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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown Matt)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Blake'7
Date: 7 Apr 92 10:14:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing


In article <1992Apr3.101639.24332@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden [GA]) writes:
}Blake's 7 *finished* I mean it ended, not cancelled (well..) but ended
}(the last episode Avon shot Blake) and that was it.. as to what happened
}to it being screened.. well it was only shown here once in Australia
}- maybe the BBC isn't allowing repeats for a set period, or noone has
}bothered to rebuy the rights to the show...

	It _was_ cancelled.  I have no concrete proof, so you can just blow
this off as a "FOAF" tale if you want, however in previous discussions on 
different newsgroups, people have convincingly shown that "Blake" was _not_
meant to be the last episode (which is a pity, IMHO.  If that were the
planned ending, it would *definitely* be the best ending of a series ever...
Now it's 'just' tied with Newhart [a show I wasn't a great fan of otherwise]..
It's certainly the best SF show finale ever).

	Hopefully someone else will bring up more data on the relevant
subject.

	by the way, it was pretty crappy of you to spoil the ending..
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Subject: Re: New SF shows for next season
From: jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com
Date: 13 Apr 92 09:32:55 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Searle, Skokie, IL
Nntp-Posting-User: jjfink

In article <RATINOX.92Apr10112953@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>, ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Stainless Steel Rat) writes:
> hardcle> "Running Delilah" Starring Kim Cattrall as a half-woman,
> hardcle> half-android secret agent.  From ABC for next season
> 
> At least this cyborg will probably have a human brain, and *know* the
> difference between literal and figurative. Not to mention slang. And
> propriety. And...

Wait a sec... isn't this typecasting?  Cattrall was in the original
_Manniquin_ (sp?).  When is she going to get to play a real live girl?

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From: fergus@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (George Fergus)
Subject: Re: The Third Eye
Organization: Motorola, CCR&D, CORP, Schaumburg, IL
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 19:39:27 GMT

In article <9204080317.AA15656@rutgers.edu>
  SCOLVIN@CLEMSON.CLEMSON.EDU ("Silverthorn Wolf") writes:

>That is great to hear about The Tommorow People, I really liked the
>original show. Has anyone ever seen The Third Eye which also used
>to show on Nick., about the same time as the Tommorow People?

THE THIRD EYE was an umbrella title invented by Nickelodeon to showcase a
group of 4 science fiction serials for children purchased from overseas:

"The Haunting of Cassie Palmer" [New Zealand] (6 parts)
    Cassie doesn't want to become a medium like her mother, but being the
    7th child of a 7th child, she does have The Power, and a mysterious
    man hopes to get her to use it for his advantage.

"Under the Mountain" [New Zealand] (8 parts)
    Eight years after the mysterious Mr. Jones saved infant twins Rachel
    and Theo from dying, he returns to seek their help in saving the Earth
    from hostile aliens who've set up a base underneath one of Auckland's
    dormant volcanos.

"Children of the Stones" [Britain] (7 parts)
    A scientist (played by Gareth Thomas) and his young son travel to a
    small English village to study the ancient stone circle nearby, but
    they soon discover that some alien force has reduced the entire local
    population to a zombie-like state of docility.

"Into the Labyrinth" [Britain] (7 parts)
    Three teenagers find the ancient wizard Rothgo (played by Ron Moody)
    trapped in a cave.  He asks their help in recovering the Nidus, a
    magical icon stolen from him and scattered through time by his nemesis,
    the witch Belor (played by Pamela Salem).  [Although two more series
    of INTO THE LABYRINTH were produced, only the first one was shown on
    Nickelodeon.]

-George
From: sally@romana.Tymnet.COM (Sally 'Lucky Bitch' Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap / USA Today
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:50:44 GMT
Organization: My last post

In article <11304@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> albert@chain.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones) writes:
>In article <304@romana.Tymnet.COM> sally@romana.Tymnet.COM (Sally 'Lucky Bitch' Smith) writes:

>>Lemme check with my sources and get back to you, OK? I gotta make my

>	Say it ain't so!

Well, I got a definite "maybe" out of Belisarius Prods. :-) Let's face
it, lots of ideas have been announced in the past and have never shown
up on the series. Also, the fact that this info wasn't attributed to
anyone is a bit odd.

Anyway, I gotta go archive all my files before they throw me off...

Sally
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"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"
From: THC8650@TNTECH.BITNET ("Troy H. Cheek  The /|tari Cowboy")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: SFAN update
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:18:00 GMT

Another installment in the Science fiction, Fantasy, and Adventure Network
(SFAN) saga...

[Cross-posted from FidoNet for anyone who might be interested.  Those of
you who helped distribute my last mailings, please do so again.  Thanks.]

-------quoted material begins here-----------

From:    Mike Kelley
To:      Troy Cheek
Date:    14-Apr-92 08:34AM CST
Subject: Re: SFAN stuff

Things are going very well and we are preparing our first national press
release even as we speak.  In the process of negotiating for a Horror
program from Forrest J Ackerman (former publisher of "Famous Monsters of
Filmland").  He was kind enough to offer "total, complete, and enthusiastic
support and cooperation for SFAN".

  Did have one hardware failure...  short in the PTC1426 TT color monitor
knocked it off-line and Atari (thank to Bill Rehbock and Mike Fulton)
replaced it within one week on a "we'll ship it now, you ship the defective
unit whenever" basis...  shipped it UPS Blue at no charge to SFAN.  We
continue to work together quite nicely and I hope to bring Atari in more
deeply as the process evolves.

  Thanks for the participation in the "campaign" and I will send along some
flyers and a copy of Bjo Trimble's latest "Space-Time continuum" newsletter
for them, also.

  Incidentally, Forrest J Ackerman and his agent will _NOT_ deal with
USA/SFC because of their past behavior...  seems that when SFC fist claimed
"exclusive rights" to Dr. Who, Ackerman called the company that owns the
rights to Dr. Who and found out that they had never heard of them.  Hard to
have a contract for programming you haven't negotiated for.

  Anyway, there is something else I have been able to help Atari with
recently (having little to do with SFAN), but if it works out there will be
a big stir as a result and it should help Atari's sales whenever they
launch the new machines.  Can't reveal ANY more than that.

--------end of quoted material---------

Keep bombarding those cable companies with cards and letters, boys and
girls!  Email me if you need the addresses.  Only _you_ can make it happen.
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From: hughes@gary.enet.dec.com (Gary Hughes - VMS Development)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: UFO (ITC?)
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:49:13 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <01GINCZT9ZLG935PWO@TOE.TOWSON.EDU>, E7A8HAR@TOE.TOWSON.EDU ("TOM HARRIS, REGISTRAR'S OFFICE") writes...
> 
>	Does anyone have info on the old British show "UFO"? I used to 
>watch it when I was very young. It dealt with the infiltration of extraterr-
>estrials and S.H.A.D.O.(sp?), an organization that was supposed to intercept
>the "ufo's" . 

Supreme Headquarters, Alien Defense Organisation (under the Harlington-Straker
film studios).

>	I understand that some/all of the episodes are now available on
>laserdisc. Is this true? Can they be obtained on VHS? Anybody have an
>episode guide? 

There is a good episode guide in either Vol 1 or 2 of Starlog Episode Guides. I
don't recall if the guide also appeared in a regular issue of Starlog.

I haven't seen any eps available on US release tape or disc. Some are available
on disc in Japan (and therefore via importers in the US). Certainly the
compilation movie is on disc from Bandai, and the previews imply that there is
other UFO stuff on disc. They have been released to tape in Europe (I think).
These will be PAL tapes of course.

gary
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From: jerrett@iastate.edu (Gregory A Jerrett)
Subject: Re: STAR WARS SPECIAL
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 03:36:29 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.173052.3914@iscsvax.uni.edu> campbell3789@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER A SHOW ABOUT STAR WARS IN THE LATE 70s?  I BELIEVE IT
>TOOK PLACE ON THE HOME PLANET OF CHEWBACCA.  I AM ONLY 18 YEARS OLD SO I ONLY
>REMEMBER A VAGUE IMAGE.  IF ANYBODY KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THIS I WOULD
>APPRECIATE THE INFORMATION.
>
>KRIS
>

Good memory, Kris! :) The show that you are thinking of was a christmas
special.  Harrison Ford was in it and although I was pretty young at the
time, I remember Chewbacca's family, stormtroopers and a fairly low
level of quality and hokiness in the final fight scenes.  If anyone
else has a better recall, I would like to hear more about this old
dinosaur.

Greg Jerrett                           
jerrett@iastate.edu
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network
Date: Monday, 13 Apr 1992 22:41:25 CDT
From: <JSMITH@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: my wish list

How about Space Ghost (sixties and eighties versions)
 Fantastic Voyage (animated-early sixties) Journey to the Center of the Earth
(again, animated sixties), Other Sid and Marty Kroft shows like the Lost Saucer
(with Ruth Buzzi and Jim Nabors) Far Out Space Nuts (or something like that 12t
with Bob Denver and Chuck McCann) Space Academey, and Jason of Star Command
----James Smith---University of North Dakota
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From: gibson@crisium.geop.ubc.ca (Brad Gibson)
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap / USA Today ** SPOILERS **
Organization: Dept. of Astronomy / Univ. of British Columbia
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 17:13:38 GMT

In article <9204151523.AA17579@rutgers.edu> IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU ("Slow-Children@Play") writes:
>USA Today; Wednesday, April 15, 1992:
>
>The season ender to NBC's Quantum Leap ends with a whopper -- Sam (Scott
>Bakula) leaps into the body of (answer follows my diatribe)

I realize this was printed in the USA Today, but the least you could have done
was indicate that you were giving away the season finale.  It's quite fucking
annoying that people cannot fathom the notion of "spoilers".



Thomas Magnum, a.k.a. Tom Selleck.  The
>show returns in September with a two-part opener /c Selleck.  If you
>don't get the connection, Quantum's creator and executive producer,
>Donald Bellisario, performed the same duties on Selleck's Magnum, P.I.
>Other big leaps next year include Sam stepping into the bodies of Lee
>Harvey Oswald and Silence of the Lambs' Hannibal Lecter.


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From: chrisc@kether.webo.dg.com (Chris Campbell)
Subject: Re: New SF shows for next season
Date: 14 Apr 92 10:37:04
Distribution: na
Organization: NSDD, Data General Corp.

>>>>> On Fri, 10 Apr 92 06:49:58 GMT, hardcle@elof.iit.edu (Cleveland Hardin) said:

|> What follows are brief descriptions of upcoming TV shows with a sci-fi theme.
|> I got this info from Thursday's Chicago Tribune

|> "Deadly Games" an action show about video-game villains who escape into
|> the real world. From ABC next fall.

|> "Danger Island" an adventure about people living on a tropical island
|> overrun with genetic experiments gone wild.  A pilot from NBC
|> [Hasn't there been another TV show or movie with this title or theme?]

There was a live-action drama segment called "Danger Island" aired
as part of the "Banana Splits Adventure Hour" back in the late sixties.
It starred Frank Aletter and Ronne Troup.  However, I don't believe
there was ever a "standalone" version of the series.

Chris
From: jogle@nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Mann & Machine (and Steel Justice)
Date: 7 Apr 92 07:45:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: zia.1992Apr7.074533.14289
Reply-To: jogle@nrao.edu
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory

In article 271@romana.Tymnet.COM, sally@romana.Tymnet.COM (Sally 'Lucky Bitch' Smith) writes:

>In article <1992Apr7.023715.7927@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> jogle@nrao.edu writes:

>>There's a lot that could be done with this show, but they probably won't....
>
>Yeah, unfortunately. Gee, Eve doesn't do a thing for me. ;-) I'll probably
>keep watching it, though. Any deficiencies in last night's ep were redeemed
>for me by that line about "Drs. Scott, Deckard, Ford, and Hauer", though! :-)

!!! I missed that (but sound quality on tv is pretty bad around here)....

>>The movie on after M&M, "Steel Justice", did a better job conveying the
>>feel of a futuristic setting, even if it did steal HEAVILY from Blade Runner
>
>Oh, well, if you're gonna steal, steal good. I *liked* this one, but on the
>other hand, I saw 'em doing some sound mixing on it last October (the
>producer asked me if I wanted to come by and take a look), I am one of
>the few people in the world who have a Robosaurus button, and I'm extremely
>fond of the director of photography, so I can't say as I'm impartial! :-)
>From what I've been able to gather from snooping around the studio, I think
>they pulled the plug on it, so I doubt we'll be seeing it again. Guess
>robot women are cheaper than giant robot dinosaurs.

With the exception of the giant dinosaur I really liked "Steel Justice", and
if they were to expand on the 'power' that he has and let him do things 
other than make his son's toy dino grow big the show would have a lot of
promise.  I guess M&M's 'vision' of the future is cheaper though so it got
chosen to be the series.
---
Kansas Jim (Jim Ogle, Torg guru)
jogle@nrao.edu (NRAO-VLBA, Socorro New Mexico)
"I'd be apathetic if I cared."
From: stevea@jab.tucson.az.us (Steve Albany)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: " V "
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 23:44:38 PDT
Organization: Just Another Bbs. Tucson, AZ

burkems@merrimack.edu writes:

> Are there any fans of the T.V. show and mini-series V?
> 
> I have the two mini-series on tape, but only have about six of the episodes 
> taped. If anyone knows where I could buy the episodes please e-mail me.
> 
>                                         thanks,
>                                                Matt
 
        I enjoyed the Mini-Series emensely when it first aired. It was one 
of the better Sci-Fi efforts of the early 80's. The series however, was 
really quite poor. I did also enjoy the first three " V " novels...


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From: daw5g@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Michael's brother)
Subject: Marine Boy complaint
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:42:55 GMT

  Why the heck is it that every time I offer to trade a Marine
Boy tape with someone they always stop e-mailing me with no
explanation?

				Just another complaint from Dave
--
     
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From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Subject: Re: Mann & Machine
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 06:25:31 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.193644.20883@mlb.semi.harris.com> cbh@opus.mlb.semi.harris.com (Cherie R. Slasor) writes:
>>  Scott == Montgomery Scott, Chief Engineer of the Enterprise,

argh!  no, Ridley Scott was the director of Bladerunner.

I only caught the Deckard reference, I'll look at the tape later...
Were there any other Bladerunner or other references/homages in Mann
and Machine?

As others have observed, it was rather poor to have the android (gynoid? :)
get tripped on a nonexistant earthquake date, or baseball scores.  It would
be more realistic to have her English parser fail under certain phrase
structures, or other non-general knowlege problem.
--
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From: hardcle@elof.iit.edu (Cleveland Hardin)
Subject: New SF shows for next season
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 06:49:58 GMT

What follows are brief descriptions of upcoming TV shows with a sci-fi theme.
I got this info from Thursday's Chicago Tribune

"Deadly Games" an action show about video-game villains who escape into
the real world. From ABC next fall.

"Danger Island" an adventure about people living on a tropical island
overrun with genetic experiments gone wild.  A pilot from NBC
[Hasn't there been another TV show or movie with this title or theme?]

"Knightrider 2010" All about a futuristic detective-for-hire who rides in
a supercar.  Based on the original NBC series. Due next season.

"Star Trek:Deep Space Nine" I think we've all heard about this.

"The Doors" a sci-fi adventure about a doctor and a young woman who travel
through "doors" to parallel universes.  From ABC for next season.

"Running Delilah" Starring Kim Cattrall as a half-woman, half-android secret
agent.  From ABC for next season

Some of these do sound kind of lame, but hey, who knows?
I'm glad that the networks are going to give us more of what we want!
-- 
C.A. Hardin, P.O. Box 805862 Chicago, IL 60680-4120
hardcle@elof.iit.edu  HARDCLE@IITVAX.BITNET
"When your groin is on the line nothing else matters"-- Buzz Killman
"Being weird isn't enough"             Jerry Brown for President '92
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From: bwise@hemlock.mitre.org (Barry Wise)
Subject: Re: star trek-ng
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 18:13:32 GMT

In article <1992Apr3.012136.6623@informix.com> neilw@informix.com (Neil  
Williams) writes:
> My impression is that the writers want us to believe that the other
> ship was going through the loop for 80 years.  However, given
> that the enterprise crew could predict events (the poker hand,
> for example) after only three or four interations in one day,
> then the other crew should certainly have been able to figure
> things out in 80 years!
> 
> Having figured out what was going on (after all, the enterprise
> crew figured it out after only a day), you would think
> they would have tried alternative solutions - the laws of 
> chance seem to indicate that they wouldn't have tried the
> same solution every time for 80 years.  For example,
> Riker suggested that they just turn around - that would have
> done the trick, and probably would have been tried eventually
> without Data's brain-wave trick.
> 
> So, bonehead writers, or what?
> 
I got the impression that the loop with the Enterprise was caused by the  
explosion.  For the other ship to be in a loop it would have to have been part  
of the same explosion.  My guess is that the other ship was in a BIG time loop  
(80 years or so) that sent it forward in time when it went into the time  
distortion, it crashed into the Enterprise, went back 80 years, went through  
the time distortion, came forward 80 years, crashed into the Enterprise .....   
This means that the number of loops was the same as the Enterprise, just larger  
in scale.
--
Barry Wise
(bwise@hemlock.mitre.org)
From: swwhatley@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (STEVEN WHATLEY)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: SF wishlist..oh please!
Date: 12 Apr 1992 21:42:57 GMT
Organization: Lockheed Engineering and Sciences

In <1992Apr10.133856.1@dac.mdcbbs.com> asr_2@dac.mdcbbs.com writes:
>      I was waxing poetic the other day about how good
>  all the old shows for kids used to be.  I thought to 
>  myself,'just look at the garbage on Saturday mornings 
>  now!' . Well one thing led to another and I realized that
>  why not dust off all those old shows and bring them back!
>  I mean well FOX or some local network could put together a
>  stellar format of great old shows!  They couldn't cost that
>  much to buy(feigning ignorance) because they are all unwatched
>  anyway right? Well flame me for this but I want to go back 
>  to childhood and see this sort of Saturday morning excitement!!

I agree!!!!

>             any comments.. I vote we talk to the networks?
>   what would you guys like to see on Saturday?

I would like to see the following:

Spider Man and Friends
Super Friends (Especially the ones with the Wonder Twins, Zan and Jana (sp?))
Thundar (sp?) the Barbarian
Fantastic Four (and all of those other super hero shows.)

I was born in '65 so, I'm sure there are a lot of good TV shows that I've
missed.  In the Houstan area, it is difficult to find decent sf shows
anymore.

We should talk to the networks but, will they listen?

Later,
Steven
From: burkems@merrimack.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: " V "
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:30:15 GMT
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA

Are there any fans of the T.V. show and mini-series V?

I have the two mini-series on tape, but only have about six of the episodes 
taped. If anyone knows where I could buy the episodes please e-mail me.

                                        thanks,
                                               Matt
From: "dale clayton" <dale.clayton@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: star cops
Date: 6 Apr 92 09:58:31 EST
Reply-To: "dale clayton" <dale.clayton@canrem.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

-> In article <1992Mar18.231618.3549\@lmpsbbs.mot.com>
-> fergus\@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (George Fergus) writes:
-> >[...] any clues as to whether the script of the unproduced 10th
-> episode >[of "Star Cops"] might be available?
--------------
 BTW, for those in the viewing area of Buffalo, NY's local PBS station
(channel 17), Star Cops began its run last night (Sunday) at 11:00pm.

Regards,
Dale Clayton
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