Questions tagged [tv]
For questions about content on television, in order to distinguish it from other types of story. Do NOT use this tag for every question which happens to be about a TV show. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the TV show and its form in other media.
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Woman attacked in a toilet and forced to drink monsterising liquid through a funnel
I remember watching this on TV but it might have been a film or a TV show.
A woman is stopping at a resting spot in a forest area. She goes to the bathroom (stalls, very dirty) and she got attacked by ...
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Circa late 70s - early 80s kids (television?) movie with hacking plot [closed]
This memory has been bugging me since I re-watched "Explorers" (1985) a few months ago: I realized that I had transferred memories from another movie onto the characters, and now I want to ...
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70s-80s TV Show where an alien entity shaped as a small luminous pyramid gets in contact with a teenager [duplicate]
This was a TV Show that I've watched at early 80s in Spain, but the Show was english (I think I recall it being from BBC productions) so it could be perfectly produced on late 70s.
The show depicted a ...
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B&W TV film/episode about Earth overrun by killer moths/butterflies?
Sketchy-ish information but I think it could have been Twilight Zone/Outer Limits. Earth is being overrun by killer somethings? Moths/butterflies. Astronauts go forward back or forward in time to ...
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Looking for the title of a film / TV show with a young boy and slightly older girl vs. a circular room full of robots and a booming voice
The scene I remember was from a (maybe?) 70s TV show or a movie that showed a younger boy with a slightly older girl which I guess was a sister or a female friend, both wearing body suits, walking ...
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I'm looking for an old kids show, I can't remember the name [closed]
This is driving me crazy, I know it's an old kids show, but all I can remember about it is that one or two of the characters sang La La La La La ... la! And there was all this mail that would come ...
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TV identification - elves(?) train to go on a quest to find a futuristic city, then instantly teleport back
This site has already identified two stories based on only vague memories. Here's an even worse question...
This was a TV series, probably shown on Netflix, certainly before 2020. I watched the ...
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Part live-action, part animated TV show about kids in their high school(?) years who fought animated monsters
I'm looking for this one live-action/animated TV series that I watched in the early to mid 2010's (around that period of time at least).
It featured this group of three (or four) teenagers who would ...
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Snake bite episode, strange dream, strong man - mysterious episode
It will be very difficult.
My memory is interesting again, but I don't remember many details. It is an episode of a TV series (rather episode) from the 80s or 90s, probably made in USA. At the ...
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Episode of a 1990's TV series (I think?) in which a gun fires color seeking darts
On one particular episode of this series, some people were asked to meet in a room. Then a person steps into the room and fires a gun at them. Then it cuts to the intro and commercial. When the show ...
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TV episode or possibly movie involving teenagers at a costume party having their brains sucked out by an evil alien force
I need help finding a TV episode or possibly science fiction movie that I remember from the 90s.
It takes place primarily at a teenage Halloween/costume party. These partygoers find this secret room ...
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Which early 90s kids sci-fi TV show, maybe called 'X,' had an alien family fleeing to Earth?
I remember the basic premise of this alien family having to flee their dystopian society due to some crime the father committed and hiding on Earth pretending to be humans. Presumably wacky blending ...
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90's sci-fi show in which a sergeant-type character called his men "space butts" or "star butts"
I think it was a 90's show. I've done all the searching I can think of.
I want to say it was Babylon 5 or Space: Above & Beyond, but I just don't know.
I remember thinking it was kind of funny to ...
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TV-series with wizards and swords, with fat companion
This was a live-action TV series from the late 70's or early-mid 80's. I saw some episodes, translated into Spanish. The title was something akin to "Wizards and swords" (or any other ...
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Children's TV series where kid gets a computer and is accepted to some institution
What I remember is the show was
Live action
Sci-fi'ish
In English
At earliest late 80s, most likely 90s, definitely not more recent than early 2000s.
One crucial early plot device was a portable ...
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Sci fi on TV sticky bomb
I can't remember if it was from a SF film or a TV series, seen in B&W in the 1970s on UK television.
Some humanoid aliens are attacking "the good guys" and their main weapon is throwing ...
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Looking for a monster show but I only remember a few things from the two episodes I caught
I remember this show having this blond haired boy in a white sweater running down an alley way from something and then this Grim Reaper type thing swooped in to save this kid. And it was a regular ...
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Black panther, dark night, mysterious episode of TV Series
It was an episode of an unknown TV series or something in the style of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?", probably from the 90's. I'm almost sure that it's a TV series from the 90's. I remember ...
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Episode of a sci-fi show in which the main character is stuck in space; he combines alien DNA with his own and starts asexually copying himself
I saw this back in the 90's. I thought it might be from the newer The Outer Limits TV show, but can't find the episode.
From what I recall, a guy was stuck on Mars (or somewhere) and was going to die. ...
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Science fiction series (on the Sci-Fi Channel, I think) with a team of scientists trying to track down aliens among us. One is in a wheelchair
I watched this probably in the early to mid 1990s, in the early days of the Sci-Fi Channel (before they became Syfy) at my grandmother's house. The protagonists were a set of 4-5 people in a team, I ...
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TV series about humans living aboard a spacecraft
I'm looking for the name of a series, likely American, that was on cable TV in my country alongside Farscape (which would make it around the early 2000s).
The main story was on board a spacecraft with ...
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TV show where an alien starship hovers above the Earth. At first, it seems the aliens are here to offer help. Then it turns out they have a hive mind
I'm looking for a TV show where a starship hovers above the Earth with an alien race that seems to offer help and new technology.
After a while, it turns out they want to enslave humanity. Some aliens ...
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Looking for a fantasy drama about a girl in a fantasy land with a walrus
Well I was looking for a fantasy/sci fi programme I watched recently (within the last 2/3 years recently) which had a girl that was imagining she was in a fantasy land, and I believe she had a walrus ...
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Looking for a movie/show title where some people have their mind transferred into other bodies
I'm looking for a movie or maybe a show where for some reason, people's minds can be transferred into another body.
I don't have a lot of memories of why/how the transfer occurs. It can be some kind ...
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Animated show in which the main character could turn his arm into a giant cannon
I'm trying to remember a name of a show. I can't remember when it aired though I'm guessing early 2000s is around the time frame.
The main character (MC) had an ability that turned his arm into a ...
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Film or series with a talking crescent-shaped creature made of quartz
Background
I saw this on South African television in the late 80s (or the early 90s). I think it was a film, though it might have been an episode of a series. This version was dubbed in Afrikaans. I ...
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Cartoon where kid enters different world via cinema screen [duplicate]
So, I’m 19 in a month or two and this cartoon was where his parents owned a cinema and he would enter the screen and fight the main monster of that movie.
I remember exactly what it looked like but I ...
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TV Series about explorer of strange places [duplicate]
When I was much younger than now, probably in the '90s, I remember a TV series about travellers around strange places.
I remember two episodes.
In one there were androids that were living like humans. ...
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Cartoon in which the protagonist used a portal in a theater to travel to other worlds, where he captured monsters
I remember that the protagonist used to go to a sort of theater where there was a kind of portal. He went to these different worlds where he captured monsters and then turned them into little disks ...
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Anthology TV series, episodes include people forced to dance, waking up from a virtual reality and an acidic rain
When I was younger, I watched these really weird shows whenever my parents were asleep. I vividly remember 3 of the episodes and, despite googling all of the pieces I recall, the show is nowhere to be ...
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90s Children’s show with aliens (possibly BBC)
So this has been bugging me for years - but I remember a show that aired in the UK in the 90s (it could be British, maybe BBC - it also may not be) about aliens trying to track down humans (who may ...
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Short 1980s TV sci-fi movie where a man and woman want to buy a planet
A man and a woman want to buy a planet. The woman opens a box and the salesman shouts: "Don't open it, it's a black hole!" and they all fall into it.
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An animated series or a full-length film about teenagers who possess superpowers
An animated series or a full-length film about teenagers who possess superpowers. They weren't typical Marvel or DC heroes.
I remember there was a boy who had yellowish green skin with growths, as if ...
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Miniseries involving virtual reality, warring secret societies
This was aired in the early-mid 90's, when virtual reality was starting to be developed, VR and holograms were a big part of the story. Also two secret societies were feuding, one used a rhinoceros as ...
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80’s TV programme featuring a pyramid with a dangerous energy source inside
This one has been bugging me for nigh-on 25 years, so I’m hoping someone here can finally put this one to bed for me. I remember very little about this 80’s TV programme that was on British TV (but ...
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Teen show from the 80s where a teen talked to a girl in the future on his computer
There used to be this teen show I watched every Saturday morning in the 80s with this guy who spoke to a girl on his computer from the future. I think the boy's mom was either divorced or his father ...
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TV show Identification - Racing battles
I’m looking for a TV show from roughly the late noughties (I would say 2007-2012?) shown in the UK. The basic theme of the show includes battle races, in which drives sit within a large circular ...
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Name of a 1970's ESP/Psychic-themed "docudrama" series?
Plot Summary/Details
This one was a quasi-documentary style show that I believe was supposed to be based on (supposedly) actual real life occurrences of the paranormal. It wasn't, as best as I can ...
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Old black and white Sci-Fi TV show episode where one person whispers something in someone's ear and then that immediately person does the same
When I was very young in the late 70s or early 80s I remember watching an old black and white television program episode (probably the Twilight Zone or something similar) where one person whispered ...
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Trying to identify a specific animated show from my childhood
I'm 25 years old, and I have a vague memory of an animated kids show where the characters used data chips or cards to give themselves different abilities. I think I remember the Main character using a ...
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Where did Will end up in the last episode?
In the second season (and afaik, series) finale, Will is thought to have sacrificed his life to undo the warlock lord's corruption of the world- but near the end, when the elfstones glow in Mareth's ...
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Anime/cartoon where the main character uses something like monster cars to summon monsters
The main character's main attire was a blue jacket and black or some other dark coloured pants.
Usually battles that happened are 1v1, where each person would put something like a launcher and a ...
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Identify film with women-only world, that has a man released into it
Film, perhaps for TV. US. C. 2000ish (wide error bars).
The world has only females and they live a pastoral, rural life. Maybe the men died in a plague, don't remember. They release one man from ...
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Movie or TV episode about a possessed doll that a boy puts in a doll house with a necklace on it to contain it
Answered!!
It's called Shadow Zone Teacher ate my homework
A boy has a possessed doll. The doll makes the mom fall off a chair. The boy puts the doll in a doll house and put a necklace on the doll ...
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Cartoon series about a world-saving agent, who is an Indiana Jones and James Bond mixture
I am looking for a cartoon TV series from my childhood:
The show is an animated television series for children, named after the main character, if I recall correctly.
The main character is a (secret?)...
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Show where a kid uses cards to summon demons/characters [duplicate]
I remember a show where the protagonist would use cards to summon supernatural characters. I don’t remember a lot but I believe he also befriended one of the demons and used him to summon other demons....
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Sci fi movie/TV episode where pin/bolt disappears back of people’s neck
This was a sci-fi tv show/episode (or movie?) where people inserted a pin/bolt into the back of people’s neck & disappears and somehow either changed or gained info. But it’s different in the ...
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Tv show where a small community is living in a simulated reality with objects replaced by labeled boxes
Looking for the name of a short sci-fi program where people lived in a small community under the watchful eye of the government,
everyone has everything they could ever want, however,
a man and woman ...
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Sprawling TV movie/series set after EMP; not really apocalyptic
I've looked for this movie/series on streaming services for years without luck. Here's what I remember:
In color, English seemed to be original language.
I think I saw it late at night on a local ...
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Show about alien invasion involving worm or 'bug' aliens taking over and controlling hosts including the US president
I do not remember much about the show, I did not even watch it, but I remember seeing ads for it and hearing it talked about online.
What I recall:
Came out around 2015-2016, maybe 2014 at earliest.
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