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== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Tokusatsu]]'' can do this.
* ''[[Lost]]'', while also being a [[Trope Codifier]] for the [[Noughties Drama Series]], started off with what can best be described as a clean slate since [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot|the plot was so heavily shrouded in mystery]]. This allowed the writers to construct a story that would include tropes from... well... Pretty much everything.
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*** And Series 5 throws in a [[Sitcom]] episode.
* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' is basically the trope incarnate, basically being about a guy who's continually moving through any kind of story the writers feel like.
* While ''[[Star Trek]]'' is undoubtablyundoubtedly science fiction (it could be said to be ''the'' Science Fiction), it has, like ''[[Doctor Who]]'', also been able to mix in many, many other genres on a episode-by-episode basis. Several episodes (especially in ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|The Original Series]]'') are only science fiction because of the occasional tricorder or phaser.
** And of course, Gene Roddenberry pitched it as Horatio Hornblower in space. This influence was picked up more heavily by Nicholas Meyer for the second movie which set the tone for the rest of the series.
* ''[[The Adventures of Brisco County Jr]]'' was a science fiction/western with a lead who was best known for horror/comedies.
* ''[[The X-Files|The X Files]]'' took archetypes and conspiracies from espionage shows and crime dramas, inserted them into plots about scifi and supernatural phenomena, and filmed it in horror/suspense style.
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' classified itself as a 'forensic fairy tale,' with elements of fantasy, procedural mystery, romantic comedy, and, well, what genre WASN'T'wasn't'' it?
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' is spy story combined with [[Space Opera]] combined with Lovecraftian tropes combined [[High Fantasy]].
* ''[[Prison Break]]'' is obviously about escaping prison but is also about a intricated conspiration and after they escape the second season is about the future of those who escaped.
* ''[[Castle]]'', like ''[[Bones]]'' above, is a [[Police Procedural]] romantic dramedy. They also like staging episodes around particular subcultures and bringing in various tropes of particular other genres as well; there's been a vampire episode, an alien abduction episode, a few political-spy thrillers, and so forth.
 
 
== [[Music]] ==
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