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openCBBC Show about Chinese myths Live Action TV
I think this show was on the British children's channel CBBC about 5/6 years ago. From what I remember, these kids were transported to a fantasy world that had elements of Chinese mythology like a dragon and the monkey king. They had to collect tokens that represented the Chinese zodiac to return home. Its funny that I can remember a lot about it, but I have no idea what it was called! Thanks
openEnglish Prog Album - 70s Music
I heard this album months ago, enjoyed it but forgot the name. It had a black and white cover with a demon on it, had a song with a woman's name (Ellen? Eleanor?) and made heavy use of violins on that song. Want to say it had a demonic band name too. I've been racking my brain, thanks!
openOld Childhood show Western Animation
I'm trying to find the name of a cartoon. It has 3 main characters (children) that make use of dagger like devices to bring Dinosaur skeletons to life and transform them into robotic versions of them selves. The dagger like devices had orbs in the hilt where the power came from. I know its not much but thank you for any and all help.
openLaw Enforcement agency show
Warning - May contain spoilers
Trying to remember this TV show, the main actress was a hispanic woman, she was in a law enforcement agency (FBI,CIA,DEA, can't remember which), her less-by-the-books-partner gets shot at some point, the antagonist turns out to be her boss in the agency, at some point her office is bugged leaking information to her boss who in turn is leaking the info to the antagonists. She takes the law into her own hands at some point. The boss's boss is a middle aged Caucasian with grey hair (famous actor, name escapes me) and ends up helping her.I realize how vague this is, it's been bugging me for days.
openKIDS SHOW ABOUT DINOSAURS
okay, the details might be off but this is how i remember it- it played on ABC 3 and it was an american show but im not sure if it played anywhere outside of australia. it was about these camp counsellors (the protagonist was a 16-17 year old girl) that ran a summer camp in a forest like environment, then the lead actress discovered that there was a dinosaur living in the forest, it ended up being friendly and they became close (i do not remember if she told everyone about the dinosaurs but i am pretty sure she did and that the dinosaur was a friend to everyone in the camp) anyway, there were also like 2 or 3 evil dinosaurs that consistently tried attacking and killing the good dinosaur- it may have been a movie but im almost certain it was a show. a vague memory but im sure it was real
Edited by zringmyopenWHAT MOVIE IS THIS? Film
im pretty certain it played on disney channel, approximately sometime between 2004-2010. the movie followed a young teenage boy (probably 14-15) who lived in a small, unexciting town whee nothing happened. but in this town there was a TV show all the children enjoyed, including this boys younger sister. the show was about a puppet of sorts- i think it was a frog but i could be confusing it with vague Kermit memories- one day this puppet goes missing and the beloved puppeteer is devastated. the young boy decides to help his sister out and solve the mystery of the missing puppet. eventually they find out the puppeteer was behind it because he decided he wanted to leave the life he had behind or something along those lines. the puppet gets shoved in a box and thrown off the bridge. that's all i can remember but i assume it has a happy ending. please help me, everyone thinks i dreamt this and i know i didnt
open2010s medical drama Live Action TV
This series was about a female med school graduate (played by a Latina actress) who couldn't find a hospital job in New York City, and instead travels to the Southern U.S., where she befriends a southern belle (played by a New Zealander) and gets caught in a love triangle between two handsome guys (one of whom is played by a former Teen Wolf star).
Surprisingly, it isn't listed on the Medical Drama page.
openTv show pls help
I think the show was western and was on around 1990-2010 ish It had kids or teens that would go off on an adventure in a spaceship to different alien worlds, sometimes helping some alien creatures. I remember one where they went to a frozen world and there was a massive frozen bird that was hurt or being hunted or something and the tried to help it, another one was where they were in a jungle and had to try to find some boxes that had a specific item in them- they seemed to be scattered about but they had some sort of trailer to help them locate the boxes, I think someone also sabotaged them while they were looking but can't really remember.
openComic possibly about deconstruction of sidekicks. Print Comic
In 2016 i picked up a comic from a goodwill in my town that came along with a box of various other comics. I lost it the same day but i did manage to skim through it while riding back home. I cant remember the title, the author, the artist, or who published. although i know it wasn't DC or marvel specifically and i'm 90% sure it wasn't by image. It was probably the second to last issue and from what i remember its plot focus is that the main superheroes of this world are captured by some otherworldly force and held captive in some sort of pocket dimension in order to keep them from stopping earths destruction. Some seem to be an expy of superman with a flashy cape and a big defender of justice attitude and all of them have hints of traits from heroes of the silver age. The only heroes left on earth are their sidekicks. Two that stand out in my mind is a African american boy dressed like a birthday magician and a android with human flesh skin. With the world at stake these kids take it on themselves to save the world but are barely equipped to do it. they end up almost killing themselves and severely shattering every moral code for the greater good. From what i interpreted the boy magician side kick does this allot and gets his hands very dirty and the android sidekick ends up severely damaged. there's also a girl sidekick with light brown skin if i recall but all i know of her is that shes there. I know this is not be allot to go on but I've searched google as much as i could but nothing remotely similar comes up. I even went to my local comic book shop to describe it and no one had heard of it. Really hoping someone could help me out because it sounds really interesting and id like to continue reading it.
openKid's book about dragon hunting Literature
(First, sorry if this is a double post, I for some reason can't find the version of this I posted just last night, so :/)
This is a standalone (I believe) book about slaying a dragon. It's not Dragon Slayers Academy, but I do know it was a book for children and featured at least two main characters. There was a boy who was a Paige and bullied by the other Paiges after he was given a task involving the dragon. I specifically remember one of the other boys sitting on him for it. The other character I remember was the princess who snuck out to kill the dragon herself because she wanted to prove she was capable of being a knight or something. She disguised herself as a boy named Bill and met up with the Paige.
This is all I remember because I read the book when I was in, err... 5th grade? About 11 years ago?
openI've been looking for this kids crafting show/kids version of 'how it's made'. Live Action TV
I remember watching this show with a female host where she's walking in the park talking about recycling paper and then goes and makes recycled paper at one point and tells you how paper is made. There was also this weird room covered in colorful paper in the beginning of the episode where she does crafts. No clue what it's called.
openOld cartoon with a blonde girl Western Animation
I vaguely remember watching this series when I was very young and I cannot for the life of me find it anywhere. From what I remember there was this girl with long blonde hair and two red ribbons on each side of her head, she might have been a princess and she was always in trouble. I think it might have been set in something like a fantasy village. Please help, it's really bugging me!
Edited by Iva4kaopenMovie / serie Film
All I can remember is the first episode. It starts of with a guy robbing a casino, he had been working their for a month to get acces to everything. He changes the playing cards so he can see which cards who has. Using this he wins a poker game, winning a lot of money. However, someone altered his vision, which made him think he would win. Im pretty sure it's kinda a magic movie/serie
openNo Title Live Action TV
Film or episode about a housemaid who goes to stay with a man and his daughter. The man's wife was killed for being a witch, and he sees the daughter as a witch also. The little girl makes a Voodoo Doll of her dad and sticks pins in it which cause him pain. At the end of the movie, the girl throws the voodoo doll into the fire, which kills the man.
I don't think it was long enough to be a movie. Maybe an episode of some series of horror shorts.
openKids story: "Oddballs" on the Moon Literature
I believe this was a story from Humpty Dumpty magazine circa mid-70s (probably 1974-76). In it, a boy travels to the moon and encounters moon men called “Oddballs,” who are like little men with heads and arms but have spherical balls for bodies that bounce around as a form of locomotion.
Edited by BananaquitopenSF/Fantasy about seer who collects rocks Literature
BEWARE, SPOILER - Short story (or possibly novellette) concerning a kind of shaman or seer who goes on long journeys to collect rocks which he adds to a large assembly that aids in his visions. Big payoff of the story is that long ago everyone was made immortal, but it's been so long that no one remembers what it was like when people died. And now the immortality is wearing off.
openCan't find this old post apocalyptic fantasy kids TV show Live Action TV
I've been trying to find what this show was that was my favourite when I was very very young, it was a show like the New Zealand series The Tribe, but different and with younger kids, it was either fantasy or post apocalyptic or both and had these machines that were alive and looked like messed up diggers that could be blinded if a rock was thrown at its eye, and there was this awesome character called Sky or Ski and he has a red moon shape on his forehead and lived out in the woods while all the other kids lived in villages or something, some details would probably be faded in my head but I know it exists at least. Would be legend if you could tell me what this was, I've been scanning the internet searching for it every now and again and I never seem to find it.
Man rescued from a drifting by a pair blue skinned, yellow freckled alien sisters. I believe humans are suppose to be extinct, hes at least the 'Token Human' of the comic through what I've read
The later get find a furry (cat derivative) stowaway, which they drop of on the next planet. The might have been a squid/octopus alien in there too, but I'm not sure.
Haven't see in in two years, don't remember the name. It wasn't very long at the time, I say under a 100 pages, but fairly detailed art