You might be thinking of the Australian TVseries "Round the Twist".
There was an episode about a boy who wore gloves because his hands was
growing scales. It turned out that his father was human and his mother
was a mermaid (er...don't ask how that was possible).

Here is some links:

http://www.roundthetwist.com/splash_pete/splash_pete.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_the_Twist

Here is the intro:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdTGl47zl0M

I hope this helps.


--- In TVO-Kids@yahoogroups.com, "trina_c_07" <trina_c_07@...> wrote:
>
> So I was talking with some friends last night and we were reminiscing
> about some old shows that we watched and I was trying to think of
some
> of the names of them..I finally found one of them called "Space
Cases"
> but I cannot think of the other one...I really don't remember
anything
> about the show except it was on Wednesday nights around 6pm..probably
> in the late 1990s and all I remember about the show is that there was
> a boy/teenager who wore gloves cause he got scales on his
> hands...maybe he was a merman...does anyone have any idea what I'm
> talking about or is this some crazy memory I made up?
>