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openlate 90s/early 00s tv show Live Action TV
I swear to god there was this show I watched as a kid where these two teen/young adults (siblings??) would like hang out and read stories and then they would like show up in the stories, usually like greek mythology and the like. It wasn't animated, and it had kind of a serious tone to it. It's not wishbone and it's not the magic tree house. Help?
openTV show with skull floating room to room in intro Live Action TV
Apologies if detail is sparse, but in the late 70’s as a small kid I remember going to my grandma’s. Some days she would have her TV on and a show would come on that I can best describe it started with a skull beginning to float off a shelf and through a room, perhaps to other rooms. Then after the show, the skull would float itself back to its original location. The show may have been black and white, and may have been much older than the era I was seeing it. I wish I could remember more. Does anyone have any idea what show this was? I don’t think it was a movie, I think it was a TV series?
openHaunted house parody gay couple renovating it Live Action TV
I’m starting to loose hope, this is a very old show I think it could even be the one episode. I was younge but I can still remember it. There was two guys and they were either renovating this house or they had bought it. They were talking into the camera like it was a kinda tv show I think? Um anyway it was this parody and just really funny. One part I remember was when they were showing the house and the paranormal activity started happening and the walls were bleeding and instead of freaking out about the ghost they were freaking out about it not being clean and having to call their friend to say they would be late to meet them. Like I know this was a show possibly one episode or a 30-40 minute thing but I can’t find it and it’s driving me crazy someone please help
openUnknown Live Action TV
Kind of like a weekly gameshow, kids would have to go into a haunted house with some guy and 'defeat' ghosts and collect their goo/slime. Possibly ITV and was live action
openHorror/Thriller TV Show Live Action TV
There was a show I remember seeing when I was younger, it was a Supernatural/X Files kind of horror show, it was shown around the early 2000s. I remember two episodes from it; one where there was a ghost of an old woman and she basically tricked people into getting into this carriage and they burned alive, and at the end the ghost (somehow) commits suicide by getting into the carriage herself. And the second one I remember, was that people were getting these tattoos (possibly the tattoo of a cheap looking flaming sword) and whoever got the tattoo was hunted down, killed with an actual flaming sword and had their various body parts removed and made into a creepy looking Frankenstein-type monster. It was on quite late in the UK, not sure if it was american or not.
openMonkey Family kids show? Live Action TV
There’s a show I remember watching when I was really young, it would have been some time roughly around the late 1990s or maybe even super early 2000s
It was a live action kids show set in some kind of jungle house, the set was really brightly coloured from what I can recall, the characters were a family of monkeys who were just actors in furry suits with facepaint I think? they had like, hoods or something with big monkey ears on them too and they might have all been differently coloured but I’m not sure about that. I only remember one episode where the brother and sister are looking for some bananas and they find out at the end that the dad had eaten them and was sleeping in a tree outside
I can’t remember their accents but it was on Australian TV if that helps, which means it was likely Australian, British, American or Canadian... which really doesn’t narrow it down much ugh
If anyone knows please respond, I’ve been searching for this show online for years, I have scoured SO many sites about children’s shows, I went through an entire list of Australian kids shows once and I don’t think it was on there but I might have missed it if it was
openWhat show is this scene from?! Live Action TV
What tv show is this scene from?A guy is with a girl whos a hairdresser and she keeps messing up on his hair, she dyes it at one point and shaves him towards the end.He then says when it grows back she can try again.She is so surprised and it turns out she was hired to do that.When she returns to whoever hired her she shaves that guys head.The episode ends with both bald men.
openIncredibly vague/specific TV show? Live Action TV
I'm 90% convinced it was TV because I remember looking at a fan wiki for it with reference to seasons. I'm really sorry about these vague details. I never watched it but it was recommended to me so I looked it up and now I can't remember the title (this was a couple months ago, it was a brief search).
The look seemed sci-fi/post-apocalyptic, definitely gritty. I recall references to warfare/gang wars of some sort, at least warring sides. The two characters I remember most vividly were a bartender/bar owner (?) and his gay lover. Both of them seemed the tough/masculine type and the lover was bald, and possibly a soldier/warrior of some point.
I'm looking for the actors' names but I can't remember the title of the show or the characters. Any help would be enormously appreciated, this is driving me nuts.
openMystery TV Show... Live Action TV
Ok, this has bothered me for decades so I've got ask if anyone out there knows.. A black and white tv show I saw as a child. (would've been a rerun of some earlier show, bc I saw this mid-80's). Golly. I'll try to describe it right: The show was built around some sort of prediction or dream or something concerning a chandelier that would fall on a girl who dancing beneath it. All I really remember is that the main male character didn't take the warning seriously. Then last scene I really remember is there was a ballroom, someone shouting about the chandelier shaking. Then next thing you hear is a scream and the crash of the chandelier. That's all I've got. I've tried to search through Twilight Zones, Hitchcock, Climax! (TV series 1955-57), etc. Unfortunately, you can't find a synopsis on every show. Possibly from a Jane Wyman Fireside Theater? It was definitely black and white and one of those anthology-type of shows with a new story every week.
openCOLD CASE EPISODE Live Action TV
I remember watching an advertisement for this show when it was on the ION network in 2011. One episode has a quick time change shot of the past smiling mother lifting her smiling toddler (a boy), both had brown hair, Lily Rush (not Roz sorry) was standing next to the mother looking up at the child also smiling, change to present adult son with his older mother. Does anyone know this episode? Thanks. I know I did not imagine it.
Edited by thestormtrooperopenSci-fi show/movie that aired in the nineties (in France, original show may be older) Live Action TV
I vaguely remember specific scenes only : several people get blown out of airlocks during the story, and some time after that, some military guy asks another (probably captain) how he feels, and the answer is something like "I have seen [x] men get thrown out into space", implying he isn't quite okay. There's also a scene where they set up some kind of long-range weapon in an airlock, but you only see the action via radar screens. Finally I remember a scene where a group of people stand in a seemingly derelict spaceship in a patch of light, likely being observed from the dark.
Edited by plaeguisopenEducational program about history of the Earth Live Action TV
When I was a kid in the 90s I saw a program on TV about the history of life on Earth which was animated with a voiceover and covered the whole time from the formation of the planet to the emergence of single-celled organisms. I assume after that it got to multicellular life though I don't remember much of it. I'm pretty sure it was a one-off program. This was possibly on TVO or PBS or something like that. I don't remember anything else about it but I would like to see it again because I didn't see how it ended.
openSci fi series Live Action TV
Sci fi show and one episode man finds a magic cube that grants wishes only to find out later that the cube was from the future and he will have to work in mines to pay off his debt for 100s of years, and the last wish he made was for immortality.
openChristian alien knock-off of Barney? Live Action TV
Alright, so I feel like this should be so obvious and easy to find, but I'm just not finding it. What's the name of that rip-off of Barney with an orange alien? It was either a Christian show, or a show that got a Christian edit. I think the Christian stuff was limited to just one segment though(maybe). Thanks.
openPeople dressed as cheese Live Action TV
So there was some show I've seen really long ago. Most of the details I've forgotten, but maybe you will help me remember it. Three people dressed as cheese were driving a weird vehicle, and chased by someone I don't remember. Then all of them ended up in the show studio. First the person dressed as Swedish cheese came out of the vehicle, then the person called Mister Bryndza(or Feta, not sure since I watched the show translated into my language), and the last person dressed as red cheese.
openCanadian science/engineering show. Live Action TV
Around the late '80s/ early '90s there was a show on ABC (Australia) pretty much every morning where a host would introduce engineering experiments and cut to stuff like videos showing factories. I'm pretty sure it was Canadian and it might have been early '80s originally ( about the same time we had You can't do that on TV, and I've learnt since it wasn't exactly new). I don't think the host was a scientist/engineer, just a guy who learnt the script. The start of the show had wind up toys walking across the workshop desk. I distinctly remember walking teeth. Anyone know what it was?
Edit: forgot to mention it was an educational show for kids.
Edited by Randallw201238openIt came on before Sonic Live Action TV
When I lived on a military base in Germany in 1996, there was a puppet TV show starting a little girl who would recap her day by talking to herself in the mirror (who would also talk back and give advice) I remember the ending credits had her "annoying" little brother in a banana car or something. Since it was on an Armed Forces Broadcasting station, it might have been either British, Canadian or dubbed in English from another language.
open90s horror show with rockstar and hotel maid Live Action TV
A rockstar just keep ruin the furnitures in the hotel room , sticking the sofa upside down on the ceiling and there's a creepy hotel maid that always cleaning up the room, at the end I believe that the rockstar died from falling off the hotel, so what's the show called? Thanks!
openSitcom with Robot Girl Live Action TV
I remember seeing a few episodes of a sitcom with a standard family. One of the kids was a robot and she was very literal minded. Her hair was typically done in some sort of bun and she wore dresses more often than anything else. Help is appreciated. Thank you.

I'm wracking my brain and my google trying to find a very specific episode of (I think) Night Court that I saw as a kid, and at this point I'm not even certain that it wasn't a dream. Hopefully this is the correct forum for this...as you can imagine there aren't a lot of night court-specific forums on the web these days. From my memory of the episode Bull uses a trick guillotine of Harry's to decapitate himself just off screen while Dan watches. Later in the episode (perhaps the last freeze frame before the credits) Harry puts a box on a desk and opens it to reveal Bull's head in the box. Can anyone help me? Was this a thing that even happened?