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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'' is most likely the most well-known example of this trope, as each season takes place, wait for it, [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|in twenty-four hours]].
* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', the first half of series 1, 3, 4 and 5 (from the companions introduction to the episode where they reunite them with their parents or fiancé) take place pretty much over three, maybe four days from the Doctor and companion's viewpoint with little or no off-screen adventuring.
** Prior to the [[Time Skip]], the Harold Saxon arc encompassing series 3 occurs over a couple of days (from Saxon and his cronies' viewpoint).
*** From the Doctor's perspective, everything from stepping out of the TARDIS on the Oodsphere in ''The End of Time'', to leaving the War Rooms with Amy in "Victory of the Daleks" probably takes less than a week, as ''The End of Time'', "The Eleventh Hour", "The Beast Below" and "Victory of the Daleks" all lead straight into each other.
** The events of [[Doctor Who (TV)/TVM the TV Movie/Recap|the TV Movie]] unfold over New Year's Eve 1999 and th early hours of New Year's Day 2000.
* Spoofed in the ''[[Golden Girls]]'', where Dorothy mentions not having read [[Apartment 3 G]] in over twenty years and Blanche, who reads it every day offers to fill her in on what's happened since. Although her exposition is interrupted it starts with "Well, it's later that day..."
* ''[[True Blood]]'' takes up so far about 45 days with a 1 year time skip between seasons 3 and 4. Episodes tend to be about 1 day long, but several are real time except for perhaps a final scene.
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== Theater ==
* Aristotle wrote in his ''[[Poetics (Literature)|Poetics]]'' that tragedy tends to take place over a short period of time (no more than a day), as contrasted with epic poetry which generally takes place over a much longer period. In the Renaissance, this was taken by many dramatists to be a hard-and-fast rule (the "[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_unities:Classical unities|classical unity of time]]") though Aristotle seems not to have intended it as such. As a result, virtually all Renaissance drama from continental Europe is an example of this trope; English drama developed independently, and as a result is less likely to follow the unities especially in its earlier forms.
* [[Lampshaded]] and parodied in [[Niccolo Machiavelli]]'s satire ''Mandragola''. It takes place over the course of ''two'' days, so it apparently violates the classical Unity of Time rule; however, Machiavelli inserts a monologue in which he explains that none of the characters are actually going to sleep that night, so it doesn't ''really'' violate it.
* ''[[Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf]]?'' sets over a single night.
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