Stranded
One or more characters get themselves stranded in the woods, usually in a cabin without important necessities, like food, water, or heat.
Mork & Mindy
Appearances
- The Odd Couple: Season 3, episode 6, "I'm Dying of Unger" (1972). Oscar and Felix get stranded in Murray's cabin in the woods with no supplies, and the local store has been closed for decades.
- Taxi: Season 3, episode 7, "The Call of the Mild" (1981). After shooting a commercial in the mountains, Bobby wants to rough it in the wilderness, and Tony, Alex, and Jim decide to join him in a cabin in the woods for a week, but the cabin has no electricity and no food, it's the middle of winter, and the nearest phone is 150 miles away.
- Mork & Mindy: Season 1, episode 16, "Skyflakes Keep Falling on My Head" (1979). Mork takes Mindy to Exidor's cabin in the woods. They have to hike up a mountain to get there, and Mindy sprains her ankle. When they reach the cabin, Mork says Exidor didn't give him a key, so Mindy tells him to kick down the door; he does, and the cabin collpases, leaving them exposed to the elements with no way home except to trek back down the mountain in the freezing cold. Just when they've burned their last match, Exidor appears with the key and reveals that the cabin is actually accessible by car.
- Perfect Strangers: Season 2, episodes 18-19, "Snow Way to Treat a Lady" (1987). While the gang is lost in the woods, they find an empty cabin, bunk down for the night, and plan to head out in the morning, but an avalanche traps them all inside with no firewood or food and a roof that's about to cave in.