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openUnknown Live Action TV
One episode from a T.V. series I think in the 70's. Kind of like the show Amazing Stories. I am still searching NBC's web page for it. A mans son wants to open up a burger place in the 1950's. He needs money and the dad mortgages the house but doesn't tell the son. The son has a deadline to sell his first burger or the people the dad gave the money to will take the house and the business. Of course right near the deadline the son sells his first burger to a customer and the customer takes a bite. The dad keeps the house and the son keeps the business.
openI don't know Live Action TV
I remember 2 things.
There's a killer demon baby with a mother that hides it away from people
There's a "emitter" that's a square vintage TV when turned on shows a picture of a black and white blonde girl. Looks like like a mug shot. But if anyone looks at it in any way shape or form it "thinks for itself" and kills whoever looked at it.
open2000 (or 2001) Children's Puppet TV Show similar to Sesame Street Live Action TV
Since my old post has over 50 replies, I decided to make them two different posts hoping that it will be easier.
A 2001 short-lived kid's TV show somewhat similar to Sesame Street (I think it was on either PBS, Nickelodeon) with hand puppets and mascot costumes and 2D animation. One episode includes kids (in pajamas, I think) dance-sitting holding a toy (possibly teddy bears) in a classroom, while two life-size puppets in front of a blue tarp or sheet. NOTE: the whole song is played the first time; the second time is the same thing, but the video quickly fades to black and the credits roll while the song is still playing. Does anyone know what the show is? And if so, what episode was I referring to?
Like the first show, this has also been bugging me for the majority of my life, Unlike the first show, however, I have not found any information about it.
Edited by bradleyangle@129openAmerican Sitcom between 1960s and 1990s Live Action TV
Since my old post has over 50 replies, I decided to make them two different posts hoping that it will be easier.
An American sitcom (sometime between the 1960s and 1990s) with one episode involving two friends (both female) at a party with a snobby woman (I assume she's wearing blue) and then they 'accidentally' push the snobby woman into the fountain (which was in a courtyard in the middle of a house, so it was a patio type area), it was at nighttime but really bright as if lit by moonlight as well as the lights of the house. Does anyone know what the show is? And if so, what episode was I referring to?
This has been bugging me for the majority of my life and I have yet to find more information about it. PLEASE HELP ME!
Edited by bradleyangle@129openKids show intro with duck Live Action TV
All i remember is watching a kids show in early 00s probably on the treehouse channel or pbs kids, and i remember the intro was kinda musical and at one part there was like a white duck with an orange beak playing mozart no13 on a blue piano (im pretty sure it was a real duck) but that is all i remember, i dont remember anything from the rest of the show just that one part from the intro, and ive tried to find it but it seems like no one knows what im talking about anywhere, please help
openB-52s-types sing educational songs Live Action TV
I can't remember if this show is more '80s or '90s. I saw it in the US and I think it may have been regular network tv - but I'm not sure. A music band of adults in outrageously loud and crazy costumes sang educational songs. It was kind of like a Wiggles-predecessor and for a slightly older audience, I think. I think they sang about all kinds of educational concepts. They reminded me of the B-52s, which makes me think the show was probably more 90s than 80s. The single episode that really stands out, or maybe the show's intro, involved them wearing cliche Egyptian costumes (think King Tut and Walk Like an Egyptian). I'm pretty sure it was the same band/cast week after week. It did not run many seasons, as far as I can remember. Thanks!
openUnknown emergency show from 90’s Live Action TV
TV and Movie Buffs I need help!!! Fire rescue tv show from the 90’s
There was a show in the 90’s (almost positive) that was an emergency rescue show (fire fighters EM Ts etc...) from my childhood that I am trying to remember. I don’t remember much but I remember 1 scene with pretty good detail. It is as follows:
A couple have just been involved in a pretty bad crash, [i believe] a freeway overpass or support beam has fallen on the vehicle and both individuals are badly injured. After a lengthy assessment they have determined that the unconscious female is going to die if she is not extricated quickly, which means removing the chunk of concrete on top from atop the vehicle. Now for the kicker.. her bf (or husband) is only still alive because the slab of whatever is holding him together. He has been cut nearly in half and after they remove slab of concrete he will die shortly after. With time short for his wife, he sacrificially instructs the Fire dept to remove the slab from the car and you can guess what happens from here.
I thought FOR SURE this was Third Watch but I have watched the series again in the last few years and was sadly disappointed. Then I thought ‘maybe it was rescue 911’ but that more based off of true 911 calls so I feel it is also wrong. Someone out there must know the answer!!! Google has failed me.
openVHS tv show/movie? FLYING BED Live Action TV
FLYING BED WITH BEAR AND KID
IT WAS A VHS
THEY WENT TO THE WILD WEST TO FIND COOKIES WITH A COWBOY DUDE
Edited by clxtroopenCocksure Asshole Live Action TV
Hey There — trying to find a show (Adult Swim-esque) that features an overly aggressive male cop. He uses the phrase "cocksure asshole" multiple times.
It's as if "Eagleheart" and "Axe Cop" had a live-action baby, with a Tim and Eric-esque main character (weird looking, older than expected, tall, lanky, and the aforementioned catch phrase). Comedic violence.
Edited by emdileoopenEarly 90s kid’s show Live Action TV
There was this TV show in the early 90s that was live-action, like it wasn’t a cartoon, but I don’t know if there were people in it. I honestly don’t remember any characters, just the setting. There was a tree in this courtyard surrounded by old looking buildings, and then inside one of the buildings the furniture was covered in white sheets and I think the characters of the show like lived in the walls or something, but again, I have no memory of what the characters were, just the scenery. Any ideas?
openGOOSEBUMPS-ESQUE SHOW - EPISODE WITH 2 BROTHERS, PARENTS GO OUT OF TOWN... Live Action TV
I'm looking for an episode of a show—I think "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" or "Goosebumps," but I have looked through episode synopses for those series to no avail. There is a pair of brothers whose parents are going out of town for the weekend. The parents hire a nanny/babysitter—an old lady. But once the parents have left, the older brother draws red chicken pox-like dots all over his arm and, when the old lady arrives, pretends to be his father and tells her they're sick, they have canceled their trip. She goes away so the brothers have the place to themselves. Then turns out there is a monster in the house. Please help!
openNetflix show, female killer, psychological rehab Live Action TV
I'm trying to remember the name of a tv show that I saw a trailer for on netflix but forgot to save! It was about a woman who had killed her whole family, or she was a servant that had killed everyone she worked for and was deemed insane, has no memory of the act and it follows a psychologist tasked with rehabilitating her... Did I imagine this?
openAN OLD "EGYPTIAN" SHOW I WAS SHOWN IN SCHOOL AS A KID Live Action TV
There was an Egyptian cat which taught a couple of kids about ancient Egypt. I think the cat was either black or mummified looking. I think it was on VHS so it must be quite old. I think the cat was summoned after the kids discovered an artefact or something.
open2000s kids show Live Action TV
Not remembering the name of this show is driving me nuts. I was a kid in the 2000s watching it, but for some reason I hardly remember anything! I keep having weird flashbacks remembering that there was like a wall of little doors, or cubbies, or drawers, or something, and the main character (real person, not animated) would go and look in them. I have no idea why that’s the only thing I remember! It might have been on treehouse channel or PBS kids or something...
openTV show with skull floating room to room in intro Live Action TV
Apologies if detail is sparse, but in the late 70’s as a small kid I remember going to my grandma’s. Some days she would have her TV on and a show would come on that I can best describe it started with a skull beginning to float off a shelf and through a room, perhaps to other rooms. Then after the show, the skull would float itself back to its original location. The show may have been black and white, and may have been much older than the era I was seeing it. I wish I could remember more. Does anyone have any idea what show this was? I don’t think it was a movie, I think it was a TV series?
openObscure Children's Show Live Action TV
I've had this burning in the back of my brain. I used to have a VHS as a little girl with either a frog or turtle mascot as the lead. It was educational, almost PBS like. If I remember correctly it was set in some sort of play room or tree house that had stairs theat looked like piano keys. I remember one episode where it talked about Indy Cars and threw out the name Andretti. I looked up the Andretti bros and they do not have any tv credits that pop out to me. Please help!! Also I'm sure it's not Gullah Gullah Island and almost sure it's not Out of the Box.
openMain villain has lobstar hand Live Action TV
I remember seeing a kids show with a male main charactor who wore a blue superhero suit. One of the villains wore a red suit and had a lobster claw for his hand. The hero would often stop the claw from doing bad things. This show has been bugging me for about 5 years now and i just cant remember its name.
openOld show they played in middle school about a library Live Action TV
I can't remember the name of this show I watched in middle school. I watched in early 2000s but it looked a little old so maybe it was made in the 90s? I remember a boy would go to this library and the librarian was an old guy and the kid I think would tell the librarian about something that happened that day and the librarian would give him a book. I remember the Anne Frank episode where the kid went to like a holocaust museum or something and the book took him to Anne Frank's time so he could experience it himself? I remember the kid who talk to the librarian, get a book, and be transported to the time the book is set in.
It was one of my favorite things about middle school and I was wanting to see if I could find it to watch again.
Edited by Steampunkeropen80's/90's toddler/kids show Live Action TV
Saw this on a couple of VHS's when I was very young. It had a bright orange intro card, which opens into a live-action someone in an elephant costume sitting at a desk, and in one episode it cut away to an animated Einstein-looking guy counting the numbers 1 to 10 and what they look like; this guy's probably a recurring character but I'm not sure. Thanks for any help!

When I was a kid, I watched a show about superheroes that included a Slo Mo Man—a man whose power was to run super slow. He was killed by running him over with a steamroller. I have searched everywhere, and I can't find any indication this show existed. I know it wasn't Naked Gun, and I know it wasn't Austin Powers. I've looked in Squashed Flat, and the show I'm thinking of isn't there.
What show might it have been? I'm thinking it was older, at least 1990s if not much older, because my memories remind me stylistically of the old Batman tv show with Adam West. It was in color, and Slow Mo Man was wearing brown, if my memory is correct. I remember nothing else about the show other than him and his death.