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openCN High school kids show Live Action TV
There was a show that aired on cartoon Network sometime between 200-2010, but I don't think it was a cartoon Network original. It was a live action about some high school aged kids that were trapped in a building and they couldn't remember why or how they got there. They might have had powers of some sort.
open“Birds of A Feather” Episode Live Action TV
I’m looking for a episode of “Birds of a Feather”, in which Tracey is visiting Darryl, and he tells her about how to have a proper getaway vehicle. Can anyone help me please?
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
openGenie 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
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?
openIt 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.
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
openSci-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 plaeguisopenChildren's show about man who lives in a small magic box Live Action TV
OK, so this was a live action childrens show. I saw it in the early 80s, but those might have been reruns and it's actually from the 70s. I definitely remember watching at school, so it probably had some educational elements to it. There was an older man that had a magic box about the size of a Rubic's cube, and he had two children friends. The man and kids were able to shrink down and go inside the box, which was some kind of high tech computer or device or vehicle. They entered the box which a particular rhyme or chat that included something like "Magic Box 1 2 3" and I remember always being annoyed at my class mates for referring to the show as that, but it wasn't actually the name. The man also gave the children a riddle for them to solve to explain where he really came from, something about "at night I sleep on my bed under the bed" and the answer was that his civilisation actually lived in caves/hollow Earth under the *sea* bed.
openName of show I used to watch years ago!! Live Action TV
I have been searching for years and can not find anything. There used to be a tv show I watched that was placed in kind of like a rundown city. One of the main characters was a male with blond hair I think and the “bad guy” was bound to a wheelchair and there were twin sisters on the show. I remember on episode the guy in the wheelchair was in a dream or simulation and had working legs and was swinging on a swing set and the main character guy came to talk to him in the dream. I have been dying to try and figure out what this is but I can not seem to find it.
openPeriod Drama Live Action TV
Could be Film, I suppose, but I just remember seeing it on TV. It revolves around a man who frequently falls into trancelike states, where he stands completely still and stares off into space for a while, and at one point an old man dies on his watch because of one of these episodes. People around him don't understand what's happening, as it doesn't fit their idea of a fit or a stroke, and rumours start up that he's possessed by the devil.
openSci-fi/fantasy kids show - two magical roads Live Action TV
This has been bothering me for years and I'm beginning to lose hope that my memories may have made it up. I only remember the beginning (which happened in every episode), and part of the reason that I want to figure this out is because I'm so curious what happens afterward. It's a series, where the protagonist is a black young boy - probably around 12, though I'm not sure. The show starts out with the boy being faced with two magical roads, each one identified by a light. I think one road was marked by a red light and one road was marked by a blue light, but I can't be sure. He would then take one of the two magical road, and that would lead him to some sort of separate magical universe (I don't remember where after that). If i remember correctly, he was almost always led by the light to take the red road - but every once in a while the blue light would come on and he would take that road instead, and that was a real treat because it didn't happen too often.
I might be hazy on the details here - but does this ring a bell to anyone?
openScary Disney channel show 10s Live Action TV
There was a Disney channel show that came out in the 2010s but I can't remember the title .it was scary and involves a ghost (of a mother ) who lost her child and the ghost takes another child from the sea .the guy and girl try to find the child and there's this creepy library place and they want to leave but can't .there is one episode when the ghost is haunting the lighthouse
Edited by AlanahcopenLeonie? Live Action TV
I remember watching a show in the 90s where a female lion (Leonie?) was rescued by a professor, and he took her in and let her live with him. The lion was played by a person in a large costume, who walked on two legs rather than four. The professor was a white man, I believe with white hair. The little things I remember were the lion being perplexed by human life, and the professor teaching her the importance of sharing, healthy food, etc.
openCreepy possibly science/education children's show (90s/early 200s?) Live Action TV
I remember watching a tv show as a child which I only recall to be creepy but might not be considering I probably thought many things were creepy at that age. I want to say I remember it was a show that had some sort of a lab or room that was dark with tvs or screens and the character would come in and out after different scenes/ skits were shown. I want to say the character was a scientist as I remember the showing being somewhat educational but in a very eerie way. Can't recall if it was claymation/ puppets/ cartoon or a mixture. I know it's a very vague description but please help!! I'd recognize it if I saw it.
openSOME OLD TV SERIES\MOVIE Live Action TV
So there is some Old TV show/Movie that I want to locate, it has some kind of hooker's that got ripped off from an Cheap John of some sort. I have a video that indicated that it's probably an old TV series/Movie and this specific version of the video is dubbed from some other language, maybe french? maybe german? I don't know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54WotdCIlSU
Can someone give me an hand? (:
openJapanese crime/detective show Live Action TV
I was in california recently and I watched a Japanese crime/detective show on TV. The most notable part of this show was that as the police characters were explaining what happened in the crime scene, a man in a blue morph suit would play as the victim and reenact the crime..
openFrench TV show about a demon girl and a christian guy. Live Action TV
I am trying to find an old French TV show. I can't remember the name, but it is about a demon girl who is desperately trying to get a religious guy to sign a contract with a devil. I remember that the demon girl has very short dark hair, and she communicates with the devil via a laptop (he is depicted as a cartoon character). And at the very end an angel saves the guy from signing the contract, because the demon girl regretted not making her physical appearance a blonde (the guy is apparently into blondes)(and they had an agreement that the demon girl would stop bothering the guy if she regrets just one thing).

I am trying to remember a show where a girl was sitting on wall with her friend and then she all of sudden gets sent back in time. her friend all of sudden gets a letter from the girl in the past saying that she went 1920s and had a family. I cant remember what show is that from
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