TV shows and movies that inspired you

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(Note: not sure if this should be here or in TUG Polls. Apologies if it's in the wrong place!)

Hi All;

Like many of you, I've have puzzled over just where by fondness for TUGs came from. I have a hypothesis for many of us our latent inclinations were awakened by scenes we may have seen as kids in mainstream movies and TV. Some of us may have even re-enacted those scenes. To start the conversation, I'll share a few scenes that I saw as a kid that really put the hook in me.

"Play Misty for Me" (1971): For me, seeing Clint Eastwood's blonde girlfriend (Donna Mills) securely bound and gagged with white first aid tape by his psycho ex (Jessica Walters) was mind-blowing. Especially bc in a time of particularly lame gags, she was sporting a tight wraparound tape gag! I have always wondered how much it hurt taking that off?

"Von Ryan's Express" (1965): My Mom took me with her to see this Frank Sinatra classic war movie. She may have loved 'Old Blue Eyes', but I only had eyes for Rafaella Carra, who played the mistress of the German commander of the prison train. Whenever the train, which had been hijacked by Allied POWs stopped in stations, the two lovebirds were fairly realistically bound in a sleeper compartment of their train car: he was bound with ropes to a chair, and she was lying on the bed, bound with thick cloth strips. Both sported thick OTM gags, which could've been pretty effective if the captive's mouths were stuffed with rags as well (I like to assume they were, but they were probably lame-ass 'magic' OTM gags). I do like scenes were men and women are tied up together, and this is one of the few TUGs I haven't been able to re-enact.

"The FBI" episode "The Loper Gambit" (1973): This one's a fave since I first saw it. Son of wealthy developer is realistically bound, gagged, and hauled away by false friends looking for a ransom. Loved the captive's sailing outfit (t-shirt, nylon windbreaker, white pants, white crew socks and pristine white deck sneakers). I have always had a thing for sneakers, and have re-enacted this scene with one of my gfs.

"Gilligan's Island" episode "Gilligan vs. Gilligan" (1966): Not known for kink, this classic still had a couple of good scenes. For me, it was the episode where a Russian spy posing as Gilligan conks the real castaway over the head with a coconut and leaves him tied and gagged in the jungle. Pretty lame bit of tying with hemp rope and an OTM gag, but pretty good struggling scenes and Gilligan's outfit made it work for me. Have role-played that scene too!

As a kid I'd peruse TV Guide every week, and if any of these episodes showed up, I'd be sure to be home to watch them for those scenes.

Anyway, your turn: Any TV or movie scenes that may have awakened your appetite for TUGs as a kid?

[Terry45]

From childhood I remember Penny in Inspector Gadget and April O'Neil from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles getting captured and tied up quite a bit.

[Reidy]

60s Batman. Seeing death traps and peril at the end of each episode excited me so much.

[emily-a]

As a kid, I saw a pretty obscure but entertaining 90s movie called "Innocent Blood." The main character is a vampire, and a guy is kind of nervous about having sex with a vampire. So she drops the towel and lets him handcuff her first. Because she´s a vampire, it turns out she can break out of the cuffs when she wants to, but I still thought it was a really hot scene. After all, I wouldn´t have been able to get out of them...

Remember other scenes too, but in most cases, I don´t remember where they were from...

[captured_prize]

Scooby Doo and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were inspirations for me. Seeing Daphne from Scooby Doo bound and gagged was the first time I remember thinking that I liked seeing women tied up, but also that being tied up would be fun.

Another major inspiration was the old Superman cartoon called " The Mad Scientist". I love the scene where Lois Lane knocks on the door, only to be grabbed and dragged in by the mad scientist. She's then tied to a chair and otm gagged. I loved this scene and it explains why I love chair ties and otm gags so much.

[tiedinbluetights]

In my particular case, given my particular predilections, it was not just TV series that featured tie-ups, but also TV series or episodes of some that hinted at a particular "social order."

When I was a young boy, two episodes of the 1960s Lost in Space series come to mind: "The Colonists" and "Visit to a Hostile Planet". In the first one, there is no 'physical' tie-ups, but the premise is a race of warrior women who enslave their men. Watching the lovely Francine York, playing one of these warrior women, assert her ideology on the crew of the Jupiter 2 was mesmerizing to me. The second one also stands out in my mind because it had the character I identified with the most (the young Will Robinson), captured and held tied-up by a family of farmers from 1940's Michigan. The daughter of the family takes a liking to Will an visits him a few times, and even offers Will some milk and cookies. The scene has the daughter untie Will, and have a chat with him, before she has to go and then re-ties Will, who willingly let's her re-tie him, in order to prevent her from getting into trouble with her parents. That scene still stands out in my mind after all these decades.

And of course there were TV series like The Star Maidens (again, no tie-ups, but a particular social order), and plenty of episodes of Adam West's Batman (plenty of tie-ups there). Some episodes of original Star Trek also come to mind (Spock's Brain) where the tie-up is just some locked on pain giving "torture belt."

[silvertejp590]

The brief tape gags in the 1997 That Darn Cat is what made me raise an eyebrow in curiosity to bondage. What made me *really* interested was when my neighbor friend brought over Home Alone 3 on VHS and I first saw the scene where Mrs. Hess gets taped to a chair and gagged. As soon as I got the opportunity, I did some self-gagging with masking tape. Kind of funny how at that age I just accepted this as a matter of course, didn’t question it at all.

[Xtc]

As an old man now, there was an episode of "77, Sunset Strip (Click, click)" in the 'sixties that featured Gerald Lloyd Cookson III (Cookie) - - - I hope the spelling is more or less right but, with his being an American character, I couldn't really care less - - - - oops, back to the subject - - -

Cookie was captured and there was some remark about, "A firm in ??? that makes them," as one of the villains produced a gag. Cookie was abandoned to his fate.

I have been unable to locate the episode so, if anyone would like to make an old man happy - - -

[tiedinbluetights]

As an old man now, there was an episode of "77, Sunset Strip (Click, click)" in the 'sixties that featured Gerald Lloyd Cookson III (Cookie) - - - I hope the spelling is more or less right but, with his being an American character, I couldn't really care less - - - - oops, back to the subject - - -

Cookie was captured and there was some remark about, "A firm in ??? that makes them," as one of the villains produced a gag. Cookie was abandoned to his fate.

I have been unable to locate the episode so, if anyone would like to make an old man happy - - -

Okay! I need to hunt down that series on DVD. IMDB Episode List lists 6 seasons and over 180 episodes of that series, with a lot of the episodes being tagged "bound" or "bound and gagged" in their synopsis. Couldn't find the specific episode you refered to above @Xtc, but the episode list is a good starting point for any one else who wishes to under take this endeavour.

[JennyTied]

There were some good scenes in JAG and NCiS. The movie i said would be Rupture and Disppearance of Alice Creed.

[Xtc]

Thanks for looking @tiedinbluetights.

[Jennyjay]

Scooby Doo
Penelope Pitstop
Avengers

There were also some one off dramas where a girl (or boy) got tied up and kidnapped, or tied up in a robbery. Can’t remember specific names.

[Detective-Gag]

Lots of cartoons, movies & TV shows involved seeing multiple scenes individually, which sort of piqued my interest…kind of like: “Huh…wonder what THAT’S about” every time a character got tied & gagged.

Then when enough of these sources formed a common theme… “Oh, so THAT’S what they mean by kidnapped!” …I wanted to try it out to see if it was fun.

And it was!

“That Darn Cat” (the original) was my first memory of a live-action damsel-in-distress.

Animated hostages were too numerous to name them all… “Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “Inspector Gadget”, “Mummies Alive”, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, “Scooby Doo”, etc…

[JulieG]

I didn’t start getting tied up till my 30s so it was real experiences inspired me, and now, the odd video from a website that specialises it bondage may inspire me to try something “new”

[FelixSH]

In Austria, when I was a kid, we had a show called "Aktenzeichen XY ungelöst" (in English something like "XY files: unsolved"). In that show, crimes would be recreated and than shown.

I only remember seeing one of those shows with maybe an age of 3. And all I remember is, that a woman was tied and gagged. It's probably badly done, and looks kinda trashy (knowing how Austrian TV generally looks), but to my young mind, she was incredibly strictly tied up (with a piece of cloth over her mouth, to me, that seemed useful enough).

Aside from that, I remember a scene of that old TMNT cartoon, where one of the Turtles gets tied and gagged with a sock, by Beepob and Rocksteady. Also, there is an old US cartoon from Peter Pan, where Hook gets his hands on a book where he can write reality like a story. He writes, that he has captured all the lost kids, and when they look up, Peter is heavily tied and gagged, dangling from a rope. Also, Disneys Aladdin, of course.

[JackMurray]

Being a little kid in the 80's, I think it was almost impossible *not* to be into tie up games and be on the road to being interested in this as an adult. For me, Daphne in Scooby Doo. Someone mentioned Gilligan's Island, and I definitely remember an episode where Ginger ends up tied up and gagged out in the jungle.

The big one for me was Dukes of Hazzard. Daisy Duke was tied up by some sort of bad guy at least every other week -- and looked fantastic every time. For as much as I loved that even as a little kid, I also remember being a bit interested by Bo & Luke getting tied up a couple times a year too!

Bonus episode, Erin Gray in Buck Rogers had her hands tied behind her back in an episode -- or at least that's what I remember!

[drgoremd]

1. "Wonder Woman" - The scene from the episde Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman was the first time I was aware of being interested in the idea of a seeing a girl kidnapped and tied up though I was too young at the time to really understand what I was experiencing.

2. "New Years Evil" - This 1980 horror movie about a pyscho killer who is stalking a female DJ on New Years' Evil was the first time I made a specific connection between seeing a woman tied up and sexual arousal.

3. "TJ Hooker - Outcall" This was the first scene that I recorded for the purpose of only capturing the bondage scene.

[Jeff K]

Peter Pan was one of my favorites. Was not expecting the ambush when it happened, and had the privilege of playing a lost boy multiple times in various contexts. It's a role I'd be more than happy to reprise

[rtbw]

It's the old Batman and Wonder Woman TV shows for me.

[silvertejp590]

Peter Pan was one of my favorites. Was not expecting the ambush when it happened, and had the privilege of playing a lost boy multiple times in various contexts. It's a role I'd be more than happy to reprise

Oh, this was another big one for me, I rewound that part of the VHS a *lot*. I think this definitely solidified my interest in getting ambushed before being bound. The bit with Prince Phillip in Sleeping Beauty contributed to that, too.

[Reidy]

It's the old Batman and Wonder Woman TV shows for me.

Each of those scenes a classic.

[Jeff K]

Oh, this was another big one for me, I rewound that part of the VHS a *lot*. I think this definitely solidified my interest in getting ambushed before being bound. The bit with Prince Phillip in Sleeping Beauty contributed to that, too.

That's a great one, although I was actually not introduced to it until I was an adult. Simply delightful!

[TiedAndTaped3D]

I grew up with Batman, Wonder Woman, and Scooby-Doo of course. But the first time I remember really wondering what it would be like to be tied up was, believe it or not, the episode of Different Strokes where Arnold and Kimberly are hitchhiking and the guy who picks them up ties Arnold up with duct tape. I remember seeing that scene at like age 12 and thinking "huh. I wonder how effective that is?" It's almost weird to say but I think that's where my lifelong love for tape gags started. As an adult, I wish it had been Dana Plato and not Gary Coleman in that situation, though I also remember watching the second part hoping that Dana Plato would end up in the same situation.

[Terry45]

I had turned 13 when the live-action Sabrina the Teenage Witch went on the air and I quickly observed that Melissa Joan Hart was the hottest object in the visible universe. Unfortunately there was never a good tie-up scene involving her, but there was one with her aunts, played by Caroline Rhea and Beth Broderick. They got tied back to back when the house was taken over by pirates, then later were forced to walk the plank with their hands tied in front.



I also had the good fortune to catch Terror Among Us on one of the cable channels at one point. That was a truly unforgettable scene.

[KidnappedCowboy]

From the perspective of a gay man who prefers men bound and gagged:

As a kid in the 1970s:

Lyle Waggoner in "Wonder Woman." The series was first set during World War Two. Colonel Steve Trevor in one episode is kidnapped by Nazi spies to lure Wonder Woman into a trap. In another episode, Nazi spies kidnap various war heroes in Hollywood. Another episode involves a government agent discovered by the Nazi spies. They leave him bound and gagged in the basement vault of a bank with a ticking time bomb next to him.

Various episodes of "Hawaii 5-0." In one episode two thieves are recruited by a mastermind criminal to heist the payroll from a military base. The thieves are not all that bright. They bind and gag a couple of MPs, but then realize they've been hoodwinked because the payroll is not cash. A hostage situation ensues.

There were various cop shows, spoofs on the James Bond franchise, and others in syndication or on late night tv that always offered surprises. Jim West in "The wild, Wild West," the tight-trousered hero, was always getting tied up (often shirtless...Woof!) and pretty often gagged. The Batman episode with Bruce Wayne kidnapped by King Tut...Whoa Nellie!

I remember a bad tv movie, aptly named "Bad Ronald." It was about a delinquent teenager (murdered his family?) who disappears after the crime. He is actually still inside the house hiding in passageways and secret rooms. New family with two teenaged daughters move in. Parents depart for the weekend. Ronald spies on the daughters. Things get creepy. At the end., the boyfriend of the older daughter comes over to be the protector. As he's watching tv, Ronald knocks him out. We next see the cute boyfriend bound and gagged on a cot in Ronald's secret hideaway. It's a cheesy movie, but worth it for that scene alone.

In a detective show, "Banacek," there's an episode where a beefy football player disappears from the scrum in the middle of a game. At the end of the episode Banacek discovers him bound and tapegagged in the barracks of an abandoned military base. He's still in his sweaty uniform (Woof!) without the pads.

I could go on, but you get the picture!

BTW, pictures of all these scenes can be found here:

https://ropermike.com/trouble/