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openMid 90s mini series: High School Boy, Time Travel, Betrayal, Dinosaurs Live Action TV
This mini-series was about a high school boy who ends up traveling back in time with a professor/doctor and a girl from the past to stop some evil guy from destroying the universe. There is an episode about dinosaurs. Near the end, it turns out the professor/doctor is the bad guy the entire time. The girl ends up getting sucked into some black hole that gets her lost in time and space. In the end, the boy wins the battle and is back in school. He finds out a girl that looked like the girl he was adventuring with is using the locker next to his. This is all I can remember. If someone can figure out the name of this show, I will be forever grateful.
opentv show with smurfs Live Action TV
tv show with lot of smurfs in them ?
Edited by pacreaticninjaopenOld British Children's Renovation Show Live Action TV
What was the show called that gave children their dream rooms? I.e turned their kitchen into a fast food restaurant or turned a room into a really realistic jungle. I have been searching for weeks!
openUK KIDS SHOW THAT HAS A SAYING IN Live Action TV
I watched a kids show that was on around 2005-2008 and I think it may have been on C Beebies which is a UK kids tv channel. There is a saying in a show that goes 'WHERE IS IT WHERE IS IT WHERE COULD IT BE I THINK IT MIGHT BE OVER THERE LETS GO AND SEE' I can remember that a woman was saying it but that is all I can remember and it is getting on my nerves
openPossible 90's tv series about famous ghost tales Live Action TV
I'm not quite sure if it was a tv series, mini-series, or movies, but i have distinctive memories about watching it once a week in the late evening. Might not be a 90's show, could also be 80's or 00's. Not sure when i watched it, early 2000's most likely. I was a young child at the time (i watched it with my parents, even though it was WAY to terrifying for kids to watch, pretty sure it was an adult horror show), so the details are very hazy. It was a horror series of sorts, about 30-60 minutes dramatization (like mini movies) of famous ghost stories like the lady in white, etc. I remember a particular gruesome story about a young woman who worked at a theatre, she had an affair with an older man, and when she got pregnant (i think) the man beat her half to death. She staggered out on the stage in the middle of a show, all bloody and horrific, then died or disapeared. Later, people who worked at the theatre would see bloody footprints in the hallway and stuff. I swear i was traumatized for years. There was also another story about a man who went out on his boat to fish, but stumbled overboard and drowned. He then came back to haunt his wife, who was having an affair or something, so he killed the lover. I really wish i remember more details, but these particular scenes are burned into my mind.
Edited by Sihm93openGenius 'competition' show Live Action TV
I remember being shown this in high school (about 3-4) years ago. It could have been a series or just a one episode style documentary. It was about different accomplished, very intelligent people, trying to see which one of them was the smartest/most creative. There where maybe 10 people on the show but I remember a few of them: one was an artist that dropped out of high school, a music prodigy, a rocket scientist, etc. It wasn't a win or lose style competition show, rather just to see how each of them problem solved. I remember two of the puzzles was how to get the cork out from inside a bottle, and list everything you can make with socks in 5 minutes. If someone could tell me what the name of this was I'd really appreciate it.
openBritish 2000s science show Live Action TV
For years now i have been unable to remember the name of a kids science show that must have aired on a channel such as citv or cbbc and the one statement that stood out was that it claimed scientists didnt know what caused hiccups. As i recall there was probably a female presenter but mainly a baldish male presenter and a lot of lab coats with small amounts of animation, specifically from the hiccup segment i recall an animation of a body using a photo of the bald presenters face bouncing on a diaphragm like a trampoline. This is all exceedingly vague but i hope someone can help
openhelp me find the name of this show! Live Action TV
I am looking for the name of this show that my little brother used to watch in around 2007. It was like lazy town and involved some instruments being stolen which then had to be retrieved by the heroes who had to choose between four vehicles based on the job. The main set was a fountain and the mayor was a very flamboyant character. Please help, it's been killing me for days.
openHelp watched show when I was younger Live Action TV
So there was this show I watched when I was younger and I can't remember what channel it was on at all or the name of it. I just remember that it had somewhat of a bad guy that was in a wheelchair and there were twins. Also the city the were at was in some sort of fight or ruin. I remember one episode where the main character I think had blonde hair and him and the wheelchair guy were in some sort of dream state and the guy in the wheelchair was swinging and walking in the dream. I am dying to know what the name of the show is. I would love to watch it again. When I was younger we used to have hbo kids so maybe it's around those type of channels not sure.
openDramatizations of stories submitted by viewers Live Action TV
It used to run on the Israeli kids' channel. I thought it was called "Astounding Tales" or something like that, but i can't find anything by such a name. There was a hostess: a girl of about 12, dressed in a 50ies type men's suit, iirc. Her office had typewriters, maybe projectors, and the opening sequence also featured a typewriter. There was an operator, who was never seen. He may or may not have been heard. His name may or may not have been Max. The hostess would introduce each story, tell us which viewer submitted it, and then order the operator to roll the reel. I don't remember much about the enactments themselves, but they tended towards the horror-mystery-suspence genres, somewhere between Goosebumps and Tales of the Unexpected.
openTv show, possibly movie - comedy Live Action TV
My husband and I were watching Shameless season 7 when I was reminded of a tv show (or possibly movie, but probably not) that I saw....I have no clue how long ago. A man had surgery done on his penis. I can't remember what it was for, but a circumcision was what jogged my memory of this. I distinctly remember this man having issues with "keeping it soft" multiple times, resulting in multiple trips back to the doctor to fix the stitches. It was definitely a comedy. I remember it being set up as a funny situation whenever he ripped his stitches and went back to the doctor yet again.
openKids Pirate Ship Game Show Live Action TV
I lived in France from 1998 to 2000, and there was this game show on, where a pair of kids had to infiltrate a pirate ship, steal their treasure, and escape. One of the kids served in a kind of "overwatch" position, in a computer/command station, while the other had to overcome physical obstacles, navigate mazes, and avoid capture by pirate actors who would chase them around the ship. I think they had limited time for each task, and at the end, they were scored on the number of challenges they completed, and how many target items they picked up along the way. I also seem to remember there being a big deal about sneaking into the captain's quarters to steal the treasure map. Anybody know that show?
openTV show with teens in a jungle with a dinosaurs Live Action TV
I can't remember a tv show its about some teens in a jungle surviveing from some dinosaurs attack and one of them is good and later reviled its their friend
openLooking for an old TV show that aired on MTV Live Action TV
It has been years since I've seen this show but I've been trying to find it for a while now with zero luck, hopefully someone here knows!
The TV show was made up of several parts where the host would come onto a set and talk for a little while then it would go into skits and such. The host was violent and a heavy cocaine user from what I remember. He had a Jew fro with a (I think) red shirt on all the time. He swore like there was no fucking tomorrow and would come up with outrageous business ideas like a cigarette bubble for your head or a poop scooper designed to fling the poop at people. He would constantly get into fights for no reason too.
If any of this rings a bell then please help because I've been looking for a stupid amount of time! I think the name of the show started with an 'S'.
openTv show with humans that have superpowers Live Action TV
In this show some people had different powers. I remember a guy that could shoot from his fingers and a guy that was killing other people by making crack in their forehead with his telekinesis.
openShow about a group of people on a train Live Action TV
It didn't last very long; I think it was cancelled after one season, but it was about a group of people who would discuss their lives between train destinations. It was British or Canadian; can't remember which.
openShow about revenge (not the new Revenge show) Live Action TV
I remember it was on several years ago. There was a woman who had two sons and wanted revenge on this businessman who had two daughters. One of her sons was a doctor and didn't want to get involved in the revenge scheme, but the other went along with it. I think her plan was to have her sons seduce the businessman's daughters to get control of his company, but the son that agreed went after the wrong daughter.
openno title Live Action TV
they were a monster in a swimming pool and these teenagers found out and they went to check it out one gets in the swimming pool and gets eaten but they keep feeding it and stuff and it had like mist coming up from it but noone else noticed cause it was in a fenced in backyard

I used to love rhis show, it was a fanasy type show. It starts out with a girl going through this magic barrier to find a boy (who was originally from her land, not the one she found him in). She finds him and an old crazy man who turns out to be a powerful wizard. The all cross back through to the other side of the barrier to stop some evil king or something.