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* Basically every episode of ''[[The Burning Zone]]''.
* Basically every episode of ''[[The Burning Zone]]''.
* An example of the second approach occurs in the third-season finale of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "Graduation Day". Faith shoots Angel with a poisoned arrow; she could easily have hit his heart and dusted him, but she and the Mayor would rather Buffy stay distracted by his illness and eventual, slow, and painful death. Of course, this backfires on Faith when the antidote turns out to be Slayer blood...
* An example of the second approach occurs in the third-season finale of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "Graduation Day". Faith shoots Angel with a poisoned arrow; she could easily have hit his heart and dusted him, but she and the Mayor would rather Buffy stay distracted by his illness and eventual, slow, and painful death. Of course, this backfires on Faith when the antidote turns out to be Slayer blood...
* Thoroughly subverted by the ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'' episode "Confessions and Lamentations", in which Doctor Franklin spends the entire episode searching for a cure while Delenn tends the plague-stricken Markab people, and the rest of the cast deals with other consequences of the plague. In the end, Franklin races to the quarantine ward with the cure... only to discover a tearful Delenn, who informs him that he's too late: they've all died.
* Thoroughly subverted by the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode "Confessions and Lamentations", in which Doctor Franklin spends the entire episode searching for a cure while Delenn tends the plague-stricken Markab people, and the rest of the cast deals with other consequences of the plague. In the end, Franklin races to the quarantine ward with the cure... only to discover a tearful Delenn, who informs him that he's too late: they've all died.
* Speaking of ''B5'', the [[Spin-Off]] series ''[[Crusade (TV)|Crusade]]'' was entirely premised on this: the cast was searching for a cure to a plague visited upon Earth by former Shadow minions, which would conveniently lie dormant for five years before killing everyone. (The plan was to set up an audience expectation that the cure would be found in the fifth and final season, then have the cure discovered somewhere around season three and spend the rest of the series fighting a new and greater danger uncovered during the search. All this was rendered moot when the series was canceled before even airing.)
* Speaking of ''B5'', the [[Spin-Off]] series ''[[Crusade]]'' was entirely premised on this: the cast was searching for a cure to a plague visited upon Earth by former Shadow minions, which would conveniently lie dormant for five years before killing everyone. (The plan was to set up an audience expectation that the cure would be found in the fifth and final season, then have the cure discovered somewhere around season three and spend the rest of the series fighting a new and greater danger uncovered during the search. All this was rendered moot when the series was canceled before even airing.)
* ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV)|Starsky and Hutch]]'': In the episode "A Coffin for Starsky", Starsky is injected with a poison that will kill him in 24 hours; in this case what they need to find is a sample of the poison so the cure can be created. A less personalized version occurs in "[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|The Plague]]", in which Hutch is one of the first victims of an incipient epidemic, and Starsky has to track down a hitman with a natural immunity to the disease.
* ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV)|Starsky and Hutch]]'': In the episode "A Coffin for Starsky", Starsky is injected with a poison that will kill him in 24 hours; in this case what they need to find is a sample of the poison so the cure can be created. A less personalized version occurs in "[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|The Plague]]", in which Hutch is one of the first victims of an incipient epidemic, and Starsky has to track down a hitman with a natural immunity to the disease.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' serial ''The Caves of Androzani'', the Fifth Doctor is forced to regenerate after he and his companion Peri are poisoned -- although he manages to milk the giant Queen-Bat to get the antidote (don't ask), there's only enough for one.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''The Caves of Androzani'', the Fifth Doctor is forced to regenerate after he and his companion Peri are poisoned -- although he manages to milk the giant Queen-Bat to get the antidote (don't ask), there's only enough for one.
* ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'': The team spends the episode "SWAK" looking for a cure for Tony, who's been dosed with a designer version of ''[[The Black Death]]''. Subverted in that, although the virus has a limited life, there is no actual cure -- Tony has to survive on his own.
* ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'': The team spends the episode "SWAK" looking for a cure for Tony, who's been dosed with a designer version of ''[[The Black Death]]''. Subverted in that, although the virus has a limited life, there is no actual cure -- Tony has to survive on his own.
* In the ''[[Alias (TV)|Alias]]'' episode "Counteragent," Sydney needs an antidote to a virus that is killing Vaughn. Sark says she can have it if she brings him Sloane.
* In the ''[[Alias (TV)|Alias]]'' episode "Counteragent," Sydney needs an antidote to a virus that is killing Vaughn. Sark says she can have it if she brings him Sloane.
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