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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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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Identify game show where people were compressed/decompressed as giant coins
I think it likely that the game show was produced in the late 1960s or early-to-mid 1970s, as I was a wee lad when I saw it on TV. Consequently, my memory of it is vague.
What I do remember is that ...
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Cartoon set in an American West diner: boy-girl duo deals with portals; recurring "quite rare" creamer joke
I'm looking for a cartoon I watched in roughly 2020/2021. I cannot remember if it was a TV show, a movie, or just an animation project. I did watch it somewhere online.
What I remember:
The setting is ...
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Asian movie/show about an artist who has a regular client that asks him to draw murder scenes
I'm looking for this Asian movie, show, anime, or I don't know what. I'm not sure if it's Thai, Korean, or Japanese. The plot is about an artist/painter who has a regular client that asks him to paint/...
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TV show or movie police scene with a male and female officer questioning a couple caught mid-sex, finding drugs and a wounded suspect
I’m looking for a show I saw a clip of a while back. I don’t have the link, and I’m not so clear on the details, so I’m gonna recall it as best I can.
The scene involved two people in uniform (one ...
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Crime show with a character named Finch who used different bird aliases
I'm trying to identify a crime show. All I really remember was a character and an ending scene. There was a character named Finch (or after another similar bird) who would constantly use aliases of ...
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Crime series about a mysterious hero offering problem-solving services in exchange for future favors
I only have the vaguest memories about an American crime TV series I used to watch (in its French translation) during the nineties. The main character is a mysterious hero who offers to solve your ...
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Japanese live-action program featuring guys talking in a car
I found this a short while ago by accident while browsing a list of Japanese channels through VLC, so I don´t remember the channel name.
The show followed a group of 5 guys in a car/small van, talking ...
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TV Show where an older male character, possibly poisoned, is walking around and occasionally lifting his hand, making a floppy disk appear
My brain wants to say this was an episode of MacGyver, but I watched a variety of TV shows when I was a kid, and they all meld together a bit. It could also be an episode of Scarecrow and Mrs King or ...
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Horror TV show set in the 50s with a young woman and an old ghost lady
I'm trying to find the title of an old TV show that had at least some horror episodes. It was in color and probably in the 80s, although some of the stories were in the 50s or similar. It's not "...
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Pilot or TV movie about an "Invisible Woman"
I'm trying to identify a pilot or TV movie I saw in the early to mid-80s about a woman who turns invisible.
What I remember is her invisibility was played for (attempted at least) laughs; in one scene ...
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Old black and white TV show about a hero chasing a mad scientist, where every episode ended on a cliffhanger
I’m trying to find this old TV show I saw on VHS as a kid. It was about a secret agent or detective-type hero, always chasing a mad scientist. Every episode ended on a ridiculous corny cliffhanger.
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Circuitous travel by map
I have a memory of a gag in shows and movies that uses the Indiana Jones-style red line on a map showing the adventurers' route, but the route is extremely indirect and winding, looping around before ...
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Cop/FBI show where an older boy tells a younger boy to swim across a river to find his parents, but the little boy ends up drowning
I'm trying to identify a cop/FBI show. Possibly an NCIS episode or Without a Trace. An older boy tells a younger boy to swim across the river if he wants to find his parents. Little boy drowns. Think ...
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