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May 4

I need help identifying a name of a documentary I saw about 15 years ago about sex abuse in the modeling agency of teenagers

I saw this documentary around 1999 and it was about teenage models who get sexually abused by their managers. Any idea what the name of this film could be? Venustar84 (talk) 00:51, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Where are you? HiLo48 (talk) 01:22, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Possibly this 1999 BBC documentary about Elite? Clarityfiend (talk) 01:36, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure the documentary filmed in North America either in Canada or USA. However, what is the name of the British documentary in that link anyway? I want to watch it.Venustar84 (talk) 17:43, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

That may be hard to do. Apparently the BBC and Donal MacIntyre got into trouble over it, and the BBC made a settlement instead of facing a libel suit.[1] Clarityfiend (talk) 04:18, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Channel 7 football broadcasts

This is the second week that I am trying to watch the 7 football broadcast on TV. The sound mix is so bad, that I wonder why you use commentators to provide information. Their comments are unable to be heard, and the sound of the background effects is deafening. There must be someone there that actually control this what thoughts are there that makes this attractive????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.146.163.99 (talk) 05:22, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

The OP geolocates to Sydney, Australia. Given that there are four very different professional sports in Australia called "football" by their fans, and Sydney isn't my city, I have no idea which sport he's talking about, but I don't think Wikipedia can solve this sound problem. maybe contacting the Seven Network would help. HiLo48 (talk) 08:35, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

The only form of football currently broadcast by the Seven Network in Sydney is Australian rules football. Contact can be made with the network using one of the contacts on this page. Hack (talk) 02:46, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

I've noticed the same problem on TV broadcasts here in the US. After the transition to digital TV, I occasionally get a station where the dialog is turned off, but I still hear background noises and music, for example. Apparently digital TV somehow makes this possible, when it wasn't under analog TV (presumably because the final sound mixing then occurred before the program left the studio). StuRat (talk) 02:51, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Name of Duck Dodgers Episode

From which Duck Dodgers episode are these two images from?:

http://th04.deviantart.net/fs70/200H/f/2011/272/c/f/true_love_by_twilightluvr1997-d4bauhv.jpg

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130518233704/animatedfeetscenes/images/b/b3/Martian_queen.png

And Yes, this is a completely serious question. Futurist110 (talk) 08:20, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Appears to be from a dream the Martian Queen has in season 3, episode 1, "Till Doom Do Us Part". Deor (talk) 21:51, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Futurist110 (talk) 00:51, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Resolved

Looking for an episode of an old (late 90s - early 2000s) PBS educational children's show that featured Bill Clinton

The focus of the show was to teach elementary math concepts and the main character/narrator was a young boy named Eddie who lived in New York City (I remember the line "east Harlem, to be exact" from the opening sequence).

The show aired on a PBS station in 2000-2001ish but I'm not sure who produced it exactly. The particular episode I'm looking for has a stranger give Eddie a hundred dollar bill as thanks for something he did for them (it might have been a woman, I'm not sure). He shows it to his friend Vincent who runs a photography studio, who then suspects it's counterfeit after examining it with interest with a magnifying glass. He gets in touch with a "friend" who works for the Secret Service, and they manage to find the counterfeiter.

The last part of the episode features Bill Clinton making a speech to Congress which as far as I can remember goes something like "...who saved our country from financial ruin. We would like to welcome Eddie. Oh and his friend, Vince...er, uh, Vincent" followed by a standing ovation.

Just to be clear the show wasn't a cartoon.

Sounds like this episode of The Eddie Files, which was indeed a PBS show. Deor (talk) 14:18, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Wow, thanks! How'd you manage to find it? I tried all sorts of search terms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.254.5.155 (talk) 15:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Eddie Vincent counterfeit were the magic search terms. I started with more specific searches, including such terms as Clinton and PBS, but those produced a flood of irrelevant hits. It's sometimes useful to try reducing the number of search terms in such cases, and those three words brought up the page I linked as number 2 in the Google results. Deor (talk) 19:13, 4 May 2014 (UTC)