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openA TV show about a gamer who becomes a secret agent Live Action TV
I think I watched this TV show around (2007-2010) I’m sure this aired on YTV and maybe possibly Nickelodeon. I remember it was about a teenager who was a high school student, I think he bought or went online and played a really popular video game, then he became the #1 best player in the world, then one day his life completely changed when a man with a bald head told him that he was hiring him to become, I think a secret agent or something similar of that profession. I remember one scene where the main character didn’t believe that what the bald man was saying was true, so the bald head man proved it by ripping off him arm revealing that he was a robot. Also the bald man said that said that if he accepted the position then the bald man would be his personal bodyguard and then after accepting he gave him a glove that shoots beams or plasma looking balls that explode on impact, a black futuristic looking air ship, that shooting lightning underneath the base of it and beams people up into it and the main character has a younger brother that through the series, comes close to finding out that his older brother (the main character) is living a double life as a secret agent. Also the main character attends high school like a normal high school student, but then if he gets called for a mission then he goes and saves the day. Also I know this TV show was targeted towards Teens.
openTime travel girl on brick wall Live Action TV
I am trying to remember a show where a girl was sitting on wall with her friend and then she all of sudden gets sent back in time. her friend all of sudden gets a letter from the girl in the past saying that she went 1920s and had a family. I cant remember what show is that from
Edited by imnossopenCN High school kids show Live Action TV
There was a show that aired on cartoon Network sometime between 200-2010, but I don't think it was a cartoon Network original. It was a live action about some high school aged kids that were trapped in a building and they couldn't remember why or how they got there. They might have had powers of some sort.
open“Birds of A Feather” Episode Live Action TV
I’m looking for a episode of “Birds of a Feather”, in which Tracey is visiting Darryl, and he tells her about how to have a proper getaway vehicle. Can anyone help me please?
openA french (I believe) show\movie about Hookers friend that deals with a cheap john. Live Action TV
So there was an old frenchItalian tv showmovie that I watched back in the day, and one of the scenes was about a Hooker and her friend, talking about a man that stole the hooker's money. Then her friend catches him and "DEALS" with the problem. I have some images of that hooker's friend, maybe you could help me find this showmovie:
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openGenie and a boy Live Action TV
This series was about a boy that was not so popular at school and this genie or ghost man came around and he had to make the boy the most popular at school it was on Nickelodeon
open80s/90s Medical Dramedy Live Action TV
I really wonder if this is just from my imagination, but... I seem to remember a show when I was younger, in the 1980s/1990s—- it was a live action television show, a medical show that I think was a clinic/ER, a mix of comedy and drama. I think it was shot on a very small set (I think it might have been a total of three rooms (a room with the patients (possibly three beds max), the reception area, and MAYBE a waiting room). I feel like it was on a cable network, perhaps Lifetime. Definitely a very minimalistic show.
Anyone have any idea what the heck I'm thinking of?
openIt came on before Sonic Live Action TV
When I lived on a military base in Germany in 1996, there was a puppet TV show starting a little girl who would recap her day by talking to herself in the mirror (who would also talk back and give advice) I remember the ending credits had her "annoying" little brother in a banana car or something. Since it was on an Armed Forces Broadcasting station, it might have been either British, Canadian or dubbed in English from another language.
openMonkey Family kids show? Live Action TV
There’s a show I remember watching when I was really young, it would have been some time roughly around the late 1990s or maybe even super early 2000s
It was a live action kids show set in some kind of jungle house, the set was really brightly coloured from what I can recall, the characters were a family of monkeys who were just actors in furry suits with facepaint I think? they had like, hoods or something with big monkey ears on them too and they might have all been differently coloured but I’m not sure about that. I only remember one episode where the brother and sister are looking for some bananas and they find out at the end that the dad had eaten them and was sleeping in a tree outside
I can’t remember their accents but it was on Australian TV if that helps, which means it was likely Australian, British, American or Canadian... which really doesn’t narrow it down much ugh
If anyone knows please respond, I’ve been searching for this show online for years, I have scoured SO many sites about children’s shows, I went through an entire list of Australian kids shows once and I don’t think it was on there but I might have missed it if it was
openSci-fi show/movie that aired in the nineties (in France, original show may be older) Live Action TV
I vaguely remember specific scenes only : several people get blown out of airlocks during the story, and some time after that, some military guy asks another (probably captain) how he feels, and the answer is something like "I have seen [x] men get thrown out into space", implying he isn't quite okay. There's also a scene where they set up some kind of long-range weapon in an airlock, but you only see the action via radar screens. Finally I remember a scene where a group of people stand in a seemingly derelict spaceship in a patch of light, likely being observed from the dark.
Edited by plaeguisopenChildren's show about man who lives in a small magic box Live Action TV
OK, so this was a live action childrens show. I saw it in the early 80s, but those might have been reruns and it's actually from the 70s. I definitely remember watching at school, so it probably had some educational elements to it. There was an older man that had a magic box about the size of a Rubic's cube, and he had two children friends. The man and kids were able to shrink down and go inside the box, which was some kind of high tech computer or device or vehicle. They entered the box which a particular rhyme or chat that included something like "Magic Box 1 2 3" and I remember always being annoyed at my class mates for referring to the show as that, but it wasn't actually the name. The man also gave the children a riddle for them to solve to explain where he really came from, something about "at night I sleep on my bed under the bed" and the answer was that his civilisation actually lived in caves/hollow Earth under the *sea* bed.
openName of show I used to watch years ago!! Live Action TV
I have been searching for years and can not find anything. There used to be a tv show I watched that was placed in kind of like a rundown city. One of the main characters was a male with blond hair I think and the “bad guy” was bound to a wheelchair and there were twin sisters on the show. I remember on episode the guy in the wheelchair was in a dream or simulation and had working legs and was swinging on a swing set and the main character guy came to talk to him in the dream. I have been dying to try and figure out what this is but I can not seem to find it.
openDoes this sound familiar to anyone. Live Action TV
Its a live action kids show from the 90's, there were these little magical people who had unique qualities and the bad guys were trying to capture them and put them in a machine to squeeze out their essence or something for some reason. I specifically remember one who was a balloon person. when he was captured only air came out of the machine.
openFunny film about kids fighting over a crystal Live Action TV
Exactly what it says on the title. Little kids fight over a crystal, and there is a scene when the crystal was catapulted off and a kid got a telephone stuck on his/her head. There is also a part when a couple get joined together (I mean, they became one body two head person thing) because of the aforementioned crystal. Also, there is a joke about someone who literally uses rolls and rolls of tissue after touching one "unhygienic" thing. Ideas?
openShow with Live Action TV
What I remember about the show was that there was a doctor, or therapist, or something along those lines that had a rival friend/buddy come over that he always competed with. The guy brought along his son, a young boy, and I think the main character had a kid(s) as well. The basis was that the main noticed something wrong with his rival's kid, and schemed to spend some alone time with him to confirm. Coming upon the conclusion that he might be autistic or something like that. I know the father rival was pretty angry, thinking that it was a joke at first.
open(Some video game review show.) Live Action TV
It involved the mid 90s either TBS, Cartoon Network, or TNT. I remember The Moxie and Flea show occasionally. They'd often have video game reviews and hints about video games or cheats. I remember Tomb raider and Panzer dragoon being major reviews on there. Had a black guy as one of the host.
openPower Rangers, but different Live Action TV
So, as a kid there was this TV show I really enjoyed, and I just can't seem to find the name for it. The language was English and it involved these people who could transform into what looks like a modern day power ranger. However, there would be two dimensions and the "bad guys" always came out from a mirror or any type of reflection.
A character I remember was called "snake" and he would be dressed up in a purple morph, and another character is someone who is called "knight"; he had a blue morph.
Whenever a character or enemy was defeated, they would start to disintegrate away and become a mist of some sort and disappear.
open90's to 2000's show either on Disney or YTV Live Action TV
I remember watching this show when I was younger, but these kids get transported to a computer game of sorts, and every level one of the kids got a power up for their suits. It was live-action until they went into the game, then it became animated. It's bugging me real bad, but they had an A.I. that helped them out and was able to go to the real world with them. It also turned out the villain was affecting the real world as well.
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There was a show where this man traveled around the world (? or just united states??) with a very restricted budget, and in one episode he made money in a California city by charging people to push them up the hill. The show came out at least 7-10 years ago.
- Also looking for the clip of him pushing people up the hill, but cannot find.
- Also, it's not Madventures. Watched the California episode but the show I'm thinking of was more centered around his travel budget. Like the money he made pushing them up the hill was deducted from the travel balance. More family friendly than Madventures
- There was an episode where he was in Hawaii and lived off the land (I think??)
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