What was the first US television series in which the main cast were mostly african american?
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I was watching MeTV the other day, which is a fantastic station chock-full of old-time TV shows.  In one sitting I saw episodes of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Rifleman and Star Trek (TOS).  So it got me thinking...  None of these shows has many (if any) black actors.  And now I'm curious as to which TV show was the first to feature a predominantly black cast.  Anyone know?  I'm thinking back to What's Happening, Good Times, The Jeffersons...  But were there any before then?
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I searched Google's "YouTube", it seems like "tube" is a nickname for "television". So, when did television get this nickname, and why?  EDIT  I have once considered tube as TV cube, does it make sense?
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I'm pretty sure this was a visual story, on TV, but I could have read it and just imagined strong images to go with it.  If I saw it on TV, it'd have been an anthology show, but I've searched and I'm pretty sure it wasn't on any version of The Twilight Zone.  While I'm not strong on details, I remember a man puts together a crystal radio and starts picking up broadcasts from WWII (this is in at least the 1970s).  His Father (or uncle?) or some other older male relative was killed in a Nazi attack and he realizes if he can receive signals from WWII, he can send them, so he sends a signal to the past to warn the Allies of the attack where his relative was killed.  The ending is an image I've had in my head for years, but the way my brain works, I could have just imagined it after reading it (if it was a book, and not on TV).     The man wakes up in a bakery or similar small business with his Father running the place and it turns out he saved his relative, but also, in sending that signal, he changed history so the Nazis won WWII and he and his Father have ID cards on and there are swastikas and other Nazi symbols all around, in and outside of their small business, which is somewhere in America, where the Nazis now rule.
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The characters of Big Bang Theory are:   Sheldon Lee Cooper    Leonard Leakey Hofstadter  Howard Joel Wolowitz    Rajesh Ramayan Koothrappali    Bernadette Maryanne Rostenkowski-Wolowitz    Amy Farrah Fowler   AND....  Penny!? That's it? No last name, or even a middle name?
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The Original Series is set from 2265 to 2269, but as far as I can remember, the year was never given until much later, in The Next Generation, which arbitrarily started 100 years later.  Somehow, someone, most likely Mike Okuda or Gene Roddenberry himself, decided to make 2265 the start year, but how was that decided? What specific clue or line tied it down to that year? Perhaps in the last season of TOS someone said onscreen that it was 300 years since Apollo 11?
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I remember reading a series when I was around 7th or 8th grade about aliens who had taken over Earth by putting metal caps on people when they were "entering adulthood" to control them (not direct control, but it would keep them from rebelling). There was a faction of people who able to escape and had fake caps and would save teens who were about to be capped.  The main protagonist was a teen boy who was a boxer (or training to be a boxer or something). The aliens would hold tournaments for the humans and whoever won would be "worthy" to serve as personal slaves to the aliens.     The protagonist won and was able to get inside to try and learn more about the aliens from the inside.
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I am desperately trying to remember a name of a TV series probably from 90's. I remember these points:   A boy goes to another dimension through a portal near a power lines. This dimension has a sort of medieval world. There are bad guys with an electric suit and they throw lightning balls at the good guys. Before throwing, they always "charge" the suit by touching with forearms which has electrodes. In one episode, the main character creates a gun powder.
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Is the BBC's pre-war live adaptation of Karel Capek's R.U.R., broadcast on February 11, 1938, the first science fiction television show? Originally, I would have thought that the American series Captain Video starting in 1949 was the first, and it may have been the first series.  But in doing my research before asking the question, I came up with the BBC broadcast. It was a 35 minute extract from the novel. It's so early that I'm tempted to call it the first, but there might be something even older.
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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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This was a TV show aired in the UK probably sometime between 1990 and 1993, if memory serves it was only a one-off. The plot starts with the protagonist waking up in bed and being disappointed. He eventually goes outside and everyone is dead, whatever they were doing at the time they died doing it (driving, working, etc.) The protagonist is in a state of panic running around town (I seem to remember it being set in the UK) and he discovers that he's is 'alive' because he'd attempted suicide and died at the exact moment this mysterious event happened. I think he encounters others that 'died' at the time of the event and that's when he realises. I think the protagonist was a bald, white man, probably mid-thirties. Sorry for any vagaries, I was VERY young when it was on. Until recently I assumed it was The Quiet Earth but I've checked and it definitely isn't. It was in colour and was contemporary at the time so it would have been made around 1990.
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Been trying to track down some of my old favorites from the 80s era of anime, one that has refused to show up in search after search has brought me here with the hope that someone might know of it.  Details: Sci-fi anime series (viewed on American TV early weekday mornings) during the 80s. Heroes drove cars and enemies were cars, with the heroic cars being high-tech and each unique, and enemies being some organic spore-based grow-on-demand instant cars. One of the latter had a bola style weapon, forget the others.  Characters were quite obviously modelled after Star Wars 4, I forget what their cars were capable of except in one case:  -"Han" owned the starship they traveled on, "Luke" was main character (?), "Ben" and "Leia" rode in the same car, which had a drill for going underground.  As far as what year the title was aired, I can't say for certain, around the mid 80s I can say confidently.
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I'm trying to identify a TV show I saw when I was a kid (I was born in 93). The show, as far as I remember, was around 2003-2005.   There were a couple of people stuck in a primitive other world. There was a husband and wife, mid 30s, an old smart dude and a young 20s guy who hooks up with one of the blonde natives who proceeds to stay with the group (at some point he disappears). They make their home base in a big tree house in a forest. There was a bit of magic and I think there was also a bit of dinosaurs.
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What is the name of the anime TV show where a boy can summon beasts with crystals/gems. It was on SABC 2. There was also a boy that could summon a purple turtle . I think the gems were blue, green, and red.
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It's a narration cartoon about a town that has weird paranormal occurrences in it.  It focused on different characters from time to time but the main character narrates an intro and the outro in a lessons learned kind of style.  Main character is a short kid with light blue/greenish skin and darker blue hair.(and if I am not mistaking a Hawaiian shirt).  His friends are a yellowish skater with a baseball cap and 3-d glasses and a slender girl with pinkish skin and purple pigtail hair and a large nose.  It is a western animation (set in North America it seems) and aired on FoxKids/Jetix about over decade ago (in the Netherlands).  An example of an episode is when the skater friend of the main character discovers he has a guardian angel who is in love with him, feeling invincible he becomes more and more reckless and the guardian angel becomes more protective restricting his freedom (don't remember how it ended).  It was an okay show, nothing special but it has been bugging me for weeks that I can't remember the name.
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Looking for a TV episode where tiny men go around recreating the world in between seconds, behind the main characters backs/just out of sight. I think it was older. My memories say it was in Black and White. Similar concept to Twilight Zone's &quot;Matter of Minutes,&quot; different execution.
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Plot Details/Summary I only watched an episode or two of this one, so I can't recall a whole lot about it.  The protagonist is a former astronaut of some sort, who makes it his mission to clean up the crime in his city.  He might have been a police officer in his &quot;new life&quot; or he might have decided to become a sort of quasi-superhero.  In either case, I distinctly recall his space suit being the gimmick that makes him an effective crime fighter in the show.  I seem to recall the protagonist being a young, dark-haired man, and I think he had a friendship or an alliance with a young woman (maybe a fellow cop, or someone from the space program?).  I don't think there were alien beings in the show.   The criminal threats were all quite terrestrial, IIRC. Timeframe and other Publication Details This was a syndicated tv show I saw on American television, probably around the late 90s to early 2000's.  I believe the show was filmed in Canada, though I'm not certain.  I don't think it lasted very long - it was pretty dreadful.  I can say for certain the show is not Space Cop or Gerry Anderson's Space Precinct.
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I'm trying to identify a science fiction series on UK TV during the 70s, but I can only recall the following:   A party of adults and children. There was a woman with a telepathic bond to her cat: she could look into its eyes to see what it had seen. Time travel was involved. I think it may have been inadvertent or uncontrolled time travel. On one occasion the party encountered an Elizabethan seaman who demanded to know if Elizabeth was still queen. They party replied "err... yes" because they didn't want to have to explain time travel.