Movies and TV Shows Reid Has Downloaded

(curiously, hardly any of them have IMDB entries...)

 

This Is Spatial Tap

-       Rob Reiner’s mockumentary about the design and building of humanity’s first hyperspace gateway 

-       score by David St. Hubbins

 

Lizzie McGyver

-       Hillary Duff as a clever girl who uses her intelligence to save her wacky family every week, using things like paper clips, chewing gum, laser pointers, and an inherited demonic familiar with a sarcastic sense of humour

 

Tool and Die Hard: The Jetsons versus Big Bother

-       MGM

-       1979

-       Rosie the Robot Maid and her malfunctioning robot dog Junkmale help her family save the world from an alien technocratic dictator

-       released in the UK and overseas as ‘Rosie the Riveted’

 

CSI: Roswell

-       the President asks Gil Grissom of Las Vegas CSI to once-and-for-all figure out what happened near Roswell in 1947

-       “Things aren’t always what they seem...but face it, most of the time they just fncking are.  Jeezes.”

 

Little Metal Lenin, the Heroic Robot Boy From Beyond The Sky

-       Astroboy re-edited and dubbed into Russian by the Soviets to tell a completely different story, rather like what Woody Allen did with What’s Up, TIger Lily, or the guns-to-flashlights thing in Saving Private Ryan.

 

Mr. Being

-       he’s a bumbling, self-centred, time-travelling troubleshooter with a lovely female companion

-       he battles an implacable enemy race, the Sklead, who he thinks are the Sklade, which really bothers the Sklead, since the Sklade are a completely different race with a rather different reputation

-       sometimes when he enters a different time period, like the Elizabethan Age or World War I, he needs to regenerate a new body, but it always looks the same as the last one

-       starring Rowan Atkinson

 

Guerras de las Galaxias:Guerras de los Clonos

-       dubbed into Spanish but subtitled in English translated from the Spanish, not the original script, Yoda is now grammatically correct.

 

Star Trek: 90210

-       ancestors of many of the human characters of the various series live, work and go to school in late 90s Beverly Hills

-       Guinan runs the Maltz Shoppe

 

Sparkly Pleasure Vixens of the Orgion Nebula

-       never broadcast in Canada BBC series from the 80s

-       starring Tracy Ullman as Sugar N. Space, the madam, with Dawn French as the local vicar concerned for the souls of the alien prostitutes and Lenny Henry as her personal chef, if you know what I mean

 

The Google Saga

     - three part TVO documentary

     - Google:A New Hope

     - Google:The Empire Strikes Back

     - Google:Battlefield Earth

 

The Flintstones Meet Space Ghost

-       Sony International Films

-       1999

-       Tim Burton’s re-imagined live action remake of the classic 1970 animated feature

-       starring Jeff Goldblum as Fred Flintstone and Katee Sackhoff as Space Ghost

 

Doctor Who: The Grinch Wars

-       TV movie based on the lost Seus manuscript

-       tells the untold story of how Cindy Lou Who’s grandfather, the last physician in Who-ville, uses his almost forgotten secret military training to once-and-for-all stop the repeated attempts to destroy Christmas by the vile Grinch race, ugly subterranean creatures who have preyed upon the lovely, peaceful Whos for generations.

-       with Alice Krige as the Grinch Queen

-       said by seasoned, knowledgable time travellers to be have been the inspiration for Beowulf, Wells’ The Time Machine, and most cultural myths involving Hell.

 

Area 51¾

-       Jim Henson Productions

-       “Sometimes they get out, sometimes they get away...”

-       vermin from all the crashed, hijacked or abandoned flying saucers and alien spaceships live, work and avoid capture in, under, and around Area 51, while learning witchcraft and wizardry from an old Indian medicine man (Billy Crystal) and his sarcastic wife (Carol Kane)

-       one of them escapes into the world and becomes an explorer who sends postcards back to Area 51¾ describing his adventures to his nephew

 

South Park: Enterprise

-       one of the best animated sci-fi comedy series ever made that was not done in Flash

-       One of Eric Cartman’s plans to make ten million dollars goes wrong and ends up killing the crew of humanity’s first warp drive starship

-       Eric, Stan, Kyle and Kenny, four children from a pissant, podunk Colorado mountain town find themselves having to fake being the entire crew as they try to fulfill the ship’s mission without Star Fleet finding out what they did

-       to help them, they kidnap Timmy, Tommy, Tweak, Token, Clyde, Chef, Miss Hoover and Mr Garrison, among others

-       with the help of the Ethernopians who settled on Marklar and the Marklar themselves, they marklar the marklar every marklar

 

Some Motherworlds Do ‘Ave’ Em

-       BBC

-       live action comedy

-       1969-1974

-       30 episodes

-       Michael Crawford’s breakout madcap comedy role

-       “Gavin enters a breakfast cereal boxtop contest for a weekend in Blackpool, but the punchcards get mixed up at  the Central Memory Bank, and he ends up being chosen as Earth’s first ambassador to the Galactic Federation.”

-       ran for five years in England, carried briefly by the CBC in Canada in 1979

 

11000

-       hackers attempt to hack other hackers’ attempts to sabotage yet other hackers exploits in a one day time limit.  They all work at 11000 Beverly Hills Parkway.

-       shown overseas as 18 and 30

 

Twiki’s Womanoids, 2424!

-       NBC

-       live action comedy

-       1976-1977

-       24 episodes

-       the cute little robot from Buck Rogers runs an outer space rescue force of fembots

-       with Lorne Greene as the voice of Twiki and Anthony Daniels as Bosley, who wasn’t gay

 

M15

-       no, not MI5.

-       the bumbling bureaucrats of Millinery Intelligence try to make sure that ladies’ hats are always in style

-       I don’t know why Reid liked this, but he liked Star Trek: 90210, so go figure.

 

Ladies of the Evening Star

       - A Showcase Original Series

       - half hour situation comedy,

       - 2003

       - 12 episodes

       - a group of prostitutes from Venus land on Earth

       - expect the predictable jokes about Venerean Disease, etc

 

Third Rock Cafe

-       a family run comedy club in 22^nd century New Orleans, catering to aliens

-       starring John Larroquette, Emeril Lagasse and Ellen DeGeneres

-       with Patrick Warburton as the voice of the foreign exchange student / alien life form, Fesalf.

 

Coronation Hyperspace Bypass

-       long running English situation comedy/soap opera about alien races living together in a community that springs up along the onramp to the hyperspace bypass built on the ruins of a planet demolished to make way

-       originally called Area 51¾ but a change was required because of the American series of the same name

 

My Name is God

-       an omnipotent, omniscient deity realizes that He’s made a lot of mistakes over the eons

-       instead of just wiping out everything and creating a better universe, He decides to try and improve things by interacting within His own Creation

-       a heart-rending, heart-warming sitcom of the first degree

-       produced by Kevin Smith

-       starring Jason Mewes as God

 

Corona Gas

-       best sci-fi comedy ever made in Canada

-       all about a family run spaceship refuelling station near the surface of the sun

-       racy, funny, edgy

-       like Street Legal in its first couple of seasons, before it got all soapy

-       look, it’s funny, but it’s going to jump the shark, seriously, like when Star Trek: 90210 started having crossover episodes with Star Trek: CSI: Vulcan: T’pauopolis

-       the shark’s going to be something like a wisecracking talking dog nobody but Hank can see or nobody but Oscar can see, or worse, nobody but Wanda can see, or a mysterious newcomer with a futuristic Dog River tattoo, or a gateway to a universe where intelligent lizards build temples and eat humans, some damn thing, mark my words

 

A Poltergeist’s Friday the Thirteenth Nightmare About The Exorcist Before Christmas on Elm Street:The Animated Series

     - pretty much what you’d expect from the title

     - 108 episodes, if you can believe it

 

Garbagescow Galactica

-       Saturday morning combination live-action/puppet series

-       Jim Henson’s Creature Shop creates the denizens of the Twelve Colonies recycling ship

-       best friends Glip the Nweegly, Uplep Eebles, and Longigly Oo clean things up after the battles, sabotage and personal conflicts

-       Are they really Cylons?  No one can tell.  They look a lot like the alien vermin from Area 51¾, but so did the Fraggles

 

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forest Moon of Endor

-       Fox

-       half hour situation comedy

-       9 episodes, only three broadcast before cancellation

-       Mel Brooks’ short-lived television take-off on the original Star Wars saga

-       later renamed “Blazing Sattelites” in reruns

 

Baywatch: Stargate: Hawaii: SVU  

-       the athletically fit custodians of an interplanetary portal on the Big Island save drowning victims and investigate sexually based crimes

 

Laverne and Shirley:1999

-       the girls are frozen in a brewery accident and reanimated in 1999

-       they move in with their PI granddaughters (Ashley Simpson and Yeardley Smith)in LA and get jobs as call center agents for an ISP and regularly get too involved in their calls, with their granddaughters’ help.

 

Crouching Tigger, Hidden Roo

-       A. A. Milne’s classic children’s story retold in the milieu  of mediaeval China starring Chow Yun-fat as the voice of Tigger, Michelle Yeoh as the voice of Kanga, and Hank Azaria as the voices of everyone else, including Mel Blanc, who narrates

 

Orc and Mindy

-       CBC

-       half hour situation comedy

-       2004 - ?

-       Glekh, one of the thirty-seven thousand goblins bred in New Zealand for the battle scenes in Lord of the Rings, escapes and becomes roommates with Toronto Bluejays cheer-leader Mindy

-       he joins the pep squad and, in his cheerleader disguise, travels the continent with Mindy as  he is pursued by CSIS, Interpol, the CIA, WETA, PETA, and the NZRSPCA

-       series created by Debbie Ohi

 

The XYZ Files

-       Chris Carter’s failed comeback series, basically in response to criticisms that the original series was so one-dimensional.

 

The Twilight Limits

-       Rod Serling’s much anticipated and heralded followup to his original series

-       stories of the surreal, bizarre, odd, inexplicable and weird

-       generally derivative, badly-written, vapid and unconvincing

-       stories were compared to Saturday Night Live sketches from the late 80s, they didn’t end, they just stopped...