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Bananaquit
Since: Jan, 2001
Tylendal
Since: Mar, 2011
dinosaurdan
Since: May, 2010
dinosaurdan
Since: May, 2010

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.