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** Saint Petersburg, Russia, is still referred to as "Leningrad", Red Scare (a Russian immigrant/expat) identifies as a Communist, and a Soviet flag is seen on Scare's desk, suggesting that the Main/ColdWar never ended and the Soviet Union still exists.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': In the show's universe, superheroes have been around at least since the '60s. [[ForWantofaNail You wouldn't be able to tell from the way society is more or less the same compared to our world.]] [[spoiler: This gets called into question as of episode 6: The Boys discover from their encounter with the Super baby the previous episode that Vought has been creating Super since 1971 using their charities as cover. This is the same episode where Stillwell outright admits that the entire "superhero mythology" of the Boys-verse was manufactured for public consumption.]]

* ''Series/Danger5'': UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in TheSixties. The second series has the Cold War in TheEighties and includes an AlternateHistoryNaziVictory.

** Even with this, comic-book super-tech is still available -- in the first two episodes a vehicle similar to the Owlship/"Archie", [[XRayVision X-Ray Goggles]], and personal ornithopter packs (which are pretty damn unreliable) used by {{Paparazzi}} all appear. And a major plot point in the episode "This Extraordinary Being" [[spoiler:(which provides a major reveal about how Judd was lynched) is that the freaking Klan managed to create man-portable [[PsychicAssistedSuicide brainwashing machines]] all the way back in ''TheThirties''.]]

* Creator/BryanCranston's legal drama ''Your Honor'' is set in [[TheNewTwenties summer 2020]] without any reference to [[UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic COVID-19]], with public life unrestricted and normal. This indicates the pandemic never occurred in the show's universe.

** The entire franchise itself runs off as one, having history diverge during the 1990s due to the introduction of augmented superhumans [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke that subsequently decide to take over the planet, viewing themselves as the new evolution in humanity]]. Humanity is plunged into a second "Dark Ages" due to the Eugenics War, humans recover to create a much different society (which included giving up on helping the poor and homeless and stuffing them into homeless districts) and then WorldWarIII occurs, going nuclear to the point that more people die than in any other previous conflict. The last event proved to be the final straw that got humanity to finally wake up to their problems, and worked to rebuild from there, leading to the franchise taking its current form.[[index]]

* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'' features a fictional town: Wiskayok, New Jersey and a fictitious plane crash, but otherwise features things that are present in real-life. The scenes with the main cast as adults are set in 2021, but with no sign of any pandemic, however, a character who is running for state senator is referred to by a photographer as being the "[[UsefulNotes/KamalaHarris queer Kamala]]."[[/index]]

* ''Series/{{Cavemen}}'': Cavemen have survived into the present day and exist as a minority group alongside ''Homo sapiens''.
* Surprisingly, ''Series/DoctorWho'' has only dabbled with this concept a handful of times. The Doctor has meddled (or stopped meddling) in history all throughout the show's run, but he has visited alternate history-tracks only twice, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno "Inferno"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen "Rise of the Cybermen"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel "The Age of Steel"]], while in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft Turn Left]]" we get the alternate history of "What if the Doctor was not there to defend the Earth?" Needless to say, it was pretty ugly.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars "Pyramids of Mars"]], Sarah Jane asks why they don't just leave to avoid getting killed since they know the BigBad didn't destroy earth in the 19th century since she is from 20th century Earth. The Doctor explains that now that they are involved in events alternate histories are inevitable and "her" Earth may never exist if they don't stop the BigBad. He even takes her to her "present" and shows her a blasted and sterile wasteland that will result if they don't go back and fix things.

** However these become a major plot point in the 8th Doctor's earliest stories in ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho''. In "Invaders from Mars", there is a different number of U.S states and Orson Welles doesn't recognise Shakespeare. "Time of the Daleks" elaborates on what happened to Shakespeare, and in "Neverland" it is revealed that the Doctor saving Charley Pollard is causing the Universe to be infected by Anti-Time, which is destroying the Web of Time.

** The series has Salem witches being real, who made a pact with Massachusetts Colony to fight on their behalf in exchange for ending persecution of them. It carried over into the US, until in modern times the Army has witch soldiers fighting the country's battles.

** Fleshed out with a timeline shown on a chalkboard in a classroom during a training exercise, which shows that history radically changed in the 20th century [[spoiler:to the point where there was no equivalent to World War II]].

** As pointed out in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'' the ''Power Rangers'' franchise takes place in a universe where the Earth's Moon has a breathable atmosphere and apparently normal Earth gravity. It was also still being visited by astronauts until Rita Repulsa was freed by said astronauts.

** Due to moving New Zealand in 2003, California has appeared to not experience the drought that plagued it in our world. It has also appeared that California's climate has shifted to allow for tropical deciduous forests compared to the shrublands present in the earlier seasons.

* In the 2006 BBC adaptation of the short story "Literature/RandomQuest" by Creator/JohnWyndham, the PointOfDivergence between Colin Trafford's universe and the AlternateUniverse to which he is sent was the Berlin Wall never falling because there was no ''glasnost'' and ''perestroika'', which implies that Mikhail Gorbachev never became the leader of the Soviet Union. As a result, the Cold War continued to intensify until the United States and the Soviet Union's power dwindled and both were eclipsed by the People's Republic of China. In 2005, Japan discovered significant oil deposits in the South Pacific and its threatening behaviour towards the Philippines and Indonesia over the course of the last 18 months has placed it on the verge of war with the US. The UK is suffering a severe drought with reservoirs throughout Southeast England and Wales being dry for months. This leads to the declaration of a state of emergency. The Western world is experiencing a severe fertility crisis which is expected to worsen over the course of the next ten years. Consequently, the United Nations Security Council has lifted its ban on human cloning and the first viable human clone has been already been born to a couple in San Francisco. In contrast to the 1971 film adaptation ''Quest for Love'', the space programme in the parallel universe is more advanced than in Colin's universe. There has already been a manned mission to Mars. In 2005, in a joint operation between NASA and the Chinese National Space Administration called the Juno mission, an unmanned Jupiter polar explorer was launched from Cape Canaveral. It took fifteen months to reach Jupiter.

** "What if the Aztecs had had escalators?" ([[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Apparently, it allowed them to fight off Cortez!]])
* The TV series ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' used this as its entire premise. Every episode our heroes slide into a new alternate present.

** The entire franchise itself runs off as one, having history diverge during the 1990s due to the introduction of augmented superhumans [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke that subsequently decide to take over the planet, viewing themselves as the new evolution in humanity]]. Humanity is plunged into a second "Dark Ages" due to the Eugenics War, humans recover to create a much different society (which included giving up on helping the poor and homeless and stuffing them into homeless districts) and then WorldWarIII occurs, going nuclear to the point that more people die than in any other previous conflict. The last event proved to be the final straw that got humanity to finally wake up to their problems, and worked to rebuild from there, leading to the franchise taking its current form.
* ''Series/StrangerThings'' is a more subtle case than most, but it takes place in one where [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra Project MKUltra]] actually produced successful results. That would eventually result in the creation of [[GovernmentConspiracy Hawkins National Laboratory]] for developing {{Psychic Powers}}-equipped SuperSoldiers the United States would use against the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
* The ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' Season 6 episode "My Heart Will Go On" takes place in the present of an alternate history in which the ''Titanic'' never sank. The timeline was created by Balthazar saving the ship to provide more souls to fight alongside Castiel, and also to stop Music/CelineDion's [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking career from taking off]].
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'':

* A minor example, but according to WordOfGod, ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' takes place in a universe where George A. Romero's ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' was never made. As a result, zombies never became a pop-culture phenomenon, which is the main reason why the zombies in the series [[NotUsingTheZWord are never called zombies]].
* ''Series/Watchmen2019'': Being as it is a SequelSeries to the [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} comic book series of the same name]], the miniseries takes place in a world where costumed heroes existed (though Doctor Manhattan was the only one with superpowers). Specifically it takes place in an alternate present over three decades after the events of the original source material, and deals with the ramifications of Adrien Veidt's psychic squid attack on New York City (which is colloquially known as "11/2"):

** Tobacco is a controlled substance, according to Looking Glass.

* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'' features a fictional town: Wiskayok, New Jersey and a fictitious plane crash, but otherwise features things that are present in real-life. The scenes with the main cast as adults are set in 2021, but with no sign of any pandemic, however, a character who is running for state senator is referred to by a photographer as being the "[[UsefulNotes/KamalaHarris queer Kamala]]."

* Korean drama ''Series/TheKing2Hearts'' takes place in an alternate universe where modern day South Korea is a constitutional monarchy.