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* In one episode of ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'' David had a job as a trainer/medic at a pro wrestling arena. The wrestlers got along with each other well enough, but inside the ring it was all real.
* ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271812/ Tagteam]'', a [[Pilot Movie]] that was picked up but then canceled the day before shooting the first post-pilot episode. [[Jesse Ventura]] and Rowdy Roddy Piper play two wrestlers who refused to take a dive in a match so they were blackballed from the business. The eventually become cops and now [[They Fight Crime]].
* ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House On the Prairie]]'': In the 1979 episode "The King is Dead," the sport's early carny origins are exposed, although in the climatic scene the champion wrestler in this episode -- an aging athlete suffering from heart failure -- defeats a loudmouthed challenger using his own, legit athletic skills (putting the arrogant challenger in a legit bearhug and refusing to let go until the mouthy youngster passes out); he dies shortly after winning the match. The champion wrestler's manager, played by Ray Walston (of ''[[My Favorite Martian (TV)]]'' fame) is named ''[[Hilarious in Hindsight|Jimmy Hart]]'' ... the real name of a young musician who would become one of the best-known WWF personalities in the 1980s and 1990s.
** Rumor has it that ''[[Bonanza]]'' (Michael Landon's previous series) had a script featuring professional wrestling in development before the show's sudden cancellation in 1973.
* ''[[The A-Team]]'': The 1985 episode "Body Slam" starred [[Hulk Hogan]] in a plot that made heavy use of Hogan's wrestling career (including footage from a 1984 match vs. Greg "the Hammer" Valentine, presented as legit), and featured several WWF faces as un-billed extras in a scene where they fight off that episode's villains. In the segment featuring the Hogan-Valentine match, the ending is altered to show the bad guys entering the arena to confront and assassinate Hogan (don't worry, they're stopped in time).
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