History ShirtlessScene / LiveActionTV

* All the Action Guys of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' go shirtless quite often, though Ollie deserves special mention for getting at least one ShirtlessScene per episode.

* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'':
** Has a good amount of shirtless scenes in every series as well as its American counterpart ''Franchise/PowerRangers''.

** Also done in the second season with DJ the pool boy. And then in season three with all of those surfer guys. Okay, pretty much anyone [[TheScrappy Marissa]] was ever involved with, except (fortunately) Oliver and (unfortunately) [[SuddenlySexuality Alex]].

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Cristóbal Rios is shirtless in his very first scene ("The End Is the Beginning") because the EMH has to remove a large piece of shrapnel which is embedded in his shoulder. He's also bare-chested when practicing soccer moves in "The Impossible Box."

* ''Series/TheAvengers'' was known primarily for Emma Peel providing Fanservice but John Steed provided some by way of this. In "Mr Teddy Bear" he goes shirtless as his clothes are being checked for booby traps. In "Castle of De'ath" he strips to a speedo when he goes swimming in the loch. And in "Immortal Clay" he's getting exposition while in a sauna.

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'':
** Archer, Tucker, Reed, and Mayweather run around in their skivvies on that show A LOT.
** Archer & Tucker in the episode "Desert Crossing", but in their defense it ''was'' a desert world.
** Every decon scene deserves a mention. Except for the one in "Bounty" with Phlox. {{Squick}}.
** Bakula loses his shirt on a very, very regular basis. Liquification of those attracted to the male gender occurs.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf "Bad Wolf"]]: Captain Jack Harkness, thanks to a "[[TheNudifier defabricator]]". "Am I naked in front of millions of viewers?"

* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'': Agent Pete Lattimer will accept more or less any excuse to take his shirt off. Get in a fight? Oops, all the buttons gave way. Dangerous VR video game? I'm playing the gladiator! Learn your new colleague his gay? Strip off so he can enjoy the hotness. Body-swap with your female partner? We get to see him walking around half-naked holding his hands over his nipples.

* ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'': In the episode "Vick's Chip", the ladies are treated to resident Derek Reese having a shower scene.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': Common for Chris Meloni as Elliot Stabler. Olivia Benson once walked into "the crib" as he was changing out of a ripped shirt and commented, "I like that shirt." More likely she enjoyed seeing it off.

** Jon Snow, Robb Stark, and Theon Greyjoy share one as they wait for a shave in "Winter is Coming."

** Arthur can't seem to lock/unlock his dresser drawer with a shirt on.

* ''Series/TheInspectorLynleyMysteries'': This show wasn't exactly known for its fanservice, but even then Nathaniel Parker (yes, the same one from ''Series/{{Merlin}}''), playing the title character, got a chance to whip his shirt off a few times. The most notable was in "One Guilty Deed", in which he was dripping wet and wearing nothing but a ''towel''. It was precisely as glorious as you would expect.

** ''[[Series/TwentyFourLiveAnotherDay Live Another Day]]'' gets Steve Navarro in his last appearance.

** Jack Bauer gets a few of these and even spends an episode in season two ''naked''.

** Cox also asks Carla to describe what just happened - a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for him - as happening with him shirtless.

* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': This show must have a "one shirtless scene per episode" clause in, um, all of its male actor's contracts. Because the two male leads are played by the gorgeous, hunky, and ''ripped'' Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder, this is very much appreciated by the large female fanbase. Damon and Stefan aren't the only ones running around sans shirt on the show either; Elena's younger brother Jeremy (who is suspiciously ripped for a [[DawsonCasting ostensible sixteen-year-old]]) is frequently shown shirtless, as is her good friend Matt. And most male characters run around in tank tops when not completely shirtless. Responsible for keeping many a fan watching until the show [[GrowingTheBeard grew its beard]] and became more than just eye-candy and melodrama.

* Many physical-competition shows such as ''Series/AmericanNinjaWarrior'' have some or many of the men topless as they run the courses or dodge the obstacles. Since being physically fit is the top requirement, they're all very well built and sculpted.

* ''Series/CagneyAndLacey'' even put the Shirtless scene for Martin Kove in the title sequence, so they had it OnceAnEpisode.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' has tons of them:
** Cole is shirtless for half of "Enter The Demon" as he spars with Phoebe. He's also inexplicably shirtless when the Siren is seducing him and also appears shirtless in one of his own nightmares.

---> '''Grace''': Aren't you with that other one, now? The one that says "dude" and appears not to own a shirt?

** Elton in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters "Love & Monsters"]].
*** ''Website/TelevisionWithoutPity'' recapper Jacob lampshades Elton's ShirtlessScene:
---->''"He stands, arms akimbo, a... ''hell'' of a lot easier to take with his shirt off."''
** Mickey Smith in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen "Rise of the Cybermen"]], after being captured by the Preachers.

** The Ninth Doctor, though van Statten torturing him drains some of the fanservice out of it.
** Captain Jack Harkness, thanks to a "[[TheNudifier defabricator]]". "Am I naked in front of millions of viewers?"
** Elton in "Love and Monsters".
** Mickey Smith in the Cybermen two-parter.
** The Tenth Doctor's half-human clone from the series four finale is NakedOnArrival, much to Donna's embarrassment.
** John Simm's Master in End of Time (the writers made sure to get every bit of FanService they could out of him. Shirtless, bondage, and cross-dressing all in two episodes.)
** Davros, briefly during The Stolen Earth, though unlike most examples, it was played up for sheer BodyHorror.
** The Eleventh Doctor got one straight away. He also got a striptease! For charity.
** Rory got a very nice shirtless scene in "The Curse of the Black Spot".
** From the old series, Turlough in "Planet of Fire" ([[MsFanservice Peri's]] first appearance). [[spoiler: Though he's not so much shirtless as trouserless...]]
** ''Website/TelevisionWithoutPity'' recapper Jacob lampshades Elton's ShirtlessScene:
--->''"He stands, arms akimbo, a... ''hell'' of a lot easier to take with his shirt off."''
** The Third Doctor gets a shower scene in his first episode.
** The Fourth Doctor comes very close to getting a shirtless scene in 'The Deadly Assassin'. He spends the entirety of the episode wearing a loose, low-necked, partially see-through white shirt, which gets torn, dirt-stained, blood-stained, AND soaking wet while he's in the mind matrix world. Alas, he is never seen completely without it. Not even when he's being TORTURED --- they passed up a lot of good opportunities in that episode.
** Peter Davison sort of got one in "Mawdryn Undead". Although it turned out it wasn't actually Fivey. It was Mawdryn, who had somehow managed to take Fivey's form.

** In the MadeForTVMovie, Eight has three scenes where you get to see his chest. His smooth, pale, hairless, well-muscled chest... The second one is rather FanDisservice-y, involving something on the milder end of BodyHorror.
** Seven has one.

** Joffrey goes shirtless between trying on outfits in "Dark Wings, Dark Words."

* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': As you might expect from the protagonist of a superhero show, Barry is frequently seen without a shirt , especially whenever Caitlin is performing medical tests on him or patching him up after a fight. In fact, shirtless scenes while Caitlin performs medical tests seem to be mandatory for any new hero, as both [[spoiler: Ronnie-as-Firestorm]] and [[spoiler: Jay Garrick]] also get this treatment. The only character who doesn't go shirtless while being patched up is Dr Wells, although we do see him in a tank top that shows off his well-muscled arms much better than the long-sleeved t-shirts he usually wears.