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openDisturbing Kids Show Where Main Character Takes Out His Eyes Live Action TV
I watched a lot of stuff on ABC/BBC as a kid back in the late 90's, but no one but me seems to know of this show. I remember watching a show done with puppets like The Muppets that had a few characters that were animals like dogs or cats that lived in a forest I think. The big defining detail about this show was the main character (who i am pretty sure was a white wolf or something) that had the ability to remove his eyes and send them off like a bird into the sky, and they would show him stuff from really far away. It was used to help his friends get out of danger and the like, and I think later in the series he was able to do the same with his hands. It never really bothered me as a kid, but when I got a bit older I really started to wonder how something like that was approved for a kid's series. It has been bugging me for years that I can't remember the name, especially since I would actually like to watch it again (believe it or not, but the show was actually quite calming and pleasant for the most part). Is there at least someone out there who knows what the hell I'm talking about? It would be really nice to know that at least one other person came across this strange show.
Edited by ChexpetopenLate 2000s/Early 2010s show live action show about "body snatcher" immortality Live Action TV
I remembered this series earlier today, I thought the series was called "Sheppards" or "Shepherds" and the tag-line was "what goes around comes around", but I can't find it anywhere, I think it aired on Space channel and had multiple seasons.
The series took place in our world with the supernatural element being that people could achieve a type of immortality by focusing on an object as they died, being placed in a new body and then the object being used to bring their consciousness back in the new body (I thought the people that were hired to make this happen were called shepherds and that's where the title came from).
I know she wasn't the main most character, but one of the major characters was a little girl who was sharing her body with the spirit of a man who had gone through the process multiple times with her parents becoming concerned by some of the resulting behaviour. In one of the final episodes she convinces a classmate to skip school with her, but the classmate gets scared off after a while and the girl ends up comatose with the two consciousnesses meeting on a beach in the girl's mind; the man thinks he's won control of the body and the girl's personality will die, but the girl tells him she's won because of her strong desire to stay with her parents and wakes up in the hospital as the only person in her body and seems to have a fairly normal life afterwards.
I know there was also a scene with a couple where the man was dying of an injury and his wife/girlfriend hurried to get an object that could be used to bring him back
I tried checking trope pages and thought the series might be "Dollhouse", but looking at it I'm pretty sure it wasn't
Edited by Poppun-chanopenBuck Rogers in the 25th Century Live Action TV
What I'm looking for is which episode of this show has a scene I remember: Buck and a friend crash their fighters in a desert planet. They survive unhurt, look around and the friend says there's no civilization around and if they can't call help fast they'll starve. Buck points at a small animal and says "no we won't". The friend is horrified that people used to eat animals in the 20th century but ends up eating the meat along with Buck out of necessity. This scene estaablishes that 25th century society is vegetarian. Which episode is this from?
openGerman/Russian TV Spy Drama? Live Action TV
I remember a scene where a woman has a man at gunpoint and they exchange a few words and she pulls the trigger multiple times but the gun wasn't loaded, he then ties her to a chair and leaves. Later on, a different guy shows up to rescue her and she throws a thumbs up sign
openLooking for a kids show that was a sci fi Live Action TV
The show was either live action or animated. It aired during either the late 90's or the early 2000's. The main character was a boy. I don't remember much about the show, but I know that the toys had removable arms, heads, and legs that could be swapped between different toys. The toys included, a human boy, a human girl, a robot, a green alien, an orange alien, and a lot more. I think the main character had the ability to turn his body parts into other people's body parts or something. I remember that some knockoff versions of the toys were released as happy meals. The robot only had one eye. I can't remember much else.
openTeens in a dystopian like world (sci-fi) Live Action TV
So I really can only remember one episode, and vaguely at that. It had a very animorphs feel to it, and it was set in some kind of dystopian land. These kids have some kind of power I think, and are wandering/running away from a villain in the desert, when they meet this hermit like man, and he teaches them how to keep a part of their mind if the villian takes it. I'm pretty sure it was a form of psychic lobotomy or something. I think there was narrating at the end of the episode. It aired in the US sometime in the late 90s early 2000s. Vague I know, but it's driven me crazy for years so any help would be great.
open90's Educational Math Show? Live Action TV
I remember watching a show in school involving a girl that was friends with a rabbit, and there was a witch involved. I'm pretty sure it had some sort of the mathematics focus. If anyone has any idea what the show was called, or what it might be called it would be much appreciated :)
Edited by jaken97openWas this an episode of Weinerville? Live Action TV
When I was between the ages of 6 and 14 (so 1989 to 1997) I used to go over to my neighbor's house and she had this funny skit thing on video. It was in the style of Weinerville with the human head with the puppet body, and the character was named George "Junior" Mc Gee. He was talking about baby food and a hand would come in and feed him pureed fruit, which he liked, then he'd get pureed vegetables, which he hated. I tried Googling the name but came up empty. I don't remember if it was part of Weinerville or maybe one of Mark Weiner's old shorts? Does this ring any bells for anyone?
openStop Radical Roll Live Action TV
Robot with a Hawaiian shirt and cassette tape for hair. I can't find a trace of this show existing at all
opentv show name? Live Action TV
what was the name of the show that had a talking blanket and accordion puppet and took place in a nursery type room? I seem to remember the name of the blanket being Boofie or something like that.
Edited by VengefulPeepopenModeling women / comic Live Action TV
I slept at a hotel once and found this late show where they were very sexy girls living together and modeling and traveling, and they had there own comic magazine?
openMan in desert with robots & a giant sphere or globe Live Action TV
a man in a desert city with robots and a giant white globe or sphere (there may have been an element of mind erasing; also, possibly a BBC series)
Edited by taylorjulie68openHelp ID music-themed TV show from 1990s PBS Live Action TV
I'm trying to remember a TV show that I saw a few times from my youth in the evening on PBS in Phoenix AZ. The host was a guy who was probably in his 30s or 40s, and it had the feel of a sort of hip Mr. Rogers. I don't remember having the impression that it was a locally produced program, but I guess it is possible.
I thought maybe I'd imagined it or something, but found somebody else on another site that posted a question describing the same ting. That description is better than mine can be, so I pasted below, along with replies:
The show aired in the mid 1990's on PBS (Arizona's Public Broadcast Channel 8) It was an improvisational/rhythm TV show, largely a one-man show of rhythm and musical improvisation with objects at hand. The intro I remember was a Subterranean Homesick Blues/Don't Look Back riff. The show's format was the main character would come into his Apartment address the audience in the style of Gary Shandling or Mr Rogers, and in the course of doing something mundane, sorting the mail or getting ready to make a meal, he'd find something that made a musical noise when he hit it, like the dish rack dings when he hits it with a ladle. He'd begin to add in other noises, reaching back to add a mixing bowl drum on, a colander to scrape across for a washboard noise. Then the phone would ring and he'd answer it and the scene/song would break. Other segments I remember were him wearing a large baby mask and drumming on a full drum kit, somebody delivering him a box of horns, and not-necessarly-the-blue-man-group but a group of blue painted men who arrive and do rhythm play with the main character. There was very little narrative episodic progress that I can recall.
Is it possible that this was a segment in a different show, like Sesame Street?
Almost certainly "Ear-Responsibility" by the legendary downtown NYC percussionist/composer David Van Tieghem.
This was a standalone multi-episode program at least 3 separate episodes I recall. It aired late at night and while not necessarily adult themed it was not a kids show.
Ear-Responsibility is remarkably close in format, and I'm checking to see if this Van Tieghem leads me to it, but this show was much more like a conventional sitcom in presentation.
The main character would address the audience, upon arrival. "Oh hey you guys pfff, bills bills bills am I right" then he'd get a package from "old uncle victor" that had a musical instrument in it, and instead of a long running song like this it was a series of shorter 1-2 minute improvised bits carried by interruptions breaking in, a doorbell, a phone call.
openKids Show about vehicle with eyes Live Action TV
I recall when I was 6 or 7 (about 2003 or 2004 probably, but I may be wrong) there was a live action show I watched with my father one night and one night only about a yellow car (might have been a dune buggy if I remember correctly) which was sentient and had eyes. This is literally all I remember and I hope someone knows, I've been trying to find it since that day.
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
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
openpuppet show/live action possible disney? Live Action TV
I'm trying to remember the name of a show that was late 90s early 2000s. It involved two muppet style puppets who traveled through a "warp" type worm hole and go to different places around the world. They have a human female that they talk to through her watch. Teenage girl who went by the name of "charlie (Charly)". The one episode i saw had them go to some kind of imagineering location to see some stuff. This has been bugging me for years because i have not been able to find any information.
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.
openIDK 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
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A few years ago I watched this show about two sisters (one pretty and one ugly) who had to come together and run their fathers fashion/clothing business (i think its clothing related) and they didnt like each other very much. Details are a bit fuzzy but ive been trying to find this show again ever since!