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:
“We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“Addison DeWitt: Your next move, it seems to me, should be toward television.
Miss Caswell: Tell me this. Do they have auditions for television?
Addison DeWitt: That’s all television is, my dear. Nothing but auditions.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)