History ShowWithinAShow / LiveActionTV

* ''Robbin' Hood'' in ''{{Curtains}}''.

** Also TheWeddingBride in another episode. This was made by Tony the [[spoiler: ex-husband of Ted's ex-fiancee, Stella]]. This is also an example of 2 and 3 as the other characters in the show are a fan of the movie and it is a plot point.

* On ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', ''TheWeddingBride''. The other characters in the show (other than Ted) are fans of the movie. This is also an example of Type 1 and 3 as it was made by a character in the show and it is a plot point.

* On ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', ''TheWeddingBride''. An episode revolves around Ted seeing the movie with his newest girlfriend. This is also an example of 1 and 2 as a character in the show wrote the movie and the other character's are fans of the movie.

* ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' has the episode "Rescue Bay" in its 4th season. A writer/producer is inspired by watching lifeguards on the beach saving people and decides to shoot a [[SelfParody tacky]] {{Pilot}} sequence with characters based on the in-verse characters

* In one episode of ''Series/UFO'', Cmdr. Straker was under the influence of an alien crystal and hallucinated that he was actually the head of a movie studio (his cover in the show's "real life"), and stepped out of the set and onto the real-world sound stage where ''UFO'' was filmed, addressed the series actors by their real names, etc.

* The residents of ''{{Brookside}}'' would often watch ''The Magic Rabbits''.

* The semi-final ''[[XFiles X-Files]]'' episode centered around ''TheBradyBunch''.

* Apparently, a TV movie featuring two characters who look and act suspiciously like bad copies of Mulder and Scully exists ''within'' ''TheXFiles'' and ''Series/{{Millennium}}'' universe. In the ''X-Files'' episode "Hollywood A.D." (s07e18), Mulder and Scully meet their "actor" counterparts on the set. A scene of what looks like this fake ''X-Files'' movie is running on a TV screen in the background during one ''Millenium'' episode. In both cases, the show-within-the-show was made to be deliberately cheap-looking and campy.
** Those would be Garry Shandling and Tea Leoni (who was married to David Duchovny, iirc).

* ''InspectorSpacetime'', an affectionate Doctor Who parody - and ''Cougarton Abbey'', a fictional British progenitor of Cougartown in the style of Downton Abbey were mentioned on the season 3 premiere of the NBC sitcom ''Community''.

* ''When The Whistle Blows'', Andy Millman's sitcom in series 2 of ''{{Extras}}''.

* A real show-within-a-show: ''{{Friends}}''' Joey Tribbiani was a cast member on the soap opera ''DaysOfOurLives''.

* ''ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' invokes this with a ''manga'' instead, Love Touch, with the Pink ranger and two ''non-human'' characters following it. [[spoiler:And one's a villain, which leads to a HeelRealisation (where will your manga come from after you TakeOverTheWorld?)]]

* ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm''. They have a season where they're producing a reunion show for ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', [[CaptainObvious which used to be a real show]]. Another season has Larry David star in The Producers, which, as mentioned below, has a show within a show (Springtime for Hitler), and Mel Brooks is secretly trying to make The Producers a flop in itself. Furthermore, the second season deals with Larry trying to get a show off the ground (first starring Jason Alexander and later Julia Louis-Dreyfus) that would revolve around the star [[AsHimself playing a version of themselves]] [[ActorAllusion trying to find success after the end of]] ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.

* ''WildPalms'': The ''Church Windows'' show Codie plays in.

* ''Coming Attractions'' on ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic''.

* ''Wormhole X-Treme!'' within ''Series/StargateSG1''.
** Like the in-universe ''TheXFiles'' film, it's designed to look as cheap, campy and tacky as possible. I'd still watch ''Wormhole X-Treme!'' over ''LostinSpace'' though.

* DarthMarenghisDarkplace is a strange sort-of inverted example. The focus of the show is on the eponymous TV show Darkplace, while occasionally cutting away to commentary from the (equally fictional) Garth Marenghi and the actors playing the characters.

** ''InspectorSpacetime'', the show's spoof of ''Series/DoctorWho'', definitely qualifies.

* The eponymous ''[[TheLarrySandersShow Larry Sanders Show]]''.

* GSN (formerly Game Show Network) briefly had a series called ''Burt Luddin's Love Buffet'' which was a real relationship game show (much like ''TheNewlywedGame'') which after each segment, would go backstage to show host Luddin (played by John Cervenka) talking to his jaded, often highly sarcastic staff...it didn't last too long.

* ''{{Glee}}'' has two televisual examples of this - the recurring but not regularly-featured 'Sue's Corner', which is part of a local late-night news show, and the one-off 'Glee Holiday Spectacular' from Episode 3x09 ('Extraordinary Merry Christmas'), in which Artie, with the help of New Directions, stages an homage to both the Judy Garland Christmas Special and the ''StarWars'' Christmas Special for a local TV station (though in this case, despite how it sounds, StylisticSuck really does not apply except when Finn is expected to act, and it's all utterly charming). The show also has several theatrical examples in the musicals the students produce (or attempt to produce) each year - in order, ''{{Cabaret}}'', ''TheRockyHorrorShow'' and ''Theatre/WestSideStory''.

* ''DrakeAndJosh'' has Drew And Jerry, which was Drake and Josh's life being put into a tv show. As an aside, it also opens up the potential for a universe busting aversion of CelebrityParadox, by making DrakeAndJosh, Series/ICarly, {{Victorious}} and {{Zoey101}} all 'real' an existing in the same 'universe' as the actor's who play all the characters. For example, this means in that universe, there are four versions of MirandaCosgrove.

** ''Inspector Spacetime'', the show's spoof of DoctorWho, definitely qualifies.