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openAustralian show with spaceship/house and robot. Live Action TV
I remember a show from the early '80s in Australia where a spaceship lands in suburbia and turns into a house. The pilot or occupant was a robot who usually looked like a big human. I think he was called Rufus. There was a human who ended up living in the spaceship/house, called Ron i think ( or maybe that was his actor. The actor ,by the way, played Bob Hawke, or some politician, in a miniseries about the labor party i think). Does anyone know what the name of the show was, or where I could find out more about it?
Solved: Having remembered their names bit by bit I reached the stage where I could Google it. It was a short series called Watch this Space.
Edited by Randallw201238openIDK but i have been searching for this for 20 YEARS Live Action TV
Idk if it was a tv show, a movie, or a made for tv movie...hell it may have been a vhs special... All i know is...it had a talking egg...a PUPPET egg My memory says it had a little suit on and little arms and legs..it may have spoke in rhymes..at one point it gets stuck in the mud and says a muddy puddle rhyme. i think it was lost and trying to find its way home.. It def has an 80s Barney vibe I think the kids are out looking for him and he keeps getting lost idk...its been bugging me for 20 years
Edited by SuccinctHippocampalopenChildhood tv show, please help!
It was a show about a Japanese girl (maybe she was of another race) who had a black spirit follow her, but they were friends?? I don't know, but please help! I was thinking spirited away but that's a movie... I've been searching for 5 years and nothing. I used to watch this as a kid back around the 2005s if any one can find anything on it that would be great!!!
openA monster based kids show? Anime
What I can remember of the show is minimal, and I may have some of it bleeding from Mon Colle Knights. What I CAN remember was that there were two kids, most likely in their elementary or middle school days, and they could summon monsters that were in the past. I do remember there was a paint based monster. Now, the biggest thing I remember was that there was a woman with a red leather look, she had two male minions, and that she would "whip" the monster to turn it into an "evil" form. The kids, meanwhile, could summon a creature to their side to help, and they could make them into a superheroic form to fight on their behalf.
openThis tune
It sounds too good for me to have just made it up. Any of you reccognize it? https://www.speakpipe.com/voice-recorder/msg/naq508pffiumo8k2 EDIT: Seems to sound a lot like Heart Of Glass, so that's probably it.
Edited by jgrif57003openkids cookery show
trying to remember the name of a childrens cookery show that featured a ' carrot rocket'
openTv series I Really need help finding. <3
Ok so I keep thinking about watching this show I saw on a regular website I go on everyday but I can't remember the name. So basically there were two brothers who went out for a drink in the woods near a house or something like that and while they were drinking they saw a alien ship and the ship shined a light down next to were they were sitting down at. One of the brothers got suspicious and stood in the light and the alien ship took him and he was like in this bubble and vanished later on. From then I don't remember anything else but when the missing brother reappeared he was I guess you can call a healer. A man took him in to work for his company and told him he could help the world or something like that and from then He cured kids with cancer ect . just by touching them. His old brother(the one that wasn't taken) was suspicious about the man that took his brother(the one With powers) to work for his company and that he could be part of something bigger that was bad. From that I don't remember but I'm sure this was a pretty good show and i was just wondering if anyone has an idea about this.
openCartoon I saw in Spanish once that I could never find again Western Animation
So this is a show that I'm not entirely sure is available in English, though I think I saw it aired on cartoon network while I was in Chile. I remember a couple episodes. Basically, the main character is this tall, thin, completely black humanoid that goes through the motions of everyday life and just has the worst time ever. The episode I watched, he was trying to assemble a cabinet, but like how always happens in real life, there are pieces that break, screws that are missing, stuff like that. It also seems to completely lack dialogue. It was really funny and actually seemed rather new, so it's surprising I can't find it.
openwhat kid's tv show was this?
there were 4 or 5 main characters, and they were different colored striped worm like creatures. i'm pretty sure they were worms. and they also had snouts. and im not sure if they either lived in a treehouse or in some place underground, but it was one of those. it was not animated, and im assuming they were puppets. i think they also would sometimes do math problems. ive been looking to find this show forever and i can't, so i hope i gave enough detail, thanks!
openComedy with female lead Live Action TV
I remember a specific scene where her love interest falls off a mountain while video chatting and then comes back later in the season
openA girl and a splash of blue paint?
I remember loving this show as a kid, but don't remember much to help in the search.
There's a girl (could have been a boy) and a lively (alive?) splash of blue paint. The splash can change shape and size and makes a mess where ever it goes and if I recall correctly, the girls job was to catch/find the splash and return it to (the paint can?) it came from.
If memory serves, there was no talking in the cartoon, if that helps. Any and all help would be appreciated.
Edited by TheVarjoratsuopen80s or 90s dreamy live action fantasy! please help me it's been 87 years! Film
so i saw this movie on netflix a few years ago, i wanna say around like 2011 but i'm not sure. anyway, it was a really dreamy fantasy movie that had a long name i'm pretty sure. i really wish i would've paid more attention to the title but here we are. it's driving me crazy. sidenote: it's not legend starring tom cruise and tim curry—that mystery has already been solved thankfully. details i remember: - there was a guy with brown hair that was kinda spiky, he reminded me of like a tarzan boy kinda? like he was just wild/dirty lookin'. - there was at least two main women protagonists. one had long blonde wavy hair, i don't remember what the other looked like. the woman with the blonde hair though was in a scene where she was like laying down in some vines or something and talking to herself and it was very hazy and pink and dreamy/fairy-like but i'm not sure if she herself was actually a fairy. i think there was some sort of a love triangle between these three main characters but i'm not 100% on that either. - everything was super glittery and there were pink hues everywhere, as well as plants. - there was a scene with the main guy and the other girl where they were in this weird clock/artifact room or something with this old guy and they had like an argument i think - hot air balloons may have been involved, or at least some sort of weird aircraft - there was magic involved - i keep saying it was really dreamy because a) it was really hazy footage so it was just super ambient and b) i felt like the plot kind of meandered and was disjointed at times like a dream. so dream dream dreamy - i don't actually remember the plot but i do remember that at least the main guy was an outsider to this fantasy magical place and i'm pretty sure he got there on the hot air balloon/aircraft somehow - i don't believe any of the actors were super well-known and it seemed like it wasn't a super popular movie that was in theatres. it was pretty obscure, which is why it's been so hard to find again for me!
that's all i remember and it is absolutely killing me please help me find it i've been wanting to watch it again for the longest time! thank you!
openIt played on adult swim Live Action TV
It was a live action TV show, possibly a special. I think it was named after a town (fictional or otherwise) and it centered around a man who was very average. It was narrated(?) rather than having any real dialogue. The town's people are gradually being body-snatched including the mayor and this ordinary man attempts to stop it.
openold cartoon horror Western Animation
An old cartoon show or movie,might have been a special horror episode idk I remember the characters still atending school But there is a monster/psychopath/villain of some sorts wich i remember being orange in some way,possibly its face/mask,and the hair was spiky,he always reminded me of sideshow bob from the simpsons A remember a scene in wich he is i think in a junkyard and also in an abandoned building I assume the show was horror since i remember him being very scary
openPlease help me find an old animated movie Film
The only thing i remember is that it started in a car. It was driving through a tunnel and there were lights flashing on both sides, then it drove out of the tunnel and turned to the left. On the right there were barriers and behind them a forest i think. You could not see them but in the car there was a child and his parent(s), they were talking and the parent(s) started to tell the kid a story when they got out of the tunnel. Please, if anyone has any suggestions, write them! Thank you.
Edited by JohnBenccsonnopenAdventure, fantasy Western Animation
I can remember seeing an animation, which featured a boy around 20 years old as the main character. The scene was in a house possibly in a valley, there was a bridge leading to the house. In the house there were other characters as well as the main character. Some of the other characters looked like a mix of human and some alien features. The main character then did something and ran out of the house while being chased. The main character as well as the people chasing him had something which looked like levitating surf boards with engines. The chase was possibly in a valley.
openLive action teen (mostly australian)
So this is going to be a jumble of shows that i can remember bits and pieces of. All of them watched about 10-15 years ago and they are all pretty much australian teen shows (i think at least). The oldest one is about two kids and a man in a black trench that seem to travel to different realms and there is this blue crystal like thing, that is seriously all i can remember. Another is a kid and maybe his family i think they live near a zoo? And someone can transform into a tiger? A very specific scene i can remember, though i have no idea where it is from is an autralian girl eating an apple and talking to a boy, maybe her brother, i also think they are at school. The apple was green if that helps XD. Soooo if anything here seems familiar do comment
Edited by WarlikeBaconopenAnimated Show (not sure if considered anime)
So I remember watching this show years ago, when I was around 7 or 8, and I can't find it anywhere (to the point where I'm questioning if it exists) and I'm 15 now. I remember small things about it. It was about these two girls (or maybe one girl) and they had these pendant things. I believe they were green and pink. They were able to speak as well. I also remember that they used to them to defeat bad guys or something. I think in the last episode, the girl was really upset because the pendant or locket closed because it was like "you don't need me anymore". I know it was animated. I am also fairly sure that they played lacrosse in the show. Please help
openHey Dude episode? Live Action TV
I remember an episode of Hey Dude where someone says "I resent that remark" and the person insulting them says "no, you resemble it". This would seem to be the trope namer for I Resemble That Remark!, yet I can't find anything about it on that page nor the Hey Dude page. Can anyone name the episode as I would like to put it as an example
Ok, so I've been searching for a cartoon (anime type) show but can't find what it could be. So I'm hoping someone might have a clue.
If I remember correct. It is about a kid who has a sportscar. Guess he's an orphan and lives on an island research center with a professor. I will say that there is a really long bridge out to the island too, and would be in the intro as well.
I remember that in one episode he is in an underwater dome. I think the car colors was red, white and blue or one or two of thsoe colors. Can't be really sure. Should be late 90's or early 00's serie