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openWalking through train TV commercial Live Action TV
I remember seeing a commercial on TV in the US (sometime in the late 90s/early2000s) where there's a high-speed train running through a tunnel under a city. The protagonist, a young man, walks through one car which is set up like a nightclub and full of girls saying things like "call me", then he goes through a car that's set up like a classroom with a teacher saying something like "If the circle is not filled in completely it doesn't count", then he goes through some more cars until he finds the product. Does anyone else remember remember what this commercial was for? I think it was for some kind of drink, gum, or breath mints...
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open80's show with the main character is a boy named Spencer - episode where he was alone with a psycho Live Action TV
So there was this 1980's sitcom with one of the characters being a teenage boy named Spencer.
At one point he was looking for love -as teen boys are wont to do- and found this Manic Pixie Dream girl.
Emphasis on manic - she lived in a RV or a trailer and the episode had her going from quirky to complete psycho real fast.
The inside was done up in these weird paintings that supposedly showed her art skills but also showed her mental state - nightmare fuel all around.
The last bit was Spencer locking her in her bathroom then running away - the camera lingering on the door while this woman said "Spencer" over and over again in a madness mantra.
What show was this?
openBOREDOM BUSTERS Live Action TV
In the 1990s, the BBC produced a VHS tape titled "Boredom Busters - Make and Play Dinosaurs". I believe it was part of a series of arts and crafts videos aimed at young children and I'm beginning to think it may be completely lost media. The only trace I've found is someone selling the video on eBay some months back, but no footage. Does anyone who remembers this know if there may be footage from it online?
I mean a lot of you find some super obscure stuff out there, so I'm hopeful. 😅
Thanks.
openDoc Something Live Action TV
I'm looking for the name of a live action show but I don't know, only that aired in the Netherlands during the 90's. As the title of the question says I'm pretty sure it was called Doc "Something" after the main character and took place in an animal preserve. I remember that in one episode the main character was showing someone around and noticed that all the animals acted uncharacteristically to the visitor, which made Doc realize his guest was scared of animals and probably trying to confront his fears
openStealing pants Live Action TV
Unknown show where a boy named Camilo is convinced by some girls to take off his pants, and then they take them away with his pants. I think it was a Spanish language show. Unknown country.
openI think it was some kind of police procedural? Live Action TV
There's a single scene from a show where the bad guy looks a bit similar to the police detective/protagonist and decides to impersonate them while at the crime scene to retrieve incriminating evidence before the police can find it
resolved Knight in the present Live Action TV
I remember reading about this show with a knight in the present, he's the only one who's a knight I think? the only other detail was that he was cursed to swap bodies with whoever he last wronged on his birthday, I'm not sure why, just that odd detail stuck out to me.
I tried finding it in the "A birthday, not a break" and "Freaky Friday flip" pages, but not luck.
Edited by AnimaltameropenStealing pants Live Action TV
Unknown show where a boy named Camilo is convinced by some girls to take off his pants, and then they take them away with his pants. I think it was a Spanish language show. Unknown country.
openIDK PLEASE HELP ME FIND THIS SHOW ANY ITS BUGGING MY BRAIN!! Live Action TV
its lowkey live action and animated so theres this groups of friends that are teens 3 boys and 1 girl or 2 boys and 1 girl where they find a game where they use a vr headset to transport into this vr game where they have their own vr characters i think they are a band as well, anyhow they all wield music instruments as weapon the girl uses a microphone to sing and scream and guys uses guitar and drums(a bit sexist why can't girls play the guitar or drums anyways) where the sound waves help them kill or idk zombies they also encounter other bands/groups that wield music instruments and they fight and compete what so ever i hope u can find it ive been going crazy i know its not a lot of description is the best i can do
openShow about a girl who was trained to be a violinist by a deaf man. Live Action TV
I vaguely remember this show that took place in Asia about a girl who was taught to play a violin by a deaf man. The girls rival got jealous and paid someone to beat up the deaf guy
openBusy boss babe has to hire a lover to seed her. Live Action TV
A made-for-TV movie about a busy chief of a company who's so busy running the place that she's too tired to date. Wanting a baby before menopause kicks in, she actually hires a stud to be on staff. His whole purpose is to provide fresh baby batter, and he's made to take a fertility test during hiring. The boss lady is a raven haired no-nonsense type similar to Stephanie Zimbalist, and the stud she hires is a ruggedly handsome type that isn't a Casanova Wannabe, similar to Gil Gerard.
openTime Traveller Needs Rare Ingredients Live Action TV
Someone from the past travels into the present day. They need to make a potion or spell of some kind but they tell the person in the present that the ingredients are impossible to get.
It then turns out the ingredients are all common spices in the present day (things like saffron, nutmeg etc) and they were just very rare and hard to get in his time.
I think the spell was needed to defeat or trap a villain.
openDont no the title Live Action TV
Its abiut gangs and police in the uk i only rember about 3 scenes in one scene a group of people are in a funfair and some one gets stabbed while on a ride in another scene a lidbis playing football and i think hes coach calls him over to talk about somthing another scene is were some one goes school and shoots a somali student i think the student was in a somali only gang thisbwas roughthly bewteen 2003 and 2008
openTV sub-plot Live Action TV
All i can remember of this show was the sub-plot. They went to the one of the female characters hometown for an episode and discover that she was a pagent queen. The female character and her mother had a strained relationship because of it. It seemed the mother was using the pagents to make the dad come back or something like that. eventually the situation did come to a head, and the female character ended up going off on her mom.
openold british series for kids ? Live Action TV
really cant recal much about it, not even sure if it was only a movie, or multi episode tv series. But it was around early 90ties and had a british (definitely european) feel to the programme. The plot seemed to be around monster like adults chasing children around an old house and nearby land. The 'monsters' were something like a snail humans? i recall them dripping water or slime? and the kids had som magic stones that they needed to hold for protection? under some circumstances the stones emmited a rainbow and the rainbow from 2 (not sure if 2 or more) stones had to join in the air in order to win over the monsters
open Dutch edutainment series Live Action TV
I'm looking for the name of a Dutch edutainment series, I remember seeing in the 90's. It was a puppet show with and human that taught about computers. As far as I know the human main character was caught in the computer world and only returned to the "real world" in the last episode after being deleted for not being useful. I'm pretty sure the series was a Spiritual Successor to Ik Mik Lore Land
, or at least aired after Ik Mik Lore Land had ended
openAsian live action kids show with a yellow mascot Live Action TV
The stand-out memory is the two mascot characters- one yellow and one orange. They looked vaguely doglike with hats and sneakers. It also featured human characters and musical numbers (there was one such segment with a young woman and an old man dressed up in frog suits). I would have seen it around 2006-2008.
The mascot looked like this:
https://imgur.com/gallery/YwVvXxR
(My very own artistic depiction)
openLive Show Within a Show Gets Censored Live Action TV
I'm pretty sure I saw this when Malcolm in the Middle was on my living room TV one time. A scene took place at a live show, and a word sung by the performers got bleeped out.
openA Weird Sketch Comedy Special Live Action TV
For years I have tried to find this comedy special that I can remember watching once as a kid on TV, so it was probably in the 90s or very early 2000s. I'm fairly certain it was a one night special and not a show with multiple episodes. It had different sketches with different mediums. I can vaguely remember a framing device connecting the different sketches, which was a kid in a bedroom watching the sketches, or maybe playing them as a game, on his computer.
There was a live action sketch that I think was shown in multiple parts throughout the special. There was a guy inside a booth, I think he might've been an attendant at a parking garage or a gas station. Somebody would come up to him with a complaint about something, and then he would be incredibly annoying and unhelpful. One of the people complaining turned out to be a locksmith, and at the end of the sketch, he figured out how to get into the booth and all the people that complained earlier rushed in and beat the attendant up.
There was a parody of Gumby, called Gumbo, who was animated in claymation. He was made of Gumbo, or something really spicy, and he was in some kind of restaurant, and for fun he would rub himself onto the bread of some of the customer's sandwiches then run off, and then watch as the customers ate the sandwich and their mouth would catch on fire.
Another sketch was done in CGI and parodied fighting games at the time. The sketch was in first person, like a first person video game, and the player character had to fight some muscular tough guy in an arena. They get to choose their own weapons, and the muscular character got to choose between a bunch of guns and explosives, while the player character had to choose between gag weapons, like a feather, or something.
And I can also remember the special ending with characters from all the sketches dancing in the boy's room from the framing device. Please tell me this actually exists and I didn't make it all up.

I remember watching a possibly Australian arts-and-crafts show in the vein of Art Attack, which also includes cooking. There are always 2 presenters in each episode. I distinctly remember the show teaching how to make hedgehog-shaped baked mashed potato cakes with pasta filling, realistic cardboard trash cans wrapped in aluminum foil, cauldrons made from plastic bags, apple leather, and fortune cupcakes.
ETA: IIRC the show's logo is a hand, and I remember eyecatches featuring lots of hands.
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