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The protagonist is Born Unlucky, and, well, that's the main driving point of the show. One episode dealt with him marrying his girlfriend, he was going downstairs, knocked a old woman down, and she went into coma (and just so happened to be a relative of some sort). What's that?
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The Adventures Of Kevin And Daisy. I know it exists. I'm pretty sure it was on Animal Planet. It was about the guy named Kevin and his female Bulldog (IIRC) named Daisy. I can not find any information on it. I can not find a Wikipedia article on it. I can not find the slightest mention of it on the Internet. Where the heck did it go?
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Anybody remember a Western TV show that aired on ABC in the late 80's-early 90's, I think...
The show had a father-son team who were both expert marksmen with six shooters (the six shooters were broken or modified some way. I remember the father's guns being "fixed" by the son and he couldn't shoot worth a darn anymore), a black character who was a cardshark/gambler who was also an expert with explosives, a guy that was superhumanly strong, I think a guy who was good with rope?
I can remember the theme music, I can even remember the commercials/advertisements. It was pushed rather heavily by ABC and TV Guide.
BUT I CANT REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE SHOW!
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I used to watch a children's show in the mid to late nineties, possibly English. I think that there were two main characters, both boys who discovered an alien (?) time machine or something like that. I can only really recall one episode when one of the boys put his hand in a hole in the machine which made his arm green and scaly.
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Okay, this was a short-lived kids' show from the nineties. I'm pretty sure it aired on Saturday mornings, but don't quote me on that.
Anyway, the premise involved a kid who had converted his attic into a hi-tech computer lab with a sort of Batcave feel, which he would use to play pranks on people. The title was something like "Television Dairy" or "Video Diary", but searching for those isn't turning up results. The intro involved the other characters (such as his family) being distorted by him, photoshop style.
The one episode I can remember clearly had him needing to take care of a baby doll as if it were an actual child for a class assignment. About the same time, his parents' conversations make him believe that they're having another kid, so he modifies the doll to be as gross as possible to change their minds (having it "vomit" up pea soup and so on), but it turns out they were just talking about buying a new fan. Not sure how those two got confused, but hey, it was years ago.
Any ideas?
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There was a show my friend told me about. She couldn't remember the title, but it was about this guy who got kid after a girl he slept with turned out to be a serial killer.
One of the jokes was she wanted a McRib sandwich and a McDonald's Shamrock shake for her last meal, because they were never served at the same time. She was working the system.
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There was a show about a girl that lived in the Ocean, wore tattered cloths, could breathe underwater and had a whale as her friend.
The main plot of the story was that she was friends with two brothers who lived in an underwater research center and nobody could know about her.
The opening of the show was an instrumental played in a pan flute with the whale's cries in the background and the title was "A Rapariga do Mar" (The girl of the Sea) in Portuguese but I'm pretty sure that it didn't have that name in English.
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I was wondering about an Australian show where there's a kid (Named Paul if I recall correctly) that during summer camp(?) gets lost in a cave that has a portal to another dimension of some sort.
I think it had something to do with a solar eclipse. In the dimension he arrived to Eclipses were still considered a bad omen and they were pretty clueless about our science I think. I'm not sure if Paul was considered some sort of Wizard since he told them that he'd make the sun reappear or if that was another series.
On one of the later episodes the Big bad who was a red headed woman had some sort of suit with magnets that allowed her to float in a cage or something, and in a later season another kid falls into another dimension where everything is asian themed.
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I want to say it was on tv in the late 90's. A father and his family come back to america after being in a jungle for a few years. During that time the US has become a presidential dictatorship of some sort. I remember a couple of scenes. One, the father is walking down a street and a soldier asks if he has voted for president yet. After saying no the soldier takes him to a polling place where it is clear his only choice is to put a strip of white paper in a box marked YES, as no is totally empty. In the background the president is thanking voters for their support. Another scene, they are about to get on a plane to escape but are stopped by a government agent. He says they can leave if the fathers boy gives a kidney to the son of a presidential supporter. When I try to think of the actor portraying the father images of red hair, goatee, and freckles come to mind.
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This has been haunting my dreams for years, when I was a child in the mid nineties there was a show on Disney channel about to kids, a boy and a girl who lived next door to each other and talked with a Tin can telephone, that's all I can remember..
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Okay this one is... difficult. I will honestly be surprised if anyone can get this. I'm honestly half convinced I imagined or even dreamed the whole thing.
I believe it was one of those quasi-educational, surreal kids shows that were popular on daytime TV in the 90's. It's... slightly along the lines of Ghost Writer, but weirder (at the very least, it was airing on British TV in roughly the same time period as Ghost Writer) My memories of it are less solid and more a series of vague flashbacks which may or may not be the same episode. These flashbacks are as follows.
-A backpack on a girl's back laughing and clearly enjoying itself as she runs away, upset about something utterly unrelated to the fact that there's a freaking happy talking backpack on her back.
-A machine that makes bread with sprinkles and icing on it. An unimpressed girl telling her dad "I want my mum!" before storming off.
-A group of... something's watching a film on a projector. They are discussing the film, which appears to feature children hopping about playing leapfrog. The creatures are being educated about this activity, with their "teacher" informing them that the human children are attempting to become frogs. However, this will never happen "as they were not tadpoles first". (Hey, makes perfect sense to me).
- A girl being pushed under the water during a fight with a friend at a swimming pool.
- From the same episode as the above -the aforementioned example has apparantly instilled in the girl a fear of water. In what appears to be an attempt to cure her of this, a talking elevator (don't ask I don't even know) takes her below the ocean, to show her a pool full of fish and other assorted sea creatures, viewed through it's open doors. The girl is frightened at first, but is encouraged to take a better look and actually plucks up the courage to stick her face right into the water.
- A large crystal dropped to the bottom of a pool (honestly, it looked like one of those tacky crystal doorknobs more than anything but I think it's meant to be a MacGuffin of somekind). The girl jumps in to retrieve it. Pretty sure that's the same episode as above, too.
(Don't say I didn't warn you...)
This vague collection of images has been driving me berserk for over a decade. Anyone got any ideas?
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A science documentary show from the mid to late 90's. I think it aired on PBS in the morning sometime during the weekend, and we might have watched it once or twice in school. The only thing I can remember is the opening credits, which featured a red parrot flying through a series of white rooms with a wooden floor, like a museum, and on the walls were pictures/videos/sculptures of various nature/sciencey things like volcanoes erupting or crashing waves. At the end of the opening, I think the parrot flew into a room with a big globe, where it zoomed into the title. Also, for some reason I think it had something to do with National Geographic. Help?
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Ok so this show was on PBS or one of those public tv stations and it aired some time in the early 2000s. It was about a brother and his wheelchair bound sister that are looking for their missing father. Their father is inside a computer program (I think, not sure) so they go into the program and when they do they become a character in a myth. In one episode the sister was the oracle of Delphi, in another the brother is Orpheus when he goes to the underworld for his wife, and the last ep I remember the brother and sister were Isis and Osiris. Basically if anyone knows this show it would be so awesome and thanks in advanced.
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This was a show that ran sometime after 2000. It starred Ioan Gruffudd as a lawyer set 20 minutes into the future. It was a legal speculative fiction show with one episode dealing with nanobots which caused one person to experience the sensations as another and they were utilized by a stalker to experience sex that the victim was having with her spouse/boyfriend.
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Reposted from another Forum.....hoped folks nerdlier than I could assist.
From the NYC area back in the late 80s, VERY early 90s, possibly only 1990.
I guess it technically wasn't really a show, but more like bumpers introducing movies and such on WWOR channel 9 before it was a network affiliate. Although it could've been some other channel, either WPIX 11 or Fox 5, but I doubt it was on channel 5.
In any case, the guy was a mad scientist, and he would do stupid things before introducing the movie outright or coming back from commercial. He had a mute executioner/hangman named Chompsley or something.
I had a tape of the original Godzilla (the American version intersplicing Raymond Burr) and I remember it so vividly but I can't seem to find any info on it now.
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I'm trying to find this great show that aired on G4 a few years back. All I can remember is that it was kinda like a Soap Opera/Comedy, and that it mixed live action with footage from different video games, mostly MMO's.
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I'm not sure if this is where you ask about specific episodes of shows, but two queries if so: 1) Stephen Fry once quoted an exchange from Star Trek TOS ("Somebody out there is saying the best three words in the universe." "What words, Captain?" "Please...help me.") Which episode is this from, because I've seen them all and don't remember this from anywhere. 2) And what was the episode of Diagnosis Murder where Mark Sloan got framed for murder, and the first part ended with another character welcoming him to 'hell'? I missed the second part and this has been bugging me for years.
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This video on Child Prodigies that is an Absolute Crowing Moment of Funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cpp71tpehg
Anyone knows which show?
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Show that used to be shown in India in the mid-90s. Featured as prominent characters several balls in space. They had different personalities and were launched off the spaceship from time to time. One of the balls used to yell "Geronimo" upon launch.
I've been trying to find this for many years now. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Anand
A Muppet-type show that I saw in the '90's. The characters were Muppet-kids. I think the title was something like "Wimsey's House". Or someone's house.
I remember one episode where the phone was ringing, one kid was calling for someone to come answer, but ending up answering it herself. That led to a giant box being delivered to their house, which the kids then tried to hide by pushing it around.
Another episode involved a fashion contest of some sort, with the kids going "Ta-da!" as they presented themselves. The girl who was judging gave each of them a small prize for whatever category she had deemed them the winner of. The youngest one, a boy, won "Most Colorful". I think his name was Bo. The last one to be awarded a prize was a boy, who got progressively sadder as the others were awarded, until it was his turn and he was assured that he WAS deserving of a prize.