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From: wfrey@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Warren Frey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Piglet files ep. guide?
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 16:47:28 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

I've just started watching "The Piglet Files" on WTVS public television 
from Detroit, and to my suprise it's quite good. Anybody out there got an 
episode guide kicking around?

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From: andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Red Dwarf Competition.
Date: 10 Sep 92 10:31:13 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

The great Red Dwarf quotes competition.

All you have to do is email me (andrewc@spider.co.uk) the name of the character
and the title of the episode that each quote is taken from.

The quotes are entirely out of context and are quoted from memory (so their 
probably wrong)

1) "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast"

2) "15 minutes and that includes the time it took to eat the pizza"

3) "Don't give me all that Star Trek crap"

4) "On your knees voters"

5) "Is'nt that a urine stain on the front of your trousers ?"

6) "Are we gonna blow this room up ?"

7) "You keep your underpants on coat hangers"

8) "Done ask me, I'm nobody"

9) "You thought you had it bad before, now you've got it in stereo baby !"

10) "I'm sorry, I just don't like you"

11) "Well this is Better then Life sir"

12) "Strike a light, its Gordon"

13) "So, what is it ?"

14) "I'm going to whip you to within an inch of your life, and then I'm going to
     have you"

15) "Which one was playing Lister then ?"

16) "Oh Rimmer, you are a Smeg Head !"

17) "Is that female as in Soft and Squidgy ?"

18) "The Hologram known as Rimmer....Guilty"

19) "So what have you got ?"

20) "But how do I do that Holl ?"


Rules
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1) Send me (andrewc@spider.co.uk) your entries by email
2) My decision is final cos I like playing God.
3) Results will be posted  when the entries dry up.
4) One entry per person.
5) No prizes will be given.
6) Quotes are more or less accurate, corrections may earn bonus points.
7) All bribes/offers of sex/compliments will be saved for later.

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From: richard@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Richard Harry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk,rec.arts.startrek
Subject: Re: Details on the fate of ST:TNG in the UK
Date: 10 Sep 92 10:10:46 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

From article <4a9J02yW21G801@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, by beh10@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Barry Holsinger):
> Speaking perhaps for other Yanks, what did BBC censor?  After seeing some
> pretty damn raunchy stuff originate on the British side of the pond, I'm
> curious what kind of things in ST:TNG offered offense.  This show generally
> seems pretty tame, nay, family-oriented (Rated G).
> 
In addition to the episode on terrorism, the BEEB also made minor cuts
to.. [consult Mark Holtz's List of Lists]..

25. May  7 88 May  9-May 15   125 41775.5  Conspiracy

Captain Picard  and  Commander Riker  travel  to Earth  to  investigate
a conspiracy in the highest ranks of Starfleet command.

** SPOILER ** ( Not that I need one after 4 years )

This is from memory..
The bit at the end where Picard & Riker fired their phasers at alien head
honcho, said alien explodes ( well, oozes ), Picard & Riker grimace.

I saw most of season one on video before the BBC decided to buy it. The
oozing scene was shortened, i.e a *very* quick shot of the toasted alien,
cut to Picard & Riker.

I would imagine the BBC decided it was unsuitable for a 6.00 pm showing.

Richard.
From: ccdarg@dct.ac.uk (Alan Greig)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: More about CNN International
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:55:44 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <BuBFLw.Kt@csc.liv.ac.uk>, rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk (Richard Lloyd) writes:

>> At times of earthquakes,
>> hurricanes and riots this summer CNN international has given less
>> coverage than Sky, BBC and ITN.
> 
> I'd disagree with this - Hurricane Andrew was well covered by CNN International with on-the-spot reporting and a look at the aftermath. If you treat CNN
> International as a way to get more US news (I don't consider it a bona fide
> international news operation AT ALL), then it's great.
> 
On day one there was quite a lot of coverage I agree. By day 2 CNN were
back to normal international scheduling while Sky were still carrying
extra ABC news. It irritates me to here "And coming up next for our
American viewers we'll be taking a look at the effects of Hurricane
Andrew and for international viewers we'll have world (something or other)
." At which point I switched to Sky and found extended live coverage on
Good Morning America.
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From: ccdarg@dct.ac.uk (Alan Greig)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Sky TV - *Mostly* Pathetic
Date: 8 Sep 92 12:27:36 +0100
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <1992Sep8.100849.28931@corax.udac.uu.se>, chris@Minsk.DoCS.UU.SE (Christian Bartholdsson) writes:

> Lifestyle/Eurosport/Screensport/MTV bla bla bla have nothing to do with Sky,
> have they?  I think Sky News is quite good.  CNN is unbearable.  I don't
> know how long the time is between the commercial breaks but it can't be more
> than 4-5 minutes.  Sometimes it's only 90 seconds before they go to yet
> another commercial break.
> 
> - chris@minsk.docs.uu.se


The trouble with CNN in Europe is that we get the international service
which is crap 90% of the time. The lack of commercials other than ones
for itself is hopeless. They really should either give us the unedited
American service or provide a proper international service. Somebody
should tell them as well that international news does equate to
"news from the rest of the world minus the US". At times of earthquakes,
hurricanes and riots this summer CNN international has given less
coverage than Sky, BBC and ITN.

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From: cczads@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (Andrew Shearsmith)
Subject: Re: A Very Polish Practice (AVPP)
Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 19:24:10 GMT

In article <25596@castle.ed.ac.uk> sss@castle.ed.ac.uk (S S Sturrock) writes:
>In article <PD.92Sep4185824@herts.x.co.uk> pd@x.co.uk (Paul Davey) writes:
>>
>>I saw a trailer for the above yesterday (for Sunday night coming,
>>BBC1).
>
>More interesting than the programme itself I think......  (later)
>>
>>It's a follow up to the womderful A Very Peculiar Practice with Dr.
>>Dacre (sp?) played once again by Peter Davidson. Now married with
>>children his former girlfriend played by Joanna Kanska is now his
>>wife.
>
>And an awful idea I must say.
>>
>>The awful spiv Doctor (Robert not Bob) who's surname escapes me is
>>also back again.
>
>Buzzard.
>>
>>I think it's a one episode play rather than a series.
>
>Fortunately.
>
>I was glad to see the nuns although how they got there is beyond me.  This
>just lacked the surrealism of the original `practice' which I could relate
>to more as a student at the time (oh, bloody hell, I still am?  Will this
>nightmare ever end?????).
>
>Anyway, it just was not fun.  The plot was predictable to say thee least,
>very poor.  No more please, let it rest in peace, or rerun the original
>..... (hope?)

I thought that as a one off show it was pretty good but did lack that odd sort
of surrealism that the two series of AVPP had. Peter Davison and Joanna Kanska
were both good but I thought that David Troughton had probably watched a few
episodes of Brittas before taking on the role of Bob "That's Robert" Buzzard
again. The thing that was really missing for me was Graham Crowden as old Jock.
At least we'll get to see him in the return of Waiting for God.

Also isn't it about time Alfred Molina got his teeth into a really meaty role
again. I thought his acting was really good in this even though he was 
restricted by the size of the part.

Drew
From: gerry@seq1 (G.D.Pratt)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: A Very Polish Practice (AVPP)
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:14:21 GMT
Organization: University of Keele, England
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Michael Lazarou (michaell@cogs.susx.ac.uk) wrote:
: S S Sturrock (sss@castle.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: : In article <PD.92Sep4185824@herts.x.co.uk> pd@x.co.uk (Paul Davey) writes:
: 
: :
: : I was glad to see the nuns although how they got there is beyond me.  This
: : just lacked the surrealism of the original `practice' which I could relate
: : to more as a student at the time (oh, bloody hell, I still am?  Will this
: : nightmare ever end?????).
: 
They filmed some of the original `practice' here on Keele campus. About the
second week I was working here I went down to the laundrette half asleep 
one Sunday morning - and passed the two nuns playing frisby outside the 
library, just praticing before the camera folk arrived I guess. 
I never fully recovered from that.
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From: chris@Minsk.DoCS.UU.SE (Christian Bartholdsson)
Subject: Re: Sky TV - *Mostly* Pathetic
Organization: Somewhere in Sweden
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 10:08:49 GMT

In article <Bu7FGu.4n0@csc.liv.ac.uk>, rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk (Richard Lloyd) writes:
> Eurosport: Covers the two practice sessions, the warm-up, the whole race and
>            the post-match interviews of every Formula 1 GP this season, again
>            *live and unscrambled*. The commentators (esp. John Watson) are also
>            infinitely superior to those prats Walker and Hunt on the BBC's
>            coverage. Also has better live coverage of the IAAF athletics
>            meetings around Europe.

I like Eurosport, but one irritating thing is that the commentators (with the 
exception of Formula 1) aren't where the action is, they're just commentating
from some London studio.

> CNN International is an excellent way of keeping up on US news ("CNN Showbiz
> Today" is a good entertainment show to catch at 10.30pm UK time).

50% of the material is about American soaps and 50% about country music.
Filmnet has a much better service (but I don't think you Britons have that
channel yet).

> > Sky really is poor and taking a look through
> > this weeks schedule in the TV times, all that interests me are the 2 movie
> > channels.
> 
> I'd agree that Sky One and the Lifestyle Channel are the pits, but the rest
> often have some good stuff on them. Put it this way - I watch more satellite
> TV than I do BBC 1, but considering the s**t that's on BBC 1 nowadays, it's
> not difficult is it ?

Lifestyle/Eurosport/Screensport/MTV bla bla bla have nothing to do with Sky,
have they?  I think Sky News is quite good.  CNN is unbearable.  I don't
know how long the time is between the commercial breaks but it can't be more
than 4-5 minutes.  Sometimes it's only 90 seconds before they go to yet
another commercial break.

- chris@minsk.docs.uu.se
From: martin.briscoe@almac.co.uk
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: teletext in the u.s.
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:32:43 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: ALMAC BBS Ltd

DJ4fragmented nature of the TV industry.  It's one thing for the Beeb to
  4announce it will convert its transmitters for teletext.

No conversion needed of transmitter - apart from working to tighter 
specification.  The teletext can be regenerated at transmitter sites 
but it is not essential - it can be just inserted at source.  That was 
the whole idea when it was developed - an extra service, using spare 
space in the television signal, at very little extra cost.

               Martin
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Teletext in the U.S. ? (Re: More about CNN International)
Date: 12 Sep 92 17:35:02 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Sep11.134520.26928@pixel.kodak.com> dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones) writes:
<In article <4051@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<>In article <HANS.92Sep10123514@ravn.iesd.auc.dk> hans@iesd.auc.dk (Hans Huttel) writes:
<><
<><That doesn't surprise med, really. When I visited the U.S. for the
<><first time last month, I discovered that nobody I asked had heard of
<><teletext. Does teletext exist at all in the United States ? 
<>
<>Nope!
<
<Well, yes, up to a point.  There's "Closed Caption" service available
<for many programs on various channels, both broadcast and cable.  This
<puts up a box with text in over the top of a picture to provide a 
<transcription of the sound for deaf viewers.  There's a similar
<capability in Ceefax/Oracle in the UK.

By strict definition of "Teletext", "Closed Captioning" is not anything
like a teletext-like service.

<I think the problem, as with so many things in the US, is the highly
<fragmented nature of the TV industry.  It's one thing for the Beeb to
<announce it will convert its transmitters for teletext.  

The transmitters have nothing what-so-ever to do with teletext.  That
information is placed into the video signal at the source of the transmission.
In the case of the BBC, that would be London.  For the ITV stations, they
probably get a master feed from the ITV studio and insert it into there own
local programming.  When a feed comes from ITV live, then it would be there
automatically.  However the feed gets to the transmission sites, it has
nothing to do with the transmitters themselves.
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From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Sky TV - Pathetic (was Re: Satellite TV)
Date: 5 Sep 92 15:22:43 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <Bu1xJs.C9z@newcastle.ac.uk> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk writes:
>gumby@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Grim Reaper) writes:
>: 
>: 
>:  We have just got our Sky TeeVee dish installed, what so you wanna discuss??
>: 
>
>Oh, I don't know, what equipment do you have?  D2MAC?  Any Euro film
>channels?  What do you tyink of Sky...etc.
>
>This group has long since talked about terrestrial telly, but satellite
>is also a pretty big area...just looking to talk with people about
>what they think about Sky and so on..
>

Probably because this is rec.arts.tv.uk, most of the stuff shown on Sky
belongs in rec.arts.tv.usa.60's. Sky really is poor and taking a look through
this weeks schedule in the TV times, all that interests me are the 2 movie
channels.

About the best TV series I did see on Sky was 'Alien Nation'.

Comments anyone ????

Neil

P.S. Sell-a-vision is funnier than the 'I love Lucy' Channel though :-)


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From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk,rec.arts.startrek
Subject: Re: Details on the fate of ST:TNG in the UK
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:26:49 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software

judiths@eliot.uucp (Judith Speck) writes:


>   Why on earth would the BBC censor Star Trek:TNG?  WHAT could there be to

In the case of "The High Ground" it fell foul of the government's
legislation banning any support for terrorism. It wasn't a case of the
BBC censoring it, rather the law forbade them from showing it.
T





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Yes, I carry a grudge. If someone pokes me in the eye, I'll poke both of
their eyes. larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Subject: Re: TB and SR hit the AIR
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:07:09 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

In article <1992Sep14.090757.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> pmorris@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
>       [ . . . . . ]
>BTW -- here's the plot lines of the Thunderbirds and Stingray programs shown
>
>Thunderbirds -- supersonic passenger plane in peril from bomb planted by
>evil bald guy. RAF tries rescue and fails. International Rescue intervenes
>with TB 1 and 3 to assist the plane land at London Airport (I guess they
>changed the name from Heathrow :)).

Guess again.

When these shows were made, there was only one airport offering general
aviation services in the London area.  Naturally enough it was referred
to as "London Airport".  It was only later, with the rise in air traffic,
that Gatwick et. al. were pressed into service to provide some additional
capacity.  Only then was it necessary for the general public to use the
name "Heathrow" - until then there was no real possibility of confusion.


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Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
From: pmorris@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: Re: Waynes World...
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:41:49 GMT

In article <sbradley.03ri@outb.wimsey.bc.ca>, sbradley@outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Steve Bradley) writes:
> Does anyone out there think the same as I, that Waynes World is a rip off
> of Bob and Doug Macanzie, on SCTV, (Canadian programme).
> 
> --- Via UCI v1.02 (C-Net Amiga)
> 
Bob and Doug are Wayne and Garth at 35 years of age.
From: t9014123@phillip.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: The Thunderbirds
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:35:32 GMT
Organization: RMIT (Bundoora Campus)


Sorry if this is a FAQ, but here goes.  In the TV show 'The Thunderbirds',
what do they mean when they say "F.A.B."??

No-one I know seems to know (hey, I'm a poet and don't even know it!)

Reply by e-mail please.

Thanks in advance...

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From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Around the World in 80 Days II ?
Date: 8 Sep 92 11:10:07 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <1992Sep8.101541.10672@waikato.ac.nz> rgty_mrw@waikato.ac.nz (Mark Willcock) writes:
>Hi, 
>
>I have heard there is to be a "sequel" to the excellent 'Around the World in 80
>Days' with Micheal Palin.  In fact I am sure they were filming it ealy this year
>
>Does anyone have any info ?
>
>Many Thanks.

I saw some trailer the other day. I think it is a `pole to pole' round the
world 90 degrees from equator way.

In a few weeks.

Neil
From: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Star trek on BBC2 - question
Date: 8 Sep 92 12:25:47 GMT
Reply-To: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)


   Can anyone tell me if BBC 2 are going to show ALL of Star Trek (the
old series) or just the first series of it. I ask because a friend says
the announcer mentioned that the Beeb were going to show all of "the
first series", and everyone misunderstood and took it that this meant
all of the OLD series. Thanx.

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From: zlsiimw@mcchpc.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Around the World in 80 Days II ?
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:28:16 GMT
Reply-To: M.Whidby@mcc.ac.uk
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <1992Sep8.101541.10672@waikato.ac.nz>, rgty_mrw@waikato.ac.nz (Mark
Willcock) writes:
|> Hi, 
|> 
|> I have heard there is to be a "sequel" to the excellent 'Around the World in
|> 80
|> Days' with Micheal Palin.  In fact I am sure they were filming it ealy this
|> year
|> 
|> Does anyone have any info ?

Yes, you're correct. Mr Palin has made a journey circumnavigating the globe
via the poles (North and South, not the people). I think it's due to be shown
in the new Autumn season on BBC over here so I presume you will get it
eventually.
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