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openStraitjacket scene Live Action TV
Hi I am hunting for a episode which i saw back in the 90s. it has a scene of a hospital orderly / male nurse talking to a patient in straitjacket saying "it's Time for breakfast" I suspect it is from the episode from "Nurses" but not luck.... please help! thanks!
openIt was short Live Action TV
it was thirteen episodes long. The main character is a little girl with powers and a man who protects her and he is a criminal.I'm really botherd that I can't remember. there is also a female police officer hunting them because they're on the run and another man is hunting them who hurt the girls mother. Later it is also revieled that the man is the girl's father. Please help
openWho is this guy? Live Action TV
Who is this guy! I am on the hunt to find out who this guy is and the show he featured in... He has featured in some TV show. He commented "I've watched it"(assume that he means he watched the show he's on so may be a surprise reveal). Stated "My God" and "Thank you Jesus". I was given a very short clip of this and told to find out who he was. I have looked everywhere. Hint TV show is American. Its either a show like Undercover Boss or a Christian show but can;t find it anywhere. Who ever can link me to the video online or the name of the guy. Here is a still from the show: It is the African Amercian gentleman not the other guy. https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjI8e-A6JzWAhXKj5QKHc8jDVQQjhwIBQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dfqf7pYtBip0&psig=AFQjCNFX281RGxOAnkjMSmjnwReqggSf7g&ust=1505208288054952
openShow with all-kids cast Live Action TV
I used to watch a show that I can't find anywhere, and it's driving me crazy. The entire cast was kids/teens, they played both the kid and adult roles. parents and teachers were played by kids, and kids were also played by kids. I vaguely recall scenes in a family home, and then at a restaurant or diner (also fully staffed by kids). I don't think this was Kids incorporated, because there were actual adults on that show. And the show I'm thinking of wasn't musical, it was dramatic, kind of like a soap opera with an all-kids cast (if I'm remembering correctly). This would have aired sometime in the mid to late 80s. Maybe 1986-88ish?
openfamily on the run from england hiding in australia channel 2 abc Live Action TV
hello looking for a tv show about a brithish family under police protection was hiding in australia the show had 2 girls who weres sistersi remember there being a scene about a bomb that turns out it was a cd walkman i think it was set in sydney and i remember it was a woamn woho was the villain chasing after them any ideas on what the show was called would be great
openEscaping from a spooky boarding school Live Action TV
I didn't see many episodes but it was around 2010-2012 I think. The plot from what i remember was a teen guy who got sent to this mysterious boarding school in a forest that no one escapes from or whatever. The guy may also have lost most of his memories. I remember that there were underground tunnels with futuristic "goblins" that looked just like humans wearing high tech armour with fancy helmets that the main character used at some stage. The main character was trying to escape or find out why he was there but the admin of the school was trying to stop him. He had to go into the tunnels to work it out but was scared of the "goblins" because of rumors i think. He had some friends that were normal and that kinda tried to help but I'm not really sure. That's all I really remember unfortunately. This was on Australia TV and I thought ABC(1,2 or 3) but I don't know. Thanks for any help.
openI NEED to find this kid/toddler tv show Live Action TV
Hello everyone. About two months ago I was talking with my sister about kid shows we used to watch when we were kids. I was able to remember most of them kinda clearly, but suddenly I started remembering about this one show I didn't really watch very often. I couldn't remember its name so I googled just a few things about it but I didn't manage to find it. At this day, more than two months later, I tried again but I got the same results. I'm starting to get obsessed with it and I don't know know what could happen in case I didn't find this goddamn show lol. All I remember is that it was a kid/toddler show with tiny monsters/characters living inside a big sofa which was probably blue. In each episode (or maybe just in the episode I remember) they got out of the sofa with a sort of a spaceship I guess through a tunnel. In that episode, they also fought against a big green virus/blob and defeated him. P.S. I'm not talking about Tiny Planets or The Big Comfy Couch. If anyone was able to find this, I'd be so thankful to him lol :)
openkid who finds an old game and starts getting video game upgrades in real life. Live Action TV
I remember the first episode. Boy is infront of the garage with his friend. Mom has them go in the garage. Think to go through boxes of stuff to clean it out. They find an old super nintendo game and the friend puts it in the system and nothing happens. Then the boy takes the cartridge and is dragged to the console and it slaps in. then the top of it opens and a hologram of his dad's head (who dissapeared years ago) Appears and tries to give him a message about how happy he is to find him and needs his help. The signal gets mixed up and is hard to hear or understand, But his dad gives him a power up. The boy and friend are in shock and friend gets him to touch it and it gives him a power up. I think a super suit. The premise of the show is about these power ups and the video game like items it gives him. I had an episode recorded, But the dvr box got upgraded and i can't remember the name of it. If someone knows the name please tell me so i can search it up. I know in another episode. An upgrade pops up and it turns his bike into a futuristic flying car.
openPost Apocolyptic Live Action TV
Saw a trailer for a show on youtube. Don't know if it's a new show or another season.
Show seems to center around a group of girls after something knocks the power out to the US/World (I think it was a solar flare). In the trailer a dad tells a teenage daughter that things are going to get ugly/bad. There's also a scene where a girl and guy a pointing guns at on another and the girl tells him he seems normal. I also recall people sitting with their laptops but they stop working.
Been searching for a few hours and everything turns up Revolution, but that is NOT the show.
Thanks!
openWe used to rent it from blockbuster Live Action TV
It was a show about a group of adventurers and every episode/ film had them go through a portal to another plant or dimension in which shenanigans would insue. The only episode I remember is one where the team was captured by a giant child and put in one of those plastic things that kids put lizards and stuff in. The show always started with the teams ship going through a doctor who-esc wormhole/ portal
open1970's or 60's Children's Christian TV Show Live Action TV
I don't think this is going to be an easy one! The TV show played early in the morning in New England in the early 70's or 60's. The show had some child angel puppets, a boy and a girl I think, and adult live actors. The theme song went something like "It's a new day". Or "It's a brand new day". I was very very young when I saw it and can't seem to Google it. Too much Christian "It's a brand new day" clutter!
Edited by reedberopenTV Commercial Live Action TV
There's some kind of 00s TV commercial that was advertising some kind of toy/product for kids (kinda like moon sand, floam, blendy pens, etc), and all I remember is the male voice saying "Water!" and kids saying "Whoa!" Then again, "Water!!" "WHOA!!" I remember laughing at that as a kid, ("they're so excited of water!") but I cannot remember what it was.
Edited by cryptinaopenTwo life-action kid shows from the Noughties Live Action TV
Hi! I remember watching two shows when I was younger, between 2005 and 2010. Note that I live in Spain, but I'm positive these shows came from an English speaking country.
1. A Disney Channel show about a boy and a girl. One of them lives in a warm place (like California) while the other lives in a snowy place (like Alaska). The boy's parents force him to sleep in the basement, and there he finds a weird... slimy portal, hidden behind a closet. It turns out he can use said portal to travel to the girls house, and vice-versa. I'm pretty sure it was a show, but it could have been a movie.
2. A Nickelodeon show about a boy who use to be a bully, so an old man (not sure if he was a wizard or if he had weird sciencey/cosmic powers) transforms him into a dog as a punishment. He is then taken in by the boy he used to buly. The show is about the bully trying to redeem himself by doing a series of good deeds (100?) so the old man will turn him back into a human.
It would be awesome if you could help me. Thanks!
opentrying to remember a fantasy style tv show i saw as a kid Live Action TV
i saw this show (kids/teens target audience) when i was younger sometime in the early to mid 2000's i think: what i remember was a group of teens got a power each and i seem to remember that they had colours associated with the powers. i think one of them had the black associated power that let them see far away and like down corridors and round corners if you know what i mean by that. the only other thing i remember i recall is it having a somewhat oriental theme to it. (edit) it kinda reminds me of power rangers but i don't think it was and i think there was two sisters one older and one younger who were like the main characters of the group with the older one being like the stereotypical group leader .
if anyone has any idea what show i'm talking about it would be a great help to know what it was called
Edited by jampixelopenFantasy TV series Live Action TV
Hi guys, I was searching for a tv series (some sci-fi comedy, like "The Secret World of Alex Mack"), probably created in late '90. It is set in some future where machine/eldritch abominations roam the planet and humans are treatened by them and a race of replicants: they look human but they can morph their forearms into energy blasters (a tangle of tubes that ends with three barrels). In the episode that I saw the main character was indeed the protagonist's doppelganger (a blonde girl): she was sure to be human but, even after discovering the truth, she sacrificed herself to save her friends from another replicant (a dark skinned woman with silver hair named Lily)
openMystery/ fantasy tv show??? Live Action TV
Don't remember much sadly but I remember it was about a woman who had a dark history and she ended up running in the woods at some point and she finds this young girl.. who turns out to be either herself or her sister or something? And they have this long conversation and the woman either figures out the girl isn't real or isn't who she says she is or something like that. I really only remember that one scene and they were hiding behind a mossy rock the entire time they talked..
openAlice in wonderland/ fantasy themed tv show early 2000's Live Action TV
Sometime in the early to mid 2000's there was a show that aired on tv. It was a tv series and I'm pretty sure it had atleast 1 season. The main character was a girl with blonde hair. I remember her going to a White Castle. And I remember it being something like Alice in wonderland/ wizard of oz type of show. Fantasy with princesses and such I think. think she had to fight an evil queen or run for her life or something. Can't remember was too young to care but it's driving me crazy now please help!!
openSome kind of little kids show? Live Action TV
I honestly don't remember that much from it...I feel like I watched it when I was really little. I'm from the US and was born in the late 90s so I mostly grew up in the early 2000s but it could have been fron the 90s. It was some lady's house(i remember a red hat? and brown/dark hair? she might have been some kind of painter or possibly a teacher?) and she sang songs about different things but what stands out the most is this one episode where they go to some kind of farm? or just go outside into a field and there's some weirdly 2d green screen effect like fruit dancing and there was some kind of song....the fruit werent puppets it was some kind of weird animation. also, i don't know why but I vaguely remember the house being white on the outside? and really neat/creative on the inside. it wasn't the big comfy couch but it had that kind of kids show vibe to it........I'm not sure if it even exists. Thanks in advance! It's been bugging me off an on for years and yet I never seem to find anything about it. I might have watched it on VHS if that helps.
openMid 90s weird facts show. Live Action TV
I remember I used to watch this show all the time. I don't know how much truth there was behind the stories, I think it may have been a fact or fiction type show. They had creepy facts about the different places in the world. The one scene I remember most is the host talking about how a long time ago kings used to behead people and the head could see for seconds after it was cut off and that a woman was said to have run away from her head, a certain amount of distance, breaking some kind of record in the town. I swear it was on Nickelodeon but haven't found it on any of nicks listings. It had a lot of other interesting weird history, but that part scared the shit out of me.
Edited by RhetoricalDog

This was a religious thing for kids that I watched at church, sometime between the late 90s and early 2000s. It involved some kids being visited by an angel, who looked like basically a regular kid as well. The kids questioned why the angel didn't have wings, to which the angel sarcastically commented "Hooray for Hollywood." The angel, I guess, took the kids on some kind of adventure or discussed things with them, then left- and one of the kids still thought angels should have wings. I think it was a one-off video, not part of a series.