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From: rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: New Sci-Fi Shows
Date: 9 Jan 93 16:46:59 GMT
Organization: MAWL - Mudd Alums Without Lives

In article <4727@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>In article <a671975@pro-amber.cts.com> rsopicki@pro-amber.cts.com (Randy Sopicki) writes:
><brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:

><>In article <1993Jan5.110859.4866@memstvx1.memst.edu> mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
><><Can someone name the 5 New Science Fiction Serials that are Premiering and
><><what times and channels they will be on I know 1.

><><Deep Space Nine on Fox Sat Night.

><>Wrong.  You lose.  It isn't on Fox.
><In both the San Diego & Los Angeles CA areas DSN is carried on the FOX
><network.

>No, no, no, a thousand times no.  They aren't on the Fox network.  Yes, they
>on your local Fox affiliate.  They purchased the syndication rights in your
>market.

Furthermore, it isn't even on Fox in LA.  KCOP is *not* Fox, KTTV
(which is no longer on any San Diego cable systems) is the LA Fox
station.  Try looking for In Living Color on KCOP one Sunday night.

Agitator
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From: lksmith@truth.mitre.org (Smith)
Subject: Re: Twilight Zone question (was Re: Twilight Zone...videotaped
Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, Ma.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:36:33 GMT

In article <72919@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:

>>>By the way, here's a trivia question that all good Zone fans can
>>>answer: one episode of the Zone was purchased by Rod Serling and
>>>ran only once as an original episode - it was actually an award
>>>winning French short film.  What was the title of this episode
>>>and who was the author of the original short story on which it
>>>was based?  
>>>

  (and I answered:)
>>
>>Now this is an interesting one.  I'm not an avid TZ fan in terms
>>of knowing all the trivia goodies (that I do know about, for example,
>>Star Trek :-) ) but I think I'll take a guess at this one.  Was it
>>"Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by any chance?  I don't remember the
>>author's name but I'll bet that if I saw the name I'd think "of COURSE!"
>>

  (and Harv says I won a Kewpie doll for knowing the name of the story,
  and continues:) 
>
>But you would've won the Corvette instead had you remembered that
>the author of the short story, "Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge"
>was none other than Ambrose Bierce.
>

Of COURSE.  :-) :-)

Too bad about the Vette.  But it would only get ripped off here in
Boston. :-)


  (and Harv mentions that the story is from a collection of similarly
TZ-appropriate Civil War tales)

Interesting suggestion about the short story collection.  I didn't
know _that_ at all -- thanks!

Linda
lksmith@truth.mitre.org
From: loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Date: 4 Jan 1993 14:17:14 -0500
Organization: staff hacker @ Yale Haskell project
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In-reply-to: margaret@cs.arizona.edu's message of 4 Jan 93 18:38:59 GMT

margaret@cs.arizona.edu (Margaret Newman) writes:

   The best part about Dr. Quinn, as far as I am concerned, is Joe Lando
   who plays Sully.  He can rescue me anytime!

I didn't mention this in my earlier review, but -- yes, this guy is
quite a hunk if you go for the strong, silent type.  (He can cast some
of those soulful glances in *my* direction anytime!)

-Sandra
From: rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Debuting Syndicated stuff
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:04:32 GMT
Organization: MAWL - Mudd Alums Without Lives

In article <4747@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>In article <43242@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator) writes:
><In article <4689@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
><>The following information was obtained from Broadcasting - 1/4/93:
><>	Baywatch companion			All American
><>	Highlander companion			Rysher
><>	Street Justice/Renegade companion	Cannell

><What does companion mean in this context?

>I think it means - spin-off

So, they're spinning off another immortal series?  Or does it refer to
the fact that the series is a spinoff from the movie?

And if the second case, what is Street Justice a spinoff from?

Agitator
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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Letterman
Date: Tue,  5 Jan 93 17:07:21 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>Who cares?  I don't understand the attraction to Letterman.  Any show I
>watched was very boring - he spent 5 minutes with his guest at the end of the
>show and the rest of the time was spent in boring banter with his band leader.
>His jokes are not funny.  His lists sometimes are good - but to pay someone 14
>million?  Puh-leeze.  Leno's better than Letterman but not much better.
>
>-- 
>
>------------------------
>|   Gail A. Fullman    |
>|   Manager - ADMO     |
>|   Ext. 83113         |
>------------------------

Letterman isn't for everyone. His humor is different. Like Albert
Brooks' humor is different. Like Stephen Wright's humor is different.
Sometimes it "clicks" with ya and sometimes it doesn't.  I'd hate
to see Dave change his or his show's style if it moves into an 
earlier time slot (like replacing the Tonite Show). Unlike a previous
poster here, I also can't imagine anyone else doing Dave's show. 
Perhaps that's why they show Late Night reruns instead of hiring
guest hosts to sit in for Dave when he's on vacation. 

Harv
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:45:38 EST
From: Young Indy <EMW107@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Reasonable Doubts - Peggy Elliot

In article <43386@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator)
says:
>
>Major spoilers (from 5 Jan)
>
>
>
>Damn!  They killed off Sgt. Elliot.  Really liked her character.  She

>was the only regular that could draw on Cobb's past life as a street cop.

   I was rather upset also, by her death, but by the way they handled it so
 non chalant. Oh well.....

                                     -Ed

   ====================================================================
               Edwin 'Big Ed' Weiland - EMW107@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
              Architectural Engineering; Penn State University
   "Oh, His children smile because they know He loves them." -King's X
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From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Subject: "Torkelsons" returns (sort of) as "Almost Home"
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:48:17 GMT


According to TV Guide, "The Torkelsons" is being heavily modified and will
return under the name "Almost Home" on NBC.  It's not clear whether the new
will have anything in common with the original series other than characters.
Apparently the creator of the show, Michael Jacobs, is still involved.

Excerpts from the TV guide article:

"
Several promising shows that vanished over the past year stand ready to
take another shot at prime-time success.

...

"The Torkelsons", last season's earnest sitcom about a divored mom with
family values trying to raise her kids alone in Oklahoma, has been revamped
to attract urban viewers.  The result, "Almost Home" (NBC), plays like
"Upstairs, Downstairs" meets "Step by Step".

In "Almost", Millicent Torkelson (Connie Ray) loses her house and takes a
job as a nanny for an affluent, workaholic, liberal, single dad (Perry King)
in Seattle.  The materialistic urban kids clash with the Torkelson brood,
and Millie's at odds with her handsome employer's laissez-faire
child-rearing.  But will these opposites eventually attract?
"

--
    John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Commercials I hate...
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:31:26 GMT
Reply-To: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Object Technology Products
Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com


clark@netcom.com (Sue Clark) writes:
> I hate the ones where they do a 'white' version and a 'black' version.
> I've seen both Burger King (eg., it's BK TeeVee commercials) and
> McDonalds do this.  Others do 'male' and 'female' versions.  I just 
> don't like the fact that the advertisers think we're too stupid to
> notice.

Hey, at least McDonalds stopped portraying all of their black 
customers as some kind of combo Gregory Hines/Michael Jackson/
Mars Blackman stereotype...

Craig

Not the opinion of my employer.
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From: Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong)
Subject: Re: LIFE GOES ON: How Would You Write Libby Off?
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:25:06 GMT

> valerie.thompson writes:
>
> Well, I think I read (a few months ago) that it was
> going to be a case of "art imitating life", and that they were going to
> have Libby going off to star in a play.  I like LGO, but don't follow
> it closely - is this consistent with the character's history?  Can
> anyone else confirm this very vague memory of mine?
>


I believe Libby had a history in stage. I VAGUELY recall Libby reviving her
act at a night club, once.

One thing though ... is she going to take Nicholas with her? Also, what kind
of storylines will they have with Drew, with Libby gone ... maybe a Drew with
younger woman storyline?

I hope it isn't the Libby in a coma storyline.
From: wdw@sybase.com (Wayne Wong)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: *Four* show actors
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:55:09 GMT
Organization: Sybase, Inc.


I believe Harry Morgan holds the record with something like
8 or 9 shows, among them "M.A.S.H.", "AfterMash", "Dragnet",
"Blacke's Magic" and "December Bride".
Xref: sparky rec.arts.tv:24908 rec.arts.sf.tv:6426
From: sharonc@meaddata.com (Sharon Crichton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: 1/5/93 transmission
Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:50:13 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Distribution: na
Reply-To: sharonc@meaddata.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: nochovies.meaddata.com

In article <1idv2bINNa0r@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, bl375@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brian G. Greenberg) writes:
|> 
|> In a previous article, rck1@ellis.uchicago.edu (roberta chi-woon kwong) says:
|> 
|> >During tonight's "A Tale of Two Sweeties," who else's transmission
|> >cut out just after the sunrise scene? 
|> >
|> >Here in Chicago, the interruption lasted perhpas 5 seconds, but
|> >I've been reading that other places had static for at least 5
|> >*minutes*.
|> >
|> >Who's fault was this? NBC's? Affiliates'?
|> >
|> >
|> >Robin C. Kwong ("er)
|> >				Leapers do it with *flash*!
|> >
|> 
|> 
|> Same thing in Cleveland.

Ditto in Dayton. We were out from the beginning of the sunrise scene (Sam
was just beginning to speak) until they were in the beauty parlor (if I
remember correctly). Can some kind soul please post what happened during
those 5 minutes?

aTdHvAaNnKcSe

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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Debuting Syndicated stuff
Date: 10 Jan 93 17:40:06 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <43242@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator) writes:
<In article <4689@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<>The following information was obtained from Broadcasting - 1/4/93:
<>	Baywatch companion			All American
<>	Highlander companion			Rysher
<>	Street Justice/Renegade companion	Cannell
<
<What does companion mean in this context?

I think it means - spin-off
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From: un032115@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Golden Grahams irritation
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:24:24 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

Recently, I saw I comercial I have come to truly loathe.

It starts out with B-movie footage, and some sphere suspended in mid-air.  They
go on about why it got there.

Then, this irritating pre-adolescent comes on, and says "The REAL question is: 
How do they cram all that graham?"  

It's a Golden Grahams commercial.  It goes on like this, seemingly for as long
as two or three days before it ends.  

I swear, the kid they use for this commercial is even more obnoxious than
Culkin, which is something I didn't think possible.

Who is this?  Why hasn't he either been shot or put in a John Hughes movie? 
And where can we write to tell him just where he can cram all that graham?

And what movie is that that they use footage from?

Ken Bradley
un032115@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Organization: Office of the Dean - CFA, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Date: Thu,  7 Jan 1993 11:30:35 -0500 
From: Liz Fox <lf01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Full House (ABC): Help Me!
	<00965E6F.2D8B8EE0@vms.csd.mu.edu>
Distribution: na

On 31-Dec-92 in Re: Full House (ABC):  Help..
user Kathy Falk@vms.csd.mu.ed writes:
>BTW, does anyone know how/when Danny's wife died?  And, other than to provide
>inane sitcom fodder, why did he choose to have Jesse and Joey share his
>household? Enquiring minds want to know!
> 


Danny's wife, Pam, died just a few months prior to the show's premiere
(when Michelle was just about a year old) and I believe it was a car
accident.  He asked Jesse and Joey to come and live with him so that he
would have help taking care of the three girls.

Liz Fox
From: hamel@uakari.primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Courageous Cat
Date: 6 Jan 1993 21:01:01 -0600
Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center
NNTP-Posting-Host: uakari.primate.wisc.edu


> From: llk@pyrxbooter.eng.pyramid.com (Lynn Lassalle-Klein)
> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
> Subject: Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse
> 
> Anyone remember these cartoons from the early/mid 1960s or so?  Last
> night I was reminiscing with my husband about this show, and
> once I got thinking of it, I could not get the theme song with
> the walking baseline out of my head.
> 
> I was also trying to remember some of the characters, and all I
> could remember is the Frog.  Maybe someone out there can fill in
> some details for a sentimental journey.
> 
> Now that I'm older and wordly, I assume this cartoon was sort of
> a ripoff of Batman, since Courageous Cat drove what I guess was
> a catmobile and lived in a cat cave.  Yes?  No?
> 

Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse were a lot like Batman and
Robin for a very good reason.  They were a parody of the
Dynamic Duo created by Bob Kane, the same man who created
the Caped Crusader.

CC and MM lived in Empire City (a takeoff of Gotham City).
The Frog was their main nemesis, along with his assistants
Harry the Gorilla, Rodney Rodent, Black Cat, Professor
Noodle Stroodle, and Professor Shaggy Dog.

It originally aired in syndication in 1960 with many
episodes that all started with the title "The Case of the..."

Ray Hamel
University of Wisconsin
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: TV technology question
Date: 7 Jan 93 02:58:45 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <C0FvEG.1Gqw@austin.ibm.com> jlpicard@austin.ibm.com writes:
<
<Perhaps this isn't the correct newsgroup to ask in (if so, kindly
<direct me to the proper place), but my girlfriend and I were sitting
<around the other day wondering
<
<a) why don't networks broadcast unique codes for each show to
<   indicate their start and end? This way, VCRs could be set to
<   automatically record a program from beginning to end (no more
<   missing the last 3 minutes), and if the president gives a speech
<   and delays broadcasting, you'd still get the whole show. For 
<   example, the tv guide lists _Cheers_ as code 2539, so I enter it
<   into the VCR and it takes care of recording it for me.

Great idea.  Try and get the networks and local stations to decide on a format.
Technically it could be done.  The problem is with the VCR.  Is it going to have
all the extra costs involved in having a special tuner looking at the programmed
channels to double-check on them.  It will add a big cost to the VCR.

<b) similarly, couldn't networks also broadcast a time code along
<   with the video? This way, televisions and VCRs could automatically
<   set themselves to the correct time.

They do.  That is how the networks get the correct time to the affiliates.
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From: cad3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (CHERYL ANN DOUGHERTY)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Star on \*four\* or more shows?
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:22:26 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <2B48D540.1372@news.service.uci.edu>, llmacdon@orion.oac.uci.edu (Lin
da Macdonald) writes:
>In article <C002oo.3G1.1@cs.cmu.edu> clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU writes:

>Lee Majors
>       The Big Valley
>       I can't remember the name of the second, but he played a lawyer.
>       Arthur Hill was the primary star and also played a lawyer.
>       I think it was called Owen something or other

    Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law

>       The Fall Guy
>       The Six Million Dollar Man
>       A new one, but I think it is one of the "Crime Time after Prime
>       Time" shows and I don't know how it is faring.
>>
>>
>>I will admit that I cheated on Gless.  Being able to remember three of
>>her shows, I looked her up in the rec.arts.movies actresses database.
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From: wendy@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Wendy Gomber)
Subject: Clarence Darrow and PBS
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:14:12 GMT


Hi everyone,

Was there a production on American Playhouse (?) regarding Clarence
Darrow in the not too distant past?  I'm interested in finding out.
Does anyone know anything about it?  Is is available on video?

Thanks.

Wendy

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Subject: Any Mark Thompson fans out there???
From: tsang@futon.SFSU.EDU (Joanna Tsang)
Date: 8 Jan 93 10:43:09 PST
Distribution: ca
Organization: San Francisco State University
Keywords: KTTV, KRON, weathermen, Mark, Thompson
Summary: Need a VHS tape of Mark Thompson on KTTV

Hi, netters!

	First of all, hope this is the right group to post....  My
apologies if this is not the right place.

	I was/am a big fan of Mark Thompson (the weatherman) back when he
was working for KRON in San Francisco.  About 2 years ago, he has moved on
to KTTV in Los Angeles.  I miss watching his smiling face and was wondering if
anyone in LA can please send me a VHS tape of one of his more interesting
broadcast at his current news station.  I can't afford a satellite dish
and I don't know anyone who has a satellite dish that can tune to the
KTTV channel in SF.

	BTW: If anyone out there actually *knows* the guy, would you please
pass the word that I said hi from SF and miss him terribly.  (Along with
a few faithful Bay Area fans too.)  He knows who I am.

	Thanks a lot.

							-Joanna Tsang

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From: acmksb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (T.V.'s Frank)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: MST3k: A.BOO.HOO.HOO, Monthly Episode Guide?
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:02:12 GMT
Organization: Georgia State University


     O.K., I logged on over X-mas, and I couldn't find the guide anywhere.
I keep forgetting to write down Comedy Central's phone number when it's 
posted.  I'll call and post MST3k's shows for January if some one will post or
mail me CC's number.  Was it just me or did CC not run a episode of MST3k 
during New Year's weekend?  Finally, does anyone know how the seating is 
filling up for the X-mas with MST3k party in January?



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From: jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
Subject: Re: Commercials that deserve the Bunny Treatment
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 15:16:42 GMT

In article <mumble> andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) writes:

>Duracell and their stupid toys

Didn't the bunny start out as a Duracell parody?



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