Questions tagged [identify-this-tv-show]
Identifying a TV show. Provide as many unique details as possible: approximate air date, character descriptions, settings and locations, actors or voices, visual style, genre, language, and any shows you've already ruled out. Include distinctive elements like opening sequences, catchphrases, or unusual premises. The more specific and comprehensive your description, the higher your chances of identification.
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Identifying cartoon with dog protagonists
I'm trying to track down a cartoon which I believe is a series, based on one episode I saw just once, but haven't had any luck so far.
The details I can recall:
Mostly likely produced in the 80's or ...
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TV episode, probably of a horror anthology, with a native or voodoo prisoner who mystically escapes while being escorted and hunts down the cop
I'm looking for a TV episode, probably of a horror anthology, with a native or voodoo prisoner who mystically escapes while being escorted and hunts down the cop.
The basic plot as I remember it was ...
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Late 80s–early 90s sci-fi cartoon where heroes rescue captives from a hover ship, sending a lady villain back to the age of dinosaurs
Trying to find a sci-fi animated series from the late '80s to early '90s, based on a scene I remember from one episode.
The antagonists captured several of the protagonists' team and held them captive ...
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TV preacher who identified the antichrist
In the 1990's, I started running into a particular late-night TV preacher. It seemed like a moderately low-end show. He would appear with his wife at a desk (there were no worshippers or audience ...
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Strange anime with supernatural elements about a boy moving to a town and meeting a weird girl?
Several years ago, probably closer to a decade, I watched an anime that I can't remember the name of for the life of me. I've been trying to find it again for years with no luck.
I remember it being ...
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I've been trying to recall what mid-1970s American television police drama featured a mad bomber committing his crimes with a howitzer
I remember this episode from the 1974/1975 season of a police show, but cannot remember which show. I am pretty sure of the time-frame, but then it was more than fifty years ago.
The police characters ...
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Identify TV movie - woman dresses as a man to prove discrimination in job hiring
I’m trying to identify a made-for-TV movie (probably aired on ABC and likely before 1985). The plot I remember: a woman is denied a job and decides to dress and pass as a man in order to get the job ...
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90's sitcom episode where a guy remembers (and then forgets) calling a girl "Lefty"
There was a sitcom on American TV in the mid to late nineties that I saw one or
two episodes of, and I can really only remember one episode, detailed (as much
as possible) below. The show followed a ...
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1970s US TV show with casual narration linking random topics in a meandering style
I'm trying to identify a somewhat obscure TV show from the 1970s that aired in the United States. The show had an experimental and casual tone aimed at a general audience. It was narrated by a host ...
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Chinese (mainland) drama/series about young filmmakers in Beijing, with 10-year-later reunion
I’m trying to identify a mainland Chinese drama (possibly a TV series, but it could also have been a long film) that I watched online in 2024 or 2025, possibly on Rakuten Viki. My recollection may not ...
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Scene in old 1970's detective/police show with very early depiction of a laser-sighted rifle
I remember seeing part of an episode of a TV show in the 1970's where a group of robbers uses a stolen laser-sighted rifle to rob a supermarket. At the time, this was presented as an extremely exotic ...
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Animated episode about a new classmate who does everything perfectly
I'm looking for a cartoon series that was running around the 00's (maybe on Nickelodeon?). It had a memorable episode where a new male kid arrived in the class. He was a single-episode character, and ...
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Did "Johnny and the Honey-Hunters from Nepal" exist?
Did a show, TV special, documentary, anything really, exist with the title "Johnny and the Honey-Hunters from Nepal"?
I remember, maybe 20 years ago, on Discovery Channel or a similar ...
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Animated series about a medieval mice state
In the middle of the 2000s (something like 2004-2006) I was watching an animated TV series, whose characters were mice.
There was a city with a citadel, and guards (also mice) were guarding it.
I ...
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Movie or TV show where a man lures a parasite out of his nose with a piece of meat?
I am trying to identify a movie or TV show I saw on the TV at home in Australia some time between 1997 and 2007.
It featured a scene where a man suspected that he had a parasite in his body and was ...
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