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I've Googled this without any success, so maybe I just made the whole thing up somehow, but here goes:
I'm 23. I have a childhood memory of seeing a promo for something on TV (in Canada) about a doctor/scientist who would do experiments on people by making them lie down and listen to white noise through headphones. He was able to brainwash them and/or erase their memories/minds. At the time, I understood the plot to be based on true events that happened in Montreal or something, but don't weigh that idea too heavily. (Maybe it was set in Montreal, though?)
I remember this as a TV movie, but it may have just been an episode of a series. Either way, it made me nervous around white noise for years.
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It's a little kids educational show I had on VHS as a child. Not sure if it was a tv show tape or a single thing. I remember the characters - 2 kids, boy and girl, and 2 other characters that were monsters or animals or something that seemed like the characters from Barney. The plot had them going around in a train, and they collected music note patches that they then wore on their clothes. Those patches would glow in the dark when they went through a tunnel. Singing was involved. Probably came out in mid to early 90s. Anyone have any idea what this could possibly be?
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Canadian show, 1990s, set in a TV news studio, main character was kind of a poor man's Tom Cruise. It was a drama, with elements of humor, but I can't remember now what made it so good. Saw it on US TV, late night I think.
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I think this was a PBS series, but I'm not sure. The main characters were a boy and girl who had a sort of "time scoop" they used to bring people out of the past and talk with them. One episode had them bring Moses forward, just before the Burning Bush. They knew better, they really did, but they just couldn't help expecting the pop culture versions of the various people. So they were more than slightly disconcerted to get, when they drew Moses forward, an eighty year old Judean shepherd... who stuttered.
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Hey does anyone remember a show that was around in 2009ish? I think it was one the fox station but im not positive. The show is about a crew that is on a space crafte that is exploring space for a new place to live because earth will soon be uninhabitable. The crew is also being filmed on the ship as a tv show shown back on earth. There is also a thing where they put on like sunglass type things where its virtual reality and they choose what they see and you can chat with other people if they also have theirs on aswell. The captain and the docter(?) lady have an affair together through the virtual reality things. The docter ladies husband or fiance or whatever is in charge of the tv show. the second in command is a bald guy in a wheelchair. There is something wrong with the ship on the outside so the captain has to go fix it but when he gets back he airlock room closes on him and he gets sucked out into space after mouthing i love you to the docter lady. Later her husband/fiance is shown going over the footage of the ship seeing that he mouthed i love you to her. When she goes back to her room there is a virtual reality thing there and when she asks the ship computer who put it there it says it doesnt know. when she puts it on shes in midwestern times and then the captain shows up on a horse asking for a nurse to take good care of his men. before he leaves she tries to talk to him and he says dont worry this is just the begginning or something to that effect then rides of with bad ass music. i think it might have been the pilot. can any one help?
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Show that used to be shown in India in the mid-90s. Featured as prominent characters several balls in space. They had different personalities and were launched off the spaceship from time to time. One of the balls used to yell "Geronimo" upon launch.
I've been trying to find this for many years now. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Anand
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A live action TV show. The main characters were a group of teenagers. People were being brainwashed by the bad guys, which caused their eyes to turn red. Also, the main characters had an old rusty Volkswagen Transporter nicknamed Rusty.
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It's a sitcom shown on YTV in the early 2000s. Your average sitcom family/plots, except that they also live with a Egyptian pharaoh/mummy (forgot which). If I remember correctly, people had British accents.
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This video on Child Prodigies that is an Absolute Crowing Moment of Funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cpp71tpehg
Anyone knows which show?
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A television commercial from the early to mid 90s which is not easy to describe. But I'll ask anyway.
From what I remember, the ad starts with scenes in an art gallery(?) shot a odd angles, at some point a woman says "It's so powerful" and an older man says "I don't see it." Then it cuts to a young man speaking to a group of people in whats either a therapy session or a poetry slam. The young man says "...Came across a fountain, with a sign that says 'don't drink the water'..." a person makes a comment to her friend while he is speaking. Then it cuts to a lively jazz band, and... that's all I remember.
What I want to know is What Were They Selling Again?? I want to look this commercial up, but it's very difficult to search without knowing what the ad was selling.
I'm positive I did not dream this, I remember seeing it on TV multiple times.
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I'm trying to find this great show that aired on G4 a few years back. All I can remember is that it was kinda like a Soap Opera/Comedy, and that it mixed live action with footage from different video games, mostly MMO's.
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Reposted from another Forum.....hoped folks nerdlier than I could assist.
From the NYC area back in the late 80s, VERY early 90s, possibly only 1990.
I guess it technically wasn't really a show, but more like bumpers introducing movies and such on WWOR channel 9 before it was a network affiliate. Although it could've been some other channel, either WPIX 11 or Fox 5, but I doubt it was on channel 5.
In any case, the guy was a mad scientist, and he would do stupid things before introducing the movie outright or coming back from commercial. He had a mute executioner/hangman named Chompsley or something.
I had a tape of the original Godzilla (the American version intersplicing Raymond Burr) and I remember it so vividly but I can't seem to find any info on it now.
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A science documentary show from the mid to late 90's. I think it aired on PBS in the morning sometime during the weekend, and we might have watched it once or twice in school. The only thing I can remember is the opening credits, which featured a red parrot flying through a series of white rooms with a wooden floor, like a museum, and on the walls were pictures/videos/sculptures of various nature/sciencey things like volcanoes erupting or crashing waves. At the end of the opening, I think the parrot flew into a room with a big globe, where it zoomed into the title. Also, for some reason I think it had something to do with National Geographic. Help?
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I'm looking for the name of a Discovery Channel special that aired sometime around 1996 or 1996. It was about Cambrian life, particularly those found in the Burgess Shale. They talked about opabinia a lot in particular, as well as anomalocaris, and some of the scientists in the program made a model anomalocaris with a working mouth that they used to test whether the animal could have made the W-shaped bite marks in some fossil trilobites. I also remember there was a part with an animation of the evolution of pikaia's notochord into a human vertebra. This special may or may not have had other parts that were about extinct mammals (either additional episodes or just later sections of the program), but I might be combining it with other programs I watched around that time, which is entirely possible—I was 7 or 8 and these kinds of shows were the only things I watched. It wasn't part of the Walking With Dinosaurs series, I know that. It came before WWD. This is driving me crazy that I can't remember the name of this thing, since I made my parents tape it and then I watched it at least once a week.
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This was a show that ran sometime after 2000. It starred Ioan Gruffudd as a lawyer set 20 minutes into the future. It was a legal speculative fiction show with one episode dealing with nanobots which caused one person to experience the sensations as another and they were utilized by a stalker to experience sex that the victim was having with her spouse/boyfriend.
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I want to say it was on tv in the late 90's. A father and his family come back to america after being in a jungle for a few years. During that time the US has become a presidential dictatorship of some sort. I remember a couple of scenes. One, the father is walking down a street and a soldier asks if he has voted for president yet. After saying no the soldier takes him to a polling place where it is clear his only choice is to put a strip of white paper in a box marked YES, as no is totally empty. In the background the president is thanking voters for their support. Another scene, they are about to get on a plane to escape but are stopped by a government agent. He says they can leave if the fathers boy gives a kidney to the son of a presidential supporter. When I try to think of the actor portraying the father images of red hair, goatee, and freckles come to mind.
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Ok so this show was on PBS or one of those public tv stations and it aired some time in the early 2000s. It was about a brother and his wheelchair bound sister that are looking for their missing father. Their father is inside a computer program (I think, not sure) so they go into the program and when they do they become a character in a myth. In one episode the sister was the oracle of Delphi, in another the brother is Orpheus when he goes to the underworld for his wife, and the last ep I remember the brother and sister were Isis and Osiris. Basically if anyone knows this show it would be so awesome and thanks in advanced.
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Okay this one is... difficult. I will honestly be surprised if anyone can get this. I'm honestly half convinced I imagined or even dreamed the whole thing.
I believe it was one of those quasi-educational, surreal kids shows that were popular on daytime TV in the 90's. It's... slightly along the lines of Ghost Writer, but weirder (at the very least, it was airing on British TV in roughly the same time period as Ghost Writer) My memories of it are less solid and more a series of vague flashbacks which may or may not be the same episode. These flashbacks are as follows.
-A backpack on a girl's back laughing and clearly enjoying itself as she runs away, upset about something utterly unrelated to the fact that there's a freaking happy talking backpack on her back.
-A machine that makes bread with sprinkles and icing on it. An unimpressed girl telling her dad "I want my mum!" before storming off.
-A group of... something's watching a film on a projector. They are discussing the film, which appears to feature children hopping about playing leapfrog. The creatures are being educated about this activity, with their "teacher" informing them that the human children are attempting to become frogs. However, this will never happen "as they were not tadpoles first". (Hey, makes perfect sense to me).
- A girl being pushed under the water during a fight with a friend at a swimming pool.
- From the same episode as the above -the aforementioned example has apparantly instilled in the girl a fear of water. In what appears to be an attempt to cure her of this, a talking elevator (don't ask I don't even know) takes her below the ocean, to show her a pool full of fish and other assorted sea creatures, viewed through it's open doors. The girl is frightened at first, but is encouraged to take a better look and actually plucks up the courage to stick her face right into the water.
- A large crystal dropped to the bottom of a pool (honestly, it looked like one of those tacky crystal doorknobs more than anything but I think it's meant to be a MacGuffin of somekind). The girl jumps in to retrieve it. Pretty sure that's the same episode as above, too.
(Don't say I didn't warn you...)
This vague collection of images has been driving me berserk for over a decade. Anyone got any ideas?
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This has been haunting my dreams for years, when I was a child in the mid nineties there was a show on Disney channel about to kids, a boy and a girl who lived next door to each other and talked with a Tin can telephone, that's all I can remember..

I remember an episode of a tv show (maybe late nineties?) in which a group of students were in detention, and somehow they realized that their detention room was isolated from the rest of the outside world. The classroom windows were frosted, and when they were able to open them, outside of the was just whiteness. Turns out they were actually being observed and studied by aliens.
Does anyone know what show this was?