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openHowie Mandel from Little Monsters looking guy Live Action TV
I've been searching the internet for this show for years to no avail. I don't remember if it was a pilot to a now failed TV show or a made for TV movie. It could have been one of those social awareness things that used to come on TV too. I really don't remember much, but it came on channel 36 between 2000-2004 along with animated shows like Static Shock, Jackie Chan Adventures, and The Batman.
Had a guy in blue makeup with funky red hair, fixed up in a weird braid. I think he had some piercings too. Kinda looked like Howie Mandel in Little Monsters. He was supposed to be an alien, but none of his friends new or thought anything about his strange appearance until they were told he was an alien.
I don't remember the story, but I know he died at the end and went up to the stars or something symbolic like that.
Edit: It might have been an episode of another TV series at the time. I've been going through every show ever to be aired by WB, and am stumped.
Edited by StoolopenUnknown show about teenagers with some sort of powers Live Action TV
Ok im honestly unsure if this is a dream or a real show
The main thing i remember is that a villain in it can shapeshift into a large black snake and there's a scene where one of the protagonists wanders into his office and hes shed his skin in there.
I feel that this scene happened in an office
I think there was a blonde girl on the villains side who the protagonist has a thing for too
I know its not much to go on but if this sounds familiar id appreciate any help
Edited by JiendoopenLate 70s/Early 80s UK Christmas Special About Rejected Toys Live Action TV
I remember a Christmas special about a bunch of rejected toys, called "rejects" scheduled to be incinerated. After the staff left, they came to life as live action adult actors who then interacted with other non rejected toys - a bunch of toy soldiers who believed it was there duty to get "smithereened" by cannon fire and a bunch of dolls who arrogantly sang about being perfect and looked down on the reject toys. When the staff returned and they returned to being toys all hope seemed lost until a bunch of yelling children invaded the factory (toy store?) and grabbed the rejected toys and saved them from the incinerator. I recall some lines from it - "What's wrong with a reject?" from the lead reject toy and the line "We are perfect. Perfect. Absolutely perfect." sung by the arrogant male leader of the dolls. Any ideas? Would have been a BBC or ITV broadcast.
Edited by Exxolonopen1990s live action hero show Live Action TV
There was a tv show that I barely remember from possibly the 90s. The only episode I remember is a guy in red armor has to battle a clone of himself. When he ends up winning, he gets an upgrade with better armor and/or weapon. I believe he was part of some hero team but could be mistaken.
openYakuza tattoo Live Action TV
Does anyone remember a show that used to air on spike about a guy going around the world getting tattooed. I remover one episode he went to Japan and got an inner thigh tattoo by a yakuza artist but for the life of me I can’t remmber the show
openHelp Live Action TV
I can remember an episode of a tv show where the characters are in a rocket ship and it launches and in the end they have to press one of two buttons to ge home. One button blows the rocket up and the other sends it home. There is also someone on the ground who launched the rocket and says which button to press but they’re lying. Anyone know where this is from?
openMid-90s Era Tween Sitcom Live Action TV
I'm trying to remember a particular show that had one episode that is sticking out for me. There were three main characters, a somewhat obnoxious boy, a loyal male friend, and a tomboy female friend. The generic plot was that the main boy was trying to get a new girl to go the dance with him. Much effort is put into it. The girl agrees to go with her. The tomboy female friend shows up at the dance in a beautiful dress (She Cleans Up Nicely trope) and the main boy ditches the new girl for the friend. He is a jerk pretty much the whole time to everyone. I remember a lot of snide comments directed towards the tomboy character along the lines of "You're barely a girl"
It's not Step by Step.
openRelatively new TV series can't remember the name Live Action TV
The show I'm thinking of is a drama series that I think was on Netflix or Hulu. The only part I can remember is a part of the show that explains that the married cop in the show kidnapped a girl walking home at night from a party and locked her in his basement. The town thinks the girl is missing and during the flashback of that moment it shows I believe an ambulance or something with a guy and a girl in it and they ask the girl if she's okay and she says she's fine I think and they drive off prior to her being kidnapped. I also know towards the end of the series she had a child and escapes.
opentv show Live Action TV
the tv show was about a white guy (the actors real name was ben) who went to india to start a company there and theres this rival company and he falls in love with a girl and its a comedy i think it got canceled at season 2
openawkward virgin show? Live Action TV
what's that british tv show with the black girl who's a virgin with a super religious mom and sister? also, her boyfriend hangs out in the garbage bin and writes poetry
opendebunking show Live Action TV
In the show it was a 15 ish year old girl and a similarly aged boy and a older man dressed as a scientist. They would debunk popular videos, show you how to prank people. It was always horror/scare themed. In one episode I remember they tell you hoe to rig red laser pointers in a bush to make it look like a monster was watching you. They also debunked that ghost video where the ghost jumps out into an alley for a few seconds then goes back inside and no one can explain it but they debunk it. They also taught how to make a volcano out of paper mache. The guy was probably mid to late 30s.
openStaring someone named Michael Live Action TV
I would believe it is a TV show or movie about a boy named Michael who is homeless and attends an elementary school where after his first day, a family of a different skin color takes him in and then cares for him while Michael try's to be resistant of the parent being so caring towards him. That is all that I remember.
openscary high school where crazy things constantly happen Live Action TV
It was a show where it was a group of friends in school (not sure which grade) and it was haunted/weird stuff just happened and in one episode i remember specifically they went to eat lunch. They saw it was instead full of green slime? If you ate it you would turn into a monster/mutant and their principal or teacher are it and he begins to terrorize them. Weird I know, in another episode I think the school was run over by ants/insects maybe. They all dressed like they were from late 90s to early 2000s. Very dark set, always creepy looking and old.
open1990’s Kids Show Live Action TV
I was almost positive it was an episode of Sesame Street, but it could have been Reading Rainbow. There was an episode where a young girl around 10 or so trains a dog to be a service dog and gives it to someone who is blind. It’s not the recent Brandis Sesame Street episode, but that’s the only thing that comes up when I have attempted to google it. It’s been driving me crazy!
openChildrens tv Live Action TV
I cant find it on google anywhere. It was on citv. Based in a kitchen. Involved many puppets one was metallic silver one was made from a mop. They had a feature in it called ‘in the bin’. Early noughties i think?
openDisney XD/Teen Nick? Live Action TV
It was a show about a blonde boy who had travelled the world. In episodes he recalls things that had happened to him during his travels, such as one episode where he flashes back to his time spent with monks and he slows his heart rate.
openSchool based show where classmates are absorbed into the computer Live Action TV
The classmates are absorbed into the computer, I think it was a game or something but it was about history. It was a boy and a girl. One episode they were in an old jail cell but escaped and at the end jumped off a pier into water. I think the teacher or kids figured out what happened and they also went in to save them.
openKids Show I think? Live Action TV
There was a show that I believe had segments and in between there would be a picture that would start very unclear (different methods were different colors, lasers, etc.) and as the voice over spoke, the picture would be moving side to side, up and down, etc and getting more clear. At the end it would come into focus and tell you what you were looking at. Anyone remember that show? I believe it was the late 80's and it might have been on hbo.

it was either on cbbc/cbeebies or city but it was a cooking show that was maybe in space? there was a large creature that lived in a cave that either helped cook or had to be fed