So I remember this show that was based in a space station (more like a hub with no political affiliations)  some of the main characters were doctors, and the thing today's sticking out to me is that everyone had to have a gem implanted I their hand and the colour of that gem dictated who you could marry/date.   This was a live action series, colour, in America. Started in like the 90s. No idea how long it ran.  Sorry I'm not giving a lot of information.   Edit: So it might be Island City, I'm going to watch the whole thing to make sure, but I really appreciate you guys thinking about this. I guess I can't trust my little kid memories.   Final edit! That was it! Thanks everyone for the help. Convinced that they need to remake it. It was awesome.
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I'm trying to figure out the name of a movie I saw on TV as a kid, in the mid-to-late 90s, in the US, in English, on daytime TV.  I remember it being kind of Starship Troopers-esque, but everyone had these glowing lights in their chests.  They glowed in different colored patterns, and I think it had something to do with whether you were attracted to someone or not (I was probably like 7 when I saw it, I didn't really understand the context of that part yet).
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I remember a series that I liked in the 80's. It was about a group of children that may have lived on a farm.  They found pieces of machinery in the local countryside which they found fitted together.  It definitely had a sci-fi type feel to it and was a live action show.  I think the series was probably on after Newsround for 20-30mins. It may have been an import.  I never saw all the episodes, sorry for being vague.  Also I never saw an ending if there was one.  EDIT  There was maybe a swamp where they found a ring of the device Also there was a girl and boy and possibly another character other than family members (mum, dad etc)
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Years ago (mid 90's) I saw a show on network TV, and I'm trying to figure out what the name of it was. The parts of the plot I remember are:   The crew consisted of 20-year-olds (half were women). They were on some mission when they lose their commander. They must then try to get back home, while being tracked down by a foe in a faster, more powerful ship. One of the main characters turns traitor. He's locked up in the brig pending a decision on his fate. He hangs himself, and his body is incinerated by the crew. One of the main characters plays a video game that basically looks like a visor over his face. While playing the game, he's given an idea on how to outwit their foe by using the laser cannon on their ship to create a holographic projection of a larger ship. In the end, they are about to be destroyed by a torpedo launched from the enemy ship.  The torpedo is destroyed by a laser beam from a friendly capital ship that arrives at the last moment.  I remember there being some sort of romance sub-plot to the show as well between two crew members.    Other non-plot details:   This was live action, not animated. I remember the special effects being quite high-end.   The guns on the ships were manipulated by a person sitting in a gunnery chair. This chair projected a holographic view of the fight in front of him/her. From there the gunner used a joystick and a keypad to control the weapons on the ship.  All the crew wore simple Star-Trek style uniforms throughout the entire program, so no jumpsuits or helmets.    I don't know if this was a movie or a TV show, because I never actually saw the beginning of it. I think I saw at least 45 minutes worth, so it could be either as far as I know.   That's all I remember, other than I think the name of the show was fairly generic (something like "Star Command"). I loved the show as a kid even though I only saw it once. I would like to watch it again and see how lame it really was.
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I'm looking for a movie I've seen as a kid, the details are foggy and sparse but I'll try my best following :  What is it?: An animated movie. Tell us what it isn't: It is not . Tell us what made it memorable: A planet where some brain-sucking insect-like aliens live, also an old bald man lives on the same planet. When did you see this film?: Late 80's, early 90's. How old was it?: If I've seen the movie on TV in Spain, is a pretty safe bet that it will be at least 5 years old. Was it part of a series?: I don't think so. Plot: No clue, sorry. What language was it in?: The movie was dubbed to Spanish (Spain).  No detail is too insignificant  What details can I recall?:  Sci-Fi story with one character being an old bald man living on a planet where some insect-ish aliens can open your skull and suck your brain. Habitat of those insect-ish foes was depicted in light blue colors, I kinda remember giant mushrooms as well. A young boy befriends the old baldie, the boy came to the planet with some adults.   Other details I'm not completely sure (maybe my mind is filling the gaps):  I think that the movie was drawn using , not 100% sure though. I cannot remember which year I've seen the movie, but it should be late 80's or early 90's. I'm pretty sure that I've seen the movie in Spanish TV (not rented videotape). Somehow the young boy was the young version of the old baldie (time travel?). The old man lives in a wood house near the brain-sucking insect habitat, as many old man does he spend his time on the porch.    Try to offer unique details As anyone would expect from this kind of movie, there's a scene where the alien insects attack a group of people trying to suck their brains. A young boy was with those adults and survived with injuries in his head. The old bald man have some surgery in his head due to an attack he suffered years before.
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For some reason I have this very distinct memory of watching a specific scene in an episode of a show when I was very young. The main characters [there's two, a man and a woman] are talking to this guy who is like a hardcore believer/conspiracy theorist, and he has all this 'proof' of aliens and paranormal things tacked to his wall, and most of it is implied to most likely be junk, but one picture is actually the main guy [altho not distinctly recognisable as him, so the believer has no clue] And in the photo there's lights and maybe lightning everywhere, so I assume the main guy has lightning powers, and I'm pretty sure he's an alien or something along those lines but I don't actually know.  I remember there was some concern because the believer had put his entire life into this, and the main characters wanted to help him, but he seemed to believe the "unknown" guy in the photo was at fault for something bad in his life, and they didn't want to reveal that it was actually the main guy, both because he seemed to hate the "Unknown" guy, and also because the powers were very much supposed to be a secret.  I just know I sometimes randomly remember that scene and really want to know what show it is so I can watch it and finally put it all into context!  It was on TV when I was super young so it may have aired in the late 90s or early 2000s But it could have been a rerun so idk;;;;;
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I've been looking for this series for a long time, I remember the overall series being called "The Dunhau Chronicles" or something similar. Details I remember:  There were two protagonists, the main one being a human woman, who may have been some sort of former military officer or cop, possibly just a diplomat. I think she was ~250 years old, which was possible through modern medicines.  The other one was a blue, furry alien who may have been a prince, or a former prince whose people had recently switched to democracy, he was a weak diplomat as his race had, unusually, descended from prey animals, rather than predators. There was a romance I think between him and the woman. His race's name was the series name- whatever word my memory has morphed into "Dunhau".  For reasons I don't quite remember, the two of them had to flee across space, picking up various allies as they went. At one point, they attended the wedding of I think the prince's allies or supporters at one point, which involved one woman marrying five men, as was the custom. It was a marriage that occurred late in the lives of the men, because the five men were "best friends" who refused to marry unless they could find a woman willing to marry all five of them, which took a while.  At one point, they all get captured by the bad guys, and in order to psychologically break the alien prince, the bad guy orders the woman to be raped in front of him. She manages to dodge this by pretending to be kind of into the idea and possibly throwing the guy against the wall or something? She basically undermines the psychological advantage and the whole thing gets cancelled before anything happens.   This is all I can really remember, if this sounds familiar to anyone please let me know!
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Can you please help me find this animated show? There is a four member team with two boys and two girls. The boys can summon, with their stones, a rock golem (black wearing summoner) and a robot (orange wearing summoner). The two girls can summon something like a dragonfly (green wearing summoner, little girl) and the blue girl, I don't remember what she can summon.  I don't know where the animated show comes from.  By throwing the stone, they activate the stone's power. Each stone has different characters on it. When you don't match them correctly, you get a rebound effect.
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Does anyone know a SF TV short story in which there were blue men who helped "stage" our world- at least the parts we saw, on a minute by minute basis.  So, at each minute, everyone would be in the "world" that was built for that minute, then they would go on to the next "minute world".  The blue men were in the future minutes building most of reality, but only the parts that would be looked at at that minute (to save work, I think - why build something that will not every be "used")  And they were in the past tearing down all the previously lived minutes.  It was kind of a behind the scenes look at why when you set your keys down and come back to them, they aren't there. Then you look again a few minutes later and they are there. The reason in the show was that the blue men building that minute forgot to include your keys, but the next group got it right.  Years later, my wife and I still refer back to that show, so I would like to find out what it was and see if I can find a copy somewhere.  .
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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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When I was a kid we had a VHS tape of some Disney live action (not animated) sci-fi movie. It may have been a mini-series or a made-for-tv movie, but I'm not sure. I'm also not sure about the year but it would probably have been late 80s or early 90s based on when I would have seen it. I know it was Disney because they had some live action Goofy and Mickey running around the movie's set as an introduction discussing the plot with a host before the movie.  The plot is basically as follows:   A starship is loaded with mostly children and teenagers as a cross-galaxy human settling effort. Accidents (which are not really accidents and later revealed) cause adult crew members to be killed.  They travel to another planet and face all sorts of troubles. It arrives at the new planet after overcoming obstacles.   Other memorable scenes that may help:   Navigating out of earth's asteroid belt made out of space junk. One of the adults was killed via an airlock malfunction. The ship was supposed to be peaceful with no weapons. At one point they bring on board some crazy guy who puts together a rail gun. There's a memorable line like "Do you want no weapons at all or a well aimed rock?"  There's a planet or space station (I can't remember which) that has a fight scene with the evil bad guy. This scene takes place on what looks to be a carnival or fairground. The bad guys are trying to steal the ship the kids are on because it has some kind of really good futuristic space drive.   Hopefully you remember it better than I do! I've tried looking online for it before with no luck.
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Typical Japanese style anime art, it was a series.   It has been around for more than 6 years. I think it mixed fantasy and sci-fi. It was certainly not Isekai and it has no magic, it feels more like revered science. A boy gets a gem embedded into his arm after a terrorist attack and transforms into a white and orange humanoid being. There are more people able to transform into these beings. There is also a red flying ship with a dark yellow underbelly that throws boxes with parachutes. There is also this top-secret laboratory where the scientists study how to battle against the beings. There are some other flying ships of varying colors. If I remember correctly, the protagonist gets amnesia near the end of the plot.
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Desperate to locate and re-read exceptional book/series, but cannot remember the title. The high concept: The U.S. has just sent the first successful expedition to Mars, and it has just landed. As the astronauts make their initial exploration outside their ship, a tear in the fabric of space opens up right in front of them, and they look through to the insides of a laboratory (at a California university?) and two students who just figured out how to create arbitrary portals between two points in the Universe. The rest of the novel/series is a consequence of this breakthrough. But I can't remember the author and title(s). Surely someone reading this forum will remember it well! TIA.  (Reposted .)
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Looking for a show about a group of three kids/teens who, using cards to change into monsters, fight and recover relics. I believe there are two or three other groups of three also trying to get the relics.  In the main group there are two boys and a girl. The boys were both white, one is from a farm and I don't know where the other is from. The girl was dark skinned and either black or blue hair. The three travelled around the world using a red plane.  I think they only use one monster primarily. The girl uses a monster created from gas and at one point is green. One of the boys uses a metal robot most of the time and at one point is given another better version of that card to use. I believe the episode for this was called something like green with envy.  All I'm getting from the internet is that it may be Chaotic, but that isn't the right show.  I also believe the girl's name was Mai and one of the boys were Ky, but I may be wrong.
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I have vague memories of a cartoon which would have been made in the 80s or early 90s - I would say that the animation looked like it was from the 80s but I would have seen it on UK television around 1990-94. I get the impression it was European in origin, possibly originally produced in a non-English language (German? French?) and later re-dubbed. I think it was shown in the UK on channel 4 in an early morning slot (like 6:30am or something).  It was set in space or had some space elements and I believe the main character or another very prominent character had a full beard and he (and the show?) may have been named after a character from greek (or other ancient) mythology? I want to say Hercules but I know that's not right. Any ideas?
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I remember seeing this series back when I was in the early grades of primary school (prep to 3) so this would be between 1996 and 1999  from what I remember it was set in space and the cast was made up from people from these different worlds, one of the characters is from a fire attributed world and I get the impression he was small framed (I think).  at one point in the series this entity appears called the Beast Planet appears, the one scene I do remember is that this Beast Planet attacks the fire planet, the front of the beast planet opens up with this claw and grabs the fire planet from bellow and then the fire planet is slammed into the beast planet dooming the fire planet but I think the beast planet was unharmed.  I also seem to remember that the cast discover the other planets have engines which allows the remaining planets to escape from the Beast Planet rather than them being sitting ducks.  I remember that this beast planet, despite being called a beast is actually more machine. I began remembering this series after playing Galaxy Angel where I saw the  and it reminds me of this beast planet
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I remember seeing this movie (or TV show) when I was a kid (around 1999). My memories are very vague.   I remember the main characters were a guy and a girl. They had some kind of device, which in retrospect looks like a genetically engineered organism. I remember it had small finger-like appendages that they would use as controls. This creature somehow enabled the main characters to visit a parallel universe (or virtual reality) which was indistinguishable from the real world. There was some symbolism here comparing this virtual reality to the internet. At some point during the movie, one of the main characters kills someone, and there was some confusion regarding if it happened inside the virtual world or not. I'm not completely sure but I think the person was actually killed in the real world by accident.   Any ideas?
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There was this sci-fi animated series. A cartoon show, if you must. It had a group of men and a woman who were part of some special elite group. The had lego blocks sort-of-a-thing on their body (not sure if as a part of their armour). Whenever the need arose, special weapons or types of equipment would attach to their backs, their arms etc. For example, you could attach jetpack wings to the back and basically fly. Or you could attach a gun to your arm.  I am just able to remember one particular scene and have mentioned all that I could recall from it.  All the characteristics of the show I would now further describe may be from a completely different series and just mixed up with this memory.  There was this white dude, who was the leader of this squad and would get the best possible equipments for a particular fighting climax.  The setting was a pretty modern day era, which I don't think had dark gloomy alien species. Completely not sure about this part though.