can someone remember what tv programme i'm trying to remember

late 90's party of five era maybe, def pre-felicity, but with a post-grunge generation x thing. Abt a group of friends in their late 20s (?) maybe they had a band and there was definitely an episode where they clean up this "character" they meet's comic book (?) shop but he gets mad because the mess was part of who he was or something. I have wondered about this on and off for a few years but its pretty ungooglable unless someone else recognises what i mean

Hmmmm. 20 somethings and band . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heights_(TV_series)?

hmm, maybe i looked it up on youtube and it looks like it could be too old and lamer. It was set somewhere cold i think because they all seemed to wear jumpers all the time, I dunno seattle, portland?

The Heights had a comic book store episode according to the internets: http://www.tv.com/the-heights/on-the-nickel/episode/72647/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary

Whoever wrote the episode summaries for this is my new hero. "Lenny meets Rosie, who is a fighter for environmental protection, and joins her in this interest and her bed. Rita decides it's time to sleep with Alex, but he wants to have it more special and wait. In the end, though, they do the hot thing."

ok sorry, this is definitely it!!!!! thanks enbb and ailsa!! I know because I specifically remember this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRVJa-CoQFM

which was from the comic book ep i think

Hahahaha sweet. I think that show was somehow a 90210 spin-off but I could be wrong.

Possibly the reason that you thought that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYZachnIMPk

No, it was definitely a spin-off from 90210. If my memory serves, one of the lead guys dated Donna for a time.

I mean, that sounds right for some reason, but I can't find any evidence online to support it.

yeah that's the dreamy jamie walters of 90210 fame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_QGJE94iOM

Yeah, that dude! Blanked on his vanilla-ass boring name.

i'm wondering about another show: late 80's/early 90's super cheesy sitcom about a bodyguard/stuntman who retires and moves back to the foster home he was raised in, where his old mom is taking care of a new bunch of kids and he teaches them lessons and stuff. iirc he looked a lot like sylvester stallone and might have been called Jake or Jack, which possibly was also the name of the show but not quite... anyone?

This isn't a tv show but it might have been a made-for-tv movie. In any case I saw it on the late show about 20 years ago, and it's obviously from the 1970s.

A courier has to escort an old couple across the country. There's a hit out on the older man. His wife doesn't know anything about it and after they are attacked the first time she freaks out and leaves abruptly. There's a long sequence in which the courier fills a school bus with dummies as a diversionary tactic. I remember it being a good action movie, but don't think I recognized any actors.

This is a tricky one...

The movie version of Clue came out when I was 7 (in 1985) and I really wanted to see it, but did not get to until it was released on VHS. There was a TV special aired around the time of the film's theatrical release that my parents taped for me that I watched over and over as a kind of holdover until I finally got to see the film itself (the show was either taped over, or the tape itself lost or broken not long afterwards anyhow), and which featured a lot of clips from the film. From what I can remember, it also had an interview (possibly archival) with Peter Falk, in which he discusses the similarities between Columbo and Sherlock Holmes, and clips from other mystery shows (Murder, She Wrote definitely being one of them) and a bunch of classic mystery movies (one of which may or may not have been Niagara). IMDb doesn't turn up anything--I even checked the reference pages for Clue, Falk, MSW and Niagara, and nothing.

I don't expect to find it anywhere out there (though that would be amazing), so...maybe I'm just looking for confirmation that this wasn't something that my 7-year-old brain just made up?

@ sodrangerbot: Big Brother Jake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APR_xbw20zo

cryptosicko:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483881/

Oh wow, there it is! Thanks!

Just remembered from looking at the page that Martin Mull hosted the thing.