Against the Wind - In the first scene a mentally unstable woman is caned for trying to jump overboard. It is not shown at all, but we see the captain asking for the cane and then it goes to another scene where one of the officers says that the captain in thrashing her with a cane. In the second scene no corporal punishment is mentioned but a woman is taken to the captain's cabin for attacking an officer and he says "she must be tamed". Then next time we see her she has had her hair cut off and she has some cuts on her face and shoulder. It could possibly be to imply that she was whipped but I doubt it!)

Alborada - Oh, this is a good one! This 2005 Telenova series features two attractive women who are led out of their prison cell to a public square in front of a huge number of spectators. The first is tied standing with her arms spread wide between 2 posts and and the back of her dress is ripped open. She is given several sharp lashes with a bullwhip. Nice painful crying. Then the second (and even cuter) woman is tied with her hands in front to a stump so she can watch her friend get tortured. After the first women is taken down with bloody marks on her back, the cute one replaces her in the same position. After ripping open the back of her dress, she is similarly given a few lashes before there's an unfortunate rescue. We still get several nice cutaways of her painful suffering before the ropes are untied. Thank God for YouTube! VIDEO LINK

The Avengers B/W filmed episode - In a Touch Of Brimstone episode Emma Peel ,dressed in fancy dress as Miss Sin, spiky leather suit with flesh showing, infiltrates revival of 18th Century Hell Fire club. She is attacked at climax by decadent Peter Wyngrade who hits her twice with a whip. This episode had more whipping but, sob, was cut before release . Missing whip scene now lost?(Anonymous)

Banished (Season 1, Episode 1) - (2015) In the inaugural episode of this British TV series, Elizabeth (played by MyAnna Buring) is a prisoner sent to Australia to serve in a penal colony. She is sentenced to receive 25 lashes for refusing to name the convict lover with whom she has spent the night. After refusing to remove her blouse, she is has her hands bolted to the sides of the whipping post and one of the officers flogs her...weakly at first, but when threatened, he strikes her much harder. There's a shot of bloody marks cutting through the back of her clothing, although the scene cuts away after only 10 strokes. We get a good look at the bloody would on her back in a subsequent, scene, however. Overall a worthwhile scene, although the beautiful Buring has her looks deliberately toned down for the scene.

Big Valley, The - As far as television goes, some of the best whippings were on the western "The Big Valley." I remember Lee Majors being whipped in three separate episodes (once with a shirt on and the other times shirtless). In my opinion, the best scene was in the episode "Legend of a General." Lee (Heath Barkley on the show) is stripped and whipped in a Mexican jail for throwing a bucket of slop on an Army captain after the captain demands Heath to eat it. Oddly enough, we never see the lash touch Heath's back, but we see the shadow of the thongs on his skin as the captain grips the cat tightly and bounces it into his palm (the camera cuts away just after that). It's the most erotically charged and symbolic whipping scene I have witnessed. (Anonymous)

The Big Valley - Just thought of another tv whipping. Everyone seems to know about Heath Barkley's three floggings but big brother Jared was also a victim once. He was the lawyer and was defending an unpopular client. In the middle of the night, he was dragged out of his hotel room to somewhere outside of town. There he was tied shirtless to a tree and bullwhipped. We see several of the lashes strike him. Like Heath, he was stoic and didn't utter a sound. I don't believe we got to see much of his back afterwards.(Thanks Jack C)

Big Valley, The: Journey Into Violence - Another of Lee Major's floggings (again shirtless) was in this story of his being held captive by a religious cult, who takes him prisoner to take the place (at least in terms of labor) of a member he killed in self-defense. When he tries to escape, he is punished with a flogging, tied to a post, while the whole cult watches, including the young widow who has eyes for him. Shot entirely from the front, the flogging is not long, but Lee does walk away painfully, where we see a brief glimpse of scars.(Thanks Vertigo!)

Blood and Orchids - In this made for TV miniseries, three Hawaiian men are tied up and whipped with belts by vigilantes after being accused of raping a woman. Lots of shots of their badly beaten backs throughout the rest of the film.

Bloody Mistress (Episode 7) (2017) - In this Russian TV series, a beautiful young blonde serf girl named Nastya (played by actress Anastasiya Zekovich) is birched by her own mother in a long and fairly brutal scene. After the back of her clothing is ripped open, her mother uses a long slender wooden rod to beat her, producing thick bloody stripes across her back. The wounds are still very visible when Nastya's mother comes to visit her as she's lying in her bed. VIDEO LINK

Bonanza - In one episode later in the series, Ben Cartwright is somehow caught in the middle of a prison riot and held hostage by the prisoners. The warden wants to get Ben out alive, of course, but needs to get someone to infiltrate the prisoners' group to help. David Canary plays Ben's right-hand-man, Canady or Candy and volunteers to be the one to infiltrate. They are concerned that the prisoners might not believe he is really a fellow prisoner. The warden explains that there is a way to convince the cons that Canady is for real "but you're not going to like it" as he holds up some kind of single tail whip. Candy looks grim but after all this is for Ben, so he says in typical 19th century slang, "Whatever." We don't get to see the actual flogging, but in the next scene we see him painfully putting on his prison shirt over his lacerated back. He is then thrown in with the cons who don't trust him until he grandly pulls off his shirt and shows them (and us again) his back. They believe him and Ben is later saved. As I recall Tim Matheson is one of the prisoners. He is shirtless in the first scene and we see his back covered with welts, presumably due to prison justice.(JackC)

Bonanza - In another episode, Trace Cordell (Tony Young) returns to Virginia City after five years in prison. The townspeople are less than happy to see him because he cripped some big wig. One man warns Trace to get out of town before someone whips him. Trace responds that he was whipped many times in prison and we see his lacerated back after he removes his shirt. (Thanks Nat!)

Bronco - Episode titled "The Last Resort." The lead character, Bronco, played by Ty Hardin, is whipped for "stealing another man's women" at an X-frame. It is a false charge as described. He is given 40 lashes, but we only see about 5 on camera. We do get a good back view, though the strokes are weak, and the tip of the whip does not strike his back. (Anonymous)

Cadfael: The Devil's Novice - this PBS mystery series (run this year), set in medieval Wales, included this episode in which Christien Anholt plays a hot-blooded (& hot-looking) noviciate priest who is flogged amid his colleagues, on an inclining wooden platform, shirtless, by a thick rope. Nicely shot in one circular shot, including views of the others' reactions, the whip striking, the victim's pain; followed by a lengthy scene of Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) cleansing a very striped muscular back. (Thanks Vertigo)

Captain Cook - This made-for-television movie aired on either TNT or WTBS around 1990. It features a marine who is flogged with a cat-o'-nine-tails because he refuses to eat vegetables. He's tied to a grating and there are mostly side views as the lash falls on his bare back. His high-pitched cries are heard, even though he bites down on a leather wedge. There's one closeup of wicked looking scratches on his lower back. In my opinion, the best part is the flogger. His eyes gleam with sadistic fury and the way he shakes the lashes out after each stroke is very deliberate. The cat looks extremely authentic -- has thin, knotted lashes and a sort of crude looking handle.(Mad About the Lash)

Cheyenne - This was an early western series in which the muscluar star, Clint Walker, bared his barrel-chest every week. An episode called "The Young Fugitives" was no exception. Cheyenne is ambushed by a group of disguntled ranchers who order him off his horse and to remove his shirt. One of the ranchers asks another to bring up a whip. Next scene Cheyenne is tied to a tree banch, his bare back waiting for the first lash. Unfortunately, he is rescued by friends and the ranchers reluctantly untie the big guy and return his shirt.

Dakotas, The - In one episode, an officer is whipped then another guy about to be at the end of that episode. In another episode of this series, a man is whipped, leading to a fort revolt by the soldiers who take regular Del Stark, played by a very young Chad Everett, prisoner then strip off his shirt and boots and stake him out under a blazing sun for hours in the middle of the fort. (Thanks Nat!)

Daniel Boone - Recall whippings from two separate episodes of this TV series. In one, Daniel is whipped by some men in a wagon train trail because they think he neglected some orphaned children who he actually helped (one is played by a young Kurt Russell). Kurt Russell's character interferes after Daniel, who's tied to a tree, receives two or three lashes w/a bullwhip. His shirt is never removed. In another Daniel Boone episode, Daniel is captured by the British and taken to a labor camp. He's flogged (again with a shirt on) before being put to work. The better flogging comes later when a young, hunky prisoner (blond, as I recall) refuses to work. He's tied to a triangle and severely lashed with a cat. There are nice shots of his grimacing face and sweaty muscular shoulders and torso. (mad about the lash)

Danielle Steele's "The Ring" - A clothed women is given a couple of lashes by a nazi in this TV-miniseries.

Days of Our Lives (Circa 1982?) - Anna Brady comes back to Salem and claims that she had been kidnapped by white slavers. She has the whip scars on her back to prove it. Not really a whipping scene, I know, but interesting nevertheless. I remember seeing this episode one day I stayed home from school. Wish someone had it on tape...

Dead Man's Walk - shows actor Jonny Lee Miller tied to a wagon wheel and whipped by the Mexican Army. He's shirtless, the punishment goes on for some time and his back (albeit from a distance) looks as though it really had received 100 lashes. (Anonymous)

Deputy, The - In one episode the deputy travelled out of town for some reason. He stayed with a nasty rancher who accused him of trying to make it with the rancher's wife. Accordingly he forced him outside at gunpoint, made him strip to the waist, and tied him to a tree. He proceeded to bullwhip him until he passed out. Got to see some bloody welts on his back and later quite a bit of blood on the back of his shirt. (Thanks Jack C)

'Desilu' Western production (title?) - an unattended, improperly secured horse is about to walk away from a hitching post, and a nearby Indian male reties it. Unfortunately, the cowboy owner comes on the scene and accuses the Indian of trying to steal the horse. He is subjected to a number of lashes at that same hitching post in a realistic scene. In the plot, the same Indian and cowboy are brought together in another situation, and the latter is made to feel bad for what he did. (Anonymous)

El secreto de Puente Viejo - In this 2011 Spanish TV series, beautiful Soledad (Alejandra Onieva) is punished by her mother, who makes her lean over a chair while she lashes her back with a belt. No bondage, but a few nice shots of her bloodied back. The actress cries silently as the punishment is inflicted. I can't tell what's being said since it's in Spanish, but I'm sure she deserved it. VIDEO LINK

Emmanuelle - The Series episode "Emmanuelle in Venice" (Shown on Showtime in the USA.) A nasty woman whips her maid for dropping her sewing basket on the floor. The Maid is told to get the whip from a hook on the wall and ordered to remove her underwear and bend over the bed. Very pretty woman and senual scene , even though you don't see much of the whipping.(Lescan)

Enslavement - this made-for-cable movie has three whipping scenes (with four total victims). The first whipping scene has a muscular black male slave whipped for sneaking off to have sex with his wife. The second whipping scene has a female slave being whipped for complaining about the unsanitary conditions of the slave infirmary. The last whipping scene has a black male slave whipped as punishment for another slave escaping. This scene also ends with the plantation owner's wife (the main character of the story) trying to protect the slave by getting behind him. The plantations owner whips her once across her clothed back. All three whipping scenes are very good - and the female slave whipping is the best I've seen in a mainstream production.

Escape From Sobibor - A brief whipping of a clothed man in this Nazi escape movie.

Fallen Angels - The episode "The Quiet Room" starring Joe Mantenga and Bonnie Bedelia. Has a scene in which a female detective (Bedelia) interrogates a clothed woman and hits her a couple of times on the back with a rolled up wet towel.

Fantasy Island - One episode of the series had a woman becoming part of a white slavery/prostitution ring. She does something that displeases the woman in charge who decides to punish her. She's taken to a basement type room and told to place her hands through two hanging rings and hold on. Her back is bared and the woman prepares to beat her with what looks like either a thin wooden board or a very stiff leather strap. Nothing is shown, but I *THINK* (it's been a long time) that the beating actually occurs, rather than her being saved at the last minute, as is common in most shows. (John) (From what I have been told, we do get to see a part of the flogging. The woman doing the flogging is Yvonne DeCarlo. The name of this half of the episode is called "The Victim." Hey, anyone got this one on tape? - Oslo)

For the Term of His Natural Life - this mini-series from the 80s has Colin Friels flogged twice. The first time he's tied to the triangle and he get a side view as the cat is laid on. The second time he's made to flog his friend. When his friend faints he refuses to carry on and so must take his place. He defiantly pulls off his shirt and leans against the triangle. They tie him to it and we see him get a few strokes from the front - he's rather stoic during this. we see him later in the infirmary, but don't see his back.(Matt)

Força de Um Desejo - This Brazilian soap opera features an outstanding whipping scene. A gorgeous young woman is dragged into a barn and manacled with her arms over her head. A man gives her 8 lashes of the whip until another man tells him to stop. But that's only so that he can rip the back of her dress open and torture her himself! And the blows her gives her are even harder and more painful. Why can't they have scenes like this in US soap operas? VIDEO LINK

Girl, The - (UK tv 1996) A young girl is caught in her stepmother`s room with jewellery in her pocket, the stepmother is furious and tells one of her children to fetch the whip, she then gives her stepdaughter a severe whipping across the bed. later when the girl`s father finds out and sees the marks he is very angry indeed. he goes to see his wife who at this time is laying in bed, he asks her about the incident and she attempts to justify it by saying that it was deserved because the girl is a thief and was chastised for it, he then comments about the severity of the punishment, produces a whip and says: "perhaps you`d like to know how it feels." he then pulls back the covers and draws back the whip, his wife turns onto her side and he administers a severe whipping to her bottom/lower back, she screams loudly and looks in a lot of pain as each stroke of the whip is administered with some vigour by her angry husband. 4 strokes are shown on screen and 2 are heard before the scene changes. (Apollo)

Goodfellows - A British TV series starring Joanna Lumely. In one episode a female agent joins as escort agency to investigate its connection to arms to Iraq. The agency supplies girls who cane their clients. We see her select a cane a later order a man in a mock schoolroom to drop his pants and bend over. (Anonymous)

Granada - a TV series, during the arab-spanish war in 15 century, a captured spanish beautiful girl is stripped to the waist, tied up, and whipped with a long cat, in a dungeon, for insulting the arab general: twenty or more strong lashes; later we see her bare back covered with welts.

Greatest American Hero - In one episode of the show, there is a scene where a man has the back of his shirt ripped open and is almost whipped by bad guys, until William Katt saves the day.

Gunsmoke - (don't know the title, guest starring Tommy Rettig of Lassie) An adolescent boy is living with a mean guy - who also turns out to be a crook/bad guy, that week's villain - who pretended to be nice and fatherly to the kid in front of the Marshall, Matt Dillion (turns out the kid is secretly scared to death of the guy - too scared to tell the Marshall). (I think they had some kind of traveling show as a front, if I recall correctly, and were more or less staying outside Dodge for a short while.) So the Marshall, visiting them and asking a few questions (about the show's plot), gets an answer from the kid that I guess was something the kid wasn't supposed to say, as it would eventually lead to the discovery of this man's real doings. At the time, the marshall doesn't put it all together, gives his regular, friendly farewell to the smiling man and his"boy," but when the marshal leaves, the man looks down at the boy with the meanest expression and the boy kinda puts his head down, knowing he screwed up.

Fade in on the next scene: On white knuckles, sweated and gripping tightly around a wooden beam, the loud CRACK! of leather on flesh, then a steady, few more as the camera slowly pans along the hand and arm and then the shirtless, sweaty, welted back of the boy, who is facing a wooden bunk bed in an old log cabin type house, arms spread wide and muscles taunt as he grips two posts of the bunk (at first I though it was somebody older since the whole scene made the boy look older, more masculine with what he had to take so stoically). By the time the camera is full on the boy, the whipping stops. The mean man, belt longways in hand and breathing from the hard work he just put into the whipping asks the boy: "You had enough, boy!" The kid took a moment to catch his breath - AS IF HE HAD TO ANSWER WITH COMPLETE CONTROL, AS IF THIS HAD BEEN A ROUTINE DEMANDED OF EACH WHIPPING - stayed in position and answered something like, "Yes, Mr. Jenkins." "Okay, get your shirt on. And next time think before you open your mouth." (John R)

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones - Has a scene where Lavar Burton's dad lifts up his shirt to look at the whip marks some of Jones' guards have given him.

Happy Valley - UK TV movie - Set among British settlers in 1930s Kenya. A bit like that movie White Mischief. Has a scene in which an uncle and his mistress cane across her bottom a sexy and wilfully tempesteous teenage schoolgirl. We see her lay face down across a sofa as at least elenven hard stoke are given as the camera slowly pans away. Later in this film ,off screen she is savagaly attacked with a Sembock? think thats what it's called, the type of rhino hide whip used by Winnie Mandela on members of her football team.(Anonymous) VIDEO LINK

Harem - (1986) (TV) Jessica (Nancy Travis) is kidnapped and sent to harem of the Sultan (O. Shariff). Tarik Pasha (Art Malik)that took her captive is later hired to get her out. They fall in love. When discovered, they are taken to the Sultan and Tarik is flogged with long whip (not bound) to confess if he raped her as he insists or if they are true lovers. (Terry)

Hellfire - In this Showtime movie, Ben (Chariots of Fire) Cross is whipped in a jail early in the film. I'm sure this will please male whipping fans, but can't Cross find better projects to work on??

Hercules: The Legendary Heroes/ The Gladiator - Kevin Sorbo, as Hercules, is enslaved as a fight-to-the-death gladiator by the rulers of a cruel kingdom. He refuses to kill, however, and is taken to the bedroom of the queen. The dialogue is ripe but knowing: Queen: Take his clothes off. (Guards strip Hercules' shirt off; she fondles his sweaty, buff manly chest). You're a big man; nice muscle tone. (She offers, he refuses her offer to be her "personal slave.) Hercules: I'd rather sleep in a dungeon with rats than share satin pillows with a viper. Queen: Before you get your wish perhaps 40 lashes will bleed the insolence out of you. Hercules is then briefly seen tied to a rack being whipped, but the scene is played with a montage of happy memories (mostly involving women) as we hear whip cracks. We then see him walking in pain back to his cell, with about 6 or 7bloody stripes on his sweating back.(Thanks Vertigo)

High Chaparrel, The - Really vague, by I recall a ranch hand (possibly Mexican) given a flogging until Leif Ericson or one of the other leads intervenes. (Thanks Vertigo)

High Chaparral - There is another episode of High Chaparral that contains a whipping. Manolito Montoya (Henry Darrow) and Buck Cannon are captured by Indians and one of them must prove his bravery. It falls to Manolito who is told his test will probably include some kind of crucifixion since the Indians are fascinated with it. Next we see him stripped to the waist and tied upside to a cross. He is told that a brave man will not cry out. The Indians then come riding toward him on horses one at a time and bullwhip on his bare chest. Many bloody cuts appear but he doesn't cry out so he and Buck are released although he can hardly stay on his horse because he's so weak. (Thanks Jack C)

Hispania, la leyenda - (Season 2, Episode 3) This scene is relatively short, but it's nonetheless a very harsh and brutal segment as a topless slave (shown from the back only) is tied AOH and lashed on her back, with some nasty red stripes as evidence the whipper is doing a good job. Lots of anguished screaming from the victim. Look at the fun stuff we're missing if we don't get Spanish TV! VIDEO LINK

Hispania, la leyenda- From Season 2, Episode 4, an attractive blonde slavegirl is given a vicious lashing in front of a crowd. She is whipped by an order from the Praetor, as a prelude to her execution. The girl is pretty but doesn't scream, only reacts with pained expressions. The whipper is very enthusiastic and lets her have it several times, but unfortunately the whipping is aborted. The general who interrupts the scene threatens the whipper and orders to heal the girl. VIDEO LINK

Holocaust - James Woods gets caned by Nazis in this miniseries.

Hunger, The - "River of Night's Dreaming" episode. This episode of the Showtime series shows the aftermath of a whipping of a female servant.

I, Claudius - a banished Queen is whipped before she is sent off. The top of her tunic is removed, baring her back, and an old man whips her back with a large tree branch. The scene is very brief, and we only get to see the woman's shoulders flinching a couple of times.

I Spy - (1960s) Two guys are stripped and tied to a whipping post and whipped in I think, separate scenes. One of them was actor Jack Krushen.(Anonymous)

Ivanhoe - miniseries starring Stephen Waddington in the lead who gets tortured by whipping at the beginning and later you see him still chained up with a bloody back.(Thanks Matt)

Jewel In The Crown - uk tv serial 1980s Set during the last years of British rule in India one episode had a detailed Singapore style caning as the method of interogating an Indian rebel. He is strapped across a caning horse and caned , marks shown on his butt, to get him to give information . The cane is of course an excellent instrument for measured pain. (Anonymous)

Joseph - TNT TV miniseries circa 1994. As Biblical Joseph, of the coat of many colors, Paul Mercurio endures a brief but furious lashing from a minor servant at the Egyptian Pharoah's Court. Mercurio is not bound (and he is fully clothed), but because of his slave-status, he is forced to cower and endure in silence. The act is prompted by the widespread rumor that Joseph has violated the wife of the Pharoah's right-hand man. Not true, as the well-known tale tells. The woman has made advances towards the comely Joseph, but he has spurned her. So she fabricates a tale of rape and Joseph is imprisoned for several years.

La Femme Nikita: The Series - "Open Heart" episode. Has a scene in which Nikita, who is in a women's prison, is taken to a punishment cell. She's cuffed to a wall and a guard roughly pulls her shirt over her head. The same guard then grabs a long stick and gives her several whacks with it. We only see her stoic facial reaction, though. Later, another prison inmate treats the wounds on her back. Good scene for TV. Hopefully this and "Soldier of Fortune" are harbingers of more such scenes to come. VIDEO LINK

Last Days of Pompei, The - In this short series for TV, we had 2 whipping scenes. First. a heavy built christian man is birch on his bareback by roman guards Some good shots of the bloody back during the whipping. Not a very long scene cut by views of roman governor and egyptian priest talking. Later a christian slave is whipped off screen by romans until he burns incense to pagan gods. We only see his wound bloody back treated by is girlfriend later.(Jolly Roger)

Le ali della Vita (The wings of Life) – italian tv fiction: in a school for girls a nun flogs a rebel girl on back, not much to see, anyway

Leaving of Liverpool - tvm 1996 British /Australian A fact based drama about the cruel treatment of children from kids homes shipped out to Oz in 1950s to keep up white stock.In liverpool we see an Irish priest cane a schoolboy very hard until the cane breaks. This is shown in some detail.Later in Oz a teenage schoolgirl is caned but camera stays above action point. Note the Irish Catholic Christian Brothers where notorious abusers of boys in Ireland/Oz and Canada.(Anonymous)

Little House On The Prairie - I don't remember anything actually being shown, but in at least one episode, Mr. Olson, the shop keeper, took a heavy strap down from the wall and marched up the stairs with the clear intention of giving both his kids a whipping. (John) (There is also an episode that begins with a young boy getting beaten with a strap by his drunken father. Later in the episode the town physician pulls the boy's shirt down and sees the strap marks on his back. - Oslo)

Luke's Kingdom - A 1976 British TV series containing three whipping scenes. The first one is brief and unimpressive. The second one has a young convict sentenced to 50 lashes for trying to escape from prison. He publicly stripped to the waist and tied with his hands above his head to a whipping post. The welts look realistic and we can see blood oozing out on each strike of the whip. The young man screams hysterically whenever the whip lands on his back. He gets only about six or seven strokes. In a later episode we see another whipping scene which is very brief. It shows a man tied shirtless and spread-eagle to a whipping post and getting about three lashes. We see his lacerated back when the camera zooms in on his body. (Toby)

Man From Uncle - One episode contained a man-to-man scene with the star of Man From Uncle (whose name I forget!) being bullwhipped by Robert Culp, who was a guest star on the show. My recollection (which is vague) is that the star of the show was stripped of his suitcoat and shirt, spread-eagled on the floor, with four guys holding him---and Robert Culp did the whipping! Again, these are vague memories---but memories imbedded in my mind!!!!!!(Mark) (I think the star of the show was Robert Vaughn - Oslo)

Masterpiece Theatre (PBS) "By the Sword Divided" - aired in the 1980's Daughter (played by Lucy Aston) is whipped by her father for not following his orders. She bents over her bed in her night clothes . Note: Love the way she sticks her butt up in the air waiting for her punishment.(Lescan)