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Canadian show, 1990s, set in a TV news studio, main character was kind of a poor man's Tom Cruise. It was a drama, with elements of humor, but I can't remember now what made it so good. Saw it on US TV, late night I think.
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I remember an episode of a tv show (maybe late nineties?) in which a group of students were in detention, and somehow they realized that their detention room was isolated from the rest of the outside world. The classroom windows were frosted, and when they were able to open them, outside of the was just whiteness. Turns out they were actually being observed and studied by aliens.
Does anyone know what show this was?
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I've Googled this without any success, so maybe I just made the whole thing up somehow, but here goes:
I'm 23. I have a childhood memory of seeing a promo for something on TV (in Canada) about a doctor/scientist who would do experiments on people by making them lie down and listen to white noise through headphones. He was able to brainwash them and/or erase their memories/minds. At the time, I understood the plot to be based on true events that happened in Montreal or something, but don't weigh that idea too heavily. (Maybe it was set in Montreal, though?)
I remember this as a TV movie, but it may have just been an episode of a series. Either way, it made me nervous around white noise for years.
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I'm looking for the name of a British kid's gameshow from the 90s. It was basically The Crystal Maze with a few differences:
- There were only three people in the team;
- It was set in a (possibly 200 floor) skyscraper;
- Each floor contained a different game, with the final game on the top floor;
- Instead of being locked in, you were sent to the basement;
- It was hosted by a face on a screen in the building's lift;
- It was the host's job to pick the games played, not the players.
I'm certain I'm not making this up, given how much of it I remember, so does anyone know what it was called?
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This just popped into my brain and is killing me. I remember watching this on either Nickelodeon or Disney. I think it was a Made for TV movie. It involved kids in a post-apocalyptic desert world (one of them may have had powers), and they windsurfed across the desert. Had to have been Post Alex Mack, but Pre Eddie Mc Dowd Nick Era.
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I doubt anyone will remember this, but I recently remembered about a TV show I watched that was on back in the 1980s. It was about a man named Jim Douglas I think and he had a car that had a mind of its own I'm pretty sure. This sound familiar to anyone?
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Does anyone remember a TV pilot called "Things That Go Bump"? It was about a division of the New Orleans Police Department that concerned itself with ghostbusting, and it had a cop named Bumpstead as its protagonist. Never made it to a series, but I found out what it was only last year or so. I'm just trying to spread the love and see if anyone else knows about it.
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I'm trying to find out if I'm just crazy or if this was actually on the air at one point. It could have just been a Canadian thing, or it could have been international (or it could have been a Candle Cove/Eldritch Abomination thing)... This was in the late-80s/early-90s or so.
Anyway, there was this girl (I think her name was Hope), and an evil witch/queen/something. The witch had a henchmonster (fuzzy brown puppet guy) called Erg (possibly spelled differently, but pronounced as I spelled it). There was also a talking waterfall/spring/pond/well/something. I think it was probably either a well or a waterfall, because I seem to recall if being an alliteration with the word 'wise' or 'wisdom'.
Edited to correct 'canned' to the more accurate 'called'.
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I'm pretty sure what I'm looking for was a episode from one of those twilight zone / masters of science fiction shows with new sci-fi stories each week, probably from the 90s. The US army is camped out in the desert in the night observing a giant cube about 100 ft in length. The cube is a window into another universe where people live near a house in a beautiful lush meadow. The army can't hear but can see and the other side seems unaware of the army. They use a golf-ball launcher to shoot at it constantly to detect an opening in the barrier preventing them from passing.
One of the scientists becomes obsessed and when he sees an opening he goes through. He is then promptly eaten by the women and children who have giant fangs. The father pulls out a book, casts a spell and reverses the window so that they can see us.
It was so cool, I'd love to watch it again.
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Used to be a TV Show on, pretty sure it was a Saturday Morning Live Action Show... It had something to do with a group of kids, pre-teen to teen, and a ghost or clown of some sort. Anyway, they made a wish maybe to be super heroes, and they got their wish granted, they were given superpowers in the form of bugs maybe? I kind of recall one of them being a blueish beetle dude with the great big T shaped Horn I think. There may have also been a mansion involved somehow.
Essentially
Clown/Genie/Ghost
Group of Kids
Superheroes (maybe bug like/related)
Wishes granted?
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I'm looking for a dorama about an otaku in the fully negative sense of the word - he can't even afford the high-quality stalkery cameras the other otakus use - who falls in love with a fairly respectable woman. I believe at the end of the second episode, he sends her teacups or a sweater or something, and it's played as very sweet and redemptive. There's a parody of an anime involving a Magical Girl with phallic symbols popping up all around her. The opening credits have the "domo arigato, Mr. Roboto" song.
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I am vexed and you will help me. Early 1980s, British television; not so much a TV show as a guest spot on something like Tomorrow's World. A small chamber strings orchestra made of players who dress in classical-style outfits but with featureless silver facemasks, as if they were robots. They play a haunting piece of classical music, and there is an animated film in which Big Ben, various landmarks sink beneath the waves. What was it? Did I dream it? I can still hum the music - dah, dah-dah-dah-dah-dah, dah-etc - but you can't hear me.
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I'm looking for a specific iCarly episode: They're invited to some kind of convention, and Spencer cosplays as a character from a World Of Warcraft parody. This episode had Jack Black. More specifically, I'm trying to find the scene where Spencer and Jack start singing at each other. :p
I think this was a PBS series, but I'm not sure. The main characters were a boy and girl who had a sort of "time scoop" they used to bring people out of the past and talk with them. One episode had them bring Moses forward, just before the Burning Bush. They knew better, they really did, but they just couldn't help expecting the pop culture versions of the various people. So they were more than slightly disconcerted to get, when they drew Moses forward, an eighty year old Judean shepherd... who stuttered.