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openLooking for spooky show/movie Live Action TV
Looking for a movie / tv show. Unfortunately, I remember only a few scenes from it. I saw it around 1995-2000 on TV.
The film was made in the style of Goosebumbs. Light horror. It began that the young boy was supposed to deliver (I think) a pizza. He was on a skateboard. He entered a large house and when he was already deep inside, he saw that the front door was closing. He pushed the skateboard across the ground to block the door but failed.
In the next scenes, he saw the policemen / firemen out the window but they did not even hear him shouting. When he tried to break the window with a skateboard, the atmosphere in the house changed to a more dark / gloomy.
He tried to call on the phone he found at home but suddenly the cable from the phone began to choke him like a snake.
Next to the stairs to the first floor was a very long hallway with a rug. The carpet began to move to bring the boy into the bright, square hole that was at the very end. The hole had no bottom
At the end of the handrail from the stairs was a wooden ball which at the end of the movie began to shine and float up and down. In the last scene the boy hit her with a skateboard and the ball smashed the mirror through which he got out to the restaurant of his uncle / father in which he worked.
There was also an old father clock that counted down time. The boy probably had to get out of the house as soon as possible, or else he would die.
Edited by qwerty123456openChildren Version of Survivor Live Action TV
Ok so I vaguely remember this show, but its been bugging me so I figured I might as well try. I think it was European. The show took two teams of kids, (I don't think they knew each other beforehand?) and put them on an island. There was a Yellow Team and a Red Team. They had challenges to complete; reading roman numerals after only seeing translations for a minute, crossing a river with hoops and obstacles to obtain a ring, etc. I think the main goal was to collect as many rings as possible but I could be wrong. Each child had feathers I think feathers were like game lives? you had three and after three you left the island. I might be mixing game shows together but thats what I remember. I know the show was in English. possibly early to late 2000's? That's all I can remember, but if you have any idea what it might be, please let me know. Thanks~
openTeen show from Australia or New Zealand Live Action TV
It has to be from late 90's or early 2000.the series is set in a dystopian future where every teenager gets assigned a job after taken a personality test. The main person is a boy that gets assigned the most dangerous job and starts questioning the system. I think he has a sister also that plays violin. He goes underground and join some rebels I think. The name of the show might be the name of the year (2033 or similiar) but I'm not sure.
openboy who gets video game upgrades in real life after finding an old video game. Live Action TV
I remember the first episode or two quite clearly. It starts with the boy and his friend playing. Then mom insists they go clean out the garage. Well digging through boxes. They find an old super nintendo game. They him and ha about it and the boys friend doesn't see why they should keep it. Then the boy takes the cartridge looking at it and it literally drags him to the old snes console set up at the back of the garage and opens to reveal a hologram of his missing fathers head. The message is a little garggled, but his father tells him he is still alive and in great danger and how he is sending gifts to help him fight off what ever is coming, but the message is to fuzzy and cutting in and out to know whats after him or what happened to his father. After that they boy and his friend go off trying to understand what just happened. They go for a ride on their bikes and this weird orb appears out of no where. They look at it and his friend i believe said to touch it. So a bit of hesitation. He touches it and his bike transforms into a super advance. Super charged car like one from a video game and he causes some trouble trying to figure out how to drive it. The second episode i believe. He gets another power up and it gives him a super suit. He in trying to figure it out ends up blasting it apart into pieces and one of the gloves lands in the woods where a girl from the town finds it and starts to catch wind of whats going on and seems to understand it better then they do. As she ends up recovering the suit and joining their team. I want to watch the show, but only got to see the first episode or 2 before it changed airing channel and i can't find anything on it online. I really want to see more of it and know i didn't just imagine the whole thing.I hope someone remembers the name. Or better knows where i can see episodes. I believe it aired on nickelodeons channels somewhere between 2010 and 2014, but they have nothing on it.
openShow About a Guy Living in an Apartment Building w/ Puppets Live Action TV
I seem to remember a show where a guy moves into an apartment building where either his neighbors, or his roommates are a bunch of puppets. This show had only 1 season & aired on USA Network (I think) in the late 90s early 00s.
Edit: This has been solved! It's Greg the Bunny!
Edited by ToneeRhianRoseopenTrying to find an old show Live Action TV
OH jeez, its been a while. I was born in the early 2000s and I was probably 4-7 when I saw this, so it had to be very late 90s to early 2000s. I remember it being a large living room with a couch or smth in the center. The characters were all puppets, and I remember the colors orange and yellow being very common. That about all I remember, but I think there was a little door and a rodent or something? Sorry if this isn't much, I was really young at the time and don't remember much. I think it was either on Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., or HBO kids.
openREALLY scary Star Trek episode commercial. Can anyone identify Live Action TV
So in the mid 90s or so I was watching tv and there was this ad for an upcoming Star Trek episode (I'm not sure which series, I've never really been into Star Trek and I don't think I even knew about the different series at the time) that scared the crap out of me. It started out talking about how people such as prisoners of war have been tortured throughout history (including what I thought at the time was a clip showing real life torture, though I am probably wrong) then went on to say something about how in the episode the good guys would encounter some alien race that "turn torture into a science" or something along those lines. I remember I recording some other show when the ad came on and kept watching it as even though it was really scary I was still kind of interested in it. Does anyone know what I am talking about?
openPlease help Live Action TV
The show is at least 10 years old, There's a group of survivors in a destroyed city that are supposed to survive there for 2 months,the show specifies that it's not actually post apocalyptic they're just trying to survive in a what if scenario,I think they're getting paid if they survive but I don't remember, they survive in a warehouse, And in one of the episodes they build a water filter out of a barrel and some rocks, and some sand,and a traitor"other survivors" comes in on a truck to sell them stuff The people in the truck are holding AK-47s there are some chickens on the back of the truck,
Edited by Qtea1973open"I have need of you" sci fi show Live Action TV
I'm pretty sure this was a sci fi tv show of the 90s but it could have been a movie for all I know. There is a guy character and he is bonded to a female character. He had some kind of neck tattoo and she would touch it and say, "I have need of you", and then he would I think turn into something? Maybe a bird? My strongest memories are of touching the tat and saying "I have need of you". I hope someone can remember
openNancy Drew TV show Live Action TV
It was a short-lived drama airing on The CW based on the Nancy Drew novels—it centered on an all grown up Nancy Drew who is now a police detective and has just gotten married to Ned Nickerson. On the morning after their first night together in bed, Nancy is unexpectedly arrested by the FBI who claims she's responsible for the murder of a U.S. senator. But as it turns out, Nancy finds herself in a time loop, and every day, she gets another chance to prove she's been Mistaken for Murderer.
In short, Nancy Drew meets Groundhog Day.
Edited by AmourMittsopenhidden porn studio Live Action TV
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR TV SERIES BRON/BROEN
Guys, at the 8th episode of the first season the detectives find a hidden porn studio where they were making tapes. I think I've seen exactly the same scene at another crime series which I can't remember! Is it The Killing? True Detective? Top of the Lake? It's killing me...
openExecution TV Show Live Action TV
So...basically all I can remember was a TV show with people who were stuck somewhere (mostly in a forest) They were divided into cabins, and would have an Antagonist who would talk to them through prerecorded messages or something and then they would have competitions and the two losers would be locked into an execution room. The first one to escape got to live, and the other would die in a gruesome way (the camera would usually cut away to blood splatter on the wall) This show continued until the last episode where the guy escaped on a little boat. Some of the executions were Guillotine, getting eaten alive, having a tree fall on someone etc...
openA 2000s super hero show Live Action TV
Hi, I’m looking for the name of a show from the early to mid 2000’s. So it’s three girls with super power one could do mind control, one was really fast or strong and I don’t reminber for the last one but it maybe had a link with fire. Their leader was a man around 40 or 50 years old. They had electric blue costume, it was always the same villain with a kind of dumb sidekick and in the last episode they almost die and the villain sidekick lose his legs.
Edited by FretfulBovineopenGiant Woman Live Action TV
I remember the opening to a tv show where a giant woman was walking over the city (during the show she was normal sized)
I’m pretty sure it was from the 90s/early 2000s and had an Ally Mc Beal/Felicity vibe.
openParanormal Show? Live Action TV
I remember seeing a show that was pretty average except for the presence of paranormal elements. In the episode I remember, there are a few mysterious deaths and the main character sits with the man they've arrested for the crimes. He recounts how in the house where the bodies were found the father of two boys went crazy and killed their mother with an ax, The two of them hid beneath the kitchen sink while their father searched for them and watched as he gave up the search before hanging himself. Somewhat relieved the older boy climbs out of the cabinet and waits for his brother to do the same only to discover that he was so terrified of being found and killed that he died from the fear. Basically his spirit was responsible for the killings. The man they arrested knows this but figures (understandably) that nobody would believe him anyhow. The show ends with the Main character saying something like "You're going to prison, but I know who killed those people and it wasn't you." He promptly exits the room and for some reason we cut to two little boys in the back of a car, one of whom is wearing a mask. The episode ends there. I may have the details wrong in some places but any help is appreciated. The main character was a Caucasian man that may have had spiky hair.
openHELP ME FIND THIS TV SERIES Live Action TV
I'd guess the series was filmed somewhere between 2005 and 2011, I'm not really sure. USA production, was about 30-40 minutes long. The story involves 3 friends. One of them sets up an explosion and blames the other two who then become fugitives and try to contact their friend in search for explanation. I remember one of those 3 guys from another tv series but cant tell his name or the name of the series, of course. Please help me!!
openA scene where 3 guys take turn flirting with an old lady. Live Action TV
So I stumbled upon a show (sitcom) a long while ago but I didn't even catch its name. All I remember was a hilarious scene when there are three guys trying to persuade this old lady. So they each enter the room at the different times but ended up being surprised by each other and they all got caught in the end. I did try to find it but nothing came up, only old sitcoms.
openE/I show from the early 2000s Live Action TV
I'm looking for this live-action Saturday morning show about animal rescue. The only thing I can remember about it is that every episode ends with one of the characters breaking the fourth wall while looking inside a refrigerator.

I watched it in like 2010 so it had to air before that. There was two detectives, one girl (i think it was olivia benson from svu but i can't remember) one boy, they're in a car with the criminal driving in the dark, looking for the murderers latest victim. The killer monologued and we find out that when he was little he found a lady who fell in a well and inside of helping her, he spit on her and she died and thats why he likes murdering people. He worked at a store that turned home video vhs's into dvds or something of the sort and he would hand pick the girls he'd murder based on the videos he saw because he wanted them to have something to fight for, like a child or a church. He kidnapped a blonde lady and left her in a church and she could tell what day it was because of the church bells and that wasnt the girl they were lookin for but she was dead and a singer i think. And eventually the killer says something that gives away the location of the girl they were looking for, because it was near either a church or a school where they would play a song in the morning and the girl detective knew the song and they rescued the girl, she had dark brown hair, super pasty from being kidnapped, and a boyfriend. The end of the episode is her reuniting with her boyfriend and the lady had a blue blanket i think. Please help me find this, its been bothering me for years