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openUnknown SciFi Adventure Movie, Aliens Abduct Child Film
I've been trying to remember the name of this movie... for years.
I saw it in the late 1990s/early 2000s, possibly as a TV movie or a TV show pilot, on broadcast TV in the USA. It was a scifi adventure, with a spaceship. It starts out on a planet that is not Earth, with mostly humans, but included several different alien species coexisting.
Here's what I remember about the characters: -main character is blonde or brown-haired man. -a tough, dark-haired woman -a child (I think a girl; it may have been the main character's daughter) -scary, hairless, humanoid aliens with pale white faces (they also wore robes)
One of the first scenes is the main character arriving at a trading post on the planet, featuring an open sky with a few tents. This is where the main character and the woman meet. They later leave the planet together in a ship for a voyage or a mission. I don't remember the main plot, but I remember the subplot. The kid is abducted by a group of scary aliens on the planet. She was special, and they were using her for her mind or messing with her memories somehow.They helded her underground, in a cave. Their leader or god may have been trying to meld with her or use her for some purpose. I only remember it being a scary scene, watching it as a child. Anyways, the adults rescue her at the end. Any ideas?
openCartoon show on CITV about a band of bikers who flew in the air Western Animation
Yeah, they were a band of bikers in a future universe. I think they lived on a large airship, but would disembark onto smaller air bikes to engage in battle. Most of their equipment was DIY style, and I think they shot laser/plasma at the enemies? Definitely on CITV in Britain, usually during the morning. It's not Biker mice from Mars though!
Thanks!
Edited by SADBOYSopenYoutube Video about being able to change ones opinion Web Original
I can't seem to remember what channel I found the video on. I had thought it was CGP Grey, but I can't find it there. It was a video about how you should treat your opinions like things in a box that you can replace if a better opinion comes along as opposed to a concrete part of yourself. I'm fairly certain it used stick figure animations,
Edited by InnocentDoodleopenMagical glove Western Animation
I watched this when I was a kid, about twelve years ago. The show I am looking for was animated, the hero was a dark haired white male with a motorbike and a blue/gray glove which made his hand really strong and maybe gave him other superpowers. I remember enemy minions, don't know they english name, but they translation from czech back to english would be something like rippers. They were black and resembled dinosaurs, mostly velociraptors.
openLitle kid with a heart problem becomes friends with a huge kid Film
Looking for the name of a movie where there is a huge kid who gets bullied because he's dumb and he becomes friends with a little kid who is smart for his age. It was narrated by the huge kid and ends with a downer ending because the little one died of a heart condition (I think). It was an adaptation of a book too.
openChilds TV show, about 10 years old
My son has been looking for his old favourite TV show for ages. I doubt any of you would know it, but I thought I should try my best to try and find it. His description is that these men would have "bands" that were basically bracers. The bracers were different colours and assigned to animals (e.g a snake band or a tiger band). He said the humans would take form of whatever band they had on and would fight each other. I can't give much more information unfortunately. Possible programs it could have been aired on are CBBC and The CW network
Edited by AuspiciousMartenopenSci-fi show with man running around in his PJs?
A live action show. All I saw was part of an episode. It was set in outer space and it had this blond dude who was possessed by aliens or something and was running around in his P Js. I'm a huge Trekkie so I think I would have recognised it if it was Star Trek. I think a guy was eating pizza at one point. And it began with a speech on how amazing space is with a picture of a spaceship.
openDo you remember this book? Literature
I read this book around 2004 or so. The main character was an android, and I'm pretty sure he was the first one developed. His family (which included the creator/inventor) named him Andy. He's in a kid/teen's body, and so he goes to school. He gets bullied and discriminated against but he's not allowed to retaliate. Androids are considered very second class citizens and (I think this happened) when his class gets an android teacher, a lot of students get switched to a human teacher's class by their parents.
His best friend is an android girl who wants to go to college, but she's not allowed unless she's switched into a different body/college age body. She's been rebelling a little. One day she vanishes and when she gets on the bus for school a while later it's a different android, but in the same body-her family had her wiped or returned her or something and another android is now using that body.
At the end the scientist inventor guy is forced to realize that the androids have developed feelings, real feelings, and he's in shock or something. And Andy goes off to college without having to change bodies. And he finds his friend, who it turns out somehow survived but ended up in a different body.
It's really hard to search for something about Androids (with phones) and Andy the Android (which just brings up children's books).
I was about 12 when I read it, but it was part of my teacher's personal collection that he kept in the classroom, so I don't know if that was the age range it was aimed at. I don't think it felt particularly "adult" to me, I thought it was a kid's book, but I also read The Color Purple the year before that, so my judgement may be off.
resolved Old YOutube poop starring Robotnik Web Original
There's this Youtube Poop I'm trying to find. It was about Robotnik, and it was uploaded probably between 2006-2010.
All I remember was an exchange that went something like this:
openSubmerged Town Brings Forth Haunted Children Film
This is a film from somewhere between the '80's and the 2000's: an abandoned town is flooded to create a lake or reservoir, but some children were trapped in houses before the town was fully evacuated. They drowned in the flooding and the mystery of these haunting children is eventually solved in the film. This is not 'What Lies Below." American film.
openWhat was this tv series/film called? Film
I was very young when I saw this but I've been trying to find it for a long time.
I think it may have been a british crime series/TV Movie but I'm not sure at all. I remember that it was at night and a man was hanging from a cable or something and you see him get electrocuted. I then remember people going to look at him or investigate the death or something and it's daytime. I remember seeing him still hanging there and his body all burnt.
I think it may have been over railway lines but I don't know.
Ring a bell?
resolved hidden objects mobile game Videogame
This is a mobile game that I got for free on the Google Play Store about a year ago.
It's a hidden objects game, but instead of looking for everyday things lying around a room, you are looking for objects - they can range from animals, to food, to household appliances, and so on - in a huge clump of objects positioned and colored to look like one big object.
In some levels, you have to find all the objects listed. In other levels, you have to find as many specific objects as you can before the time runs out.
There's a hint button that dims the lights a little, and creates a spotlight to indicate where an item is located.
After completing a certain number of puzzles, you must solve a jigsaw puzzle. Once you solve it, you unlock a new level. (You start out with two levels, and one is chosen at random each time you play.)
I could have sworn it was called something like "Little Things", but I tried searching that and couldn't find it.
openCheesy 80's Duet Music
I heard this a few days ago. It's one of those 80's ballad-type songs. It has the same chord progression as Last Christmas by Wham, except for maybe the last two chords. A woman misses a guy, and sings about how she misses his "touch," The same guy feels the same way, and sings about how he "feels lonesome." There's a key change towards the end, and then it fades out. I know it's kinda vague, but does anyone know what it is?
Edited by GitarooHeroopenEducational show (I think) aired in mid 2000s Western Animation
I think it was an educational show, and I don't remember the channel it was on. If it helps, it aired on Channel 253 in Nebraska, or somewhere around that channel. It was 3D animated, and all the characters had a weird design, one of them was a white-ish coloured square thing, and there was an episode that taught you how to whistle. I'm also pretty sure they were in a building underwater, but I might be wrong on that. And it isn't Octonauts.
openKnock off Fraggles
I saw this show on cable in the 80's It was a movie or a special or a pilot. One and done. It featured puppets similar in construction to the Fraggles (which was on HBO so that leads me to think it was Showtime for some reason). The end of the show had two Goblin-like creatures trying to escape from underground and being caught by daylight they were turned to stone. The narrator explains that they were stuck there forever as a statue. I've Googled it but Labyrinth dominates any combination with 'goblin' and 'puppet'.
openTwo shows I'm looking to find the names of! Western Animation
1. I remember these both air during Teletoon's Big Fright in 2004. One has a character thats a young boy, blonde hair, red hat on backwards, a green jersey. 2. Two skeletons cackling behind a broken window. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwVhRoDwbFc
As seen in this youtube video. At 0:22-0:25
openTEENAGE-YOUNG ADULT TV SHOW
Looking for a tv show aimed at older teenagers/young adults about a group of teenagers lives. There's quite a few seasons as they go through the lives of these people when they are a teenager leading into young adulthood. There were a few stand out moments through out the entire series such as a someone lying about being one of their brother's then threatening to kill her (one of the early seasons). In one of the later seasons I remember one of the original teenager's( who is now an adult) son's get kidnapped by their nanny.
Back in the 70's I remember a tv show that used B&W photos to describe life in the 1890's or 1900's. I have always believed that William Shatner narrated it but that could be me projecting. The only other thing I remember about the show is that it was broadcast basically in the Boston area. If anyone remembers the name of the show I would be deeply grateful.