Role Association/Live Action TV

# - A

 * Twenty Four: The mysterious caller from Phone Booth fights terrorists with the help of Raoul Hidalgo, Freddy, Mr. Blonde, and one of the founding members of the Girls Guitar Club. Among the terrorists they fight are Howard Payne, the Jigsaw Killer, Imhotep, RoboCop, Farmer Hoggett, and Coach Bill Yoast. Jonas Blaine becomes President. Blair Waldorf is poisoned by a terrorist's wife in one episode.
 * To put into perspective how much of a badass Jack Bauer really is... he had Imhotep and RoboCop running scared from him... and during season seven, Cell was a minor villain. World-destroying, Super Saiyan-whipping Cell. And Jack Bauer tortured the living hell out of him. Toward the end of season 8, he impaled Zoran Lezaravich on a fireplace poker. Don't fuck with Jack.
 * 61* : Biopic about the momentous home run battle between The Punisher and Jonny Goodboy Tyler, directed by Mike Wazowski.
 * The A-Team: The male love interest from Breakfast at Tiffany's, Starbuck, Lt. Reginald Barclay, and Clubber Lang drive around in an awesome van, evading the government and destroying all the property they can.
 * In Season 1, Piney tries to catch them, to no avail.
 * But in the final season, Napoleon Solo does catch them and make them work for him.
 * Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided: A cop from New Orleans and a stretchy super-heroine provide the voices of the title presidential couple.
 * Absolutely Fabulous, US version (2nd attempt): Sally Soloman and her best friend drunkenly live their spoiled-rotten lives.
 * First attempt: Roseanne and Princess Leia live drunkenly aweseome lives.
 * Original version: The Fairy Godmother and Sapphire live drunkenly awesome lives; two chickens are their daughter and assistant, respectively.
 * Alcatraz: Dr. Grant reveals that that the notorious prison's inmates weren't moved but timeshifted (or something) -- and now they're back and extremely pissed. Hurley is also there.
 * Alice: Sara Kramer ends up in a parallel dimension and becomes a fugitive. She befriends Connor Temple and Moloch the Mystic while trying to save Wonderland from Annie Wilkes. Oh, and Dr. Frank N. Furter is the leader of a resistance group opposing the tyrannical queen.
 * Ally McBeal: A Republican sex kitten works at a rather odd lawfirm with Alex Monday, Lindsay Funke, and an eccentric mathmetician. They once took a case for Littlest Cancer Patient Cole Seer. In her personal life, she dates extraterrestrial Negro Leaguer Josh Exley and pilgrim father James Winthrop, almost marries Tony Stark, and chats up young Simba online. Her past, in the form of daughter Claire Bennet, catches up to her in the final season. Also, Tony Stark and Jean Grey had a kid together.
 * Andromeda: Hercules interacts with starship A.I.s Dr. Carolyn Lam, Teal'C and Daniel Jackson while his first officer keeps running into Q.
 * Doesn't Spike show up in an episode?
 * Herc's li'l buddy Iolaus is an android.
 * Angels in America (oh boy): Sophie Zawistowska is a dead commie spy; Prof. Trelawney is an angel; Satan is a closeted politician oppressing gays who gets AIDS (Farmer Hoggett is his doctor and Felix Leiter is his gay/transvestite nurse who makes use of his unfinished meds); the Vicount de Nite Owl is the main protagonist (Nancy Botwin is related to him somehow); and Dumbledore 2.0 is someone's ancestor.
 * Arrested Development: David Hogan becomes head of the family company after his father Hank Kingsley is arrested (he's got the worst bleeping lawyers, including The Fonz and Charles), and has to look after his relatives, including son Paulie Bleeker, mother Fran Sinclair, brothers Devon Banks and Emmett Milbarge, sister Nell Porter, and brother-in-law Yivo. The whole thing is narrated by Opie Taylor.
 * Ashes to Ashes: Lara Croft is shot and lands in 1981, where she is rescued by Galvin. They work together until Lara suspects that Galvin murdered The Master, after a suggestion by Cass Cromwell.
 * Awake: Lucius Malfoy is certain that one of two realities (one where his wife is alive while his son is dead, and vis-versa) is real and one's just a dream, but which one? Maybe the one where his partner is Fes and/or his therapist is Gen. Shang?
 * Award Shows:
 * The Oscars: Previously hosted by Guinan, Calcifer Wazowski, and Wolverine. In 2011 by The White Queen and The Green Goblin in a different kind of Oscar bait.
 * The Golden Globes have been hosted by David Brent.
 * The Tony Awards: What got Wolverine the job hosting the Oscars. Previously hosted by Simba and Timon, which went into funny/awkward territory when their musical clobbered everyone else's.
 * Sue Sylvester will host the 2011 prime-time Emmys.

B

 * Babylon 5: Tron takes over from the previous captain, Will Robinson is the aide to ambassador Danielle Rousseau, Bobby Wheeler is a security officer and the most ruthless member of the Psi-Corps is Pavel Chekov.
 * Stephen King's Bag of Bones (miniseries): James Bond (or Charon to the younger folks) is an author suffering from writer's block in Maine while getting over the death of his wife Elizabeth Bartlet and is haunted or something by Tiana.
 * Band of Brothers: Patrick Jane has Ross Geller for a very insufferable Drill Sargent Nasty-wanna-be. Forrest Gump's real life son is a rookie soldier. Shaun appears for all of two episodes before being killed on D-day, Zack has a talent for mimicking voices, Gabriel dies after getting hit with an artillery shell, and shortly before that Tim Woods gets his leg blown off while trying to help a friend. Also Rufus Humphrey runs right past the Germans in Foye and makes it back all in one piece, and Peter Gibbons is Yassen Gregorovich's best friend. Also there is young Magneto and Prof. X and a really young Bane Eames
 * Battlestar Galactica: An android-hunting, origami-enthusiast detective and Donnie Darko's mom lead the last remnants of the human race.
 * The head of the evil robots is Al
 * "Bastille Day": Apollo takes the man who stole his name hostage.
 * "The Hub": Stands-with-a-fist leads a quest to rescue Xena.
 * The original version: Face is Starbuck.
 * And Ben Cartwright is Adama.
 * Being Human Remake: Jimmy Olsen has monthly issues while Crashdown would be more at home in the deep South, if you know what I mean.
 * The Big C (formerly The C Word): Precious is the student of Mrs. X, who's just learned she has cancer.
 * Blackadder: Mr. Bean, the guy off Time Team, Peter Kingdom, Dr. Gregory House and that bloke who enslaved the Ood have adventures across time and space.
 * Hagrid and Rita Skeeter show up occasionally.
 * As do PRINCE VULTAN and Rick.
 * Blackbird: Quorra and Nero are fugitive siblings.
 * Blue Bloods: Magnum, P.I. is the patriarch of a family of cops that includes son Simon Grey and daughter Susan Calvin.
 * Boardwalk Empire: Mr. Pink is a Prohibition-era gangster.
 * The Bob Newhart Show: Bernard is living with his wife Yubaba in Chicago. Bernard works as a psychologist in an office where his receptionist is Edna Krabbapel and his patients include Piglet and Stu Pickles.
 * Bones: Trillian's big sister and Angel solve crimes.
 * Trillian herself shows up as her big sister's Benjamin Franklin-obsessed second cousin and The Cheshire Cat is occasionally Angel's psychiatrist.
 * Agent Granger is the very concerned dad of a missing boy.
 * Al Newman is a distressed candymaker.
 * Finder possible pilot: John Coffey is the title character's intimidating legal advisor, and that's bishop Machete to you (for real, unlike, say, the Church Of Violence).
 * Delia Fisher is too fishy for Sam Weir. He's much more a Libby Dreifuss type.
 * The Borgias: Pope Scar is really bad at the whole "pious, merciful, celibate" thing.
 * Boston Legal: Captain Kirk, Daniel Jackson, Murphy Brown and Odo go into law.
 * Boy Meets World: Kevin's real life younger brother navigates growing up with his best friend Paul and his Love Interest (later wife), who hosted The Dish. His older brother is none other than Lion-O.
 * The Brady Bunch: The latecomer to the family is none other than Chouji Akimichi.
 * Brotherly Love: Vain but friendly Oliver becomes the older stepbrother to neat-freak Tombo and imaginative T.J. Detweiler.
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Casey Cooper, working with the Prime Minister, hunts and slays vampires while trying to maintain a normal life with her friends Michelle and Jimmy and her sister Harriet Welch, including relationships with Agent Booth and Captain John Hart.
 * Burn Notice Jarod's brother Kyle saves people like Angel Baptista with the help of Ash and The Queen Of France. He fights bad people and/or jerks like Cylons and Romo Lampkin, Daniel Jackson, Detective Vartann and Ardeth Bey.

C

 * The Cape: Imam Goliath Facilier mentors a budding Superhero while Cameron Tam is an Intrepid Reporter.
 * CSI: : Agent Will Graham 1.0 (who is replaced by Morpheus, who will be replaced by Sam Malone) and one of Erin Brockavitch's clients head a team of crime scene investigators that include(d) Eval Kenival and an assistant to the president.
 * Livingston Dell is a librarian with a connection to a young victim.
 * Reubin Tischkoff is a slightly abrasive casino owner.
 * A red-haired Starbuck is a tough cop.
 * Sephiroth (or Superman if you prefer) is a doctor who is also.
 * one of Adrian's 'the guys' works in LVCL's Trace division.
 * CSI: Miami: The Not-Terribly-Scary Black Man from Eleventh Hour joins the lab.
 * A case is obstructed by Alex DeLarge and Budd. With Angela's dad as a Cameo.
 * Livingston Dell is a terribly inept orchid thief, er, "enthusiast".
 * Agent Megan is a famous, reclusive author whose stories are actually writen by three separate people.
 * Adriana and Hardison are robbed at a poker game.
 * But everyone's here to watch Detective Kelly put his shades on.
 * CSI New York: Lt. Dan and the goddess Athena (replaced by Stacy Warner) head the New York division. They're helped by Tag.
 * Carl Fredricksen is
 * Romo Lambkin and Joxer are suspects in separate cases in the same episode.
 * Link, a prisoner, helps Hawkes after John Connor 1.0 (who loves playing games with the detectives) causes a prison riot.
 * Tonight, Lt. Dan is gonna kill Commander Bill! (Aw, did he have to?)
 * The Six Million Dollar Man is a detective with a cold case that was copied by Dr. Fraiser McCoy's real-life daughter.
 * Caprica: Remy is a smarmy talk show host.
 * Carnivale: That Yellow Humanity-Saving Bastard, assisted by a backwards-talking dwarf, Snake Plissken's girlfriend, Daisy Wick, and Marcie Ross, is menaced by Byron Hadley/Mr. Krabbs, Kevin Costner's wife, and T-Bag.
 * Castle: Captain Hammer, a famous mystery novelist, teams up with Detective Hana Gitelman of the NYPD. They Fight Crime.
 * Or, alternatively: Malcolm Reynolds, a famous mystery novelist, teams up with Collette Stenger of the NYPD. They Fight Crime...along with Ian Devlin and Sgt. Espera, with Leamon Heath and Kasidy Yates as their boss.
 * Cheers: Becker owns a bar in Boston, serving drinks to regulars Chet Bronski, Ao-gaeru the mailman, Captain Bateson (who was married for a time to Annabelle), and assorted others. Becker's employees have included Anna Crowley, Lt. Saavik, Zinnia, Constantine, and Larry Flynt.
 * Chicago Hope: Agent Montoya, Hotch, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Leon Vance, Jenny Shepard, the first actor to portray Dale the Whale, Dr. Neven Bell, Sonya Paxton, Larry Fleinhardt, Liz Cruz, among many others are all doctors.
 * Chuck: Miranda Lawson and Jayne protect the titular Chuck, a geek who knows the secrets of the government, which were e-mailed to him by Neal Caffrey. Oh, and Chuck's ex is Lucy Diamond and his long-lost parents are Capt. Archer and . Trinity will be a spy (no word yet if she's a hacker). In the final season, one of their enemies is Torture Technician (adult) Mystique.
 * The Cleaner: Agent Matthews is the leader of a drug intervention team that includes Boomer. It would probably be better for him to spend more time with his family, since his daughter can send him to a cornfield (and back) if she feels like it.
 * Columbo: Fred Savage's grandpa is a scruffy but brilliant cop who FBI Agent Bill Maxwell, Pussy Galore, Oliver Wendell Douglas, James West (and his partner Artemus Gordon), Cornelius, Lila Loomis, Sam Loomis (no relation), Mark Sloan, The Prisoner, Mr. Roarke, Rollin Hand, the Genovian head of security, Boss Hogg, Supergirl, Victor Ehrlich and both Kirk AND Spock think they can outwit. They're all wrong.
 * Community: An FBI agent has to deal with very eccentric junior college staff and students like an insane Asian gangster and Clark Griswald.
 * Cracker: Hagrid is a criminal psychologist who works for Manchester police force, under The Ninth Doctor and later Jim Royle. He works most closely with his partner Lily Potter with who there is unresolved sexual tension, despite the fact he is married to a long suffering Mary Queen of Scotts.
 * Criminal Minds: Inigo Montoya and Greg lead a group of FBI profilers who engage in the occasional Hannibal Lecture. Inigio is later replaced by Joan's dad.
 * Dr. Reid's mom is a tyrannical cheerleading coach (yes really).
 * Dawson is a guy with serious daddy issues, in that he's also his daddy and a really judgmental angel.
 * George Costanza is a Smug Snake Insufferable Genius killer.
 * Malcolm is a comic book artist who goes all Sin City after his girlfriend is brutally killed.
 * The demon Azazel is a decidedly un-perky goth rockstar and Livingston Dell is his loyal manager.
 * Frank the serial killer is Frank Lundy, federal agent
 * Cmdr. Riker is a.
 * Which explains why Wesley Crusher is a.
 * Sokka is in two minds about things.
 * Six is a narcissistic serial killing psychopath but here she's also a bank robber.
 * Criminal Minds Suspect Behavior: Idi Amin and Chef Colette are the lead members of an unorthodox team, and Idi gets to show off his stick fighting skills.
 * Trillian almost gets her face sliced off!

D - E - F

 * The Dead Zone: Farmer Brian Griswold can see into the future and must stop Young Indiana Jones from becoming President, or otherwise the world will blow up. Brian's ex-fiancée is Ezri Dax, who is now married to Sheriff Colby Granger.
 * Desperate Housewives: The Other Lois Lane lives on a cul-de-sac of intrigue.
 * Capt. Jack Harkness will be an evil presence on Wisteria Lane.
 * Dexter: A mortician is a serial killer with a heart of gold.
 * Dick Solomon is a serial killer with a loving family.
 * A starship captain and a mathatician's rival are trying to start the apocalypse.
 * Doctor Who: Percy Bullimore turns into, in order, Father Brennan, Worzel Gummidge, Rasputin, Tristan, Bayban The Berzerker, a hermit, a man who get killed by a Xenomorph, Destro, Barty Crouch Jr. and Jim Taylor. During the period when he was Barty, he travelled with, among others, Belle de Jour, Aleesha Philips and the girl that ain't bothered..
 * Dollhouse: Helo and Wash break into a sinister underground fortress to rescue Faith, and Katya.
 * Apollo show up to get married, and River Tam is the neuro-programmer for the DC dollhouse.
 * Penny is a resistance fighter, and one of Hammer's fangirls is first a Doll and then a Tech-head.
 * And Wesley's a US senator.
 * The Electric Company: God, Detective Goren's mother, Cliff Huxtable (in the first season), the office manager from Becker, Stavi from The Ringer, Fritz the Cat, and a few other people teach reading through psychedelic Sketch Comedy.
 * ER: Some of the many, many medical personnel who've populated the show: Danny Ocean and his love interest Alicia Florrick, Uncle Jessie, DeSoto the saber-toothed tiger, Velma, Mulan, River Song, Steve Smith, and Jasminder. Patients included Miranda Hobbes as a paralyzed(?) woman, both Sam Winchester and his father, John, and maybe Rubin Tishkoff as a dying man who earns a bit of redemption.
 * Eureka: in season 4, Gaius Baltar hitchhikes a ride from the 1940s back to the present. Later, superhacker Chaos guest-stars as the head of the nonviolent weapons lab.
 * Everwood: Doctor Achilles Milo uproots his children Alan Abernathy and Marcee to move to a practice in Colorado. Alan becomes infatuated with Rebecca Harper, but she's still in love with her comatose boyfriend Jak.
 * Family Matters: Sgt. Powell and his family live next door to Sonic the Hedgehog, an Extraverted Nerd who finds all sorts of ways to spice up their lives (especially those of the Sarge's children).
 * Firefly:
 * Our Mrs Reynolds: Joan marries one of the Two Guys.
 * Unless she marries Deadpool or Joey's assistant Glenn, this statement is not entirely accurate, Captain Hammer is not one of the Two Guys.
 * Jaynestown :President Logan gets Adria to sleep with his son whilst John Casey has a statue and a song about him.
 * Heart Of Gold: The Yellow-Eyed Demon starts harassing a poor pregnant whore so the brothel's madam, Julie Cooper, calls in Captain Hammer and his crew of outlaws (which includes John Casey, Jasmine, Alpha, Cameron, and Dr. Keller) to take care of the problem.
 * Flash Forward: Harold and William Shakespeare, with a little help from Peter Griffin, try to solve a massive global mystery. And Shakespeare's wife Penny will cheat on him with Steve Norrington, who is secretly working with Charlie to destroy or possibly save the world.
 * Fortysomething: House is Sherlock's dad.
 * Forever Knight: James Nathanson is an 800 year old vampire detective who befriends coroner Maggie Norton. All the while being tormented by Paroo.
 * Frasier: (retroactive) Beast and Abe Sapien are neurotic brothers living in Seattle with their maid, Miss Ladybug.
 * The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Jay got in one little fight and his mom got scared, so he had to move with his auntie and uncle (Shredder) to Bel-Air.
 * Friends: Six twenty-somethings live in New York and have various misadventures. Melman The Giraffe has an on-again, off-again relationship with Grace Connelly, while Melman's sister, Jules Cobb, eventually finds love with Joe Quincy. Elsewhere, Ursula Buffay is a Cloudcuckoolander who eventually marries Brian Fantana. Last but not least, Major Don West is a struggling actor.
 * Ursula is her own twin sister?
 * Joey: Major Don West goes to Los Angeles to find his fame. There he's joined by Linda Zwordling, his Love Interest; Adriana La Cerva, his sister; and his cousin, Evan Lawson. Stifler's mom is his agent.
 * Friday Night Lights: A deputy who gets tomorrow's paper in advance coaches an awesome football team. One of his players is John Carter.

G

 * A Gifted Man: The Vicount de Nite Owl is a skilled but kind of arrogant surgeon who is pestered into opening a free(?) clinic by the ghost of his dead wife.
 * Game of Thrones: Boromir and a one-eyed reporter deal with deadly intrigue in a crapsack Low Fantasy world.
 * Lt. Gordon's son is an amoral princeling.
 * Ghost Whisperer: Eliza Thornberry's big sister sees dead people.
 * The V.U.P. is the nominal leader of a bunch of ghosts who are very embarrassed about how they *weren't* buried.
 * Among the people she helps: Michael Schofield, Little Miss Sunshine, Claudia Salinger, Roxanne Bojarski, Helena Peabody, Grace Sheffield, Lizzie McGuire, Pepper Ann Pearson, Emma Pillsbury, Taylor Townsend, Katara, Peggy Olson, Cameron Frye, Homer Simpson, Julie Bower, Molly Tasmanian Devil, Carmen Cortez, Richard Fish and Julie Cooper.
 * Sharona and Seven of Nine show up for cameos.
 * Gilmore Girls: A woman with a Santa kink raises her highly intelligent trouser-wearing whore of a daughter while coping with the nagging of her parents, Baby's mom and Richard Rich. She flirts with a special agent hunting a serial killer while her daughter dates a super mutant or Sam who is called Dean. The daughter's best friend is a student from a mysterious Japanese ninja school.
 * Glee: Spencer Reid's mom is a tyrannical cheerleading coach.
 * Pepper Potts is a substitute teacher who also sings(!) country-music(!!).
 * Charlie the waitress gets together with Uncle Jesse.
 * Meredith Gordon is the club's leader's wife and Bob Bishop is the former glee club director.
 * The Golden Girls: Maude Findlay, Fran Crowley, Ellen Jackson and Dottie are four older women who live together
 * The Good Guys: Josh Lyman and Shaun Brumder are two mismatched cops. They Fight Crime.cr
 * The Good Wife: Mr. Big is a politician in the midst of a sex scandal; the forced separation allows his wife, an ER doctor, to return to her former job as a defense attorney. His wife's bosses are Dan Rydel and Leonard's mom, while as of episode 15, Nightcrawler is working for Detective Logan. Jesminder sister is a mysterious bisexual.
 * Ugly Betty needs help with her dad.
 * Marty McFly isn't afraid to play the sympathy card.
 * Michael Oher is on death row.
 * Chandler is Mr. Big's political rival.

H - I - J - K

 * Hawaii Five-O 2010 remake: Mick, Jin and Boomer patrol Honolulu. Actual Hawaii resident Mowgli Kawena got screwed out of an unlisted Cameo, but he doesn't seem to mind.
 * Also, why is Hiro the one chopping up and poking around inside bodies in the remake? That was supposed to be Sylar's thing, though he tended to stick to just the head...
 * Locke will be rejoining Jin on the island.
 * Hawthorne: Toki the iron worker is a tough but caring nurse.
 * Hellcats: Keely (whose mom is Donna Abandando) and Sharpay (whose sister is the Yellow Ranger) are cheerleaders at a Tennessee college. Marilyn Sudor is their coach. Oh, and Clark Kent is one of the show's producers.
 * Speaking of Smallville, Cosmic Boy shows up as a Jerk Jock.
 * Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: Hyacinth Bucket and Merry Brandybuck investigate mysteries.
 * Heroes: Jess Mariano has a superpower that allows him to absorb other people's powers; Jim Profit is his flying older brother; the Ninth Doctor is his homeless, Invisible, pigeon-obsessed mentor; Kairi is his indestructible niece, to whom he seems to be attracted; and that guy who's shown up in everything from Touched By an Angel to 24 (and is currently Spock) is the psychotic, watch-making bad guy. Kairi's dad, who was on Dynasty, is part of a big conspiracy; the pilot from Lost/Agent Weiss reads minds; Brooke Wyndham has super-strength, and then ice powers; her husband, Forrest, from the Initiative, can walk through walls; Julian Sark is a 400-year-old man with a God complex; and Veronica Mars enjoys zapping people with her electricity powers for fun.
 * T-Bag can manipulate the earth and Darth Maul is a super-speedy hitman/juggler.
 * Higher Ground: At a boarding school for troubled teens overseen by Sully, an abused, drug-addicted Anakin Skywalker falls in love with an also-abused former prostitute, JJ Jarreau. Meanwhile, Kaylee goes goth, takes a seven iron to her father, and then develops an adorable friendship with Tudgeman.
 * Homeland: Princess Mononoke and Inigo Montoya are desparate to prove that Major Winters is The Mole.
 * House: The Prince Regent is a misanthropic genius physician assisted by, among others, Kirk's Mom, Kumar, Billy Kennedy and a bisexual girl from The OC. His Heterosexual Life Partner is oncologist Neil Perry and his boss is an expensive call girl in law school.
 * How I Met Your Mother: Danny Tanner is telling the story to his kids Dylan Mayfair and Justin Russo about how he met their mother who is not Dr. Reid or Dylan Messinger. The story includes a lot of side stories involving his friends who include Nick Andopolis, Willow, and Doogie Howser,
 * Human Target: The title character gets some badass backup from an intimidating detective and Rorschach!
 * Kamen Rider Decade: Keigo Atobe (musical version) is the strongest Kamen Rider of all time, and he must save the multiverse.
 * Kath and Kim, US version: Mary Sunshine has to deal with her spoiled WomanChild daughter Liz Sherman.
 * The Kennedys (not the American version of Royale Family): The History Channel (or not; apparently it's not factual enough or something so it's going to be shown in Canada) miniseries stars Joey as Jackie, Ratchet as Jack, Johnny Goodboy Tyler as Robert, and Carmine Falcone as Joe Sr.

L

 * Law and Order: Lumiere, the representative of Alderaan, and a gay philosophy professor hunt down perps in New York City. J. Jonah Schillinger (not an ME from Baltimore) is a resident therapist.
 * Reuben Tishkoff is a guy who defends his business with a shotgun.
 * Way back in The Ninties Miranda Hobbes and Mr. Big were a perp and a cop, respectively.
 * Joe Dubois shows up briefly as an asshole preppy.
 * Sydney Bristow seduced Leia's dad.
 * The President is an attorney for the US.
 * Truman Capote was one of a handful of gang-rapists.
 * The ME from Law and Order SVU helped defend a Sympathetic Murderer (she took over for his cousin, Max Balls) after the Asshole Victim's associate Big Pussy ratted him out.
 * The Oracle's son was possibly betrayed by an FBI agent.
 * Princess Mononoke is a naive young model.
 * An undertaker's daughter might have gone a bit too far to find an alibi.
 * DA Davalos is an Insufferable Genius.
 * Samwise Gamgee is a zealot building an army of the Lord...'s children.
 * Starbuck gets revenge on her rapist, with a little help from Brother Justin.
 * Col. Quaritch really hates (illegal) Aliens, like  hates them.
 * Justin Hammer gets caught up in a plot to kill a gay cop.
 * Law and Order: Criminal Intent: A giant alien cockroach and a Goonie-ette solve crimes along with The Fly, who replaced Mr. Big. Cases:
 * Ben Linus was deceiving his family, including his wife who once had to put lotion in a basket.
 * Stephen Colbert was a master forger with mommy issues.
 * Miles O'Brien is a debauched judge accused of murder.
 * Mr. Data and possibly Dr. Crusher (I think) are a psychiatrist couple who make their daughter wish they were not therapists.
 * Counselor Troi is a female politician who could not deal with her loutish husband any more.
 * Dr. Barney Tobias Horrible MD is a shy chocolatier who just wants to snuggle with a woman.
 * Dr. Octopus is a rich, possibly mildly retarded momma's boy who never learned how to interact with women. Note: Stabbing people is not a good way to ask for an apology.
 * Joe Dubois is an ice-cold thief.
 * Matilda is worried about her dad, a Manipulative Bastard version of Stephan Hawking.
 * Miranda Hobbes is absolutely not Julie Taymore.
 * Cousin Balki is a Depraved Dentist.
 * Law and Order LA: The first Rhodey Rhodes and Doc Ock fight crime with Brenda.
 * Ardeth Bey is a sleazy fence.
 * Waverly Jong is a ME.
 * Law and Order Special Victims Unit: Chris Keller and Tenar solve heinous crimes along with IceT, the definitive John Munch, newly transfered detectives Di Henry and Detective Scotty Valens, with psychologist Rev. Gen. Shang Van Pelt.
 * Mork is a guy with very conflicting views on control (he hates "sheeple"... unless they're his sheeple).
 * Wonder Woman is a thief and a liar (and her daughter Daena thinks Rape Is OK When It Is Female On Male (and extremely funny if the female uses roofies and a cattle prod).
 * Sophie is a rape victim and Brenda appears for a second when her accused boyfriend is chased by a mob and hit by a car.
 * Lucilla is a passionate but slightly unhinged detective (her aggressiveness makes Stabler uncomfortable), who quits the SVU after Mei-chan tries to burn her apartment with them in it so they can be happy in the afterlife (in her defense, her currentlife really sucked).
 * One of the Iwo Jima flag-raisers leaves the SVU after killing a guy (who deserved it).
 * Kitty Forman is a woman in deep, deep denial about her husband's violent pedophilia ephibophilia.
 * Lizzie McGuire is a partying, neglectful teen mom.
 * That Yellow Bastard is a paranoid Serial Killer who gets a little help from Munch's ex-wife, Simka Gravas.
 * Speaking of, Zinnia Wormwood shows up as a defense attorney.
 * Lady Death Strike is a rape victim who can't remember her assult.
 * Miranda Hobbes is a spider expert with multiple personalities. or not.
 * Computer nerd Danny Tanner's wife falls for dance director Jack Skellington; after she appears to be poisoned, Jack is suspected while  retains Lily St. Regis as his lawyer.
 * Will is suspected of killing his girlfriend.
 * Chel is horrified to discover that her husband is molesting her son. Later, the guy's NaMaBLA-esque leader is defended by Tara of Nine.
 * Michael Oher wants to avenge his aunt.
 * Ginger Rothstein takes over as Assistant DA. Wormtongue also shows up as an expert on fires.
 * River Song shows up from time to time as a really snappy defense attorney. Interestingly, her character is named-- Spoilers!.
 * A Pretty Woman turns out to be a Manipulative Bitch (I think).
 * Jessie the cowgirl really misses her little girl. Like, "forces a lookalike kid to get plastic surgery" misses her.
 * The Ghost Whisperer is a cospicuously unglamourous girl haunted by a vicious rapist.
 * Gunnery Sergeant Hartman is a rapist/murderer who does not know how to keep his mouth shut.
 * Bernard the Arch-elf is an Absent-Minded Professor that would kill for water and gave the Victim of the Week poisonous mushrooms (or so he claims) at a Fundraiser held by Aunt May. The case was being prosecuted by Ms. Blu Rain and he was defended by Carter Heywood
 * Lucy Danziger was a teenage girl that was linked to a pedophile.
 * Mei-ling East is a distressed illigal alien/"paid submissive".
 * Scar is a sex addict who fears he raped his daughter while drunk.
 * "Hi, I'm Grace Adler of Pedo Hunt News, why don't you have a seat...."
 * Claire Bennet appears twice ; first she's the frequently-injured daughter of two famous singers, then a few years later she's a high-school prostitute.
 * Cherry Halliwell is a swinger,
 * Tiana Mkutsi is a maid who accuses a well-heeled guy of raping her. If the headline this was ripped from is any indication, the detectives are going to discover she has some credibility issues.
 * Psychic Powers can't help poor Ariel Dubois (especially after her rapist's attourney gives a shout-out to To Kill a Mockingbird).
 * Iago the parrot is a fantastically sarcastic IT guy.
 * The Girl Who Dumped Mark Zuckerberg is . Pretty sure this is an Old Shame.
 * Agent Prentiss is a robber's resentful daughter.
 * A beatnik artist is the new ADA and.
 * Eunice Higgins raised Stu Macher from childhood and started having sex with him when he was 18. Dear god, not Stunice!
 * Dawson hates the classmate who got him kicked out of med school so much that he uses  for revenge.
 * Steve (Miranda's baby-daddy and later husband) has a fetish for.
 * Law and Order UK: Lee Adama is a detective and Martha Jones and Jenny's real dad are the CPS (Crown Prosecuting Service not Child Protective Service);.
 * Leverage: A disturbed Vietnam vet leads a Five-Man Band of thieves with himself as Mission Control to create Asshole Victims out of people like Smug Snakes Romo Lampkin and Zelda Spellman. When the most experienced thief, Jane leaves to deal with her personality issues she sends in Sixth Ranger Seven of Nine to keep Lindsay McDonald, Voodoo Tatum, and Works-With-Carlos Girl safe.
 * Mr. Data is also another asshole victim.
 * Cmdr. Riker directs some episodes.
 * Phlox is a hapless chief of museum security.
 * Wesley Crusher is a rogue hacker.
 * Badger is the main antagonist of the team.
 * Head Guard Brother Krabbs is an IRS man turned militant.
 * Paul Kinsey is an amoral PR guy. He hasn't changed much.
 * Meg Manning is a country music star who's being threatened by Jonathan Kent.
 * Mr. Matthews is an evil real estate mogul - and apparently the father of Jordan.
 * Jonathan apparently spent his time away from Sunnydale screwing over Katrina victims.
 * Anna is a budding young car thief.
 * Luka is a Complete Monster arms dealer.
 * Doctor Cogsworth's lovely young wife is missing.
 * Lost: Charlie Salinger becomes the defacto leader of a band of survivors on a mysterious island. Other survivors include Merry Brandybuck as an expy of one of the Gallagher brothers. Mayor Batmanuel is there too, and he doesn't age.

M

 * Magic Beyond Words: The J. K. Rowling Story: Agent Spade is an aspiring author.
 * Mama's Family: Sardonic matriarch Alvinia T. Plout lives in a small southern town with her journalist sister Blanche Devereaux, dimwitted son Sam Jones, and bimbo daughter-in-law Opal Sue Gardner. We also meet her constantly-feuding daughters Agatha Hannigan and Sue Ann Nivens, doltish son-in-law The Great Gazoo, and clingy, domestic-minded friend Gunny Bricker.
 * Man vs. Wild: One of Santa's Elfs and a gay cowboy join Bear Gryllis in the frozen wilderness.
 * Mash: Arnold Vinick and Gabrielle Solis' father-in-law try to survive life as surgeons in the Korean War in a M* A* S* H unit which was run by Stan Zbornaks' brother and but now by Detective Pete Porter. They are later joined by Cogsworth.
 * Medium: A hooker is a psychic who fights crime. She and her husband, the guy from the Dawn of the Dead 2004, are Happily Married. Major problems come in the form of deranged doctor Romo Lampkin and sinister stalker the Invisible Man . She also has a scene with her real life (ex-)husband, The Punisher.
 * Ardeth Bey is a.
 * Frasier Crane was an Affably Evil Grim Reaper . Frasier also doubles as one of the show's executive producers.
 * Norm the pessimistic intern is Dawn of the Dead 2004-guy's Man Child boss.
 * Red and Donna (who's still blonde).
 * Brother Justin.
 * Melissa and Joey: Sabrina Spellman is a politician and Blossom's big brother (the one who's always The Danza) is her live-in nanny.
 * Memphis Beat: Earl Hickey is a detective, a computer hacker is a newbie cop, and their boss is Betty Applewhite.
 * Men of a Certain Age: Manny the mammoth and Capt. Archer are middle-aged friends.
 * The Middle: Deborah seems to have left Ray and married the Janitor
 * Monk: Jack Jeebs is an obsessive-compulsive and multi-phobic detective who is allowed to work again under police chief Jame Gumb. His Aloof Extremely Neurotic Older Brother would like to be a Meiter'd, while his Stalker with a Crush is married to her dog. In dthe final season, he comes to the aid of Mr. Eko and police chief Marv and eventually discovers that.
 * Simka is a Granola Girl florist who correctly guesses that Monk's ideal plant is a thisle a cactus artificial.
 * Hodgins Hodges is a cheating husband who.
 * Moonlighting: Kelly Corcoran and Spike are a detective duo with Bilingerent Sexual Tension. Miss Grotke is the secretary.
 * My Hero: Father Dougal recieves super powers and fights crime while romancing a murderess Emily Joyce. Hilarity Ensues
 * My Name Is Earl: Syndrome is in jail. Mrs Quilligan is his ex-wife and Harry Knowles is his brother.

N

 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Dr. Maura Isles used to be on the team, and Chihiro's mom was the director, but they were both in separate incidents.
 * Livingston Dell is
 * ADA Casey Novak is Gibbs' Coast Guard counterpart.
 * Bernard the Mouse appears to be Ducky's foil.
 * Imhotep is  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.
 * Laurie Strode is a master mind-screwer.
 * NCIS: Los Angeles: Robin and an undersea chef fight crime under the watchful eye of Grandmother Willow.
 * Lady Death Stike is a Cold Sniper assassin.
 * ADA Rubirosa is a government courier who.
 * The National Parks: America's Best Idea: Woody, who is at one point a manic depressive Jack McCoy's loyal sidekick, and Dick Soloman lend their voices to tell the story of the National Parks.
 * 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 villians.
 * And Sephiroth recently joined the cast.
 * No Ordinary Family: Vic Mackey, his wife Rita Bennett and their children (one of whom is young Jim Kirk) win the Superpower Lottery.
 * D'Anna and Six are up to no good. As is Reverend Camden.
 * Numb3rs: An elf uses math to help the FBI solve crimes; his father is a Taxi driver who survived an alien attack while his best friend and colleague is Renfield the Carpathian.
 * Doc Brown is an expy of Stan Lee.
 * The Fonz is a disgraced FBI agent.
 * Sandusky Halibut taught himself advanced math for fantasy baseball.
 * Peggy Sanderson was briefly the elf's boss.
 * A guy from Orange County is the elf's professional nemesis.
 * Doctor Imam Goliath is a Scary Black Man. Additionally, he's head security goon for a corrupt corporation.
 * Gaius Baltar is a deranged cult leader (the difference is there's no dudes allowed).
 * Lionel Luthor is a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane psychic.
 * Nurse Jackie: Carmela Soprano is a tough, Jerk with a Heart of Gold nurse who works with Dr. Carlisle Cullen.
 * Nurse Jackie: Carmela Soprano is a tough, Jerk with a Heart of Gold nurse who works with Dr. Carlisle Cullen.

O

 * 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.
 * Evan's departure featured the appearance of said small-time actor, Bruce, Ron Burgandy, Raymond, Donna, and the boss of The Secretary.
 * 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, Gen. Sheng is a priest, Det. Elliot Stabler is a bisexual serial-killer, and Link is an omnicient Narrator, among many interesting characters.

P

 * The Pacific: Tim Murphy, Simon, King Ahkmenrah and others go through hell in WW 2.
 * Parenthood: Mr. Incredible is a loud-mouthed patriarch; his daughter is Lorelai Gilmore and his son is Nate Fisher.
 * 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.
 * Party of Five: Dr. Jack Shepard becomes the defacto parent of his siblings, who include Sydney Prescott, Eliza Thornberry and Chad Decker who is dating Melinda Gordon after their parents die, which commences a very long Trauma Conga Line.
 * Person of Interest: Ben Linus is apparently has a Precog machine.
 * Power Rangers: Among some of the many people who have starred in the entire franchise include Lelouch Lamperouge, Laharl, Tina Sharp, Vergil, Cameron, and Areola.
 * Prime Suspect: Edie Stall is the American version of The Queen's tough detective.
 * The Prisoner remake: Jesus is trapped in a mysterious Village (not The Village, although it could be an island) headed by Magneto the Grayish-White. Gandalf's son is a young Gellert Grindelwald.
 * Prohibition: Paul, Melinda, Nick Fury, Scar, DA MaCoy, Harvey Pekar, Dick Solomon, and possibly Batman narrate the title era.

Q - R - S

 * Quantum Leap: Captain Archer and his best bud Cavil the Cylon battle the Timey-Wimey Ball.
 * Red Dwarf: Lloyd Mullaney and Ronald Reagan 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 Gex. Later, they're joined by the British Prime Minister.
 * Ringer: Buffy 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 Buffy is pretending to be Helen, Helen/Buffy's stepdaughter Maya Bennett has trouble at school and with her teacher Logan Echolls, cop Señor Senior Jr. is determined to find Buffy 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.
 * Rome: Soap MacTavish and Frank Castle are two Roman soldiers who got mixed up in various historical events.
 * Rubicon: Leckie and Lady Van Tassel are surrounded by strange goings-on after 9/11.
 * Running Wilde: Granola Girl Felicity has to deal with Upperclass Twit Stranz when her daughter declares she just wants to be normal.
 * Sanctuary: Captain Samantha Carter recruits Will Zimmerman (sorry, I have no well-known crossover for him) to join Genii leader Ladon Radim and Wraith commander Todd to protect "abnormals" from harm and persecution. Will leaves behind his girlfriend Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla and co-worker Major Evan Lorne to join Carter at the Sanctuary. Carter, meanwhile, believed she had left behind her involvement with the Athosian Halling when he abruptly teleports back into her life. Meanwhile, she maintained her strong friendship with the leader of the London Sanctuary, the Goa'uld Tanith. In their many adventures, they run into people such as Morgan le Fay (also known as Dr. Jill Langston), Dr. David Sandstrom, Tory Foster, and Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson.
 * 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.
 * Shameless (American version): Christine Daae lives with her dad, shady car salesman with alcoholism, who promotes her to parent when her mom leaves.
 * Sherlock: Smaug and his assistant Bilbo fight crime in present-day London.
 * In one episode, they help a guy who was attacked by a large dog as a kid, and turned into a werewolf.
 * Smallville: Bo Duke is Charlie Baker's adoptive father and Lana Lang is his mother. The Riddler is Flash Luthor's father, Spike is a Terminator 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.
 * Smash: Grace and Morticia produce a musical about Marylin Monroe; later on Beatrix Kiddo tries to steal the show.
 * The Song of Lunch: Snape and Trelawny are old lovers who reunite over the title meal.
 * Sons of Anarchy: Hellboy and Leela are a couple of bikers.
 * Spin City: Alex P. Keaton helps an asshole run New York City. Then he goes to Washington to confront... uh... himself, and Topper Harley takes over.
 * 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: Astronaut John Crichton and Peacekeeper 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.
 * Stargate Atlantis: The Holographic Doctor is beset by enemies Charles "Trip" Tucker and Miles O'Brien. (Star Trek Civil War!)
 * 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.
 * At one point, they have to save two elderly magicians: an asshole and a scary subway ghost.
 * 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.
 * Seinfeld: A standup comedian 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 Joe Swanson (aka The Tick).
 * The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Queen Gorgo is on the run with her son (who was sometimes Littlefoot) and River Tam.
 * Star Trek the Next Generation: A century after Kirk 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 1.0 with her son Gordie LaChance, Counselor Demona and the android Lt. Commander Brakish Okun boldly go where no one has gone before.
 * "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.
 * "Yesterday's Enterprise": Rachel Creed returns within an alternate timeline (it's complicated) and finds herself falling for Shooter McGavin.
 * "Suddenly Human": Professor X debates with alien captain Derek Powers over who has custody over an orphaned human boy.
 * "The Wounded": Duncan Malloy's former captain, Samuel Norton is conducting independent attacks against the Kardashians.
 * "Cause and Effect": The Enterprise finds itself stuck in a time loop with a 23rd century Federation ship commanded by Captain Fraiser Crane.
 * "The Perfect Mate": Xenia Grey is the perfect woman for Prof. X... unfortunately she wasn't intended for him.
 * "Imaginary Friend": Heidi's imaginary friend appears in the form of August Leffler.
 * "Ship in a Bottle": Niles the butler is back, and he wants H.M. Murdock to help him break free from the confines of a holodeck.
 * "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.
 * "The Pegasus": Xanatos is called upon by his former captain, now Admiral John Locke to salvage a top-secret cloaking device.
 * "Homeward": Weasel's adoptive brother Eddie Valentine seeks help from the Enterprise crew in saving an alien civilization from planetary destruction.
 * "Q Who?": Discord appears and causes trouble for the Enterprise crew while also warning them of the Borg.

T

 * Taxi: An alien invasion survivor and mad scientist work together for a prima donna actor.
 * That 70s Show: Venom is a kid growing up in 1970s Wisconsin. His social circle includes Karen, Milo, Walden Schmidt, Meg Griffin, and Manny Garcia. Venom's parents are Clarence Boddicker and Alice Knight and Karen's dad is the Rhino. Milo fequently hangs out with Man Stoner.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * A Touch of Frost:Del Boy is a serious and devoted detectictive, determined to put criminals behind bars, while hoping the police don't notice him selling dodgy dvds and microwaves
 * Treme: Dr. Alexx and Sully are among many people in The Big Easy dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
 * True Blood: Rogue and her evil owl brother discover All Myths Are True when Vampires break The Masquerade. Dangerous characters include Regina George, a very depressed woman's bridegroom, and Elliot Stabler.

U - V - W

 * Unforgettable: Agent Samantha J. Rowling (now a redhead) has a Photographic Memory.
 * Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (not the surfer/singer): Imam Goliath narrates while Jules personifies the larger-than-life Johnson, who had the nerve to be a fast-living sports star in 1910 and African American at the same time. Darth Vader later portrays Johnson in a play, which strikes a chord with Muhammad Ali ("Just replace women with religion and that's my story!").
 * Up All Night: Kelly Bundy and GOB Bluth take care of the infant daughter of her boss, an average prostitute.
 * V : Man-Bat, with help from Darryl Revok and Victor Basta, forms a team of Earthlings to fight against man-eating aliens lead by Miss Peacock. Freddy Krueger is one of the few good aliens in the series... and he's also the comic relief.
 * 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.
 * War of the Worlds: Steven Farlow, Mercedes, Tripp Hansen, Poncho and Dory Quimby fight off aliens. The second season introduces The Lone Man, his scientist Jean Gray and her assistant Otto as the leaders of a Time skipped new invasion.
 * 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!
 * White Collar: The co-manager of the Carnivale is responsible for Bryce Larkin, who's helping the FBI solve white-collar crimes while wearing a Nice 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 Jack Rudolph are two brothers who co-own an airline. Monk taxis people to and from the airport.
 * Wizards of Waverly Place: Coop and Hawkgirl settle down and have three kids: Mikayla, Ted's future son, and Diego. They're wizards!
 * Every TV movie/series based on British novels on PBS: Hogwarts professors in pastoral England!