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From: jason@cray.com (Jason Parker)
Subject: Great Black Adder Script Project
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:35:44 CDT

 *** The Great Black Adder Script Project ***

UPDATE: July 21, 1992 

   DONE: IV-1 Captain Cook
         III-4 Sense and Senility  (another by the Black Add'ress)
    This means BA series III is now all COMPLETE!!!!  
    What progress has been made!
    Congratulations are in order for our script submittors.
    Hip Hip, Huzzah!  Hip Hip Huzzah!  Hip Hip HuzZIT.

--------

So that we don't duplicate efforts I'm going to keep a Black Adder script list.
Scripts that have been sent to the NET are marked DONE.  Scripts for which an
individual has said they are planning to submitt are marked 
IN PROGRESS <who>.

If you plan to do a script, send what you plan to do to me so others won't 
waste energy compiling the same script.  When DONE with a script send a copy to the administrator of our favorite Black Adder FTP site.

                       Jason R. Heimbaugh (CatStyle)  jrh@uiuc.edu

To get DONE scripts FTP to:
  
                       deja-vu.aiss.uiuc.edu
and look in
                       /misc/fun/humor/tv/blackadd

If any of you submitters see any mistakes I've made in the list below, please 
send me the correction.  I'll post an updates of this list as necessary.

A BIG thanks to those of you submitting scripts!!!

Jason Parker
jason@cray.com

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Series 1: The Black Adder  (1983)
1. The Foretelling  (1485)  DONE  (Ron O'Dell keeper@deeptht.santa-cruz.ca.us))
2. The Queen of Spain's Beard (1492)
3. The Archbishop (1487)
4. Born To Be King (1486)
5. Witchsmeller Pursuivant (1495)
6. The Black Seal (1498)
   
Series 2: Black Adder II
1. Bells
2. Head           DONE  (Warren Lynn)
3. Potato 
4. Money
5. Beer           DONE (Ron O'Dell)
6. Chains         DONE (Black Add'ress V128JUXA@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu)

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years

Series 3: Black Adder the Third (1760 - 1815)
1. Dish and Dishonesty         DONE (Black Add'ress)
2. Ink and Incapability        DONE (Black Add'ress)
3. Nob and Nobility            DONE  (Ron O'Dell)
4. Sense and Senility          DONE (Black Add'ress)
5. Amy and Amiability          DONE (Andrew Cannon andrewc@spider.co.uk)
6. Duel and Duality            DONE  (?)

Blackadder's Christmas Carol (Dec 23, 1988)   IN PROGRESS (Ron O'Dell)
 
Series 4: Blackadder Goes Forth
1. Captain Cook             DONE (Gert-Jan Hagenaars alph@win.tue.nl)
2. Corporal Punishment      IN PROGRESS (Gert-Jan Hagenaars alph@win.tue.nl)
3. Major Star 
4. Private Plane            DONE (Grunwalder@cfa160)
5. General Hospital
6. Goodbyeee
 

Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: avik@icase.edu (Avik Banerjee)
Subject: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Organization: ICASE/NASA Langley
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:19:19 GMT

greetings,
	does anyone know where i can obtain a copy of HHGTTG in
	the united states? thanks for you help.

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From: mbilunas@cwis.unomaha.edu (Mary M. Bilunas)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: AYBS and AYBS Again
Date: 28 Jul 92 04:02:13 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha

phz@cadence.com  writes:
> In article <sooz.711865753@vincent1.iastate.edu> sooz@iastate.edu (Susan F Bradley) writes:
> >Yeah - but what I want to know is: is AYBSA any less cheesey than the first
> >one?
> 
> Are You Being Served? Again (or Grace and Favour as it is known in England) is
> at least as cheesy as AYBS, and probably more so.  But it is *delightfully*
> cheesy.  I love all the double and triple entendres, including the "pussy"
> jokes, and watch the show whenever I get the chance.
> 
>    \_\_\_                               \
>     \_   \_          \_                 /   -Pete Zakel
>      \_   \_  \_\_    \_     \_\_       \
> \_\_  \_\_\_ \_   \_ \_\_\_ \_   \_     /       phz@cadence.com
>        \_     \_\_\_    \_   \_\_\_     \    or
>         \_     \_        \_   \_        /       ..!uunet!cadence!phz
>          \_      \_\_      \_   \_\_    \

Well, now having seen the "latest" AYBS episode and the first of the AYBSA
episodes...I CONCUR....the second series is just as delightful...cheesy...
or whatever adjective you like....I love Mrs. Slocombe's line, in 
various situations..."...some comment on current situation...and we are
unanimous in that!"
                        Mary B.
                        
                        Internet:  mbilunas@cwis.unomaha.edu
                                     (slight change in address)
                        
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: Buck Godot <bgodot@halcyon.com>
Subject: Re: Blackadder II Closing Credit Lyrics
Originator: bbs@halcyon.com
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 03:09:58 GMT

 
 Recently, while showing a red dwarf marathon, they offered (on a PBS 
station, of coarse) a packet of info collected from various computer 
networks about the show... they also show Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, 
etc. etc. and I'd like to collect info packets to send to them...

Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (WHY??)
Subject: Stephen Fry's Dracula
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 11:58:42 GMT


I'm looking for a transcript of a piece that Stephen Fry read
out once.  It was a diary of VanHelsing, but the point was that
he never realised that Dracula was a vampire, rather thinking him
to be a pleasant fellow, if somewhat pale of visage.

Dracula kept trying to kill him, and kept failing.
From: bmetcalf@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Metcalf)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: A line I couldn't understand
Date: 28 Jul 92 02:09:50 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

In an episode of Blackadder II, I can't remember which one, two actors are
teaching George how to stand.  They say, "This stance says, 'I am a man of
power.'"  (Or something to that effect) And Edmund says "Either that or 'Here
are my genitals.... something something.'"  The laugh track obliterated it.
Can anyone else decypher it?  I'm sure it's terribly funny and I want to know.

				Brent, the curious.
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: mbilunas@odin.unomaha.edu (Mary M. Bilunas)
Subject: AYBS and AYBS Again
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:45:28 GMT

A quick note...two PBS TV stations here in midwest have announced that
beginning the week of July 27 ARE YOU BEING SERVED will be followed by
ARE YOU BEING SERVED AGAIN each week (Sunday evenings). Perhaps both
series will also be shown by other PBS stations.

Mary B.

Internet:  mbilunas@odin.unomaha.edu
From: so28968@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Cat Woman)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Brits?
Summary: is email available?
Keywords: Bangor
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:40:11 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

I'm sorry but this doesn't really have anything to do with
British comedy per se though I like to read these notes on Black Adder.
I'm an American student who will be studying in Bangor, Wales
this up-coming Fall and I need to know whether Bangor has email 
or not so I  can "talk" to my friends here (University of Illinios in
Champaign-Urbana).  Any response to my note would be greatly appreciated
I put my question in this notes section because I noticed people 
from Britian were answering some of the questions. Thanx!
 
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: uk@bigwhite.ucs.sfu.ca (Uncle Ken)
Subject: Re: Alexi Sayle's Stuff
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: pnw
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:05:29 GMT

In article <naran.711526494@sfu.ca> naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran)  
writes:
> I was flipping through the TV Times digest from our local newspaper and  
noticed
> KCTS-9 Seattle had two episode on... {drum roll}
> 
> 2 a.m. Tuesday Morning July 21, 1992 to 3a.m.
> 
> I can't tell from the descriptions if they are re-runs, but they aren't  
marked
> as such. But then again, most brit-coms are not recorded if first-run or
> re-run.
> 
> -- 

   ...they were episodes 1 and 2 of the first series of 'Stuff'

   ...so you'll have a chance to see them all (probably in order)

   ...Ken
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: victim@eskimo.celestial.com (Tony Garton)
Subject: Re: what's Hugh Laurie up to these days?
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:29:08 GMT
From: chrisco@emx.utexas.edu (Chris Cooley)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Request for "Goodies" on VHS
Summary: Goodies on VHS?
Keywords: Goodies on VHS (NTSC preferred, PAL OK)
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:49:06 GMT
Organization: UTexas Computation Center Microcomputer Technologies

In article <1992Jul21.123442.26257@interlan.Interlan.COM>,
sanborn@interlan.Interlan.COM (Erik Sanborn) writes:
>        If anyone has ANY information on how/where to go about 
>purchasing videotapes of the Goodies, PLEASE let us know. (We're 
>dying without them!!) Oh yeah, for us folks here in The States we'd 
>probably need NTSC tapes, or at least a means of transfering
>PAL -> NTSC.

I'd like to second this request for Goodies videotapes.  It's been many, 
many years since I've seen the shows, and nobody seems interested in
broadcasting the series any more...

I strongly prefer NTSC VHS, but PAL VHS wouldn't be rejected.

Please let me know by posting to this newsgroup (alt.comedy.british) or by 
sending me mail at the address below.   Thanks!

--
Chris Cooley

Internet:   chrisco@emx.cc.utexas.edu
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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: bassman@milton.u.washington.edu (Edward Gorey)
Subject: Re: A line I couldn't understand
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:21:13 GMT

bmetcalf@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Metcalf) writes:

>In an episode of Blackadder II, I can't remember which one, two actors are
>teaching George how to stand.  They say, "This stance says, 'I am a man of
>power.'"  (Or something to that effect) And Edmund says "Either that or 'Here
>are my genitals.... something something.'"  The laugh track obliterated it.
>Can anyone else decypher it?  I'm sure it's terribly funny and I want to know.

>				Brent, the curious.

I thought it was "...here are my genitals, please fondle."
From: ijw@praxis.co.uk (Ian Wright)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Wanted! Name of kids prog!!
Date: 28 Jul 92 13:16:32 GMT
Organization: Praxis, Warwick, U.K.

In article <1992Jul27.165450.6450@gdr.bath.ac.uk> enpnjat@gdr.bath.ac.uk (N J A Thorne) writes:
>This isn't exactly British comedy, but some of the oldies
>amongst you may remember this children's programme that I've
>been trying to get the name of for years.
>
>The prog. I'm thinking of was done very much in the Pugwash 
>style (same cartoonist?) but took place in a medieval castle.
>The "narrator" of the stories was some sort of servant and 
>played the lute. I've been racking my brains trying to 
>remember the title for YEARS, so I hope someone can help.
>
>What a dumb request!
Not really!

'Sir Prancealot' is the one you're after!


>
>Nicky.
>
>N.J.A.Thorne@uk.ac.bath.gdr
>
From: sut@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Secure Unix Team KID01)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: A line I couldn't understand
Date: 28 Jul 92 09:52:18 GMT
Organization: ICL Bracknell, UK

In article <Bs2u0s.AMq@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> bmetcalf@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Metcalf) writes:
>In an episode of Blackadder II, I can't remember which one, two actors are
>teaching George how to stand.  They say, "This stance says, 'I am a man of
>power.'"  (Or something to that effect) And Edmund says "Either that or 'Here
>are my genitals.... something something.'"  The laugh track obliterated it.
>Can anyone else decypher it?  I'm sure it's terribly funny and I want to know.
>
>				Brent, the curious.

"...please kick them."

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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: news@bnr.ca (usenet)
Subject: monty python
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:56:02 GMT
From: tagg@hg.uleth.ca (Nathaniel Tagg)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:17:26 GMT
Reply-To: tagg@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge

In article <Brsns8.q1@news.larc.nasa.gov>, avik@icase.edu (Avik Banerjee) writes:
>greetings,
>	does anyone know where i can obtain a copy of HHGTTG in
>	the united states? thanks for you help.
>
       Books, speaking book,radio scripts, radio programmes, computer game, tv 
series, records, or towel?  Hardcover or paperback?  Which reprinting?  Trilogy
of four parts or the Omnibus edition?  

       Actually, any half-decent bookstore should carry the books.  A good
bookstore carries the scripts.  The computer game has been re-released by
infocom in a twenty-game archive set "Lost Treasures of Infocom".  The radio
series is sometimes broadcast on NPR.  You'll have to fight to the death for
the records.
       (Incidentally, I own all of the above except the towel and Omnibus.  Any
sellers?  And who if anyone, might own a copy of Marvin's disco album.  I have
two songs from it in terrible shape, and would pay lots to get it.)

Obsessed,
----------- Nathaniel
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From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: sitcom list    about 1570 lines
Date: 22 Jul 92 09:36:23 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

In article <1992Jul17.152342.17263@cs.hw.ac.uk> neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite) writes:

>>      The definitive UK sitcom list               Updated: 92-07-13
>I object to a lot of the stuff on this list.

>Neil

this argument is premature.  i'm still getting suggestions for inclusions.
hold your fire for about another month.  then we'll have a full blown flame 
fest.  i agree some of the stuff shouldn't be there.  but everybody has a 
different idea of which ones are wrong.  what a surprise {not}.

what b------ stole my shift key?

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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: what's Hugh Laurie up to these days?
From: stevens1@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:57:44 MST
Reply-To: stevens1@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona, College of Engineering and Mines, Tucson

Hugh Laurie will be appearing, along with Stephen Fry, Tony Slattery,
Emma Thompson and American comedienne Rita Rudner in "Peter's Friends",
a feature film directed by (and starring of course) Kenneth Branagh.
According to Premiere magazine, the film will be released in August.
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: mbilunas@odin.unomaha.edu (Mary M. Bilunas)
Subject: Re: AYBS and AYBS Again
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:29:48 GMT

sooz@iastate.edu  writes:
> In <1992Jul22.224528.25540@news.unomaha.edu> mbilunas@odin.unomaha.edu (Mary M. Bilunas) writes:
> 
> >beginning the week of July 27 ARE YOU BEING SERVED will be followed by
> >ARE YOU BEING SERVED AGAIN each week (Sunday evenings). Perhaps both
> 
> 
> Yeah - but what I want to know is: is AYBSA any less cheesey than the first
> one?

Well, I've only seen one episode of AYBSA...so I don't know how the series
will compare to the first.  The episode I did see included the
characters of Mr. Humphries, Mrs. Slocombe, Miss Brahms, Capt. Peacock, and
Mr. Rumpole (not sure of all spellings). It might not be your cup of tea
but then again it might.

Mary B.

Internet:  mbilunas@odin.unomaha.edu
From: Christopher.Carne@brunel.ac.uk (Christopher J Carne)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british,rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: The Goons
Date: 28 Jul 92 13:44:43 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK

In article <Bru6DE.2MM@datlog.co.uk> istewart@datlog.co.uk (Ian Stewartson) writes:
>dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Jul22.000436.25011@rdg.dec.com> winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
>>>Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, and, originally Michael Bentine.
>>>Wallace Greenslade was the announcer.  Ray Ellington (whose quartet provided
>>>one of the musical interludes each week) did a few bit parts here and there.
>>>Valentine Dyall, John Snagge, and others had guest appearances occasionally.
>
>>Milligna wrote most of the scripts but occasional ones were written by
>>others: Maurice Wilshire for one.
>
>Eric Sikes for another  
      ^^^^^     
That's Sykes. Larry Stephens was another who co-wrote several episodes.

>
>>John Snagge was the nearest thing to a '90s News Anchor in England of the
>>'50s.  His was one of the best known voices in the country, and he had
>>sufficient clout to keep the Goon Show on the air despite the efforts of
>>some of the BBC top brass to kill it.
>
>Andrew Timothy replace 'Wal' went he died didn't he?  I thought 'Snaggers'
>only appear on special occasions.
>-- 
>Regards,
>
>Ian Stewartson
>Data Logic Ltd, Queens House, Greenhill Way, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 1YR, UK.

Wallace: This is the BBC, and I'm heartily fed up with it.
Neddy: Have a care there wallace, otherwise I'll be forced to speak
       to John Snagge.
Wal: My dear chap. *Everyone* has to be 'forced' to speak to John Snagge.

Opening exchange. Can't remember which episode.


It's all in the mind you know.   

Chris
From: iainp@duckula.UK.Sun.COM (Iain Pryde - SUN Scotland)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Wanted! Name of kids prog!!
Date: 29 Jul 1992 22:46:00 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: iainp@duckula.UK.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: duckula.uk.sun.com

Is it by any chance Nogin The Nog?
Not sure of the spelling but similar animation style and this 
took place in a castle.

	Iain

Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british,rec.arts.tv.uk
From: dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: The Goons
Organization: :noitazinagrO
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 15:34:18 GMT

In article <Bs3q6K.5sw@brunel.ac.uk> Christopher.Carne@brunel.ac.uk (Christopher J Carne) writes:
>In article <Bru6DE.2MM@datlog.co.uk> istewart@datlog.co.uk (Ian Stewartson) writes:
>>dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones) writes:
>>
>>>In article <1992Jul22.000436.25011@rdg.dec.com> winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
>>>>Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, and, originally Michael Bentine.
>>>>Wallace Greenslade was the announcer.  Ray Ellington (whose quartet provided
>>>>one of the musical interludes each week) did a few bit parts here and there.
>>>>Valentine Dyall, John Snagge, and others had guest appearances occasionally.
>>
>>>Milligna wrote most of the scripts but occasional ones were written by
>>>others: Maurice Wilshire for one.
>>
>>Eric Sikes for another  
>      ^^^^^     
>That's Sykes. Larry Stephens was another who co-wrote several episodes.
>
Thank you, I've been racking my brains trying to think of Larry's name.
He and Maurice Wilshire (sans Milligna) wrote one of the best episodes
of the lot: The Moriarity Murder Mystery.  In fact more than one of the
good shows was co-written: Milligna needed someone else to keep him on
track.

>>
>>>John Snagge was the nearest thing to a '90s News Anchor in England of the
>>>'50s.  His was one of the best known voices in the country, and he had
>>>sufficient clout to keep the Goon Show on the air despite the efforts of
>>>some of the BBC top brass to kill it.
>>
>>Andrew Timothy replace 'Wal' went he died didn't he?  I thought 'Snaggers'
>>only appear on special occasions.
>>-- 
John Snagge did cameos as (surprise) a newsreader.  His bit on "Scradge"
is a classic deadpan reading of marvelous nonsense.  Wallace Greenslade
died in 1961, the last Goon Show proper was in 1960.  In "More Goon Show
Scripts" there is one show that featured both Andrew Timothy and "Wal"
as co-announcers.  Andrew Timothy did the announcing on "The Last Goon 
Show of All", broadcast on radio and TV in 1972 as part of the BBC's 
50th anniversary (there, I knew there was a TV reference in here
somewhere).
>
>Wallace: This is the BBC, and I'm heartily fed up with it.
>Neddy: Have a care there wallace, otherwise I'll be forced to speak
>       to John Snagge.
>Wal: My dear chap. *Everyone* has to be 'forced' to speak to John Snagge.
>
>Opening exchange. Can't remember which episode.
>
>
>It's all in the mind you know.   
It says here in small print.

>
>Chris


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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: sprooney@unix1.tcd.ie (George McNoudal)
Subject: Re: Blackadder Christmas Carol (long)
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:00:04 GMT



>>>>Prince:  Absolutely, as long as it's not that terribly depressing one about
>>>>	 the chap who gets born on Christmas Day, shoots his mouth off about
>>>>	 everything under the sun, and then comes [a crop up?] with a couple
>>>>	 of rum coves on top of a [hailing Johnny arumlan?].
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Most likely "comes a cropper", meaning comes to a bad end, or screws up.

>>Try "hill in Jerusalem": it helps if you know the story.....

>Try "on top of a hill in 'johnny-arab-land'. "

Or if you want the real version: a hill in jolly-arab-land.

mNSio