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openDark Fantasy High School (?) show that WASN'T Buffy (I don't think) Live Action TV
Title says it all. I'm looking for a show where I BELIEVE the main character is a man and it looks like it was in high school or college...the person in the scene I vaguely remember was a white male, that much I know. He was confronting some evil woman and she disintegrates and then the male cuts himself as I believe his parents come in and maybe he feigns that he was hurt, I dunno. I don't think it was Buffy but I could be wrong. It's POSSIBLE it could be Supernatural but it feels like it came MUCH earlier than that. I was almost a toddler or a very young kid when it was on air. If anyone knows what episode of a TV show it was, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Edited by hackdashopenBritish TV Variety Show - early 1980s Live Action TV
British TV show which involved a series of dance scenes set to old show tunes. Theme was quite 'grown-up', with one scene involving a society lady performing a striptease (she was in a red suit IIRC). Pretty sure it was a one-off.
openPossibly Canadian Show About an Alien Girl Who Looks Human or Disguises Herself as Human Live Action TV
The main characters befriend a girl who is an alien. I think they may have used a valve in their school’s boiler room to go to a different world? In a scene from the commercial she drinks orange juice by sticking her finger into it. She may have an alien form but disguises herself as a human and when they go to the other world she is an alien? This would have been on TV 15-20 years ago and I watched it in Canada, possibly on YTV but I’m not certain.
openIndian tv show opening Live Action TV
There is a great Indian TV show opening that I just can't get out of my head but I can't remember the title. I think the TV show was around 2005, it's an absolutely banger opening with CGI showing various animal forms, Hindu gods, and statues. The music starts with a woman singing solo and then, boom, the awesome music starts and people start singing, there's a male solo in it too.
openFilipino drama about an angel falling in love Live Action TV
I remember seeing this drama a couple years ago, it involved a pair of girls whose dad died and went to heaven, the girls are taken in by their aunt who has a bratty daughter. One of the daughters gets a dog while the other gets lesson from an old lady I think? By the end of the first episode or so they're older teens/young adults (forgot which). A couple episodes later a jerk gets in an accident and an angel accidentally possesses his body, where the guy's soul ends up in hell. The angel ends up in a relationship with one of the girls, I think the one who got lessons. One of the episodes later the angel tries to get the original guy's soul back to his body by going to hell with another angel. I'm not sure how the series ended but that was what I remember.
openOld Pilot film Live Action TV
I remember an entry on trope pages I think were related to Adaptive Ability or some other trope about teleporter merging. It was about a pilot episode or film that aired on one of the older alphabet channels like CBS, NBC, or maybe even PBS. Not sure if i misplaced where the entry was or it got deleted.
It was about a man who accidentally combined with a space probe due to a teleporter. Though outwardly human, every time he was distressed the probe responded by extending mechanical parts that reacted violently to the cause, that evolved the more often it happened. It gradually ate away his humanity and replaced his mind with the cold intellect of the machine. Found it on YouTube, but it's buried in my history and I can't recall the program it's from.
Edited by DvandemonopenWhat episode is this? Live Action TV
This is an entry on the page Mourning Apparition:
- NCIS: One episode during the Port-to-Port Killer arc was told via flashbacks, with the Framing Device being Gibbs discussing the episode's events with Mike Franks. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that Franks is lying on the mortuary slab next to Gibbs, having been murdered by the Port-to-Port Killer, and Gibbs was imagining the conversation as a means of processing his grief.
Does anyone know which episode this actually is?
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openKorean Drama where the hero turns down the love intrest for his best friend Live Action TV
A long time ago I was stationed in Korea and there was a historical K-Drama on.
There was this area with a huge fight and the hero and his best friend finally win.
Hero looks up and the love interest is all demure and not really saying much.
The Dad - who likely arranged all this - is FUMING that the Hero is still alive.
Hero gives a "I'm tired of this shit" look and he and his best friend (who helped him win) walk off into the sunset while the love interest looks on crushed.
Me being a cynic at the time found this HILARIOUS - "bros before hoes" indeed.
What was this K-drama?
openBOREDOM BUSTERS Live Action TV
In the 1990s, the BBC produced a VHS tape titled "Boredom Busters - Make and Play Dinosaurs". I believe it was part of a series of arts and crafts videos aimed at young children and I'm beginning to think it may be completely lost media. The only trace I've found is someone selling the video on eBay some months back, but no footage. Does anyone who remembers this know if there may be footage from it online?
I mean a lot of you find some super obscure stuff out there, so I'm hopeful. 😅
Thanks.
openMind Reading Woman Live Action TV
Not a lot to go off of, but there was a show of a scene from a show or movie (possibly early to mid 2000s) where a man and a psychic woman were walking. The man was talking, but before he could finish, the woman would read his mind and finish his sentences. At one point the man got frustrated, and started asking her to stop, but she finished that sentence too. Can anyone help me remember?
openAn arts-and-crafts TV series for kids Live Action TV
I remember watching a possibly Australian arts-and-crafts show in the vein of Art Attack, which also includes cooking. There are always 2 presenters in each episode. I distinctly remember the show teaching how to make hedgehog-shaped baked mashed potato cakes with pasta filling, realistic cardboard trash cans wrapped in aluminum foil, cauldrons made from plastic bags, apple leather, and fortune cupcakes.
ETA: IIRC the show's logo is a hand, and I remember eyecatches featuring lots of hands.
Edited by seasaltcaramelcookieopenGhost show where guy pushes lady out of the way as he runs off Live Action TV
It’s been years since I’ve see this show like around 2000s but I remember a ghost show where they were in like a castle/big house. It was the ‘medium’ Chip’, a dude and a lady. The dude was acting all macho telling the lady he’d protect her but when Chip acted ‘possessed’ (I think) the dude whipped around, shoved the lady out of the way, and ran out of the building
It was a running joke between me and my mom so I was wanting to see if anyone knew the name of the show. I remember Chip being a constant but he had people join him at different locations
openWalking through train TV commercial Live Action TV
I remember seeing a commercial on TV in the US (sometime in the late 90s/early2000s) where there's a high-speed train running through a tunnel under a city. The protagonist, a young man, walks through one car which is set up like a nightclub and full of girls saying things like "call me", then he goes through a car that's set up like a classroom with a teacher saying something like "If the circle is not filled in completely it doesn't count", then he goes through some more cars until he finds the product. Does anyone else remember remember what this commercial was for? I think it was for some kind of drink, gum, or breath mints...
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open80's show with the main character is a boy named Spencer - episode where he was alone with a psycho Live Action TV
So there was this 1980's sitcom with one of the characters being a teenage boy named Spencer.
At one point he was looking for love -as teen boys are wont to do- and found this Manic Pixie Dream girl.
Emphasis on manic - she lived in a RV or a trailer and the episode had her going from quirky to complete psycho real fast.
The inside was done up in these weird paintings that supposedly showed her art skills but also showed her mental state - nightmare fuel all around.
The last bit was Spencer locking her in her bathroom then running away - the camera lingering on the door while this woman said "Spencer" over and over again in a madness mantra.
What show was this?
openDoc Something Live Action TV
I'm looking for the name of a live action show but I don't know, only that aired in the Netherlands during the 90's. As the title of the question says I'm pretty sure it was called Doc "Something" after the main character and took place in an animal preserve. I remember that in one episode the main character was showing someone around and noticed that all the animals acted uncharacteristically to the visitor, which made Doc realize his guest was scared of animals and probably trying to confront his fears
openLate 90s/Early 2000s sci-fi show episode Live Action TV
I remember it was a sci-fi show that aired in the late 90s or early 2000s on the Sci-Fi Channel. It was the end of the episode, with the man and woman characters on the ship struggling to stand up during turbulence or some kind of attack on the ship. The woman is dressed in black evening wear and kicks off her high heels to get a better grip on the floor. Later on, it shows her kidnapped and strapped to some kind of torture device, but the male protagonist realizes she's a hologram created by the villains because she's wearing the shoes she discarded earlier. He shoots the hologram with some kind of laser or phaser or something. I've looked up every sci-fi show I can remember from that period but can't determine which series it was ... or which episode.
openStealing pants Live Action TV
Unknown show where a boy named Camilo is convinced by some girls to take off his pants, and then they take them away with his pants. I think it was a Spanish language show. Unknown country.
openI think it was some kind of police procedural? Live Action TV
There's a single scene from a show where the bad guy looks a bit similar to the police detective/protagonist and decides to impersonate them while at the crime scene to retrieve incriminating evidence before the police can find it
openStealing pants Live Action TV
Unknown show where a boy named Camilo is convinced by some girls to take off his pants, and then they take them away with his pants. I think it was a Spanish language show. Unknown country.

I saw this on premium cable in 2019 in the US, but it takes place somewhere in England. The main character is a Black divorcee who is a former cop maybe, and he frequents a karaoke pub in his neighborhood. His daughter lives with her mother and step father and his large, wealthy family. He's important somehow, maybe government work. They live in a fancy area with a gate. The daughter goes missing after leaving a voicemail that she's visiting her father, and is last seen on video at a train station or on a train. So the father is suspected, and he goes looking for her on his own. The mother and their family go on TV to plead for information about the girl's whereabouts. Meanwhile, there's another character from the pub, a blonde guy, who has a secret laptop at his place that his wife doesn't know about which he uses to watch sick, dark web stuff of abducted kids trapped in rooms with live video feeds. The rooms are titled "fresh fruit", "bruised fruit", etc. Really awful. The main character wears a track suit a lot, he gets beat up late at night in a parking garage by a street gang, maybe robbed. He has a kind of casual relationship with a blonde single mother from the pub who lives in a nearby apt. complex. It shows how drinking kind of messes up his life, but he goes back into detective mode when the daughter goes missing. I only saw two or three episodes so I don't know much more except I didn't hallucinate it and have had NO luck with A.I. or exhaustive searching over the last several years. It was on cable TV like Showtime, Cinemax, Starz, HBO, etc..., and yet I've gone through seemingly every list and can't place it. It wasn't a BBC free to air show or anything, definitely an adult mature audiences kind of show. It was fairly recent then though, so I'd place it between 2014 and 2019. The owner of the karaoke pub was a maybe mid to late 40's woman with big, frizzy hair. I thought it was Alex Kingston but it wasn't. I didn't recognize any of the actors but they were all good in it. The main guy is suspected at first but I think he tries to solve it on his own, I think he tries to visit his ex wife's house. It's not 'The Missing', 'The Capture', 'The Five', 'The Tunnel', 'The Rook', 'The Last Train', 'The Fall', or 'Gangs of London'. Those are what these supposedly "amazing" A.I. tools have come up with. I know a real person out there has seen this and can help me though. So it could be a co-production somehow but I saw it on a movie channel in the US. It didn't seem like more than like a 6 to 8 part miniseries but I can't be sure. I think they probably figure something out through the blonde guy who watches the dark web stuff but I don't know if he's directly involved. It's SO STRANGE that there seems to be no trace of this show. I watched at least two installments of it and things got busy and I never wrote it down or anything because I figured I'd just see it again somewhere. And now I can't even find evidence that such a show existed. I appreciate any assistance. Thank you in advance.