Baby Daddy
A woman asks one or more male characters to donate sperm so she can have a baby, but she doesn't want him to be involved in the baby's life.
Barney Miller
Appearances
- Barney Miller: Season 6, episodes 13-14, "Vanished" (1980). A woman is arrested for solicitation after she asks random men in a bar if they would donate their sperm to her so she can have a baby. Once at the precinct, Deitrich, Wojo, and Levitt all compete to be selected as her future baby daddy.
- Murphy Brown: Season 1, episode 6, "Baby Love" (1988). After feeling awkward at the sperm bank, Murphy asks Frank to donate his sperm so she can get pregnant.
- Herman's Head: Season 2, episode 1, "Sperm 'n' Herman" (1992). An old flame of Herman's comes to New York to ask Herman to donate his sperm so she can have a baby.
- Dream On: Season 3, episode 22, "No Deposit, No Return" (1992). A writer Martin works with asks him for his sperm so she can have a baby, but she doesn't want him to have anything to do with raising the child.
- The Nanny: Season 3, episode 10, "Having His Baby" (1995). Fran decides she wants to have a baby before it's too late, so she goes to a sperm bank to find a donor, but when she tells Mr. Sheffield, he mistakenly thinks she wants him to donate.
- Spin City: Season 3, episode 21, "The Last Temptation of Mike" (1999). Paul and Claudia are having a hard time conceiving, so Paul asks Mike to donate his sperm so they can have a child. Mike assumes he means at a sperm bank, but Claudia is planning to have sex with him.
- Frasier: Season 10, episode 13, "Lilith Needs a Favor" (2002). Lilith wants another baby, so she flies to Seattle to ask Frasier to donate his sperm. At first, he agrees, but then he realizes Lilith is only do it as a misguided attempt to relive the past, so he declines.