We just have to face the fact that within the Baywatch universe, David Hasselhoff is an incredibly appealing man.
Possibly the biggest reality-breaking element of all!
There was the time he went to Washington DC. Everyone in Hooterville would talk about seeing the Eiffel Tower.
When he got there, their hotel room had a view of the Eiffel Tower.
Eh, QL always felt supernatural at its heart. Yeah, technically, Sam built a time machine, which is “science,” but the whole thing where he’s possessing other people until some invisible arbiter decides he’s “fixed” history enough and lets him jump into some other person who’s in dire straits had a very “higher power guiding events” vibe to it, even before that was made explicit by the series finale.
Also played by Kenneth Tigar, as well as a psychic and the victim of a poltergeist in other episodes.
I just watched this a few minutes ago 
I watched the whole series back in the day, but it took me over half the episode to remember tonight that they’d randomly had ghosts in this one episode.
This reminds me of Reign. It was a pretty straightforward historical drama, if a bit soapy, about Mary Queen of Scots. But Nostradamus was in it. And towards the end, the ghosts/hallucinations of Catherine de’ Medici’s two youngest children who died as babies in real life but were older on the show.
I think the “higher power” part was pretty explicit long before that. There was one episode where he leaped into a con artist who was running the “Rainmaker” scam on a farming town in the middle of a drought. He figured making it rain was the only way to fix the timeline, but of course had no idea how to do that. So at one point, he explicitly tells the higher power, in an almost prayer-like fashion, that this one is on them to fix.
Just saw yet another example of this in the recent Oscar-nominated “Nightmare Alley”. It’s about a drifter (Bradley Cooper) who joins a carnival and becomes apprentice to a husband and wife fortune teller team. They teach him all the tricks of the fortune telling and mind-reading trade, and it is all tricks and psychology that are very much non-supernatural. Except…
…when the wife of the team gives a Tarot reading to the main character, which turns out to be extremely foreshadowey.
The 1990s sitcom Family Matters veered into weird sci-fi when one of the characters, Steve Urkell, invented a machine that created a cooler version of himself.
I don’t have a cite for this, but I read an interview once with Lee Child - he used to be a producer on live TV shows, and claimed that he actually has that time sense, developed while timing items to the second, day in, day out. Make of that what you will.
On The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Maynard progressed from being a weirdo beatnik to being something of a Holy Fool with magical powers. He could do things like talk to animals.
I’ve skipped a bit of the thread, apologies if this has been mentioned already.
In season 2 of Fargo, which is a gritty crime drama, a gunfight is interrupted when a UFO zooms down and hovers over the motel where the shootout is happening. After a while, it zooms off again.
While I’m thinking about it, wasn’t there an episode of Friends where Phoebe was possessed by the spirit of a woman who died on her massage table?
Yeah, if I remember, the couple characters who witnessed it were just kinda like “huh”. There was no explanation or follow-up; it was just a weird non-sequitar.
That was such a weird development. It’s based on a “real” incident though.
Dunno how she died, but Phoebe was definitely possessed by a ghost who left her after declaring that now she’d “seen everything.”
Yeah, that’s the one. I think the point was that Phoebe was giving her a massage at the moment of death, so her spirit…. transferred somehow?
I think it was seeing a lesbian wedding that meant she’d “seen everything” and so could depart.
Someone asked earlier if there were any long-running shows that never did a supernatural episode. There was a show in the mid 90s to early zeroes called The Pretender, Which was produced by the same guy who did quantum Leap, and I’m proud to say that this, my favorite TV show, never did that. There was one episode where Jared meets a girl who claims she can teleport through time or something, but it’s never implied that she actually can and she’s only on screen for like five seconds And she’s just a spaced out hippie New Age girl who has no effect on the plot whatsoever.
On the college drama Felicity, in the final season she starts using Wicca magic to travel through time.
Why didn’t they just do it as a Terry Gilliam animation, then?
Oh, I don’t know.
