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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
2020-12-07 15:05:03
Needs a page rather then a redirect but could it be Dinotopia "Handful of Dust" episode?
- Through the castle, Marion chases after the boy Cortez. He ends up in a chamber, with her trying to lure him out. She pulls up a tablecloth to find him under the table, now a toddler. In a bright flash, there’s nothing left of him but dust and jewelry to her horror.
hackdash
Since: Dec, 2018

So, around the early to mid 2000’s I remember watching this adventure show (can’t remember the genre, could’ve been fantasy or sci-fi, or both), where the heroes (a man and woman) are chasing the bad guys after they get some kind of macguffin that causes them to become younger and younger. The villains were also male and female and from what I remember, the female villain is able to get out of whatever force is causing her to continuously become younger. However, the male villain isn’t so lucky: he keeps running away from the female hero until he turns into a baby (I think he eventually hides under a table). The female hero tries to beckon the baby to either come to her or give her the Macguffin when, to her horror, the now babyified villain turns to dust. This episode has been in my brain for years, and since I’m a writer I’m looking for obscure series to get some ideas.
The only other thing I can provide is I THINK the series was set in a desert, but honestly it could’ve been just that one episode.