I am looking for a TV series I saw around 2000-2005.    I believe it was about a secret organisation sending people in the past to prevent a disaster. I remember at the end of the episode, they were celebrating another successful mission - that person 5th or 10th - which was rare because all the other people sent before became insane after only 2 or 3 missions.    I do remember it because the main character was looking at a champagne glass, but the bubbles were going down, implying that mental health was degrading.
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This is a TV series from the early 2000s (maybe the late 90s). It was on prime time TV in the US.  There is a government agency that has a time machine that allows the main character to jump back in time a day or a week - I can't remember exactly, but it couldn't send you very far back in time.  I recall one episode where a terrorist releases some sort of virus from a lab that kills lots of people, including someone important (maybe the President?). The first symptom is a bloody nose. The hero has to go back over and over to stop the outbreak, each time getting closer and closer to the culprit before he breaks the vial that contains the virus. When he finally succeeds, he is the only one infected, but they immediately quarantine him and give him treatment.
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This was an American TV series that was aired about 10 years ago.   This series focused on mysterious artifacts with supernatural abilities, i.e. there was a credit card which teleported people after touching.  It was later revealed that all of the artifacts came from certain hotel room. In this room some kind of supernatural "incident" occurred many years ago. As a result, all items in the room acquired supernatural abilities, There was also a one-eyed man who was present in the room when the incident occurred.
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I've been trying to remember this live action TV show for years now.  In it teenagers were able to enter this virtual world of sorts and they become these avatars. Their goal was to clear levels and move on to the next and I don't remember why. There were artifacts or items that help them on their way and they can return to the real world easily enough. I think they can re-enter the virtual world through someone's school.  To pinpoint a possible date I'm thinking maybe 2000s to 2004s, it is hard to remember because I was so young.
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All I remember is that it was between ~2002-2005.  It was about a boy in a dystopian, almost post-apocalyptic world (lot's of brown\cliff\mountains scenes).  He found a staff with a droid on it (who possibly could talk and gave him powers over electricity(?)) or he stole it from a technomage, and he found it in a cave.  The other thing I remember in another episode is that they were on a hovership in a canyon with a dam which closed water access.  I can't remember if it was a good thing or bad guys plan to steal water from good people.  It felt like either sci-fi or steam punk.
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There was this cool tv show I used to watch as a kid (in the 1990's I think). It was about a world where water was extremely rare and people used to fight over it, however there was this person who had this large 3D polyhedron shaped device (big enough to fit a few people in it) that could synthesise water.  Now, this device was either a time travel device or could just make water (not sure but I remember some time travel aspect as they could either remember the world the way it was where water was plentiful or could travel back to it on occasion).  Anyway, would love to know if this rings any bells?????  It was on in the UK (but maybe the US too, not sure).
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A female character with supernatural powers starts off working for a criminal gang with other powers. She is captured and sent to work for supernatural creatures who have blackmailed the government to give them human slaves. Her master is involved in a power struggle between the supernatural beings. There are some other supernatural things that everyone is scared of. I think it's a series.
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I remember watching this on TV in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s or early 1980s. I only saw one episode, and the ending resolved very little, leading me to believe that it was a pilot for a TV series that ended up not being made as opposed to a made for TV movie.   It was live action, but the non-human characters were puppets or animatronics, not actors in costumes. The main characters were the goofy looking alien robot crew of a spacecraft - their design was vaguely similar to the robots from the Cadbury's Smash advertising campaign.  Some other details that I remember:   One of the aliens was named "Gadget". Another one of the aliens had black armour; his character description in the TV guide's advertisement for the show had the comment "talks as black as he looks". Everything in the Universe was made of matter, "don't matter", or a mixture of matter and don't matter called "Kleptonite" (not 100% sure about that name). The spacecraft was towing a ball of Kleptonite behind it in a crate. The Kleptonite ball was lost and fell to Earth. According to the aliens, Earth was made of "don't matter". One of the humans who found the Kleptonite Ball was into fortune telling and mistook it for a crystal ball.
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First, a word about the format - I don't know whether this was a movie or a TV series, b/c I saw it aired in pieces on PBS back in the 1980s. I don't even recall if it was originally voiced in english, dubbed over, or subtitled. I'll just call it a movie for now.  The movie seemed to be set in Europe in what looked like the 1960's or 70's, where almost all the people were gone. The protagonist was probably a 20-something man, who routinely visited a psychiatrist. I think the protagonist also had a girlfriend, but most of the dialogs seemed to be between the man and the doctor.   It was kind of a mystery where all the people had gone, and I think the man was nominally seeing the doctor to cope with the stress of it all, or had amnesia and suspected he knew The Truth. However, it turns out that the doctor discovers that the man is somehow the key to the reality that the characters share, and during hypnosis sessions, discovers he can manipulate the man and thereby reality. To make it easier for himself, the doctor gives the man a code word to return the man to a hypnotic trance on command. The code word, I am positive, was 'Antwerp'.  I don't think I ever saw the end of this, but the 'truth' might have been that World War III was fought with neutron bombs, and that the man was actually just dreaming everything as he wandered around the city, dying. Or not. It would be nice to know how it turned out, but I don't even have the name of the show.
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I have the vaguest memory of a TV show (maybe a BBC import?) in which the protagonists were moving through the sections of a massive generation ship whose inhabitants had forgotten that they were on a spaceship... I know there was an RPG with the same plot (which, after all, is a pretty great blank slate) but I definitely feel I saw this on a static-filled 13" B&amp;W TV back in the day...
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I need help identyfying this movie I once saw late night on TNT, late 90s or early 2000s.  I don't have very clear recollection about it. The movie was very strange. It all took place in a single room of a spaceship or an escape pod that had lost power. A woman and a man, or several men, were stuck in a ship or a spacepod that was somehow damaged or didn't have power.   The movie was entirely made of the dialogs between the woman and the man (or men). They would talk about what was happening outside, how to contact help, about their lives. During their conversation details about the world around them emerge. In this movie people have colonized the solar system but not moved outside it, and there is some sort of a war.  Other things I remember are that it was dark in that room. I think they used only a lightbulb or even direct starlight and sunlight (if they were far away from the sun), because there was no power. Also it was getting colder, becaus the ship's heating system was not functioning, and so it was losing its heat. The people would constantly complain about how cold it's getting. I think that the woman was the captain of the ship. She would sometimes go to the control cabin and try to do something to help their situation, either restore power or contact someone so they can be rescued.  What impressed me about it was how they managed to make it realistic. Because the actors would talk and act like it was all real, it made it somehow feel very realistic to me as well.  That's about it as far as I remember. Hope someone has watched this movie and can tell me what it is.  Update  I want to add a few more details about the movie. While I watched it in the late 90s/early 2000s the movie looked much older. It looked like a vintage B-Movie made in the style of the 70s or 80s. In particular the decor looked more like Alien 1 or Cosmos 1999.   I just watched the firefly episode and it can't be it. It has too much action, and the atmosphere is not dark enough.
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I scarcely remember this animated series.  The gist of it is in the title: Earth vanishes (I can't remember the reason now but it was probably explained) and the only surviving humans were two astronauts on an interstellar spaceship. They decide to explore space and meet up with different aliens, hoping that one day they'll find out what happened to Earth.
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My dad read a book series that he recommended to me last year. Now that I am ready to start it, neither of us can recall the title. He said there were several in the series but he can't recall how many.   The book is about traveling to a new planet, presumably with the goal of colonizing it. The crew are clones who have no memory. I think the goal was for the older original versions of the clones to transfer their consciousness into the clone bodies to be able to live on the new planet but something goes wrong.   There is an indigenous species on the planet who are humanoid but have kangaroo like tails.   The clone crew has markings on them that they don't understand until late. Apparently they are markings to indicate status or role on the new world. The person who they voted as there leader, it turns out, is marked as a servant or slave class.
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A very long time ago, possibly late 70s or early 80s, I remember seeing a one-off science fiction drama on British BBC TV. It was about an expedition to an alien planet to get help for a space station which was running out of oxygen.  The alien planet was, of course, Earth. The crew were about a centimetre high. It was all live action and I suspect the programme was a showcase for miniature photography. They land their shuttle (which looks very much like a courgette) in someone's garden, and there are various adventures. The ones I remember are:   encountering some dropped jelly babies and thinking they're idols made by the natives. flying around on weirdly insectile flying bikes. discovering a discarded battery in a puddle and getting into trouble from the chemicals. I think they get attacked by a rat at some point?   Eventually they discover that there's a light-resistent coating on their courgette-ship, and if it gets stripped off then it will generate its own oxygen. They take off to take the good news home, and the programme ended with them approaching the station, floating in space --- which is a tree.  Does anyone know what this is?
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I'm trying to remember this show, 80's or early 90's, about a boy who receives telepathic messages from an alien, and his family thinks he's going crazy. All very serious and dark. The only thing I remember are the credits and cuts to commercials: they show the protagonist's head over an eerie landscape, spinning very slowly and fading into an alien's egg or something.   The name of the show was the name of the boy, very simple, one word... Ben, or Max, or anything like that.
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The series involves two groups of aliens who have been fighting an interstellar war for many years before the first book.  The war is started by a race of jellyfish-like telepaths who have used their powers to control several species which they use as soldiers.  The jellyfish aliens have declared a holy war against all sapient vertebrates.  The only species on their side that aren't being actively controlled through their telepathy are invertebrate species who have joined the holy war.  In this series, humans are immune to telepathy--what's more, a completely unconscious reflex tends to destroy the mind of anything even attempting to affect their minds.  One of the central themes of the series is how well suited humanity is to warfare, and all the sacrifices forced on humanity as they become nothing but soldiers fighting against the jellyfish, losing almost all culture not in some way related to being soldiers, as the other races in their alliance take over the other roles.  Other species I recall include a bird race that is gifted at linguistics but can be sent into shock by even seeing a low quality recording of a human walking around a room.  They just cannot handle the hide or flee reflexes triggered by seeing such an obvious predator.  Another race is a crab like group that is so antisocial they all keep suicide buttons at hand when working with other races, and only work to help the human alliance's side because the jellyfish won't leave them alone.  There is a race that bears a faint resemblance to large rats who were previously the best soldiers on their side, and another renowned for their intellect.
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I don't recall much about the show, and I think I only ever saw one episode, and my Google Fu is not up to snuff today.  The episode, most likely the pilot, came out around the same time as Babylon 5 and then just disappeared.  From what I remember the show was about the (small) crew of a ship. The cockpit of the ship was a upright bed-like contraption, and the cast were investigating a ship that had a radiation leak or something adrift in space.  There was a cast member who could shape-shift, similar to Odo from Deep Space 9, and another member was a barbaric warrior.  There was some sort of mystic stuff, but I may be confusing that with Babylon 5.  Overall the show was very similar, in my memory, to Deep Space 9 and Babylon 5 so I may be confusing things, but I do remember how I saw the similarities in the show to those shows and knew it wasn't the same show.  Any help?
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This is a tough one, it has eluded me for years!  It is a TV show which opens with two brothers, maybe in 17th or 18th century London. One is around 16, the other is 11 or so and he idolises his older brother. There is a fire, the older brother died but seems to return or summon the younger one to a magical land called something like "yanki-hola". They were transported to a village in, I think, medieval times. I think there were some adventures there against a local bad baron or duke.  I really just remember that it was sad and unsettling when the older brother died. Has anyone ever seen anything similar to this? I have tried for years to find an answer.