IMDB 'I need to know'

[sivola]

IMDB, before they ditched their forums, used to have a brilliant message board called 'I need to know' which was for trivia questions about TV/films that you couldn't remember the name of, or the actor's name etc (recent Samantha Bond thread reminded me of it) etc.

I used to love it and to try and to sleuth the answer even if I had no clue.

Does anyone fancy replicating it? I miss the old IMDB forums!

If you have a burning question about an old tv programme from your childhood, please post it here

SamsMumsCateracts Presumably not one of the Michael Palin ones? Around the World in 80 days, or Pole to Pole? I think he used to use silly camera tricks, though he called his crew Passpartout.

SAMsmums, the programme you are thinking of is Two's Country withe the late Tim Grundy and ' The Eye' cameraman

Yes! Sadie it's that! Thank you

should have yes Look and Read, I think I have mixed up a few stories in my remembering.

Buzzshit I've seen that film twice,bit's bonkers but also brilliant.

It's called 'What Dreams May Come'. Think it's on Netflix?

SadieBaneso PeriComoToes "What Dreams May Come"

Thank you!

I have no idea how I didn't see it on his filmography, but maybe I was focusing on older movies as 1998 seems so recent!

I don't think il watch it again, I'm not sure I could stand it

SadieBaneso thank you!!!! Honestly, that's amazing. I've been trying to find out for so many years

Oh, I read this yesterday and now one thing I've wanted to find/confirm for ages has popped into my head.

Not such a throwback, but when my DD was little, so about 7/8/9 years ago, we picked up a new family saying. It is used when a diktat of great importance is uttered. Such as pointing out that sandwiches must be cut into triangles, not squares. We leave a dramatic pause and say 'It's the LAW' in a firm, but youngish sort of voice.

I think it's from TV and my suspicion is that it's from 'Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom' but I've been trying to find the episode or a clip of it for about two years. I might be wrong, it might be some other kids' TV show from that sort of time period, but I can't find it even with my best google work.

Help please!!

ILikeYou have you ever seen The Flint Street Nativity? Theres a line on that that says "the Prettiest girl has to be Mary. It's the Law."

ILikeYou have you ever seen The Flint Street Nativity? Theres a line on that that says "the Prettiest girl has to be Mary. It's the Law."

I absolutely LOVE Flint Street Nativity. "He's not a proper donkey, he's just got a donkey's head".

I'm very vague with details here as can not for the life of me think of the author, but many years ago I watched a film, afternoon tv sort of film, which I thought was called The girl, based on a book by a female author who has done loads, sort of oldie worldie romantic type books. All I remember is a boy/man gets his foot caught in a bear trap, then at the end when you think it's going to be a happy ending, theres a flood and they fall out a tower and die? I thought it was called The Girl but when I watched that a few years later it wasnt that.

Second film, all I remember is the end where they are driving a convertible through a desert full of wind turbines, and theres loads of white horses galloping along.

Both of these have annoyed me for years!!

I have two.

First one - on either Friday Night Live or Saturday Night Live with Ben Elton, there was a gospel choir. One of the songs they sang blew me away. Sadly, as I don't know the name of the choir, I have no hope of tracking down the song.

Second was in a film. I have only the tiniest recall about it and it's been driving me mad for years. Set in the US, I think, the start of the film showed people driving into a town, which had one of those boards showing the population, e.g. 223 people lived there. End of the film showed the same board, but the number had gone up or down. That's all I have

SamsMumsCateracts could it be one of the travel programmes with Ian Wright (not the footballer, English guy with London accent) - he did Globetrekker

Hmm Antsdeck, the second one reminds me of something like Northern Exposure or Twin Peaks?

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ILikeYou have you ever seen The Flint Street Nativity? Theres a line on that that says "the Prettiest girl has to be Mary. It's the Law."

I don't think so. I'm sure it's something DD watched incessantly on kids' TV in the late 2000s. Thank you for trying to help me out though!

@sivola thanks but it's not either though I have never watched either of them and feel sure it was a film

@IlikeyouIlikeyouIlikeyou - perchance?

@hellsbells76 - thanks! I'm not convinced it is Fluke as I have a feeling the film I saw was older than that, but maybe.... I'll watch it and see.