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Posted by: zync

Three shows/TV movies I saw when a kid, and I don't remember their names. Can you help? I only remember fragments! All of these are from the 80's, except the first which may have been early 90's.

1) TV series. Kids / young adults have powers or are really smart (don't remember which was the case), involves a giant spinning wall of water (kinda like Stargate SG1), but the water freezes. I believe the shows takes place at a research lab of sorts.

2) TV movie / show? Takes place on a planet where it always rains. Kid is locked in a room and the sun comes out. Kid doesn't get to see the sun - very sad. Kinda sounds like a twlight zone episode. For some reason I think it was on PBS.

3) TV movie. Future society fears intelligence (?). Kids are tested at young age, and the smart kids are removed (killed?). Kids are given drug which forces them to perform to the best of their ability on the test, thus preventing "fake stupidity". Lead character is extremely smart and worries about the upcoming test.

Posted by: Rosenkavalier

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Originally posted by zync
2) TV movie / show? Takes place on a planet where it always rains. Kid is locked in a room and the sun comes out. Kid doesn't get to see the sun - very sad. Kinda sounds like a twlight zone episode. For some reason I think it was on PBS.

I remember this one, too, but don't have a clue on the name. I recall being devistated when the clouds came back and she was still locked inside. (Hey, I was just a kid, OK?) :)

I do recall a few more things that might help someone else get the title. The girl in question had lived on Earth and was constantly telling her classmates (who had never been off the rainy planet) about how wonderful Earth was. They locked her in the basement out of jealosy and forgot about her when the sun came out. The thing with the sun was that it only came out from behind the clouds once every 100 years, or something like that. (I may be combining elements of different things here.)

I'm hoping that someone here can answer this. If not, you might try the message boards on IMDb. They have an active "Help me! I can't remember the name!" section.

Posted by: murgatroyd

quote:
Originally posted by zync
TV movie / show? Takes place on a planet where it always rains. Kid is locked in a room and the sun comes out. Kid doesn't get to see the sun - very sad. Kinda sounds like a twlight zone episode. For some reason I think it was on PBS.

This is easy. It's Ray Bradbury's classic story "All Summer in a Day".

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0195517

Jan

Posted by: adunnigan

I remember #3--this was an episode of the 'new' Twilight Zone series than aired on CBS in the 80's--if recollections serves it was not a movie, it was the first segment of the show which had 3 stories (15-20 min max)

Posted by: ClutchBrake

quote:
Originally posted by zync
1) TV series. Kids / young adults have powers or are really smart (don't remember which was the case), involves a giant spinning wall of water (kinda like Stargate SG1), but the water freezes. I believe the shows takes place at a research lab of sorts.

Misfits of Science

Not so interesting trivia, while starring in this series Courtney Cox became the first person to use the word "period" in a biological sense on television.

Posted by: zync

You guys rock - Answers:

1) Misfits of Science http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servle...let/showid-516/

2) All Summer in a Day - Wonderworks, short story by Ray Bradbury
http://www.intermed.it/bradbury/Allsummer.htm

3) Twilight Zone (new) Ep. 6
http://www.thetzsite.com/pages/tz1985/

Of course, my wife is pissed at me for bypassing her knowledge. She is a librarian after all :)

Posted by: Rob Helmerichs

#3 reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut short story called "Harrison Bergeron." The premise was that the US Consitution should be taken literally, and everybody should be equal, so people who were better than others were handicapped to even things out (e.g., people with better than average vision had to wear glasses that blurred things; people who were too smart had a chip in their heads that shocked them every few seconds to prevent them from thinking too well). It was recently made into a TV movie...

I remember reading both that story and the one #2 was based on in junior high English class. Now that I think of it, that was one subversive teacher!

Posted by: dcheesi

1) Sounds like any of a bazillion shows... I remember liking Misfits of Science, but I didn't recognize the description; where did the wall o' water/ice fit in?

2) I think we were shown this in class one day; really depressing, esp. since I was always the kid who would've gotten locked away.

3) Probably didn't see this one, although it also sounds like a familiar scifi premise.

Posted by: zync

Freezing water - one of the characters of Misfots of Science had cryo powers. I believe it was a demonstration of sorts.

Posted by: skillsrhodes

since everyone had no problem with those... how about a sitcom from the early 80s in which a girl was a daughter of a space alien who spoke to her from a light up rubiks cube and she could stop time by touching her two index fingers together.... ring a bell?

Posted by: teknikel

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Originally posted by Medieval Guy
#3 reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut short story called "Harrison Bergeron." The premise was that the US Consitution should be taken literally, and everybody should be equal, so people who were better than others were handicapped to even things out (e.g., people with better than average vision had to wear glasses that blurred things; people who were too smart had a chip in their heads that shocked them every few seconds to prevent them from thinking too well). It was recently made into a TV movie...

I remember reading both that story and the one #2 was based on in junior high English class. Now that I think of it, that was one subversive teacher!

I have a WL for HARRISON BERGERON! Only saw part of the movie pre-Tivo. Love Welcome to the Monkey House.

kel

Posted by: JYoung

quote:
Originally posted by skillsrhodes
since everyone had no problem with those... how about a sitcom from the early 80s in which a girl was a daughter of a space alien who spoke to her from a light up rubiks cube and she could stop time by touching her two index fingers together.... ring a bell?

Out of this World

Horrible show......

Posted by: tanstaafl

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Originally posted by dcheesi
1) Sounds like any of a bazillion shows... I remember liking Misfits of Science, but I didn't recognize the description; where did the wall o' water/ice fit in?

Near the end of the pilot the team is having to break into an "inpenetratable" govenment facility. One of the traps they have to pass through is a corridor inside of a whirlpool of water. The freezing-ability character froze the water so they could pass through the corridor.

God, I can't believe I have brain cells devoted to remembering that thing! :(