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* Several demons in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel]]'' are after human sacrifices.
** In "When She Was Bad", the blood of the four people who were nearest to the Master at the time of his death is needed to bring him back - those people being Jenny, Giles, Cordelia, and Willow.
** Subverted, however, in "Doomed". Buffy and Giles ''think'' the demons are hunting for human victims to throw into the Hellmouth in order to blow it open; {{spoiler| in truth, the demons intend to sacrifice themselves. Spike almost causes a disaster by accidently helping them by throwing one of them into it.}}
* An episode (or two? or more?) of ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' had the Headhunters wanting to perform a human sacrifice.
* It was just a staged production number, but an episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' had Janice offered up as a sacrifice to some stone idol that she stalled by singing "A Little Help From My Friends" until she could be rescued.
* In ''[[Caprica]]'', this is one of the services offered in the illegal virtual nightclubs that Caprican teens frequently visit. Since it's all VR, no-one actually dies for real, but the idea of ''teenagers'' creating human sacrifice clubs ''for fun'' shows just how decadent Caprica is under all the richness.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
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** In [[Doctor Who/Recap/S14/E01 The Masque of Mandragora|"The Masque Of Mandragora"]], Sarah Jane is nearly sacrificed by Cult of Demnos.
** And [[Doctor Who/Recap/S1/E06 The Aztecs|"The Aztecs"]], naturally. Barbara, posing as the god Yetaxa attempts to halt the Aztecs' human sacrifice, but it doesn't take.
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