Stump Archive -- 1998 - 2000
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Every question that's ever been asked (of us, anyway). More trivia than you can shake a stick at! Stump The Shark!
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December 31, 2000
Can someone help Beverly?
"There was an old sci fi episode of Twilight Zone? where these little blue people would paint the next events in time (i.e. red lights to green lights, etc) but for the life of me I can't find any info on it. Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?"
The answer is...
"That episode is from the New Twilight Zone.... thats how you know the men were blue (it was in color). I don't recall the name of the episode although "A Matter of Time" sounds right. Great episode... it explains how you can loose your car keys and find them two days later in the same spot!"- Ed
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December 30, 2000
Can someone help Russell?
"What was Lt. Chano's fate on Barney Miller? Was he shot in the line of duty or just written out of the series?"
The answer is...
"I think Chano was simply faded out as Detrick was phased in. Gregory Sierra had gone on to another series by the same producers, "HMS Hudson Street" which bombed after about four episodes." - RMK
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December 30, 2000
Can someone help Hank?
"Near the end of THE COSBY SHOW series, there's an episode in which RAVEN-SYMONE lip-syncs a blues song for Cliff Huxtable's parents' anniversary. Can anyone please identify the song and the artist? Thanks."
The answer is...
"Was it the episode where the whole family joins in the lip-syncing? I thought it was "The Night Time is the Right Time" by Ray Charles?"- Doug and Pam
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December 28, 2000
Can someone help Elsa?
"Can anyone tell me the name and author of the theme song to the PBS series: "The Voyage of the Mimi"? It was a haunting solo of either a flute or a recorder. Thanx!"
The answer is...
"Jeff Lass is credited as having done original music for "The Voyage of Mimi." Whether he wrote the theme song or not I couldn't say, but it seems likely."- Ron
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December 28, 2000
Can someone help Captain Z?
"I remember seeing this Japanese cartoon when I was young. In it there was this little girl who had powers ( one was see could grow up). She had a dog and some other animal that talked. The story was that their plane crashed in the mountains and all the adults turned into kids. At the end the place they are in explodes. Has anybody seen or heard anything like that?"
The answer is...
"This show is "Magical Princess Minky Momo", and was originally a hit with girls a generation ago, in Japan. Nostalgia for the character brought her back in an updated outfit, but identical premise, for a second series a few years ago. To help verify that this is correct - she had red-pink hair with a green-starred yellow scarf in it, yellow moon-boots, and a necklace with a star on it. She'd pull at this, a candy-cane looking wand would come out, and she could transform into a young woman. Her companion was a sheepdog and what I think is a mouse. If I remember the basic story, it went along the lines that a princess of Dreamland was sent to live with a human family, to learn what being human was all about. She'd use her transformation to help kids with those tough moral problems on the playground, and to help the adults see that, really, the kids are alright. In the one you describe, Minky helps the Peter Pan pseudo-bad guy realize that adults aren't bad, and that it's OK to grow up. Once he's no longer a child, all the other 'kids' grow up, too, and the mountain hideaway is destroyed to keep Peter's Fountain of Youth from an evil society. This very piece was horribly dubbed and sold as "The Magical Princess Gigi" in the States as a video so bad, the producer's name is misspelled on the box - the great anime evil Carl Macek. There are a few fansubs (non-commercial copies of movies/series translated to English as subtitles, produced by fans of material not yet licensed for sale or distribution in the States) of the Minky movies out - "Bridge for Your Tomorrows" is a tear-jerker, and "State of Embarcation" brings the old and new Minkys (Minkies ?) together. Oddly enough, the movies are quite philosophical and serious-toned, especially for what's supposed to be Pokemon-level kid fluff. Well worth seeking out - an anime society near you may have more information, or even a set of copies. Be sure to scout around on line with the correct name!"- Shinobu
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December 28, 2000
Can someone help Linda?
"when i was younger, there was this show on nickelodeon. it was kind of like saved by the bell. it was about the life of like 5 or 6 high schoolers. the only two things i remember were this little cafe shop thing they always went to and one of the girls was named ashley?"
The answer is...
"The show was called "Fifteen" it was about High School kids on Nickelodeon...i used to watch it when i was about 15...it aired around 1992 or so...but they kept switching the cast up and you could never tell what years the shows were from and in what order...the main characters were Billy...Chris, Dylan, Ashley. Coincidentally the girl who plays Ashley wound up playing the monster and going nude in the movie "The Faculty"."- Anthony
"I believe the answer is "You can't do that on television" or "Don't do that on Television." - Howler
"The name of the show you are looking for is Welcome Freshman. It was a campy, funny show that was made in the early-90's. The characters always met at the mall, and the show had fake commercials and sketches that included the teens as they went through high school life. You can also read more about it on the jumping-the-shark website. I'm sorry that I do not remember that much about it, but I was about 9 or 10 at the time, but let me tell you that I did like it as a kid. I hope this helps." - Andrew
"She's watching "Degrassi Jr. High" -- it's Canadian" - Eric
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December 27, 2000
Can someone help Jimmy?
"in the episode of superfriends there was an episode called planet of the Neanderthals where a scientist turned every thing into prehistoric time my question is did the super friends transformed into prehistoric people and if so which heroes got transformed into prehistoric"
The answer is...
"No. The Superfriends remained themselves, although the Hall of Justice resembled a cave. The Superfriends still had their friends aboard SkyLab to help them out."- Matt
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December 26, 2000
Can someone help Paul?
"I remember fondly seeing a recurring act on just about every top variety show on TV at one time or another during the 1950s and 1960s. The Banana Man came out onstage dressed in a huge baggy coat and clown makeup and towing a trunk. He never talked, sort of whined a song, usually "Sweet Georgia Brown". Throughout his act he would pull out of his coat all sorts of bizarre props for a one-joke gag (sort of like what Carrot Top does today), and occasionally make a few clothing and wig adjustments to totally transform himself into another clown (even changing his sex!), and always pull from his coat amazing bunches of bananas. He'd usually end his act by taking from the trunk several smaller ones nested inside it, all of which looked like the cars of a little train, and he'd go off pulling this row of trunks as if he were playing train. Anyone either remember this, too, or know of any information about who he was and what happened to him? I'd really like to know! With exposure of the sort that he got, he just had to have been well known to all the major stars and networks."
The answer is...
"I don't recall this vaudevillian comedian, but apparently his real name was A. Robbins and he was part of the cast of Captain Kangaroo. See: http:/
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December 26, 2000
Can someone help Pete?
"i watched the cartoon top cat for a few years, but i never could get all the names of the cats in the gang??? does anyone know all their names??"
The answer is...
"Top Cat's buddies were Fancy Fancy, Spook, Benny, Brain and Choo Choo. -- and don't forget Officer Dibble."- Doug
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December 25, 2000
Can someone help A Durbak?
"Help! Identify these four 80's shows.
1) A live action prime-time TV show about a team of super-heroes. One of the heroes could shoot lighting from his hands, and another could shrink his body down to 12" in height. Weird memory fragment: The shrinking guy, who was black, shrunk down to 12" but his clothes didn't. So while shrunk, he wore a Michael Jackson outfit (w/ single white glove!) that he took off a Michael Jackson doll, because it was the only male doll to fit him.
2) This family somehow became trapped this alternate dimension where the people drove these weird cars. The family somehow settled down in a city, and found out that all the products were generic - at the store, all you could buy were white cans of tomamtoes labled "tomatoes" and so forth.
3) A martial arts show. There was an old martial arts master teamed up with a younger guy. They wore black bodysuits, and in one episode rescued Boy George.
4) Super obscure: It was on PBS. I saw ONE episode of this show ever, then I never heard of it ever again. Very odd. There was this regular suburban family, then all this surreal stuff starts to happen. This maid turns out to be some kind of voodoo priestess, and this starving ethiopian kids suddenly appears in the house. The mother then starts going insane..."
The answer is...
"1) Misfits of Science. No idea about the others"- StumpMaster
"I think #3 was "The Master," with Lee van Cleef as, well, the master." - Mark
"I heard (never saw) of a show called "Otherworld" that could be the answer to your Question #2." - John
"4. I think this was an episode of Amazing Stories with Della Reese but I'm not sure of the PBS angle." - William
"No, it wasn't this. The voodoo woman was not Della Reese, she was much younger. Also, the show was intended to be a comedy." - A Durbak
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December 23, 2000
Can someone help Kris?
"Who sang the theme song for the Mary Tyler Moore Show? It sounds like Barry Manilow to me."
The answer is...
"Actually, it was Sonny Curtis"- StumpMaster
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December 23, 2000
Can someone help W?
"When did the last episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents appear on tv and was it an hour long ?"
The answer is...
"The Alfred Hitchcock Presents program ran from October 1955 to September 1965. In 1962 it became an hour long show until the end. When it started airing as an hour it was changed to "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"."- Dee
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December 21, 2000
Can someone help Michelle?
"The song during the opening credits of Grose Pointe is great. Whats the name and who sings it??"
The answer is...
"This is "Sex Bomb" by Tom Jones. It was a big hit in the UK (that's where I first heard it) and I've heard a slower (not as good) version of it here. I don't know which version they use at the WB."- Mike
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December 21, 2000
Can someone help Steve?
"I'm trying to remember the episode of gimme a break in which the girls are in the variety show at school ( or maybe they are auditioning for a "real" recording contract) and they sing a popular tune of the day. In the beginning of the show they sound terrible, but with Nell's coaching the girls harmonize with style and pull off a professional looking performance. Can you remember the episode, the year and the song? Thanks!"
The answer is...
"The name of the group, in which the oldest daughter was involved, was "The Hot Biscuits" and the song was Do You Think I'm Sexy by Rod Stewart. They were actually planning on starting a career as a rock group. They wore shiny hot pants. And the Chief was not happy."- Kate
"the name of Katie's rock group was "the Hot Muffins" (one of the girls in the group suggested it would be cool to cut out the seats of their hot pants and replace them with saran wrap)." - lia
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December 20, 2000
Can someone help wRen?
"what did "The Mighty Hercules" used to say to activate his magic ring?"
The answer is...
"OLYMPIAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"- John
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December 20, 2000
Can someone help Elena?
"What was Lilith Crane's maiden name? (Dr. Frasier Crane's ex-wife)"
The answer is...
"Sternin"- StumpMaster
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December 19, 2000
Can someone help Christopher?
"In the April Fool's Episode of Pete and Pete, what is the name of the household product dumped into the dad's cereal in the beginning?"
The answer is...
"...baking soda! I remember seeing this along time ago and thinking switching out baking soda with sugar was always a classic April Fool's joke, as when someone would pour the sugar on their rice crispies (or whatever cereal) baking soda would come out instead, and I remember learning that from an episode of the old show "Pete & Pete"- Corwin
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December 19, 2000
Can someone help Rippy?
"I have a vague memory of a Saturday morning cartoon special, that featured Popeye captaining some cruise ship, with various comic strip characters (Blondie and Dagwood come to mind) as passengers, and Bluto being involved with some criminal organization trying to sabotage the cruise. I seem to also remember a Captain America looking character in it (maybe it was the Phantom.) I remember seeing at as a kid during the early to mid 70's. Was was this cartoon called, or did I imagine it all?"
The answer is...
"ABC HAD THE SATURDAY SUPERSTAR MOVIE. I CAN'T RECALL THE TITLE OF POPEYE, BUT OTHER FEATURES INCLUDED "YOGI'S ARK LARK" ECOLOGY THEMED . ALSO ANIMATED NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR ,AND ROBIN HOODNICK WITH PAUL LYNDE AS THE SHERIFF ."- D
"The name of this specific ABC Superstar Movie was "Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter" There is an excellent page on all the Superstar movies at http:/
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December 19, 2000
Can someone help Zelle?
"This show came on in the mid to late '80s... I think it came on Saturday or Sunday afternoons... about a girl whose father was an alien... her mother was a human. Her father was off in space or something... She spoke to him through some weird crystal thing next to her bed. She could stop time by touching her fingers together, I think... and she could restart it by clapping (??) ... Please help!"
The answer is...
"I believe this was "Out of This World" and I think it was syndicated. Starred Donna Pescow as the mom, and the girl, though I don't know the actress' name, showed up later on "7th Heaven" as Matt's non-deaf girlfriend."- Joe
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December 19, 2000
Can someone help Kim and Jim?
"There is an old cartoon where there is a man and his dog running all over trying to please the mans wife. They get hit by a car and the ambulance arrives and proceeds to mix up the plasma. They were yelling "Dog Plasma....Human plasma" Can anyone name this cartoon."
The answer is...
"According to Leonard Maltin's book Of Mice and Magic, the cartoon was called "Crazy Mixed Up Pup", and was directed by Tex Avery for Walter Lantz Studios in 1954, and was nominated an Academy Award in Best Short film. Because it was produced by the same studio as Woody Woodpecker, it was usually shown on TV with Woody Woodpecker and Chilly Willy cartoons."- Rippy
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December 18, 2000
Can someone help William?
"I've always had a hard time identifying the Hill's Angels on the Benny Hill show. Who played the female Banner and the female Hulk in Benny's spoof of the show "The Incredible Hulk?""
The answer is...
"Angel Claire Smalley turns into Angel Allison Bell." -Thanks to William
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December 18, 2000
Can someone help Mollie?
"Whenever Brainy Smurf was being a smart-ass, he always got thrown on his head by another Smurf. What I can't remember is what Brainy always said when he landed?"
The answer is...
"Brainy Smurf never said the same thing every time he landed on his head, though it was always spoken in a whiny voice. Once or twice he didn't say anything, just sort of looked at us blinking as if to say "What? What did I say?"- Kimberly
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December 18, 2000
Can someone help W?
"Which band or solo artist has performed on Saturday Night Live more than any other?"
The answer is...
"My guess would be Paul Simon"- StumpMaster
"Paul Simon is a good guess; I think Sting has been on a hell of a lot of times too. Madonna has been on a few times, too, but I think at least one of those times she didn't sing.
Upon further review (well, at www.saturday-night-live.com , that is), Paul Simon looks like he's No. 1 with 10 appearances, though the site doesn't differentiate if he sang each appearance or not. Tom Petty is second with 7, and James Taylor and Sting both have six (again, Sting might not have sung on each appearance). Madonna, oddly, has only been on twice -- it seems like more for some reason. Maybe I'm confusing SNL with MTV's VMAs" - Joe
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December 18, 2000
Can someone help Ed?
"The show was in the late 70's??? very early 80's. All I remember is that there was a dad trying to raise his two hot daughters. One blonde and the other brunette. I think the mother was dead. Dad liked to fish.....they had an apartment....what was the name of it??????"
The answer is...
"Hello, Larry." This is the show McLean Stevenson gave up M*A*S*H for. Despite being a national joke for being so bad, it managed to survive the 1979 season and was renewed for 1980. It also starred a pubescent Kim Richards, famous for Disney films such as "Escape to Witch Mountain," while two different actresses played her sexually-aware older sister."- Ted
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December 18, 2000
Can someone help Daria?
"I was watching the Peter Seller's film "Being There" last night which shows lots of tv/commercial clips from the 70's. Durring the scene where he is driven to Shirley McClaine's mansion- he is in the limo watching the tv and there is this strange animated bit playing. It's a cartoon of a Fat Albert style black kid singing about how he has a "basketball jones" (as in jonesin' to play basketball) but he's too short, etc. - the song gets all elaborate & builds up to this weird intense gospel/choir thing. It was strangely stirring despite it's silliness & I'm intrigued to know what the hell it was-was it a commercial? Part of a movie/cartoon? I'm sure it was something from actual tv as all the other clips shown were of existing commercials/shows. Anyone???"
The answer is...
"The first time I saw the cartoon was in the movie, believe it or not, but the soundtrack to that cartoon was from an old Cheech & Chong album where a rising black basketball star was asked to explain how he got to be a star despite being 4'8" or something like that. He says "A Basketball Jones is where you loooooooove basketball so much you are like a junkie" and then sings a little song "Basketball Jones/I got a Basketball Jones/I got a Basketball Jones O Baby ooo-ooo-ooo" and in the end while the choir is singing he starts saying stuff like "I can shoot from half-court with my tongue" and like that. It came out in the 70's and my buddies and I used to listen to that 8-Track A LOT...and back then, for some reason, EVERYTHING was funny, if you get my drift...."- John
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December 18, 2000
Can someone help William?
"Where is that house seen in the exterior shots of Wayne Manor in the tv series "Batman ?" I have also seen that house in the movie "Delirious.""
The answer is...
"The house is or was located in Hewlett, New York, on the South Shore of Long Island"- Andrew
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December 17, 2000
Can someone help Matthew?
"i remember around 1990 there was this show about these guys that drove a futuristic tractor trailer....i think that either they we're hauling nuclear weapons or the tractor-trailer had weapons or there was a car in the trailer...i'm not even sure this was a tv show, or a made for tv movie or a movie, or is just imagined it....."
The answer is...
"I think it was Space Trucker with Dennis Hopper. It was a movie."- Jay
"I'm almost sure that this was either Knight Rider because KITT on that show was always being carried on a truck especially for maintenance jobs or it's less than seen spin-off, Knight Rider 2000, which had three to four different KITT cars also I think continually being transported by truck." - William
"The Highwayman". It was a VERY short-lived action series co-starring the Australian guy who used to do the Energizer battery commercials" - Lucas
"though i can't recall a series, this sounds like a MST3000 feature. it looked like two episodes of something dovetailed together but early eighties fashions" - D
"If you remember George Peppard of the "A-Team" or Jan-Michael Vincent of "Airwolf" in this movie, and radioactive giant farm rodents and insects, the movie was "Damnation Alley." According to IMDB, it is also sometimes called "Survival Run." I guess it was a theatrical release, but the first time I ever saw it was on television in the early 1980s." - Ted
"Two ideas come to mind: Quark , a space garbage scow from the 70s tv program Damnation Alley had two mobile command centers---mutant RVs from hell, which. I believe, had a smaller scale armored car." - Sigfried
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December 17, 2000
Can someone help Em?
"What was the song that Natalie and Jo did in the Christmas show where they all sang called? Also, who originated the song?"
The answer is...
"It was called "A Christmas Past", although many people think it was called "We Need A Little Christmas". I don't know who originated it."- Nat
"We Need A Little Christmas," written by Jerry Herman for the 1966 Broadway musical Maime. It was originally preformed by Angela Lansbury." - Shawn
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December 16, 2000
Can someone help Nat?
"I slightly remember this show that was on in the early 90's. I don't remember anything except the fact that at the end of the theme song, there was this small image of a girl dancing in the bottom, right-hand corner. In the show, the cast hung out at this cafe. What is this? I also remember another show that was on Nickelodeon. My guess is it was on in '96. Anyway, all the characters spoke with an English accent (much like the S Club 7 cast's accent) and they all lived in, like, a forest preserve or something. When it was a new show and they had commercials for it, they said, "How would you like this to be your backyard? (then they showed a swamp with trees behind it) Or be best friends with dolphins?" I don't remember the name of this show. Help!"
The answer is...
"I think you're referring to an Australian show called "Ship to Shore" that was on Nick for a while in the mid '90s."- Noel
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December 16, 2000
Can someone help Scotty?
"Anybody remember the name of a sitcom that lasted about a year or two around '83? It starred Jason Bateman & whats-his-name, the guy who played Steve on "Married With Children". The premise had Bateman continually antagonizing & competing with "Steve", his stepfather or at least his mom's new boyfriend."
The answer is...
"It's Your Move"- StumpMaster
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December 16, 2000
Can someone help Matt?
"Does anyone remember short little stop-action films which aired on PBS which were recreations of famous chess matches? I'm not kidding, I remember these vividly, and they really made an impression on me as a kid. Who was behind these??"
The answer is...
"According to books by British Grandmaster and chess author John Nunn, the BBC aired chess matches in stop-motion animation. A lot of other PBS shows are re-runs of BBC programming, so the Brits probably had the idea first. But as for what people, specifically, were responsible, I don't know and Nunn doesn't say" - Mark
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December 15, 2000
Can someone help Maisena?
"For almost 10 years me and my aunt have had a bet, but have been unable to settle it. On the cartoon She -ra, she had a sidekick by the name of Butterina (or something like that), We want to know how she came to be Butterina. We know She-ra transformed her, we just don't know from what."
The answer is...
"Flutterina was a maid known as Small One who rescued She-Ra but got herself fried in the process. Check out her "origin story" here if you're really interested. http:/
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December 15, 2000
Can someone help Scott?
"On the show ER, the character named Carrie Weaver, Have they ever revealed why she's got the limp and crutch? She seems too young for polio, was it a car accident? Just wondering..."
The answer is...
"CARRIE WEAVER HAD MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS"- dfrankio
"As per a recent article in People magazine there has never been a reason given for the crutch, and there are no plans to do so. I guess if the ratings dip, maybe we'll find out." - Andrew
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December 14, 2000
Can someone help Jimmy?
"do you remember when the brady bunch had that christmas movie that actress was married to greg brady anyway what was her name and i remember her show but i forgot the name of it can you please tell me"
The answer is...
"Nora Brady was played by Caryn Richman on "A Very Brady Christmas"- StumpMaster
"I believe the show that you are referring to which starred Caryn Richman (Greg's wife in A Very Brady Xmas/The Bradys) was "The New Gidget". It aired in 1st run syndie from 1986-1988." - Malcolm
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December 13, 2000
Can someone help William?
"Have you ever heard of the saying "Dreezle, Drazzle, Drome, Time for this one to come home."? I think I heard it in one of the Saturday morning cartoons of my youth, but I'm not sure which one."
The answer is...
"That would be Tooter Turtle, one segment of the "King Leonardo and His Short Subjects" show. More info and some downloads are available at this address... http:/
"The cartoon was called Tutor Turtle. Tutor Turtle was a little turtle (dah!) who always wanted to be somebody else. He would tell his friend Mr. Wizard that he wished to be like say, a knight in shining armor or a private detective or something... Well, always against Mr. Wizards better judgment, he would send Tutor via magic off to be whatever Tutor wished to be. But it always ended up bad, such as the knight in shining amour about to be burnt to a crisp by a dragon, at this point Tutor would always scream, "Misssssster Wizard!!! I want to come hooooome!!! Then Mr. Wizard would recite the spell that always brought Tutor back, "Dreezle, Drazzle, Drome, Time for this one to come home." I guess you can guess that the story always had a moral, and you know what that was...." - Wilder
"The character's name was Tootle the Turtle, not Tutor nor Tooter!" - Paul
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December 13, 2000
Can someone help William?
"Do you possibly remember a Japanese cartoon from the Seventies about three airplanes which morphed or joined together into a robot. All the pilots were men led by a woman on a computer. She never flew the planes herself except on one crucial mission and each of them wore color-coordinated uniforms. That's all I remember."
The answer is...
"my son watched a similar show in the 80s........only it had 5 color-coded people/planes and all together they formed a robot named Voltron, which was the name of the show"- Tammy
"IIRC, it was one of the Force 5 cartoons. Someone else mentioned Voltron, but that was 5 lions. What you're thinking of is the three space planes that joined together - Starvengers." - Peter
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December 13, 2000
Can someone help Jack?
"There was a show on in the early eighties, on either Saturday or Sunday morning. It was about this boy who lived with his single mom. He has a computer where he was able to contact a young girl who was in the future and living on the moon. I think it was called Star Stuff or Space Stuff or something, but I can't remember. Can you help?"
The answer is...
"The title you're looking for is "The Powers of Mathew Starr." - Maria
The following info appears on the Beakman's World eb page: http:/
"it was called star stuff i watched that show faithfully" - Petenice
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December 12, 2000
Can someone help Jon?
"I remember some cartoon special that had something to do with endangered condors? Also, there was another cartoon with a hippo, and he had to run from from biker-type sharks? Shat were they called?"
The answer is...
"The cartoon hippo is Peter Potamus and actually can be found at the end of a rental Scooby Doo video, which I believe to be “Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats” (or so my 5-year-old tells me)" - Ryan
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December 12, 2000
Can someone help Smoke Verbs?
"WHAT DOES B. J. STAND FOR IN M.A.S.H.?"
The answer is...
"According to my sources, BJ doesn't stand for anything. He was named after his parents Bea and Jay"- StumpMaster
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December 12, 2000
Can someone help Scott?
"OK, here's a TV show I remember seeing as a kid that hopefully someone can help me identify. This was maybe the fall of 1978. The program was about a husband and wife who switched bodies thanks to some mysterious Egyptian idol or something, which they'd picked up somewhere. It was kind of a precursor to "Vice Versa" and other movies involving the same theme. The husband had black curly hair and the wife was blonde. Somehow they were trying to find a way to switch bodies back again (obviously) but in the meantime the focus of the show was seeing how they dealt with being in the wrong body. I don't believe the show lasted more than one season. Thanks for any help on this one."
The answer is...
"Turnabout." Starred Sharon Gless and John Schuck. Lasted 7 episodes. Here's the IMDB citation: http:/
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December 12, 2000
Can someone help Mike?
"There was a disney cartoon "short" featuring Donald Duck and Pluto, one of them swallowed a magnet and there was a a frenetic sequence where they would run around in an apartment building... Pluto on the upper floor while Donald was dragged around the ceiling in the apartment below. I have been searching those video collections (suffering thru some awful stuff) in the hopes of finding this one - no luck. Does anyone remember the title?"
The answer is...
"Appropriately enough, "Donald and Pluto", from 1936. More information at http:/
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December 11, 2000
Can someone help Jessi?
"i was wondering the name of the show about a young blonde girl who played tennis, i think it was on around '93 '94 and she lived with her single mom and brother and her tennis coach was always around the house, i think there was a romance (possibly?!) between the mom and the coach! Please Help!!!"
The answer is...
"That show was called "Phenom."- RMK
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December 11, 2000
Can someone help Abe?
"In the early eighties as a kid, I would watch cartoons on Saturday morning. About once an hour on CBS they would have a Childrens News Break that lasted the length of a commercial. This News Break consisted of a Globe Turning and then the news being kid -related. I remember watching the story of David the "Bubble Boy" on one of these news breaks. What was the name of these News Breaks."
The answer is...
"In The News". I loved this segment even though I never learned anything!"- Head Shark
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December 11, 2000
Can someone help Carrie?
"We are in need of a specific scene from a western movie or TV show. The scene is the "File in the Pie" scene where a woman brings a pie to jail when visiting her husband or son. In the pie contains a file which is used for means of escape. Do you have any idea what western TV show or movie has this scene in it? Do you recall the Cisco Kid having a scene like this? We have been looking for so long. If you could help us out that would be terrific! Thanks so much for your time."
The answer is...
"Buster Keaton did this in his 1928 film "Steamboat Bill, Jr." He brings as file in bread to his jailed father. Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but this may be where they got the idea-- also may help some other reader find the real answer you're looking for."- Doug
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December 11, 2000
Can someone help Hunny?
"This was a show on PBS that I don't really remember a lot about. I remember seeing it when I was in grade 4 but it could have been in reruns then. That would have been around 1984. It was about a bunch of kids that hung out in some kind of clubhouse and tried to solve mysteries. I remember a computer monitor that sat on a desk and would give the kids clues. The clues would be on blue back ground I think with white lettering. The kids also I think could travel through time to solve the mysteries."
The answer is...
"321 contact, I think was the name of the show."- Kyle
"I'm pretty sure that is Ghostwriter. There was a little thing that looked like a dandelion head floating from the screen to the real world right? If there was, that is definitely Ghostwriter" - Mike
"it was not Ghostwriter (that show was mid-90s), but was in fact "Read all About It". The general plotline was 4 kids (probably early teens in age) who ran a newspaper somewhere in Ontario (could have been either Toronto or Kingston). Of course, their Coachhouse (where they put the newspaper together) also had a transporter to the galaxy of Trialviron where the evil Lord Dunedin would attempt to take over the world. They traveled in time to deal with the War of 1812 and had a couple other mega-adventures...." - Jon
"The bloodhound gang!!" - Allen
"It was the Bloodhound Gang, which was a short segment of the show 3-2-1 Contact." - Rippy
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December 10, 2000
Can someone help Herschel?
"Does anyone know which show has the episode where a little white girl plays with a doll that is black, which distresses the girl's father. The episode ends with the a live black girl running away from the house with no sign of the white girl except for a doll that resembles the missing white girl. This was in the early '60s. I thought it was Hitchcock, but I couldn't find it in the episode guides."
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"Lordy, lordy, lordy! I could have sworn this haunting little program was Hitchcock, too. It wasn't a father but a mother played by none other than Bea Benaderet, Kay Bradley off Petticoat Junction. If this eerie little story wasn't Hitchcock, another one in the series had to be one with Pat Buttram, Mr. Haney from Green Acres, beheading his wife and putting her head in a jar and showing it to the neighbors to guess what it was. It may not have been Hitchcock but it was Bea Benaderet at the end of the program clutching the doll in the woods and crying after she had run off the little black girl. Maybe that will help."- Richard
"Well, I don't know if this is the right answer to Herschel's question, but Richard is talking about a series called "Vacation Playhouse". It was a summer replacement show which featured pilots that had not been sold. The episode that Richard is referring to (the one he thinks Herschel is talking about) was called "All About Barbara" - StumpMaster
"I'm pretty sure the show of the little white girl playing with the black doll that comes alive at the end was an episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS. But it may have been ONE STEP BEYOND, which featured "true" accounts like that." - Paul
"The title of the episode you are looking for is "Where the Woodbind Twineth" and was on Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond or Outer Limits (could have been Hitchcock, but I don't think so)." - Hal
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December 10, 2000
Can someone help Rob?
"There was a show on the sci-fi channel saturday mornings either right before or right after mystery science 3000 probably around 1993 or so. It had a feel like a news magazine show and this sci-fi aficionado would talk about various mysterious sci-fi stories, etc. There was often a large emphasis on alien sightings and ghost sightings. I thought it was called something like "mysteries from beyond the other dominion" but that isn't on your site and the first word is the one i'm least sure of. So rather than wade through the many shows listed, i'll just ask that stumpmaster guy. Thanks"
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"The show was indeed called "Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion" and was hosted by Dr. Franklin Ruehl whom always seemed to be in a brown polyester suit. I believe he had a doctorate in nuclear engineering (seriously) and his show started out on basic cable. It was on Sci-Fi Channel's very first year on the air and came on Sunday nights. Essentially, anything covering aliens, bizarre and crackpot theories, weird science or the just plain bizarre would be on the show. The sets and effects were very low budget and Dr. Ruehl was overly enthusiastic about the topics and would often flail his bony arms in excitement while reading the cue cards. I think it came on at 9:00PM after "Sci-Fi Buzz". Admittedly, it was an oddly addictive show."- Tommy
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December 10, 2000
Can someone help Lisa?
"Trying to figure out a show my husband quotes. It has Diana Ross and Bill Cosby as kids playing together. She says, "Billy, Billy, Billy, is that you out there doing nothin'", he goes on to tell her that to do nothing you just think of something to do and don't do it. I have tried to figure this out to see if I could find it for my husband. Any help would be appreciated"
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"I think I might have figured it out. I found a soundtrack on e-bay of a 1971 tv special titled Diana! Original tv soundtrack, or something to that effect and it has a song listed with bill cosby, i think that may be the one."- Lisa
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December 10, 2000
Can someone help semper fi?
"I remember as a kid in the early or mid 70's there was a cartoon about these kids, who where like the kids in the partridge family. They where part of a circus or something, and they are about to loose there jobs because they don't play good anymore or something like that. Well in comes the villain who tries to help them but for his own purposes by hypnotizing them. They eventually figure out what's really going on, beat him, and play better, and keep there jobs at the circus. Any ideas what this was?"
The answer is...
"Your best bet for a 70's cartoon about kids in a circus would be Devlin."- Richard
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December 9, 2000
Can someone help Scott?
"what was the name of the sitcom in the early 80's, whose setting was in a convenient store. And a family owned it i believe and it only lasted a couple of months."
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"That would be "Open All Night", an ABC adaptation of a very funny britcom "Open All Hours". The show starred a pre-"Law & Order" George Dzundza and a pre-"Police Academy" Bubba Smith, and lasted a few weeks during the 1981-82 season."- RMK
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December 9, 2000
Can someone help Hans?
"On the Smurfs; what was the kid's name who hung out with Gargamel?"
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"Rufis."- Josh
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December 9, 2000
Can someone help William?
"What were Kelly and Bud's birthdays on "Married With Children ?""
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"I know I have heard this answered before; fortunately, I have a buddy who has the entire series on tape. The family took Kelly to the movies for her birthday in the episode that ran on April 11,1995 (?). However, when the idiot little kid named Seven (man, I hated that kid!!) decided that he wanted a birthday, Peggy rattled off a couple of dates, January 22 (Bud's birthday) and November 27 (Kelly's birthday), so those would be the most accurate birthdays. That episode, by the way, was Al's birthday."- Russell
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December 9, 2000
Can someone help Lisa?
"Does anyone remember the name a show which featured a young boy (early teens?) who had an accident and traveled to a different dimension? I believe his body was still here, but he was also in this other place that seemed to be ruled by kids. This show played on the Sci Fi Channel sometime during the time period of '96-'98. I think it was filmed in Canada. Any help you can provide would be great. This is driving me nuts!!."
The answer is...
"Actually, I think I found my own answer
It was called "Odessy"- Lisa
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December 8, 2000
Can someone help Jill?
"There was a show on Saturday mornings, probably in the late seventies. It featured live actors. I remember it was like a detective show. One guy wore a brown fedora and trench coat. He might have been the actor who was later Herb Tarlick on WKRP??? Anyway, I also remember there was a crazy GORILLA (obviously a person in a suit). Anyway, do you remember this show? Also, it seemed to be running during the same period as the cartoon Hong Kong Fuey (spelling?). I hope I'm not mixing up plot lines."
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"I believe the name of the name of the show was "Ghost-Busters" (before the movie). Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch (F-Troop) and I think the other guy was the dude from WKRP. I can't remember. But I definitely remember the gorilla."- Charles
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December 8, 2000
Can someone help Cathi?
"Was there a show on in the 70s with the Rolling Stones and the Krofft puppets?"
The answer is...
"This was "The Bay City Rollers Show". It was a Sid and Marty Krofft show."- Sleepincar
"dr bugaloo?" - Rob
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December 8, 2000
Can someone help W?
"When was the last appearance of The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show live or on promotional film?"
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"3-15-70, Ringo sings Sentimental Journey with Martin directing the Talk Of the Town Orchestra. Airtime 5-17-70 HELLO GOODBYE debuts on Sullivan 12-26-67. Filmed 12-10-67 but kept off 'top of the pops' . Who knows why? perhaps one can finally tell it's not live or it was filmed with a non- union crew . "- D
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December 8, 2000
Can someone help Renee?
"What kind of monkey did Ross have on the TV show "Friends"? He monkey's name was Marcel, but I'd like to know the type of monkey?"
The answer is...
"Marcel was a black capuchin monkey with a white face "- StumpMaster
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December 8, 2000
Can someone help Melanie?
"Can anyone tell me the name of the actor who played Murphy on Remington Steele? I always thought that he was such a babe."
The answer is...
"James Read "- StumpMaster
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December 7, 2000
Can someone help Emil?
"what is the first name of Lt. Columbo?"
The answer is...
"Like his fellow crime fighter Quincy, Columbo officially has no first name. However, also like Quincy who in one episode handed out a business card with 'R. Quincy' on it, there is one on-screen clue to Columbo's first name. In the episode "Dead Weight", Columbo introduces himself and flashes his ID. On it is written a first name. There is a blow-up of the screenshot at http:/
"In the episode where he is cooking veal cutlets talking about how his dad cooked them for him as a kid when his mother was in the hospital giving birth to one of siblings he referred to his father calling him jo-jo!!" - Allen
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December 7, 2000
Can someone help Jeremy?
"I was wondering if anyone knows the name of a cartoon that came on in the early 80's in Europe. I believe it was either Italian or French. The main character was a big white lion. Weren't many tv stations at the time and I use to watch the show living on a military base when I was about seven"
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"This may have been KIMBA - Huge round eyes - and that was a japannese cartoon. The dubbing was particularly strange, and the plots were very moralistic and overtly from another culture. They freaked me out as a little kid. "- Mike
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December 7, 2000
Can someone help Rex?
"I remember watching an animated black and white short in the mornings before I went to school, back in the mid 60's. I think it was set on the moon, and featured an older man, probably a scientist, and a boy, running around in spacesuits in sort of slow motion. the plots were pretty simple and there might have been some other characters too. I don't think it was anime, but it was pretty dark and surrealistic and seemed quite old, even then. The thing I remember most, though, was the background music. It was always the same ominous, dramatic, descending-toned riff played over and over again. (DAAAAA! DA! DA! DA! DA-DA-DA!) I was probably eight or ten when I saw this last and haven't seen it since. To me, It seemed to have a sort of a "Lost in Space" feel about it, though darker, and much older. Makes me think it could have been influential to some later shows."
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"Could it have been "Mr.E from Tau Ceti"? I only know one other person who's ever heard of it. It was about a young alien stranded on earth. I remember a scientist and the scientist's son were always trying to get him back to Tau Ceti. This was on around 1962-1964, I remember watching it before I was in kindergarten."- Mike
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December 7, 2000
Can someone help Jonathan?
"Can someone help? I saw this show twice on the Disney channel (I don't think it was a series or anything like that) where this young British-sounding girl befriended this rabbit who was basically a man dressed up like a funky-looking Easter bunny and his name was Mr. Nibbles. His first name began with an "E" and he would come out of this magic barrel. The show looked like it was from the early seventies. The girl's name was Mary and she had a younger sister who was petrified of mice. Was this show a series? Does anyone know what this show even was or who was in it?"
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"Sounds very similar to a program that did air on the CBS Children's Film Festival, well back into the seventies. An English program, a white rabbit costumed character that only one girl could see. She had to close her eyes and count to five or something, and when she tried to let another girl in on the secret, her sister or a friend, the other girl screamed and ran away crying 'mummy, mummy, mummy'. Finally everyone was allowed to see the rabbit at the end and he materialized as he crawled backwards out of a barrel at a birthday party. Very 'Harvey' like. Does this sound like it could be it? "- Richard
"I remember this too. I think it was the Double Deckers? Anyway it came on around the same time." - John
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December 7, 2000
Can someone help Jessica?
"There was a show on Saturday mornings in the late 80's (11:30a or 12:00p, on NBC, I think), that featured Colin Quinn and Ahmet Zappa. It was filmed at the Hollywood Bowl, I think. I also think it followed the Ed Grimley cartoon. Does anyone remember this? WHAT WAS IT CALLED?"
The answer is...
"2 Hip 4 TV "- StumpMaster
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Boots?
"What was the name of the game show where the contestants would stop lights going around the board what cheering "BIG MONEY, BIG MONEY" but would end up with a "WHAMMY" which was a cartoon devil (?) that would take all their money away?"
The answer is...
"Press Your Luck "- StumpMaster
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help William?
"Does anyone remember a horror anthology from the early seventies? In one episode it had a boy crushing dead leaves who accidentally created a doppleganger that was always getting getting him into trouble with his teacher. When she crushed the same type of leaves, her doppleganger went to help the first doppleganger terrorize the kid. Another episode had a little girl who controlled and manipulated her family with dolls that looked like them in a dollhouse version of their house. When the real house caught fire, the girl had to rescue her dolls from the dollhouse in order to wake up her family and rescue them. All her dolls were clothed in fabrics from the clothing of her family. This anthology series opened up on the shots of a darkened but spooky old house."
The answer is...
"Could it have been "Night Gallery"? It was a Rod Serling production. "- Rick
"I could think of two possibilities for you, maybe one will ring a bell. There was Darkroom in 1981 And there was Tales of the Unexpected from 1977. I think it was probably the latter, as the story ideas sound like something from Roald Dahl, who helped develop the series." - Daune
"I think the show was Circle of Fear. It was on on Friday nights. I remember the episode with the dolls and the fire. As I recall, there were not that many episodes, to my disappointment. It was on in about 1973 or 1974." - Andrew
"I recognize the dollhouse episode, but I don't recall where I saw it from. However, the doppelganger episode vaguely resembles Houston's question of November 30,2000, so I'm assuming that both are episodes of "Circle of Fear" aka "Ghost Story." It is NOT "Night Gallery," I have all of those on tape." - Russell
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Mark?
"There was a Disneyish "One Time Only Special Movie of the Week" or some sort back in the early 1980s that featured a monsterish boogey man "terrorizing" a family though this was actually a comedy. The husband was the curly haired guy with the moustache on "Emergency!", this particular family had a boy and a girl. I believe there was even a sequel TV Special to it called Mr. Boogety. Mr. Boogety(?) wore a black cape/cowl combo and had a face that was horribly burned and scarred. The boy in the family once called him "hamburger face". I am half sure this actually was aired but can't remember the plot, only one scene. Did anyone else ever see this show? Am I insane?"
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"I remember these movies, "Mr. Boogedy" and "Bride of Boogedy." They were kind of like Disneyfied versions of Beetlejuice. I remember vividly that the first movie ended with Boogedy being sucked into a vacuum cleaner. Pretty bad stuff. "- Ben
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Tom?
"What was the name of the cartoon that featured Strong Man, Coo Coo Man, and Baby Man or Diaper Man?"
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"The Mighty Heroes was a half-hour long. It was created by Ralph Bakshi, produced by Terrytoons, creators of Mighty Mouse, and premiered on CBS on October 29, 1966. The series featured an odd mixture of heroes with the names of Tornado Man, Rope Man, Cuckoo Man, Diaper Man, and Strong Man. More information at http:/
"Actually Cuckoo Man, Diaper man and also Rope Man and Tornado Man, The Mighty Heroes (1966) see: http:/
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Charlie?
"In the early sixties I watched a "cartoon" about a boy who worked with his father aboard a boat. His father was a deep sea diver. The figures never really moved like a true cartoon, just the mouth when they talked, or the boat as it wondered down the river, They were more like cut out figures. It was one of my FAVORITE shows growing up outside Ft. Knox Ky. If you know the name or a web site that might be able to help you would have my greatest thanks"
The answer is...
"I think you're thinking about Clutch Cargo, the absolute worst cartoon of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!"- J. Jordan
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Deanna?
"I remember one cartoon in particular, it had a couple of mice that spoke with English accents. It looked like these might have been reruns from the 70s or early 80s. Any ideas? One of the mice might have worn glasses..."
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"This sounds like Dangermouse."- Steve
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Brett?
"There was a show called Spacenuts. Two guys stranded on the moon. One of the guys was Gilligan and the other was a guy whom looked like the Skipper but wasn't the Skipper. Who was that dude? Very scary show even though it was comedy. I remember a scary cave with strange moon type animals. I think it only ran for one year, never jumped."
The answer is...
"Chuck McCann"- StumpMaster
"The show was actually called Far Out Space Nuts" - Kurt
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Brett?
"There was a show in the 70's starring Ruth Buzzy & Jim Neighbors traveling through space to other planets with there pet (horse\Dog) Dorsey. There was an episode when they arrived on a planet where all the people were fat. Can't remember the name, Help!"
The answer is...
"That was "The Lost Saucer" which was part of "The Krofft Supershow"- StumpMaster
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Checkmate?
"In Quantum Leap, was Sam Beckett married? My friend told me that there were some episodes that dealt with his life before the Quantum Leap project, but I haven't seen any of them. Can anyone help me?"
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"Yes. In the first episodes of the third season, a 2-parter called "The Leap Home", we meet Sam's wife Katie"- StumpMaster
"QL dorks always told me that this wasn't 100% true; that Sam was NOT married at the start of the show. I didn't really care until I saw a re-run from the first season on USA (episode #2 or #3, I believe; I remember that the Watergate break-in happened during the episode). In that episode, Sam leaps into someone who knows Katie. He remembers that he liked her several years ago but missed his chance to meet her. So leaping-Sam changes Katie's schedule, hoping that she'll run into young-Sam and things will be different. Then, two seasons later in "The Leap Home," we see the fruits of his efforts: they've been married for years, and nobody remembers differently because he changed history! I loved the way they fit that in there when I was a kid." - Mark
"In the first regular episode of the show (after the pilot) Sam leaped into a college professor and has a chance to reunite two lovers....but also meets his once-fiancée, Donna Elise, who because of unresolved issues with the father that abandoned her, had left Sam at the altar....So Sam reunites Donna with her father (who works at the Pentagon, and yes there is a reference to the Watergate break-in) in the hopes that she will marry him in her future (his past). In THE LEAP HOME, we meet Donna in Sam's present (1999) on Project QL. Young Donna was played by Teri Hatcher in her pre-Lois & Clark days. The older Donna (married to Sam) was played by Mimi Kuzyk from Hill Street Blues. In the intervening episodes, and even in all of the later episodes, there is no mention of Donna, presumably because Sam's brain is Swiss-Cheesed and he has gaps in his memory and Al is not allowed to tell Sam what he doesn't remember." - John
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December 5, 2000
Can someone help Sam?
"I remember a kids' show from the early 80's that was some sort of a bible trivia game show pitting the "Bible Boys" against the "Gospel Girls." What show is this? When did it air? What network was it on?"
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"The show was called "Bible Bowl". I don't know what network it was on. In Chicago it was on Ch 38, which was the religious station that later became PAX TV Chicago."- David
"That was called "The Bible Bowl", where Coach Jack would offer kids a choice between a $100 bill and a God Loves Me sticker. It aired on TBN, the Trinity Broadcasting Network. It's one of those 24 hour outfits that runs religious shows on an unheard of UHF channel in many cities" - Bob
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December 5, 2000
Can someone help Faron?
"In the early or mid 80's I Used to watch a show that starred James Arness as a P.I. or police detective. I think the characters name begun with "Mc" or "Mac". Can anyone tell me what the show was called?"
The answer is...
"That would be "McClain's Law starring James Arness as Detective Jim McClain"- StumpMaster
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December 5, 2000
Can someone help Teresa?
"There was a show from about 1970 that was anime style about a baby white lion whose mother is killed in a fire(?). Was it called Simba? Any info on it?"
The answer is...
"THE SHOW WAS KIMBA"- Michael
"Sounds like Kimba the White Lion (see http:/
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December 5, 2000
Can someone help Paul?
"In the '60s I remember a game show. Two sets of married couples competed. One of each pair rolled dice in a big hourglass shaped cage. The other of each pair traveled down three "streets", going the corresponding steps that the dice fell on. Where they stopped, they would either get money or have to answer a trivia question for money. There was also a jail they could be sent to. a wishing well they could land on, and a bridge they fished for prizes from between streets two and three. Also the third street was a sort of Main Street where they won merchandise. I also remember the winner was transported back to square one in a golf cart -- presumably, the loser came back on foot. What was the game show, who was the host, and when did it air?"
The answer is...
"That was Video Village! It was a must-watch among my grade school friends. It was hosted first by Jack Narz, then by Monty Hall. Here's a couple of links: http:/
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December 4, 2000
Can someone help Keith?
"There was a live action Saturday morning show from the early/mid seventies that was similar to the Monkees. A bunch of friends and their antics and then a song...I remember one was called 'Hurricane.' Any help, oh wise ones????"
The answer is...
"The only thing that comes to mind is The Banana Splits."- T-stine
"The only one that I can think of was called Captain Cool and the Kongs(?). I don't remember any names but I do know that Michael Lembeck played Captain Cool. He later went on to play Julie's husband on One Day At A Time and is now a director. Hope this helps." - Captain Simian
"That crappy-ass show (which I loved as a kid), was called THE KIDS FROM C.A.P.E.R. they even put out a crappy album (don't ask me why I remember any of this- but it probably explains why I'm now a television producer...) the only thing I could ever find on it came from these websites (hope they're still around...): http:/
URL=/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1113.php http:/
shows/saturday/sa1113.php For me, it ranks pretty high up on the Crap-O-Meter (or Crap-O-Metre, for you French, Canadians & French Canadians). Probably somewhere in between "Big John, Little John" and "Magic Mongo"..." - David
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December 2, 2000
Can someone help Ma2ss?
"wasn't there a tv show about doctors . one of the dr
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December 31, 2000
Can someone help Beverly?
"There was an old sci fi episode of Twilight Zone? where these little blue people would paint the next events in time (i.e. red lights to green lights, etc) but for the life of me I can't find any info on it. Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?"
The answer is...
"That episode is from the New Twilight Zone.... thats how you know the men were blue (it was in color). I don't recall the name of the episode although "A Matter of Time" sounds right. Great episode... it explains how you can loose your car keys and find them two days later in the same spot!"- Ed
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December 30, 2000
Can someone help Russell?
"What was Lt. Chano's fate on Barney Miller? Was he shot in the line of duty or just written out of the series?"
The answer is...
"I think Chano was simply faded out as Detrick was phased in. Gregory Sierra had gone on to another series by the same producers, "HMS Hudson Street" which bombed after about four episodes." - RMK
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December 30, 2000
Can someone help Hank?
"Near the end of THE COSBY SHOW series, there's an episode in which RAVEN-SYMONE lip-syncs a blues song for Cliff Huxtable's parents' anniversary. Can anyone please identify the song and the artist? Thanks."
The answer is...
"Was it the episode where the whole family joins in the lip-syncing? I thought it was "The Night Time is the Right Time" by Ray Charles?"- Doug and Pam
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December 28, 2000
Can someone help Elsa?
"Can anyone tell me the name and author of the theme song to the PBS series: "The Voyage of the Mimi"? It was a haunting solo of either a flute or a recorder. Thanx!"
The answer is...
"Jeff Lass is credited as having done original music for "The Voyage of Mimi." Whether he wrote the theme song or not I couldn't say, but it seems likely."- Ron
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December 28, 2000
Can someone help Captain Z?
"I remember seeing this Japanese cartoon when I was young. In it there was this little girl who had powers ( one was see could grow up). She had a dog and some other animal that talked. The story was that their plane crashed in the mountains and all the adults turned into kids. At the end the place they are in explodes. Has anybody seen or heard anything like that?"
The answer is...
"This show is "Magical Princess Minky Momo", and was originally a hit with girls a generation ago, in Japan. Nostalgia for the character brought her back in an updated outfit, but identical premise, for a second series a few years ago. To help verify that this is correct - she had red-pink hair with a green-starred yellow scarf in it, yellow moon-boots, and a necklace with a star on it. She'd pull at this, a candy-cane looking wand would come out, and she could transform into a young woman. Her companion was a sheepdog and what I think is a mouse. If I remember the basic story, it went along the lines that a princess of Dreamland was sent to live with a human family, to learn what being human was all about. She'd use her transformation to help kids with those tough moral problems on the playground, and to help the adults see that, really, the kids are alright. In the one you describe, Minky helps the Peter Pan pseudo-bad guy realize that adults aren't bad, and that it's OK to grow up. Once he's no longer a child, all the other 'kids' grow up, too, and the mountain hideaway is destroyed to keep Peter's Fountain of Youth from an evil society. This very piece was horribly dubbed and sold as "The Magical Princess Gigi" in the States as a video so bad, the producer's name is misspelled on the box - the great anime evil Carl Macek. There are a few fansubs (non-commercial copies of movies/series translated to English as subtitles, produced by fans of material not yet licensed for sale or distribution in the States) of the Minky movies out - "Bridge for Your Tomorrows" is a tear-jerker, and "State of Embarcation" brings the old and new Minkys (Minkies ?) together. Oddly enough, the movies are quite philosophical and serious-toned, especially for what's supposed to be Pokemon-level kid fluff. Well worth seeking out - an anime society near you may have more information, or even a set of copies. Be sure to scout around on line with the correct name!"- Shinobu
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December 28, 2000
Can someone help Linda?
"when i was younger, there was this show on nickelodeon. it was kind of like saved by the bell. it was about the life of like 5 or 6 high schoolers. the only two things i remember were this little cafe shop thing they always went to and one of the girls was named ashley?"
The answer is...
"The show was called "Fifteen" it was about High School kids on Nickelodeon...i used to watch it when i was about 15...it aired around 1992 or so...but they kept switching the cast up and you could never tell what years the shows were from and in what order...the main characters were Billy...Chris, Dylan, Ashley. Coincidentally the girl who plays Ashley wound up playing the monster and going nude in the movie "The Faculty"."- Anthony
"I believe the answer is "You can't do that on television" or "Don't do that on Television." - Howler
"The name of the show you are looking for is Welcome Freshman. It was a campy, funny show that was made in the early-90's. The characters always met at the mall, and the show had fake commercials and sketches that included the teens as they went through high school life. You can also read more about it on the jumping-the-shark website. I'm sorry that I do not remember that much about it, but I was about 9 or 10 at the time, but let me tell you that I did like it as a kid. I hope this helps." - Andrew
"She's watching "Degrassi Jr. High" -- it's Canadian" - Eric
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December 27, 2000
Can someone help Jimmy?
"in the episode of superfriends there was an episode called planet of the Neanderthals where a scientist turned every thing into prehistoric time my question is did the super friends transformed into prehistoric people and if so which heroes got transformed into prehistoric"
The answer is...
"No. The Superfriends remained themselves, although the Hall of Justice resembled a cave. The Superfriends still had their friends aboard SkyLab to help them out."- Matt
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December 26, 2000
Can someone help Paul?
"I remember fondly seeing a recurring act on just about every top variety show on TV at one time or another during the 1950s and 1960s. The Banana Man came out onstage dressed in a huge baggy coat and clown makeup and towing a trunk. He never talked, sort of whined a song, usually "Sweet Georgia Brown". Throughout his act he would pull out of his coat all sorts of bizarre props for a one-joke gag (sort of like what Carrot Top does today), and occasionally make a few clothing and wig adjustments to totally transform himself into another clown (even changing his sex!), and always pull from his coat amazing bunches of bananas. He'd usually end his act by taking from the trunk several smaller ones nested inside it, all of which looked like the cars of a little train, and he'd go off pulling this row of trunks as if he were playing train. Anyone either remember this, too, or know of any information about who he was and what happened to him? I'd really like to know! With exposure of the sort that he got, he just had to have been well known to all the major stars and networks."
The answer is...
"I don't recall this vaudevillian comedian, but apparently his real name was A. Robbins and he was part of the cast of Captain Kangaroo. See: http:/
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December 26, 2000
Can someone help Pete?
"i watched the cartoon top cat for a few years, but i never could get all the names of the cats in the gang??? does anyone know all their names??"
The answer is...
"Top Cat's buddies were Fancy Fancy, Spook, Benny, Brain and Choo Choo. -- and don't forget Officer Dibble."- Doug
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December 25, 2000
Can someone help A Durbak?
"Help! Identify these four 80's shows.
1) A live action prime-time TV show about a team of super-heroes. One of the heroes could shoot lighting from his hands, and another could shrink his body down to 12" in height. Weird memory fragment: The shrinking guy, who was black, shrunk down to 12" but his clothes didn't. So while shrunk, he wore a Michael Jackson outfit (w/ single white glove!) that he took off a Michael Jackson doll, because it was the only male doll to fit him.
2) This family somehow became trapped this alternate dimension where the people drove these weird cars. The family somehow settled down in a city, and found out that all the products were generic - at the store, all you could buy were white cans of tomamtoes labled "tomatoes" and so forth.
3) A martial arts show. There was an old martial arts master teamed up with a younger guy. They wore black bodysuits, and in one episode rescued Boy George.
4) Super obscure: It was on PBS. I saw ONE episode of this show ever, then I never heard of it ever again. Very odd. There was this regular suburban family, then all this surreal stuff starts to happen. This maid turns out to be some kind of voodoo priestess, and this starving ethiopian kids suddenly appears in the house. The mother then starts going insane..."
The answer is...
"1) Misfits of Science. No idea about the others"- StumpMaster
"I think #3 was "The Master," with Lee van Cleef as, well, the master." - Mark
"I heard (never saw) of a show called "Otherworld" that could be the answer to your Question #2." - John
"4. I think this was an episode of Amazing Stories with Della Reese but I'm not sure of the PBS angle." - William
"No, it wasn't this. The voodoo woman was not Della Reese, she was much younger. Also, the show was intended to be a comedy." - A Durbak
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December 23, 2000
Can someone help Kris?
"Who sang the theme song for the Mary Tyler Moore Show? It sounds like Barry Manilow to me."
The answer is...
"Actually, it was Sonny Curtis"- StumpMaster
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December 23, 2000
Can someone help W?
"When did the last episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents appear on tv and was it an hour long ?"
The answer is...
"The Alfred Hitchcock Presents program ran from October 1955 to September 1965. In 1962 it became an hour long show until the end. When it started airing as an hour it was changed to "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"."- Dee
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December 21, 2000
Can someone help Michelle?
"The song during the opening credits of Grose Pointe is great. Whats the name and who sings it??"
The answer is...
"This is "Sex Bomb" by Tom Jones. It was a big hit in the UK (that's where I first heard it) and I've heard a slower (not as good) version of it here. I don't know which version they use at the WB."- Mike
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December 21, 2000
Can someone help Steve?
"I'm trying to remember the episode of gimme a break in which the girls are in the variety show at school ( or maybe they are auditioning for a "real" recording contract) and they sing a popular tune of the day. In the beginning of the show they sound terrible, but with Nell's coaching the girls harmonize with style and pull off a professional looking performance. Can you remember the episode, the year and the song? Thanks!"
The answer is...
"The name of the group, in which the oldest daughter was involved, was "The Hot Biscuits" and the song was Do You Think I'm Sexy by Rod Stewart. They were actually planning on starting a career as a rock group. They wore shiny hot pants. And the Chief was not happy."- Kate
"the name of Katie's rock group was "the Hot Muffins" (one of the girls in the group suggested it would be cool to cut out the seats of their hot pants and replace them with saran wrap)." - lia
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December 20, 2000
Can someone help wRen?
"what did "The Mighty Hercules" used to say to activate his magic ring?"
The answer is...
"OLYMPIAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"- John
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December 20, 2000
Can someone help Elena?
"What was Lilith Crane's maiden name? (Dr. Frasier Crane's ex-wife)"
The answer is...
"Sternin"- StumpMaster
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December 19, 2000
Can someone help Christopher?
"In the April Fool's Episode of Pete and Pete, what is the name of the household product dumped into the dad's cereal in the beginning?"
The answer is...
"...baking soda! I remember seeing this along time ago and thinking switching out baking soda with sugar was always a classic April Fool's joke, as when someone would pour the sugar on their rice crispies (or whatever cereal) baking soda would come out instead, and I remember learning that from an episode of the old show "Pete & Pete"- Corwin
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December 19, 2000
Can someone help Rippy?
"I have a vague memory of a Saturday morning cartoon special, that featured Popeye captaining some cruise ship, with various comic strip characters (Blondie and Dagwood come to mind) as passengers, and Bluto being involved with some criminal organization trying to sabotage the cruise. I seem to also remember a Captain America looking character in it (maybe it was the Phantom.) I remember seeing at as a kid during the early to mid 70's. Was was this cartoon called, or did I imagine it all?"
The answer is...
"ABC HAD THE SATURDAY SUPERSTAR MOVIE. I CAN'T RECALL THE TITLE OF POPEYE, BUT OTHER FEATURES INCLUDED "YOGI'S ARK LARK" ECOLOGY THEMED . ALSO ANIMATED NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR ,AND ROBIN HOODNICK WITH PAUL LYNDE AS THE SHERIFF ."- D
"The name of this specific ABC Superstar Movie was "Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter" There is an excellent page on all the Superstar movies at http:/
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December 19, 2000
Can someone help Zelle?
"This show came on in the mid to late '80s... I think it came on Saturday or Sunday afternoons... about a girl whose father was an alien... her mother was a human. Her father was off in space or something... She spoke to him through some weird crystal thing next to her bed. She could stop time by touching her fingers together, I think... and she could restart it by clapping (??) ... Please help!"
The answer is...
"I believe this was "Out of This World" and I think it was syndicated. Starred Donna Pescow as the mom, and the girl, though I don't know the actress' name, showed up later on "7th Heaven" as Matt's non-deaf girlfriend."- Joe
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December 19, 2000
Can someone help Kim and Jim?
"There is an old cartoon where there is a man and his dog running all over trying to please the mans wife. They get hit by a car and the ambulance arrives and proceeds to mix up the plasma. They were yelling "Dog Plasma....Human plasma" Can anyone name this cartoon."
The answer is...
"According to Leonard Maltin's book Of Mice and Magic, the cartoon was called "Crazy Mixed Up Pup", and was directed by Tex Avery for Walter Lantz Studios in 1954, and was nominated an Academy Award in Best Short film. Because it was produced by the same studio as Woody Woodpecker, it was usually shown on TV with Woody Woodpecker and Chilly Willy cartoons."- Rippy
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December 18, 2000
Can someone help William?
"I've always had a hard time identifying the Hill's Angels on the Benny Hill show. Who played the female Banner and the female Hulk in Benny's spoof of the show "The Incredible Hulk?""
The answer is...
"Angel Claire Smalley turns into Angel Allison Bell." -Thanks to William
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December 18, 2000
Can someone help Mollie?
"Whenever Brainy Smurf was being a smart-ass, he always got thrown on his head by another Smurf. What I can't remember is what Brainy always said when he landed?"
The answer is...
"Brainy Smurf never said the same thing every time he landed on his head, though it was always spoken in a whiny voice. Once or twice he didn't say anything, just sort of looked at us blinking as if to say "What? What did I say?"- Kimberly
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December 18, 2000
Can someone help W?
"Which band or solo artist has performed on Saturday Night Live more than any other?"
The answer is...
"My guess would be Paul Simon"- StumpMaster
"Paul Simon is a good guess; I think Sting has been on a hell of a lot of times too. Madonna has been on a few times, too, but I think at least one of those times she didn't sing.
Upon further review (well, at www.saturday-night-live.com , that is), Paul Simon looks like he's No. 1 with 10 appearances, though the site doesn't differentiate if he sang each appearance or not. Tom Petty is second with 7, and James Taylor and Sting both have six (again, Sting might not have sung on each appearance). Madonna, oddly, has only been on twice -- it seems like more for some reason. Maybe I'm confusing SNL with MTV's VMAs" - Joe
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December 18, 2000
Can someone help Ed?
"The show was in the late 70's??? very early 80's. All I remember is that there was a dad trying to raise his two hot daughters. One blonde and the other brunette. I think the mother was dead. Dad liked to fish.....they had an apartment....what was the name of it??????"
The answer is...
"Hello, Larry." This is the show McLean Stevenson gave up M*A*S*H for. Despite being a national joke for being so bad, it managed to survive the 1979 season and was renewed for 1980. It also starred a pubescent Kim Richards, famous for Disney films such as "Escape to Witch Mountain," while two different actresses played her sexually-aware older sister."- Ted
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December 18, 2000
Can someone help Daria?
"I was watching the Peter Seller's film "Being There" last night which shows lots of tv/commercial clips from the 70's. Durring the scene where he is driven to Shirley McClaine's mansion- he is in the limo watching the tv and there is this strange animated bit playing. It's a cartoon of a Fat Albert style black kid singing about how he has a "basketball jones" (as in jonesin' to play basketball) but he's too short, etc. - the song gets all elaborate & builds up to this weird intense gospel/choir thing. It was strangely stirring despite it's silliness & I'm intrigued to know what the hell it was-was it a commercial? Part of a movie/cartoon? I'm sure it was something from actual tv as all the other clips shown were of existing commercials/shows. Anyone???"
The answer is...
"The first time I saw the cartoon was in the movie, believe it or not, but the soundtrack to that cartoon was from an old Cheech & Chong album where a rising black basketball star was asked to explain how he got to be a star despite being 4'8" or something like that. He says "A Basketball Jones is where you loooooooove basketball so much you are like a junkie" and then sings a little song "Basketball Jones/I got a Basketball Jones/I got a Basketball Jones O Baby ooo-ooo-ooo" and in the end while the choir is singing he starts saying stuff like "I can shoot from half-court with my tongue" and like that. It came out in the 70's and my buddies and I used to listen to that 8-Track A LOT...and back then, for some reason, EVERYTHING was funny, if you get my drift...."- John
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December 18, 2000
Can someone help William?
"Where is that house seen in the exterior shots of Wayne Manor in the tv series "Batman ?" I have also seen that house in the movie "Delirious.""
The answer is...
"The house is or was located in Hewlett, New York, on the South Shore of Long Island"- Andrew
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December 17, 2000
Can someone help Matthew?
"i remember around 1990 there was this show about these guys that drove a futuristic tractor trailer....i think that either they we're hauling nuclear weapons or the tractor-trailer had weapons or there was a car in the trailer...i'm not even sure this was a tv show, or a made for tv movie or a movie, or is just imagined it....."
The answer is...
"I think it was Space Trucker with Dennis Hopper. It was a movie."- Jay
"I'm almost sure that this was either Knight Rider because KITT on that show was always being carried on a truck especially for maintenance jobs or it's less than seen spin-off, Knight Rider 2000, which had three to four different KITT cars also I think continually being transported by truck." - William
"The Highwayman". It was a VERY short-lived action series co-starring the Australian guy who used to do the Energizer battery commercials" - Lucas
"though i can't recall a series, this sounds like a MST3000 feature. it looked like two episodes of something dovetailed together but early eighties fashions" - D
"If you remember George Peppard of the "A-Team" or Jan-Michael Vincent of "Airwolf" in this movie, and radioactive giant farm rodents and insects, the movie was "Damnation Alley." According to IMDB, it is also sometimes called "Survival Run." I guess it was a theatrical release, but the first time I ever saw it was on television in the early 1980s." - Ted
"Two ideas come to mind: Quark , a space garbage scow from the 70s tv program Damnation Alley had two mobile command centers---mutant RVs from hell, which. I believe, had a smaller scale armored car." - Sigfried
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December 17, 2000
Can someone help Em?
"What was the song that Natalie and Jo did in the Christmas show where they all sang called? Also, who originated the song?"
The answer is...
"It was called "A Christmas Past", although many people think it was called "We Need A Little Christmas". I don't know who originated it."- Nat
"We Need A Little Christmas," written by Jerry Herman for the 1966 Broadway musical Maime. It was originally preformed by Angela Lansbury." - Shawn
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December 16, 2000
Can someone help Nat?
"I slightly remember this show that was on in the early 90's. I don't remember anything except the fact that at the end of the theme song, there was this small image of a girl dancing in the bottom, right-hand corner. In the show, the cast hung out at this cafe. What is this? I also remember another show that was on Nickelodeon. My guess is it was on in '96. Anyway, all the characters spoke with an English accent (much like the S Club 7 cast's accent) and they all lived in, like, a forest preserve or something. When it was a new show and they had commercials for it, they said, "How would you like this to be your backyard? (then they showed a swamp with trees behind it) Or be best friends with dolphins?" I don't remember the name of this show. Help!"
The answer is...
"I think you're referring to an Australian show called "Ship to Shore" that was on Nick for a while in the mid '90s."- Noel
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December 16, 2000
Can someone help Scotty?
"Anybody remember the name of a sitcom that lasted about a year or two around '83? It starred Jason Bateman & whats-his-name, the guy who played Steve on "Married With Children". The premise had Bateman continually antagonizing & competing with "Steve", his stepfather or at least his mom's new boyfriend."
The answer is...
"It's Your Move"- StumpMaster
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December 16, 2000
Can someone help Matt?
"Does anyone remember short little stop-action films which aired on PBS which were recreations of famous chess matches? I'm not kidding, I remember these vividly, and they really made an impression on me as a kid. Who was behind these??"
The answer is...
"According to books by British Grandmaster and chess author John Nunn, the BBC aired chess matches in stop-motion animation. A lot of other PBS shows are re-runs of BBC programming, so the Brits probably had the idea first. But as for what people, specifically, were responsible, I don't know and Nunn doesn't say" - Mark
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December 15, 2000
Can someone help Maisena?
"For almost 10 years me and my aunt have had a bet, but have been unable to settle it. On the cartoon She -ra, she had a sidekick by the name of Butterina (or something like that), We want to know how she came to be Butterina. We know She-ra transformed her, we just don't know from what."
The answer is...
"Flutterina was a maid known as Small One who rescued She-Ra but got herself fried in the process. Check out her "origin story" here if you're really interested. http:/
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December 15, 2000
Can someone help Scott?
"On the show ER, the character named Carrie Weaver, Have they ever revealed why she's got the limp and crutch? She seems too young for polio, was it a car accident? Just wondering..."
The answer is...
"CARRIE WEAVER HAD MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS"- dfrankio
"As per a recent article in People magazine there has never been a reason given for the crutch, and there are no plans to do so. I guess if the ratings dip, maybe we'll find out." - Andrew
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December 14, 2000
Can someone help Jimmy?
"do you remember when the brady bunch had that christmas movie that actress was married to greg brady anyway what was her name and i remember her show but i forgot the name of it can you please tell me"
The answer is...
"Nora Brady was played by Caryn Richman on "A Very Brady Christmas"- StumpMaster
"I believe the show that you are referring to which starred Caryn Richman (Greg's wife in A Very Brady Xmas/The Bradys) was "The New Gidget". It aired in 1st run syndie from 1986-1988." - Malcolm
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December 13, 2000
Can someone help William?
"Have you ever heard of the saying "Dreezle, Drazzle, Drome, Time for this one to come home."? I think I heard it in one of the Saturday morning cartoons of my youth, but I'm not sure which one."
The answer is...
"That would be Tooter Turtle, one segment of the "King Leonardo and His Short Subjects" show. More info and some downloads are available at this address... http:/
"The cartoon was called Tutor Turtle. Tutor Turtle was a little turtle (dah!) who always wanted to be somebody else. He would tell his friend Mr. Wizard that he wished to be like say, a knight in shining armor or a private detective or something... Well, always against Mr. Wizards better judgment, he would send Tutor via magic off to be whatever Tutor wished to be. But it always ended up bad, such as the knight in shining amour about to be burnt to a crisp by a dragon, at this point Tutor would always scream, "Misssssster Wizard!!! I want to come hooooome!!! Then Mr. Wizard would recite the spell that always brought Tutor back, "Dreezle, Drazzle, Drome, Time for this one to come home." I guess you can guess that the story always had a moral, and you know what that was...." - Wilder
"The character's name was Tootle the Turtle, not Tutor nor Tooter!" - Paul
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December 13, 2000
Can someone help William?
"Do you possibly remember a Japanese cartoon from the Seventies about three airplanes which morphed or joined together into a robot. All the pilots were men led by a woman on a computer. She never flew the planes herself except on one crucial mission and each of them wore color-coordinated uniforms. That's all I remember."
The answer is...
"my son watched a similar show in the 80s........only it had 5 color-coded people/planes and all together they formed a robot named Voltron, which was the name of the show"- Tammy
"IIRC, it was one of the Force 5 cartoons. Someone else mentioned Voltron, but that was 5 lions. What you're thinking of is the three space planes that joined together - Starvengers." - Peter
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December 13, 2000
Can someone help Jack?
"There was a show on in the early eighties, on either Saturday or Sunday morning. It was about this boy who lived with his single mom. He has a computer where he was able to contact a young girl who was in the future and living on the moon. I think it was called Star Stuff or Space Stuff or something, but I can't remember. Can you help?"
The answer is...
"The title you're looking for is "The Powers of Mathew Starr." - Maria
The following info appears on the Beakman's World eb page: http:/
"it was called star stuff i watched that show faithfully" - Petenice
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December 12, 2000
Can someone help Jon?
"I remember some cartoon special that had something to do with endangered condors? Also, there was another cartoon with a hippo, and he had to run from from biker-type sharks? Shat were they called?"
The answer is...
"The cartoon hippo is Peter Potamus and actually can be found at the end of a rental Scooby Doo video, which I believe to be “Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats” (or so my 5-year-old tells me)" - Ryan
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December 12, 2000
Can someone help Smoke Verbs?
"WHAT DOES B. J. STAND FOR IN M.A.S.H.?"
The answer is...
"According to my sources, BJ doesn't stand for anything. He was named after his parents Bea and Jay"- StumpMaster
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December 12, 2000
Can someone help Scott?
"OK, here's a TV show I remember seeing as a kid that hopefully someone can help me identify. This was maybe the fall of 1978. The program was about a husband and wife who switched bodies thanks to some mysterious Egyptian idol or something, which they'd picked up somewhere. It was kind of a precursor to "Vice Versa" and other movies involving the same theme. The husband had black curly hair and the wife was blonde. Somehow they were trying to find a way to switch bodies back again (obviously) but in the meantime the focus of the show was seeing how they dealt with being in the wrong body. I don't believe the show lasted more than one season. Thanks for any help on this one."
The answer is...
"Turnabout." Starred Sharon Gless and John Schuck. Lasted 7 episodes. Here's the IMDB citation: http:/
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December 12, 2000
Can someone help Mike?
"There was a disney cartoon "short" featuring Donald Duck and Pluto, one of them swallowed a magnet and there was a a frenetic sequence where they would run around in an apartment building... Pluto on the upper floor while Donald was dragged around the ceiling in the apartment below. I have been searching those video collections (suffering thru some awful stuff) in the hopes of finding this one - no luck. Does anyone remember the title?"
The answer is...
"Appropriately enough, "Donald and Pluto", from 1936. More information at http:/
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December 11, 2000
Can someone help Jessi?
"i was wondering the name of the show about a young blonde girl who played tennis, i think it was on around '93 '94 and she lived with her single mom and brother and her tennis coach was always around the house, i think there was a romance (possibly?!) between the mom and the coach! Please Help!!!"
The answer is...
"That show was called "Phenom."- RMK
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December 11, 2000
Can someone help Abe?
"In the early eighties as a kid, I would watch cartoons on Saturday morning. About once an hour on CBS they would have a Childrens News Break that lasted the length of a commercial. This News Break consisted of a Globe Turning and then the news being kid -related. I remember watching the story of David the "Bubble Boy" on one of these news breaks. What was the name of these News Breaks."
The answer is...
"In The News". I loved this segment even though I never learned anything!"- Head Shark
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December 11, 2000
Can someone help Carrie?
"We are in need of a specific scene from a western movie or TV show. The scene is the "File in the Pie" scene where a woman brings a pie to jail when visiting her husband or son. In the pie contains a file which is used for means of escape. Do you have any idea what western TV show or movie has this scene in it? Do you recall the Cisco Kid having a scene like this? We have been looking for so long. If you could help us out that would be terrific! Thanks so much for your time."
The answer is...
"Buster Keaton did this in his 1928 film "Steamboat Bill, Jr." He brings as file in bread to his jailed father. Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but this may be where they got the idea-- also may help some other reader find the real answer you're looking for."- Doug
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December 11, 2000
Can someone help Hunny?
"This was a show on PBS that I don't really remember a lot about. I remember seeing it when I was in grade 4 but it could have been in reruns then. That would have been around 1984. It was about a bunch of kids that hung out in some kind of clubhouse and tried to solve mysteries. I remember a computer monitor that sat on a desk and would give the kids clues. The clues would be on blue back ground I think with white lettering. The kids also I think could travel through time to solve the mysteries."
The answer is...
"321 contact, I think was the name of the show."- Kyle
"I'm pretty sure that is Ghostwriter. There was a little thing that looked like a dandelion head floating from the screen to the real world right? If there was, that is definitely Ghostwriter" - Mike
"it was not Ghostwriter (that show was mid-90s), but was in fact "Read all About It". The general plotline was 4 kids (probably early teens in age) who ran a newspaper somewhere in Ontario (could have been either Toronto or Kingston). Of course, their Coachhouse (where they put the newspaper together) also had a transporter to the galaxy of Trialviron where the evil Lord Dunedin would attempt to take over the world. They traveled in time to deal with the War of 1812 and had a couple other mega-adventures...." - Jon
"The bloodhound gang!!" - Allen
"It was the Bloodhound Gang, which was a short segment of the show 3-2-1 Contact." - Rippy
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December 10, 2000
Can someone help Herschel?
"Does anyone know which show has the episode where a little white girl plays with a doll that is black, which distresses the girl's father. The episode ends with the a live black girl running away from the house with no sign of the white girl except for a doll that resembles the missing white girl. This was in the early '60s. I thought it was Hitchcock, but I couldn't find it in the episode guides."
The answer is...
"Lordy, lordy, lordy! I could have sworn this haunting little program was Hitchcock, too. It wasn't a father but a mother played by none other than Bea Benaderet, Kay Bradley off Petticoat Junction. If this eerie little story wasn't Hitchcock, another one in the series had to be one with Pat Buttram, Mr. Haney from Green Acres, beheading his wife and putting her head in a jar and showing it to the neighbors to guess what it was. It may not have been Hitchcock but it was Bea Benaderet at the end of the program clutching the doll in the woods and crying after she had run off the little black girl. Maybe that will help."- Richard
"Well, I don't know if this is the right answer to Herschel's question, but Richard is talking about a series called "Vacation Playhouse". It was a summer replacement show which featured pilots that had not been sold. The episode that Richard is referring to (the one he thinks Herschel is talking about) was called "All About Barbara" - StumpMaster
"I'm pretty sure the show of the little white girl playing with the black doll that comes alive at the end was an episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS. But it may have been ONE STEP BEYOND, which featured "true" accounts like that." - Paul
"The title of the episode you are looking for is "Where the Woodbind Twineth" and was on Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond or Outer Limits (could have been Hitchcock, but I don't think so)." - Hal
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December 10, 2000
Can someone help Rob?
"There was a show on the sci-fi channel saturday mornings either right before or right after mystery science 3000 probably around 1993 or so. It had a feel like a news magazine show and this sci-fi aficionado would talk about various mysterious sci-fi stories, etc. There was often a large emphasis on alien sightings and ghost sightings. I thought it was called something like "mysteries from beyond the other dominion" but that isn't on your site and the first word is the one i'm least sure of. So rather than wade through the many shows listed, i'll just ask that stumpmaster guy. Thanks"
The answer is...
"The show was indeed called "Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion" and was hosted by Dr. Franklin Ruehl whom always seemed to be in a brown polyester suit. I believe he had a doctorate in nuclear engineering (seriously) and his show started out on basic cable. It was on Sci-Fi Channel's very first year on the air and came on Sunday nights. Essentially, anything covering aliens, bizarre and crackpot theories, weird science or the just plain bizarre would be on the show. The sets and effects were very low budget and Dr. Ruehl was overly enthusiastic about the topics and would often flail his bony arms in excitement while reading the cue cards. I think it came on at 9:00PM after "Sci-Fi Buzz". Admittedly, it was an oddly addictive show."- Tommy
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December 10, 2000
Can someone help Lisa?
"Trying to figure out a show my husband quotes. It has Diana Ross and Bill Cosby as kids playing together. She says, "Billy, Billy, Billy, is that you out there doing nothin'", he goes on to tell her that to do nothing you just think of something to do and don't do it. I have tried to figure this out to see if I could find it for my husband. Any help would be appreciated"
The answer is...
"I think I might have figured it out. I found a soundtrack on e-bay of a 1971 tv special titled Diana! Original tv soundtrack, or something to that effect and it has a song listed with bill cosby, i think that may be the one."- Lisa
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December 10, 2000
Can someone help semper fi?
"I remember as a kid in the early or mid 70's there was a cartoon about these kids, who where like the kids in the partridge family. They where part of a circus or something, and they are about to loose there jobs because they don't play good anymore or something like that. Well in comes the villain who tries to help them but for his own purposes by hypnotizing them. They eventually figure out what's really going on, beat him, and play better, and keep there jobs at the circus. Any ideas what this was?"
The answer is...
"Your best bet for a 70's cartoon about kids in a circus would be Devlin."- Richard
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December 9, 2000
Can someone help Scott?
"what was the name of the sitcom in the early 80's, whose setting was in a convenient store. And a family owned it i believe and it only lasted a couple of months."
The answer is...
"That would be "Open All Night", an ABC adaptation of a very funny britcom "Open All Hours". The show starred a pre-"Law & Order" George Dzundza and a pre-"Police Academy" Bubba Smith, and lasted a few weeks during the 1981-82 season."- RMK
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December 9, 2000
Can someone help Hans?
"On the Smurfs; what was the kid's name who hung out with Gargamel?"
The answer is...
"Rufis."- Josh
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December 9, 2000
Can someone help William?
"What were Kelly and Bud's birthdays on "Married With Children ?""
The answer is...
"I know I have heard this answered before; fortunately, I have a buddy who has the entire series on tape. The family took Kelly to the movies for her birthday in the episode that ran on April 11,1995 (?). However, when the idiot little kid named Seven (man, I hated that kid!!) decided that he wanted a birthday, Peggy rattled off a couple of dates, January 22 (Bud's birthday) and November 27 (Kelly's birthday), so those would be the most accurate birthdays. That episode, by the way, was Al's birthday."- Russell
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December 9, 2000
Can someone help Lisa?
"Does anyone remember the name a show which featured a young boy (early teens?) who had an accident and traveled to a different dimension? I believe his body was still here, but he was also in this other place that seemed to be ruled by kids. This show played on the Sci Fi Channel sometime during the time period of '96-'98. I think it was filmed in Canada. Any help you can provide would be great. This is driving me nuts!!."
The answer is...
"Actually, I think I found my own answer
It was called "Odessy"- Lisa--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
December 8, 2000
Can someone help Jill?
"There was a show on Saturday mornings, probably in the late seventies. It featured live actors. I remember it was like a detective show. One guy wore a brown fedora and trench coat. He might have been the actor who was later Herb Tarlick on WKRP??? Anyway, I also remember there was a crazy GORILLA (obviously a person in a suit). Anyway, do you remember this show? Also, it seemed to be running during the same period as the cartoon Hong Kong Fuey (spelling?). I hope I'm not mixing up plot lines."
The answer is...
"I believe the name of the name of the show was "Ghost-Busters" (before the movie). Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch (F-Troop) and I think the other guy was the dude from WKRP. I can't remember. But I definitely remember the gorilla."- Charles
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December 8, 2000
Can someone help Cathi?
"Was there a show on in the 70s with the Rolling Stones and the Krofft puppets?"
The answer is...
"This was "The Bay City Rollers Show". It was a Sid and Marty Krofft show."- Sleepincar
"dr bugaloo?" - Rob
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December 8, 2000
Can someone help W?
"When was the last appearance of The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show live or on promotional film?"
The answer is...
"3-15-70, Ringo sings Sentimental Journey with Martin directing the Talk Of the Town Orchestra. Airtime 5-17-70 HELLO GOODBYE debuts on Sullivan 12-26-67. Filmed 12-10-67 but kept off 'top of the pops' . Who knows why? perhaps one can finally tell it's not live or it was filmed with a non- union crew . "- D
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December 8, 2000
Can someone help Renee?
"What kind of monkey did Ross have on the TV show "Friends"? He monkey's name was Marcel, but I'd like to know the type of monkey?"
The answer is...
"Marcel was a black capuchin monkey with a white face "- StumpMaster
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December 8, 2000
Can someone help Melanie?
"Can anyone tell me the name of the actor who played Murphy on Remington Steele? I always thought that he was such a babe."
The answer is...
"James Read "- StumpMaster
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December 7, 2000
Can someone help Emil?
"what is the first name of Lt. Columbo?"
The answer is...
"Like his fellow crime fighter Quincy, Columbo officially has no first name. However, also like Quincy who in one episode handed out a business card with 'R. Quincy' on it, there is one on-screen clue to Columbo's first name. In the episode "Dead Weight", Columbo introduces himself and flashes his ID. On it is written a first name. There is a blow-up of the screenshot at http:/
"- RMK"In the episode where he is cooking veal cutlets talking about how his dad cooked them for him as a kid when his mother was in the hospital giving birth to one of siblings he referred to his father calling him jo-jo!!" - Allen
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December 7, 2000
Can someone help Jeremy?
"I was wondering if anyone knows the name of a cartoon that came on in the early 80's in Europe. I believe it was either Italian or French. The main character was a big white lion. Weren't many tv stations at the time and I use to watch the show living on a military base when I was about seven"
The answer is...
"This may have been KIMBA - Huge round eyes - and that was a japannese cartoon. The dubbing was particularly strange, and the plots were very moralistic and overtly from another culture. They freaked me out as a little kid. "- Mike
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December 7, 2000
Can someone help Rex?
"I remember watching an animated black and white short in the mornings before I went to school, back in the mid 60's. I think it was set on the moon, and featured an older man, probably a scientist, and a boy, running around in spacesuits in sort of slow motion. the plots were pretty simple and there might have been some other characters too. I don't think it was anime, but it was pretty dark and surrealistic and seemed quite old, even then. The thing I remember most, though, was the background music. It was always the same ominous, dramatic, descending-toned riff played over and over again. (DAAAAA! DA! DA! DA! DA-DA-DA!) I was probably eight or ten when I saw this last and haven't seen it since. To me, It seemed to have a sort of a "Lost in Space" feel about it, though darker, and much older. Makes me think it could have been influential to some later shows."
The answer is...
"Could it have been "Mr.E from Tau Ceti"? I only know one other person who's ever heard of it. It was about a young alien stranded on earth. I remember a scientist and the scientist's son were always trying to get him back to Tau Ceti. This was on around 1962-1964, I remember watching it before I was in kindergarten."- Mike
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December 7, 2000
Can someone help Jonathan?
"Can someone help? I saw this show twice on the Disney channel (I don't think it was a series or anything like that) where this young British-sounding girl befriended this rabbit who was basically a man dressed up like a funky-looking Easter bunny and his name was Mr. Nibbles. His first name began with an "E" and he would come out of this magic barrel. The show looked like it was from the early seventies. The girl's name was Mary and she had a younger sister who was petrified of mice. Was this show a series? Does anyone know what this show even was or who was in it?"
The answer is...
"Sounds very similar to a program that did air on the CBS Children's Film Festival, well back into the seventies. An English program, a white rabbit costumed character that only one girl could see. She had to close her eyes and count to five or something, and when she tried to let another girl in on the secret, her sister or a friend, the other girl screamed and ran away crying 'mummy, mummy, mummy'. Finally everyone was allowed to see the rabbit at the end and he materialized as he crawled backwards out of a barrel at a birthday party. Very 'Harvey' like. Does this sound like it could be it? "- Richard
"I remember this too. I think it was the Double Deckers? Anyway it came on around the same time." - John
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December 7, 2000
Can someone help Jessica?
"There was a show on Saturday mornings in the late 80's (11:30a or 12:00p, on NBC, I think), that featured Colin Quinn and Ahmet Zappa. It was filmed at the Hollywood Bowl, I think. I also think it followed the Ed Grimley cartoon. Does anyone remember this? WHAT WAS IT CALLED?"
The answer is...
"2 Hip 4 TV "- StumpMaster
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Boots?
"What was the name of the game show where the contestants would stop lights going around the board what cheering "BIG MONEY, BIG MONEY" but would end up with a "WHAMMY" which was a cartoon devil (?) that would take all their money away?"
The answer is...
"Press Your Luck "- StumpMaster
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help William?
"Does anyone remember a horror anthology from the early seventies? In one episode it had a boy crushing dead leaves who accidentally created a doppleganger that was always getting getting him into trouble with his teacher. When she crushed the same type of leaves, her doppleganger went to help the first doppleganger terrorize the kid. Another episode had a little girl who controlled and manipulated her family with dolls that looked like them in a dollhouse version of their house. When the real house caught fire, the girl had to rescue her dolls from the dollhouse in order to wake up her family and rescue them. All her dolls were clothed in fabrics from the clothing of her family. This anthology series opened up on the shots of a darkened but spooky old house."
The answer is...
"Could it have been "Night Gallery"? It was a Rod Serling production. "- Rick
"I could think of two possibilities for you, maybe one will ring a bell. There was Darkroom in 1981 And there was Tales of the Unexpected from 1977. I think it was probably the latter, as the story ideas sound like something from Roald Dahl, who helped develop the series." - Daune
"I think the show was Circle of Fear. It was on on Friday nights. I remember the episode with the dolls and the fire. As I recall, there were not that many episodes, to my disappointment. It was on in about 1973 or 1974." - Andrew
"I recognize the dollhouse episode, but I don't recall where I saw it from. However, the doppelganger episode vaguely resembles Houston's question of November 30,2000, so I'm assuming that both are episodes of "Circle of Fear" aka "Ghost Story." It is NOT "Night Gallery," I have all of those on tape." - Russell
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Mark?
"There was a Disneyish "One Time Only Special Movie of the Week" or some sort back in the early 1980s that featured a monsterish boogey man "terrorizing" a family though this was actually a comedy. The husband was the curly haired guy with the moustache on "Emergency!", this particular family had a boy and a girl. I believe there was even a sequel TV Special to it called Mr. Boogety. Mr. Boogety(?) wore a black cape/cowl combo and had a face that was horribly burned and scarred. The boy in the family once called him "hamburger face". I am half sure this actually was aired but can't remember the plot, only one scene. Did anyone else ever see this show? Am I insane?"
The answer is...
"I remember these movies, "Mr. Boogedy" and "Bride of Boogedy." They were kind of like Disneyfied versions of Beetlejuice. I remember vividly that the first movie ended with Boogedy being sucked into a vacuum cleaner. Pretty bad stuff. "- Ben
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Tom?
"What was the name of the cartoon that featured Strong Man, Coo Coo Man, and Baby Man or Diaper Man?"
The answer is...
"The Mighty Heroes was a half-hour long. It was created by Ralph Bakshi, produced by Terrytoons, creators of Mighty Mouse, and premiered on CBS on October 29, 1966. The series featured an odd mixture of heroes with the names of Tornado Man, Rope Man, Cuckoo Man, Diaper Man, and Strong Man. More information at http:/
"Actually Cuckoo Man, Diaper man and also Rope Man and Tornado Man, The Mighty Heroes (1966) see: http:/
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Charlie?
"In the early sixties I watched a "cartoon" about a boy who worked with his father aboard a boat. His father was a deep sea diver. The figures never really moved like a true cartoon, just the mouth when they talked, or the boat as it wondered down the river, They were more like cut out figures. It was one of my FAVORITE shows growing up outside Ft. Knox Ky. If you know the name or a web site that might be able to help you would have my greatest thanks"
The answer is...
"I think you're thinking about Clutch Cargo, the absolute worst cartoon of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!"- J. Jordan
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Deanna?
"I remember one cartoon in particular, it had a couple of mice that spoke with English accents. It looked like these might have been reruns from the 70s or early 80s. Any ideas? One of the mice might have worn glasses..."
The answer is...
"This sounds like Dangermouse."- Steve
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Brett?
"There was a show called Spacenuts. Two guys stranded on the moon. One of the guys was Gilligan and the other was a guy whom looked like the Skipper but wasn't the Skipper. Who was that dude? Very scary show even though it was comedy. I remember a scary cave with strange moon type animals. I think it only ran for one year, never jumped."
The answer is...
"Chuck McCann"- StumpMaster
"The show was actually called Far Out Space Nuts" - Kurt
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Brett?
"There was a show in the 70's starring Ruth Buzzy & Jim Neighbors traveling through space to other planets with there pet (horse\Dog) Dorsey. There was an episode when they arrived on a planet where all the people were fat. Can't remember the name, Help!"
The answer is...
"That was "The Lost Saucer" which was part of "The Krofft Supershow"- StumpMaster
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December 6, 2000
Can someone help Checkmate?
"In Quantum Leap, was Sam Beckett married? My friend told me that there were some episodes that dealt with his life before the Quantum Leap project, but I haven't seen any of them. Can anyone help me?"
The answer is...
"Yes. In the first episodes of the third season, a 2-parter called "The Leap Home", we meet Sam's wife Katie"- StumpMaster
"QL dorks always told me that this wasn't 100% true; that Sam was NOT married at the start of the show. I didn't really care until I saw a re-run from the first season on USA (episode #2 or #3, I believe; I remember that the Watergate break-in happened during the episode). In that episode, Sam leaps into someone who knows Katie. He remembers that he liked her several years ago but missed his chance to meet her. So leaping-Sam changes Katie's schedule, hoping that she'll run into young-Sam and things will be different. Then, two seasons later in "The Leap Home," we see the fruits of his efforts: they've been married for years, and nobody remembers differently because he changed history! I loved the way they fit that in there when I was a kid." - Mark
"In the first regular episode of the show (after the pilot) Sam leaped into a college professor and has a chance to reunite two lovers....but also meets his once-fiancée, Donna Elise, who because of unresolved issues with the father that abandoned her, had left Sam at the altar....So Sam reunites Donna with her father (who works at the Pentagon, and yes there is a reference to the Watergate break-in) in the hopes that she will marry him in her future (his past). In THE LEAP HOME, we meet Donna in Sam's present (1999) on Project QL. Young Donna was played by Teri Hatcher in her pre-Lois & Clark days. The older Donna (married to Sam) was played by Mimi Kuzyk from Hill Street Blues. In the intervening episodes, and even in all of the later episodes, there is no mention of Donna, presumably because Sam's brain is Swiss-Cheesed and he has gaps in his memory and Al is not allowed to tell Sam what he doesn't remember." - John
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December 5, 2000
Can someone help Sam?
"I remember a kids' show from the early 80's that was some sort of a bible trivia game show pitting the "Bible Boys" against the "Gospel Girls." What show is this? When did it air? What network was it on?"
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"The show was called "Bible Bowl". I don't know what network it was on. In Chicago it was on Ch 38, which was the religious station that later became PAX TV Chicago."- David
"That was called "The Bible Bowl", where Coach Jack would offer kids a choice between a $100 bill and a God Loves Me sticker. It aired on TBN, the Trinity Broadcasting Network. It's one of those 24 hour outfits that runs religious shows on an unheard of UHF channel in many cities" - Bob
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December 5, 2000
Can someone help Faron?
"In the early or mid 80's I Used to watch a show that starred James Arness as a P.I. or police detective. I think the characters name begun with "Mc" or "Mac". Can anyone tell me what the show was called?"
The answer is...
"That would be "McClain's Law starring James Arness as Detective Jim McClain"- StumpMaster
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December 5, 2000
Can someone help Teresa?
"There was a show from about 1970 that was anime style about a baby white lion whose mother is killed in a fire(?). Was it called Simba? Any info on it?"
The answer is...
"THE SHOW WAS KIMBA"- Michael
"Sounds like Kimba the White Lion (see http:/
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December 5, 2000
Can someone help Paul?
"In the '60s I remember a game show. Two sets of married couples competed. One of each pair rolled dice in a big hourglass shaped cage. The other of each pair traveled down three "streets", going the corresponding steps that the dice fell on. Where they stopped, they would either get money or have to answer a trivia question for money. There was also a jail they could be sent to. a wishing well they could land on, and a bridge they fished for prizes from between streets two and three. Also the third street was a sort of Main Street where they won merchandise. I also remember the winner was transported back to square one in a golf cart -- presumably, the loser came back on foot. What was the game show, who was the host, and when did it air?"
The answer is...
"That was Video Village! It was a must-watch among my grade school friends. It was hosted first by Jack Narz, then by Monty Hall. Here's a couple of links: http:/
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December 4, 2000
Can someone help Keith?
"There was a live action Saturday morning show from the early/mid seventies that was similar to the Monkees. A bunch of friends and their antics and then a song...I remember one was called 'Hurricane.' Any help, oh wise ones????"
The answer is...
"The only thing that comes to mind is The Banana Splits."- T-stine
"The only one that I can think of was called Captain Cool and the Kongs(?). I don't remember any names but I do know that Michael Lembeck played Captain Cool. He later went on to play Julie's husband on One Day At A Time and is now a director. Hope this helps." - Captain Simian
"That crappy-ass show (which I loved as a kid), was called THE KIDS FROM C.A.P.E.R. they even put out a crappy album (don't ask me why I remember any of this- but it probably explains why I'm now a television producer...) the only thing I could ever find on it came from these websites (hope they're still around...): http:/
URL=/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1113.php http:/
shows/saturday/sa1113.php For me, it ranks pretty high up on the Crap-O-Meter (or Crap-O-Metre, for you French, Canadians & French Canadians). Probably somewhere in between "Big John, Little John" and "Magic Mongo"..." - David
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December 2, 2000
Can someone help Ma2ss?
"wasn't there a tv show about doctors . one of the dr
