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From: louise@pravda.cc.gatech.edu (Louise Penberthy) 
Subject: Picket Fences:  need 11/13 episode (was pre-empted :-( )
Reply-To: louise@pravda.cc.gatech.edu (Louise Penberthy) 
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology 
Distribution:  na
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:52:57 GMT


My local CBS affiliate pre-empted Picket Fences last Friday
(11/13) for an episode of "The Heat of the Night," which I don't
watch.  :-|  Could some kind soul send me a tape of the PF
episode?  I will be happy to return the favor or pay or whatever.

-- Louise Penberthy

Louise Penberthy                |  "A lot of people think 'a capella'
Dept of CSIS, Kennesaw State    |   means 'without clothes.'"
College, Marietta GA  30061     |        
louise@pravda.cc.gatech.edu     |        -- Barry Carl, bass, Rockapella
From: firenza@wpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: QL-- Daughter of Sin
Date: 17 Nov 1992 05:26:20 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: na
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  Just read next week's TV Guide and thought some people might be interested
in this.  NBC will air the concluding episodes of DoS back-to-back next
Tuesday night.  Three shows, no waiting.  I just hope the episodes are worth
it. 

firenza@wpi.wpi.edu
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From: anton@cbnewse.cb.att.com (anton.j.panagos)
Subject: SNL: lost Pesci episode
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 13:34:12 GMT
Keywords: would like copy

Like an idiot, I accidently taped the Saturday Night Live show with
Joe Pesci as host , 10/10?/92. (ever hear of SP-short play instead of EP
-extended play?). I thought it was one of the funniest SNL's of the year
(or past couple of years). Anyway, if anyone has a copy of this episode(?)
 I will gladly pay for cost of tape and P&H. otherwise , we can exchange
SNL's. I taped the BEST OF SNL (1991-1992 Season ). Unfortunately,
I erased the Christopher Walken, but I don't need that show as much as Pesci.


.."what do you mean I'm funny?" - Joe Pesci in "Goodfellas"

Anton J. Panagos
cbnewse!anton
AT&T Bell Labs
Naperville, Il.
From: u0f98@seq1.keele.ac.uk (The Dominator)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: MELROSE PLACE: News Flash
Date: 20 Nov 92 22:44:59 GMT
Organization: Keele University, England

From article <17609@mindlink.bc.ca>, by Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong):
> HEATHER LOCKLEAR (Dynasty) will join the show in late January to be a "wedge"
> in Billy and Alison's relationship.
> 
> Comments? Do people like Heather Locklear?

I think she's gorrrrrrrrrgeous! and well horny to boot!
	Dominator 
	 would like to dominator (geddit?)
From: sll28@cc.usu.edu (Lorna Payne)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: What series were not produced in LA?
Date: 18 Nov 92 09:23:10 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <Bxw8F4.4Kz@tegra.com>, nad@tegra.com (Nancy Durgin) writes:
> In article <BxvrGB.I2z@news.udel.edu> conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad) writes:
> |>The subject says it all.  I've been recently thinking over how many
> |>(fiction-type) tv series are produced in the Los Angeles area -- almost
> |>all of them, but not quite all.  There are always a few that are filmed
> |>or taped elsewhere.  (Note:  I am NOT talking about where the series is
> |>fictionally SET:  for instance, thirtysomething took place in
> |>Philadelphia but was entirely filmed in LA.)  Particularly if the
> |>shooting happens on the East Coast, we often get a different pool of
> |>guest stars to look at if we get away from LA.
> |>
> |>So.  Can people who know about this, post their contributions to the
> |>list?  I see two main categories:
> |>
> |>I.  NEW YORK CITY.  The ones I can think of are
 
> Beauty and the Beast ??? (certainly set in NYC, not sure where it was filmed)

This was shot in NYC.
> 
> |>II.  EVERYWHERE ELSE

> 
> There are a fair number of shows in syndication that are filmed in Canada,
> and are either set there, or set in an indefinite place that certainly could
> be Canada (I'm thinking of shows on "The Family Channel" like "Bordertown".
> "The Black Stallion", and "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin").

Also old CBS Latenight series like "Night Heat" and "Adderly" were filmed in
Toronto, and set in "unnamed eastern cities".  "Adderly" almost certainly 
was set in Ottowa (he's a govt. agent, and they frequently refer to 
"ministry" business as opposed to "federal" matters).  "Night Heat"
was in an unnamed city that was supposed to be a mirror image of New
York or possibly Boston.

Many miniseries are filmed in Toronto but set elsewhere:  "I'll Take
Manhattan" for example.

> 
> And here's a weird one for you:
> 
> Filmed in Vancouver but set in Los Angeles:
>     "Macgyver" (seasons 3-6)
 
Actually, they only said they were in LA for the first two seasons.  Then
MacGyver and Pete quit the DXS and went to work for the Phoenix Foundation,
Mac moved to the houseboat, etc.  It was certainly a West Coast city,
but after the move they never said where it was.  IMHO, it was winter
too often to be LA! I'd vote for Seattle.

Lorna
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From: hefferman@ccs1.bbn.com (Matt Hefferman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: TV Addresses (3 of 3): Talk Shows
Date: 20 Nov 1992 19:50:26 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Newport, RI
Distribution: world
Reply-To: hefferman@ccs1.bbn.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

The following is a list of addresses for syndicated talks shows, as printed in
the _Providence_Sunday_Journal_ on Nov. 15.

Donahue
30 Rockefeller Plaza
Suite 827
New York, NY 10112

Geraldo
Investigative News Group
524 West 57th St.
New York, NY 10019

Jenny Jones
P.O. Box 3333
The Merchandise Mart Plaza
Chicago, IL 60654

The Joan Rivers Show
524 West 57th St.
New Yook, NY 10019

Live With Regis & Kathie Lee
7 Lincoln Square
5th Floor
New York, NY 10023

The Maury Povich Show
221 West 26th St.
New York, NY 10001

The Montel Williams Show
c/o Viacom Enterprises
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036

The Oprah Winfrey Show
P.O. Box 909715
Chicago, IL 60690

Sally Jessy Raphael
5100 West 57th St.
New York, NY 10019

Vicki!
Group W Productions
3801 Barham Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90068

The Whoopi Goldberg Show
One Ho Studios
800 N. Seward St.
Hollywood, CA 90038

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Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
Newport, RI
hefferman@ccs1.bbn.com
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Subject: Re: Highlander
From: wookiee@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:34:42 -0600
Organization: Mankato State University

In article <1992Nov18.073506.22620@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) writes:
> ckunz@src4src.linet.org (Charles Kunz) writes:
> 
>>I've been watching the series and enjoying it, and just recently I watched the
>>original film.  Just wondering where the connection between the two is.  In the
>>film, we have Connor Macleod, who runs an antique store.  In the TV series, we
>>have Duncan Macleod, who also runs an antique store.  Same clan, different
>>first name, same occupation.  Then there's Tessa who doesn't seem to come into
>>the film at all.  How did they go from Connor to Duncan?  Am I missing
>>something here?
> 
> I don't remember too much of the premiere episode, but I'll try...
> Connor Macleod (Christopher Lambert) guest-starred in the first
> episode.  I don't know how they are supposed to be related.  

They are cousins if I remember the pilot right... (That was the one with
Richard Moll (Mull?) (Bull from Night Court), right?)
 
> Mike
> --
> Michael Rosen						"Time and space
> Tau Epsilon Phi - George Washington University		 can be a bitch."
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> Michael.Rosen@bbs.oit.unc.edu or @lambada.oit.unc.edu

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                         -wookiee@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
From: jclark@plains.NoDak.edu (Justin J. Clark)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Shows B&W --> Color?
Date: 22 Nov 92 08:11:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.By3yrz.AJo
Distribution: usa
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <21NOV199222293451@mary.fordham.edu> areid@mary.fordham.edu (Darin Reid) writes:
>How many shows filmed in the '60s went from B&W to Color?

[shows deleted for brevity]

Beverly Hillbillies
Doctor Who
F-Troop

Those are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.  Anyone else?

Later,

Justin J. Clark (jclark@plains.nodak.edu)
Traveller through time and space, stranded in a world gone mad!
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From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen)
Subject: Re: Highlander
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 07:35:06 GMT

ckunz@src4src.linet.org (Charles Kunz) writes:

>I've been watching the series and enjoying it, and just recently I watched the
>original film.  Just wondering where the connection between the two is.  In the
>film, we have Connor Macleod, who runs an antique store.  In the TV series, we
>have Duncan Macleod, who also runs an antique store.  Same clan, different
>first name, same occupation.  Then there's Tessa who doesn't seem to come into
>the film at all.  How did they go from Connor to Duncan?  Am I missing
>something here?

I don't remember too much of the premiere episode, but I'll try...
Connor Macleod (Christopher Lambert) guest-starred in the first
episode.  I don't know how they are supposed to be related.  

Mike
--
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Tau Epsilon Phi - George Washington University		 can be a bitch."
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From: jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com
Subject: Re: Land of the Lost 
Organization: Searle, Skokie, IL
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:00:10 GMT

In article <1992Nov14.224255.15837@cs.tulane.edu>, toten@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Derek Toten) writes:
> 	Anyone recall this program?  It was part of the part of
> the Sid & Marty Kroft Saturday morning kid's show glut of the
> early to mid 70's.  Can't quite place it?  Here's a few references
> to shake the ol' "Land of the Lost" cobwebs:

The show was unfortunately, 9 parts garbage to 1 part really wild SF/fantasy
with the pylon/crystal/time travel stuff thrown in.  I would watch it
religiously in hopes of finally getting the rest of the pieces of the mystery
of the pylons and the time-travelling sleestak.
The later seasons where they replaced the father with the uncle were quite
lame.

For some strange reason, a set of action figures has suddenly appeared on the
market.  I do not know if any new shows are in production.

Joel
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From: firenza@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: BOB/Heathers-- same actor
Date: 24 Nov 1992 01:52:53 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

It appears that our news server burped the first time.  Let's try again.

 
  I was just watching Heathers on TV and was wondering if one if the two geeks
at the funeral, the one not beat up, is the same guy who plays the real odd
guy on BOB.  The voice sounded very similar.
 
firenza

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From: jpenovic@wizard.Berkeley.EDU (Jan Penovich)
Subject: Re: What series were not produced in LA?
Reply-To: jpenovic@1.com
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale FL
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:59:16 GMT

In article <BxvrGB.I2z@news.udel.edu>, conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon
Conrad) writes:
> The subject says it all.  I've been recently thinking over how many
> (fiction-type) tv series are produced in the Los Angeles area -- almost
> all of them, but not quite all.  There are always a few that are filmed
> or taped elsewhere.  (Note:  I am NOT talking about where the series is
> 
> I.  NEW YORK CITY.  The ones I can think of are
> Law & Order
> Leg Work
> The Cosby Show
> Kate & Allie
> Cagney and Lacey (or did they fake most of it in LA?)
> Annie McGuire (the short-lived most recent Mary Tyler Moore show)
> Not sure about older NY cop shows like Naked City or NYPD
> 
> II.  EVERYWHERE ELSE
> Chicago
>   The Chicago Story
>   the first half-season of Lady Blue (then they moved to LA)
> Carefree, Arizona
>   the first 2 seasons of The New Dick Van Dyke Show
> Washington state
>   Northern Exposure
>   Twin Peaks
> Jamaica
>   Going to Extremes
> Washington DC
>   Snoops
> 

  South Florida:
    Miami Vice
    B.L. Stryker
    Blackjack Savage

    In syndication (filmed in Orlando):
      Superboy
      Superforce
      Swamp Thing

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From: areid@mary.fordham.edu (Darin Reid)
Subject: Shows B&W --> Color?
Organization: Fordham University
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:29:00 GMT
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How many shows filmed in the '60s went from B&W to Color -- the ones I
know of (and just realized they did after umpteen years of watching them):

Gilligan's Island
Branded
I love Lucy

- Darin

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From: ied1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ingrid de Beus)
Subject: QL:One Little Heart
Reply-To: ied1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:23:09 GMT


Alert! incoming spoilers for Daughter of Sin: Part I...


Anyone else think that Al was made a little too incompetent by Ms. Pratt
this time around? 

Other then that, awesome episode, IMHO, except I wanted the music to
be louder during the pull-back shot when the neighbors are watching the
fire.


ingrid-

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From: mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser)
Subject: Re: _Soap_ : help me get dinner for free
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:02:28 GMT
Organization: a stone mountain of Kudzu

In <28499@castle.ed.ac.uk> dom@castle.ed.ac.uk (Dominic A. Varley) writes:

>Hi All,
>	can anyone help me, we have just watched _She's_Having_a_Baby_
>with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern (and a little bit of Alec Baldwin,
>with a *bad* hair cut), which having sat through it all is not a movie I 
>would recommend.  But my freind swears blind that the mother-in-law was 
>played by the same actress who played Mary Campbell in _Soap_, can anyone 
>remember her name?
>I've looked at the tv guide sites and archie servers but can't find
>_Soap_ anywhere.  Your help would be gratefully received as a meal for two
>rides on this one...

>thanks,
>	dom.

I haven't seen _SHAB_, but Mary Campbell on _Soap_ was played by the
late Cathryn Damon.  She also played the next-door-neighbor on "Webster"
for a couple of years.

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From: smay@boi.hp.com (Scott Smay)
Subject: Re: NEXP:  Who was the irrascible old Italian man?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:47:15 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Louise Penberthy (louise@pravda.cc.gatech.edu) wrote:
: 
: Near the end of the 11/9 episode of Northern Exposure, Ed is
: talking to an old Italian man who's saying, "When are you gonna
: get smartened up, eh?" and so forth.  At some point Ed begins to
: say in horror, "You're not ..... you're not ....."  Who did he
: hope the man was not?  I know nothing about Fellini or his
: movies, so if it is some reference to those, obviously I didn't
: get it.  
: 
: I would have guessed that the old man was the Devil, except that
: he crossed himself.
:
I know practically nothing about Fellini, but I thought the guy was 
supposed to be Fellini.
From: linda@unix.SRI.COM (Linda J. Szkoropad)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Home Improvement 11/18
Date: 19 Nov 92 19:54:21 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, California

Last night's episode was "too cool" when the neighbor asked Tim if
he realized Tim Taylor jumbled spelled "Mortality" and that
Jill Taylor jumbled spelled out Jolly Trail!   Especially for an episode
about writing wills!

Also, I loved the Al Fan Club....

I have yet to be dissapointed by this show, and am ecstatic that
they moved it up an hour.

A faithful fan


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From: nad@tegra.com (Nancy Durgin)
Subject: Re: Shows B&W --> Color?
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:12:53 GMT

In article <21NOV199222293451@mary.fordham.edu> areid@mary.fordham.edu (Darin Reid) writes:
>
>How many shows filmed in the '60s went from B&W to Color -- the ones I
>know of (and just realized they did after umpteen years of watching them):
>
>Gilligan's Island
>Branded
>I love Lucy
>

Gunsmoke
Combat!
12 O'Clock High
The Fugitive

(The observant reader can deduce what sorts of shows I like... ;-)

           Nancy



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From: fielden@spot.Colorado.EDU (j. a. fielden)
Subject: Re: Ben Stiller Show; anyone the 11/15 episode on tape?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:23:39 GMT

In article <1e9pgoINNcda@roche.csl.sri.com> kmac@cisco.com (Karl MacRae) writes:
>
>
>	Hey, has anyone got the 11/15 episode of the 'Ben Stiller Show'
>	on tape? I want to get a copy of "The Grungies Theme" (Hey, Hey,
>	we're the Grungies)...
>
>
>	(BTW, if you are not watching this show, check it out; Sundays
>	on Fox. It's just awesomely funny. Great TV satire in the 
>	style od the brilliant SCTV at it's best.)
>
>
>				-Karl
>
>
>  -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>  Karl Elvis MacRae	Software Release Support	Cisco Systems
>  kmac@cisco.com -or- batman@cisco.com     415-688-8231   DoD# 1999  FJ1200
>  -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>		S&M? No thank you, I like M&M's!
>						-K. Fang

 \
I just discovered this show this week and it's great.

THe thing with taping his long-term reaction to his girlfriend dumping
him for Steve(?) Baldwin had me rolling.

And Hey hey we're the Grungies"
The best apart about that was they basically followed the orginal
Monkee's clip visually they just changed the lyrics and added some
musical "ornamentation" and placed it in Seattle.


I definitely will have to try to see this one regularly.
From: sll28@cc.usu.edu (Lorna Payne)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: MST3K ratings?
Date: 19 Nov 92 09:41:53 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Nov19.002842.70910@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
> norbert@wpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy James) writes:
> 
>>LETS HEAR FROM YOU.........
>>A simple "I like MST3K" will do
>>If you like the show, post something!
>>We know we are not alone!
> 
> I like MST3K.

I *love* MST3K.  I want to have Drake Tungsten's baby!
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               Certified Math Geek and Grammarian
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From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: L&O 11/18/92
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:53:13 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: na
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.

In <1egpnlINN1iu@bigboote.WPI.EDU> firenza@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins) writes:

>I love it when they have endings like that.  Just sort of grabs you.

Yup. Grabs you, throws you against the wall, down a flight of stairs, and
then yells "REALITY SUCKS" in your left ear.

Every week this show reminds me why I love New York City... and why I
don't live there any more.

-Geoff
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From: jmf@endor.harvard.edu ( ghost )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Trilogy Pt. 1 -- I can't believe they did it!
Keywords: Bad Seed, Carlos Suara
Date: 18 Nov 92 18:54:45 GMT
Organization: DAS Purchasing, Harvard University

In article <1992Nov18.041340.14029@leland.Stanford.EDU> firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith) writes:
>Spoilers, kind of:

>I can't believe they stole from the plot of The Bad Seed so blatantly -- 

There was a movie by Carlos Suara (spelling?), Spanish director
who was, maybe still is, Geraldine Chaplin's husband,
which I was dragged to back when I was being dragged to a lot of 
weighty foreign movies...
it centered around a little girl who thinks she's killed some people who
have, in fact, died right after she wished them dead...
you are supposed to suppose in the movie that what she thinks *might* be
true, but not in the style of American Horror Movie True, rather
in the style of European surrealism...to be fair to it, its a fairly good
movie, although a pretentious attempt of a male director to get
inside the head of a little girl.

The reviewers at the time talked a lot about the concept of
"magical thinking" that children are supposed to display because they
don't know any better..."If I wished it, & it happens, then I caused it".
The little girl in DOS turns out more an example of a "magical thinker" then
a Bad Seed(tm), although I'll admit the seeds are strewn early on 
for either path.

It wouldn't be the 1st time QL has borrowed a little from movie lore,
and I don't resent it.
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