Hot answers tagged identify-this-tv-show
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You call this a TV series, but you could mean a TV movie miniseries of a Stephen King novel Tommyknockers. It starred Jimmy Smits of NYPD Blue fame (and LA Law) and Marg Helgenberger, then just off the TV series China Beach, and lately from CSI.Here's the description from IMDB:A buried UFO slowly turns local inhabitants into gizmo-building alien mutates ...
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It's The Secret World of Alex Mack, I remember some episodes so I instantly recognized the series you were referring to, although I didn't remember the title.
Plot:
Alex Mack is an ordinary teenage girl, living with her parents and older sister in the corporate town of Paradise Valley. After her first day of junior high school, while walking home, ...
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If you can stretch '80s to include 1977-78 this sounds like Man From Atlantis, starring Patrick Duffy of Dallas fame.
It was a very short run series after some TV movies about the character.
As for your last question - I suspect not.
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May it can be this one?
Woops! @ IMDB.com
Synopsis:
The series centered around the six survivors of a world nuclear
holocaust. The six of them live together in an abandoned farm house
while trying to survive and re-establish civilization.
Source: Wikipedia
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From your description I'm fairly sure it's UFO Robot Grendizer. I believe it was aired in the US as Grandizer (a instead of e) and was part of the "Force Five" serires.
When the bad guys attacked, the hero (farm hand Daisuke) would rush to Grendizer who was hidden inside a cave and jump into the cockpit while transforming into his real identity as the ...
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It sounds like you're referring to The Third Eye. This was a sci-fi series that aired in the very early days of Nickelodeon. (I remember watching it as a child myself). It was quite unlike all of the other Nickelodeon programming, and is the only series that I can recall from that Network that fits your description.
I also remember seeing Dr. Who later on ...
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I believe you're talking about Dweebs, a show described as:
Warren ( Peter Scolari), was a young computer software writer whose programs had made him a legend in the industry. Unfortunately, he was painfully shy and socially maladjusted as well as eccentric ( to come up with ideas for the next " killer app," he bounced on a trampoline in his office). His ...
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It seems the specific answer was a show called "Into the Labyrinth" which was a component of the aforementioned "The Third Eye". Nickelodeon purchased a series of British Science Fiction and rolled it all together.
"Into the Labyrinth" starred actor "Ron Moody" (which would explain my mistake and why I couldn't locate information on IMDB.)
An excerpt (and ...
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This sounds like Otherworld (1985):
[Source]
... the Sterling family take a tour of the interior of the Great Pyramid of Giza at the same time as a once-in-ten-thousand-years conjunction of the planets.
Inside, they are abandoned by their guide, and as they try to get out, they are mysteriously transported to another planet which may or may ...
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I think it is Tranzor Z, as the intro on YouTube shows the robot emerging from a swimming pool. I vaguely remember this as well, I think it tagged along on the Voltron success.
I got the hint on where to look from this forum post.
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Sounds like you are talking about Winnetou by Karl May. There were several movies and a TV miniseries.
IMDB has a list of all the movies, too.
Oh and, his name is "Old Shatterhand", he is Winnetou's blood brother.
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The TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has an episode called Self Made Man where a Terminator determined the time he was in by looking at the night sky.
Watch scene on YouTube
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Maybe Robotech? It was a sci-fi anime that depicted a war between humans and aliens. It had a blue-haired character. Episode 58 involved two characters hiding in a forest, one of whom has dark green hair (maybe mistaken for blue?). The bad guys in the show have bug-like mechs as well.
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There is a Sliders episode that matches the description.
At the end of Summer of Love they slide to the Tsunami World:
The divergence point of this world is unkown but whatever caused this tragedy was forseen early enough for the citizens of San Francisco to evacuate...
[Source]
The story continues at the beginning of the ...
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This show is Saving Grace with Holly Hunter, and it was not on HBO or Showtime, but on TNT - Turner Network TV.From the wikipedia article: It is set in Oklahoma City — including numerous shots of local buildings and landmarks (such as the Oklahoma City National Memorial and the downtown skyline) — while much of the show was filmed in Vancouver and Los ...
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This is Kidd Video:
The title sequence explained the plot; Kidd Video and his band of the
same name (played by live-action performers in the first half of the
title sequence) were kidnapped by a villain named Master Blaster, and
transported to Master Blaster's home dimension, a cartoon world called
The Flipside. They were rescued by a fairy named ...
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Wolf Rock TV
Description from Toonarific:
Born with a face for cartoons, deejay icon Wolfman Jack stretched
himself into two dimensions to portray a mentor to three teens-Sarah,
Sunny, and Ricardo-and a bird named Bopper in this short-lived show.
The Wolfman, who built his reputation in the 50's and 60's for playing
banned songs over Mexican ...
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Cossacs. Looks like story about Cossacs.
Russian wiki link
It's Soviet cartoon and there are a number of episodes, actually.
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How about Anatomy of an Illness by and about Norman Cousins?
From the Wiki article about Norman Cousins
Cousins also served as Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities for the
School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, where
he did research on the biochemistry of human emotions, which he long
believed were the key to human ...
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Could it be Ocean Star?
From Wikipedia:
Trent and Dylan Steadman are city kids who are sent by their mother to
live with their father in a small seaside town. They struggle to make
friends with the local kids. Trent meets Swamy, an old pearl diver who
tells him about a priceless cluster of pearls known as the 'Ocean
Star' that he claims were ...
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It might be Derren Brown's "Derren Brown: The Events" series. This had an episode titled "How to Take Down a Casino".
Updated:
The other series it could be is "The Takedown" season 1:
Episode 2: Shootout at Mr. Lucky's
Paul Wilson and the gang head to a pool hall where pool sharks have
been known to invade and have created a serious problem for ...
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Bailey Kipper's P.O.V.
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_Kipper's_P.O.V.
There was one episode where he planted a camera on his older sister to spy on her date. I remember thinking how hilariously strange it was even then.
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Sounds like Captain Pugwash, from the mid '70s. It is British cartoon series and had the sea-shanty theme tune. An updated series aired in 1998.
Here is the theme tune on YouTube.
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A wikipedia search gave me the following information:
Competition from television drew audiences away from movie theaters in the late 1950s, and the theatrical cartoon began its decline. Today, animated cartoons are produced mostly for television.
American television animation of the 1950s featured quite limited animation styles, highlighted by the ...
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It may be The Raccoons.
Which have raccoon's as the leads and Cyril(Aardvark)
as the main villain and Cyril's three bumbling henchmen and assistants which are pigs.
Here is a YouTube video of the show.
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I think it is Daktari, see Wikipedia or IMDB.
There are some scenes at youtube
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Was it The Running Man?
Online link: http://liquidtelevision.com/video/the-running-man/
Wikipedia description:
Zach Hugh (Banjō Ginga) is the titular "Running Man," the undefeated
champion of the "Death Circus" racing circuit and has raced for 10
years. Competitors race in high-speed Formula One-like craft, and
spectators bet on the lives of ...
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Strange Luck maybe?
Having survived a plane crash as a child in which all aboard, including his mother, perished, Chance Harper's every decision leads to incredible displays of luck, both good and bad.
Chance tries to cope with the everyday results of his 'luck' with the help of his close circle of friends and the hope that someday he will find his ...
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There is one famous Homer Simpson quote that sounds like the one you are looking for:
It's true, I'm a rageoholic! I just can't get enough RAGEOHOL!
This is from S13E18 - I Am Furious Yellow
Source:
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0701132/
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