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openEarly 2000S live action kid show Live Action TV
I remember this show about a girl who would go to a cave which was alive, I remember the cave had it's own spirit and I used to watch this when I was only small around 6 or 7. The girl would go on a boat to go to the cave and basically that's all I remember
openGeneral Hospital Live Action TV
I am seeking the 3 episodes with the episode numbers 3040, 3064, and 3150 from 1983 if possible. Thank you.
open80s/90s Medical Dramedy Live Action TV
I really wonder if this is just from my imagination, but... I seem to remember a show when I was younger, in the 1980s/1990s—- it was a live action television show, a medical show that I think was a clinic/ER, a mix of comedy and drama. I think it was shot on a very small set (I think it might have been a total of three rooms (a room with the patients (possibly three beds max), the reception area, and MAYBE a waiting room). I feel like it was on a cable network, perhaps Lifetime. Definitely a very minimalistic show.
Anyone have any idea what the heck I'm thinking of?
openCan’t remember show Live Action TV
Hi! I was hoping someone could help me, I remember a 80’s/ 90’s/ early 2000’s live action kids show that was about two I think teens and a doctor who would talk about Supernatural things like ghosts and the Minotaur, I think it stopped being aired adrround the time othersiders came on, and I think it was on the same channel as legends of the hidden temple. It also ended with the two kids saying something along the lines of remember things are often stranger then they seem. It had an episode about sliders and shadow people
Edited by ukbdesropenGenie and a boy Live Action TV
This series was about a boy that was not so popular at school and this genie or ghost man came around and he had to make the boy the most popular at school it was on Nickelodeon
openSteamboat puppets in a swamp. Live Action TV
Okay. So I’m not sure if I dreamt this or not, but there was a show or maybe even just a singular episode where there is a girl, she may or may not have been a puppet, but she somehow ended up on a steamboat in the middle of a bayou type environment, on a quest to fight some kind of evil. It was very dark and really trippy.
Edited by StupendousRamopenWas This Real? Live Action TV
So, I remember seeing a partial episode of some show where there is a guy riding a penguin or something and there was someone turning everyone into this girl who was supposedly a model student or something. The main character gets half turned into this student then wakes up I think. It was probably either a disney or nickelodeon show from the early 2000's or was rerun at that time. Please help me find out if it was real.
openPuppet TV special about a kid who won't go back to school Live Action TV
I remember in the late '80s there was a TV special that aired on Nickelodeon every year around Labor Day about a kid who refused to go back to school. It was all puppets. I remember one line where a character says something like "May he rest in Disney Land!" I can't think of the name of this to save my life. Anybody else remember?
openA YOUNG MAN KIDNAPED TV SERIES Live Action TV
A young man is missing. It turns out a young couple is keeping him in girl's grandmother's basement. They tie him in a chair using tape and give him drugs. Girl works at a drugstore in a mall and she stole drugs from there. Boy works at a music shop at the same mall. He tries to sell the guitar which belongs to the man they kidnapped.
I watched this series recently but i don't remember the name or anything else.
openTV thriller HELP PLEASE! Live Action TV
I remember a man trapped in a metal room with wires attached to his head. he is looking through cards desperate to find the correct number to pay the computer as it is counting down and removing is faculties then eventually his life.
In one scene i recall a wall of safety deposit boxes that are on a lift system so you can cycle through them.
when he moves around the room he has to drag the cables he is attached to.
this may have been a short interwoven into a show where this was not the main theme.
Edited by InquisitiveSoldieropenSci-Fi/Thriller with an "imaginary friend" and "inner demon"? Live Action TV
I can't remember what the show was actually about, but I remember specific scenes and details. The main male character had this female friend for a good portion of the show and later on he realized that he was the only one who could see her. She represented this shadow demon thing inside him from when he was a child. Whenever he tried to recall his memories of what happened, there was always a break/glitch. This creature he was afraid of had a big ugly head and he used to draw it as a child or something like that.
Another scene I remember quite vaguely is when he was trying to confront the "female friend" with the other characters in the show and there was some sort of time slowing down when she or someone else shot a gun and the main character was trying to prevent people from getting shot.
The other parts I remember are when there's this person that has the power to switch bodies and while inside a mental hospital or something similar, bodies switched and there was some massive killing inside the place with the body parts of everyone sticking out in odd areas and positions (stuck in walls, etc).
I watched this show on Netflix relatively recently (within a few years) and I know it isn't an older show since I tend to watch recently released series.
openA french (I believe) show\movie about Hookers friend that deals with a cheap john. Live Action TV
So there was an old frenchItalian tv showmovie that I watched back in the day, and one of the scenes was about a Hooker and her friend, talking about a man that stole the hooker's money. Then her friend catches him and "DEALS" with the problem. I have some images of that hooker's friend, maybe you could help me find this showmovie:
https://prnt.sc/hv5fah
https://prnt.sc/hv5fm7
openDetectives back in the day Live Action TV
I remember from my childhood a detective show on PBS with a man and woman, both wearing a blue uniform. Think it was a kids show either mid-late 80s or early 90s
openEarly 2000s talk show Live Action TV
I used to watch this syndicated talk show that has a segment where somebody stands in front of a door, then the door opens by itself revealing whether or not somebody is in there. Any ideas?
openBook Club turned into Murderous Cult Live Action TV
I can't remember which channel it was on, but ABC or FX comes to mind. I believe it was on around 2011-2012. From what I remember, the plot centers around this one modern literature cult that pulls a lot of crazy stunts, like lighting people on fire in the streets and plain ol' murder. If I'm correct, Edgar Allan Poe was most likely the author they all worshiped or something like that. The leader too, was probably in the middle of writing his own twisted book, and they looked up to him too. I'm pretty sure the genre would fall somewhere in mystery, crime, drama.
openI Cant seem to remeber what was the name of this tv series. Live Action TV
Has anyone seen a kid riding his bmx with big afro high with high socks. It's 2017 it had one episode i watched it like one month ago ?
openI don't know Live Action TV
In the first episode it has a woman who is getting coffee when a robber comes in so she ends up getting the man to go by giving him bear what tv show is this from
openLive Action, Kids Mystery/Adventure Possibly Aired on Cartoon Network Live Action TV
I am wracking my brain trying to remember this live action movie that i saw anywhere from 2008 to 2014. It was a tv movie that possibly aired on cartoon network. It was centered around teenage kids or a little younger solving a mystery of some kind. Ghosts may have been involved, not sure. Im pretty sure the main character was a boy with black hair. And I think there were a few other movies within the series. Kind of had Goonies/ Scooby Doo type feel.
open80s-ish Kids show about a girl, robot, and magic ring Live Action TV
I think it was a Canadian show, but it was about a old man, a robot the looked like Rosy from Jetsons, and a girl with a secret magic ring. I think it had a green stone. She would use it to make wishes or teleport or something. HALP!

The movie was super boring so I didn't watch all of it. It starts with a little boy that captures a toad. A walking silhouette with a cowboy hat tells him to kill it by stabbing it with a slightly sharp rock. The little boy answers that he does not want to and that the toad is his friend. The shadow curses at him and berates him for being weak until he finally complies. He reaches his late teens and we find that the shadow never left. It's also clear that noone sees or hears it besides the boy. At the behest of the shadow , he murders his girlfriend's family with her being a more than willing participant. Her little sister walks in to find her parents dead and immediately starts crying before being told to shutup and getting hit in the face with the back of a massive shotgun. That was a bit much for me so I turned, but I wonder what the title was. I'd love to know that I watched something that actually exists and that this was not the creation of my imagination.