Five young warriors from the ancient civilization of Dinosaur-evolved Humans are awakened in the present day after 170 million years of suspended animation when their sworn enemy, Bandora the Witch, is inadvertently released from her magical container on Planet Nemesis by two astronauts. The five warriors, the Zyurangers, must summon the power of mechanical-looking deities known as the Guardian Beasts, each modeled after a different prehistoric beast, in order to protect mankind from Bandora's evil forces.
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Bullseye was a popular British television programme. It was first made for the ITV network by ATV in 1981, then by Central from 1982 until 1995, and was hosted by Jim Bowen.
The Eric Andre Show is a stream-of-consciousness late-night talk show that combines sketch comedy, surrealism, and practical jokes. Eric Andre serves as the wildly unpredictable host, often breaking furniture and engaging in bizarre antics while interviewing celebrity guests. With its low-budget aesthetic and absurdist humor, the show has gained a cult following.
Follow the adventures of a cowardly wizard and his unlikely hero companion as they travel through a magical world filled with dragons, spells, and humorous mishaps.
Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule is a post-modern, lo-fi, and awkward comedy talk show. Dr. Steve Brule, a recurring character, explores various topics in a low-budget TV series format, often leading to crude humor, stupidity, and absurdism. The show is a clever satire with social commentary, parodying the broadcasting industry, showbiz, and late-night talk shows.
When a high school science teacher, Andrea Thomas, discovers an ancient amulet, she gains the powers of the Egyptian goddess Isis. Using her newfound abilities, she transforms into the superheroine Isis and fights crime, all while balancing her secret identity as a teacher. With the help of her trusted crow sidekick, she navigates the challenges of being a crime-fighting superhero and a high school teacher, learning important moral lessons along the way.
Chilly Beach was a Canadian animated series, which aired on CBC Television in Canada and The Comedy Channel in Australia. The series is a comedic depiction of life in the fictional Canadian town of Chilly Beach, described by the producers as "a bunch of Canadians doing the stuff that Canadians do, like playing hockey, drinking beer, and being eaten by polar bears." Chilly Beach plays on nearly every conceivable stereotype that people have about Canadians in a satirical manner. The show began as an animated Flash site on the Web, and was developed into a CBC TV series which first aired in 2003. The show was cancelled during the production of the third season, which was never finished or aired on television - with the show totalling 65 episodes. An early version of the Chilly Beach feature film, The World Is Hot Enough, made its theatrical debut at Cinéfest in September 2005, and as released to DVD on February 4, 2008. A second film, The Canadian President was also produced. Guest stars on the show have included William Shatner, Joe Flaherty, Leslie Nielsen, Elvis Stojko, Lawrence Gowan and David Suzuki. The show was produced in Sudbury, Ontario by March Entertainment. In 2011, the series launched in the U.S. on the streaming video website Hulu.
Danger 5 is a low-budget Australian TV show that follows a group of international spies who must stop Adolf Hitler and his evil plans in an alternate version of the 1960s. The show is known for its absurdism, retrofuturism, and intentional bad acting.
In the small town of Eerie, Indiana, a boy and his best friend uncover paranormal phenomena and supernatural powers in an alternate dimension.
The Fuccons, known in Japan as Oh! Mikey, is a series of Japanese comedy sketches created by Yoshimasa Ishibashi featuring a family of Americans living in metropolitan Japan. The series is notable in that all of the characters are played by mannequins with perpetually frozen facial expressions, like the mannequins in the French photographer Bernard Faucon's pictures. The sketches first aired on the Japanese late night variety show Vermilion Pleasure Night, later moving to their own late Saturday night time slot. The collected sketches are also available on DVD, with the American ADV Films release being retitled The Fuccons and including English dubbed versions of the episodes in addition to the Japanese-language originals. As of December 2008, ADV has released a complete collection of the series, called "The Fuccons: The Whole Fuccon Show", as well as three volumes of the original Vermillion Pleasure Night, one of which includes the feature-length "best of" film, The Color of Life in which the Fuccons appear. The Fuccons currently airs in the US on the G4 network as part of G4's Late Night Peepshow which is broadcast every Monday night at 12:30am.
Hotbox was a Canadian absurdist sketch comedy television show on The Comedy Network. It starred Pat Thornton, and was a spinoff of the online sitcom The Owl and the Man. Some notable guest appearances on the show included comics Jon Dore, Colin Mochrie and Seán Cullen. The title "Hot Box" relates to the show's frame story, which starts in each episode's opening sequence, which depicts a box which falls from space, and is discovered by scientists. Throughout the episode, the scientists then perform disastrous experiments involving the box, which contains screens displaying the show's sketches.
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