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openScary/Scary themed kids show I watched back in 2007/2008 Live Action TV
In all fairness I don't remember much of this show so details are going to be slightly vague. The show included smaller horror themed shows inside the main show. The host himself was young, with if I recall, black hair, a striped black and white long sleeved shirt and red braces. He had a hand in a jar (I think i was a hand). One of the types of sub stories would always begin with a narrator who opened the book next to a candle and I think there was a fireplace. Another show was a parody of Eastenders called 'Beastenders'. I want to say the hand mentioned earlier tormented the host however I am not 100% sure this was the case.
I should add that this show aired in the UK during the summer months of either 2007 or 2008. Thanks for any help as I have not been able to find absolutely anything on this show. Shows i'm 90% sure are not the show I'm looking for: Goosebumps, Beetlejuice, Bone Chillers, Are You Afraid of the Dark Scaredy Camp, The Haunting Hour.
openMedieval Puppet Show Live Action TV
There's this old Medieval Puppet Show that was about some of the palace people as villains working for an animated dark entity and his sidekick can turn into a vulture.
openOld Horror Show Live Action TV
I remember a scene of a prospector type dude finding a weird object that was glowing then weird smoke coming off and melting him. Also a scene where two men are talking at a job site and people are inconspicuously dying in the background.
openIdk Live Action TV
I don’t know much about this show. What i can remember is there being a group of maybe young adults that live together on a space ship, in space. They had these flip phone sort of devices that they used.
There was this one episode, where a green slime thing had somehow managed to get inside the spaceship, and took over their leader i think he was, the leader was a middle aged man.
That’s about all i can remember. I think i should add that it was not an animation and i watched it on Australian TV around 2010ish.
openSeeking the best high? Live Action TV
A show about 2 men (I think brothers) who go all over the world to seek the best high (drugs etc.) They did do ayahuasca, theyve eaten blowfish, played japanese drinking games and got an prostate massage. Thats all I remember. I think the show was on MTV/Discovery/Nat. Geographic.
openChildren's show 80's or 90's / Collecting towers which gave powers Live Action TV
No-one can seem to remember this show apart from me. It was about a group of early teenagers (maybe) working against an organisation. The premise involved going around the world to find / collect small figures of towers that looked similar to the tower of Pisa. On the round bottom of each figure there was a colour / symbol which represented a particular power. I always remember a scene in the show either in the opening credits or the ending where the bad guys would arrange the tower they had collected on some sort of board where there was a slot for it. I remember one of the episodes was set in the Rome Colosseum. Any ideas?
openFemale author goes to a cabin retreat with a male android she doesn't want Live Action TV
This was an episode of a horror/sci-fi anthology I saw probably in the 90s. The gist of the story is its 20 Minutes into the Future, and a female author is going to a remote cabin to work on her book. Her friend urges her to take an android companion with her, and she doesn't want to. She finally agrees but keeps his personality and emotion turned all the way down so he won't be a distraction to her. Eventually, she starts experimenting with this settings, and ends up turning them up too high or something and turns the android into a Stalker with a Crush. He essentially starts acting like an abusive, obsessed, jealous boyfriend.
Series I've looked into already are the updated versions of the Outer Limits and the Twilight Zone, Tales from the Dark Side, and Night Visions, and it isn't any of those. This would have been a horror and/or sci-fi anthology series in the late 80s into the 90s.
openMemorable Footprint In Kids Show? Live Action TV
The show was from the late 90's or early 2000's, I only remember it very vaguely since I was so young. The main setting was in some kind of forest (redwoods I think? can't remember clearly enough) with a large, modernish cabin in it. There might've been other cabins, like a campground. I know the main character/s were teenaged and they did SOMETHING relating to dinosaurs, but the most memorable part of this show was the antagonists??? There was a pair of weird antagonists who, in at least more than one episode, try to get a cast of the protagonists' living dinosaur's footprint. They try to cast it, leave it overnight, and the protagonists sabotage the cast in one way or another. I feel like I'm crazy but I swear I remember watching this show???????
openI don’t remember which series/movie is it Live Action TV
I remember this episode of a series (or maybe it was a movie), where the whole building was on lockdown and the kidnappers held a bunch of people hostage, they used something to disturb the phone signal so no one could use their phone and I remember this guy leaning through the window to make his phone work. It might’ve been a crime series/movie, maybe CSI, mentalist, burn notice or something like that
openWoman shot by pool Live Action TV
I saw an episode of a crime drama. A young woman was in a bikini. She is shot. She looks at the blood on her hand and then falls into the pool. The bad guys leave her there for several scenes. The t.v. show was a repeat or a syndicated show. I saw it on a Saturday after noon before the year 2000. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
openWeird late 80's/early 90's kids show (possible vhs exclusive) Live Action TV
Okay so I apologize for the lack of detail because this goes back to my earliest memories.
It was just a woman in front of a green screen, i think she could draw things with a magic wand or something. I remember the intro had her drawing a sled and riding it down a hill.
Each episode had an educational theme like Space or Dinosaurs or general science. I remember my friend had a set with 3 VHS tapes of it. I randomly think about this show like once a year and can never find it because i recall so little
open"I have need of you" sci fi show Live Action TV
I'm pretty sure this was a sci fi tv show of the 90s but it could have been a movie for all I know. There is a guy character and he is bonded to a female character. He had some kind of neck tattoo and she would touch it and say, "I have need of you", and then he would I think turn into something? Maybe a bird? My strongest memories are of touching the tat and saying "I have need of you". I hope someone can remember
openNancy Drew TV show Live Action TV
It was a short-lived drama airing on The CW based on the Nancy Drew novels—it centered on an all grown up Nancy Drew who is now a police detective and has just gotten married to Ned Nickerson. On the morning after their first night together in bed, Nancy is unexpectedly arrested by the FBI who claims she's responsible for the murder of a U.S. senator. But as it turns out, Nancy finds herself in a time loop, and every day, she gets another chance to prove she's been Mistaken for Murderer.
In short, Nancy Drew meets Groundhog Day.
Edited by AmourMittsopenEnd Times Tv Show Live Action TV
It was a show about the end times. I don't remember much. I know that fish fell from the sky, and when the family started trying to get to wherever it was that was considered safe, there was a guy at a gas station that started wiping the family's car window with a severed head. And one of the daughters got separated from the family and was trying to get back to them. It was like, signs of the end times like according to the bible I think, and there were trumpets on the radio which was one of the signs that it was the end of the world. The show is from either 2016 or 2017.
openBrother and sister with different versions of them in comic book Live Action TV
I remember it being kinda dark, early 2000's a brother and sister in highschool, there's a comic book store and different versions of the main characters (brother and aister) within a comic book or something like that.
openTv Show Live Action TV
I cant remember the name of the show. In one of the episodes there is a network to help abused woman. They change hair color and had to stay in a hotel room for a specific amount of time. In that episode a man is hired to kill one woman hidong in her hotel room.
openVHS tape Live Action TV
It was a 80/90's vhs show, maybe even a bonus feature on the tape. It was about a girl that draws a monster out of chalk, but it comes to life. At first they're afraid of each other, but eventually play hide and seek in the woods and become friends. I believe the monster helped her scare those who bullied her towards the end? I think there was a robot who talked to the viewer before each episode or short.
openTV Show Involving A Car Crash Live Action TV
I remember watching a this TV show (I'm pretty sure I remember it being a TV show) in like the early 2000's. There was a singer who got drunk and crashed her car. I can't remember if she died or not. I remember her having dark hair. There was an episode where she was supposed to work on something, but she went and sat by the river playing her guitar instead. There was a blonde female friend and a guy, and they were mad at her before the crash because she never did what she was supposed to.
Edited by strugglingundergrad

I remember a few frames of a kids TV show from the early to mid 2000s, possibly on Channel 5 but I don't remember. It was all brightly lit and took place in and around an almost empty modernist house with glass walls and a freshly mown lawn, possibly with sprinklers on. It involved a girl or woman or both and a large monster that was clearly a man in a costume. It was very dreamlike and slow moving. I might have dreamt it, but I'm not certain. That's all I can remember. Please help.