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I think it was a Twilight Zone episode I watched in the late nineties, bum I'm not sure: This guy would drip a magazine or a drawing in some kind of acid or something and the person in it would become real. Any ideas?
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I've been wondering about this for over ten years and am hoping someone here can help. This was an adult educational program, presumably for G.E.D. preparation, that aired on PBS in the late 1980s. It featured a male writer who lived in one apartment and a recent Eastern European immigrant (who was a woman) who lived in the apartment next door. The woman worked as the secretary to a black woman who managed a department store and relied on her next-door neighbor to help her learn proper English grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure, so she could do well at her job. The secretary was friends with her superior and the male janitor at the department store, and there was quite a bit of chemistry between her (the Eastern European woman, whom I remember as having long, flowing, wavy red hair) and her male next-door neighbor (whom I remember as having short, dark brown hair). I remember this as being the first time I ever 'shipped something. What I can't remember is the name of this program! I want to say it was produced by a midwestern U.S. PBS station because it felt like it was set somewhere in Iowa or Missouri. Anyone else remember this program and can help me out on I Ding it?
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This is going to be pretty vague, so my apologizes in advance.
Ok, I'm pretty sure this show aired on Nick or disney and was a live-action drama (well, a kid drama I suppose). I don't remember much at all about this show except for one scene . The scene I remember is when the two main characters (both girls) first met- One of the girl's had stepped in a pile of gum and was trying to get it off her shoe when the other girl came up and either helped her or lent the girl her shoes. One was a blonde and the other had dark hair I believe.
I think the show was about how different the girls were as one was preppy and other was more of a tomboy. I think. haaa.
Yeah, it's insanely vague, but I'd love to remember what the hell this show is.
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Not sure if this can be used for this, but in Mad Men episode 5G Draper wins an award called the "nookie / nukie / new key / nuki" Is this a fake award made for the TV show, or something real? If real, does it have a webpage?
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I'm trying to remember the name of a TV show that was on years ago. Before its premiere, there were advertisements that said you'd get to see what actually happened to the victim when the episode was over. The first episode had something to do with someone killing this woman (was it his girlfriend/wife? I forget...), and her body was found in some sort of pool. The suspect was found not guilty, and at the end of the episode, you find out that she accidentally slipped and hit her head, became dazed (and was bleeding), and slipped again and died. At the end of another episode, you find out that some sort of faulty roller coaster had someone killed, because she either hit her head against something, or something came flying at her and killed her.
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A small group of people whose backgrounds vary wildly, from a military man to a single mom, get knocked out and kidnapped, and put into a fairly nice hotel, with the doors locked from the outside. They had to figure out how to get out on their own (I believe a key was hidden in a Bible in the nightstand). Once they all get out, they start exploring what's outside the hotel, and find that it's very small scale, seemingly-abandoned town. They also discover that trying to leave the town results in a device implanted in their thigh to knock them out. Later, they go to a Chinese restaurant, where the workers (who speak little English) serve them. At the end, they get some fortune cookies on a spinning platter, and even after spinning it, the fortunes all apply to the people who get them. It was really creepy, and weird, but I know I didn't just dream it or something, like my mom and sister think I did. (I'M NOT CRAZY!)
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I'm actually thinking of two different shows:
The first was in the early to mid 90s. It may have been a made for TV movie, but at the time I had been under the impression it was a pilot. It featured a group of space cadets who had just graduated from their military academy and are sent out on a training cruise. Somehow, they end up stumbling upon a secret attacking force from another government (also human or at least humanoid) that had been in a cold war like conflict with the protagonists government for some time. They are attacked by the enemy fleet and heavily damaged before they can escape. All the actual officers are killed in the process, and the cadets have to make do on their own. They end up using a bunch of tricks to slowly winnow down the aggressors. I vaguely remember projecting false images of ships in the clouds of a gas giant and destroying a ship by blowing up a few asteroids near it (it may have been material from the gas giants rings). At some point, one of the main characters ends up being court-marshaled by the rest and is found guilty. The decision is made by placing black or white balls into a tall container, which is dumped out on the table at the end. He ends up hanging himself. At least once in the show, a body is disposed of by being disintegrated, and then I believe flushed out into space. The show ends when somehow or another, the good fleet ends up driving off the attackers, I believe just as the protagonists are about to do a kamikaze attack. Also, I don't know if this would be helpful, but at least in Minneapolis, the show wasn't aired on time because the preceding sports event (basket ball I think), ran over time.
I remember much less about the second show. I think it was mid or late 90s and followed a pair of spies, I believe male and female. I know there were at least 2 episodes, but I believe the show was cancelled fairly quickly. There was a plot about a neutron bomb about the size of a suitcase; if I'm not mistaken, it actually looked like a briefcase, but could extend wings and fly around by remote. There was also two spider like devices. The first is used for hacking into computers, the second, made with information stolen by the first, is actually able to take information directly from the brain. I also remember a scene, I believe from either then end of the first episode or beginning of the second that involved at least one of the protagonists hanging from a rope either attached to or very near the head of the statue of liberty.
Any help on either case would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Made in early 90s I think. Three highschoolers I think, fight monsters in cyberspace. They have a combining mecha in cyberspace. The big bad is an evil computer programme that could change a drawing into monsters in cyberspace.
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A series sometime in the 80s. A man have a pocket watch that have two lights. When the green light glow the man can press it and he jumps into another time. This series predates Quantum leap.
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Looking for a show I believe was on in the late '90s, pretty sure the title was the main character's name and started with M. It was a sitcom where some kids had a babysitter who was actually an alien. There were some hijinks with him being Literal-Minded. He also had a stopwatch or something similar that could pause time, and while time was paused he could talk to the people who were frozen and have them unconsciously change their mind. The two scenes I remember about the stopwatch is one of the kids stealing it and trying to convince his crush to go out with him, and the alien using it to make the asshole who worked at the dad's office confess that he stole toilet paper from the office bathroom.
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OK. So I remember watching this show back when I was a kid. It was like the live action karate shows of power rangers and vr troopers. The show always started out with this guy sitting in a dark room on a computer with a green light on his face with this evil computer virus telling the guy to create other viruses to destroy either the universe or something. so of course there is a team of teenagers that gets transported into the computer to destroy the virues all the time..BUT I CAN NOT REMEMBER THE NAME! an you help me out...
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Looking for a short-lived series about a high-tech detective agency that aired around 2005, probably on CBS or ABC. I remember the first episode involved the detectives scaring someone into shredding all his documents, then stealing them from his trash, scanning all the paper strips and reconstructing the documents on a computer. The only other thing I remember, of all things, is that one of the characters was gay, but any references to his being gay were bowdlerized in the closed captions for some reason.
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One more: This one is from my youth, and it's kind of damning, since I remember so much, but so little.
I think it had something to do with Mother Goose and nursery rhymes and fairy tales as a whole. It was live action, or maybe part live action, but I remember one segment where the guy is out in a night gown and a night cap, holding a candle (I think). He is outside in a town, I think the town is a major part of the show, and mostly small, made of props, I think mostly a tan cast.
He is talking to someone or telling us a nursery rhyme, which is:
Some like it hot Some like it cold Some like it in the pot nine days old
This only came up because of a discussion on a forum I go to, which brought up why that rhyme says what it says (family's would keep porridge or stews for days, even generations, sometimes making it a point of pride, and just keep it on the stove and keep adding to it, as a way of preserving food before fridges were invented).
In my youth, I remember it was on a VHS, but I don't remember the title.
Also, I live in the states, and I'm guessing I would've been anywhere from 3-8, r from 1990-1995 (I was an 87 baby.)
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I saw this live-action show in the early 90s; it was an "edutainment" show for kids. No idea if it was a series or a one-off. This particular episode was about space.
The characters were a bunch of kids in a clubhouse or something, accompanied by a talking computer/robot character called "W.A.L.T.E.R.". At one point in the show, Walter went crazy — he kept repeating "Walter needs more data!" and singing the phrase "dancing weightless in the sky" to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". He also teleported one of the kids onto NASA's Vomit Comet.
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Solved. The show is Scaredy Camp.
Okay, I remember this show that aired on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network about forever and a day ago. It was a live action mystery series that had a group of teens (I think) having to split up into teams and explore a place an look for clues that would allow them to solve the mystery behind a murder or something.
One particular episode took place at a summer camp of sorts. The murder in question was something along the lines of this: This guy has a friend who can't swim. For one reason or another, the friend pretends to be the guy (who's a good swimmer) and some bullies steal something important to the guy and throw it in the lake or down a well (I can't remember). After a bit of hesitation, the friend went after it and ended up drowning (or the bullies pushed him in, don't remember).
My sister remembers this as well so I don't think I making it up.
Does anyone by chance know the name of the show in question? I remember it being rather good and somewhat suspenseful regarding the mystery. I used The Other Wiki in an attempt to find it but neither Anubis House nor The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo sounded like it.
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I was in some hotel once when I was younger and I remember seeing late on TV a really weird looking show. It had a bunch of kids on some elevator and you could tell it was an elevator because they kept having shots of the outside of the building they were in and it showed them in an elevator. They were talking to a giant blue holographic head and it was warning them about how they were going to face a challenge. The next thing I remember was the kids on a giant chess board and there was a black knight and his mooks on the board as well. The kids could only move spaces when fog shot out of the board because them the knight couldn't see them. The black knight caught some of the kids but eventually was outsmarted and the kids got away. The memory's really foggy so this may be a dream or two shows put together or something else. Anyone know what the show was?
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This goes back to late 80s, possibly early 90s. An action/comedy series, I'm pretty sure it was on Fox, about a teenage boy who believes his father is a postman, but when his father's mail truck explodes in front of him he later finds out that not only was his father actually a spy, he is also most likely still alive. The kid joins up with his father's spy team in order to track him down. I've tried numerous internet searches, but so far to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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It was an American tv show which aired here in the U.K in the mid to late 90's mainly about this guy a high school-er (I think) who worked for the schools paper and parts of it was animated it was sort of like his imagination come alive and he had a group of friends one of whom had curly brown hair and green eyes he had black hair. It's not saved by the bell, USA High etc. I know this vague but if anyone could point me in the right direction...
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Kids TV show from mid 90s, on UK Cable TV. It's possible it was Australian though. Starring a bunch of animal puppets including a female white fluffy cat. Also starred some or one (real) human(s) who lived with the puppet animals in a suburban house and could talk to them or possibly just talked at them, the one human character I remember was a bit of a douche, like a bit vain and stupid, a man with dark hair, possibly in a centre parting. I remember one scene where the guy was painting and he flipped the paintbrush in his hand but accidentally caught it by the bristle end (getting paint on his hand) which was a typical foolish act for this character. Lame I know but for some reason this memory has not left me.

A live-action kids show that I think had the song "Skinnimarinkadinkadink skinnimarinkadoo" some how associated with it. I remember a gray bearded older man and two women who had this big kitchen. Also I get flashes of a giant pale blue cat with an attitude visiting them often. And that's about all I remember. Wait. I think there might have been an elephant too. Sorry if this isn't very helpful.