Where Are They Now Epilogue / Live-Action TV

"Where Are They Now?" Epilogues in Live-Action TV series.

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• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: After the Final Battle, there's a one year Time Skip, and then the final scenes show where all the team members have been up to since parting ways: Elena is now a top field agent, on a team with Piper and and LMD of Davis; Mack is still Director of SHIELD, now operating out of a Helicarrier; May is an instructor at SHIELD's academy, with Flint as one of her students; Fitz and Simmons have retired to raise their daughter; Daisy is running a deep space mission alongside Sousa and Kora; and Coulson is now Walking the Earth in semi-retirement.
• Ambulance is one of many British documentary series focusing on medical and emergency services, for which an unofficial "industry standard" has emerged whereby these epilogues are presented as silent footage or stills in a shrunken window with white-on-black text captions beneath and accompanying music (which will fade out to a Moment of Silence if the person died).
• The Astronaut Wives Club ends with Max narrating what happens to all of the Mercury families in the last minutes of the finale.
• Each episode of Band of Brothers had been topped and tailed by interviews with the survivors. After the final episode, the interviewees returned - this time with captions telling you who they were. Near the end of the final episode when Easy Company is told that they are going home, Winters briefly narrates the fates of several of the surviving main characters.
• Every episode of Bar Rescue ends by describing what had been happening at the episode's featured bar a couple months after its relaunch, including updates on the staff's personal and financial problems detailed throughout the episode.
• The final scenes of Bastard Boys take place one year after the start of the main action, with captions about what came next for the key players (John Coombs, Greg Combet, Josh Bornstein, Chris Corrigan and Julian Burnside) as well as the Maritime Union, Patrick Stevedores and the Howard government, most of which were still alive/operating when the miniseries aired in May 2007.
• Blue Murder and its sequel both end with text captions about what came next for Roger Rogerson and the criminals he was associated with. In fact, Blue Murder: Killer Cop depicts Rogerson's conviction for perverting the course of justice that was described in the original series' epilogue. When the original was finally aired in NSW in 2001, the epilogue was expanded to include Detective Michael Drury.
• After Candy Montgomery is acquitted of Betty Gore's murder, Candy (2022) the epilogue states that Don Crowder, Candy's attorney, went on to run for Governor of Texas in 1986. Betty Gore's husband Allan eventually remarried Elaine. Candy moved out of state, changed her name and works as a mental health therapist. The epilogue neglected to mention Crowder's 1998 death or that Candy divorced her husband years after the trial.
• CBS Schoolbreak Special: The epilogue of the episode "15 and Getting Straight", which dramatized two newcomer teen drug addicts (Drew Barrymore and Corey Feldman) to a 12 step-type counseling program. A teen named Rick seems to have made tremendous progress and has taken to mentoring the teens as he is at the end of the 28-day inpatient program, but most of the other teens believe they don't belong in the program and don't have a problem. David Birney plays the lead counselor, himself an ex-druggie. The irony follows at the end, where Birney's character tells the group that Rick had overdosed; he had run into some old friends who tried to get him to try a new drug, Rick refused at first but when they followed him home and kept hounding him, Rick took the drug and immediately had a seizure. Then follows the epilogue, zooming in on an empty chair. All of the teens that seemed that they weren't going to make it do ... and Rick (whose post-script is saved for last) is dead.
• Charite:
  • The series ends with protagonist Ida Lenze narrating what became of her, Doctor Behring, Doctor Ehrlich, Professor Koch, Hedwig Freiberg, and Professor Virchow.
  • Again in the follow-up series, Charité at War, where Anni narrates how life went on for her and the other protagonists.
• The final episode of Charmed, "Forever Charmed" says what is going to happen to the protagonists' kids and actually ends with a shot of their grandkids.
• The final Coach has Dauber narrating what happened to most of the cast: Luther retired and got his own mansion as a retirement gift from Doris, Howard was fired but him and his wife sold their Barbie collection and now own a dinner theater in Jupiter, Florida, and Dauber himself coached the Breakers to back-to-back Super Bowl wins, then retired and became a "Monday Night Football" commentator.
• Once per Episode on Cold Case as a Contrast Montage between what the people involved in the case were like then compared to how they are like in the present, if they're still alive.
• Community: The episode "The Art of Discourse" ends with a Food Fight and the epilogue. This being Community, it was done as a direct reference to Animal House. While the obnoxious kids have their futures told, the main characters get spoof endings, with Jeff's being that he "banged Mark's mom. Twice." This later serves up a Brick Joke over four years later in the episode "Cooperative Polygraphy" when Britta does indeed become the proud owner of a used iPod Nano.
• On the day of Joe Biden's inaguration, Conan ran a mock epilogue for Donald Trump, his family, his aministration, and a selection of supporters:
  DONALD TRUMP continued to get impeached every year on his birthday.
  
  All 5 MELANIA TRUMPS returned to Slovenia.
  
  DON JR. got divorced from Kimberly Guilfoyle and found love on ABC's new dating show, "The Damp, Coked-Up Bachelor."
  
  After her political ambitions failed, IVANKA started selling a line of coffee mugs that say, "I WAS A MODERATING INFLUENCE."
  
  JARED KUSHNER was beaten up by his own children, shortly after being introduced to them.
  
  MIKE PENCE returned to Indiana, where he hired a shaman to give him Ayahuasca. He tripped balls for 3 days and now surfs in Santa Cruz under the name "Wiggie."
  
  After completely disappearing form public, STEPHEN MILLER re-emerged when White House cleaning staff discovered him inside a wall vent, nursing a new litter of ten thousand larvae.
  
  STEVE BANNON stopped drinking, lost 60 pounds and became a healthy and vibrant asshole.
  
  STEVE MNUCHIN set off on a personal "dreamquest" to find the vowel missing from his last name.
  
  In 2030, HOPE HICKS celebrated her 8th year as the fourth Mrs. Donald Trump.
  
  BEN CARSON spent the next 9 years at MAGA events, telling Trump supporters, "No, you're thinking of Herman Cain."
  
  BETSY DEVOS went on to develop a technology that converts poor people into nutritious dog food.
  
  RUDY GIULIANI continued to fight Trump's legal battles, taking his election fraud case all the way to "THE SUPREME CORK DISCOUNT WINE & LIQUOR."
  
  ROGER STONE lives in a sewer and vows to one day get revenge on Batman.
  
  MIKE "MY PILLOW GUY" LINDELL was murdered by a disgruntled customer, who smothered him with one of his own pillows.^note Due to the pillow's low density and poor quality, this took two weeks.
  
  KELLYANNE CONWAY retired from politics and tried to rehabilitate her image by becoming a ring card girl at cockfights.
  
  JACOB CHANSLEY, (aka QANON SHAMAN) made a wrong turn in Yellowstone Park, got cornered by a herd of buffalo, and was mounted over 800 times.
• The final episode of Corner Gas had brief snippets discussing what the characters were doing a few months down the line, which ended up sounding just like the plot of another episode, reinforcing the message of the ending that things weren't really going to change that much.
• Doctor Who: "The Fires of Pompeii" ends with an epilogue set six months later, showing that the family the Doctor and Donna rescued is doing well: the marble business continues, Evelina is wearing a short skirt that's the latest fashion, and Quintus is studying to be a doctor. Oh, and they've adopted the Doctor, Donna and the TARDIS as their household gods.
• A mild version, the ending narration of Dragnet, describing the results of the case investigated in the episode over a mug shot of the suspect. This is also frequently parodied in its entirety.
• Dr. Pimple Popper: Each episode ends with a quick montage that follows up on each patient two to six months after their encounter with Dr. Lee, featuring the aftermath of their surgeries or the progress of their ongoing treatments and how their lives have changed thanks to Dr. Lee's intervention.
• Due South did a similar thing at the end of its finale, "Call of the Wild", although the revealed futures were slightly more obscure and unusual than most other series. For example, Francesca Vecchio was revealed to have six "virgin pregnancies". The futures were probably obscure because they were quickly written, after the scripted ending to the finale wasn't filmed. The unfilmed scripted ending was found a few years ago and made known to fans.
• The Ex-PM ends by revealing that Andrew Dugdale was re-elected to Parliament in 2017 and became Prime Minister again a year later, his wife Catherine somehow became Prime Minister in 2022, their daughter Carol would become backup singer for Tina Arena in 2019 and that their chauffeur Curtis was abducted by aliens in 2022, among others.
• Flashpoint ended its series with a scene set a year after the events of the finale to show what happened to the main characters. Sam and Jules have had a baby girl named Sadie (Jules having been pregnant during the main part of the finale), Sam's been made team leader of Team 3, Parker's near-fatal injuries in the finale forced him to retire from active duty and he's now an academy instructor, Ed is taking Parker's place as Sergeant of Team 1, and Spike and Winnie are officially a couple and happily dating.
• The Friday Night Lights Grand Finale ends with a series of scenes that show us what happened to the characters 8 months after the Lions' final State game.
• In The Girl From Plainville, Michelle was sentenced to 15 months for involuntary manslaughter, but was released after 11 months due to good behavior. Conrad Roy II (Conrad's father) ran in the 2018 Boston Marathon in his son's honor to raise awareness of mental health. Lynn worked with politicians on a bill called "Conrad's Law" that would make suicide coercion punishable with up to 5 years in prison.
• Perhaps the best spoof: Eddie Izzard's Glorious stand up show, which cuts from audience applause to a somber tune and some captions telling us that Eddie went to prison for five years and is now called "Jeff", and is living on a duck farm.
• The Great British Bake Off: Each series ends by revealing what all the contestants — including those eliminated as early as the first round — are doing. Generally this means becoming bakers (or otherwise working in some sort of baking-related area) for contestants eliminated later, and a bit more community baking for the less successful. There have also been a couple of proper standalone Where Are They Now shows.
• In How I Met Your Mother, in the episode "Gary Blauman", Future!Ted fills in on what happened with a lot of minor characters.
  • Carl continues to run MacLarens as a family business with his son.
  • Jeanette was arrested for sending jars of urine to Val Kilmer (not that Val Kilmer) but manages to avoid prison by getting psychological help from Kevin. They romantically hook up and are now in Poughkeepsie.
  • Ranjit now owns the limo service.
  • Patrice becomes a host for a call-in service radio show. She's still in touch with Robin who calls the show sometimes and still screams at her.
  • William Zabka became the youngest winner of the American Humanities medal with Literature.
  • Zoe still stages protests for noble causes that don't always end well for her.
  • Scooter marries Stripper!Lily.
  • Blitz became a gambling addict but finally kicked the habit after a three day bender at the same slot machine ... only for an elderly woman to hit the jackpot right after he left.
  • Blah Blah has her name finally remembered by Future!Ted. It's Carol.
  • Sandy Rivers lost his job for his sexual harassment but becomes a news anchor in Moscow ... where he still sexually harasses his co-workers.
  • James got back together with Tom.
  • Gary Blauman drove back, apologized and was at Robin and Barney's wedding after all.
• A few early episodes of Law & Order did this — once the complications that made it a good story were ironed out, the actual verdict and sentence appeared onscreen prior to the credits. This model was dropped by the second season.
• An all-grown up Mabel explains what happened to the supporting cast of Mad About You.
• Malcolm in the Middle ended with a montage of each family member three months after Malcolm and Reese's graduation. Dewey enjoys being the oldest brother as he and Jamie continue to cause trouble; Francis rants on the phone to Lois about being a free spirit just before heading off to his secret office job; Lois is pregnant yet again; Reese enjoys living with Craig, and also loves his permanent job as a janitor which, as he explains to Malcolm over the phone, he got after framing the previous janitor for being a peeping tom; and Malcolm is doing well at Harvard, which he is paying for by also working as a janitor.
• The Max docuseries Menudo: Forever Young does one for all former Menudo who appeared in it. Just a few examples: original member Ricky went into corporate law, and like Johnny (a regular in Univision "Despierta America", participated in the reunion; Ray became a filmmaker; Sergio got certified as a marine captain; Rawy is a senior pastor of an online church, and Cesar is a choreographer and dancer for the Metropolitan opera.
• Merlin ends with a brief scene of the now very old Merlin in the modern day.
• The last episode of Docudrama Mr Bates vs The Post Office ends as Suzanne and Alan hike back down a mountain they've claimed together and the following captions are displayed:
  Twenty years after he lost his own post office, Alan Bates is still fighting for compensation for hundreds of other victims.
  The Post Office blamed 3,500 subpostmasters for financial losses caused by Horizon.
  700 were found guilty of crimes. 236 were sent to prison. Four subpostmasters took their own lives.
  The Court of Appeal has so far overturned 93 wrongful convictions. And the Public Inquiry the Alan called for in 2009 is now underway.
  But of the 555 allies who fought alongside him in the High Court, 18 died without seeing justice or full compensation.
  No current or former Post Office manager has face a criminal charge.
• M*A*S*H: In the episode "The Red White Blues" the epilogue mentions that further reserach after the Korean War concluded that the enzyme deficiency which caused susceptibility to anemia was present not only in blacks, but in Caucasians of Mediterranean descent if they were administrated primaquine.
• Mouse (2021): The epilogue takes place three years after the main series. Young-shin is pardoned but implicitly killed after her release, Mu-chi and Bong-yi are still friends, and Ba-reum died in prison and Mu-chi visits his grave.
• "Murder One": The series ends with the arrest of the real murderer. Subsequent captions tell us that he was convicted and is currently on death row, that the doctor who had worked for him to frame Neil is serving a ten-year prison sentence for perverting the course of justice, and that Richard Cross died of AIDS a few days after speaking at Neil's appeal.
• Never Have I Ever ends with an epilogue of what the main characters are up to after Devi leaves for college:
  • Fabiola is crushing it at Howard's engineering program, having joined the robotics lab of the professor she met earlier;
  • Eleanor is self-producing media with the assistance of Trent;
  • Nalini is in in a happy relationship with Andres;
  • Paxton is back at ASU, studying to be a teacher;
  • Kamala is settled in Baltimore with Manish;
  • Devi is happily dating Ben at Princeton.
• The Newhart finale had one of these, set five years after a Japanese developer had bought the entire town of Stratford, Vermont and turned it into a golf resort. Of course, they then subverted it by having the show - not just the final episode, but the entire series - turn out to be All Just a Dream.
• After the penultimate episode of Night and Day closed on Jane stabbing Danny, Josh apparently stabbing himself and (less surprisingly) Roxanne shrieking at Alex, in the finale we revisited the residents of Thornton Street four years on, on Jane and Della's twenty-first birthday...
  • Natalie and Duncan have moved out of the neighbourhood, but are still apparently together.
  • Ryan is now a transvestite going by the name of Beverly, and still with Celeste.
  • Della and Josh are living Happily Ever After at St Vincent's, with their own adopted children and £1m in the bank after Josh hit the jackpot on a TV gameshow.
  • Alex has moved back to his hometown of Liverpool, while Roxanne is now a social worker, still living in Thornton Street - but there are hints that they may now reunite.
  • Dennis is now a firefighter; he and Fiona have a son named Gabriel, and are cohabiting with Mike and his partner Jeremy.
  • Tom has become a renowned pornographer, and lives with a partner and son, Bjorn, in Amsterdam .
  • Jimmy and Begonia are expecting again, while Charlie and Dona bring up their first child, Fidel.
  • Sam is training to be a rabbi, and announces his engagement to girlfriend Zoe.
  • Lucy appears to be living happily with Rachel.
  • Kate and Frankie continue to command the Virgin Army, with help from robotically resurrected Will.
  • Steph has died, and Josh is seen visiting her gravestone.
  • Holly is conspicuously absent - but on the videotape message Tom sends his parents, does the voice of his partner - who is curiously both pixelated and obscured from our view by Dennis's foot - sound familiar?
  • Jane arrives for the celebrations, claiming to have been granted day release from a secure psychiatric unit, where she's been serving a sentence for Danny and Malcolm's murders. But her family later learns that she died in her cell earlier that morning - leaving us to conclude that it was in fact her ghost, having come to say her goodbyes before disappearing for the final time.
• Paranormal State uses this as an Every Episode Ending.
• Parks and Recreation spends the entire last episode revealing moments from the future of each character, some almost fifty years in the future.
• Power Rangers Wild Force: Red Ranger Cole makes his peace with the deceased Big Bad, and uses his talents to help animals. Yellow Ranger Taylor rejoined the Air Force. Black and Blue Rangers Danny and Max (respectively) went on a trip around the world. Silver Ranger Merrick also travels the world, but with his old enemy Zen-Aku (who is apparently Back from the Dead AGAIN) at his side. The narrator is revealed to be White Ranger Alyssa, who is now a kindergarten teacher and has been telling the story of the Rangers to her students.
  • In the above series crossover with Power Rangers Time Force, we learn that after the Big Bad's Daughter's Heel–Face Turn, she got a job at a daycare.
  • Its Super Sentai basis, Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger also has this - Red Ranger Kakeru returns to being a veterinarian, Yellow Ranger Gaku rejoined the JSADF, Blue Ranger Kai worked in a surf shop, Black Ranger Sotaro runs a ranch with his love interest, White Ranger Sae resumed her kenpo training, and Silver Ranger Shirogane went road-tripping across the world.
  • Power Rangers S.P.D.:
    • Sky is promoted to Red Ranger after Jack leaves SPD, and Bridge is promoted to Blue Ranger. This one was followed up on during the Power Rangers Operation Overdrive crossover episode, where Bridge explains that after Commander Cruger was promoted, Sky was promoted to Commander and he was promoted to Red Ranger.
    • The SPD crossover with Power Rangers: Dino Thunder established that a year after graduating from Reefside, Conner McKnight was starting a few soccer camps for kids and Kira Ford was singing jingles for adverts, but by the time the SPD Rangers are active Conner has several camps all over the country, Kira's songs have made her famous, and Ethan James actually created some of the technology used by SPD. Oh yeah, and Dino Thunder itself revealed that Tommy Oliver actually became an archaeologist and then a high school science teacher.
  • In the crossover between Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue and Power Rangers Time Force, we learn that the Pink Ranger became a doctor, whilst the Green Ranger married Dr. Fairweather. A deleted scene would have explained that a new Lightspeed Aqua Base had been built (the old one was destroyed in the finale), and the old Titanium Ranger is the new commander.
  • In the final part of Power Rangers Beast Morphers, we get a look into the future. Ravi has been bonding with his mom- who's been promoted to General- and Roxy over his art, Nate and Zoey are dating and leading Coral Harbor in its fight for renewable energy, Steel became a movie star, Ben and Betty became actual security guards and captured the escapee Scrozzle. Guess who took over as commander? Devon. And he brings everyone together to celebrate Steel's first birthday.
• Princess Silver: The second half of the last episode shows what happened to the characters after Fu Yuan's death. Wu You and Rong Le are crowned emperor and empress; Wu Yu and Xiao Ke agree to get married; and Chen Yu is a tutor warning children not to make the same mistakes she and so many other people made.
• Due to its abrupt cancellation the series finale of Pushing Daisies ends with a brief montage that explains what the cast would have done if the series had continued. Olive marries Randy and they open a mac-and-cheese restaurant. Emerson publishes his pop-up book which allows his long-lost daughter Penny to find him. Lily and Vivian Charles resume their synchronized swimming careers with a world tour, but before that Ned and Chuck finally reveal to them that Chuck is still alive.
• Quantum Leap:
  • The somewhat infamous 'Sam Beckett never returned home' captions appear at the end of the last episode, added on when the show was canceled.
  • A variation happens in almost every episode. After he's changed time and just before he leaps out, Sam is given an update by Al on what happens to the people he's been helping.
• The Red Green Show did this on its final episode. While it didn't cover all the cast members, it did highlight most of the major ones and even one or two who hadn't been seen in a while.
• Rescue 911 nearly always did this at the end of a segment. Usually, the show filmed the segment's protagonists walking along a beach or walkway, visiting a fun center or public park, or other somesuch. The show also liked to film the protagonists meeting back up with the dispatchers and/or other personnel that rendered assistance. (Plus, if their segment is posted on YouTube, then sometimes the people involved—or those who know them—will post a comment, saying what they're up to today.)
• The mid-90s BBC documentary series Rock Family Trees had this as an Every Episode Ending. If you see a British sketch show from the latter half of the 90s and they send up this trope, it's most likely this they're parodying.
• The Sarah Jane Adventures:
  • A variation happens at the end of "Death of the Doctor". Sarah Jane Smith, while talking about the Doctor's legacy, reveals the fates of some of his former companions, whom she researched online:
    "There’s a woman called Tegan in Australia, fighting for Aboriginal rights. There’s Ben and Polly, in India, running an orphanage there. There was Harry... oh, I loved Harry. He was a doctor, he did such good work with vaccines. He saved thousands of lives. There was a Dorothy something. She runs that company, A Charitable Earth. She’s raised billions. And this couple in Cambridge. Both professors. Ian and Barbara Chesterton. Rumour has it, they’ve never aged. Not since the sixties. I wonder... echoes of the Doctor, all over the world. With friends like us, he’s never going to die, is he?"
  • The spin-off Doctor Who Missing Adventures and Past Doctor Adventures novels System Shock and Millennium Shock also established that Harry Sullivan was a commander in MI5 by 1997.
• Sea Patrol ended with a shot of each character with a one line description about their future.
• The Secrets Of The Dead episode "One P.M. Central Standard Time" ends with Cronkite saying "This is Walter Cronkite, good night" over two text screens: "Walter Cronkite died in 2009 at the age of 92. In the fifty years since he covered the events in Dallas over 150 million people have visited the grave of John Fitzgerald Kennedy."
• Six Feet Under closed with a montage of how each of the main characters would live out their lives and inevitably die, combined with music courtesy of Sia.
• The semi-canonical fan-made featurette "Message From Moonbase Alpha" works as both this and a Distant Finale for Space: 1999: As Bridge Bunny Sandra Benes reports on this final transmission, the Moonbase has just about given up its ghost after all of these years and the Alphans are going to take their chances on an Earth-like planet that they have managed to encounter.
• Superior Court, a TV courtroom drama from the late 1980s that featured court cases based on actual ones. Each case — usually one, but sometimes two per show — was followed with a "where are they now" epilogue, mostly telling what became of the principal characters in each case, but sometimes if a major social issue was addressed, what changed or did not change since the case was heard.
• I Survived finished every episode with details of the featured individual’s recovery. In the case of crime victims, the arrest and conviction of their assailant was also detailed. There were also lovely footnotes about subsequent marriages, children, careers, etc. (One especially sweet note assured viewers that a man’s dog, who had been trapped along with him, had also survived their harrowing ordeal).
• Ted Lasso did this for its finale, showing off what happens to everyone after the events of the show:
  • Sam Obisanya resigned from playing with the Greyhounds so that he can fulfill his dream of playing for the Nigerian international team.
  • Dani Rojas is still playing for the Greyhounds, and is shown to have two dates when attending Beard's wedding.
  • Colin Hughes came to terms with his gay side and is shown be in a happy relationship with his boyfriend.
  • Jamie Tartt is still one of the Greyhounds' best players, and he is shown to be reconciling with his father, who was once abusive towards him.
  • Dr. Sharon has returned as Richmond's Head of Mental Health, and is shown to be helping Roy with his anger issues.
  • Keely Jones is now working to better her own work environment, while still supporting the Greyhounds. She suggests to Rebecca the idea of opening up a women's football team, implying that she may have a part in it.
  • Leslie Higgins is doing what he does best: offering support to others, and is helping people like Roy become the best that they can be.
  • Trent Crimm published his book on the Greyhounds, and due to Ted's suggestion, changes the name to The Richmond Way. It goes on to become a bestseller.
  • Nathan Shelly has returned as the assistant coach of the Greyhounds, and is now doing his best to atone for his previous actions.
  • Coach Beard backed out of his trip back to America so that he could be with his beloved Jane. They are shown to have married and Jane is now pregnant. Beard also resumed his job as the assistant coach of the Greyhounds.
  • The title of Head Coach of the Greyhounds has officially been passed onto Roy Kent, and is working hard to fill in Ted's shoes, even if he still needs to work on his anger issues.
  • Nobody knows for sure what happened to Rupert Mannion, but after physically assaulting the head coach of his team during the game, it's safe to say that he's not in a good position right now. His new wife divorced him, and he lost custody over his team.
  • Rebecca Welton runs into the Dutchman from a previous episode, and they are shown to be making moves towards each other. She also found a child to raise in the form of the Dutchman's daughter. Rebecca also sold a part her company to the fans.
  • And as for Ted Lasso himself, he moved back to Kansas in America, where he retired as a football coach, and instead, is focusing on raising his son. He is also shown to be reconciling with his ex-wife.
• Third Watch did this at the end of its finale, "Goodbye to Camelot", revealing what happened to the main and recurring characters in the few years to come.
• The Twilight Zone (1959):
  • In the closing narration of "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank", Rod Serling notes that the title character and Comfort Gatewood are still alive and their only son, a United States senator, is regarded as "an uncommonly shrewd politician."
  • In the final scene of "I Sing the Body Electric", Anne, Tom and Karen Rogers have grown up and are ready to attend college. As they no longer need her, their robotic grandmother sadly leaves the house. Before she does so, however, she tells her former charges that they have brought her great joy over the years.
• Used in the form of text subtitles to show what happened to the various people each week's Undercover Boss met during his week in his company's trenches.
• The West Wing opens its final season with this. The cold opening for episode 7x1 depicts most mains meeting up for the dedication of Bartlet's presidential library three years after Santos wins the nomination. Turns out CJ marries Danny, moves to Santa Monica and has a baby, Toby does not end up in federal prison but at Columbia, Will joins congress, Kate writes a book... They try not to spoil who wins the election by deliberately not showing the current president when he arrives, although the fact that Josh is his chief of staff kind of gives it away. Eerily, the epilogue does not feature Leo, even though John Spencer was still alive at the time of shooting the episode and his character's untimely death was written in due to Spencer's sudden passing.
• Every season of The Wire ended the last episode with one of these set to music. The final one was a heartbreaking use of History Repeats, as a lot of the younger characters fall into the roles vacated by previous ones - Dukie is the new Bubbles, Michael is the new Omar, Sydnor is the new McNulty, etc.
• The Wonder Years concludes with seeing the adult Kevin and Winnie. The adult Kevin also gives an epilogue about what became of his immediate family: His father, Jack, continues to manage the furniture plant until his unexpected death in 1975 ... after which Wayne takes over the business; mother Norma becomes involved in city politics and business; and Karen and her husband give birth to a son. Kevin and Winnie split up one last time to go to college, he in the United States and she in Paris ... but they remain close friends and write each other weekly for eight years. When she returns home, he meets her at the airport with his wife and infant son.

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