Adam Adamant Lives!: The title character is notable for being so chivalrous that he refuses to believe any woman could be a villain, even though there's a female villain in virtually every episode. When he is presented with evidence of their duplicity, however, he doesn't tend to pull his punches: the very first episode ends with him pushing a female villain off a roof when she threatens Georgina, noting he's never killed a woman before but she's forced him to do so.
Duncan: I'm not afraid to push a girl into make believe lava! In fact, it's been my primary strategy.
Danger 5: In "Fresh Meat for Hitler's Sex Kitchen", Jackson decks a Nazi woman who is trying to seduce him.
Jackson: Get your fascist mouth away from me! Nazi Woman: You hit a woman! Jackson: I hit a Nazi.
Deadliest Warrior: William the Conqueror is momentarily shocked when he realises he's fighting a teenage girl, but he doesn't let that stop him. Said teenage girl winds up beating him.
The Devil Judge: Yo-han tells Sun-ah he treats men and women the same, immediately before trying to throttle her.
EastEnders: One episode featured a heated argument between Sharon and Phil. Sharon slapped Phil, resulting in a few half-hearted gasps from the people around. Phil hit her back. Cue outcry, with people dragging him back and screaming "you can't hit a girl!".
Glee: In Season 1, Karofsky casually shoves Tina into Kurt when the two of them are wearing their Lady Gaga outfits, only to get told off by a scared but determined Kurt for hitting a girl. By the second season, however, Karofsky has moved into both Armored Closet Gay and Stalker with a Crush territory, and ignores Tina to shove Kurt, who is walking with her, into the lockers.
Highlander: Methos had no problem hitting, or even killing women. Part of it was learning the hard way throughout the long centuries that women could be just as dangerous as men, part the fact that Methos is so old he considers chivalry a strange modern fad and regards it much the same way your grandpa regards baggy jeans.
Kristin Gilles: Who the hell are you?! Methos: A man born long before the age of chivalry.
Jersey Shore: Had a moment early in its first season when a patron at the bar that the group was at took their drinks. Snooki went over to tell the guy that the drinks were theirs and he randomly punched her in the face. This got him in a heap of trouble, not only getting him arrested but also nearly beat up on the street by a bunch of other bargoers that were gonna mess him up for hitting a girl.
Kamen Rider: Modern Riders have absolutely no qualms about fighting female monsters regardless of alignment, a stark contrast to old-school Riders, who are reluctant to fight women. That said, female monsters are still pretty rare.
Leverage: When the team faces their Evil Counterparts, Eliot's is an Israeli woman. When they finally fight for real, she asks "You wouldn't hit a girl, would you?" and he responds in Hebrew "Not unless she hits me first." When she does, he says "That counts" and they fight, with a lot of Clothing Damageon both sides.
Life on Mars (2006): Discussed. While Gene seems to draw the line at striking women, he isn't averse to using other aggressive tactics on them. One episode features a suspect who was seen pushing a woman out of a car; Gene defends him against Sam's accusations by saying that doesn't make one 'a bad bloke'.
Lois & Clark: Superman's powers have been transferred to a guy who uses them to become a superhero for hire, and later a villainess who replicates Supes' powers for eeeeeevil. At the end, Supes Wouldn't Hit a Girl, and is at a total loss as to what to do... and then "Resplendent Man" slugs her.
The Man in the High Castle: In Season 3, the Japanese police beat up women in San Francisco protesting the fuel shortage. The officer specifically instructs them to only beat them as a "lighter hand" has been ordered-usually, they would be shot.
Rome: Male characters seem to have no problems hitting women. It's notable that an underplayed moment in the pilot episode involves Octavian casually backhanding a slave girl who accidentally bumped him with a chair, showing the attitude to violence in general in the society. Specific incidences include Caesar striking Servillia twice, hard, after she responds to his telling her their affair must end by slapping him repeatedly, and Mark Anthony instantly and heavily backhanding Atia when she slaps him while they have an argument in bed. Roman values mean they usually stop short of actually killing them though. When Octavian prepares a death list of his enemies, his mother wants to add a name of her own. Thinking she means Servilia, he rejects any notion of killing women in their purge.
Sledge Hammer!: Inspector Sledge Hammer was always willing to hit or shoot women. In the first episode of "Sledge Hammer!", he shoots a female terrorist, then tells her, "Call me a feminist." Later episodes subverted his willingness to fight women twice: in one first season episode, he fights a woman who turns out to be a man in disguise, and in a second season episode, he fights a man who turns out to be a woman in disguise.
Dax: I hope you're not going easy on me because I'm a woman. If it makes it any easier, think of me as a man. I've been oneseveral times.
Walker, Texas Ranger: Although Walker is chivalrous, there are times when he is smart enough to make exceptions when the situation warrants it, like when he double palm strikes an armed woman trying to shoot him, then the time he backfists another when she was trying to kill Alex and her friend with a time bomb.
The various villains, of course, as if to drive home just how evil they are, only to get it in the end from Walker and his team.
Alex's own father slaps her in a drunken stupor. It spurs a Heel Realization for him.
Wonder Woman: In "The New, Original Wonder Woman", Count von Blasko goes through the motions of a "...but you insist" justification only to find out exactly how overmatched he is.
Count von Blasko: I prefer not to soil my hands on female flesh. But if you insist. [Wonder Woman knocks him out with one punch]
