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From: wallace@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Glenn Wallace)
Subject: Re: Quantum Sheepdip
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 08:46:19 GMT

WTS@HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU ("WADE T. SMITH") writes:

>Just a quick note of thanks for lumping all the messages about that
>defecated turd of yoghurt slime "Quantum Leap" together so I can delete
>them all with one keystroke.
>Keep it up.
>Better yet, don't bother posting them at all!

>        WADE T. SMITH                  "O.K. I'VE REVERSED THE

Gee, only a guy named "Wade" from Harvard could possibly write such a
creative post as this.

I wonder if he's the cheesey moustache variety? Or perhaps he's the generic
blonde kinda Wade. We usually hunt them down over here....

Net: g.wallace@trl.oz.au | Help me escape this country! You can't buy Jolt
RealTime: Glenn Wallace  | here, and they don't have Tower records, or
Work: Telecom Australia  | Fry's or anything! Argh.... Oh to be at WDW!
      Drift Project      | I'm on the next plane outta here!
From: ISTN100@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU ("ELLEN G. COHN")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Quantum Leap - Brooke Shields Episode - maybe spoilers
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:05:13 GMT

Okay, I finally got a chance to watch my tape of the second episode of the
new season - the one with Brooke Shields in it.  You know, it's very
strange simultaneously watching the latest season and the reruns (new
to me) on USA.  Anyway, about this desert island story.....erm...better
give a spoiler warning here...

SPOILER ALERT























SPOILER ALERT AGAIN


















LAST CHANCE TO DODGE FLYING SPOILERS




















Okay, you had your chance!

Now, frankly I was pretty bored with this story.  It seemed a vague takeoff
of that movie Brooke Shields was in a while back...what was it called...oh
yeah, the "Blue Lagoon", something like that.  The ending certainly was
similar - the couple deciding NOT to get rescued.  I didn't at all like the
way Sam and the Brooke Shields character (can't remember her name, sorry)
interacted; Sam was reacting to her totally as himself, not worrying hardly
at all what Nickos (?) would have done.  And the ending was really 
rather silly.  I mean, come on here, they are stranded on this island with
absolutely NO supplies, not even a change of clothes for Nickos, and they
are going to hang around for 6+ years?!

Maybe I'm being too critical here, but this story seemed totally superficial
to me.  There was no real subplot, just the basic story of two people 
yelling at each other on a deserted island for 45 loooong minutes.  I certainly
hope that next week's is more interesting!

Ellen - the Crime Doctor



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From: thomasc@ms.uky.edu (Thomas Campbell)
Subject: QL: This weeks episode was *not* a smart idea.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 00:51:42 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

Spoilers below by the way ...

























I was *very* disappointed.  Sam was able to overcome the abilities
of someone he was leaped into.  This can't happen.  If he is a 
parapeligic then he is a parapeligic.  He's always had to adapt
to the abilities of the person that he was in and work within those
constraints.  I was *not* happy.  Maybe I'm wrong on this fact but
I didn't think he was able to do stuff like that.


Alex

P.s. I still like  the Theme music... *bleah*
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From: jennings@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Tim Jennings)
Subject: Re: QL: No blood? & How does he know it cha
Reply-To: jennings@chdasic.sps.mot.com
Organization: Motorola SPS ASIC, Chandler, AZ
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:20:10 GMT

> >2) How can Al know that history has changed?  I've asked this before, but I
> >want to see if there are any more creative answers.  If history has changed, he
> >should have no memory of things having been different. I can see it for Sam,
> >who has the continuous point of view, and maybe even for Al when he is in
> >contact with Sam (tuning in on neurons), but there is at least one occasion
> >where Al sees something change:  In Honeymoon Express, the senator running the
> >panel approving PQL's funding changes at the end of the episode. Perhaps Ziggy
> >is 'out of time' and can keep track of those changes?
> >
> 
> In the episode where Roddy McDowall replaced Al, Sam stated that he would
> eventually forget Al because he never knew him the current history.  However,
> he did have lingering memories.  One could extrapolate this and assume that Al
> is resistant to historical changes like Sam since they are on the same brain
> frequency or whatever.
> 
 
It is a popular theory in time travel books that a person close to the event that
changes history does not get affected by the change. (unless he kills his father
before his birth or something obvious like that) He will remember the old past and
be able to observe the new future. I suppose we are correct that Al can remember
too as well as the other techs at PQL. 

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From: rmherrin@acs.ucalgary.ca (Robyn Meta Herrington)
Subject: Info Needed
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 21:29:20 GMT
Distribution: worldwide
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta
Keywords: Q-Leap


Couple of questions here.  When was Dr. Sam Becket born and where
(exactly)?  I admit, most shamefully, that I haven't seen ALL the
episodes of Quantum Leap (something I will correct when it goes
into re-runs).

Also, after watching the season premier (and yuck to the new
music), I wondered. . .does Scott Bakula have trouble remembering
who HE is between takes?? 8-) 8-)

So that we don't flood the net with the same reply, please e-mail
me directly. . .and many thanks in advance.

Robyn Herrington



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From: dzembj@nuge107.its.rpi.edu (Jason Eric Dzembo)
Subject: Re: Quanum Leap: THE NOVEL
Reply-To: dzembj@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:29:35 GMT

In article <fletch.718393340@camelot>, fletch@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Lurie) writes:
|> 
|> 	I've just finished reading the new and first Quantum Leap novel.
|> I REALLY liked it, but I was wondering if anyone else had any comments.
|> IMHO, McConnell did an outstanding job of bringing the excitement and drama
|> of the t.v. show to the bookshelves.
|> 

Well, to be honest I haven't finished the book yet.  BUT, so far, to be
brutally honest, the only resemblence between the show and the book (for
lack of a better term...) is merely superficial.  (It's called Quantum
Leap, Tina, Sam, Al and Gushie and the rest are in it.  Everything else,
from the premise behind Project Quantum Leap to well-known facts about
our beloved main characters, has been torn to shreds and tossed callously
into a very strong wind...)  The writing itself is standard pulp fiction
fare.  Diehard Quantum Leap fans, especially those who like continuity,
will be disappointed.

					- Jason (I'm an Episode Guide
					Updater, dammit, not a literary
					critic.  ;-)
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Subject: WOOPS! I shouldn't have had the TV on!
From: jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com
Date: 28 Sep 92 13:11:49 GMT
Organization: Searle, Skokie, IL
Nntp-Posting-User: julien

WOOPS!  I shouldn't have had the TV on Sunday night.

Seriously.  It's about as lame as high concept can get.
It's pretty much a Sixes Company with no chance of getting disturbed by the
Ropers, just giant spiders.

The whole thing should have been a 5-minute SNL skit, not a weekly sitcom.

Bleah!
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From: swardwel@nyx.cs.du.edu (Stephanie Wardwell)
Subject: QL:  Leaping of the Shrew
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 16:08:41 GMT


It's interesting that everyone compared this to Blue Lagoon.  Basic
premise, I guess, except in the movie the characters were children who had
no clue what they were doing.  *I* kept thinking of Philadelphia Story and
the other romantic comedies of the 30's and 40's.  Just because of the
character archetypes, probably.

Even though this was a really simple story, I enjoyed it.  It was a
neccesary breather after the complexity and frustration of LHO.

On to the next episode!  (But I *like* his legs!)

Stephanie Wardwell
swardwel@pennsas.upenn.edu

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From: Edward_Lee_Whiteside@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Highlander TV Show Info
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 21:55:32 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)


Highlander TV series: Debuts Oct, 1992


The Highlander TV syndicated, one hour, TV series will debut the first
week of October, 1992. The series is based on the Highlanders movies and
features Christopher Lambert in the first episode, reprising his role from
the movies as Conner MacLeod.  Conner will be the mentor to Duncan MacLeod,
played by Adrian Paul, who will be the main character in the TV series.
Paul appeared in the War of the Worlds TV series second season as Kincaid.

Duncan is a nearly 400 year old immortal who has been seeking refuge from the
eternal battle between good and evil.  Events in the pilot reunites him
with Conner MacLeod, who he hasn't seen in 60-70 years.  Alexandra Vandernoot
plays Duncan's love, Tessa, who has been with him for 12 years.  She knows
he is an immortal, but does not know that he can be killed by another
immortal.  Stan Kirsch plays a teenage cohort, Ritchie, who has discovered the
Highlander's secret by being caught by Duncan breaking into Duncan's
antique shop.  The major villian, an evil immortal who is out to kill all
immortals, both good and evil, is Slan Quince.  Slan is played by Richard
Moll, best known as Bull on Night Court.

(The Highlander info comes from the Electronic Press Kit.)
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From: guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery)
Subject: QL: What Price Gloria?
Summary: Another "Am I crazy or...?" post
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 03:55:52 GMT

I just finished watching my tape of "What price Gloria?" that I taped
off of USA tonight, and I'm wondering: Am I crazy? Or did they cut that
show since the last time i saw it? I swear the episode started out with
something like this:

GLORIA (outside of bathroom): Sam?
SAM (thinking): Alright! I've leaped into someone with my name!
GLORIA (entering BR): You better hurry up...etc.

I listened through the whole episode, and I didn't hear anyone mention
how cool it was that he didn't have to answer to another person's name.

Ok, this is probably in the FAQ, but since I have your attention
anyway... Were the mirror shots with Sam and Gloria filmed at different
times, or did Jean Sagal's identical twin Liz help out? I watched the
credits, and Liz wasn't mentioned. Liz and Jean were in that show Double
Trouble (and they're the identical twin sisters of Katey Sagal from MWC). 

jam
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From: techy@iastate.edu (Technobabblonian)
Subject: B5 List Change
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 01:37:23 GMT

ANNOUNCEMENT  ( again)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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To POST an article send mail to: 
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This was done because I could not update the other group to allow people to add themselves.  This way it is possible to add or delete yourself from the group.  Follow the instructions below.  If they do not work, contact your System Administrator or send Email to b5-request@iastate.edu.  
NOTE!!!!  If you already sent email to be added.. you DO NOT need to resend it.

To add to the list:
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Please remember that this is a service... do not attempt to add or delete other members other than yourself.  Doing this will result in the group being made private again. <Groan>

Thanks. 

PS.. sorry for the changes again.. it was done to abide by Internet standards.


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From: jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
Subject: Re: Anyone getting the SciFi Channel in Stereo?
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 02:34:47 GMT

In article <mumble> mstephens.520@postman.gsfc.nasa.gov (mark stephens) writes:

>And speaking of the Cartoon Network... does anybody know if they will be showing 
>some of the newer animation from Japan?  I saw some of this at the World Science
>Fiction Convention (Orlando) and it was, how should I say, not bad!  I do hope to
>see some with English subtitles.  The Sci-Fi channel is also expected to carry some.

I haven't heard any official mention from either the Cartoon or Sci-Fi
network if they would be showing anime (Japanese Animation) but two
years ago at a large anime convention there were reps from the Sci-Fi
Channel there promoting their station so it is possible that they will
ultimately be showing some (since there is a lot of science fiction
anime).  

As for the Cartoon Channel, it all depends on when and if Ted Turner
will go outside his own vast cartoon library and show stuff he
actually has to buy the rights for.

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From: ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host)
Subject: QL: Sam as Don Quiote
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 14:24:10 GMT

On Friday, USA repeated the 'Man of La Mancha' episode.
I have heard of the episode before but never saw it.

I have always thought Sam as the Don Quiote of Time Travel
and this episode seemed to agree with that angle.

Has anybody else had the same opinion of Sam?

[ P.S. Sibling Rivalries has been playing on The Movie Channel;
  Scott is also in the movie and he is a doctor again ]
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From: ins598w@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Roger Tall)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:42:46 GMT
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

I remember an episode where Sam plays a priest and while he was
training a boy for some boxing lessons, he tells the boy to try 
to practice his punches on a slab of meat.  I think he also tells  
him that he should have a nickname "The Itallian Stallion".  

Well (as if you don't know already) the boy turned out to be 
Sylvester Stallone!!!!

Well that is my bit.   

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From: jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Blake's 7 Ending
Date: 30 Sep 92 02:06:25 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <X85QBBL2@cc.swarthmore.edu> jhildeb1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Jeff Hildebrand) writes:
>SPOILERS AHEAD (people probably realize this given the subject line, but hey
>can't hurt.)


><U16244@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>> I thought that the final seven shots, heard during the credits, were the
>> seven shots for each of the members of Blake's 7.  A memmorium of
>> sorts.  And besides, if it were the sound FX for a firefight, and  Avon  was
>> at  the center of a ring of guards, you'd think it would be louder and
>> more rapid fire than just seven, slowly placed, almost symbolic shots.  Then
>> again, the firefight  could have gone on in slow mo.


>	Nice theory but it has one problem. There are either 9 or 10 shots.

>	Agreed that the shots seemed too slow for a fire fight, but they were
>very clearing playing with time in that episode. At one point as Scorpio is
>going down (just as they're about to try the power dive) they have some
>rather nifty "strobe" effect and of course the final scene is speeding up
>and slowing down like crazy.

Well, someone posted quite a few months back that they had seen the
director's notes/script for the episode, and it included a list of how
the shots over the end credits should be arranged.  It was scribbled and
cryptic, and I can't quite remember details, but

* the first shot is Avon's

* several guards fire, and Avon gets off another shot or two

AND

* the last shot heard, somewhat softer, is Avon's.

So you never know, he might have made a break for it and gotten away.
Whoever posted those notes, a repost would be great.
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From: jseaver@buckaroo.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Woops! is nowhere near Gilligan
Date: 30 Sep 1992 02:14:22 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: buckaroo.wpi.edu

In article <1aail2INNifj@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>In article <1a9m3dINN75@bigboote.WPI.EDU> jseaver@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jason John Seaver) writes:
>>	I hope it beats the odds and succeeds.  It probably won't (who's
>>watching Fox at 10:30 Sundays?)
>
>The same people watching Fox at 9, 9:30, and 10, since the other networks
>are all running movies.  So if you start watching Fox on Sunday, you're
>somewhat committed to it.  I think this was very smart counter-programming
>by Fox, and is probably one of the major reasons why it was a success with
>such low-brow comedy (the other reason was their decision to debut BH90210
>during the summer, when there was virtually no competition and lots of
>bored teens).

	Thing is, Woops doesn't really fit in with shows like In Living Color
or Married With Children.  I mean, did you notice there wasn't one profanity or
bit of mangled English?  I'd really like to see Fox move it earlier...  but a 
lot of people would have really liked to see more Alien Nation, but it's pretty
clear Fox doesn't know what to do with sf.
 
					-Jay
From: clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU (Stewart Clamen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Highlander: The series
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:12:39 GMT
Reply-To: clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Originator: clamen@BYRON.SP.CS.CMU.EDU

In article <BvnLz3.6st@mach1.wlu.ca> veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher) writes:

     You don't know how lucky you are!  I'm from Canada and, as usual,
   we don't get any of your new series until after a year or so (if
   they make it).  If any of you have the time, could someone please
   send me a general outline of the series (ie. what happened in the
   premier)???

This is precious little American in the series to lay claim to.
According to the credits, it is filmed in Vancouver, and receives
production monies from a number of European TV companies, including
TF1 (France's first channel).


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From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
Subject: Re: QL: Drew's Spoiler Reviews -- LHO
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:35:14 GMT


 I'm new to this newsgroup, and I wonder:

Am I the only one who likes Quantum Leap??  Specifically, the LHO
episode.  I'll get nuclear flamed for this, but I liked it, the story,
the plot twists, the ending, and.......the THEME MUSIC.

Simon
From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: New theme song [NO SPOILERS]
Date: 24 Sep 1992 18:37:15 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <hlbzlv_@rpi.edu> wainwl@aix.rpi.edu (Lou P. Wainwright) writes:
>I HATE THE NEW THEME SONG!!!  It is completely devoid of character, and is
>scored in a very uninteresting manner.

I agree. It's a piece of commercial crap - you can't tell it from any number of
other program themes.

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
From: murphy@npri6.npri.com (David P. Murphy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: The Highlander TV series begins 3 oct 1992
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:54:56 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA


 >	Greetings. I was flipping through channels the other day and
 >came across a 30-minute spot on my local Fox affiliate about the
 >making of HIGHLANDER the series. I am a Highlander fan, and had no 
 >idea this was in production. When is it scheduled to begin? Does 
 >anyone have any details on it?
 >
 >dickenjd@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (DICKENJD)

it will premiere at 6:00 on saturday 3 oct 1992 on channel 20 in washington DC.
does that help?

ok
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From: "paul shannon" <paul.shannon@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: alien nation cliffhan
Date: 25 Sep 92 16:46:56 EST
Reply-To: "paul shannon" <paul.shannon@execnet.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Executive Networks Information


MS>I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but a comic magazine
MS>adaptation of the resolution to the TV cliffhanger (based on the
MS>script that would have been filmed) came out a couple of weeks ago
MS>from Malibu Graphics, the company that's done several Alien Nation
MS>comics (not using the TV characters until now).  The artwork is
MS>mediocre, and it looks like the script needed one or two more
MS>rewrites, but it's better than not having any resolution at all...


Pocket Books will also be publishing an Alien Nations series next year
featuring the resolution to the cliffhanger as our first book.

We will feature authors like Peter David and Barry Longyear.  Alien
Nation fans look for the first in the Spring of 93.

Paul
Pocket Books

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From: bergerp@highland.manassas.ibm.com  
Subject: SCI-FI Channel
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 17:03:16 GMT
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research


Does anyone out there know when the Animated Star Trek is on the Sci Fi Channel?
I've seen the schedule and that there are blocks of cartoons, but does anyone
know the specific time??

Thanks

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