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openShows with a total of 3 seasons and 27 episodes Live Action TV
Hi all. I'm doing some research into the structure of TV dramas and thought I'd ask here if anybody knows of any shows that fit the criteria in the title, above (i.e. were shown for a total of 3 seasons and 27 eps).
Have tried to search on IMDB, but can't find how to use the required search strings (if anyone knows, please advise); Chat GPT keeps giving me incorrect answers, as much as I had fun looking there. So, I thought I'd try the deep well of knowledge that is TV Tropes, to see if anyone can help.
Thanks in advance.
Edited by Snitzresolved Show about people with powers that ends with a cliffhanger Live Action TV
This show was about how people with powers who were working for the police, and all i remember was about how it ended on a cliffhanger with a few details.
I remember that some old dude was looking for the bad guy who was planning on mentally shutting down all the people in the world/city for some reason, and then it happens that his plan succeeds and the final shot is how we see everyone passed out around the city, but a guy with the power of technology (i think) is the only one who was unaffected by the blast for some reason, and then the show ends.
openA show that had only a pilot episode Live Action TV
So a while ago while browsing random videos on Youtube, I found a pilot episode of a show that only had that pilot episode, and then got canceled for some reason. It's been a few years since I watched it and I only remember the ending of that pilot episode. Btw, I'm not sure if she was a spy or special agent. But I know most of the episode played during nighttime and it was a American show.
Okay so, the main character is a female spy, and at the end of the pilot episode she was fighting another female spy on the rooftops at night. The female spy was wearing a mask/pantyhose to hide her identity, but once she got unmasked by the main character, the other female spy appeared to be a friend of hers(She had blonde hair). The main character eventually overpowered the other female spy. That's as much as I can remember about the pilot episode.
There was also a side character who was an Asian man. It is very vague, I know and the chance of someone knowing which show I'm talking about is very slim(especially since it only had a pilot episode), but I'm shooting a shot anyway.
openLive Acton TV show from the early 1990s - similar to Herman's Head Live Action TV
Dear Tropers,
I can remember this TV series from the early 1990s. I think it came just after Herman's Head as it reminded me of this - unique - series.
If the protoganist thought something then sometimes his 'thoughts' were being depicted by showing old black & white footage from old movies.
For example (sorry for this specific example):
The protoganist became sexually aroused (played for laughs of course) then briefly black and white footage of a rocket that just had been launched was shown.
Any idea what this series was called?
openPolice / Investigation Drama from the mid-1980s about 'older cases' in a small town Live Action TV
Things I know for sure about this:
- It was a US TV series from the (probably mid-) 1980s - It was about a relative young police officer starting to work in a relatively small town (maybe even a village) - This officer was looking through the archives/files of previous years and start to investigate these
- The ending was:
An older gentleman turned out to be the killer of a police officer years and years ago. This young police officer contronted him. No proof. But then....
This officer (or a colleague) stumbeled over 'a tube or something'. Only: this 'tube' turned out to be part of a police motor cycle.. that wa buried in the ground years and years ago. The older gentleman saw these officers digging up this old motor cylcle and took his rifle and tried to shoot the officers. As for as I can remember this older gentleman was killed then in the fire fight.
Anyone knows the name of this TV series?
FOR DUTCH/FLEMISH TV TROPERS:
I am very sure this TV series was broadcast on the Veronica 'network'.
openKid show with aliens in space Live Action TV
I remember seeing this clip where four kids, two boys (brothers with one another, the younger one was smart while the older one was more sporty) and two girls (not sure of the relations), and two aliens, one guy and one girl, both have purple skin (I think?). The clip involved the kids interrogating this tied-up alien (kinda looked like a pig I think?) who was trying to eat their brains.
open"Blood sisters" scene from a late 00's teen show? Live Action TV
i saw this scene sometime during the late 00's on the latin american teen channel boomerang, but it's probably dubbed from an english-language show, or at least not from a spanish-language one.
two teen girls (both white, i think) are in a pool or some other body of water, and they make a blood oath by making a small cut in their palms and then grabbing each other's hand. when they do this, one of them, who may be a brunette, says the line "hermanas de sangre", which translates to "blood sisters". the line may be different in the original language. then the live action scene shifts into a still comic vignette of the girl saying the line. the girl may be antagonistic, and she may have come sort of supernatural power (being a witch maybe?) that might make it dangerous for the other girl to be her "blood sister".
i'm pretty sure the scene was from a "last week on..." recap of the actual show, and i have no real recollection of the plot, so my best bet is on the art shift. has anyone heard of this?
openThe Crystal Maze in SPACE Live Action TV
I remember watching a show that was almost literally The Crystal Maze Recycled In SPACE.
The conceit was that the host/commander and his gynoid assistant brought teams onto a derelict space station to compete in tasks and see who can salvage the most supplies. The final task was a timed obstacle course and any team that failed to get back onto the ship would be abandoned.
Does this ring a bell for anybody?
Edited by civetcatcoffeeopenEarly 2000s Kids Show Live Action TV
Source: I remember watching this on basic TV. I believe it was on Fox or WB.
Timeframe: Possibly late 90s but more likely early 2000s. It was on early in the morning before school sometime around 7am PST.
Medium: I believe it was live action. Real people and real scenery with some animated characters added. If not, then it was all real people with some people in costumes for non-human characters.
Show details: The protagonist of the show was a young boy maybe middle-school age. I believe the boy was the only non-animated major character. He encountered an adult character and they together got involved in a plot against the antagonist who was a non-human jester or magician of some sort. The antagonist had minions. I remember the show taking place at the boy's school, and his home. Through the show the boy had to collect medallion or puzzle pieces (I want to say 25 pieces) to complete an object that could stop the antagonist. Or possibly to prevent the antagonist from making the object. I believe that the object was gold with a red orb in the center. It was finally completed in the final episode. The show wasn't that many episodes. It was like 1 episode per medallion/puzzle piece collected.
Random detail that might matter. I seem to remember there being a garden gnome at the boy's house and a character pointed it out.
I know the details are kind of vague but my memory is quite fuzzy on this. This has been bugging me a lot ever since I remembered. Thanks for any help!
openFilipino drama about an angel falling in love Live Action TV
I remember seeing this drama a couple years ago, it involved a pair of girls whose dad died and went to heaven, the girls are taken in by their aunt who has a bratty daughter. One of the daughters gets a dog while the other gets lesson from an old lady I think? By the end of the first episode or so they're older teens/young adults (forgot which). A couple episodes later a jerk gets in an accident and an angel accidentally possesses his body, where the guy's soul ends up in hell. The angel ends up in a relationship with one of the girls, I think the one who got lessons. One of the episodes later the angel tries to get the original guy's soul back to his body by going to hell with another angel. I'm not sure how the series ended but that was what I remember.
openYet another show I saw when I was younger Live Action TV
This show was a lot like Paranormal Witness but much older, it was also played on the old Sci-fi channel, the episode I remember the most is a woman in her house alone in the middle of the night and a ghostly man is standing outside her sliding glass door and she keeps yelling at him to go away and leave her alone, thank you in advance I'm sure it's quite vague.
Edited by ReddLightningopenIs this show even real? Live Action TV
I remember a scene from a show, where a black girl teleports herself inside a cave (not through a device, but like magically). As far as I remember that could've been the base of operation of a group as I remember her being one of the main characters and all of them being able to teleport back to there. I saw this around 15-20 years ago on a Spanish kid TV channel, but it wasn't a Spanish show (maybe European or American) so maybe that helps identifying the kind of show it was. I've been looking for this show for years and the details I remember gets less vivid with time to the point that I don't even know if any of it is real. Anybody has any info on a show like this?
openFrom Tropaholics Anonymous Live Action TV
Two examples found on Tropaholics Anonymous are lacking a title. Please help sourcing them, so they can be uncommented:
- One literal Lifetime Movie of the Week has one of these for a son who'd been beating his mother, engaging in a few Freudian slips in his near-Motive Rant at which the guy he's talking to nods in an irritatingly smug, see-what-you-said-there way.
- Another has a woman going to one for co-dependents after finally being forced to admit that her husband is a sex addict and that she's enabling him.
openStolen Boba Fett figure Live Action TV
I distinctly remember seeing an episode of a police procedural where a son has stolen a Boba Fett figure from his uncle and the uncle wants the boy's parents to replace it, since it was removed from its packaging. The father is dismissive of the uncle's claim of how expensive it is, and ridicules his brother for being "nerdy" and "not as family focused" as him. Initially they believe the son only took the figure because he wanted to play with it, but it turns out he planned on selling it and didn't realise removing it from its packaging would devalue it.
I was reminded of this when I saw a Reddit post describing these exact events. Every detail was exactly the same, and I know I've seen it in a show.
I think it was a Mentalist or Lie to Me episode, but both of those are usually about murders. It could have been a B plot, but it's much harder to search episode descriptions for that.
Edited by BetterCallSorinresolved (SOLVED) 2 children's shows of similar format + story in a different world Live Action TV
Sometime back in grade school (maybe late 2000's or early 2010's), my class sometimes watched an episode of this series a day. I can only guess the show was British since I was attending a British school. Sometime after we finished that show, I recall watching another similar one, just with a different theme. I may not remember too much but here's what I got:
Show #1: Some kids went to a store (like a book/antique/some traditional looking store) and get sucked into a fantasy world. The obstacles they encounter on their quest to return home come off as puzzles, critical thinking or otherwise. The final episode has them return to the real world and back at the store, and (I'm unsure if this was always there since the start of the show, but) closer to the end, a piece of (wall?) decor that looked like one of the fantastical companions the friends made in the other world moved (its face, maybe a smile or a wink), perplexing an adult/older person who happened to see it.
Show #2: Likely a different cast of kids, but trapped Inside a Computer System somehow, and I distinctly remember this show having a villain for the kids to defeat (the first show probably had a Big Bad too, but I don't recall). He was a virus of sorts that looked like a man, and what definitely stuck with me is that he could trick allies of the kid protagonists, namely a teacher in the real world, to help him in obstructing the kids' escape, like by asking her to do something on the computer to help him recover. Puzzle quests were probably in motion here too. The series concludes after the virus man disintegrates upon being defeated, and the kids probably return home.
Thank you all in advance for the help! 🙏
Edited by BlackFaithStaropenCommercial with a bunch of people playing instruments in the street Live Action TV
I remember a commercial a few years ago, maybe around 2018/19?, that had a bunch of people playing different instruments in different places that were cut together and there was a guy with stilts? I think it was a cell/phone commercial? People were playing like drums, guitars, violins, trumpets, clarinets, saxophones, etc.
resolved Hoarder cleaning TV Show Live Action TV
I remember that around 2010 (probably more like before 2010), there was this maybe British Reality TV Show about two professional cleaners (a woman with blond hair in a top knot, and another woman with boyish hair and glasses) who were cleaning the houses of hoarders. I specifically remember that the short-haired woman was a microbiologist and she would take samples from the surfaces to analyze in the lab, while explaining what microbes she found, what caused their presence and what they do to the human body. This is where I learned what Salmonella is. The two were ALWAYS wearing white labcoats (or cleaning uniforms that look a lot like labcoats).
Ring any bells?
Edited by LermisopenScience-Fantasy Dinosaurs and Magic Live Action TV
For years, I've been trying to figure out a TV show (or possibly movie) that I saw a snippet of on TV in either the late 90's or very early 2000's. There are two scenes that I remember distinctly:
In one, a group of what appear to be pirates (or maybe just adventurers armed with flintlock weapons) is being attacked by a flying reptile-monster (possibly a pterodactyl), and when they run for cover, they realize they've dropped a glowing, apparently valuable, gemstone out in the open. One pirate orders his subordinate to go get it, who in turn does the same to another pirate at gunpoint. When the low-man-on-the-totem-pole pirate goes to try and grab the gem, he gets snatched up by the maybe-pterodactyl and carried away.
In another scene, an African-American character, who is dressed as what seems to be a shaman or monk is trying to fight off a raptor or other predatory dinosaur as it tries to enter where he is through some kind of portal. I remember this scene as taking place in either a temple or cave.
The shows/movies that I am reasonably sure are NOT the one I'm describing are:
1. Land of the Lost - either series 2. The Lost World (the late 90's TV show) 3. Hallmark's Mysterious Island or Journey to the Center of the Earth
This has driven me crazy trying to find, so any help is appreciated!
Edited by LUNAT1C

I remember this was a live action show, akin to Zoey 101. The main character, a girl, does something bad, and this breaks "The Girl Code". She later has a dream where her she sees her brain as one big file room, and has to resolve the bad thing she did. The episode ends with her understanding what "The Girl Code" is. Any help would be appreciated.