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Plot Summary:
It's About Time is an American fantasy/science-fiction comedy TV series that aired on CBS for one season of 26 episodes in 1966–1967. The series was created by Sherwood Schwartz, and used sets, props and incidental music from Schwartz's other television series in production at the time, Gilligan's Island.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick, prehistoric
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The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything (1980)
Plot Summary:
When Kirby inherits only one thing from his millionaire uncle: a pocket watch that can stop time. Only, the bad guys know that he has it, and will do anything to take it from him. But they don't know that he's found the girl of his dreams, and she's got a sense of humor that, when combined with the watch, is devastating.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971)
Plot Summary:
Prehistoric cave-stud Ari wins lovely virgin Listra in a pig-catching contest, but their attempts at "Ding-Dong" keep getting interrupted by idiot battles between his tribe, The Cave Dwellers, and their neighbors, The Lake Dwellers. Annoyed that hubby would rather make war than Ding-Dong, Listra organizes the women of both tribes to go on strike and "abstain Ding-Dong" until the men stop fighting. It all happens back in the days when men carried clubs and women played ding-dong, an Italian stone-age sex comedy based on the Greek classic "Lysistrata" and filled with shapely cavewomen sporting '70s hairstyles, a gay caveman with the hots for the hero, a title tune that will follow you forever and, of course, plenty of old-fashioned Ding-Dong!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: prehistoric, cult film
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A Witch Without a Broom (1967)
Plot Summary:
A flirtatious sorcerous fancies a handsome human professor. Cross time antics arise when she attempts to bring the hapless professor into her alternate dimension.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic
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Man in Outer Space (1962)
Plot Summary:
In this routine, allegorical sci-fi drama by Czech director Oldrich Lipsky, a disgruntled worker accidentally finds himself aboard a spaceship (long story), and five hundred years later he comes back with a super-advanced being to a whole new world. He discovers that in his long absence, the world has literally cleaned up well, solved its problems, and is rife with a multitude of technical toys to make life easier. All of these conveniences, however, have not had much effect on the basic foibles that have plagued humanity since cave-dwelling days. Of significance are the names of two of the main characters -- Adam and Eve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slapstick comedy, campy
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JonTron's StarCade (2015)
Plot Summary:
JonTron reviews zany Star Wars games while aboard the stolen Millennium Falcon.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: parody
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Cavemen (2007)
Plot Summary:
Cavemen is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from October 2 to November 13, 2007. The show was created by Joe Lawson and set in San Diego, California. Based on the GEICO Cavemen commercials, which were also written by Lawson, the show was described by the network as a "unique buddy comedy that offers a clever twist on stereotypes and turns race relations on its head".
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic, tv series pilot
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Land of the Lost (1991)
Plot Summary:
Land of the Lost is a half-hour Saturday-morning children's series that debuted on ABC in the fall of 1991. Re-runs were later picked up by Nickelodeon. Tiger Toys received the license to produce a toyline based on the series, which included regular and "talking" action figures, several dinosaurs and playsets, an electronic Crystal Sword, as well as an electronic LCD game and a board game. The Porter family, Tom, Kevin, and Annie get sucked into a prehistoric alternative world while taking a family vacation. The Porters build a tree house, hook up with a few locals, Tasha - orphaned, an extra smart dinosaur, Stink - a monkey man, and Christa - another human who has lived in the Land of the Lost since she was a little girl. The Porters must deal with living with dinosaurs and avoiding the evil advanced Sleestaks.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 994
Genere: Adventure, Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: retro
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They Came from Outer Space (1990)
Plot Summary:
They Came from Outer Space is an American science fiction comedy series that aired in syndication from October 1990 to March 1991. The series was created by Tom McLoughlin.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, sitcom, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Aliens in the Family (1996)
Plot Summary:
Aliens in the Family is an American sci-fi/fantasy sitcom that aired on ABC, conceived as part of its TGIF lineup From the Creators of Dinosaurs and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Teenage Cavegirl (2004)
Plot Summary:
A prehistoric cavegirl named Tahra (Jezebelle Bond) with a penchant for passion finds pleasure in the company of archeologists when she is accidentally transported to the future. There she encounters two archaeologists named Richard (Alexandre Boisvert) and Sharon (Kennedy Johnston). After several adventures, many of them sexual, Tahra's lover Tiko (Evan Stone) also finds his way to the future. Eventually, all of them are transported back to the time of Tahra.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, sex comedy
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Bikini Girls on Dinosaur Planet (2005)
Plot Summary:
Softcore erotica star Misty Mundae is one of the main attractions of the campy and sexy BIKINI GIRLS ON DINOSAUR PLANET, which recalls Raquel Welch and the stop-motion creatures of ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. A pair of time traveling aliens find themselves on a strange planet, where the environment is exactly as it was millions of years ago on Earth. While exploring this unique place, they stumble across three primitive babes (Mundae and other softcore stars Ruby LaRocca and Lilly Tiger), who quickly engage the aliens in a steamy cave-lesbian love fest. But will the rampaging, stop-motion dinosaurs roaming the land interrupt their prehistoric passion? BIKINI GIRLS ON DINOSAUR PLANET was directed by veteran B-movie filmmaker David DeCoteau.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, sex comedy, prehistoric, sexploitation film
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Command Z (2023)
Plot Summary:
A scientist tasks his employees with a "historic" mission to travel back in time to revise history and save the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
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Bernard's Watch (1997)
Plot Summary:
Bernard's Watch is a British children's drama series about a young boy who can stop time with a magical pocket watch. The show was created by Andrew Norriss and was produced for seven series that aired on CITV from 14 November 1997 to 31 March 2005.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags:
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All American Doctor Who (2013)
Plot Summary:
The American adventures of an eccentric renegade time traveling alien and his companions.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration:
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Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust (2007)
Plot Summary:
It's 2007 and the Japanese Ministry of Finance have calculated that the economy will collapse in two years' time. They intend to prevent this by sending home appliance designer Mariko back in time 17 years using a time machine she accidentally invented. However, things don't go as planned and Mariko's daughter, Mayumi, is also sent back to find her mother and save Japan's economy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Cavegirl (1985)
Plot Summary:
On a class excursion to a cave with stone age paintings the clumsy Rex gets lost. A mysterious crystal opens a gateway in time and sets him back to the stone ages, where he meets a group of prehistoric fellows and the gorgeous Eba. While teaching her English and doing some pseudo-research on her fellows, his main goal is to get her sleeping with him. However the curiosity of the clan chief disturbs his attempts.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, independent film, humorous, not serious, sexual, eighties, hot, cult film
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Quark (1977)
Plot Summary:
Quark is an American science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin broadcast on NBC. The pilot first aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978. The series was cancelled in April 1978. Quark was created by Buck Henry, co-creator of the spy spoof Get Smart. The show was set on a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol Cruiser, an interstellar garbage scow operating out of United Galaxies Space Station Perma One in the year 2226. Adam Quark, the main character, works to clean up trash in space by collecting "space baggies" with his trusted and highly unusual crew. In its short run, Quark satirized such science fiction as Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Flash Gordon. Three of the episodes were direct satires of Star Trek episodes. The series won one Emmy Award nomination, for costume designer Grady Hunt's work in the episode "All the Emperor's Quasi-Norms, Part 2". The complete series was released on DVD on October 14, 2008.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: spoof, sitcom, parody
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988)
Plot Summary:
A stranded spaceship pilot captured by mad scientists survives a blitz of cheesy B movies by riffing on them with his funny robot pals.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark comedy, black and white, skit, parody, futuristic, offbeat, humorous, surreal, witty
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Moonbase 8 (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the isolated desert of Winslow, Arizona at NASA’s Moon Base Simulator, three eager astronauts—Skip, Rook and their leader Cap—attempt to qualify for their first lunar mission. They encounter many obstacles including loneliness, self-doubt and their own incompetence. In spite of it all, they remain determined to prove they have the right stuff to reach the moon.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, light, unusual plot structure, entertaining
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Land of the Lost (1974)
Plot Summary:
Rick Marshall and his children Will and Holly were on a weekend expedition rafting trough a river when an enormous earthquake diverts them to an eclectic alien world inhabited by dinosaurs, chimpanzee-like cavemen called Pakuni, and aggressive, humanoid creatures called Sleestak.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, stylized, semi serious, epic fantasy, vintage, weird
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Phil of the Future (2004)
Plot Summary:
Phil of the Future is an American sitcom that originally aired on Disney Channel from June 18, 2004 to August 19, 2006 for a total of two seasons. The series was created by Tim Maile and Douglas Tuber and produced by 2121 Productions, a part of Brookwell McNamara Entertainment. It follows a family from the future that gets stranded in the 21st century when their time machine breaks down. The series returns to the US on May 9, 2013 as part of Disney Channel: Throwback Thursday. It also currently airs in select countries such as Canada.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, exciting, captivating, melancholic, offbeat, witty, teen comedy, campy
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My Favorite Martian (1963)
Plot Summary:
My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes. The show starred Ray Walston as Uncle Martin and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara. John L. Greene created the central characters and developed the core format of this series, which was produced by Jack Chertok.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, retro, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, detective, vintage
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Red Dwarf (1988)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, stylized, witty, feel good, not serious, apocalyptic, cliffhanger, funny, sexy, psychedelic
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Dinosaur Valley Girls (1996)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by recurring dreams of Hea-Thor, a gorgeous cavegirl,and a menacing Allosaurus, action-movie star Tony Markham soon finds himself transported, by means of a magic Icon, back through time to Dinosaur Valley. Now trapped in world of dangerous dinosaurs, grunting cavemen and a tribe of exotic, love-starved cavegirls, Tony must put his modern-days skills to extreme tests in order to survive prehistoric perils, win the cavegirl of his dreams and (maybe) return to his own time?.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexy, humorous, not serious, sex comedy, prehistoric, cult film
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The Ministry of Time (2015)
Plot Summary:
A soldier from the 15th century, a university student from the 19th century and a nurse from the present join the secret 'Department of Time', a secret department within the Spanish government with the ability to travel through time. Their mission is prevent changes in history.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 3155 min
Plot tags: suspense, light, feel good, intense, hispanic, epic fantasy, extraordinary
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Time Traveling Bong (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jeff and Sharee were caught in a rut – until they happened upon a bong capable of transporting them to any time or place. Now, they're on a kush-fueled adventure through some of the biggest events in history.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: funny, psychedelic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, absurd, cult classic
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Plot Summary:
The Visitor from the Future is a cross-media series that combines comedy and science fiction. Since its launch in April 2009, it was viewed 5 million times on the French web and was aired on the TV channel NOLIFE.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
Plot Summary:
An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive. Based on the book by Douglas Adams, the dialog follows the book closely. This was originally a 6-part series from the BBC.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: humorous, offbeat, light, futuristic, talky, stylized, not serious, witty, sitcom, melancholic
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Best Friends Whenever (2015)
Plot Summary:
The live-action comedy follows best friends Shelby and Cyd who, when their aspiring scientist friend Barry’s invention goes awry, gain the power to leap forward and backward in time whenever they want – and sometimes when they don’t. Now, they experience the twists and turns of friendship and must decide between fixing mistakes in the past or catching a glimpse of the future. While Barry and his assistant, Naldo, try to figure out how to replicate time travel for themselves, Cyd and Shelby use their newfound power to navigate high school life and Shelby’s mischievous twin brothers, Bret and Chet.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, corny, teen comedy
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The Lost Saucer (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Lost Saucer is an ABC network television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. It first aired September 6, 1975.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy