Television
- Peyton Place (1964–69, ABC TV series based on Grace Metalious' novel)
- Friends - Ross Geller and Rachel Green, two of the main characters, have an illegitimate child.
- NCIS - Ziva David's paternal half-brother, Ari Haswari, is an illegitimate half-Hebrew/half-Arab Mossad traitor.
- One Tree Hill - Lucas Scott, illegitimate son of Dan Scott
- Game of Thrones - Jon Snow, illegitimate son of Eddard Stark
- Midsomer Murders - the episode Bantling Boy centred around the illegitimate son of a baronet.
Read more about this topic: Illegitimacy In Fiction
Famous quotes containing the word television:
“They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in what to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child’s pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)
“His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)