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Shows or movies YOU remember- but nobody else seems to

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Exactly as the titles says, and we all have it- that one show or film or whatever we quite clearly and vividly remember seeing, whether it have been on TV or at the video store, watched, enjoyed to some extent, and yet have never seen anybody ever talk about.

Well, let's fix that with this. An en tire thread made to reminisce, lament or critique these forgotten pieces of media. I'll start off with a show from Marathon entertainment (a common company for things like this, responsible for shows like Martin Mystery, Totally Spies (and the spin-off/sequel/thing of Amazing Spies), Monster Buster Club and a variety of other NOT!Anime shows), one I remember if only because of it's aesthetics and music. A show called Team Galaxy.

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I remember those too, never really liked them much, tho. Not sure why but something about them just rubbed me the wrong way.

As for obscure series, how about the Alien Chronicles trilogy by Deborah Chester, published by Lucasflim? Haven't read them in a while, so I'm not quite sure how good they are, but I thoroughly enjoyed them at the time. Basically about the life of a single slave in a galaxy with no humans ruled these reptile aliens obsessed with beauty. I think a few elements actually managed to worm their way into the Star Wars EU before the great canon purge.
 
Wasn't there an animated Lord of the rings film that covered the first and second books? I remember having it on dvd and watching. The only other things I remember was that the fight scenes were weird and the nazgul's design was more like corpses than anything. No one else I've asked know of it but I swear it was thing.
 
Daedalus679 said:
Wasn't there an animated Lord of the rings film that covered the first and second books? I remember having it on dvd and watching. The only other things I remember was that the fight scenes were weird and the nazgul's design was more like corpses than anything. No one else I've asked know of it but I swear it was thing.
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Yup. Nostalgia Critic even directly compared the two.

 
Daedalus679 said:
Wasn't there an animated Lord of the rings film that covered the first and second books? I remember having it on dvd and watching. The only other things I remember was that the fight scenes were weird and the nazgul's design was more like corpses than anything. No one else I've asked know of it but I swear it was thing.
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Directed by Ralph Bakshi, yes. It's quite famous, as it was the first cinematic adaptation of the book. That it was only a partial adaptation wasn't widely known when it was released, so Part II was never made (Rankin-Bass went on to make a Return of the King cartoon to try and make up for it).
 
Speaking of Ralph Bakshi, one of his movies he's done, Wizards? I honestly haven't heard anyone online ever talk about it but it was SO GOOD, it's easily in my top five favorite movies of all time.
 
There's a couple of old shows I remember.

Out of this World: Young Evie turns sixteen and learns she's half human, half alien and gains some quirky powers.

Small Wonder: A dad builds a robot daughter named Vicky. Or something like that.
 
There was a series of kids information and history books I read only once but really liked, probably French, that combines cutaways and graphs with historical fiction . I remember one on pirates that involved the narrator going to the Caribbeans and becoming a doctor on the governor's unofficial pirate ship.

Edit: Glad I still remember that the governor is Michel le Basque. Still can't find the book...
Michel le Basque — Wikipédia
 
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Not a show/movie, but a book series that got cut off at a trilogy.

The HalfBlood Chronicles.

Basically, dick elves invaded a fantasy world with dragons and humans a thousand years before the series escaping their own realm (which went Commeraugh bad from their fucking around), enslaved the humans, 'killed off' the dragons. Turns out they're somehow interfertile with humans, go about exterminating every half-blood they can get their hands on. Backfires predictably at the 'present day' of the books, with one woman fleeing into the desert with her child, dying, and her child being raised by the shapeshifting dragons (who use lightning, which is FUCKING AWESOME). Child eventually grows up, gets sent back to 'civilization' when she fucks up (was provoked by her adopted sister), proceeds to join the resistance and start a proper rebellion.

It's an awesome series of books that's let down by Author Existence Failure (first by Andre Norton, then by Mercedes Lackey) and will be forever unfinished. Can't even find my copies anymore, and it's a pretty good series.
 
Polokun said:
Speaking of Ralph Bakshi, one of his movies he's done, Wizards? I honestly haven't heard anyone online ever talk about it but it was SO GOOD, it's easily in my top five favorite movies of all time.
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THEY KILLED FRITZ!

Split Second is an old favorite of mine I just recently discovered was on Hulu after years of failing to find a DVD copy that wasn't ludicrously priced.

 
Daedalus679 said:
Wasn't there an animated Lord of the rings film that covered the first and second books? I remember having it on dvd and watching. The only other things I remember was that the fight scenes were weird and the nazgul's design was more like corpses than anything. No one else I've asked know of it but I swear it was thing.
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You see it aired on the SyFy channel from time to time. My dad loves it, I got him it on DVD as a Birthday present a while back. Beyond that, the only person outside my family who's heard of it is a massive Tolkien fan I know through school.

And expanding on this note in a manner relevant to the thread topic, nobody remembers the animated adaptations of The Hobbit or Return of the King. (Or the 1966 Hobbit cartoon, but that's best left forgotten.)
 
Bringing up Ralph Bakshi compelled me to finally get off my ass and try to compile a list of all American animated feature films, plus Studio Ghibli. Direct to video doesn't count. I probably shouldn't be counting things like Fantasia (series of shorts), Dragon's Lair (videogame), or Space Jam (partly live action) but I did anyways with no rhyme or reason. Anyways here's my list, which is not comprehensive, and probably not fully accurate either:

Overall there seem to be three categories, not counting Studio Ghibli:
1: Disney movies, plus the various off-shoots and associates (everything in the bigger timeline besides Laika LLC)
2: Animation focused subsidiaries of various major studios (Universal, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, etc etc)
3: Various indie artists and indie studios.
 
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firefossil said:
Bringing up Ralph Bakshi compelled me to finally get off my ass and try to compile a list of all American animated feature films, plus Studio Ghibli. Direct to video doesn't count. I probably shouldn't be counting things like Fantasia (series of shorts), Dragon's Lair (videogame), or Space Jam (partly live action) but I did anyways with no rhyme or reason. Anyways here's my list, which is not comprehensive, and probably not fully accurate either:

Overall there seem to be three categories, not counting Studio Ghibli:
1: Disney movies, plus the various off-shoots and associates (everything in the bigger timeline besides Laika LLC)
2: Animation focused subsidiaries of various major studios (Universal, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, etc etc)
3: Various indie artists and indie studios.
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This just makes me wish that there were more animated big-budget movies for adult audiences. And isn't a musical.
 
Can't remember the name, but it was a stop motion kids' show with a bunch of original toys. There was a Barbie-esque token girl and I think the main character kinda looked like a Lion-O doll. Can't find any trace of it. Sometimes I wonder if it was just a one-episode thing but it seemed like it was part of a bigger series.
 
I remember a show about some kind of murder, where the investigation was centered on a house on a tiny island in a lake. The house was full of creepy dolls. When the tragic family mystery was solved, the house burned down and destroyed all the dolls. I was maybe in preschool and the imagery was pretty disturbing

This was maybe 1983 and I can't remember any narrative at all. Nobody remembers this show.

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This just makes me wish that there were more animated big-budget movies for adult audiences. And isn't a musical.
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Is this serious?
 
Insufficient Dakka said:
Can't remember the name, but it was a stop motion kids' show with a bunch of original toys. There was a Barbie-esque token girl and I think the main character kinda looked like a Lion-O doll. Can't find any trace of it. Sometimes I wonder if it was just a one-episode thing but it seemed like it was part of a bigger series.
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You're not talking about Action League Now are you? It was part of the Kablam show.
 
Josh Kirby, Time Warrior. It was about a kid who gets caught up in a race to collect crystal bones between an elderly scientist and a black guy in a robot suit. They travel in time to a past when dinosaurs lived in Middle Ages and the future filled with giants. And it was surprisingly good.
 
Space Cases
Bots Master
Tales from the Crypt game show
Don Coyote
Mad Scientist Toon Club
Superhuman Samurai Cybersquad
WMAC Masters

Mostly asinine garbage I used to watch as a kid.
 
I feel Atomic Betty is the definition of "I think I remember that cartoon?"

Also see Whatever Happened to Robot Jones.
 
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