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* [[The A-Team]] has H.M. Murdock. His first name is never even revealed, and it's rare for someone to call him by his initials. The rest of the team always calls him Murdock.
* ''[[Dexter]]'': Almost all the characters in Miami Metro, unless they're particularly close to each other (Angel Batista and Maria LaGuerta during their mariage, siblings Dexter and Debra Morgan, etc.). This sometimes leads to confusion when a character calls out for "Morgan" when Dex and Deb are both present. Subverted to great effect by {{spoiler|Doakes to Dexter in episode 2.11 to reflect that in addition to capturing a killer, he now also wants to help Dexter by turning him in}}.
* ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' has Grissom, Brass, Hodges, and Ecklie, and [[Mc Keen]] for a while. They just used [[Mc Keen]] even while he was running after killing Warrick.
** Interesting that except for Grissom, all the other CSI are on a first name basis.
** As of the current season, Grissom is now [[The Ghost]], but a returned Sara continues to refer to him only as "Grissom" despite the fact that {{spoiler|''they are now married''}}. Even after they became intimate, she only rarely called him by his first name, and only ever in private.
** Julie Finlay is a variation of this. Her full last name is Finlay, but she prefers to be called 'Finn'. D.B. still uses Julie sometimes, and she'll call him on it. But he's the only one she knows who does it.
** Occasionally, D.B. gets called Russell, but not all the time.
** In the ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' spinoff ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' every main character refers to each other on a first name basis, except Horatio who always calls Ryan by his last name "Mr. Wolfe". Horatio is referred to as "H".
** [[CSI: NY]] has (Don)Flack and (Sheldon)Hawkes, although their first names get used sometimes as well, most often by Mac. Sometimes when a character answers the phone, they refer to themselves by last name. Stella does it a lot..."Bonasera". The superiors get it sometimes. Gerard comes to mind. Mac is an aversion of sorts,a rare example where it isn't a shortened last name, but a nickname for his first name.
* [[Buffy]] and friends refer to Giles as just Giles. The only exceptions are Jenny Calendar (who calls him Rupert) and Tara and Andrew (who call him Mr. Giles).
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