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Has anyone heard of "Patricia Duffy Novak" and her "Robes" series of stories?
Has anyone heard of "Patricia Duffy Novak" and her "Robes" series of stories?
We currently only have a page on what appears to be the first story in the series, Robes.
According to this site
, it's a series, with the entries called:
- Robes
- The Lost Path
- The Valley of Stones
- Valemist Tower
Can anyone confirm? ... fictiondb also lists some of her stories.
Sitcom episode where a character sees a ufo Live Action TV
An episode of a live action sitcom, probably from the 90s, probably also something that wasn't on air too long, and from what I remember it was set in a small rural town. The episode focuses on a character thinking he's seen a UFO. A running gag is that every time he tells someone else, the story gets more and more elaborate and the flashback we see reflects this - the first time we just see him witnessing strange lights in the sky at night, and by the end there's like a fleet of cgi saucers soaring a few feet above his head or something like that. the character wasn't supposed to be exaggerating on purpose,and the idea was more that the more he convinced himself that he had an alien encounter, the more he distorted his own memory to support that theory. It was otherwise a show without any sci-fi elements, but I think it was left ambiguous what the character really saw.
Edited by MikeK
King of the Hill episode Western Animation
I saw a video on Youtube a while back (I think it was a YouTube Poop) and it showed Dale Gribble from King of the Hill doing the pelvic thrust. Which episode was this from? I can't find a clip of him doing it anywhere.
Blue eyes? Film
There's a film I saw a trailer for a long time ago, and I'm trying to figure out what it was. Here's what I remember:
-I originally saw the trailer in early 2012 (at least some time before Paranorman came out, since I also remember seeing the trailer for that)
-There was a female voice narrating over it.
-The trailer itself consisted mostly of shots of a planet (pretty sure it was Earth) and people who only had one thing in common: the color of their eyes (they were blue, if I'm remembering correctly).
Does anyone recognize this?
Edited by Storygirl000
Indestructible Mecha Anime
I swear the title of the anime had "Hell" in it. It was a mecha movie from about the 90s where the mecha was almost impossible to defeat. I don't remember the story, but the mecha could be damaged but repaired itself by replacing damaged parts with alternate universe versions of itself. It similarly replaced spent ammo by pulling it from other universes. I know there's a page here for it, but I can't think of the right search terms to find it.
Early 2000's Talking Pencil Art History show Live Action TV
I'm looking for a show from the late 90's/early 2000's that was hosted by a CGI talking pencil. The pencil in question had a human-ish looking face on its surface. He'd talk about art history and have live action segements seperated by some CGI animated segments. There where other characters too. A sentient lamp that couldn't talk but made faces. There was a girl character that was a paintbrush or pen of some sort. There was also a white, blob-like eraser that would fix mistakes. From what I remember, this show might have aired on or been distributed by HBO.
Okto cartoon show Western Animation
Three siblings most probably a girl and two boys return from school and their grandpa i guess picks them up and they go back home and they teleport to a place for an adventure to solve the case or something and if im not wrong they will be living in a spaceship and their parents will return to pick them up
mecha anime Anime
I'm looking for a mecha anime, it aired during in the Netherlands but I'm not sure how old it really is. Here is what I remember there were three pilots with individual mecha. Naturally they combined in the regular way where each robot transforms either the arms legs or torso and head but they also had something I think was unique.
There was a fourth mecha separate from the three individual ones and they basically flew into from an opening in the back and transformed into their limb modes before it closed up again. Both combined forms typically required all three pilots or at least two of them to control.
At one point the pilots of the mechs that formed the arms and legs were in trouble without mechs and were saved by the four mech combined form assuming the remaining piot did all the work. In truth a support character, who I think was being trained as an emergency replacement for any of the three and who had messed with the settings of the mechs to make it easier for him, was acting as the second pilot.
Edited by dutchguy1986
00's-10s' disney water game show
Ok so I remember watching this game show-like thing I think on the Disney channel... It was about these kids completing an inflatable obstacle course above water and they'd slip off and fall and it was really interesting but I can't remember the name... It was a competition and the obstacle course looked kinda like a waterpark. Anyone know the name??? thanks
Interactive mystery book with cartoons Literature
A lot if not all of the scenes were drawn out in a cartoony style.
It was a sort of choose your own adventure thing, where you had to solve puzzles and mysteries to progress. For example, one scene had you setting up a pulley system in order to open a trapdoor. I distinctly remember there being a crocodile (possibly as a pet?) somewhere in there.
I read this in school (in Britain) when I was like 7 or 8. I'm 20 now.
Edit: It was in color, with those plastic-y pages you get in textbooks rather than papery novel pages.
I believe the protagonists were children.
Edited by SilverBrick
Reality TV Show
I'm looking for a show that was probably on one of those channels like Oxygen or something. It was a group of women that were really rude and they'd get gold stars. If they behaved badly, the stars would be removed. The one with the most stars at the end of the week got a reward or something? It didn't have many seasons.
Depressing 90s BBC drama Film
I only remember this because I watched it far too young and it gave me nightmares for weeks. A British BBC (or channel 4?) drama about a loser kid - I think called Simon. He is particularly dim and the kids at school relentlessly mock him. I think there's a scene where he wears an unusual coat to school. One day 2 other kids trick him into helping steal lead from a roof - he gets caught and sent to a boys home. Eventually he hangs himself in his cell. The final shot is his dead face as we hear a voiceover of a school lesson where a teacher is asking him something like "Simon what is the universe?" and he is saying "there's nothing. Just like stars and that." Depressing as hell. Usual for British drama in the 90s.
Teddy Bear Waltz Live Action TV
So, I had a VHS when I was little that my mom had recorded tons of old cartoons on. Near the end there was a segment of these teddy bears that came to life and turned into people in bear costumes that had all these fancy clothes and they danced the waltz together while a song played in the back ground that I dont remember the lyrics of except "Teddy Bear Waltz". I remember the tune but no other words. It may have been Disney but Im not sure. Anything?
Edited by chumon
Late 1990s/early 2000s preschool show Live Action TV
Does anyone know which show this was from? I'd like to say it was on Playhouse Disney, PBS Kids, or Nick Jr circa 1998-2002. It could have been Teletubbies, Reading Rainbow, Blue's Clues, or something else.
All I remember was that it was a segment that showed how jeans were made. I'm pretty certain the jeans were made from paper material?
A Christan muppet TV show Live Action TV
It was shown on a christian broadcast channel called Smile of a Child I think. The show was about these muppet people fighting each other and there was the evil side and the good side. They traveled via hot air balloons and had fights in the air and stuff. The muppets were kinda creepy looking
People with superpowers given colors
So I saw an ad on tv or youtube where it was a world where people had powers and there was a chart for how dangerous their power was and what it might be. What I remember was that green was the safest color and red people had very destructible powers, and orange was the most dangerous color with that person having the ability of mind control. In the trailer, the main character was a girl with the color orange and she was making a speech and everybody put their hand up showing their color with their color on their hands. If you can please help me with this very frustrating problem.
Disabled Asian boy. Single mother. African-American best friend. Live Action TV
I saw this show in middle school, so it's likely from the 90's. I think it was on HBO or another premium cable channel. It's a documentary type of show as it's about real life people.
It's about a disabled Asian boy. There's issues with his legs so at a young age, he can only roll around the house. He is being raised by a single mother in the US. His best friend is a African-American boy. They seem to be really close.
The show is time lapsed (similar to the Up Series). So it shows them at elementary age (about 7 years old or so) and also later on (I think they're like 15 or so). Later on, the disabled Asian boy and the African-American boy are still best friends. The African-American boy pushes the Asian boy around in a wheelchair.
The show format is documentary style (as stated above) as there are often one-on-one question and answer sessions shown and general following around of the individuals in the their day-to-day lives.
Edited by 23mich
Orphanage, evil mother witch, portalling to other worlds/dimensions Live Action TV
This was a show I watched maybe 10 years ago. I don't remember much about it. From what i recall, the protagonists were 4 or 5 teenagers orphans. The orphanage wasn't a very pleasant place to live in. I remember the setting being very gloomy, but that might be an exaggeration.
There were also a few adults taking care of the orphans. One of them, I feel like, was a mother of one of the kids, and she meddled in witch craft. She didn't get along with the other orphans. There was one episode which I remember, said mother was meddling with her usual witchcraft. In this particular episode she had brewed some potions (i think), and delivered them in a world to which she portalled through a mirror. The other kids followed her through the mirror to stop her, trying to surprise her. Then stuff happens (I don't remember), she carches them, and traps them in a well in that other world.
I've been trying to remember the name of the show for several years now. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Edited by Yollooo112
No Title Anime
I really can't remember much about this show other than the main characters are a team/friends and there's 1 girl and 2 boys. There's a love triangle between them and one of the guys gwt ahead of the other guy by giving the girl something during a festival or something while in the libarary. I think the girl has pink hair and they may be training to be something like samurais. There's this one scene where they are fighting monsters and then they ride the monsters using the carrot and stick method. I think it was shown around early 2000s when I grew up in the Philippines. It's probably an anime show and It's so vague in my head but driving me crazy so help is much appreciated.
Cartoon about singing animals (still looking)
Ok, so between 1994 and 2002 there was a mini series, from what I remember about short music videos about singing animals, can't remember the name but I'm sure I saw it on either teletoon or ytv. From what I remember this show featured this: -A hippy lion singing about how the world needs to change, -An arastafarian alligator (if I spelled that right) singing about his love for Africa - a waitress hippo singing about how she wants payback and get out of her job due to some scam - a tap dancing flamingo singing about how great his life is - a vampire bat girl singing about how she wants to see the sun and escape the dark castle she lives in - a news anchor turtle singing about how great the weather is - a club owner gorilla singing about how hot he is - a Jessica rabbit clone cat girl singing about something I don't remember And if I'm not mistaken, two female chickens, not sure if they were sisters or lesbians but there was a scene where they were both in wedding dresses running down the stairs waving. I can't find this show at all, please help?
PS1 game from Demo Disc Videogame
So I remember playing a game on my PS 1 as a child. I'm pretty sure it was a demo disc. The gameplay had a part where you were running towards the camera being chased by what I'm pretty sure was a giant robot head running down a cliff or a water fall, with a voice calling out to you to jump when an obsticle apeared, there was a part where you are fighting a big robot in what I think was like a Japanese temple, and every time you damaged it, it would go backwards and break through in to another room where the fight would continue
Edited by lyfeportrait
Kids show
Main character was a guy in a big yellow costume and i believe he was called polpetta or something close
i remember a girl too in the show
and there was an evil character called Ruby (male) who lived in a closet.
I've been looking for this show for yeeeaaars and i just couldn't remember the name of the show or even the channel it was aired on
No Title Live Action TV
The only part I can remember is a boy returning to his home town after something like college. They get attacked by what in my mind looks like the krites from critters. The boy is trying to protect this family( maybe girlfriend) he knows them from the past and has a translator to talk with them. He asked them what do they want and it said to eat.