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* ''[[The Tudors]]'' displays quite a fantastic plethora of [[Nice Hat|Nice Hats]], most notably those worn by King Francis I and Charles Brandon. The good people of England never complained about Henry VIII creating his own church because they were too [[Distracted by the Sexy]].

* Johnny Carson's shtick as Carnac the Magnificent was well known for the giant turban that apparently granted him psychic powers.

* On the A&E TV series ''[[Nero Wolfe]]'', Archie Goodwin (Timothy Hutton) always dressed very well whenever he went out on business or pleasure, frequently topping off his outfit with a snappy fedora. Wolfe himself (Maury Chaykin) sported a few Nice Hats of his own on the rare occasions when he left the brownstone.

** And the Spacing Guild representative; you know the Guild has been knocked down a peg when he appears without his bizarre black headgear.

* Mention ''must'' go to Jayne Cobb's "cunning hat" in the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "The Message"... knitted for him [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|by his mom]].

* Benton Fraser's Mountie standard issue wide-awake hat in ''[[Due South]]'', which has a brim stiff enough to ''knock someone out'' when hurled Frisbee-style.

** Some fans point out that Fraser's susceptibility to injury and harm is dependent on whether or not he has his hat. If he has his hat, he is invincible (the hat once saves him from being shot at point-blank range, by TAKING THE BULLET no less). The bullet went straight through the hat front-and-back, but without the hat, he'd spend an episode in the hospital. Inversely, through the entire episode of ''Victoria's Secret'', he almost never wears the hat, and we ALL know how THAT went for him...

** Not one to be outdone in the fashion department, Romana sported at least four (if you count "Shada"). Not counting the awful Burberry one from "The Stones of Blood" that today screams uncool, there's "The Androids of Tara", "City of Death" ([[Fetish Fuel|topping off a rather memorable outfit]]), "Shada" and the time she wore the entire Fourth Doctor get-up.

** Though they're all tame compared to what most Time Lords wear.

* In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'', Worf first meets Kira and Dax as they're exiting the Holosuite in ridiculous medieval regalia, complete with huge garish headgear. Worf's only response: "Nice hat."

** Apparently ''Deep Space Nine'' actually had a specific part of their budget allocated toward making hats for various [[Planet of Hats]] aliens. Unfortunately the camera operators kept complaining the hats were obscuring the actors' faces, so the idea was dropped.

* Let's not forget Spock's frequent wearing of hats when visiting human planets incognito on the original ''[[Star Trek]]''. Ostensibly to cover his ears and eyebrows so he could pass for human, according to many sources it was really so Leonard Nimoy didn't have to wear the ear pieces, which made his ears very sore by the end of each season.

* Michael Garibaldi on ''[[Babylon 5]]'' had a film-noir style fedora that he would occasionally wear for doing detectiv-y things. When G'kar leaves the station to search for him, he takes (and wears) said hat.

* Angel Batista from ''[[Dexter]]'' usually sports a very sharp-looking hat.

* Steed from ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' always wears an impeccable bowler hat, as befits his status as a perfect English gentleman. The steel plate concealed in the crown is just a bonus.

** Meanwhile, his co-host Adam Savage will put just about anything on his head.

** He does wear a nice, brown [[Indiana Jones]] number pretty regularly.

** And let's not forget that iconic size-14 bowler.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''. While on New Caprica, Brother Cavil wears a hat that gives him a suitably sinister look, especially when he's arranging for the arrest and execution of several hundred hostages.

** Played with in the latter half of season three, wherein Bolander frequently wears a trilby... because he's been recently shot in the head and wears it to conceal the horrific scars.

* 1975's ''The Ghost Busters'' was pretty much all about the nice hats. Tracy, the gorilla sidekick, would go through about 10 hat-changes or more through the course of each episode.

** ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue|Lightspeed Rescue's]]'' Joel had a cowboy hat (though ''he'' was decidedly ''less'' nice when he wore it).

** And long ago there was a [[Monster of the Week]], [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Bones]]/[[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger|Dora Skeleton]], who had a nice musketeer-style hat and a rapier to match.