Literary Inspired TV Shows (
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Predominantly found in web series, TV shows with this trope are based on a pre-existing work. Like every single bloody Sherlock Holmes series ever made by network TV.

Survivors

When a deadly virus wipes out most of the world’s population, a handful of survivors struggle to stay alive.

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Airdates: 2008 - 2010

Swamp Thing

Abby Arcane returns home to Marais, Louisiana to investigate a deadly swamp-borne virus, only to discover the dark, terrifying mysteries of the swamp.

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Airdates: 2019

Sweet Blue Flowers

A lesbian high school girl and her close childhood friend try to keep their friends happy through difficult times.

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Airdates: 2009

Sweetbitter

A young woman learns how crazy it is to work in a restaurant.

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Airdates: 2018 - 2019

Symphogear

Mecha musical about saving the world from noise.

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Airdates: 2012 - 2019

Tachibanakan To Lie Angle

Also known as Love to Lie Angle, it’s about a high school student Hanabi Natsuno who moves into a dorm full of strange…

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Airdates: 2018

Taishō Baseball Girls

When a local player arrogantly states that girls should become housewives instead of going to school, teenage firebrands Koume and Akiko respond by forming their own baseball team. It’s shocking. It’s scandalous. And yet, in a nation in which almost anything seems suddenly possible, it may just be the start of something greater than any nine girls can imagine.

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Airdates: 2009

Tales from the Crypt

Tales of horror based on the gruesome E.C. comic books of the 1950s presented by the legendary Crypt Keeper, a sinister ghoul obsessed with gallows humor and horrific puns.

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Airdates: 1989 - 1996

Tales of the City

Based on the novels of the same name, it’s airing on PBS resulted in Congressional investigation into U.S. public television

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Airdates: 1993

Tenshi na Konamaiki

A pretty schoolgirl hides a secret: she is actually a boy who got turned into a girl and is looking for a way to change herself back.

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Airdates: 2002 - 2003

The 100

100 attractive teenagers are dropped onto an ‘uninhabited’ and ‘irradiated’ earth to see if it’s survivable.

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Airdates: 2014 - 2020