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From: rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Robert J. Granvin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.config
Subject: Re: The Return of Quantum Leap to r.a.t.
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:12:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: news2.1992Apr13.171254.2321
Organization: School of Statistics, University of Minnesota

In article <1992Apr11.144515.23249@julian.uwo.ca>, magundi@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (john macdonald) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr11.010104.25184@bmerh2.bnr.ca> coop1w13@bnr.ca writes:
|> >Boy, is it ever good to see so many posts about Quantum Leap!! For a while
|> >there, I was afraid that interest in the best series on television was
|> >waning! Now we can renew the bid for an alt.tv.quantum-leap newsgroup! 
|> >Hey, if ``Dinosaurs'' can get its own newsgroup, why can't we Leapers?
|> 
|> Sounds like a great idea.  Who else is interested in having an 
|> Quantum leap newsgroup.

Not in, and nowhere near, alt.

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From: gaetz@julian.uwo.ca (Terry Gaetz)
Subject: Re: PLCL - How many episodes?
Organization: Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Western Ontario
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 01:43:59 GMT

In article <9210303.2085@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> jamesbs@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (James William BENNETTS) writes:
>Is Parker Lewis Can't Lose still in production?

Yes.

>The last episode shown in Australia was the one with Parker's father's High
>School Reunion. Were any more made?

That would be "Deja Dudes", the 10th episode (of 26) from the first season.
The 22nd episode of the second season just aired and I think we still
have 3 to go.  FOX has renewed the show and ordered another 22 episodes 
for next season.
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From: jpenovic@wizard.Berkeley.EDU (Jan Penovich)
Subject: Re: The Return of Quantum Leap to r.a.t.
Reply-To: jpenovic@encore.com
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale FL
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 12:55:40 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.144515.23249@julian.uwo.ca=,
magundi@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (john macdonald) writes:
= In article <1992Apr11.010104.25184@bmerh2.bnr.ca> coop1w13@bnr.ca writes:
= >Boy, is it ever good to see so many posts about Quantum Leap!! For a while
= >there, I was afraid that interest in the best series on television was
= >waning! Now we can renew the bid for an alt.tv.quantum-leap newsgroup! 
= >Hey, if ``Dinosaurs'' can get its own newsgroup, why can't we Leapers?
= 
= Sounds like a great idea.  Who else is interested in having an 
= Quantum leap newsgroup.


NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. Not me.

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From: krp@koko.csustan.edu (Ken Pergrem)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: silly question: hong kong phooey
Date: 8 Apr 92 08:46:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: koko.1992Apr8.084627.14926
Organization: CSU Stanislaus

In article <1992Apr7.214509.1978@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> csk@po.CWRU.Edu (Carl S. Kashuk) writes:
>
>... #1 superguy. Anyone know who his sidekick was??? 
>One of those annoying trivia questions that keeps me awake
>at night...
>-- 
>"Incompetent? I don't know enough to be incompetent!"
>				-Woody Allen, "Shadows and Fog"

 It was a yellow striped cat, but I dont know what his name was...

--Ken


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From: emmanuel@eff.org (Emmanuel Goldstein)
Subject: Eerie, Indiana final episodes?
Originator: emmanuel@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:24:24 GMT

Did anyone happen to catch what I understand to be the last two
episodes of Eerie, Indiana? The final episode was supposed to
be a self-referential one, where the characters find out they're
really on a tv show that's about to be cancelled.
Does anyone have either one or both of these on tape? If so,
please contact me so we can discuss terms, swaps, whatever.
Thanks.

emmanuel@eff.org

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From: reeves-bill@CS.YALE.EDU (Bill Reeves)
Subject: Re: QL and its Return to r.a.t. (changed to keep non-fans happy)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:43:49 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.145441.21136@bmerh2.bnr.ca> coop1w13@bnr.ca writes:
>In article <1992Apr16.144111.20591@bmerh2.bnr.ca>, coop1w13@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond) writes:
>|> 
>|> Does this mean you're unable to put the words, ``Quantum Leap'' in your
>|> kill file, or just too lazy? :-) :-)
>

I have "Quantum Leap" in my kill file, along with "Quantum", "Leap",
"Bakula", and "Lucky Bitch" (for some unknown reason, there were a bunch
of QL posts with that subject line a while back...)

However, this entire thread has not been killed by my newsreader, because
the words "Quantum Leap" are not at the beginning of the subject line.
(I just changed it so that my newsreader will kill it -- sorry to anyone
who had already put this thread in their kill files... :) )
Perhaps my newsreader is too stupid, or perhaps I am too lazy to figure 
out how to kill articles with "QL" in the middle of the subject.
If anyone has any tips, I sure would appreciate them...


>By the way, this is exactly what I meant by non-fans. Leapers, please ignore
>people like this who ask that you be quiet so that they can enjoy having no
>Quantum Leap posts. IMO, there's little justification for asking us to change 
>the title of our posts (which I did anyway, just to keep people happy) so that
>the `kill' file can pick it up! 

I never asked anyone to keep quiet.  I just asked people to put QL at the
beginning of their subject lines.  I'm trying to find a reasonable solution
between all the Leapers who don't want to leave rec.arts.tv (and they
shouldn't have to) and all the militant non-leapers who don't want to
read the QL articles.  Most of the Leapers who post frequently do that,
and it keeps me (and many other non-leapers) very happy.  IMO, it's not
much to ask.

> 
>I did notice the smileys, though. Perhaps he wasn't really asking us to 
>promote self-censorship! :-)
>

Actually, the smileys were there in an attempt to defuse hostilities...
so far, not much luck... :)

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>|      Mike Hammond       | ``Yes, I'm...too wascally for Bugs Bunny,   |
>|      Co-op Student      |   too wascally for Bugs Bunny,              |
>|       BNR Ottawa        |   so wascally...it's almost funny!''        |
>|    and University of    |                        Right Said Fudd,     |
>|        Waterloo         |                      ``I'm Too Wascally''   |
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From: jamesbs@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (James William BENNETTS)
Subject: PLCL - How many episodes?
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 17:01:33 GMT

Is Parker Lewis Can't Lose still in production?

The last episode shown in Australia was the one with Parker's father's High
School Reunion. Were any more made?

Thanks in advance.


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From: dnadams@isis.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)
Subject: Re: cast of Fridays
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 10:55:43 GMT


unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (resU nwonknU ehT) writes:
 >funny Fridays stuff:
 >One time on their news segment, Melanie Chartoff and another one or two 
 >of the cast members did most of the segment while breathing helium.

It was Bruce Mahler, doing a "science" type report.

 >That is, they would take a big breath, then do some of the skit 
 >until it wore off too much and then breathed more).

The BEST part was when he started giving it to Melanie.  She was always 
fabulous on that show.  I remember one great skit where she was some kind 
of kidnapped "jewish princess" and the super-Matza guys had to rescue her.

 >Funny thing was, they didn't get enough breaths of oxygen along with it..

Doesn't matter, Helium will do that do you anyway.

 >One of them even made a few (unscripted) comments about being so
 >lightheaded or somesuch.. They were obviously not quite with it near 
 >the end of the skit.

He just sort of said "whoa..." and rolled his head a bit.  Pretty funny.
Melanie's helium voice was still my favorite part of the sketch though.

 >Also, the druggist sketch was somewhat funny, in a disgusting sort of way.

I never found it "disgusting".  Certainly funny though...  (Take a PILL!)
The disgusting stuff they tried to do was the drinking "spinal fluid"
skits and such...  I forgot what that one was called...

 >I'm mondo anti-drugs. 

So take a pill!

 >The William Shatner episode of Fridays was really funny too.. 

Eh, I didn't think that was the best, but some of it was funny.

 >He was "in character" as Kirk, but only when the other cast members 
 >weren't around..

Right.  Always talking into his WALLET.  Strange.  One skit he did is
where virtually everything he touched would make him scream in pain.
Not exactly great comedy...

I still think their FIRST season, with all the political stuff, is when 
they were at their best.  I'd sure like to see some of those shows again.

-{ DA }-
From: climan@byron.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Are there any religious T.V. characters?
Keywords: religion
Date: 11 Apr 92 20:36:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr11.203601.190061
Distribution: usa
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: climan@BYRON.SP.CS.CMU.EDU

Has anyone mentioned Carla of CHEERS?  There are frequent references to
her Catholic beleifs.  Of course, there are also plenty of references to
astrology and spiritualists.


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From: prine@maple.lle.rochester.edu (Ron Prine)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL:Time travel Question
Date: 11 Apr 92 02:29:22 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Rochester, Rochester NY


  I just had a neat/bad thought as to why no future leaps.  What if he
(Sam) dies on his leap home, then he wouldn't have a future beyond
initial leap.

  All right, thats all from me, I will go back to my corner and be
quiet now   ;)


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From: catesc@aix.rpi.edu (Christopher Allen Cates)
Subject: Re: Romance plot sitcoms,etc
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 05:39:17 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.171640.29060@usho93.hou281.chevron.com> hbawl@usmi02.midland.chevron.com (Wilber L. Baker) writes:
>
>BASIC PLOT  
>
>   Two people, who are 'made for each other' go about life as friends
>   never admitting (or recognizing) their feelings for each other.
>   Sometimes the two are adversaries instead of friends.
>   Usually develops to a point when they do finally get together but 
>   not always.
>
>EXAMPLES
>
>   Television:
>
>       MoonLighting
>       Remmington Steele
>       Who's The Boss
>       Anything But Love
>
>   Movies:

        Some Kind of Wonderful
        Secret Admirer
        The Sure Thing

I know that these examples are all 'teen' movies, but they're all I could
think of off the top of my head.  :)

Chris
catesc@rpi.edu



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From: dattier@gagme.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin)
Subject: Re: Actually, it's CYBILL (and Shepherd)
Organization: Gagme Public Access Seraglio, Chicago, Illinois  60656-1252
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 18:42:50 GMT

jrknight@optima.UUCP (James R. Knight) wrote in <15087@optima.cs.arizona.edu>:

| If you're going to correct someone, at least get it right.  Another L
| might not make a difference to you, but these actors go through so
| much in choosing the quintessential celebrity-type names that it must
| disappoint them so to have their names misspelled and mispronounced.

And while we're at it, her last name is spelled Shepherd, like the
profession.  The earlier posters in this thread were getting that wrong too.

There's a story about Katharine Hepburn's having read on a talk show a letter
from someone who claimed to be her most devoted fan but addressed her as
"Miss Katherine Hepburn."  Hepburn's feeling was that the letter writer
wasn't enough of a fan to bother learning her name.

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From: rupley@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Rupley)
Subject: Re: Mann and Machine
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 06:02:44 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.045945.20222@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> garvey@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Heather Garvey) writes:
>rupley@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Rupley) writes:
>>jsp@pls.amdahl.com writes:
>>>
>>>It's set in 1997.  January, to be exact.  In the first episode, there was
>>>a calendar showing January 1st on a Wednesday.  Notwithstanding the TOTAL 
>>>coincidence (yeah, right) that 1992 has January 1st on a Wednesday, the
>>>next year in which that happens is 1997.  Self-aware, thinking computers
>>>and artificial bodies that are indistinguishable from real humans in five
>>>years?  I can hardly wait.
>>>
>>  Your logic is flawed. Why must it be the next year that Jan 1st is on a
>>Wed? Why not the next year after that one? Or the one after that? The calender
>>says less about what year(s) it is than what years it is not.
>
>	Haven't you heard of the Perpetual Calendar (or whatever they call
>it)? There are like, 12-14 arrangements of the days that get repeated
>every so many years. So Jan 1 on a Wed. will only turn up on so many
>years in a semi-regular cycle. The next one will apparently be 1997...
>(Although it could very well be the next cycle, too, which shouldn't be
>*too* far ahead for the timeframe of the show...)
>
  Perhaps you missunderstood me, what I am saying is not that the calender
arrangement is random, but that the next upcoming cycle doesnt have to
be the >one< year that the show must be on. More likely it would be
one of the cycles in the future. (BTW 7 days would be 7 cycles possible,
at least wrt January). I dont think it is possible for our tech level to reach
mobile artificial intelligence (that the police use, no less!) within 5 years.
Maybe in (at least) 10 more years, but I would say likely at least 20. (Then
again I am not in AI or Robotics, so what do I know?).

  Anyways, looking at a calender (which was 1992) and basing the show date
on this seems pretty ridiculous, IMHO. Perhaps if it clearly was marked
1997 or 2005 or 2500, then I would treat it with more weight.

-rupley
From: csc4102@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (CSC 439 Student)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: MST3k: What ever happened to Josh?
Date: 17 Apr 92 16:09:09 GMT
Organization: Georgia State University


     I was just wondering if anyone knew whatever happened to Josh Wienstien
(alias Dr. Erheart, Dr. Forresters old assistent)?  My feeling is that he made
it big in colorizing old Three Stoges episodes.

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From: jeffy@cray.com (Jeff Neau)
Subject: Re: My Sister Sam
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:56:43 CDT

In article <++8t6lm@rpi.edu> catesc@aix.rpi.edu (Christopher Allen Cates) writes:
>ANY info related to the show is GREATLY appreciated....
>Chris
>email: catesc@rpi.edu
>
>P.S.  I know Rebecca Schaeffer is dead, sadly enough, so don't just tell me
>      that.  I would however, welcome any additional info.
>
>THANKS!

Doesn't that suck.  I started watching the show every afternoon on USA
network a few years back.  Just when I started to fall in 'love' with
Rebecca, she gets killed.  That was a bummer.  It was sad....
From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Johnny Carson's Last Night
Date: 14 Apr 1992 21:39:37 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <Apr.13.16.34.09.1992.20010@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
langbein@gandalf.rutgers.edu (The Fugitive) writes:
>I half agree. I agree that they are a great band. They did develop
>their own sound, and avoided mimicking the old groups. However, while
>that particular group may disperse, Doc still has a major following,
>and always will. I am sure the sound will live.

I don't think so. It costs a fortune to keep a band like that going. Based on
what I remember being told by a musician who used to work in L.A., NBC must be
shelling out something on the order of $1 million per year. Part of this is for
insuring that the sidemen are always available, part is to pay arrangers, part
is to provide rehearsal facilities, and part is to pay the guys to rehearse. It
may be possible to keep the band going for a while, but not in the same
fashion.
 
David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

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From: dmb@world.std.com (Deborah M Brown)
Subject: Re: I see the QL whining is starting again
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:51:33 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.174754.9878@athena.mit.edu> rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro) writes:
>So, the "QL is god's gift to TV and we're so special that even
>a mainstream rec.arts.tv.ql group isn't acceptable" people are back.
>Feh.

Sigh.  Ok, so somebody start the RFD in the appropriate groups and 
get the ball rolling.  Vote on it.  Create the Group.  See what happens.

It's a free country, people can create whatever groups they can get
passed via a vote.  Whether people will actually use it remains to be
seen.  

Like Sally said before, the other groups were created by people
who WANTED their own groups, they weren't *kicked* out, as some of he
folks on this groups seem to want to do (I'm not forgetting the 
Leapers who do want this new groups).

Personally, I think Quantum Leap is being unfairly picked on.  Its volume
is nowhere NEAR what it was two years ago, and not even up to Northern 
Exposure's volume.  I don' tmean to pick on that show, but it's popular
and gets as much as if not more than volume than QL does.


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From: jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick)
Subject: Re: The Return of Quantum Leap to r.a.t.
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:35:34 GMT

OK, I made a mistake.  I assumed that the person opposed to the group
opposed it because of the "let's not clutter the namespace" argument.
I still stand by my suggestion that people post reasons instead of just
opposition.  This mistake wouldn't have been made if that were done.

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From: dmb@world.std.com (Deborah M Brown)
Subject: Re: Damn Sybil Sheppard is Fine...watching the Tonight Show.
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 13:40:07 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.042616.19807@hubcap.clemson.edu> trev@hubcap.clemson.edu (Trevor Bauknight) writes:
>For a blonde woman, she's amazing.  I felt compelled to post...sorry.

I was compelled to stay up to watch it for Chris Noth, but you have a 
point about Sheppard.  Ticks me off that she can stay so gorgeous.
I I like her more every time I see her.

Somehow I can't picture her crying when she gets pulled over by a cop.
:-)

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From: ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: About Sam Kinison
Date: 14 Apr 92 02:49:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr14.024943.2606
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)


   Does anybody know of any talk of a tribute to Sam Kinison? It would
seem to me that FOX or HBO would have one, because of his work on both
channels. MTV would be another good candidate for this. Also, I'd like
references to whatever work he has done and whatever articles he has been
in. I'm planning to collect as much as possible. I already have his first
(?) HBO special on tape. Very funny. I heard he had two videos out? I just
can't seem to get over the shock of this. Here is a guy that cleans up his
act, starts to settle down, and then gets killed anyway. Makes you wonder.
He was also on Living Color. Anybody who has copies of any and all his TV
stuff, please get back to me in Email. I'm willing to pay a small fee to
get copies of all his work.

   Tom
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