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If you're a writer of a TV drama series with recurring characters, you have a problem: You need a new story every week, and they cannot all be just about your regular cast. So most TV series formats, particularly for drama, involve some way of bringing a new set of guest stars into your leads' lives for every episode. There are just two ways to do this: Either your leads work as cops, lawyers, doctors, or some other profession that naturally brings lots of other people to them for short periods of time; or else your leads do something that has them travelling around a lot, visiting different '''Adventure Towns''', meeting new people and situations wherever they go.
Maybe they're [[The Drifter|Drifters]] [[Walking the Earth]]. Maybe they are being [[Stern Chase|chased by the law]]. Maybe they are just trying to get home. Whatever the reason, our main characters go to a new place each week that results in an adventure that they have to solve in forty-two minutes—sixty minutes minus the commercials. Often the heroes will be [[Mistaken for Spies]] when they get there. Count [[Wasteland Elder|on a local]] or [[Girl of the Week|two]] to help.
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The location version of [[Monster of the Week]]. Compare to [[City of Adventure]] and [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]]. In [[Science Fiction]] shows, instead of going from town to town, the protagonists tend to go from world to world (thus travelling to "[[Planetville|Adventure Planets]]"). Combined with [[Alternate Universe]] to make "Adventure Universes" in ''[[Sliders]]''. Combine it with [[Time Travel]] and you get [[Wayback Trip]]. Combine with both space travel and time travel (plus the occasional alternate universe), and you get ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
[[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] and [[Clean Up the Town]] are often associated with this. Wandering heroes like [[The Drifter]] and the [[Knight Errant]] are built to save
A subset would be the [[Town with a Dark Secret]]. Best examples are from movies like ''[[Bad Day
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