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First time posting on this part of SA since I usually reside in GBS, so hello everyone and by all means tell me to gently caress off if I’m asking the wrong questions like they did over in CD. Wondering if anyone else here remembers a weird clip-show on SyFy (then called the Sci-Fi Channel) called Headf**k. It was shown randomly on Friday nights back in 2002 and 2003. Had I not gone so far as to tape as much of the show as I could during its run, I’d be convinced it was a weird half remembered dream from my teens because so far I’ve never found anyone else who remembers it even existed at all. The show essentially consisted of mangled edited clips from HG Lewis movies, bizarre short movies and music videos, and occasional reality-bending ‘thoughts’ from resident wacko David Icke. The show was pretty much helmed by him for the first season, then his presence was noticeably absent for the second season. I’d post the clips I have of it here for people to get an idea of how loving strange this show was, but VHS generation loss has pretty much ruined the audio to the point I’d probably have to pay someone to fix it (which I’m seriously contemplating doing).
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Aug 14, 2021 19:34
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Just randomly remembered that a 2003 show called The Handler existed. It starred Joe Pantoliano (of The Matrix and Robot In The Family fame) as an FBI agent handling rookie agents going undercover. It got cancelled after only 14 episodes.
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Aug 17, 2021 02:28
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So it’s Turner and Hooch?
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Aug 20, 2021 17:18
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Odyssey 5: The astronaut crew of a space shuttle looks on in horror as they witness the violent destruction of the Earth. However, they are given a chance to change humanity's fate when a sympathetic alien sends them five years into the past. Their mission--find out who's responsible for the plot to destroy the planet. Can they deal with their own pasts while saving the world from the mysterious organism known only as "Leviathan?" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318236/
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Aug 20, 2021 22:44
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I remember this show! It was great! I’m a bit of a nerd for these kinds of timeline-changing shows (Quantum Leap as you mentioned but also Early Edition)
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Sep 13, 2021 00:55
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muscles like this! posted:IIRC it had problems going to streaming because of all the period music the show used. Could they not do what they did with the DVD release of Daria where they replaced all the music with free-to-use tracks that sounded similar but that ruined the entire show because there were several jokes that relied on the original songs that now weren’t funny anymore?
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Sep 13, 2021 02:10
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The Last Train was a show that ran for a single series on the British channel ITV in 1999. This show had a pretty wild concept, even by today’s standards: passengers on a train from London to Sheffield are cryogenically frozen in the midst of a train accident when a gas canister being illegally transported by a passenger bursts. They unfreeze thinking they’ve only been frozen for a few minutes, but exit the train tunnel to find that the civilisation had completely collapsed, realising that several weeks have passed and humanity is sparing and scattered. They later realise that they’ve been frozen for 52 years. This show was super creative with how it set up the establishment of new human colonies and how the destruction of humanity was portrayed. Sadly it never got a DVD or Blu-Ray release and was never broadcast in the US. https://youtu.be/AUWYg6GSgCY
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Sep 14, 2021 12:47
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torgo posted:I have two I always thought deserved more seasons. Wonderfalls is definitely worth seeking out, mainly because it’s the rare scenario where the network were so confident in the formula of the show taking off that only a handful of episodes were ever broadcast but they actually filmed the whole first season.
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Sep 15, 2021 17:45
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Tiggum posted:I'm generally pretty indifferent to crossovers when they actually happen, but I really like the Tommy Westphall Universe theory where, thanks to crossovers and references, everything from M*A*S*H to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Star Trek can be linked together into a single shared universe - and a surprisingly large number of connections are directly related to Richard Belzer's character Detective John Munch (best known from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) who turns up in more shows than you'd expect.  I love randomly finding out that some weird movie or TV show I’m watching is connected to the Tommy Westphall universe in some obscure way.
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Sep 16, 2021 18:51
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Hrvstmn31 posted:I'm surprised anyone has heard of Dead Like Me, my Uncle found it in like 2011 and we pretty much binged the whole thing. No one I've met has heard of it, only the existence of google has confirmed that it is real and I'm not crazy. Dead Like Me was surprisingly popular in the UK
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Sep 16, 2021 22:17
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Hrvstmn31 posted:That just makes it even more strange. What’s even stranger is that there was a feature-length episode released in 2009, a full 5 years after the show ended.
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Sep 17, 2021 12:59
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Profit. A show well ahead of its time. “Jim Profit works for a multinational company and isn't above using any means necessary to get ahead, which includes bribery, blackmail, intimidation, extortion, and even murder. Everyone at the company, including the president, Charles Gracen, are oblivious to his dark side.” According to Adrian Pasdar there is a reboot in the works. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5kUPGS3gEZqK4dQBtb2s7x8KQR2fLwFT
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Sep 17, 2021 14:17
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AFewBricksShy posted:That reminded me that Andy Richter Controls the Universe was a show which I absolutely loved. Loved both this and Wondershowzen, which I associate with each other but have trouble remembering if it’s because they were in the same time block on MTV2 or if there’s some writing connection between them.
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Sep 17, 2021 17:30
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Hrvstmn31 posted:Unanswered cliffhangers are the bane of my existence. That's one of the reasons I really liked Bojack Horseman and Kidding: both of those shows were cancelled but the showrunners were given enough notice that they managed to wrap up all the major (and minor, in the case of BH) plotlines before the end.
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Sep 17, 2021 20:18
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Bojack had been winding down for a season even before the cancellation. I’m pretty sure that it only would have gone for one more season tops if it hadn’t ended with 7. They had planned for 8 seasons AFAIK, but were only given one season after 5 to wrap up 3 seasons worth of plot that had already been planned out.
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Sep 17, 2021 20:22
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Was watching an old Bojack Horseman episode yesterday and saw them referencing a show called John From Cincinnati. Looked.....eh. Was shown directly after The Sopranos, but flopped and was cancelled after just 10 episodes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_from_Cincinnati Also randomly remembered that Cavemen existed, a show similar to Wonderfalls in that most of the recorded episodes went unaired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavemen_(TV_series)
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Sep 19, 2021 14:35
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