WordWolf

That's it.

That's it.

Ok, obscure shows again. Name any one of them to take the round. These are all shows produced by AP Films/APF/Century 21 Productions (or what came after.) A) Joe Mc Clane is a young British boy. His father is a computer scientist who invents BIG RAT- a computer that can record and reproduce the knowledge and experience of a person. Joe joins his Dad in his work for the World Intelligence Network as its "Most Special Agent." That's because Dad's recordings can be transferred and used so long as the recipient wears special glasses that contain the contacts for the recording. So, a child can show up with a decade of experience in almost anything. This show was filmed almost entirely with puppet actors. B) This vertical takeoff and landing craft could fly in the air, maneuver on water, and travel over road on a cushion of air-but, oddly, did not travel on wheels. Mike Mercury was its pilot. Rudolph Popkiss and Horatio Beaker invented it. It was stored in Black Rock, Nevada. A US comic book briefly adapted this show. This show was filmed entirely with puppet actors AFAIK. C) Set between the years 2062 and 2063, the series featured the missions of a spaceship which was commanded by Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol. The crew included: Doctor Venus, ; navigator and engineer Professor Matthew Matic and co-pilot Robert, a transparent robot. The winged nose cone split off to become the landing craft. Although inspired by space opera, it was decidedly LESS realistic in its "science", with things like "oxygen pills" for survival in space. The name of the show was partly inspired by the name of "Castrol XL." This show was filmed entirely with puppet actors AFAIK. D) This was a highly sophisticated combat submarine built for speed and manoeuvrability. It was the flag vessel of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP). The crew gained an ally/ companion in an amphibious humanoid female named Marina. Again, this was a puppets show. E) Zero-X gains a valuable agent in their attempts to save the Earth from the intelligent computers hidden on Mars-the Mysterons- when one of their agents becomes effectively immortal due to their interference and attempts to make a copy of him they could control. Like their other agents, he seems to be referred to with a color as a name. Another puppets show- although the remake decades later was a computer-generated cartoon. F) Father Stanley Unwin, parish priest, secretly works for BISHOP, a covert branch of British Intelligence. He can also be shrunk down to make recon easier. This show mixed puppets with humans depending upon the moment in filming. G) Earth is being secretly visited by aliens- partly to facilitate their harvesting of human organs as replacement parts for them. Good thing that SHADO is secretly working to covertly learn about them and counter them. The whole "secret base under a movie studio" thing worked very well. This show was live and was targeted at adults. It was also the inspiration for a live series made at the end of its run. Nobody ever came up with a definitive explanation as to why women on the moonbases wore mauve or purple wigs, silver catsuits, and extensive eye make-up.

"You want my professional opinion? He's nuts!" ""Who is this jerk? And who told him he could turn off my music?" "I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many." "Someone once said, "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements."" "That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?" "You did." " The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!"

"Consider Yourself." "Consider yourself At home. Consider yourself Part of the family..."

Oops, wrong thread for a Before-And-After, wait... "You shall not pass!" Not to be confused with "none shall pass."

This movie is another (proper) triple. In this Hitchcock thriller, an ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B. He gets sent to prison, where three years in solitary cause him to snap completely, murdering another inmate, and hallucinating he's Lancelot romancing Guinivere while a violent warlord tries to topple Arthur and seize his power.

I could have gotten this just from "Five is right out." (It was my brother's favorite line.) "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Ok, obscure shows again. Name any one of them to take the round. These are all shows produced by AP Films/APF/Century 21 Productions (or what came after.) A) Joe Mc Clane is a young British boy. His father is a computer scientist who invents BIG RAT- a computer that can record and reproduce the knowledge and experience of a person. Joe joins his Dad in his work for the World Intelligence Network as its "Most Special Agent." This show was filmed almost entirely with puppet actors. B) This vertical takeoff and landing craft could fly in the air, maneuver on water, and travel over road on a cushion of air-but did not travel on wheels. Mike Mercury was its pilot. Rudolph Popkiss and Horatio Beaker invented it. It was stored in Black Rock, Nevada. A US comic book briefly adapted this show. This show was filmed entirely with puppet actors AFAIK. C) Set between the years 2062 and 2063, the series featured the missions of a spaceship which was commanded by Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol. The crew included: Doctor Venus, ; navigator and engineer Professor Matthew Matic and co-pilot Robert, a transparent robot. The winged nose cone split off to become the landing craft. This show was filmed entirely with puppet actors AFAIK. D) This was a highly sophisticated combat submarine built for speed and manoeuvrability. It was the flag vessel of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP). The crew gained an ally/ companion in an amphibious humanoid female named Marina. Again, this was a puppets show. E) Zero-X gains a valuable agent in their attempts to save the Earth from the intelligent computers hidden on Mars when one of their agents becomes effectively immortal due to their interference and attempts to make a copy of him they could control. Another puppets show. F) Father Stanley Unwin, parish priest, secretly works for BISHOP, a covert branch of British Intelligence. He can also be shrunk down to make recon easier. This show mixed puppets with humans depending upon the moment in filming. G) Earth is being secretly visited by aliens- partly to facilitate their harvesting of human organs as replacement parts for them. Good thing that SHADO is secretly working to covertly learn about them and counter them. This show was live and was targeted at adults. It was also the inspiration for a live series made at the end of its run.

So, that eliminates "Chico and the Man from UNCLE."

Per the first post, quotes are permissible clues for this thread.

I think "Don't get caught alone, oh no" wouldn't give it away either, unless you were a Ray Parker Jr fan or something. Meanwhile, I'm gonna call....GHOSTBUSTERS!

"You want my professional opinion? He's nuts!" ""Who is this jerk? And who told him he could turn off my music?" "I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many."

Is this an all-comedy production?

This sounds like it was the ark from "NOAH". If so, this really was a clue for the Movie Mash-Ups, since this movie was NOT remembered for this line. Usual rule of thumb for this thread- if people who never saw the movie can hear the line and identify the movie, then the movie is remembered for that line. The mash-up thread clues can be obscure and clever, so long as the movie itself isn't truly obscure.

"You want my professional opinion? He's nuts!"

You're talking about Redd Foxx. (Real name, Fred Sanford Jr.) So, this is "Sanford and Son", one of the US' 70s shows inspired by or based on a UK show (in this case, 'Steptoe and Son'.) I was thinking about this the other week. Dick Shawn died in a similar way. Redd Foxx was with friends, so they thought he was just fooling around when he had a heart attack. Dick Shawn was doing an experimental comedy routine onstage, and the stagehands had explicit instructions to never go out and interfere NO MATTER WHAT. So, he fell over and collapsed onstage, and everyone was sure it was part of the act. (A more normal part, even, since he would lie motionless on the stage during the intermission.) Eventually a stagehand figured whatever the joke was, it had long gone flat, and checked on Shawn, but it was much too late. On the other hand, Shawn would have wanted to go out that way if he was asked. So, perhaps the story had a happy ending.

Was this "Shaft" ?

"Amazon Women on the Moon"? I THINK Carrie Fisher was in that.

I announced it was a stealth triple, with 2 movies and one TV show. It was: Ender's Game (movie) The Game (movie) Game of Thrones (TV show) I listed the cast of each in order, and on their own lines. Of those 3, people talk about Game of Thrones all the time, but not really the other 2.

That's it. I substituted "Ender's Game" (new movie) for "The Crying Game" (older movie) because I was unable to come up with a summary of the previous movie that was clear, brief, and a fair summary of the movie. So, about a paragraph in (and still on the first movie), I deleted the text and started over with a different movie ending in "game".

The first movie is recent. I substituted it in place of an older movie because I found myself spending a paragraph trying to describe the first movie.

What do you have so far?

Here's one of my "stealth" triples, where you could technically make it a double, but I sneak in an overlapped title in the middle. (2 movies, 1 show.) In this sci-fi romp, a quiet, brilliant youngster is recruited and trained in an advanced military academy in outer space to prepare for a future alien invasion decades after their previous assault on Earth. Saving Earth is just the beginning, though.... Thinking his life post-war is boring, his brother drags him into a mysterious live-action adventure with unspoken rules, an unspoken "board" and so on, where winning is surviving, that integrates with his attempts to live day-by-day. Making it through that, he eventually becomes a major player in the struggle among the surviving low-tech humans to ascend the High Seat of what's left of the Earth, its surviving tribes/houses, and deal with the expected, oncoming colder weather. Stars include Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley and Abigail Breslin, Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Maisie Williams, Kit Harrington, and Sophie Turner.

The first movie in the set is a LOT more recent than all of you are thinking. Don't get too obsessed with my attempts to make this one coherent story by flavoring the description heavily. The last part (the TV show) is better known than the first 2 parts.