Ever have a game or a TV show that you remember playing or seeing, but just can’t remember what it was called? Well, maybe we can help.
Describe a thing in media that you remember playing or seeing, and maybe people can guess what its name is.
Oh oh! I’ll play! This group has helped me solve many a mystery but I don’t *think *I’ve asked about this one . . .
I’m thinking of a specific song that a secondary (I think) character sang. The show was either Bobby Sherman’s show (actually called *Getting Together *)or the Partridge Family
]episode that spun it off. The plot involved Lionel or Bobby trying to write a love song and somewhere along the way there’s another musician and he’s supposedly going to write one for them but what he comes up with a rock / blues number and the only lyrics I can remember sounded something like "holy moley jones and dean (what’s his name!)“I love my lady . . .”. Probably the most contorted mondegreen of all time. The musician was a hippy looking guy with a bandana around his head and maybe John Lennon style glasses. No doubt I have many details wrong but I know it exists in some form; my brother and I used to sing this song that I only just barely remember.
I had a German-born relative who played a divination game at New Year’s that she called something like ‘dishladekken.’ Eh. . . like the game played in James Joyce’s “Clay” in which Maria selects the titular subject. So, depending upon what little artifact you picked up as you were blindfolded would foretell what you should expect in the coming year. No idea what the real name of it is, as I never saw it written.
Not sure if this was a TV show or a made for TV movie, but back in the 70s I recall a family camping in an RV. The kids wander off and come across a cult or the KKK or some other group of bad guys doing bad stuff in the woods at night. As the kids spy on the bad guys, mom comes up calling the kids for dinner. The bad guys end up chasing the family around on motorcycles until the end of the movie/episode.
When I was seven, I saw this TV segment of a fictional Laura Ingalls in which she was dealing with some mentally unstable man who then shot himself in the head. Apparently he had been having some marital dispute with his wife and Ingalls was trying to stop him and protect her. Never saw it again, never found the name.
Could that be “The Return of Mr. Edwards”, when the titular character gets paralyzed and tries to kill himself?
Or maybe “The Soldier’s Return”? Which was about a Civil War veteran who becomes addicted to morphine as a result of his PTSD and kills himself.
From looking at that website, it seems that a number of people on LHOTP attempted suicide. What a wholesome family show that was. :dubious:
Okay, I’ll bite if we can expand to “who’s the actor”?
There was an actress, who I believe was in her prime at the turn of the century, who I probably saw in a few things I cannot remember at all. I do recall she seemed to play an outsized amount of quirky and/or ditzy characters, or maybe she’s just ditzy in real life. I do think she still does some work but not much.
She looked (in her prime) a bit like a slightly less-attractive Elizabeth Lail, who got me thinking about her.
Could it possibly be Carole Lombard? That’s what popped into my head first.
Good guess, but no. I just went through a list of '90s actresses and found her.
Juliette Lewis (ya I know, they don’t really look a like but they have some similar expressions).
I may be conflating different movies so mine is probably impossible. The hero and his companion (man or woman, I don’t remember) winds up driving an improbable car through the wilderness to escape from bad guys driving black Porsche 911s. Near the end, our hero gets away by driving through water. I don’t remember if the car floated or forded a stream but the 911s wouldn’t or couldn’t chase him through the water. He may have been an entrant in a rally or long distance race but I’m not certain. I saw this movie as a kid on TV more than once many years after it was made.
All of this sounds very consistent with Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo but I don’t think it was. I remember seeing other Herbie movies and I think I would have remembered Herbie. I also knew Don Knotts from reruns of the Andy Griffith Show, Three’s Company, and The Incredible Mr. Limpett. I have no recollection of him in my movie. Finally, I remember the bad guy cars distinctly as early model black air cooled Porsche 911s (pre-SC). I think there were at least three of them. Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo seems to have only one Porsche 911 and it’s green. Any ideas?
There was a book I remember reading in the early 90s.
It was probably published in the 70s-80s. In it a teen boy frames his parents for murder. I believe it was VC Andrews-ish pulp novel. (I’m pretty sure VC Andrews didn’t write it.) I don’t think it was John Saul either. But I could be mistaken.
The parents send their son to an institution because they believe he mights danger to others, but in court it comes out they went on vacation while he was there. He gets released and his roommate breaks out. The roommate goes to his friend’s home. When the parents come home(from being out to dinner?) they find their son with a gun and the roommate just sitting on the couch. The son shoots his roommate to death and then blames his parents when the cops come.
The son also picked up psychotic symptoms from his roommate.
This is going to be pretty vague…in 11th or 12th grade AP English we read a novella I believe set in the late 1800s/early 1900s about a down on her luck woman who turns to prostitution–literally all I remember. And that the cover was a beautiful painting of a woman hanging out on a fire escape.
With all the googles that let you find a song by its lyrics, I have been able to find most of the songs that I want to find, but one has defied all efforts. I remember it from the late 60’s (but it could have come out earlier), and for some reason I get the impression it was also used in a commercial, possibly for shampoo.
Its sound and style resembled “Wear Your Love Like Heaven,” i.e. a high tenor male singing slowly and softly. I can only remember a part from the middle of the song, and it sounds in my head like:
…each word I say, hey hey hey, what a 'lectric holiday (doo doo doo, doo-doo-doo)
the trip was wild, and full of hay…
which I very much doubt is correct.
This one is Condorman. One of my favorites as a little kid, and still the reason why I find 911s to be the tastiest cars of all time.
Oh, I shouldn’t do this, but I’m gonna repost one of mine along this lines from quite some time ago, and see if it sticks.
I’m assuming it was during the Saturday puppet show Kukla, Fran and Ollie that had these filmed live-action vignettes, and one of them stuck with me. I was actually going to start a Cafe Society thread of its own, but here it is.
Its a typical fairy tale – a King’s prized magic item of some sort is stolen by an evil Giant who rides a dragon, the King’s two sons try to get it back, and fail to make it past the guard monster, maybe even losing a horse (was the magic item a prized horse?) and having to ride back together on a broken down horse, then the King’s Daughter gets it away from the evil Giant, with the help of a good Witch, who stupefies the Guard monster with Magic toadstools.
That’s the story, and that’s the voice over narration, but its not animated or a costume drama, and there’s no actor’s dialog. The actors appear on the streets of some contemporary city (Canadian maybe?) The king is an ordinary dad, likewise the sons and daughter are ordinary teens in street clothes. The giant is just a big burly man, who rides a motorcycle and has stolen a prized bicycle, leaving them with just a broken down one. The Good witch is just a nice old lady, who feeds a basket of home-baked muffins to a guard dog so the girl can achieve her goals.
I gotta know who came up with this, and what else have they come up with, and what else I have missed from other episodes of Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
Possibly Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane? It was published in 1893.
Thanks for the suggestion. Acknowledging that my memory may be faulty, I’m not sure that’s it. I have no recollection of the Condorman suit. The IMDb entry makes it look like the escape through water was in a boat rather than in a car, and the bad guys were shooting back, which I don’t remember in my chase scene. I should try to watch it though.
Perhaps I’m conflating Condorman and Herbie. Both filmed in Monte Carlo. Perhaps I got the Porsches from this one and the driving through water escape from Herbie.
Except for the kids, it sounds like, “Race With The Devil,” with Peter Fonda, Loretta Swit, Lara (Dark Shadows) Parker and Warren Oates.
Wow. Wait–did they do this?
Condorman’s love interest…acted by Barbara Carrera
Porsche 911…has a Carrera version (possibly in the movie?)
Okay. It was one of any number of science fiction serials from the 40s or 50s, shown on Saturday morning TV around 1960 or so. The team of space rangers is on a deserty sort of landscape, with rocky hills and such. Suddenly, they are set upon by these big, thick tentacle-like cables that move by themselves!
The music that accompanies this horror goes “Heep-a-dadada, heep-a-da”, over and over. We called those moving cables “the Heepadas” from then on.