I've got two for you from TV shows in the 70's and 80's.
The first is from Fantasy Island.
It's the third episode with Michelle Phillips as Nyah the mermaid. She asks Mr. Roark to end her immortal life. He refuses, but she hangs around intent to wreak havoc on him. In the meantime, she meets Dennis Cole who plays an adventurous deep sea diver. Love blooms. At the end, Roark has agreed to grant Nyah's request. She is to swim out of the lagoon and will meet an end in the ocean. Cole tries to follow her, but Nyah protests - any human man she takes into the sea will die. Roark turns him into a merman and they swim off to live happily ever after.
It's season 7, episode 18. I've not been able to find it on DVD or online.
If you thought that was hard, the second one is a real challenge.
In 1977, Hanna-Barbera produced a show on ABC called The Skatebirds. It was an hour long program where the eponymous charters introduced shorts and did wacky transition pieces.
One of the serials within the show as a live action story called "Mystery Island." Wikipedia describes the plot as:
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The show featured the adventures of a plane crew: Chuck, Sue, and Sandy along with their robot P.O.P.S. who became stranded after the evil mad scientist Dr. Strange caused their plane to crash-land on his remote island by using his tractor beam. Dr. Strange hoped to capture P.O.P.S. and use it in his quest for world domination.
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(As an aside, P.O.P.S. was previously used as the the Robot in the series Lost in Space.)
Like all good serials, each episode ended in a cliffhanger. I caught the very end of the episode "Golden Birds of Prey" in which bird people from the planet Falconia are on the island. They kidnap Sue and let the heros know that she is going to be the new Princess to the Oracle of Falconia. At that point she begins to TF into a bird woman, and the episode ends.
The original air date was November 5, 1977. VCR's were just being introduced around that time, and my family didn't have one. The next episode, titled "Visions from Falconia," aired on November 12, 1977, and I missed it.
I have tried to find this myself to no avail. If you could locate these two episodes, it would be fantastic.