Less Than Total Recall: What's The Name Of This Series I Vaguely Remember?

[MissAlmond]

Here's another miniseries I'm drawing a blank on.  It was late 80's/90's.  Based on a book by one of those authors who were always writing the type of books later to be turned into TV miniseries during this time period.  It was about three male friends.  One I believe went to Hollywood and perhaps was in the closet, Another friend became head of a cult and was evil.  The third friend I can't remember at all.  Maybe - or maybe not - they were tied together forever by a childhood secret?  I believe one of the actors became quite well known later.  Of course my memory is vague so my details could be wrong (LOL).  

ETA:  At least I think became a miniseries.  Maybe it was just a book.  AGH!!!

Edited August 14, 2019 by MissAlmond

[Domestic Assassin]

4 hours ago, MissAlmond said:

Here's another miniseries I'm drawing a blank on.  It was late 80's/90's.  Based on a book by one of those authors who were always writing the type of books later to be turned into TV miniseries during this time period.  It was about three male friends.  One I believe went to Hollywood and perhaps was in the closet, Another friend became head of a cult and was evil.  The third friend I can't remember at all.  Maybe - or maybe not - they were tied together forever by a childhood secret?  I believe one of the actors became quite well known later.  Of course my memory is vague so my details could be wrong (LOL).  

ETA:  At least I think became a miniseries.  Maybe it was just a book.  AGH!!!

I swear that I watched this, but I can't think of the title.  They accidentally killed someone and covered it up, I think?  I can picture one of the men in it, but I can't think of his name.  I'm sorry!  But I know that it wasn't just a book!

[BlackberryJam]

Was it the mini series Celebrity?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086679/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_28

I remember it because of Michael Beck.

[Domestic Assassin]

Yes, that's it!

[MissAlmond]

9 hours ago, BlackberryJam said:

Was it the mini series Celebrity?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086679/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_28

I remember it because of Michael Beck.

9 hours ago, Domestic Assassin said:

Yes, that's it!

I concur, that is indeed the miniseries I was thinking of.  

Funny.  I haven't thought of this miniseries for years and it never was something I longed to see once again.  Yet when reading conversations on the True Crime forum about Manson's Girls, out of nowhere this miniseries popped in my mind.  Weird.  

Thanks so much for finding it, Blackberryjam!  

[cynicat]

10 hours ago, BlackberryJam said:

Was it the mini series Celebrity?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086679/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_28

I remember it because of Michael Beck.

That has an incredible cast!  River Phoenix when he was 11?  Wow.

[MissAlmond]

23 minutes ago, cynicat said:

That has an incredible cast!  River Phoenix when he was 11?  Wow.

Those network miniseries back then had cast way beyond solid, featuring seasoned and rising young actors.  I first became acquainted with Meryl Streep, Michael Moriarty, James Woods, Tovah Feldshuh, and Blanche Baker from the NBC miniseries Holocaust.  

[BlackberryJam]

Back in the day, I loved a good mini-series. Scruples, North and South, The Thornbirds, V....

[MissAlmond]

3 minutes ago, BlackberryJam said:

Back in the day, I loved a good mini-series. Scruples, North and South, The Thornbirds, V....

How can anybody who V watched back in the day forget that hamster? rabbit? being swallowed whole? 

[BlackberryJam]

1 hour ago, MissAlmond said:

How can anybody who V watched back in the day forget that hamster? rabbit? being swallowed whole? 

Exactly! Nothing like unhinging your jaw to eat a live animal whole. 

[Rose Quartz]

2 hours ago, MissAlmond said:

How can anybody who V watched back in the day forget that hamster? rabbit? being swallowed whole? 

And then there was a scene shortly after that where the cameraman gets into a fight with one of the visitors and pulls off his  human mask so for the first time we see the reptilian eyes and skin underneath.  Man, I had a few nightmares because of that when I was young!

[MissAlmond]

1 hour ago, Rose Quartz said:

And then there was a scene shortly after that where the cameraman gets into a fight with one of the visitors and pulls off his  human mask so for the first time we see the reptilian eyes and skin underneath.  Man, I had a few nightmares because of that when I was young! 

The original V was 🔥 🔥 🔥!  Everything following afterward (IMO) never measured up.  

V introduced me to the pre Freddy Krueger, Robert Englund and no, his character was not the one snacking on small animals as if they were Lays potato chips.  

[andromeda331]

3 hours ago, MissAlmond said:

The original V was 🔥 🔥 🔥!  Everything following afterward (IMO) never measured up.  

V introduced me to the pre Freddy Krueger, Robert Englund and no, his character was not the one snacking on small animals as if they were Lays potato chips.  

I loved the original V! I had the tapes and even managed to tape most of the very bad series that followed after the Final Battle. The miniseries was really good. I liked the build up to learning they were lizards and were bad. Donovan didn't even have a clue until he decided to sneak aboard with his camera. Robert mentioning about the party the only thing that seemed weird was the birds freaking out. Abraham of course figuring it all out early on. Ruby was really cool. It was such a great miniseries. 

[bobalina]

Sci Fi conventions when V was on all had very realistic spun sugar rats and hamsters. And lunch could get kinda 😝.

[Cobb Salad]

22 hours ago, andromeda331 said:

I loved the original V! I had the tapes and even managed to tape most of the very bad series that followed after the Final Battle. The miniseries was really good. I liked the build up to learning they were lizards and were bad. Donovan didn't even have a clue until he decided to sneak aboard with his camera. Robert mentioning about the party the only thing that seemed weird was the birds freaking out. Abraham of course figuring it all out early on. Ruby was really cool. It was such a great miniseries. 

I loved the original V too ... the part that had me screaming though was when Robin gave birth to her twins.   I picked up the mini series on DVD a while back.   

When they made it into a weekly series I looked forward to it - it was so, so bad and disappointing - Elizabeth the Star child and her transformation?  Ugh.  I pretend those episodes don’t exist, LOL. 

[Anela]

8 hours ago, Cobb Salad said:

I loved the original V too ... the part that had me screaming though was when Robin gave birth to her twins.   I picked up the mini series on DVD a while back.   

When they made it into a weekly series I looked forward to it - it was so, so bad and disappointing - Elizabeth the Star child and her transformation?  Ugh.  I pretend those episodes don’t exist, LOL. 

I remember all of this. I think I was ten when they aired it in England, and I was glued to the TV. We used to watch all of the miniseries, but I can't remember all of their names. Like The Burning Bed, or the one where she shot her children (another true crime story), I Know My First Name is Steven. Lace. 

[GaT]

1 hour ago, Anela said:

or the one where she shot her children (another true crime story),

Small Sacrifices

[andromeda331]

11 hours ago, Cobb Salad said:

I loved the original V too ... the part that had me screaming though was when Robin gave birth to her twins.   I picked up the mini series on DVD a while back.   

When they made it into a weekly series I looked forward to it - it was so, so bad and disappointing - Elizabeth the Star child and her transformation?  Ugh.  I pretend those episodes don’t exist, LOL. 

I looked forward to the weekly series too and had the same reaction. It was just so bad and I really hated Elizabeth suddenly becoming a star child suddenly turned into an adult and for some reason had powers. They completely dropped Juliet and Donovan being a couple, Willie's girlfriend and other characters.  They turned a great show into bad magic show. 

[Anela]

6 hours ago, GaT said:

Small Sacrifices

Thank you. I usually remember the name, and I recently downloaded the book through Amazon Prime, because I'd never read it (and still haven't got around to it). 

[selkie]

On 8/17/2019 at 1:09 AM, Anela said:

I remember all of this. I think I was ten when they aired it in England, and I was glued to the TV. We used to watch all of the miniseries, but I can't remember all of their names. Like The Burning Bed, or the one where she shot her children (another true crime story), I Know My First Name is Steven. Lace. 

See also: 'A Cry for Help: the Tracy Thurman Story'. Along with 'The Burning Bed'  we watched that in a class called Family Living in high school, which really was the case where it was a class run by the assistant football coach and you were pretty much guaranteed to get an A for showing up, watching a bunch of proto-Lifetime movies and writing a few paragraphs on how domestic violence was, like, a really really bad thing. 

[ratgirlagogo]

6 hours ago, selkie said:

a class called Family Living in high school,

In our high school that class was called Senior Problems - obviously missing the boat on a few levels.

[bobalina]

15 hours ago, selkie said:

See also: 'A Cry for Help: the Tracy Thurman Story'. Along with 'The Burning Bed'  we watched that in a class called Family Living in high school, which really was the case where it was a class run by the assistant football coach and you were pretty much guaranteed to get an A for showing up, watching a bunch of proto-Lifetime movies and writing a few paragraphs on how domestic violence was, like, a really really bad thing. 

I had a class in high school taught by a cop in which we watched Adam-12 and Dragnet.

[OmegaX123]

I have to thank whoever it was back on (I forget whether it was Previously or TWoP at the time), if they're still there, for helping me remember Happy Castle in the thread like this one back there, from only the clues "a human girl named Hope", "the villain had a monster-puppet henchthing", and "there was a fountain or well or something that talked".
That said, I have a new one (that I may or may not have asked about back then/there) that's bothering me. I've never seen it, only heard someone mention it, but one thing stuck in my mind. It's an anime, and the only thing I know/remember is that there was some kind of invasion of the Earth by alien bugs (from the way the person talking about it said it, it sounded like they were just normal bugs like we see here on Earth already, but bigger and possibly sapient), and there was apparently a scene where someone wakes p from a dream of a normal life, if I remember what the person had said, only to find him/herself in a pile of bodies with a giant centipede crawling on his/her face. I thought it was The Sky Crawlers, for some reason (probably because the 'crawling' stuck out to me), but I bought a DVD of that a few years back and it's nothing like that, it's just clone soldiers fighting a 'spectator war' to sate mankind's bloodlust to prevent any actual wars from happening or something like that.

[Highland man]

Hi there, my wife and I have been looking for something very odd we had seen in the 90's when we were little. And only just spoke about it no realising we had seen it and not went mad. So hopefully this is the correct place and someone has a clue what we think we saw.

It was around the festive season in the late 90's 2001 at the latest. It was either on bbc1, bbc2, itv channel 4 or channel 5. 

Now this is the weird part. It started like a beginning of a tale, something similar to the twilight series/tales from the crypt. It was a man in the snow telling a tale of some sort. (That's not weird at all right) however, we both strikingly remember a female mountie in this specific tale, with another woman hoping onto a wooden chair which had a wooden dildo onto it. 

Now to note, my wife and I didn't know each other back then and we must of been ages between 8 / 11. So if you can help in some way. My brother in law he remembers it as well. 

Thanks 

[piccadilly83]

On 10/7/2019 at 3:19 AM, Highland man said:

Now this is the weird part. It started like a beginning of a tale, something similar to the twilight series/tales from the crypt. It was a man in the snow telling a tale of some sort. (That's not weird at all right) however, we both strikingly remember a female mountie in this specific tale, with another woman hoping onto a wooden chair which had a wooden dildo onto it. 

Stop it, lol. You must be putting us on. 😄

Edited October 8, 2019 by piccadilly83

[OmegaX123]

Got another one for you fine folks (even though I'm still waiting for an answer to my last one, about the anime/cartoon with giant/alien insects):

This was a horror anthology series (think "Twilight Zone", "Night Gallery", "Night Visions", "Tales from the Crypt", "Tales from the Darkside"). I only saw'remember one episode, and not very well. What I do remember is that it centered around a woman who, if memory serves, was either going somewhere new or just taking a new route to somewhere she typically went, drove by an old house, and started having deja vu sensations/vivid memories of having lived there before. Something along those lines. Thematic similarities to the original book/1960s movie/1990s remake of "The Haunting of Hill House" (but not the 2010s series, which is itself now an anthology series with the next season being based on "The Turn of the Screw"), in that, again if memory serves, it turned out that in a past life she had actually lived there, and possibly in fact died there. Or possibly just the spirit of a woman who had died there was entering her body and making her remember living there, or something.

Until earlier today, a)I would have thought it might have been from "Night Visions" and/or b)I would have also been trying to find "Night Visions" based on memories of an episode where a dome appears in a desert and inside the dome is a lush grassy area with a house and a family inside.

[Annber03]

Yeah, those both sound like Night Visions episodes. Looking up the second one you mention with the dome,  I believe that one's called "A View Through the Window".

As for the other one, it might either be "Still Life" or "The Occupant", as they both seem to contain elements of what you're describing. All the episodes from that series are available to watch on YouTube if you want to give them a look, too, see if that helps jog your memory further and figure out which one it is :). 

[Ceindreadh]

On 10/7/2019 at 11:19 AM, Highland man said:

Hi there, my wife and I have been looking for something very odd we had seen in the 90's when we were little. And only just spoke about it no realising we had seen it and not went mad. So hopefully this is the correct place and someone has a clue what we think we saw.

It was around the festive season in the late 90's 2001 at the latest. It was either on bbc1, bbc2, itv channel 4 or channel 5. 

Now this is the weird part. It started like a beginning of a tale, something similar to the twilight series/tales from the crypt. It was a man in the snow telling a tale of some sort. (That's not weird at all right) however, we both strikingly remember a female mountie in this specific tale, with another woman hoping onto a wooden chair which had a wooden dildo onto it. 

Now to note, my wife and I didn't know each other back then and we must of been ages between 8 / 11. So if you can help in some way. My brother in law he remembers it as well. 

Thanks 

It sounds like a scene from Tipping the Velvet https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324264/

I think it was a woman in a soldiers dress uniform, not a Mountie. There was definitely a strap on being used. 

[ratgirlagogo]

20 hours ago, OmegaX123 said:

hat I do remember is that it centered around a woman who, if memory serves, was either going somewhere new or just taking a new route to somewhere she typically went, drove by an old house, and started having deja vu sensations/vivid memories of having lived there before. Something along those lines. 

This sounds EXACTLY like the third episode of season one of Night Gallery..  The House, with Joanna Pettet.  Written by Rod Serling, but based on a story by Andre Maurois.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660797/?ref_=ttep_ep4

 

[OmegaX123]

4 hours ago, ratgirlagogo said:

This sounds EXACTLY like the third episode of season one of Night Gallery..  The House, with Joanna Pettet.  Written by Rod Serling, but based on a story by Andre Maurois.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660797/?ref_=ttep_ep4

 

And that would be why I thought Night Visions, because of the shared 'Night' in the title coupled with two-word title. Thank you so very much, the woman in that picture definitely looks like the one I remember from the episode I was referring to, although I don't remember it well enough to say if any of the rest of it does.

[PennyPlain]

Fairly recent series for kids/teens set in Toronto (I think) the premise is that a family ends up hiding a princess (or maybe a prime minister's daughter)  who is being pursued by enemies of her father.   I don't think it ran longer than a year or two and I remember it ended with a cliffhanger that, since the show was cancelled, never got resolved.  I've tried google but I can't seem to find anything!   Does this sound familiar to anyone?

[paulvdb]

I don't remember if it ended on a cliffhanger but the premise sounds like Connor Undercover.

[PennyPlain]

Thank you!  That's the one.  It was really quite good and I was surprised it got cancelled.  As I recall at the end one the of main protagonists was imprisoned by their enemies and I guess things were being set up to rescue him.  Never happened.  I wish shows like this, when they get cancelled, would at least be given a chance to tie up loose ends!

Edited January 23, 2020 by PennyPlain

[thosme]

I tried looking this up but found nothing similar.  I think it must have been on TV in the mid 1960s or earlier.  I remember watching UNICEF or UN specials along with our Thanksgiving dinner.  For me, who doesn't do well with blood or other medical conditions it was not a nice meal and may have contributed to my continuing dislike of Thanksgiving. However since I couldn't find anything my memories nay be jumbled.  Also while I  was on a cruise I did something to my little finger so I  couldn't move the top joint.  Neither the doctor nor I could figure out what it was.  When I  got home it took my daughter 2 minutes to find out it mallet finger.  It didn't hurt at all but was a pain to fix.

[Blergh]

Something been bugging me about a PBS educational 'classroom' show I recall in the mid 1970's or should I say a series of shows.  These had titles such as Lands and Places as well as Science,etc. and featured this woman with bleach-streaked hair who only called herself (and was only credited) as 'Miss Matson' . No given name was ever revealed.  She would either narrate a travelogue, pose with some animal or attempt experiments the entire time talking directly to the camera and addressing the audience as 'Boys and Girls' .I recall that that it had a 1970 copywright date but, beyond that, I have no clue who produced them, why this Miss Matson was supposed to be such an expert and I my 'Net searches have netted nothing on this.  Does  anyone here recall this or even have more data than just these scant recollections that I recall?

[BW Manilowe]

On 1/23/2020 at 10:07 AM, PennyPlain said:

Thank you!  That's the one.  It was really quite good and I was surprised it got cancelled.  As I recall at the end one the of main protagonists was imprisoned by their enemies and I guess things were being set up to rescue him.  Never happened.  I wish shows like this, when they get cancelled, would at least be given a chance to tie up loose ends!

Regarding the bolded: Me too. It’s not the same kind of drama, necessarily, but I’m still mad that Las Vegas ended with an unresolved cliffhanger. Danny & Delinda (he runs the casino/resort where the series is set, her father used to own/run the hotel & is a former CIA operative on the run because he’s suspected of killing the father of 1 of his employees who abused the employee when she was a child) were expecting a baby & getting married in at least a double ceremony with Sam & Vic (I think that was his name). Sam is the resort’s casino host (in charge of getting all the mega rich gamblers, or “whales”, to come gamble at her resort & she mostly spares no expense to make that happen); Vic is her ex-brother-in-law & (I think) they’re trying to buy/buy back the resort (Vic’s late brother/Sam’s late ex-husband briefly owned the resort at 1 time). Delinda started having pregnancy complications & we never found out if anybody got married or what happened to the baby.

Edited December 29, 2020 by BW Manilowe
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[susannah]

On 4/20/2018 at 11:11 AM, methodwriter85 said:

I remember this movie of the week, from about the mid-90's, about a boy who becomes a prostitute. He gets beaten up by frat boy and his hiding buddies and someone tries to get him to do porn with another guy on a heart-shaped bed. It might have been an HBO movie.

It's NOT Johns, the movie with David Arquette and Lukas Haas.

It had a part about how male prostitutes would signify they were working by twisting their shirt up and leaning against a wall.

I don't remember the name of the movie, but the boy was Antonio Sabato Jr, I believe. I remember the scene where he is on the sidewalk, with other boys, and twisting up his shirt.

[kiddo82]

Does anyone remember a primetime network special that aired at some point between what I'm estimating to be between 1994-1996 (definitely no later than 1996 because I was still in grade school) about gun violence?  It was 4 vignettes and it showed how each played out when a gun was present vs when a gun wasn't present.  I remember one in particular was a kid who was a high school pitcher and he had to confront a bully(?).  In the gun scenario he accidentally shoots himself and ends up paralyzed.  I have no idea what made me think of this but I remember our homework was to watch it and write an essay about it.  Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

[scorpio1031]

3 hours ago, kiddo82 said:

Does anyone remember a primetime network special that aired at some point between what I'm estimating to be between 1994-1996 (definitely no later than 1996 because I was still in grade school) about gun violence?  It was 4 vignettes and it showed how each played out when a gun was present vs when a gun wasn't present.  I remember one in particular was a kid who was a high school pitcher and he had to confront a bully(?).  In the gun scenario he accidentally shoots himself and ends up paralyzed.  I have no idea what made me think of this but I remember our homework was to watch it and write an essay about it.  Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

Kids Killing Kids - CBS Schoolbreak Special - hosted by Malcolm Jamal Warner

[susannah]

On 12/29/2020 at 2:46 PM, BW Manilowe said:

Regarding the bolded: Me too. It’s not the same kind of drama, necessarily, but I’m still mad that Las Vegas ended with an unresolved cliffhanger. Danny & Delinda (he runs the casino/resort where the series is set, her father used to own/run the hotel & is a former CIA operative on the run because he’s suspected of killing the father of 1 of his employees who abused the employee when she was a child) were expecting a baby & getting married in at least a double ceremony with Sam & Vic (I think that was his name). Sam is the resort’s casino host (in charge of getting all the mega rich gamblers, or “whales”, to come gamble at her resort & she mostly spares no expense to make that happen); Vic is her ex-brother-in-law & (I think) they’re trying to buy/buy back the resort (Vic’s late brother/Sam’s late ex-husband briefly owned the resort at 1 time). Delinda started having pregnancy complications & we never found out if anybody got married or what happened to the baby.

The worst, WORST show I watched that did that was Home Fires, a BBC show. At the end of the second season, several characters had gone into the doctor's house as one was having a baby, and a freakin plane crashed into the house..and that was the end! The powers that be just cancelled it without wrapping a single thing up.

[Haleth]

13 hours ago, susannah said:

The worst, WORST show I watched that did that was Home Fires, a BBC show. At the end of the second season, several characters had gone into the doctor's house as one was having a baby, and a freakin plane crashed into the house..and that was the end! The powers that be just cancelled it without wrapping a single thing up.

THIS!  It was such a good show.  I hate that it only had 2 seasons.

[susannah]

13 minutes ago, Haleth said:

THIS!  It was such a good show.  I hate that it only had 2 seasons.

Me too! So many interesting characters. Hey don't you wish Bob had been in the house? I just don't know why a network thought it was a bright idea to just chop it with unresolved endings. Did Pat leave Bob for good? Who survived in the doctor's house? Did Frances ever forgive Allison for ruining her company and her livelihood? Will Theresa be happy with Nick, who she married for the wrong reason? These questions and many others will never be answered because the network was stupid!

[JustHereForFood]

Can anyone identify this series about time travelling? I saw it on TV in mid-2000's, but I think it was probably older, based on the effects and general look. My guess is from 90's, but maybe even older. I live in Europe and saw it dubbed, so I cannot confirm if it even was originally in English. I only caught last 2 episodes and I'm not sure how many in total the series had, but I think it was short, like 13 episodes max.

There were 4 characters that I remember: a Boy that I think was the protagonist, about 10-12 years old, from what was the "present" at the time - they said at one point he is from the 20th century, not 21st, so that backs my guess that the series was from the 90's at the latest. Then there was a Girl who was a couple years older, from 30-something century and two men - I'm going to call them Man A and Man B, as I don't remember any names. Man A was old, from sometime between 20th and 30th century and he initially worked with the Boy and Girl. Man B was the antagonist, he had some weird name and was referred to as Doctor, or maybe Professor. I don't think they mentioned what time he was from in those two episodes. I'm about 90% sure he was black. The other 3 were white and the Girl I think had red or ginger hair. I'm not exactly sure what the plot was, but I remember following scenes: in the penultimate episode, the Boy was told that he was a time traveller, which sounded as if he had some supernatural abilities to travel through time. This was acompanied by a flashback from what were apparently previous episodes, as if this information shed some new light on those scenes. Then the Boy and Girl were betrayed by Man A who was apparently evil all along. They later teamed up with Man B to stop him. I'm not sure what his plan was, but at the end of the last episode, the Girl and Man B had to sacrifice themselves to save everyone. I think they were sucked into time vortex or something like that, so I don't know if they actually died. The Boy and Girl had a teary goodbye scene. Then everything seemed to be alright and the episode ended with the Boy going back to school, where he was being bullied by som other boy, but suddenly a girl came to his defence and she was played by the same actress as the Girl. The Boy was confused and called her by the name he new Girl as, to which she replied that her name is something else (but it sounded a bit similar) - we were meant to think it is her ancestor or something like that I believe.

I have tried to identify this series before and found a series called The Girl from Tomorrow, which initially seemed to be what I looked for, but some things did not match - there were more characters that those four I described above and the ending that I read about was quite different. I even found some scenes on Youtube from the last episode and it didn't include any of the scenes that I remember, as described above. So I don't think that's it, but maybe it is something inspired by the same thing? I read that there was a similar series in Russian, but that description didn't match it either. Does anyone perhaps know what I am talking about?

[WinnieWinkle]

Not a series but an episode - the discussion about the new Matt Damon movie triggered a memory of a show I saw that loosely used the Amanda Knox story as the premise but in my memory of this they twisted it at the end and she was guilty.  If pressed I'd guess this might have been from Law and Order since they were known for their "ripped from the headlines" stories.  Does anyone remember this?  (BTW not the more recent SVU episode - I never saw that but just read about it in my searching)

Edited August 3, 2021 by WinnieWinkle

[Trini]

1 hour ago, WinnieWinkle said:

Not a series but an episode - the discussion about the new Matt Damon movie triggered a memory of a show I saw that loosely used the Amanda Knox story as the premise but in my memory of this they twisted it at the end and she was guilty.  If pressed I'd guess this might have been from Law and Order since they were known for their "ripped from the headlines" stories.  Does anyone remember this?  (BTW not the more recent SVU episode - I never saw that but just read about it in my searching)

If it's international murder, it might be one of the NCIS's. Most likely the main one, or NCIS: LA.

[JustHereForFood]

10 hours ago, WinnieWinkle said:

Not a series but an episode - the discussion about the new Matt Damon movie triggered a memory of a show I saw that loosely used the Amanda Knox story as the premise but in my memory of this they twisted it at the end and she was guilty.  If pressed I'd guess this might have been from Law and Order since they were known for their "ripped from the headlines" stories.  Does anyone remember this?  (BTW not the more recent SVU episode - I never saw that but just read about it in my searching)

There was also a series called Guilt, but that was a whole series, so probably not what you mean.

[Anduin]

I saw a trailer for this a couple of years ago. European, maybe Polish. A trio of aging criminals find the police getting too close, so they move into a retirement home. Only it's not great, so they have to reform the home, continue doing crimes, and fend off police investigations. Possibly a dramadey.

[janie jones]

@Anduin I think you're talking about the Green Glove Gang. It's on Netflix, if you're looking for it, and the second season just dropped.

[Anduin]

45 minutes ago, janie jones said:

@Anduin I think you're talking about the Green Glove Gang. It's on Netflix, if you're looking for it, and the second season just dropped.

Yes, that does look about right. Thanks!

[patty1h]

I have a show that pops into my head every once in a while... pretty sure it aired during the early 2000's on the WB/CW and didn't last long.  I have very vague memories of the 1st-2nd episodes followed a young female, possibly a teacher, in a small town with lots of open fields, and some unseen aliens.  Pretty sure the aliens have been underground and the teacher seems to be the only one who feels their presence at first and is shown visiting various spots in town and "sensing" something is different.  Soon, she gets more people (students?) helping her.   They may have ended up searching in an underground cave at one point.   That's all I got.

This is not to be confused with another alien show that popped up around this time and was about random people who found out that they were half human/half alien and the backlash they got from the people who were biased against them.  I think some of these people were sent to sort of internment camps to be studied.   I recall that this show soon turned into a mushy teen romance show when a hybrid kid fell in love with a fully human teen and had to hide their relationship.   This is NOT Roswell.   If anyone recalls this show, please let me know the name too!

Edited August 2 by patty1h