I'm writing the sentence "This TV show shows examples of behavior that can harm--" and then I list a bunch of things. Should it be a solid dash or two dashes like I wrote? Thank you.

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I'm writing the sentence "This TV show shows examples of behavior that can harm--" and then I list a bunch of things.  Should it be a solid dash or two dashes like I wrote? Thank you.

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No dash or hyphen. What you need in that place is a colon (:). http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm