Most Obscure Movie/TV Show You Remember Vividly

What is the most obscure movie or TV show that you none the less remember vividly?

For me it's The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space.

It was a one time tv movie that was part of the Universal Action Pack, which was a syndicated programming block that aired from 1994 until 2001. It gave us Hercules, Xena, TekWar and . . . Captain Zoom! Which as far as I know was only ever shown once. It’s about a 1950’s cheesy sci-fi TV actor who gets “beamed” to a far off galaxy where they think his show is real.

Galaxy Quest did this MUCH MUCH better, and everyone should really see that instead, but none the less I remember Captain Zoom pretty well.

I didn't have cable growing up, buy my grandparents did. I went to visit them for a week when I was about 13. MTV was having an Undressed marathon. It was the worst acted show I've ever seen. I sat through two seasons worth before I went home. Terrible show, but I was squarely in the demographic at the time.

Airborne. A 90's movie about a California high school student whose parents leave the country and send him to some random midwest town to live with his cousin & family. He has a crappy time, but ends up getting his rollerblades in the mail and goes around and show everyone up on them. Eventually gets a girlfriend (who he takes to a greenhouse that when he's done, (he notices it looks like an upside down heart) and then ends up in a rollerblade street race to end the movie.

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mrtomaytohead wrote:

Airborne.

Oh man, I completely forgot that movie, but loved it at the time. I remember seeing it in the theater now.

mrtomaytohead wrote:

Airborne. A 90's movie about a California high school student whose parents leave the country and send him to some random midwest town to live with his cousin & family. He has a crappy time, but ends up getting his rollerblades in the mail and goes around and show everyone up on them. Eventually gets a girlfriend (who he takes to a greenhouse that when he's done, (he notices it looks like an upside down heart) and then ends up in a rollerblade street race to end the movie.

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My friends and I watched that movie so many times as kids! We rollerbladed a lot, A LOT. Racing, hockey, to the gas station. I love that movie. Or at least, I loved that movie.

Yeah, I got into rollerblading first on my block of an insane amount of kids my age (7 or 8 houses worth) and we did street hockey a bit and eventually I borrowed a pair of aggressive inline skates that after replacing the wheels on my own, the dude got a new pair and let me keep them. They lasted through college, at which point the impacts from all the jumps and landings finally broke a piece of the ankle support hardware off. At least I got a few trips to the local park w/ mini half-pipe in. Certainly fed my enjoyment of the movie, too.

so...there's this film that I BARELY remember from watching as a kid which I periodically think I should try to track down, just to convince myself that it actually exists. I forget the details but there are a couple of scenes that stand out vividly in my mind, so I'm pretty sure I didn't dream it.

From what I can remember it was a medieval fantasy (not sure if there was any sort of magic involved or if it was purely medieval) type affair starring a young girl and her younger brother, probably orphans. the brother is kidnapped from their home by a rogue or bandit dressed like Santa Clause(?) who literally climbs down the chimney, stuffs him in a sack and then runs off. The sister then leaves on a quest to track him down and rescue him, eventually tracking him down when they are much older and he's become part of / or the leader of the bandit gang...or something? To the point where it takes her some time to recognise him.
And that's pretty much all I can remember.

It was on a Saturday or Sunday morning so it was probably a kids or teen film, although I remember it being a good deal darker than your average kids fare. I kind of remember it having a sort of Game of Thrones / aesthetic to it (the mud and grime, rather than the murder and incest), or possibly like "Legend" but without the budget.

Let me know if that rings a bell for anyone, because it's been bugging the crap out of me on and off for a considerable number of years!

Small Wonder was a Saturday morning tv show about a robot girl. A reference to it was made in Agents of Shield but I don't think anyone got it.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Small Wonder was a Saturday morning tv show about a robot girl. A reference to it was made in Agents of Shield but I don't think anyone got it.

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It's Your Move. The very first TV show I remember being crushed by learning it wasn't returning for a second season.

That's a young Jason Bateman sitting in the middle there. Premise of the show, Jason Bateman's character constantly gets into battles of wits with the new guy who moves in across the hall from their apartment in an attempt to try to get him to stop dating (Bateman's) single mother.

Mine is Fantastic Planet. It played several times very late at night. It was so weird and disturbing that I couldn't look away. I had never seen anything like it.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Small Wonder was a Saturday morning tv show about a robot girl. A reference to it was made in Agents of Shield but I don't think anyone got it.

Oh I got it.

For movie it has to be Hawk the Slayer. Ten year-old me watched it at my neighbor's house on this new-fangled thing called cable TV and was mesmerized with the automatic crossbow.

For TV show it was Logan's Run, which lasted all of one season in the late 70s.

I'll admit I'm a little fuzzy on the details of the show (and didn't see the movie until I was in my 20s), but I distinctly remember making a cardboard cutout of the Sandman gun which I had to have when I watched an episode.

Here's another more recent one. Corner Gas- a Canadian sit-com that when I saw this youtube clip I knew I HAD to watch:

I wound up getting DVDs of all the seasons and watching them over and over. Often I'll hear something that makes me think of a reference from this show and I want to say "You ever see that episode of Corner Gas where..." but here in the US it's pretty much a given that no one else has seen it.

I was about 10 when this weird sci fi thriller show called Otherworld came on. It was about a family who get transported to another dystopian dimension while on a vacation to Egypt. Here's the opening credits:

jdzappa wrote:

I was about 10 when this weird sci fi thriller show called Otherworld came on. It was about a family who get transported to another dystopian dimension while on a vacation to Egypt. Here's the opening credits:

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I recognize that!

And while I'm here:

That's Terry Nation's Survivors (1975-77), set in England very shortly after an epidemic kills almost everybody. Back when it took a decade or more for TV to cross the Atlantic, my local PBS station ran occasional episodes of it in the same block as Are You Being Served? and some other BBC comedies. Which made for quite a mood shift.

There was also a remake/reboot in the late oughts, but it lost me after the first season or so.

mrtomaytohead wrote:

Airborne. A 90's movie about a California high school student whose parents leave the country and send him to some random midwest town to live with his cousin & family. He has a crappy time, but ends up getting his rollerblades in the mail and goes around and show everyone up on them. Eventually gets a girlfriend (who he takes to a greenhouse that when he's done, (he notices it looks like an upside down heart) and then ends up in a rollerblade street race to end the movie.

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The utterly hilarious podcast How Did This Get Made is all about several comedians (Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas, plus some guests) who have watched terrible movies and then talk about them for an hour or so (it's incredibly funny), and they did Airborne not that long ago. Highly recommend a listen; they did a mini-episode where they interviewed the "star" of the movie the next week.

Very UK-specific here, but Round the Bend. Basically it was 20 minutes of fart jokes and otherwise extremely juvenile humour hosted by a crocodile puppet, and for an 8-year-old me it was the greatest thing on TV.

Electra Woman and Dyna Girl: I had a HUGE crush on Diedre Hall.
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Concave wrote:

Very UK-specific here, but Round the Bend. Basically it was 20 minutes of fart jokes and otherwise extremely juvenile humour hosted by a crocodile puppet, and for an 8-year-old me it was the greatest thing on TV.

holy sh*t. I'd forgotten that was even a thing :O

For me it is definitely Automan. I always remember him flying down the road and saying, 'Green Please' and the lights changing to all green with a 'Yes Automan'. All the weird old shows I bring up, no one ever remembers this.

The two that I bring up to people and everyone always thinks I'm making up are Airwolf and Space: Above & Beyond.

For me it was -
The Ninth Configuration

Space Above and Beyond

Sort of a weird but great concept: sci fi retelling of some of the more famous battles of WWII. Watching some old episodes, it actually kinda holds up.

Infyrnos wrote:

For me it is definitely Automan. I always remember him flying down the road and saying, 'Green Please' and the lights changing to all green with a 'Yes Automan'. All the weird old shows I bring up, no one ever remembers this.

I remember it! Although It tends to blend together with Street Hawk in my memory for some reason. I guess they were on UK TV round about the same time.

That and Manimal...

And now I've fallen down an 80's uk kids tv show singularity...


Playlist o' stuff

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
mrtomaytohead wrote:

Airborne. A 90's movie about a California high school student whose parents leave the country and send him to some random midwest town to live with his cousin & family. He has a crappy time, but ends up getting his rollerblades in the mail and goes around and show everyone up on them. Eventually gets a girlfriend (who he takes to a greenhouse that when he's done, (he notices it looks like an upside down heart) and then ends up in a rollerblade street race to end the movie.

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The utterly hilarious podcast How Did This Get Made is all about several comedians (Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas, plus some guests) who have watched terrible movies and then talk about them for an hour or so (it's incredibly funny), and they did Airborne not that long ago. Highly recommend a listen; they did a mini-episode where they interviewed the "star" of the movie the next week.

Put me on the Airborne list. I think it was on HBO a lot or something one summer.

Also that podcast did a bit with Mel Brooks about how Solarbabies got made. That was another one on this list of obscure movies. And somehow that one made money eventually on DVD.

kazooka wrote:

Space Above and Beyond

Sort of a weird but great concept: sci fi retelling of some of the more famous battles of WWII. Watching some old episodes, it actually kinda holds up.

That show is absolutely fantastic and I love very bit of it. Even the bad episodes. And that weird android season. It was a kind of proto-BSG-reboot. I was sad about bow it ended. And still hold out a secret hope for either a reboot or a continuation.

Remember that episode when the Liutenant Colonel went out to shoot down the Chig ace on his own. That episode was paid homage by BSG in the episode titled Scar.

I remember Manimal!

Delbin wrote:

Mine is Fantastic Planet. It played several times very late at night. It was so weird and disturbing that I couldn't look away. I had never seen anything like it.

I remember having nightmares from this. My dad frequently had my brothers and I watch it. I saw it again about a year ago. Fantastic animation, and still bizarre.