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Television series about scientists doing research on a space station
I think it was aired in the 1990s. A group of scientists are doing research on a space station. One of the characters finished in the Physics department then became interested in molecular biology and ...
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TV Detective who travels back in time to solve crime
A British television series from the mid/late 90s, where the protagonist is a detective (?) somehow able travel back in time a few days (perhaps a week?) to solve crimes. I think other characters were ...
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Fantasy TV series from the 90s
I vaguely remember watching a fantasy series when I was a kid. All I remember is a scene of doctors wearing all red, they have red gloves which are able to go inside people. For the life of me I ...
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How did Silas get inside Caroline's house?
In the last episode (S04E21) of The Vampire Diaries, Silas himself (not his mental projection) get inside Caroline's house and injured her mother. Caroline's mother owns her house and Silas was never ...
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Girl traveling to space with her uncle and aliens they meet on the way (novel and animation)
A girl ( no older than 15 ) living on the moon or mars gets visited by her space traveling uncle, who offers to take her with him.
In their travels, they meet and take with them:
- a box-shaped alien ...
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What movie has a scene near the end where a guy gets covered by newspapers blown by the wind, then disappears?
I saw this movie on TV, cable, or Cinemax, at least 10 years ago, maybe 20. I don't think it was sci-fi, but maybe involved "magic" of some kind, and was set in a large city. (NYC or Chicago ...
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Why was S03E21 of Star Trek: Enterprise named “E²”?
The name of Season 03 Episode 21 of Star Trek: Enterprise was E². Why?
All episodes had a meaningful name which was related with story, but I am unable to understand why that episode was named E². Is ...
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What's the full name of A.M.A.Z.O.?
Professor Ivo's nanotechnology based Android was named A.M.A.Z.O. What's the full form of A.M.A.Z.O.? I tried searching the web but without luck.
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Why did A.M.A.Z.O. transport Oa into another dimension?
Professor Ivo's nanotechnology based Android A.M.A.Z.O. was intellectual who used to do anything due to a reason. He wasn't the one who could screw someone just under the lust of power.
Why did he ...
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Heredity in Westeros
In season one of the TV show, Eddard Stark discovers the book which the previous Hand was after. It contains the family trees and descriptions of the houses of Westeros; he discovers that people from ...
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TV show about cells living like humans do in our body
I can't remember this show about a blue humanoid cell and his robotic friend/sidekick who live like humans do but inside a human's body and try to stop other things from damaging the human's body.
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Looking for the name of a show from the 80's about a man who gets hit by lightning and becomes an agent with a watch thats a meter
I'm looking for a show from the 1980s about a man who is struck by lightning and becomes an agent with a watch that is some sort of meter.
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Freezing time = freezing air?
When Hiro or Peter freezes time and everything around them stands still, how are they still able to breathe? Wouldn't all the molecules in the air be frozen in place as well?
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Why are the people in Westeros so afraid of the white walkers?
Why are the people in Westeros so afraid of the white walkers?
From what we have seen in the series there seems to be a relatively small amount of white walkers in existence.
And judging from the ...
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Story identification: 60s tv episode where a man tries to drive out of a town but always end up in it?
I thought this was a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits, but after reviewiing the lists of episodes, it doesn't appear to be. I remember it as black and white.
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What is the song playing in The walking dead S2e5 when daryl pulls the arrow out and in s3e10 when daryl and merle help the mexicans?
What is the song playing in The walking dead Season 2 episode 5 (when daryl pulls the arrow out and that) and in season 3 episode 10 (when daryl and merle help the mexicans) and its also in the game ...
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Which Twilight Zone/Outer Limits episode featured a Manchurian Candidate-like terrorist cell?
I remember seeing either a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits (I think) with a plot line around a group of brainwashed/Manchurian Candidate-like mercenaries soldier types who were drawn together not ...
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Unaired TV show about people with telepathy
I think Steven Spielberg was linked to it. It was about a group of people in modern New York who all discover they are telepathic. I remember seeing it in a magazine like Empire that showed screen ...
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Is there a specific reason why Justice League ended on Batman?
In the end of Justice League Unlimited animated TV series, all of heroes were displayed running towards us (viewers) and disappeared one by one out of view. The last one was Batman. The screen went ...
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TV Show from 90s
I'm looking for a TV show from the 90s (I think), where a woman puts on glasses and uses these glasses and a computer to go into an alternative/parallel universe where she is chased by some man. I ...
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TV show about a woman only one man can see
Ok so I have memory as a kid sitting down every weekend with my parents to watch a sci fi programme on terrestrial tv but I can't think of what it was called and neither can they.
One episode is ...
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Sci-Fi Drama TV Series about telepathy between an alien and a boy
I'm trying to remember this show, 80's or early 90's, about a boy who receives telepathic messages from an alien, and his family thinks he's going crazy. All very serious and dark. The only thing I ...
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Show that had a group of D&D style adventurers?
The TV show might have aired in the mid to late 90s or very early 2000s (no more than 2001). It was a classic medieval adventure show with a main character that was a young man, who wore classic ...
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90's talking computer children's tv science fiction series
In the early 90's, when I was a child, I regularly saw a live-action (not animated) TV show with children that did something good (solve problems or chase away bad guys, I'm not sure). It was on Dutch ...
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Was Palpatine involved in setting up Ahsoka?
In the last season (5) of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, when Jedi Temple was bombed which put Jedi order in suspect only to damage their reputation, I thought Palpatine was behind this.
All militaristic ...
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Who wrote “Don't Open, Dead” on the doors inside in the hospital?
Who wrote "Don't Open, Dead Inside" on the doors in the hospital that Rick sees after waking? Do they ever show it?
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Identify series/tv film with hologram tv and eye gouging
I believe it was a series or maybe a film set in present or near future.
I remember that one character invented a true 3d holographic TV. At the demonstration he was seemingly murdered by a ...
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Is Pangaea a shared hallucination or some kind of Plane of Eternity
In The Maxx, the characters are constantly shifting back and forth between the city (where the Maxx is a bum and Julie is a social worker) and Pangaea (where the Maxx is a ferocious warrior and Julie ...
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80s TV series with aliens that grow in small pods
I have vague remembrances of watching a TV series as a child (UK, late 1980s or early 1990s) that featured men that looked like humans who carried around briefcases that had a bed of soil with a grid ...
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Why did Merlin not heal his fatigue with magic?
In Merlin Season 1 Epi 1, Merlin is appointed Prince Arthur's servant by King Uther Pendragon, after saving Arthur's life from the witch's dagger.
Then Merlin becomes fatigued and bruised from being ...
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Why did Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair not want Garibaldi to join him and others on War Without End mission?
In the episode "War Without End":
I did not understand the reasoning explained in a scene explained by Jeffrey Sinclair to Garibaldi at all.
However..
What was the reasoning behind Jeffrey ...
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A movie about a haunted mansion and twins?
This is another movie I saw on TV during the 1980's. My memories of it are admittedly vague and I apologize in advance for that.
All I can remember is something about a huge house being haunted by a ...
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Trying to identify a movie about a woman who becomes obsessed with a necklace and its former owner and it kills her?
Another movie that I saw as a kid that has stuck in my memory. What I remember of the plot is that a man and his wife move into a beautiful old house. He adores his wife and they are a very happy ...
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Looking for an 80's movie about a house obsessed with a girl?
Here is the plot I can remember for a movie I saw on TV as a kid back in the 1980's. A girl grew up in a house and I think her family had lived there a long time. Somehow the house was "alive" and was ...
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Trying to identify a tv series from the early 80's about a man who came from the Sun?
I am hoping I can find an answer here to a question that has plagued me for many years.I vividly remember a tv show that was on in the early 80's when I was a small child.I can't remember that much ...
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Who or what sent the Orb back in time in “Brisco County Jr.”?
Who or what sent the mysterious golden Orb back in time in the Bruce Campbell TV series Brisco County Jr.?
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TV series about a man living in a mansion with a ghost
I remember a very short-lived US television series that was broadcast in the early 1990's or late 1980's. It featured a man that moved into a large mansion or castle that happened to be occupied by ...
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Why did Justice League choose the Batcave to hide in?
In the second-season finale of the Justice League animated series Starcrossed (last 3 episodes), the Justice League (minus Hawkgirl) was captured by Thanagarians. But they managed to escape the prison ...
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TV show about a detective forced to partner with a cyborg
Around 2000, there was a TV Show on our national TV named "Shadow of Dreams". It was about the a detective in the future who forced to accept a cyborg as a partner.
The main arc story of the show was ...
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TV show where something living in a well filled containers with gold and jewels?
It was a show in the 80s or early 90s. The episode I remember was about a man and his daughter who found a well or a hole in the ground. They would send a bucket down and something would fill it ...
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Why did Major Nelson need to hide Jeannie from Dr. Bellows?
I've been spending some time at a remote resort recently with little for company except a DVD set of I Dream of Jeannie. Why is it that Major Nelson has to keep Jeannie a secret from NASA and Col. ...
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How could the Picard Maneuver confuse sensors from the Warp Era?
From Memory Alpha:
The Picard Maneuver was born out of desperation during the battle. The
Stargazer, which was damaged, suddenly accelerated into high warp
directly towards the Ferengi ship. ...
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Walking dead TV: How much time as passed from the fall to the start of Season 3
The question says it all, how much time as passed from the start of the Zombie outbreak to the start of Season 3?
Using Laurie's pregnancy you can say "around 9 months" but we don't know if she ...
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Television series about a space station
I remember watching this TV show in the 90's set aboard a space station. It featured an eccentric cast of characters including a security guard reminiscent of Bruce Willis, an alien with abnormal ...
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Story with a man with broken glasses disappearing from a motel room
What's this film or TV programme from the 80's, possibly early 90's:
A man and a woman in a motel-looking room. Years before the woman's partner or husband had disappeared from the same room.
He ...
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Witchblade - watch the film before the TV series?
I was looking for something new to watch and happened to stumble across a Witchblade movie and TV series.
Are the film and series completely separate, or is the film a lead-in into the TV series?
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Why were Ferengi unknown to 24th century Starfleet?
In Star Trek: Enterprise, the Enterprise NX-01 encountered Ferengi.
In Star Trek: The Next Generation, when the Enterprise-D was in pursuit of the Ferengi who stole an energy converter, the captain's ...
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Why didn't the Earth & Vulcan battle cruisers engage the Xindi SuperWeapon and Reptilian ship?
Earth already had battle cruisers in the Sol System which engaged a Klingon Bird of Prey before the Xindi saga. Addtionally, Vulcan battle cruisers were also near Earth: When timeline was fixed in ...
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How did Sweet the demon lose?
In the Buffy episode "Once More, With Feeling", how did the Scoobies "beat the bad guy", as Sweet the demon puts it? Or did he just get bored when he didn't succeed in making Buffy burst into flames?
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If I have seen the TV show Games of Thrones, is it worth it to read the books?
I am a huge fan of the TV show Game of Thrones. I am considering reading the books.
A part of me would like to know the rest of the story, i.e. starting at volume 3.
Another part of me is afraid to ...
