The process of giving details about a television show or movie in order to identify which entertainment project the asker is trying to remember
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Tv show about another dimension/magic land through a magic mirror
I keep thinking about a show I used to watch on tv, and damn I wanna know the title :P
It was a live-action show that I saw somewhere between halfway the 90's and halfway the 2000's, and I'm almost ...
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70s serial about French jet fighter pilots
All that I recall was that it was dubbed into English,similar to a serial entitled the flashing blade. It was shown during sat morning kids t.v on either the BBC or ITV. It also may have been set ...
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short film on environmental pollution British or possibly American from the period 1968 to 1975
Can anyone help me find a short film on environmental pollution, probably British but I'm not sure. It wasn't a documentary but parts of the film looked like a doc'. It should be from the period 1968 ...
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Man meets “alien” twins (brother & sister) at abandoned house during a carnival/Halloween
I think this may be an episode of "First Wave" - on the other hand, I also think it's not... that it's from another show and they were just aired around the same time here in Norway/Europe (which ...
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1990s sci-fi tv show with invading humanoids and dull crosshatched eyes
I am remembering a sci fi tv show from probably around the 90s in which the enemies had strange eyes. The eyes were dull and had either a cross or a line through them.
Weaponry was like assault ...
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Identify 90s anime with unique armour and instruments
Its a 90's anime where the group of characters had some sort of instrument.
The main character had a Tibetan bell to call upon his power.
They wore their armour during fights. mainly about similar ...
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Teenager who warps into video games and has to defeat the boss of that level
I'm trying to identify a TV show about a teenager who warps into video games and has to defeat the boss of that level or something to that effect. It might not have been a video game that he warps ...
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80s / early 90s Sci Fi movie about aliens arriving to stop a hybrid child who has telekinetic powers
I've got a random memory of a science fiction film from either the late 80s or early 90s. It's a fairly sketch memory but a few key points stick out:
1) Aliens (that look human) travel to earth to ...
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Islanders stuck in the 18th c. and ruled by a mysterious 'Q'
TV show form the late 70s or early 80s. 20th century castaways are stranded on an Island. The natives are dressed in 18th c. Fashion (I remember cocked hats quite distinctly) and enslaved (or perhaps ...
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Teenager must look after father after a mountain climbing accident
I'm looking for an English-language mini-series for children/teens that was aired in Norway around 1977-1979, so it was probably a few years old by then. It was from the USA or Canada. It was ...
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1990s teen action TV non-animated series: kid jumps into TV to become superhero
I've been thinking about this show I used to watch when I was a kid, but I can't remember the name.
It's about some kid and his friends. He spends most of his time in his parents' basement.
There's a ...
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Anti-Bully Public Service Announcement including “Lean on Me” [closed]
I remember watching an Public Service Announcement (PSA) that showed a bully drop a kids books from his hands in the halls of a school and another student (wearing a varsity jacket or something) ...
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Old mech-like anime series belonging to my childhood
I've been looking and asking everyone and everywhere but I still can't find it, let me give you some details:
Must be 90's or 80's, I saw it in the early 2000's in Italy, a country where movies and ...
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Identify comedian's TV special in the late 1980s or early 1990s whose stage looked like the inside of his apartment
Please identify the comedian I saw on HBO or Showtime in the late 1980s or early 1990s whose stage looked like the inside of his apartment.
He was supposed to be home writing for work and kept ...
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Popular Childhood Mexican Show
I'm trying to track down a very popular 90's? Mexican television show. My only clue is that it's about a "grownup who acts like a kid". Something like that lol. Supposedly everyone growing up in ...
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Help me find an old childrens VHS
I watched this VHS when I was about 9 (I'm 25 now) - but I know it was from much much further back as it was grainy looking and I think black and white..
It was a british programme, a group of ...
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Which episode of The Hitchhiker?
When I was about 8 or 9 I was flicking through TV channels. A TV show came on where a guy hitched a lift at night in a truck driven by a woman.
She started telling him a story about a man who jumped ...
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Presidential Candidate reality TV show pitch?
I remember hearing about a TV show being considered that was going to try to generate enough popular interest and support for a regular citizen candidate to allow the person to legally enter the US ...
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TV series about a suburban town digging up a space ship?
It was on TV in the US about 10 years ago, it is a mystery with some sci-fi/horror elements.
The people in a suburban city start acting weird (possessed/influenced). They would go out at night and ...
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Australian comedian making fun of Steve Irwin
Few years ago I saw an Aussie comedian on American Comedy Central show (likely Premium Blend or the like, with short bits each comedian got to perform), who made jokes about Steve Irwin (not sure if ...
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Made for TV series on counter intelligence and CIA during cold war
I have watched this series/movie (I think netflix) but can't remember the name after trying so hard.
The story spans during and after cold war era. It's about 2 friends; who join CIA, and the lead ...
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One-eyed, tentacled aliens that disguise themselves as humans
I saw this when I was very young, so my memories are spotty.
I cannot recall if this is a movie or a TV episode (older), nor whether it was color or black and white (though my memories include ...
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British/English show about a dozen martial arts fighters
Think it was like 10 years ago the first time i saw on the tv.
Their were like around 12 fighters with all different martial arts styles
Every episode they had to do a challenge, the winner and the ...
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What's the name of the TV series with an Army guy who can control electronic devices signals with his mind?
I was wandering about the name of the series where a guy in the Army controls Electronic devices signals with his brain (sort of like talking to them).
It was so cool, like he can tell a mobile phone ...
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Discovery Channel show on brave people saving other people's life?
I remember there used to be a show on which they used to show real life heroes who risked their life to save someone. Like a teenager who saved two kids from a running train. I think it used to be on ...
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Trying to find a certain movie or a TV episode about immortality
I have once seen a movie (or a TV episode, but probably not) with the following plot:
In the beginning, a reporter is making a story on immortality and does interview with a an elderly couple who ...
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Miniseries featuring an upside down ziggurat-shaped spaceship
An American made for TV movie shown over several nights in, I think, the 90's, that featured a spaceship resembling an upside down ziggurat hovering just above ground that was later discovered to have ...
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Humans vs. green fat-bell-like robot
I am trying to find an old anime that I watched as a kid .The only thing that comes to my mind about it is there used to be a fight in a rocky valley where the good guys (some humans) fought against a ...
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Bonsai Television Show
I am trying to find the name of a tv show where, in every episode, the same guy takes a bush from a garden shop and makes a fake (but good looking) bonsai tree.
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A geek so nondescript he was a 'stealth' spy [closed]
Might have been a TV series, American. The character was a chubby white geek who was working as an operative, or a spy. He might had been 'invisible' or something, because he was able to enter rooms ...
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Need help identifying movie and/or TV show by plot point
There was a movie or a show where a guy has a date with a girl. He thinks it goes well, but she doesn't return any of his calls so he begins to think something terrible has happened to her. He ...
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looking for a young adult show that aired sometime in the late 90's/early 00's with a rock musician on tour
This show is NOT "So Weird."
A 20-something woman is travelling with her rock star parent (probably her Mom) and falls into a love triangle with her mother's young manager and the new, young roadie ...
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TV show about a female detective aired on HBO or Showtime in 2007 and 2008
Can anybody identify this TV show about a female detective aired on HBO or Showtime in 2007 and 2008?
Female detective, sex addict, drinks heavily. An angel appears to her, it is her guardian ...
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Please help me identify a childhood favourite VCR about someone telling fairy tales with animations of the stories
I have flashes of one of my favourite ever videos as a kid, but I cannot for the life of me think of the name. I also can't remember much about it, which isn't helpful, I know, but it was very old and ...
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Identify Sci-Fi tv show.
I'm afraid i cant be very helpful here but when i was much younger i watched an episode of a tv series which i remember being Sliders but cant seem to find any episode of that show with this ...
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Searching for TV series consisting of Police trio team
I am looking for a police drama series starring a trio team consisting of two men and one woman. They deal with normal day to day police work and encounter thugs, drug dealers, murderers and other ...
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Aliens took over the satellite
I recall a show/special, possibly on the Showtime cable channel from many years ago (let's call it early 80's) which had, as its premise, that aliens had taken over the TV satellites and were ...
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Identify this Disney TV series?
There was a Disney TV series in the 00's based on school kid whose math teacher (or may be class teacher) lived next door.
I do remember there was something to do with baseball.
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1980s sci-fi show about a family transported through a pyramid?
I saw part of a show sometime in the 80s (early or late, I couldn't say) that I have been trying to remember for some time. Figured I never would, because no Google search I ever tried had ever ...
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Can someone identify this animated show with ducks and alligator?
I think it's 90's Animated tv show about ducks and they had a friend the alligator.
I think the ducks name was brian or bill or something like that.
They use to go on adventures together.
Can ...
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An anime tv show from the early 90's, that I can't seem to identify or find anywhere
Back in the early 90's, I used to wake up really early in the morning to watch this anime tv show that was only on at that time for me.
It was essentially an anime version of Power Rangers.
A group ...
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In which sitcom characters are baffled by new software?
I remember seeing a sitcom where the boss had installed some new software and the characters had difficulties using it. I thought it may have been The Office (US) with Ryan's new website, but judging ...
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I'm looking for an old anime/mecha show or movie from 80's/90's?
I'm 25 (born 1987). When I was young (must have been very young) I saw a show or movie that was an anime, but the kind that has a mature drawing style, smaller eyes, more serious, and the character ...
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A 90s cartoon show about racoons
Please help me identify a 1990s cartoon show where the main characters are Racoons.
I don't remember much about the antagonist, but he had pigs as his guards / assistants.
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Sci-Fi movie where character determines date, time & location from looking at the night sky
I remember I saw it somewhere - The SciFi character stared the night sky with bare eyes (maybe robotic) for a while and determined which date time and location he/she is at from the observable ...
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Which Carebears series had Mimi in it
I think her name is Mimi. From what I remember of the series of carebears, there was this dark dimension and the bad guy was a cloaked guy and he had a minion called Pugsley (think that's how you ...
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What was the name of the cartoon that had talking animals protecting their forest
I remember having VHS tapes of it back when i was a kid (before i learned that VHS was a scam cause the players almost always destroyed the tapes).
From what i remember, there was this Baron guy who ...
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Anime about friends exchanging souls
An anime, two close friend have same feeling with a girl.
The girl is getting married to the rich one, leaving the other one alone and loving her from a distance.
But because the rich one is ...
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help with identifying mecha anime please!
Hi Google is not helping much here so help please!!
Ive been searching for this anime for years but i cant find it!!
It was shown in the early 90's on Chinese channel so i never got the name of ...
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Identify this TV Show - Australian Kids TV show 90s/00s
I remember watching a kids tv show in the late 90s / early 2000s about a kid or some kids who go to stay with a relative or something.
They're definitely by the beach or somewhere and I think there ...
