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I'm here to once again ask everybody's help with a few fragments of a movie and tv show I remember as a kid.
The movie(possibly a TV movie?) was kind of science fiction/horror. It wasn't like a regular movie that lasts for two hours or so with one main plot. The movie I'm talking about was a series of short stories. I think there were four stories in total. I only really remember two of them though. The first one dealt with an arcade obsessed kid who somehow found himself in the middle of a game, and he had to fight his way out. My memory of another "episode" from the movie is a lot more vague and fuzzy. The
only thing I remember of it is a scene where a little girl's pet rat turns into a giant. I remember seeing the rat on the little girl's bed, and it pretty much takes up the entire bed. I remember it scared the piss out of me.
The tv show was some type of Biography series, but I'm pretty sure this was before the Biography series that's been on A&E. I think this once came from the mid to late 1980's. It dealt with certain celebrity "mysteries". I think it had a narrator, but there were also certain scenes where actors would portray charactors. It would ususally only be for a few short seconds at a time(I think), but once in a while there was dialogue. I remember one episode that talked about John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It was talking about John's 1968 drug arrest. I remember a scene where a bunch of "police officers" broke into a room and held up "John" and "Yoko" at gun point. While their hands were in the air, one of the "policemen" said "When are The Beatles getting back together?".
This is probably the most that I can remember about the show. Although I'm pretty sure I can kind of remember an episode about John Belushi, and another one about Frank Sinatra. This would have been several years before Sinatra died though.
Does anybody remember either the movie or the tv show I'm talking about? For years now I've had these fuzzy memories stuck in my head, and I'm starting to wonder if they are all just some really messed dreams.
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