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openWhich Extreme Makeover: Home Edition episode has the following credits? Live Action TV
It involved the host being buried in the sand at a beach, playfully yelling at some kids to get him out or "he'll kick their *BEEEEP*!"
openSci-fi themed show from BBC Entertainment Live Action TV
It was basically about these young people, either teenagers or young adults, who were stranded in this floating house in space and living alongside these human-like extraterrestrials - they may have looked more or less like the main villain Eon from Ben 10 Race Against Time. I'm thinking the show was from around the early-mid 2000s.
openTrying to remember from childhood Live Action TV
Ok so this has been bugging me for years. This is what I remember... It's set in the late 1800s or early 1900 (before wars). Its a tv series made and set in america I think in the 1990s. There is this girl (12ish) and a younger boy (8-10), i don't think they are related. I get the feeling that we have followed the journey of these two for at least half an episode before the scene I can remember. They are in this camp with lots of other kids. Not a nice place and I think they were made to be there. In this camp there is a mud/sand hole with a small pond in the bottom. The boy sees this during the work and wants to swim in it. The girl tells him he cant but doesn't explane why. So in the dead of night he sneaks out of the dorm and goes swimming. Unfortunately it starts to rain and as he tries to climb out of the hole the side are slippery. He doesn't get out of the hole and drowns. After his funeral she escapes and begins a runaway journey.
openA children show?? Please help Live Action TV
I only remember a part of one episode. There were two kids, i think a boy and a girl. They were running from someone or something through the jungle (pirates? Not sure). Somehow they end up finding a completely white room without doors or windows, and they lose each other in it, it's so surreal. I might have mixed up something, i watched it a looong time ago. It's a pretty old children show, but i have no idea, how old exactly. Definetly older than 2010. I hope you recognised something about it!
openEarly 00s Probably kids show where Creepy Doll gets burned while crying for help Live Action TV
Please help my 10 year search for an old TV show!
I've been on a relentless mission to identify a TV show that I saw a brief scene of as a child back in the early 2000s. The scene stuck with me for years, and I've spent many hours combing through Google, lists of TV shows, lists of episodes etc.
It was a live action show and I believe aired in the early 2000s, though it may have been older. The scene involved two girls (teen/pre-teen), one of which was holding a dirty, charred looking doll (like a porcelain doll or a lifesize baby doll.) The girl without the doll accuses the other of stealing the doll from her (something along the lines of "hey that's my doll!") to which the girl holding the doll responds that the other girl didn't want her anymore. It then cut to a flashback scene of the doll engulfed in flames, crying out for help. This is as much as I saw.
Please, if you have any idea which show this scene may have been a part of, or even if you know a better place to direct my search, I'd be eternally grateful!
open Scene with a person sitting up out of clear box covered in white foam stuff Live Action TV
Ok so I saw this scene on TV when I was very little. It was definitely pre-1997 as I can vividly remember being in the living room of the old house at the time. I was probably only around 3 years old but it really stuck with me.
Basically there was a person lying down horizontally in some kind of chamber with a see through lid (think like an incubator or one of those ferplast hamster cages). They were laying in a bed of some kind of white foam stuff which at the time reminded me of shaving foam or hair mousse (it may not have been a foam but that's how my 3yo mind interpreted it). The lid was removed and they sat up, with a load of this white foam stuff stuck to them, in their hair etc. I believe they had short-mid length dark curly hair. I don't remember if it was a man or a woman. It may have been some kind of stasis chamber but extensive googling hasn't found anything that resembles what I remember.
openMysterious Images Live Action TV
I know that "Weird Al" Yankovic used the following 2 images in the music video
for the song Christmas At Ground Zero. But where do the images actually originate from? The first image is here
and the second image is here
. The Wikipedia page for the song does not have information, and a reverse image search through Google does not turn up any information either, please help.
openShow from A&E Live Action TV
There was a show about victims sitting down with the perpetrators face to face. It seems like they were seeking an apology or something like that. One in particular was about a guy whose last name was Geiger (not sure the spelling). He was working at a hotel front desk when he was shot but he survived.
openN/A Live Action TV
Its about this group of people who get/have superpowers. The main character is male and white. His power is he can take others powers and use them freely. There is also a character who is male and asian whose power is to freeze time. He is very funny and i think he liked anime/comics. The main characters dad ends up being the main antagonist. There is another one who is a black femail who can paint the future. This is all i can remember.
openNed's Declassified School Survival Guide Live Action TV
I remember the students singing a classical music song while Loomer and the other bullies play keep away with Cookie by throwing his Joker Baby doll around until Coconut Heads sings like a Tenor. Does anyone know what episode is this from?
openReality tv show Live Action TV
So it was a american reality tv show around maybe 2005-2010. There was two islands competing against each other. I think people on the island were singles as well. Anytime a new islander came she/he was on a raft between the two islands and one from each island started swimming towards the raft and whoever was there first got the new islander. They had competitions as well and tried to make their island look as nice as possible so it would be more tempting for new islanders. Help please
openFriends episode Live Action TV
An episode of Friends where they're talking about how they would be in a war. I know it begins with Monica saying "I would be great in a war, I know I would make general before any of you"
openMystery Live Action TV
So the Story is like that, A completely introverted girl is a big number in an online game where she continues to become a member of a group/guild that follows the orders of it's leader (spoiler: it's an AI {i think thats what it was}) the girl then becomes close friends with another woman of the group and they end up meeting in reallife, the new girl is extremely extroverted and a daredevil (drug addicted etc) the show goes on and the Leader of the Guild contacts each of the member in reallife and sooner or later they end up on an island or so. I really can't recall the name of the show and sorry if my "recap" is a bit vague
openUK(?) kids sci-fi series Live Action TV
I remember seeing an episode of a sci-fi show aimed at kids/teens in the early 2000s. It aired on ABC in Australia but I'm sure it was from the UK originally. It was about a group of teens that investigated paranormal events and at least one of them had psychic powers.
The episode I remember was about a village that seemed abandoned except for a young girl who wouldn't talk, but would keep drawing an A symbol inside a circle before crossing it out angrily. The group discovers the townspeople are all asleep at a nearby church because of some disease going around that induces selfishness before sleep. They look it up on the internet and find something similar happened elsewhere in the world and the disease was brought on by tainted fish, and that the disease was passed on by birds who ate the fish and laid eggs, which were then consumed by the townspeople. At the end of the episode one of the teens with psychic powers goes to the church and enters the shared dreams of all the sleeping adults and wakes them up by throwing some kind of spear at a portal or nexus. Then everyone wakes up and the episode ends.
openHigh school USA Live Action TV
It was about a group of British teens that went to an American high school for a term I’m pretty sure it was on the channel trouble in the early 2000s or possibly the Disney channel
openWinter war and broken heart? Live Action TV
Ok so I had seen one episode of this show on tv a few years ago and cannot remember what it's called for the life of me. It was a live action show that was taking place in what looked like a snowy area (but that detail could be misremembering), but there was a war going on between these two dudes that I guess were in love or something because this blonde girl yelled at one of them, saying: "You started a war over a broken heart?" or something like that. And then later it showed both guys kissing. I don't know if that was the end of the episode because I had fallen asleep sometime after so my memories are a little hazy. Also the setting of the show sorta looked medieval.
openLawyers tv show Live Action TV
A few years ago I watched on TV an episode of this show. I remember it was about some lawyers working togheter, and in that episode two of the lawyers entered into court fighting with toy lightsabers.
After that, another lawyer, who is quite shy, believes to have eaten weed muffins and he is confident enough to go to defend a client, but gets a call in which he is told that he actually took a normal muffin, and so he panics the rest of the trial.
I can't remember much more, but remember that scenes and it just killed me.
openKids TV shows Live Action TV
I watched this in either the late 00s or the early 10s. It was on the same on demand section as The Big Garage (which was on TLC's Ready Set Learn at some point BUT could've been another Canadian or British show/network) and (MAYBE) Bunny Maloney, Code Lyoko and Bobby's World. It was on Charter TV service's on demand. It could have been from Kabillion, but The Big Garage was not from Kabillion, seemingly. It was a brightly colored town (mostly red and yellow), may have been about exercise, but it did have an episode where they made pizza. I remember a lot of red and yellow road visuals in it. They were live action.
Also on there was a science themed show that gave me some trivia about termites and other bugs. There may have been an episode about senses. It was hosted by kids and was mostly on white backgrounds. This could have been on Kabillion.
Edited by FriedBakaopenTV Show about the murder of prostitutes Live Action TV
My mother just walked in asking if I knew what this TV Show is:
- its a mystery/detective/police drama
- addresses the killings of prostitutes and the investigation of the serial killer
- buuuuuuut. she doesnt remeber if the entire series is about it, or just an episode
- theres this very specific scene where the detectives arrive at the crime scene and a kid is embracing it's dead mother's body
I know it's not a lot of information, but I'm kinda desperate
Edited by pedrola

I don't know when the show came out but I remember seeing it around 2012-2014 or so. It was rather short, I think around 4 to 6 episodes, about this kid who grows wings and has this power to help souls or something, he has a sister and a best friend who is in love with her (they get together in the last episode and the best friend says something about marrying the sister jokingly) . The MC is this teen boy, there's also someone bald helping his, idk if he's an angel or something. In the first episode he tries to help a former lover to reach a breach or something to help her move on, there are also these shadow kind of creatures. The main antagonist of the show is one of these shadow thing who drank the blood of some woman and gained like a physical form. In the end of the series the MC manages to force open one of these breaches which causes everyone whose a soul or a shadow to move on/ascend or something but after that he talks to his best friend and says he did something really bad and there it ended. At the time it was only one season.
Edited by crazetheundead