History GenderBender / LiveActionTV

* Downplayed in ''Series/SpanishArcher''. Creator/RuthMadoc occasionally substitutes for Rhodri Williams when he's ill and can't play the Archer.

* ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'': This sequel series has Ben Song leaping into men and women of the past much as Sam Beckett did in the original series. Regardless of who Ben has leapt into, the audience sees Raymond Lee in the role, only getting a glimpse of the person's real appearance in a reflection or photograph. So far (The series is ongoing.), there have been five female leaps, and one male leap that included a trans character.

*** The Doctor ''does'' become female in [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]], regenerating from the Twelfth Doctor into the Thirteenth Doctor. [[spoiler:Her version of the Master has gone back to male after being Missy.]]

** Zig-zagged in [[Recap/DoctorWhos28E1NewEarth "New Earth"]]: the villainous Cassandra, a UsefulNotes/{{trans|gender}} woman from the future (who surgically altered her body so often in the pursuit of beauty and immortality that only her eyes and a flap of skin remain), tries to stave off her death by [[BodySnatcher transferring her consciousness]] into Rose Tyler. The Doctor quickly sees through the ruse, and orders Cassandra to leave Rose's body; she complies -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1convDWA_tE by transferring herself]] into ''his'' body. Cassandra (and the audience) are amused as she revels in her handsome figure and new "parts" ("And hardly ''used!''") with Creator/DavidTennant hamming it up like a campy Austin Powers (while Creator/BilliePiper [[{{Corpsing}} is unable to keep her composure]]). Circumstances force Cassandra to abandon the Doctor's body, however, and she spends the rest of the episode [[BodySurf jumping]] between Rose and several other female hosts before settling on the body of Chip, her male servant (and the only voluntary host of the episode).

** Almost happened in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E6Him Him]]", after an unpopular boy uses a magic jacket to make any woman who sees him wearing it [[LoveIsInTheAir fall madly in love with him]]; the magic takes effect on Willow, who (after being reminded that she's a lesbian) decides to turn him into a girl so that they can be together. Fortunately, Xander interrupts her before the magic ritual is completed.

* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'': We have a strange version of this trope in the ''Series/{{Elseworlds|2018}}'' crossover between three [[Creator/TheCW CW]] series. John Deegan has rewritten reality so that he is Superman. However, Kara soon realizes that technically he is not actually Superman, but rather a male version of herself, based on the scans that the AMAZO robot took of her. This is because she is from Earth-38, and the Book of Destiny that Deegan used to rewrite reality only contains information on things from Earth-1. Kara mocks him for being too scared to just go all the way and become her.

* ''[[Series/{{Charmed|1998}} Charmed (1998)]]'': Occurs in "[[Recap/CharmedS2E5ShesAManBabyAMan She's A Man, Baby!]]" as part of a spell to help the sisters trap a succubus. Prue makes [[AttractiveBentGender quite a handsome man]].

* ''WebVideo/{{AFK}}'': Players of an online game (similar to ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' or ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'') suddenly find themselves living in the game world as their in-game avatars. While any number of avatar characters might be a different gender from the real-world players, there are three players that we know for sure:
** In the first episode, Wizard Brendon saves a ChainmailBikini clad warrior maiden from (more than likely) being raped. Her initial main goal is to find pants. [[spoiler: In episode 2, we learn that her player's name is Steven, who explains that he thought if he's going to spend hours looking at an ass, it might as well be a nice one.]]
** Meanwhile, also in episode 1, we meet a male gnome named Maybel. [[spoiler: It isn't until episode 3 that we learn Maybel's player is a girl who created her male gnome avatar to avoid frequent propositions from male gamers.]]
** In the first episode of the second season we meet a female member of the Devil's Cheerleaders. [[spoiler:This is Steven again, in a different female avatar. He met a wizard and asked him to change his avatar. He'd meant for his new avatar to be male, but something was lost in communication.]]
** We also meet male adventurer Quinn, [[spoiler:who is an alt for female elf Q from season 1 (still extant). The sex of the real-world player has not been definitively determined, so exactly which one of them is gender swapped is unknown, but one of them must be.]]

* ''Series/QuantumLeap'': Each episode of the original 1989 series has Sam Beckett's mind "leaping" into some person in the past, sometimes male, sometimes female. Regardless of who Sam has leapt into, the audience sees Scott Bakula in the role, only getting a glimpse of the person's real appearance in a reflection or photograph. Through the series Sam had nine female hosts that made an appearance. There may have been other leaps never shown on screen. In most cases, the an episode's initial leap is shown at the end of the preceding episode, effectively doubling the number of gender-bending episodes. In addition, we had an "evil leaper" leap into the opposite sex as well.

* ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'': This sequel series has Ben Song leaping into men and women of the past much as Sam Beckett did in the original series. Regardless of who Ben has leapt into, the audience sees Raymond Lee in the role, only getting a glimpse of the person's real appearance in a reflection or photograph. So far (The series is ongoing.), there have been five female leaps, and one male leap that included a trans character. In most cases, the an episode's initial leap is shown at the end of the preceding episode, effectively doubling the number of gender-bending episodes.