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From: MDuPree@world.std.com (Micky DuPree)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Taggart (Possible minor spoilers)
Keywords: Taggart, Mark McManus, Strangers, Bulman
Date: 14 Apr 92 04:06:40 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

In article <1992Mar11.222953.15377\@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
john\@monet.uwaterloo.ca (John Robinson) asked:
>Are there any other Taggart fans out there?

Here's a really half-assed episode guide to what's available in the U.S.
I'd appreciate corrections and additions.

"Cold Blood" -- (I think this fits John's description of "Woman shoots
     husband who is already dead.")
"Killing Philosophy," pts.1-3 -- (I think this is "Series of attempted
     rapes and murders by masked crossbowman.")
"Funeral Rites," pts.1-3 -- I think this one involved a deaf man framed
     for murder.
"Root of Evil," pts.1-3 -- (Probably "Dentist attempts to murder wife -
     repeatedly.")
"Dead Giveaway," pts.1-3 -- (Probably "Series of food poisonings, mother
     and son antique con artists.")

They were taped by a friend of mine off of Allentown PBS.  I don't have
them for reference, so I'm working from memory.  They were circa about
1988, I think.  From some library research I've done, I think there was
a series made in 1987 as well, and I believe they've done some episodes
every year since then, but so far I've only heard about the ones above
being shown on a few enlightened PBS stations in Allentown, Seattle, and
now Buffalo.

The plots are hopelessly convoluted, but I think Mark McManus is
brilliant as Taggart, a fresh interpretation of the gruff-cop theme (the
veteran who has seen an awful lot and expects to see an awful lot more).
The character was originally described to me as a thoroughgoing bastard
who seems to make everyone's life -- his invalid wife's and his
detective partners' as well as the criminals' -- indiscriminately
miserable, but there are times when they all make his life difficult,
too, and he is basically a clean cop and a decent chap at root.  I echo
John's appreciation of the Glaswegian location shooting as well.  If you
can get the hang of the thick lowland Scots accent (not always easy for
Yanks), this is a good crime drama without a breath of sentimentality.

Mark McManus played a similar (if somewhat toned down) character in the
earlier Granada crime dramas "Strangers" and "Bulman" (which have both
had limited distribution in this country).  In the former he played
ballsy no-nonsense Detective Chief Superintendent Lambie, the boss of
the main character.  "Bulman" was a continuation of "Strangers," with
the main character leaving the force and Lambie making occasional
appearances as his friend and ex-boss.  (Imho, McManus' appearances were
the best things about those series.)

-Micky
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From: dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: Warning about BBC HHGTTG videos
Organization: :noitazinagrO
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 17:02:50 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.133042.18498@cs.nott.ac.uk> jsm@cs.nott.ac.uk () writes:
>As many people may already know, the BBC have (finally!) released the 1981
>TV version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on home video. For those
>of you considering purchasing the videos - BEWARE! Although there is some
>previously unseen footage (mainly on the second tape), the episodes
>themselves have been re-edited into a compilation format - i.e. the start and
>
>[ For those of you wondering what the extended footage contains, I'm afraid
>I can't help you. I must admit that I haven't actually seen the tapes yet -
>someone else will have to post the exact content of these scenes. ]
>
US fans get an extra bonus because the tapes should restore those bits
cut from the original broadcast versions to get them under 30 mins.  For
the most part they originally ran about 35 mins (due largely to
incompetent directors - they got less plot in 35 mins than the radio
shows got in 30).  Lets hope nobody has been in "improving" the
originals (though a new Marvin wouldn't have been a bad idea.....).


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From: banks@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: BBC Select - what a total rip-off!
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:34:14 GMT
Organization: ISCA

I didn't see this trailer for BBC Select and its associated de-coder
but it's possible that the programmes they plan to transmit are not
for public viewing.  I did hear a rumour some time ago that the BBC
was thinking about selling off some of this unused broadcast time to
certain private (ie. commercial) groups, who would use it to do their
own thing with.  With the Conservatives re-elected for a further term
the BBC needs to look to whatever alternative cash sources it can.

MB
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From: geary@cis.ohio-state.edu (Lord High Everything Else)
Subject: Looking for Robin of Sherwood to copy
Originator: geary@dorothy.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science
Distribution: cmh
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:02:40 GMT


    I was able to get the last six or so episodes of Robin of Sherwood
last time Showtime showed it, but missed all the rest. Is there anyone
in the area who would be willing to let me copy their copies of the
rest, or who would make copies for me?

Mark Geary
-- 
    "Build high for happiness."
From: charles@netcom.netcom.com (Charles R. Hoynowski)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Terry Nation's Survivors
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:23:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.CHARLES.92Apr9152302
	<1992Apr7.162408.12604@erg.sri.com>
Distribution: all
Organization: Gizmonic Institute, SOL Division

In article <1992Apr7.162408.12604@erg.sri.com> roberto@erg.sri.com (Roberto Desimone) writes:

   In <CHARLES.92Mar31130150@netcom.netcom.com> charles@netcom.netcom.com (Charles R. Hoynowski) writes:
   >Does anyone know of a British series called "Survivors"?
   >It was a Terry Nation show that aired in England in 1975.

   What did you want to know about it? I remember watching it back in the 70s,
   and I'm currently enjoying watching it again on KTEH (San Jose). I seem to
   remember there were two seasons before it finally expired. I'm not sure 
   whether KTEH will be showing both seasons (normally 13 episodes each).

I'm also watching it on KTEH and I'd like to know for sure how many
episodes were produced, or/and any other info on the series I can find.
It's a safe bet that KTEH will show both seasons.

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From: pastino@sjuphil.uucp (Sal Pastino)
Subject: Trevor Bannister
Organization: Saint Joseph's University
Distribution: cousins@oasys.dt.navy.mil
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 12:27:02 GMT


Kathy,

  Thanks for the information on Trevor Bannister. So he prefers plays to television, eh? A future Anthony Hopkins perhaps? Has he done any films that anyone
might know of? Anyway I appreciate the information.
  I'll be graduating from Saint Joseph's University in May, which means I'll
be cut off from one source of AYBS information. Hopefully I'll be getting into
either Temple or Villanova University Law School. Do you know if they have
readnews on those campuses?

                                                Thanks, Sal Pastino
From: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Anybody have Red Dwarf on VHS?
Date: 12 Apr 92 12:49:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: satalink.628.1059.uupcb
Reply-To: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler)
Organization: Satalink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324

To:All

CK>Okay, I realise this is probably the ten millionth query of this type to
CK>appear here this week, but does anybody have VHS copies of all the Red Dwarf

I'm looking for Dwarf Season Five on PAL from England.   I can
get it converted over here, but I've lost my source in Ireland
for the tapes.  (or I should say lost TOUCH with).

If you'd like to help, E-mail at Joe.Siegler@satalink.com for
some further queries..
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From: Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk (Francis Miles Away)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Have I got News for You !
Date: 11 Apr 92 10:47:58 GMT
Organization: Computing Maths (COMMA), UWCC, Wales, UK
X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway

Andrew Cannon wrote...
-|Hi,
-|    Did anyone see the Have I got News for You election special last night ?
-|I have'nt laughed so much in ages !
-|

I didn't laugh so much.. Perhaps I was to engrossed in the results.

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From: ft@cns.umist.ac.uk (Frances Teagle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Chief Inspector Morse
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:05:39 GMT
Organization: UMIST, Manchester, England.

In article <1992Apr14.161707.22709@sdd.hp.com> michelow@sdd.hp.com (Laura Michelow) writes:

  > Are the cards used to pay for the phone calls?
Yup.

  > And where do you get the cards?
In shops, pubs and post offices.

Cheers.

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From: jake@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (MARY REVELEY)
Subject: test
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 10 Apr 1992 15:58 EST  

test
From: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Blake's 7 Star In Movie
Date: 14 Apr 92 23:13:00 GMT
Reply-To: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler)
Organization: Satalink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324


I don't recall the man's name offhand, but he played two roles
in Blake's 7.   He was one of the three judges at Travis' trial,
and he was the scientist in "Orbit".

Anyway, he's going to be in a (stupid looking) movie here in the
States shortly called "Brain Donors".
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From: apm@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Andrew Merritt)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 10:55:32 GMT
Subject: Re: WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? update & episode guide
Organization: Hewlett-Packard NSG-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk

axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu (Aaron Dickey) writes:
>I noted in a recent issue of _Punch_ that Sandi Toksvig is somehow involved in
>a London play at the moment (I believe she wrote it).  Unfortunately, it
>doesn't seem to be very funny.
>----------
I take it the last sentence refers to the magazine, not the play.  The
reviews of the play I've seen have been favourable.  I forget the title, but
the story is of an amateur production of a Shakespeare play (A Midsummer
Night's Dream, I think).  Mike McShane also stars.  Sandi T. (I can never
remember the order of the 'k'and 's') co-wrote the play with her usual
collaborator (again the name escapes me).

Andrew
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From: gregory@csri.toronto.edu (Kate Gregory)
Subject: Control L
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:46:03 GMT

In article <3235@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>In article <92094.164653MBAJSA@ROHVM1.BITNET> MBAJSA@ROHVM1.BITNET (Jeff Appleman) writes:
><
><No Control-L on a dumb terminal!!
>
>I find that a little improbable.  Every keyboard that I have seen has a
>control key and a L key.  Press the two keys together and you have a ^L.

Well, vidiot, you have not seen enough keyboards then.

Also, you have not tried enough editors. Typing Control-L on
my keyboard tells my editor to re-centre the screen. I don't
want or need to learn another editor. Lots of naive users
get keyboards, terminals, and editors all muddled up, so it's
possible that some people who complain about terminals really
have a problem with their editors.

Anyway, if you can save a news posting you can get a Control L.
Save any posting that contains one, into a file called control.l
or some such, then strip out everything except the one line with
the control L. Then read that file in when you post.

Ta Da!

Kate
From: rck1@ellis.uchicago.edu (roberta chi-woon kwong)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Al's third/fourth wife?
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:58:30 GMT
Reply-To: rck1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Apr8.055646.7682@bradley.bradley.edu> drwho@buhub.bradley.edu (Maria Munoz) writes:
>rck1@ellis.uchicago.edu (roberta chi-woon kwong) writes:
>
>>The FAQL lists Ruthie as Al's third wife, with Sharon being the
>>fourth (or am I not remembering correctly?). "Honeymoon Express"
>>would seem to support this -- I don't have the exact quote, but
>>when Al is trying to remember which honeymoons he had at Niagra
>>Falls, he mentions that Sharon was his fourth wife.
>
>>However, in "The Great Spontini," he says that she was his third.
>>("I remember my third -- fourth -- third -- third wife Sharon and I
>>-- we fought for over eight months over Chester.")
>	I thought is was Ruthie...I don't think he mentioned a
>name..just a third wife thing.

Hmm...I listened to this line several times over the weekend, and I
was sure I heard "Sharon"...that's what started me off on this
whole thing in the first place. Then again, who says I heard
correctly? (Believe me, it's happened too many times that I rewind
the tape repeatedly specifically to hear a particular line, and
*still* wind up getting it wrong. It's scary.)

I don't have the tape with me at the moment, nor will I have it any
time soon...Could someone with the tape possibly take a quick check
of this?


Robin C. Kwong ("er)
			Leapers always reflect before
				deciding what to do next!
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From: kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Tzan Tzu -- Zen master of Origami Fighting Fish)
Subject: Re: QL: "It's a Wonderful Leap" and "Moments to Live" (SPOILERS)
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 01:05:12 GMT

mab@buphyk.bu.edu (Michael Burstein) writes:

>OK, here is one observation and one question about these episodes.

>"It's a Wonderful Leap": It's obvious to me that Angelita is not an
>angel at all, but a quantum leaper from much further in the future than
>Sam and Al. Apparently Project Quantum Leap eventually succeeded, but in
>the original time line Sam got killed on this leap. The Future QL people
>realized that he could be saved, but they don't want to give the
>future (their past) away to Sam and Al, so they cooked up a plan where
>one of them went back in time and pretended to be an angel. Everything
>she does -- including not getting killed when run over and not getting
>killed by the bullet -- can be explained by fancy-shmancy time travel 
>techniques. She also probably had a way to wipe Sam's mind.

OOoooooo!  I like this.  Perhaps you should send it off to Don in case
he hasn't thought of it himself!  I like that explination.

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From: mdlouie@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Michael D. Louie)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: need certain Ren & Stimpy episodes
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:22:52 GMT
Reply-To: mdlouie@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Distribution: usa

I need to see three episodes that I have missed.  They are Big House Blues,
The Black Hole, and Stimpy's Invention.  If you have them, please let me 
know.  I'd prefer a response from the Austin or SW Houston area, but don't
stop you from answering me!  (Yes, respond directly to this address).  
Thanks, in advance.

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From: schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul J. Schinder)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Dinosaurs 3/21 Question
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:26:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: leprss.schinder.702689176
Reply-To: schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center

In <1992Apr7.193635.3593@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson) writes:

>I missed the episode of "Dinosaurs" on March 21 in which they named the
>baby! Could some kind soul out there tell me what they ended up naming
>it?

His first name was "Aaugh, Aaugh, I'm Dying You Idiot" (or something like
that), but by the end of the show his official name was .....  Baby.

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From: jpenovic@wizard.Berkeley.EDU (Jan Penovich)
Subject: Re: Are there any religious T.V. characters?
Keywords: religion
Reply-To: jpenovic@encore.com
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale FL
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 15:04:10 GMT

In article <1992Apr3.180606.14653@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>,
winter@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Nancy M. Winter) writes:
> In article <1992Apr2.213227.22856@comm.wang.com> sde@comm.wang.com
(Scott Estabrooks) writes:
> >
> >To: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu
> >Subject: Re: Are there any religious T.V. characters?
> >Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
> >References: <1992Apr1.005810.6139@solbourne.com>
<K+BXF7_5H@linac.fnal.gov> <0FP7B+8RT@linac.fnal.gov>
<1992Apr2.134925.660@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu>
> >
> >I found this article in the 3/9/92 issue of Christianity Today:
> >"A study of 100 episodes of network tv revealed
> >1462 total speaking characters
> >  1,381 had no religion
> >  51 were Catholic
> >  21 were Protestant
> >  5 were cult members
> >  3 were New Agers
> >
> 
> What about Jews? There are dfinitely characters on tv who are Jewish.
> Joel on Northern Exposure, Miles on Murphy Brown, the whole family on
> Brooklyn Bridge, etc. 

  Don't forget Seinfeld and LA Law (I think.  I haven't
  watched it much). There are probably others too.

> Don't these people count as characters with a  religion?
> 
  Apparently not to Christianity Today. Unless they count Jews
  under cult members and/or New Agers (yeah, right). 

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From: marvin@skinner.dsg.ti.com (Marvin Heffler)
Subject: Re: Unseen supporting characters (Re: classic supporting characters)
Reply-To: marvin@skinner.dsg.ti.com (Marvin Heffler)
Organization: Texas Instruments, Austin, TX
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 14:51:16 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.164056.22246@news.iastate.edu>,
txap3@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
|>In article <1992Apr4.121742.5595@hemlock.cray.com>, n2413@cray.com (Jo
Theis) writes:
|>>In article <1992Apr2.064409.2175@cs.brown.edu> cs132102@cs.brown.edu
(Simon Park) writes:
|>>>To followup on the supporting character thread, how about those great 
|>>>characters we never get to see on the show itself. A couple come to mind:
|>>>
|>>>Cheers: Vera, Norm's wife.
|>>>
|>>>Rhoda: Carlton the doorman
|>>>
|>>How about Pickles, Buddy Sorrell's wife on the Dick Van Dyke Show?
|>>I honestly can't remember whether or not we saw her.  If we did, I
|>>don't think it was any too often.
|>I saw pickles on an episode the other day, but Alan Brady, we never see his
|>face.  When they show him, it is always from behind or with his face some how
|>covered.


Actually, the character of Alan Brady, played by Carl Reiner, appeared in
several episodes. In one of the more memorable ones, Rob's wife Laura
revealed on some TV show that Alan Brady was partially bald and wore a hair
piece. In the next scene we see Laura appologizing to Alan while Alan forwards
the apology to his many hair pieces on his desk. Definitely one of the funnier
shows in TV history.

|>>>
|>>>
|>>>Simon Park
|>>
|>>-- 
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|>>    n2413@cray.com     
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