Miss Jones gain powers from "Virtual Reality" to fight the evil forces of Snow Monster.

W

• Waiting for God: Dr. Mason is a Grumpy Old Woman living in a retirement home who has an Odd Friendship with the eccentric Dr. McCannon. The home is run by the cost-cutting Chris Parsons, whose assistant Pippa Trench has a unrequited love for him. Another resident in the home is Dirty Old Man Ned.
• The Walking Dead Television Universe:
  • The Walking Dead: A guy who's in love with his best friend's wife fights "walkers" with one-half of a pair of vigilante brothers in post-apocalyptic Georgia (the state not the country).
  • The Comedian is the leader of a violent gang of survivors who (if the series follows the books) avenges the deaths of his companions at the hands of the lovesick guy's friends by making sure a certain expectant father doesn't cheat death again. Trevor Phillips is his right hand man.
    • Alternately Thomas Wayne bashes his wife Martha's friend's head like a watermelon.
  • The Walking Dead: Dead City: Thomas and Martha Wayne venture into a derelict and zombie-infested Manhattan Island to save Martha's son from another man.
• Wanted: Dead or Alive: Virgil Hilts was a Bounty Hunter in the Old West.
• War of the Worlds (1988): Steven Farlow, Mercedes, Tripp Hansen, Poncho, and Dory Quimby fight off aliens. The second season introduces The Lone Man, his scientist Jean Grey and her assistant Otto as the leaders of a Time skipped new invasion.
• Warm Springs: HBO Made-for-TV Movie about President Gilderoy Lockhart and his wife, Miranda Hobbes, and the former's physical therapy sessions at the title health resort.
• Wayward Pines: Agent Jack Valentine (his (ex?)wife is Lady Jocelyn) allies with Sally Jupiter when he finds himself in Sheriff Lucious Lyons' quaint little town deep in the woods where everyone is being watched and no one can leave. Also trapped inside is Mallory Knox and Toni Bernette.
• Wednesday: Having been freshly expelled from public school, Tara Carpenter finds herself enrolled at Nevermore Academy, the alma-mater of her parents Elena Montero and Jesse Salander. There, she finally finds people as strange and offbeat as her... but also a dark, decades-old mystery in which the Salander family bloodline is deeply entangled.
• Welcome to Pooh Corner: Otis Campbell is a friendly bear who lives in the Hundred-Acre Wood with his friends Teddy Ruxpin, Grubby, Petrie, Nikolai Volkoff, Goofy, and Mrs. Pulaski.
• Weeds: Nemo wants to be a drug dealer, just like his mommy (who was almost Charlotte). Juni is also involved.
• The West Wing: President Captain Willard is elected to lead America, with his wife, Rizzo, and their daughters, including Peggy Olson. His chief of staff, Tommy Mullaney, with deputy Danny Tripp, work with a communication's director who returned to Jurassic Park, press secretary Ms Perky, and a Young Number 2 speechwriter.
  • A particularly jarring one: they have to pick a ranking member of the government to stay in the White House during the State of the Union, just in case. Who does the President pick to run the country if everyone is blown up? The Mayor of Sunnydale.
  • During the last season, Bail Organa runs for president against Hawkeye Pierce.
• Westworld: Hannibal Lector is the head of a "grown-up theme park" where anything (and I mean anything, it's on HBO) is possible with androids like Cyclops, Condoleezza Rice, Xerxes, and The Queen of Mississippi.
  • If Westworld was a videogame Liam McPoyle is the heroic sweet-hearted noob-Yang to a mysterious government agent's heartless obsession with 100% Completion, Videogame Cruelty Potential, and literally Unlockable Content -Yin amazing what decades of bitterness towards the Queen of Mississippi for something she had no control over ("Liam" fell in love with her only to discover she's reset after each "game") can do to a man. At least the agent is a really good guy when he's "offline".
• When Things Were Rotten: A send-up of Robin Hood that includes Hymie in that role, Siegfried as Alan-a-Dale, and King Roland as Friar Tuck.
• White Collar: The co-manager of the Carnivàle is responsible for Bryce Larkin, who's helping the FBI solve white-collar crimes while wearing a hat together with Stanford Blatch and looking for his girlfriend, Annabeth Chase. Then she died, and he somehow ended up dating Repo Woman Peyton Sawyer.
• Wings: Superman and Norman Osborn are two brothers who co-own an airline. Their friends and colleagues include Dorothy Sobel, K.C. Cunningham, Lufkin, Jack Cole, Adrian Monk, Big Barda, and Flo Healy.
• The Witcher (2019): Superman is a bounty hunter who hunts down monsters in a Medieval European Fantasy world and falls in love with the ladies.
• Wizards of Waverly Place: Coop and Hawkgirl settle down and have three kids: Mikayla, Ted's future son, and Diego. They're wizards. And in one episode, Starscream is a report card.
• Wizards vs. Aliens: Ser Tyland Lannister and Brienne of Tarth are siblings fathered by the Nekross King.
• Wolf Hall: Major Sargent Detective Crews is King Henry VIII. Adora Belle Dearheart is Anne Boleyn. Thomas Boleyn is Thomas Cromwell.
• The Wonder Years: Marv Murchins reminisces about his youth as Corey Woods in The '70s. Corey's parents are Allen Blaisdell and Pam Douglas, his siblings were Beatrice and Dove, his crush is Miss Martian, and his best friend is...a lawyer...yeah, he's not Peter Pan's Shadow.
• World on Fire: The coming of World War II brings turmoil to the lives of many people, including Boromir, Rory Williams, Jamie Buchman, and Barack Obama.
• Worzel Gummidge: The Third Doctor is a talking scarecrow.

X

• The X-Files: Hank Moody (who's replaced by T-1000) and Moro investigate strange happenings.

Y

• Yes, Minister: Jerry Leadbetter is an inexperienced cabinet minister whose department is really run by his Permanent Secretary King George. Jerry's Principal Private Secretary is Oscar Blaketon.
• You (2018): Dan Humphrey works in a bookstore where he met, and later stalks, a blonde Anna of Arendelle whose seeing a therapist Jesse. Later on, after heading out to L.A due to his ex Colby showing up to expose his crimes, he finds a new love in Nell. He goes to work in a grocery/bookstore to be closer to her, and where her brother J.D. likes to visit.
• A Young Doctor's Notebook: Harry Potter grows up to be Don Draper.
• Young & Hungry: Lilly Truscott is a strugging twentysomething chef who shares an apartment with roommate/best friend Elena of Avalor. Lilly is hired by young computer entrepreneur Trey, for whom she has a drunken one night stand with on the first day. She spends the rest of her tenure at her new job struggling to impress Trey and try to to let the fling complicate their professional relationship, all with Trey's often gossipy assistants Auntie Momma and Lloyd Lee causing havoc. Complicating matters further are Lilly's romance to Trey's friend Roxas and Trey's engagement to the snooty heiress Madalena. In one episode, Lilly also receives the unwanted attention of secretly lesbian magazine editor Sharpay Evans, who is writing a "30 Under 30" list featuring Trey. Sharpay's also one of the show's executive producers.
• The Young Ones: Drop Dead Fred, Eddie Hitler, Ralph Filthy, and Marshall Turtle are anarchistic students living together. Their landlord is the Sultan of the Hatay State.
• The Young Pope: Gigolo Joe becomes the Pope.
• Young Rock: The show follows four distinct period of Luke Hobbs's life:
  • Rockwell growing up in a wrestling family and seeing the passion people have for the sport.
  • Kris (Following Phil) trying to fit in and be cool in high school despite everyone thinking he's a narc because he stands over six feet tall and has a full mustache despite only being 15.
  • Powered Hurut going off to college and trying to establish an independent identity.
  • Luke Hobbs as a global superstar who's running for president.
• You Rang, M'Lord?: Colonel Reynolds is the head of a rich family living in 1920s England, the members of which include his brother Captain Ashwood, daughters Alice Lidell and Carol Pringle, and mother-in-law Mrs. Barrable. Their servants include butler Ted Bovis, footman Spike Dixon, maid Peggy Ollerenshaw, bootboy Paul Cook, and charwoman Vera Plumtree. Colonel Reynolds is having an affair with Ruby Bartlett, the wife of Doc Morrisey, while Captain Ashwood carries on with his Abhorrent Admirer's maid, Hetty. Other frequent visitors to the house include Lord Bishop Reverend Farthing, Alice's suitor Fairfax, Constable Warden Hodges, and grocery delivery man Fred Quilley.
• Your Show of Shows: A variety series with Melville Crump, Alan Brady and Mr. Peebles. President Skroob was one of the writers.
• You're Only Young Twice (1971): Mrs. Alexander is the Matron at an old folk's home and has Trevor Lewis and Shirley Ambrose working under her. Residents at the home include Mr. Lyndon, Howell, Chief Prison Officer Jenkins, and Mr. Partridge.
• Yuyu Hakusho 2023: Live-Action Takemichi Hanegaki, Business Suit Man, Live-Action Masa and Live-Action Ryoma Echizen are hired (conscripted) by Meishu Gakuen to bust some yokai ass, like Live-Action Shuji Hanma, brothers Ryo Urushibara and Hoji Sadojima among others.

Z

• Z: The Beginning of Everything (Amazon): Based on a True Story, Wednesday is the troubled wife of equally troubled writer Alex.
• Zeke and Luther: Henry Huggins and Boz are best friends who skateboard. Their frenemy is Cookie and Henry's sister is Emily Hobbs.
• Zoom: A group of kids (including M.I.T Student and Lisa) show kids how to make things and sent them in to them.
• Zorro (1957): Professor John Robinson is a mysterious vigilante clad in black.
• Zorro (1990): Shakaar is a vigilante who protects the pueblo of Los Angeles. He gets to kick the ass of James Bond several times.

Other

• Every TV movie/series based on British novels on PBS: Hogwarts professors in pastoral England.
• Various HBO sports documentaries: Sabertooth narrates tales of sports greatness.

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