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openProtection racket gangster killed and put in to a curry and eaten - British TV BBC Film
A one off drama about two men collecting protection racket money in the North of England, enter an Indian restaurant demanding protection money. After some months or years of this, the owner has had enough and kills one of the men and puts him in a curry, the other gangster arrives and is looking for the other gangster, the owner offers him a free curry, but the gangster is really eating his friend in crime. Probably a BBC one off drama between 1995 and 2005. Any ideas?
openA girl adopts a wolf Film
I saw this old movie back in Elementary school, but we never finished wathcing it. It was live action and told the story of a girl whose brother was killed by wolves. She lives alone, and one day a wolf came into her home. She didn't trust it at first, but eventually warmed up to it. If I remember correctly, she named the wolf Rantu.
openDetective show from the early 80s Live Action TV
I've been trying to find the name of this show for years. It was a drama. I remember 4 characters: an older distinguished detective, a new younger partner (in the first episode he was being shown around and introduced to the other characters), a perky young secretary/receptionist, and digital detective: he used a computer to do stuff like check credit records and do traces.
The episode I remember best went like this: A woman comes to the detectives - "My husband has disappeared and the police think I killed him. Our neighbor - his best friend - says he saw me stuff something large into the trunk of my husband's car and drive it away the night he disappeared". They go around interviewing friends, relatives, and co-workers and everybody says pretty much the same thing: they fought like cats and dogs, hated each other, but if he ever tried to leave her she said she'd kill him. There's a quick trial scene and she's convicted, then she's under house arrest awaiting sentencing or something. They're in the office lamenting how bad the case was and the computer guy comes out of his office and tells them that his computer has been down and he's just found credit receipts from the guy's credit card at a gas station in a small town a couple of hours away from the city. "Hey, the best friend has a cabin up near there! Ah ha!" So they rush to the woman's house to tell her the good news only to find she's committed suicide by sleeping pills and alcohol.
Please help. This has bugged me for years.
openSupergirl Comic Print Comic
I found that picture from a super girl comic where she says 'that's strange' and the other woman asks what's strange. Then Kara says 'My X-ray vision is picking up some weird plastics in your–" I really love the art style and it's such a fun sense of humor that I was wondering what artist it was from/ what issue number it was. If anyone knows, I'd really appreciate it.
openLittle girl friendship squad show
Ok so when i was younger i had a vcr player and one of the cassets we had was this one about this small group of girls who seem to have magical powers and charm necklaces that help them travel together to different worlds. I only had one episode and i used to watch it non-stop and now can never figure out its name even though i remeber it so clearly in my mind and i even have some parts memorized. The episode goes as follows: a group of girls (3 or 4) go to a carnival with two older people and they come accross a cotton candy stand. There is only one cotton candy left. They get it and the two older girls (chaparones) push the girls to share the one cotton candy between all of them, but the little girls are not willing to. Anyways they are then all traveling to another world that is a candyland where everything is made out of candy. The girls (no chaparones, they cant travel i guess) are super excited to eat the candy around them but then they are stopped by police telling them the candy is strictly off limits and that it all belongs to the king. The girls are outraged and demand to go see the king. They areive at his palace and the king is super rude and selfish who doesnt give them any candy (MINE ALL MINE) and i remeber they play a game of cards where he takes all the cards too. I acually forgot what the girls did but they ended up changing his mind and he decides to make the candy in the kingdom free for everyone and the streets of the place were filled with candy and the girls rode in the candy rivers on candy rafts. Anyways the girls travel back to the carnival place and they learn their lesson about sharing but at this point the cottpn candy stand is restocked and they all have some cotton candy and then continue playing at the carnival. I acually remeber specific lines from this show and the girls each look cute and dressed in unique colors (sort of like this modern stranerry shortcake but its not stranerrt shortcake im positive). IF SOMEONE CAN FIND THIS FOR ME I WILL BE SO HAPPY! I have been searching for years now!
openLast of the Dinosaurs
So I was on the Last of His Kind page and want to know where the caption for the image is from
openMagik kids show
For the love of all things good and holy, help! There was a show I watched once years ago on Netflix about a boy being given a necklace by his grandfather before a race. At the same time, in another world, there was a girl being chased by bad guys. Suddenly, the boys necklace starts to glow, and a portal opens up and drops him in the middle of the battle, where he meets the creatures that are battling. He saves the girl, somehow, but can't figure out how to get home. Him and the girl become friends, along with another boy, and the rest of the series is about then working together to find the way out again and defeating the villains for good. Please help me find this show, it's driving me crazy!
openScrabble Literature
There was a novel with a girl who started making decisions by drawing Scrabble tiles, like a Magic 8-Ball.
openStealing race Film
I don't remember if it was a movie or tv show but basically two men where released naked in a city and had to make the most money possible. They stole stuff like clothing and like I remember a scene where one of the guys dirties a jacket of a stranger and says that he will clean it and give it back (to use it). And basically at the end who had the most money (or object value) won. I remember that like at the end both guys had the same but one won because of a coin the other gave him at some point. Idk if I'm making sense.
openSome kid's book Literature
A kid goes on an adventure on his bike, cut by some sort of interview that happens between scenes.
Turns out the kid's in a psych ward the whole time and the doctors are trying to access this traumatic memory that he's blocked out and every time they get close he relapses and loses all his memories and they have to start over.
openNo Title Literature
A fantasy novel I read in the 90's, in which the hero, who I think was a blacksmith's apprentice or something, joins what I recall to be a band of soldiers, one of whom is Asian (or its fantasy counterpart) and teaches him reiki. All I remember beyond that is one scene where the hero blunders, gets beaten for it, and the Asian guy checks him out and tells him he might keep his teeth if he uses reiki on his face every day.
Edited by CivanfanopenNature series about trying to find the best animal Live Action TV
I remember getting 2 videos out of the library 6-12 years ago about trying to figure out the best or most interesting animals (I think it was in the title) of a certain area. One video was about Russia, the other was some place in North America (maybe the US). After every animal, a dot was added to the map of the area they were in. At the end, they showed the most interesting animal. The Russian one turned out to be the saiga, and the other turned out to be the California condor. The map turned into a sort-of connect-the-dots picture of the animal, and the last minute was just music playing over pictures of the animal. If I remember correctly, the narrators were a man and a woman who went back and forth, though I could be confusing this with Fooled By Nature (a show on Animal Planet with a man and a woman). Any idea what these videos were? I may well find it on World Cat, but maybe you remember these videos.
openTwo BBC 'arena' programmes Live Action TV
The first one was very similar to Robot Wars, but instead of RC robots controlled by teams, it was CGI fighters controlled by one person at each side of the arena. There was a game of it on the PS 2 as well which I remember owning at some point.
The Second one was a CBBC show, again about CGI. But it was monsters that looked like they were made in a basic modeling program (I think they were actually) made by teams of kids, and the monsters automatically attempted to do challenges or beat others. It was set in a lab with all the kids in lab coats There was a downloadable kit you could get of the shows site that was the same one the teams in the show used and do the challenges yourself in it. Both were on around the same time in the early - mid 2000s I think.
openhelp Western Animation
a show is about two brothers and there sister thy protect nature and thy have a network so that people can help them and one of the brothers has a rodent sidekick and he is blond hear the girl is a ginger the other is black heard and wears glasses
openUK Comedy, I think about doctors
I used to watch this when I lived abroad in Europe and it was dubbed (horribly). One episode involved a young doctor invited to a party, someone passed him a CD case with drugs on it and the stupid bubbling idiot (his character) didn't know there were drugs, so he just turned the case over to see what the album was. It's been bothering me for 13 years.
openUK mini-series from the 80's? Set in Scotland about IRA Live Action TV
For years I have been trying to remember the name of this show. There was a woman with an idle unpopular son. (They may have moved from Ireland.) She goes to work at a fish cannery in a small port town in Scotland. The show is about the women who work in the factory, their terrible boss, and the IRA. At the end her son takes the blame for some minor IRA action he had no part in, maybe against the boss, and the townspeople cheer and put him on their shoulders. It probably was about 5 hours, several episodes. The boss was someone who reminded me of Bob Hoskins, but don't think it was him. Anyone know this show? Thanks!
openUK comedy show with German beach bum Live Action TV
Wanted to add this to a recently-created trope page but can't find anything matching my memory online. UK sketch comedy show, probably from the 90s, that had a recurring character who was a stereotypical German body-building beach bum. He may have been a lifesaver but spent most of his time boasting about how good his body was and how he was constantly having sex with British girls. One of his catchphrases was boasting about how much time he spent "verkink ouuuuuuuuut" (with heavy German accent). I remember him as a Harry Enfield or Paul Whitehouse character, but can't find any record of either of them doing it.
openplz help Western Animation
its a 2d animation series its about two boys and two girls each has a mask , they fight monsters and to fight them thy have to hold a mark thing on the monster so they can transform into there own animal, the kids animal masks are a lion a bull a lizard and a bird the monster has one mark only so who find his , he only can transform
openmovie about a man a a woman who kinda wante to have a plataonic marriage Film
does anyone know the name of a movie about a guy who was divorced because his wife couldn't stand the fact he didn't want to have sex with her, and then he like falls in love with a teacher after he hears her talking with her students about how romantic love wasn't real but an invention of recnt times? and then they get married but he can't have sex with her either, and at first she thinks it's fine, that they can be happy only talking and spending time together but then her mother/friend (i don't remember) convince her that thats not right so she leaves him, but then he goes and puts a song in the radio for her in front of her appartment and they get back together?
I think they from the start decided to have a relationship without romance, but the woman didn't know it was also going to be a relationship without sex, in one part the were having a dinner and he got drunk, and the woman tried to romance him into bed, I dunno if he got drunk so it would be easier, but in the end it didn't work and he asked her to stop wich hurt her feelings
I recall hearing this song, possibly a pop song from the 90s. It's a rather popular song I guess as I hear it on the radio every now and then or in stores. It sounds rather upbeat. I can't make out the lyrics but to me it sounded like "Condos. Condos. Something something something spin it. Something something something minute." I just heard it today when I was in the mall but too much commotion drowned out the music and I couldn't make out the lyrics.