Ok this show was on Nickelodeon (like way back when Mr Wizard’s World and You Can’t Do that on TV were on). It was about a group of cime solving kids of different races who lived together in some house. I believe it was Canadian and was very much like The Bloodhound Gang (except longer). Can anyone figure it out?
The only kids’ mystery show on Nick that I know of is a recent one: The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. However, have a look at the Forgotten Nick Shows page.
Could the show be Ghost Writer?
Is that website some kind of cruel joke? How the heck are you supposed to read the text!?!
Could be about 100 different TV shows! But I’d like to suggest The Red Hand Gang.
So I’ve been looking for this show, and I am frustrated by the lack of close finds… I watched it when I was younger, and in Canada.
I can’t remember the exact plot or character names, but it had something to do with the trade and usage of pencil sharpeners and enlarged objects, (or small characters, however that is interpreted.) The objects were used as furniture and dining ware, whereas we use them as pencil sharpeners or buttons. The atmosphere is very dark, as if they are under a bed or under a cabinet of some sort. It was definitely people in costume and not a cartoon…
The costumes were either animal or monster costumes. Sorry for the vague descripdtion!
Was it Powerhouse? According to this wiki article, it originated on PBS, but I remember it vaguely from Nickelodeon, and it seems to meet your description.
ETA: Er, I hope this helps you out, ten years later. :o
Sounds like The Littles, but that was animated. It’s a take off (authorized?) on The Borrowers. Much like Miyazaki’s recent Arietty movie.
But live action version? Don’t know…
The buttons and pencil sharpeners made me think of The Little Family, who lived behind the books on Captain Kangaroo’s bookshelves. They didn’t have monster/animal features though. At least that’s not how I remember them.
It might have been a show called “Read All About It.” Basically, a group of kids are running a local newspaper to disguise their investigations about an alien conspiracy led by a man named Duneedon, who has kidnapped the uncle of one of the children. The kids all seem to live together in one house, where they produce the newspaper. It was a Canadian show from the late 70s or early 1980s–I don’t think it ran on Nickelodeon,though. I remember it being on PBS.
I want to say it’s like The Borrowers, because I was going through google pictures and saw one where an actress had a large pencil, but it didn’t seem right because it wasn’t a movie… At least I feel like I watched different episodes.
I don’t remember The Little Family at all, and I looked through some shots, and none of them seemed like what I was talking about. I never watched Captain Kangaroo, I think.
I should add that the range of time that it was made was probably from 1990 to 2000.
The popular channels of that time for children were Treehouse, Nickelodeon, YTV, and Teletoon. I tried to go through each show, but it was tedious, and most didn’t have great descriptions.
And edit of original post: sorry for the typo in the word ‘description’.
It wasn’t a treehouse, was it?