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openHELP Live Action TV
I can't remember this claymation tv show where two piece of clay would form into different shapes and fight each other it was a kids show and there was narration in the background I can't figure out what it was called i know its not Trapdoor, or Mio Mao. So can someone please help me figure it out!!!!
openKids show with circus animal puppets Live Action TV
Hi, I am trying to find a kids show from the late 90s or early 2000s about circus animal puppets. There were three of them I believe, but I only remember a zebra with orange and pink/purple stripes. I believe it was on Discovery Kids (The Discovery Channel’s kids block) and I believe was produced by Hi T entertainment, as I remember seeing ads for it on Thomas the Tank Engine DV Ds. Please help.
openKids absorbed into a computer Live Action TV
School kids that were absorbed into a game or something in a school computer. They were later found out to have been absorbed by a few of their classmates and those classmates went in to try to find them. One episode they were in an old time jail and after escaping at the end the jumped off a pier into water. They had to overcome a few obstacles to get around. I was shown this as a kid in class several years ago.
I also think the show was British.
Edited by ShiroNekoChiopenNo Title Live Action TV
I'm looking for an Animal Planet show where Mother Nature would narrate over stock footage of animals.
openShow from the 90’s Live Action TV
I’m trying to remember a show/movie from the 90’s. I keep remembering two scenes. One where a girl floats at night in a row boat, maybe in a storm? Another scene she inherits her moms old doll and lives in her room. It might also be a movie.
openGOOSEBUMPS-ESQUE SHOW - EPISODE WITH 2 BROTHERS, PARENTS GO OUT OF TOWN... Live Action TV
I'm looking for an episode of a show—I think "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" or "Goosebumps," but I have looked through episode synopses for those series to no avail. There is a pair of brothers whose parents are going out of town for the weekend. The parents hire a nanny/babysitter—an old lady. But once the parents have left, the older brother draws red chicken pox-like dots all over his arm and, when the old lady arrives, pretends to be his father and tells her they're sick, they have canceled their trip. She goes away so the brothers have the place to themselves. Then turns out there is a monster in the house. Please help!
openCooking show Live Action TV
it was either on cbbc/cbeebies or city but it was a cooking show that was maybe in space? there was a large creature that lived in a cave that either helped cook or had to be fed
openHowie Mandel from Little Monsters looking guy Live Action TV
I've been searching the internet for this show for years to no avail. I don't remember if it was a pilot to a now failed TV show or a made for TV movie. It could have been one of those social awareness things that used to come on TV too. I really don't remember much, but it came on channel 36 between 2000-2004 along with animated shows like Static Shock, Jackie Chan Adventures, and The Batman.
Had a guy in blue makeup with funky red hair, fixed up in a weird braid. I think he had some piercings too. Kinda looked like Howie Mandel in Little Monsters. He was supposed to be an alien, but none of his friends new or thought anything about his strange appearance until they were told he was an alien.
I don't remember the story, but I know he died at the end and went up to the stars or something symbolic like that.
Edit: It might have been an episode of another TV series at the time. I've been going through every show ever to be aired by WB, and am stumped.
Edited by StoolopenUnknown show about teenagers with some sort of powers Live Action TV
Ok im honestly unsure if this is a dream or a real show
The main thing i remember is that a villain in it can shapeshift into a large black snake and there's a scene where one of the protagonists wanders into his office and hes shed his skin in there.
I feel that this scene happened in an office
I think there was a blonde girl on the villains side who the protagonist has a thing for too
I know its not much to go on but if this sounds familiar id appreciate any help
Edited by JiendoopenLate 70s/Early 80s UK Christmas Special About Rejected Toys Live Action TV
I remember a Christmas special about a bunch of rejected toys, called "rejects" scheduled to be incinerated. After the staff left, they came to life as live action adult actors who then interacted with other non rejected toys - a bunch of toy soldiers who believed it was there duty to get "smithereened" by cannon fire and a bunch of dolls who arrogantly sang about being perfect and looked down on the reject toys. When the staff returned and they returned to being toys all hope seemed lost until a bunch of yelling children invaded the factory (toy store?) and grabbed the rejected toys and saved them from the incinerator. I recall some lines from it - "What's wrong with a reject?" from the lead reject toy and the line "We are perfect. Perfect. Absolutely perfect." sung by the arrogant male leader of the dolls. Any ideas? Would have been a BBC or ITV broadcast.
Edited by Exxolonopen1990s live action hero show Live Action TV
There was a tv show that I barely remember from possibly the 90s. The only episode I remember is a guy in red armor has to battle a clone of himself. When he ends up winning, he gets an upgrade with better armor and/or weapon. I believe he was part of some hero team but could be mistaken.
openYakuza tattoo Live Action TV
Does anyone remember a show that used to air on spike about a guy going around the world getting tattooed. I remover one episode he went to Japan and got an inner thigh tattoo by a yakuza artist but for the life of me I can’t remmber the show
openHelp Live Action TV
I can remember an episode of a tv show where the characters are in a rocket ship and it launches and in the end they have to press one of two buttons to ge home. One button blows the rocket up and the other sends it home. There is also someone on the ground who launched the rocket and says which button to press but they’re lying. Anyone know where this is from?
openMid-90s Era Tween Sitcom Live Action TV
I'm trying to remember a particular show that had one episode that is sticking out for me. There were three main characters, a somewhat obnoxious boy, a loyal male friend, and a tomboy female friend. The generic plot was that the main boy was trying to get a new girl to go the dance with him. Much effort is put into it. The girl agrees to go with her. The tomboy female friend shows up at the dance in a beautiful dress (She Cleans Up Nicely trope) and the main boy ditches the new girl for the friend. He is a jerk pretty much the whole time to everyone. I remember a lot of snide comments directed towards the tomboy character along the lines of "You're barely a girl"
It's not Step by Step.
openRelatively new TV series can't remember the name Live Action TV
The show I'm thinking of is a drama series that I think was on Netflix or Hulu. The only part I can remember is a part of the show that explains that the married cop in the show kidnapped a girl walking home at night from a party and locked her in his basement. The town thinks the girl is missing and during the flashback of that moment it shows I believe an ambulance or something with a guy and a girl in it and they ask the girl if she's okay and she says she's fine I think and they drive off prior to her being kidnapped. I also know towards the end of the series she had a child and escapes.
opentv show Live Action TV
the tv show was about a white guy (the actors real name was ben) who went to india to start a company there and theres this rival company and he falls in love with a girl and its a comedy i think it got canceled at season 2
openawkward virgin show? Live Action TV
what's that british tv show with the black girl who's a virgin with a super religious mom and sister? also, her boyfriend hangs out in the garbage bin and writes poetry

It's probably around 10 - 20 years old, but I remember it was about a man and his dog (It may not be a dog, my friends seems to remember it as a giraffe), that were made of rubbish or recycled materials, and they would go on adventures together. I think I saw it on milkshake, but I may be mistaken. They appear to summon things into creation, such as a hot air balloon that gets made in stages, as if the animator animated making it, so it would be a box, then it gets covered in newspaper, then something is added on top of that, and then string, and a balloon etc. And that's all I can remember apart from thinking that it was very creative. Thanks - Harry Robins.