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resolved TV show and episode name Live Action TV
There's this TV show and an episode that I'd like to know, it was in the '90s. I only remember a teen boy and a teen girl (blonde hair) at school. They both agreed that the boy will take a picture of the girl naked in the boy's shower room. After taking the picture, they heard someone coming and ran. The girl hid a boy's locker. The gym coach (black guy) entered the scene and the teen boy tried to play innocent. The coach didn't notice the girl inside the locker. Afterward, the coach scold the teen boy for not locking his locker and closed it for him. After the coach left, the panicked boy say he'll try to find a way to open it and ran. The teen girl was obviously not pleased.
That's all I remembered. Any ideas? Thank you all!
resolved Man gets hands cutt off in farming equipment? Live Action TV
All I vaguely remember is this was a live-action television show...maybe an anthology of some kind? There was a an older man who I believe was a farmer. He gets his hands cut off in an accident with some kind of farming equipment and struggles back into his house and uses his face I think? to call his sister and have her call an ambulance. That's all I remember!
EDIT: now that I think about it, I'm actually pretty sure this wasn't an anthology... I think it was a true story/documentary with re-creations and an interview with the guy it actually happened to.
Edited by donatello-is-the-fellowresolved Spy Show Live Action TV
Alright, so, there's this old show about spy kids that juggled with school and work and they were a part of MI... 6? 7? There were three main characters and their mentor, and... I think it was on Disney XD? Not sure. It's probably from around the mid/late 2000s.
resolved Solved it's madan senki ruykendo Live Action TV
As the title says I'm looking for an sentai esque show that I don't think ever got adapted. In the first episode the main character comes into town and sees the police force prepare to fight of foot soldiers. The secret base is under the police station and the boss is under cover as janitor in the station. They use keys, stolen from the bad guys who use them to create monsters, to create new weapons/ powerups and their morphers are also their talking weapons. The hero uses a sword the other member a gun and eventually a third member using a lance or spear showed up.
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved puppetshow? Live Action TV
I'm looking for an American/English tv show I watched in the 90's in the Netherlands. It was about a family of rabbits or something like that and their neighbors. I'm pretty sure the neighbors were the main characters. Also in one of the house was a mouse holes in which the villains lived who were looking for a magic crystal. I think it was a puppetshow and it definitely wasn't a movie
resolved Scenes from a Disney (?) SF series/television film (early 90') Live Action TV
A few scenes I believe belongs to the same work :
- A scene in the begining : In the near future, great cities are subjected to bouts of acid rain. There is public announcement when a shower is coming for bystanders to take cover. Our hero (a twenty-something young boy) has his "Save the cat" moment by helping an elderly woman trapped under the rain, and taking her to a shelter.
- The hero, among other people embarks on a vast spacecraft/ space platform. An automated sondtrack informs the newcomers there is a "multiconfessionnal chapel" aboard. (We don't get to actually see it, I think).
- The spacecraft/platform is attacked. An eccentric handyman propose to build a cannon. "A Cannon? This prehistoric weapon?!" utters the hero. (They build it eventually).
Does any of this ring a bell ? Thank you.
resolved TV show about Human looking robot from the 80s and/or early 90s Live Action TV
As a child back in the mid-nineties, I can recall seeing an episode of a TV Show originally on the air (I believe either 80s or early 90s) about a robot that resembled an average human. The robot in question was played by an adolescent man (so no, this isn't Small Wonders). I can recall one moment in the episode in which the robot was trying to go through a metal detector, but obviously being made of metal, he kept making it go off. The robot even went down to his boxers and set it off and by that point the security guards assumed something was wrong with the metal detector and let him go.
Anyone know the title of the show?
resolved No Title Live Action TV
I saw it in Russian, not sure what the original language was. It was probably a part of non-interconnected series (not long enough for a movie). The plot was that a woman hires an assassin to kill her brother. They go to the house where he is supposed to come next day and spend the night there (together). The next day, the brother arrives... in a wheelchair. The assassin says he can't do this, to which the woman replies it's fine - the plan wasn't to kill the brother. It was to kill the assassin, who was the one to put him in that wheelchair.
Edited by Omeganianresolved Deserted Island film-made-for-tv or movie Live Action TV
There was a movie or possibly film-made-for-tv I try to find the the title. Possibly made in the 90's. It was a bunch of teenagers trapped on a Deserted Island. It was mixed race cast, but I can't be sure. At some point, a bearded adult end up on the island and joins them. At some point, the adult say that things aren't so bad as he stared at the girls in a predatory manner. He eventually kidnaps one of the girls and the other teens rescue her. In the end, the adult is put on a makeshift jail and the teens comment, through narration, that they never thought that the first first thing they built would have been a prison. In the end, the teens learn to live together in peace as there was never any rescue. Any ideas? Thanks.
resolved [solved] Dennis Weaver made-for-TV movie about illiteracy Live Action TV
I'm positive that Dennis Weaver had a role as a truck driver supporting his family, but he was illiterate. His wife would have to make pictograms of his latest assignment so he'd know where to go and what to do. At a restaurant, the restrooms were labelled Sailors and Mermaids, and the trucker mistook the M in Mermaids for Men's ... whoopsie. It culminated in his trying to find the exit to Gloversville purely by the G, almost missing the turnoff, and causing a mother and her children to crash. He finally sought help by getting subsidized adult literacy classes. Does anyone remember the name of this movie? IM Db seems to have missed it.
Edited by oneuglybunnyresolved Old show taking place in Ohio Live Action TV
The only thing I remember about the show was the end of its intro, where a voice would shout an echoing "Ohio!" I think it was a sitcom, but I'm not sure.
resolved witch and talking cauldron Live Action TV
There was this show I used to watch in the 90's about witch who lived in a gingerbread, together with her talking cauldron. I think it had a minimalist cast of about three character per episode and UI seem to remember the witch using "heads will roll." a lot, might even have been her catchprase. I'm also pretty it was a British show.
The Ginger Bread House page is no help since it only has two listings under live action and none are what I'm looking for.
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved a tv show where a man gets sucked out of a plane but a lady is saved Live Action TV
that's pretty much it....shes warned in a way to put her seatbelt on even though the man says it's not time yet and one of the stewardesses shakes her head when the man offers her the window seat
i feel it might have been an urban legend show ...
it was in color
Edited by Binditheskunkresolved 1990s TV ad (USA) Live Action TV
Early 1990s, I used to see a commercial on television. It was targeted for parents. The product advertised was a handheld, battery-powered portable video game that had many pre-programmed games. I don't think it used cartridges or game cards or diskettes or anything like that, it was just pre-programmed games. The screen was a black-and-white dot matrix, I'm pretty sure about that. It was advertised to have a large number of games ("over 300 games" or something) but I was under the impression that they inflated that number by including variants of the same game. For example, remember Tetris? Remember how Tetris had "Type-A" and "Type-B" gameplay? According to this advertisement, those were two different games. I think Tetris was actually a pre-programmed game (or some similar kind of falling block puzzle game at least).
Now what really makes this advertisement memorable is that the (male) announcer tells the parents, "NEVER buy those expensive video game cartridges again!!" and the picture showed a close-up of a hand dropping a video game cartridge into a wastebasket. I particularly remember that the game shown was the Super NES version of Street Fighter II. As a kid, I instantly recognized it because I owned that game and it was one of the most popular games at that time. This means the commercial I'm looking for was probably aired in 1992 or 1993. Even as a kid I thought this was absurd, because I knew that game cost about $70 and the announcer described it as "expensive" so it wouldn't make sense for a parent to throw it into the trash, even if they bought a new handheld device with over 300 games.
resolved Kids in Space Live Action TV
I am trying to remember the name of this kids show about a group of kids who snuck aboard a spacecraft and said spacecraft wen through a wormhole and they need to get home. I remember there being adults on board, a man and a woman; also a robot.
And there was this one episode where the girl with rainbow hair could do like a sonic scream thing.
resolved No Title Live Action TV
A comparatively short work for television, about 15 to 22 minutes. It depicts an Orwellian future with people living in sterile compartments with a huge viewscreen on one wall. The screen always has this looming image of this Supreme Overseer. One factory worker returns home, and goes into this Jim Varney goofball routine until the Overseer suddenly goes online and roars at him to "cut that out!" Ultimately, the Overseer grows disgusted with the goofball and the screen goes blank. Then the goofball goes all serious, puts on glasses and writes in a journal: "A man is not free until he can laugh at his oppressor. Today, I laughed at my oppressor." Anybody remember this one? Ideally, this would make a nice example for a YKTTW proto-trope.
resolved No Title Live Action TV
I briefly watched a segment of a TV show that shows a man using a drill. I think he lays his chin to a platform (plywood?) and drills upward to him. His chin got penetrated by accident. This might be a comedy sitcom show because I remember hearing a laugh track in this scene, and the scene is viewed like that. Or maybe it's not comedy and it's something intentionally serious. This was viewed around the 2000s decade.
Edit: Most likely this is Mad TV. Thank you.
Edited by ctempireresolved No Title Live Action TV
Not exactly TV, but a web series. It was one of Cracked.com's series, either Does Not Compute or Cracked TV. I'm looking for a specific episode, and I don't have the time to go through all of them and it's driving me nuts.
So, Michael's sidekick Clippy is a clip of something obnoxious, like just constant screaming or something. Michael asks Clippy something, cut to screaming or whatever, cut back to Michael, who says, "Oh, I forgot, you're insufferable in this episode."
Any help? Anyone?
resolved Show with puppet dinosaur Live Action TV
I remember some TV show (or maybe a movie I forget) in The '90s where this kid had a puppet dinosaur as a companion. At one point the dinosaur knocks over this container full of dead fish on him and he freaks out. Also at one point the dinosaur keeps singing "I'm gonna bite you". It seemed really dark for a kid's show. That's all I remember.
Edited by Bootlebat

This was back in the early 2000s. 5 animal dolls (one was a bear, another a monkey if I remember correctly) lived around a family home. At the end of the day, they'd sit on a shelf and go to sleep as the owner (a kid whose face is never shown, only his shadow) ended each episode by counting each doll and saying something like "5 special animals."
I remember one episode involving the kid wanting to watch a rare comet in the sky but unknowingly misses it, so the animals get together and shine a flashlight outside to make him think he saw it.