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resolved Fighting Animals Live Action TV
Anyone remember a semi-educational show?
It was shown on Discovery Channel, about some guys analyzing two different animals each episode, then building mechanical versions to and at the end there was a CGI scene showing which one would win.
Edited by ElBuenCuateresolved Romeo and Juliet sitcom episode by way of superheroes. [Solved.] Live Action TV
There was a high-school sitcom with a laugh track, and an episode built around a production of Romeo and Juliet. The initial plan is minimalist as all get out (a confused actor doesn't have a sword, and when the director insists, starts to whap another actor with his script), and then... somehow, one of the main characters echoes his little brother's idea of doing it with superheroes, the director is actually intrigued by the idea, and... last I knew, it had gotten as far as colorful "superhero" costuming.
EDIT: On a note that probably won't help anything, right, it was one person in charge who was doing the play with nothing, and another somehow coming in who said, you're not doing that, are you?
Edited by Caswinresolved SOLVED - Children's serial with fugitive Native American teenage boy Live Action TV
This was an American or Canadian serial aimed at older children that I watched in the afternoon children's programming slot on BBC 1 in the UK in the late '70s or early '80s. It may have been repeated in the mornings during the school holidays.
The main character was a Native American or First Nations teenager who wrongly thought he had accidentally killed his bully in a fight and went on the run. The main memory I have is of the fight, as that was part of the recap at the beginning of each episode. The fight took place in a shallow stream and the teenager repeatedly said "Apologise!" as he was hitting the bully (I seem to recall the bully hitting the boy's Beserk Button was the reason for the fight).
I've done some searches through the archived listings on the BBC Genome Project and haven't come up with anything. Any help is appreciated.
Edited by Aspectiferresolved Stop motion dinosaurs from the 70s or earlier Live Action TV
The Fantasy Island episode "One Million BC" features Stock Footage of stop motion dinosaurs that look like plastic toys. One shot has a T-Rex biting a triceratops around the waist, leaving dabs of blood on it. The triceratops responds by goring the T-Rex with its horn, putting a small hole in its stomach. There are also shots of an erupting volcano over a jungly landscape, which may or may not be from the same show as the dinosaurs. Anyone know where this footage comes from? I mostly just want to know if the triceratops defeats the T-Rex or not.
resolved timetravel Live Action TV
I don't know when it aired but what was the name of the time travel show where the main characters refused to let someone fix the malfunctioning timemache and instead go after the criminals immediately despite the whole time travel thing?
resolved An episode when a guy brings a woman to a RPG game as part of a date Live Action TV
I remember an episode of a TV show from the 2000s or late 90s about this woman who goes out with handsome guy and at the end he brings her to a group playing a tabletop RPG game like Dungeons & Dragons or some sort of similar stand in. The guy wears a cape and I think a pointy wizard cap and the other players are all your stereotypical fat nerdy types.
The woman is horrified about being there with nerds so she calls up her friend and her friend says her son plays it and the game only finishes when the in-game characters die. So she tries to get her character killed by attacking another player's character. A different player tries to save the other and after a dice roll the different player's character is decapitated and the head rolls into a lake.
Don't know the origin but I'm guessing American.
Edited by jormis29resolved Old Kids' Show featuring living animal dolls Live Action TV
This was back in the early 2000s. 5 animal dolls (one was a bear, another a monkey if I remember correctly) lived around a family home. At the end of the day, they'd sit on a shelf and go to sleep as the owner (a kid whose face is never shown, only his shadow) ended each episode by counting each doll and saying something like "5 special animals."
I remember one episode involving the kid wanting to watch a rare comet in the sky but unknowingly misses it, so the animals get together and shine a flashlight outside to make him think he saw it.
resolved Solved it's madan senki ruykendo Live Action TV
As the title says I'm looking for an sentai esque show that I don't think ever got adapted. In the first episode the main character comes into town and sees the police force prepare to fight of foot soldiers. The secret base is under the police station and the boss is under cover as janitor in the station. They use keys, stolen from the bad guys who use them to create monsters, to create new weapons/ powerups and their morphers are also their talking weapons. The hero uses a sword the other member a gun and eventually a third member using a lance or spear showed up.
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved puppetshow? Live Action TV
I'm looking for an American/English tv show I watched in the 90's in the Netherlands. It was about a family of rabbits or something like that and their neighbors. I'm pretty sure the neighbors were the main characters. Also in one of the house was a mouse holes in which the villains lived who were looking for a magic crystal. I think it was a puppetshow and it definitely wasn't a movie
resolved [solved] Dennis Weaver made-for-TV movie about illiteracy Live Action TV
I'm positive that Dennis Weaver had a role as a truck driver supporting his family, but he was illiterate. His wife would have to make pictograms of his latest assignment so he'd know where to go and what to do. At a restaurant, the restrooms were labelled Sailors and Mermaids, and the trucker mistook the M in Mermaids for Men's ... whoopsie. It culminated in his trying to find the exit to Gloversville purely by the G, almost missing the turnoff, and causing a mother and her children to crash. He finally sought help by getting subsidized adult literacy classes. Does anyone remember the name of this movie? IM Db seems to have missed it.
Edited by oneuglybunnyresolved witch and talking cauldron Live Action TV
There was this show I used to watch in the 90's about witch who lived in a gingerbread, together with her talking cauldron. I think it had a minimalist cast of about three character per episode and UI seem to remember the witch using "heads will roll." a lot, might even have been her catchprase. I'm also pretty it was a British show.
The Ginger Bread House page is no help since it only has two listings under live action and none are what I'm looking for.
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved 1990s TV ad (USA) Live Action TV
Early 1990s, I used to see a commercial on television. It was targeted for parents. The product advertised was a handheld, battery-powered portable video game that had many pre-programmed games. I don't think it used cartridges or game cards or diskettes or anything like that, it was just pre-programmed games. The screen was a black-and-white dot matrix, I'm pretty sure about that. It was advertised to have a large number of games ("over 300 games" or something) but I was under the impression that they inflated that number by including variants of the same game. For example, remember Tetris? Remember how Tetris had "Type-A" and "Type-B" gameplay? According to this advertisement, those were two different games. I think Tetris was actually a pre-programmed game (or some similar kind of falling block puzzle game at least).
Now what really makes this advertisement memorable is that the (male) announcer tells the parents, "NEVER buy those expensive video game cartridges again!!" and the picture showed a close-up of a hand dropping a video game cartridge into a wastebasket. I particularly remember that the game shown was the Super NES version of Street Fighter II. As a kid, I instantly recognized it because I owned that game and it was one of the most popular games at that time. This means the commercial I'm looking for was probably aired in 1992 or 1993. Even as a kid I thought this was absurd, because I knew that game cost about $70 and the announcer described it as "expensive" so it wouldn't make sense for a parent to throw it into the trash, even if they bought a new handheld device with over 300 games.
resolved Kids in Space Live Action TV
I am trying to remember the name of this kids show about a group of kids who snuck aboard a spacecraft and said spacecraft wen through a wormhole and they need to get home. I remember there being adults on board, a man and a woman; also a robot.
And there was this one episode where the girl with rainbow hair could do like a sonic scream thing.
resolved No Title Live Action TV
I briefly watched a segment of a TV show that shows a man using a drill. I think he lays his chin to a platform (plywood?) and drills upward to him. His chin got penetrated by accident. This might be a comedy sitcom show because I remember hearing a laugh track in this scene, and the scene is viewed like that. Or maybe it's not comedy and it's something intentionally serious. This was viewed around the 2000s decade.
Edit: Most likely this is Mad TV. Thank you.
Edited by ctempireresolved No Title Live Action TV
Not exactly TV, but a web series. It was one of Cracked.com's series, either Does Not Compute or Cracked TV. I'm looking for a specific episode, and I don't have the time to go through all of them and it's driving me nuts.
So, Michael's sidekick Clippy is a clip of something obnoxious, like just constant screaming or something. Michael asks Clippy something, cut to screaming or whatever, cut back to Michael, who says, "Oh, I forgot, you're insufferable in this episode."
Any help? Anyone?
resolved No Title Live Action TV
I have vague memories of a live action TV show I watched as a kid. I'm pretty sure it was about a small town, where strange things happen all the time. The opening title might have had the name of the show on a wooden sign, with a crow sitting on top of it.
The only two episodes I can remember anything about involved a) A kid appearing from nowhere, but this kid was actually a younger version of the father in the show. I think he had some sort of plan to blow up the science fair. b) A tamagotchi like videogame that became really popular, but everyone become devoted to the game's main character like some sort of cult, and they went to work in a factory for him... I think someone might have been trapped in the game as well.
Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? I watched it in Canada in the late 1990s, on (I think) KVOS. It was channel 13 on the West Coast, when we were still using rabbit ears.
resolved No Title Live Action TV
It was a sitcom with no laugh track, taking place in an earlier decade, and the main character or narrator was a youngish teenage boy. I remember a couple episodes featuring his older brother's attempts to impress an (Austrian?) girl who was a foreign exchange student.
In one, the brother was supposed to be helping her with her English class, which was reading The Catcher in the Rye. He hadn't read it yet himself, being a slacker, but when he did, he was enthralled by it. The two ended up going to an appearance by the author, where the brother inadvertently drives him into a depression by suggesting that he might not be able to top Catcher in the Rye.
In another episode, the brother watches amused, from a distance, as an old man attempts to pick up his keys but is unable to. The girl is angered at this, goes to help, and then berates the brother. The brother, attempting to defend himself, glances behind her at a poster about an old lady needing help around the house. He tells the girl that he does respect the elderly and in fact is volunteering to help an old lady. He takes the job to maintain his cover. It mostly involves giving the old lady footrubs. They end up bonding, as she shares her life's stories with him. When he tells (Austrian?) girl about all this, she seems strangely jealous for a moment, until he reassures her that nothing more is going on besides footrubs. One day, he throws a surprise dance/party for the old lady, meaning to mimic something from her youth. She's elated and, when asked for feedback, replies: "It looks nothing like it." Nevertheless, she appreciates the thought, so they dance together. They end up falling down due to her inability to keep up with him, and he falls on top of her. Just then, (Austrian?) girl walks in, sees them, says: "I thought you only rubbed her feet!" and runs out, upset. (All played for laughs, of course.) Guy gets up, shouting at her to wait, then hesitates and runs after her, leaving the old lady lying on the floor, unable to get up herself and looking puzzled.
resolved No Title Live Action TV
This was a sitcom with no laugh track that aired in the early 2000's. It might have had 'Oliver' in the title. It took place in an earlier decade, maybe the 50's. The narrator, one of the main characters, was a youngish teenage boy. He may or may not have been the titular 'Oliver' (if 'Oliver' was part of the title at all, of course).
I remember two episodes, both featuring narrator-boy's older brother's attempts to impress a girl. This girl was probably an exchange student and may have been Austrian.
In one episode, older-brother was supposed to be helping her with her English class, which was reading The Catcher in the Rye. He hadn't read it yet himself, being a slacker, but when he did, he was enthralled by it. The two ended up going to an appearance by the author, where older-brother inadvertently drives him into a depression by suggesting that he might not be able to top Catcher in the Rye.
In the other episode, the brother watches amused, from a distance, as an old man attempts to pick up his keys but is unable to. The girl is angered at this, goes to help, and then berates the brother. The brother, attempting to defend himself, glances behind her at a poster about an old lady needing help around the house. He tells the girl that he does respect the elderly and in fact is volunteering to help an old lady. He takes the job to maintain his cover. It mostly involves giving the old lady foot rubs. They end up bonding, as she shares her life stories with him. When he tells (Austrian?) girl about all this, she seems strangely jealous for a moment, until he reassures her that nothing more is going on besides footrubs. One day, he throws a surprise dance/party for the old lady, meaning to mimic something from her youth. She's elated and, when asked for feedback, replies: "It looks nothing like it." Nevertheless, she appreciates the thought, so they dance together. They end up falling down due to her inability to keep up with him, and he falls on top of her. Just then, (Austrian?) girl walks in, sees them, says: "I thought you only rubbed her feet!" and runs out, upset. Guy gets up, shouting at her to wait, then hesitates and runs after her, leaving the old lady lying on the floor, unable to get up herself and looking puzzled.
resolved No Title Live Action TV
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.
I remember that around 2010 (probably more like before 2010), there was this maybe British Reality TV Show about two professional cleaners (a woman with blond hair in a top knot, and another woman with boyish hair and glasses) who were cleaning the houses of hoarders. I specifically remember that the short-haired woman was a microbiologist and she would take samples from the surfaces to analyze in the lab, while explaining what microbes she found, what caused their presence and what they do to the human body. This is where I learned what Salmonella is. The two were ALWAYS wearing white labcoats (or cleaning uniforms that look a lot like labcoats).
Ring any bells?
Edited by Lermis