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== Anime & Manga ==

* The anime series ''[[Brigadoon Marin and Melan]]'' has the same name as the play in the title and a world sort of similar to it. It also has [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|robot gunsword-slingers from another dimension]].

* The second ''[[~~Read or Die (Anime)|~~Read or Die]]'' manga (''Read or Dream'') featured a ghost library that appeared to the living once every ten years. Of course, you could visit it all you liked after you were dead, as long as you brought your books back on time.

* The second ''[[Read or Die]]'' manga (''Read or Dream'') featured a ghost library that appeared to the living once every ten years. Of course, you could visit it all you liked after you were dead, as long as you brought your books back on time.

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* Done in ''[[Sonic CD]]'' and later the ''[[Sonic the Comic]]'' series about the mysterious planet that appears during a yearly eclipse and disappears when it ends, with the majority of the plots being focused on escaping the planet before it fades back into whatever dimension it came from.

** [[Averted]] by Robotnik in ''[[Sonic CD]]'', who chains Little Planet to Earth.

* The [[wikipedia:Usborne Puzzle Adventure series|Usborne Puzzle Adventure]] book ''The Vanishing Village'' has the protagonist searching for a village of this sort ([[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|as the title may suggest]]).

* The [[wikipedia:Usborne Puzzle Adventure series|Usborne Puzzle Adventure]] book ''The Vanishing Village'' has the protagonist searching for a village of this sort ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|as the title may suggest]]).

* One of these makes an appearance in ''[[Black Moon Chronicles]]''. Demons use the protagonists' unwitting stay there to stuff main character Wismerhill's [[Shallow Love Interest|first]] [[Disposable Woman|girlfriend]] [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|into the fridge]].

== Film -- Live Action ==

* Pleasant Valley, in Herschell Gordon Lewis' "B" horror film ''[[Two Thousand Maniacs]]''

* Pleasant Valley, in Herschell Gordon Lewis' "B" horror film ''[[Two Thousand Maniacs!]]''

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== Literature ==

* While it's never been relevent to the stories, ''The [[Discworld]] [[Universe Compendium|Companion]]'' claims the country of Chimeria (which gets referenced briefly in ''[[Discworld ~~(Literature)~~/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'', and never gets mentioned again) is a brigadoon, as is the Lost City of Ee (which is why so many adventurers have discovered it, only to lose it again almost immediately).

* While it's never been relevent to the stories, ''The [[Discworld]] [[Universe Compendium|Companion]]'' claims the country of Chimeria (which gets referenced briefly in ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'', and never gets mentioned again) is a brigadoon, as is the Lost City of Ee (which is why so many adventurers have discovered it, only to lose it again almost immediately).

* ''[[Forever After]]'', an anthology with [[Roger Zelazny]]'s name on front, features an assassin on a quest to {{spoiler|take a magical artifact back to it's resting place, after the Big Bad has been defeated.}} This city comes and goes, and no one is sure if he'll make it out.

** {{spoiler|He doesn't. Also the Big Bad wasn't really dead, and it was ''his'' plan to send away the artifacts that could have defeated him--instead of being defeated, he had possessed the body of the hero and become King.}}

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== Live Action Television ==

* ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'': The planet Meridian appears only once every 60 years.

* ''[[~~Farscape (TV)|~~Farscape]]'' has an episode with a group of planets at the centre of a time anomaly where time passes much faster than in the wider universe and which only become accessible for an hour or so every fifty-five years. It is suggested that since the spaceship Moya is part-way into the anomaly, it may be experiencing a milder but still serious level of time displacement.

* ''[[Farscape]]'' has an episode with a group of planets at the centre of a time anomaly where time passes much faster than in the wider universe and which only become accessible for an hour or so every fifty-five years. It is suggested that since the spaceship Moya is part-way into the anomaly, it may be experiencing a milder but still serious level of time displacement.

* Played mostly straight (as straight as the series could muster, anyhow) in the second season episode "Brigadoom" of ''[[Lexx]]'', which was also a [[Musical Episode]].

* The characters in ''[[Sliders]]'' are driven from one dimension to the next by the fact that each world is essentially one of these.

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== Western Animation ==

* Spoofed in an episode of the [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[Beetlejuice (~~Animation~~)|Beetlejuice]]'', "Brinkadoom", where Beetlejuice and Lydia get stuck in such a place, a "sleepy little town" (pun intended) that vanishes when all its inhabitants fall asleep.

* Spoofed in an episode of the [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'', "Brinkadoom", where Beetlejuice and Lydia get stuck in such a place, a "sleepy little town" (pun intended) that vanishes when all its inhabitants fall asleep.

* There is an example of this in ''[[Gummi Bears]]'' called "Gummadoon".