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From: slg7m@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL Pilot on USA
Date: 14 Sep 92 09:54:03 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Sep14.120327.27440@dbsun.uucp>, meyer@dbsun.uucp (Don Meyer) writes:
> Well, just watched the pilot again on USA network.  And, oddly enough
> missed the first 10 minutes *AGAIN* :-(  (but that's my problem and
> not relevant...)
> 
> I was wondering if anyone with a good memory or a tape of the original
> airing can comment on any editing done to make more time for commercials.
> It seems to me some things were missing.
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> Semi-spoilers follow...
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> When Peg says to Sam "You haven't spent this much time with Mikey since
> he was hit by the bus", wasn't that a setup?  My recollection is that
> this was a trick question, and that later in the episode she tells him this
> and they have somewhat of a conversation about him really being Sam, not
> Tom.  Am I loopy?

Yes.  They did a conversation where Sam tried to convince Peg that he was not
really Tom.  I don't recall seeing it last night.
> 
> Also, (less certain here) wasn't there some explanation about why saving
> the baby was the key to Sam's leaping out?
> 
No.  I don't believe they ever thought anything about the baby.  Remember, at
this point they're not sure how it all works.  I'm not sure they ever know!

> Things we (my wife and I) noticed: Sam never said "Oh boy!".

Didn't he in the second leap to the baseball player??

>  The door out of the imaging chamber is "manual".
>  No Handlink at first, and then a subtle one (no blinken lights).
>  Al's trademark cigar (yuck IMHO BTW) missing at first.  Due to his hangover?
>  Nice consistency with his father's death, where he grew up etc.  I
>  was expecting to see some things that clashed with later events or
>  explanations as the show has progressed through the years.  I noticed
>  nothing major...
> 

Either to make the show more interesting by continually changing, or due to a
poor memory on the writers' part, they have been very inconsistent with props,
dealing with the imaging chamber, Sam's memory, and not least what a hologram
can do.

In later episodes, it seems that Al can go anywhere in the world Sam is
currently in to report on events.  When Al is first describing how the hologram
thing works to Sam, he says they key into his brainwaves and that he can then
be in what Sam is seeing.  So how does he go out of this range?

> Don
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> -- 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> meyer%dbsun.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu        |||     I am at two with nature.
> Opinions expressed are personal.         |||       -- Woody Allen


Tanya
From: ramsey@cua.edu (Betsy Ramsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Is Blakes7 on Video??
Summary: Yes, on VHS from BFS Video in Ontario
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:50:56 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The Catholic University of America

In article <18mn5rINNsnu@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> joneil@heretix.East.Sun.COM
writes:
>IF SO, HOW MUCH IS IT??

BLAKES 7 is being released in VHS (NTSC) format by BFS Video in
Ontario, Canada, phone 416-884-2323.  I've been getting them from The
Video Catalogue (affiliated with Minnesota Public Radio), St. Paul, MN,
phone 800-733-2232.  There are two episodes per tape, which cost $24.95
each. I know that the first sixteen episodes have been released on eight
tapes:

  Vol. 1  The Way Back / Space Fall
  Vol. 2  Cygnus Alpha / Time Squad
  Vol. 3  The Web / Seek-Locate-Destroy
  Vol. 4  Mission to Destiny / Duel
  Vol. 5  Project Avalon / Breakdown
  Vol. 6  Bounty / Deliverance
  Vol. 7  Orac / Redemption
  Vol. 8  Shadow / Weapon

The Video Catalogue tells me that the next four tapes are available as
well, but they didn't have them in stock when I called.  With those tapes,
we should have the episodes up though "Gambit".

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   Betsy Ramsey, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
            Internet: ramsey@cua.edu,  Bitnet: ramsey@cua
		 Opinions expressed here are my own.
From: jerrett@iastate.edu (Gregory A Jerrett)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Petition for thr SF Channel
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:27:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Sep4.222730.682
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA

for those of you interested in getting the Science Fiction Channel the best
way to get your cable company to subscribe is to present them with a
simple, handwritten petition with a couple of hundred signatures.
Your local comic book store or science fiction bookseller shoiuld be the 
best place rto start or find a petition to sign.

For those of you here in Ames, Mayhem comics has started a petition.  They
have about 100 signatures already but they are looking for 250 before they
turn it in to heritage cablevision.  I urger(urge) you to sign it if you haven't already.

Greg Jerrett
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From: dmb@world.std.com (Deborah M Brown)
Subject: Re: Battlestar Galactica ??
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:32:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.200709.3151@u.washington.edu> rhiann@milton.u.washington.edu (Sandra Hereld) writes:
>Dirk Benedict and Richard Hatch will be on Vicki Lawrence's show next
>week, (the 24?, I think)  Hatch is trying to get people excited about
>a BG movie, (which would totally ignor Galactica XX), ...

HUH???  Did they actually MAKE this movie or is Hatch just trying to get 
one made?  That would be WONDERFUL if they could actually do it, too bad
Lorne Greene isn't around any longer. :-(

[... but Dirk B is]
>alot less interested.

Sigh.  Disappointing, even if it isn't surprising.

>Hatch is also considering a BG 15th year anniversay con, probably in
>Seattle, (and again, Dirk is a lot less interested...)

This is also interesting.  There could be enough interest out there to pull
it off.  I wonder how much of the original cast would be willing to get
involved.

And they would pretty much have to ignore Galactica 1980.  That's one fever
dream I'm trying to forget (apologies to those who actually liked it).


-- 
............. It ain't over 'till Frank pushes the button ...........
Disclaimer: "Disclaim THIS, pal!" (I'm REALLY in Rochester, NY)
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From: jennings@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Tim Jennings)
Subject: Sci-fi channel/Dimension
Reply-To: jennings@chdasic.sps.mot.com
Organization: Motorola SPS ASIC, Chandler, AZ
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:52:07 GMT

I have found that Dimension and USA are in negotiations to 
try to get Sci-fi channel in the Phoenix area. The guy from
USA couldn't tell me how they are progressing but he did
tell me he doubted if we would have it by the Sept 24 launch
date. He emphasized that the best leverage would be to 
send petitions(letters) to Dimension and their parent corp
Times-Mirror.

---
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Timothy J. Jennings 			"I Yam What I Yam."
Motorola ASIC Division			--Popeye
email: jennings@chdasic.sps.mot.com
From: patrickd@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lazer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Premeres
Date: 15 Sep 1992 14:41:55 GMT
Organization: Gizmonic Institute
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu
Summary: FAQ I'm sure
Keywords: QL and Star Trek TNG

I'm sorry I missed it if someone posted the premere dates...please bear with me
...I just want some info.

When is the premere of Quantum Leap (I didn't MISS it did I?)
Also when will ST:TNG premere (2 weeks?)
And planning WELL in advance...when does Deep Space Nine take to the air?
January 1993...I know...but can anyone be more specific?  is it the 1st or 31st
of the month?!

Thanks.  Posting here is fine...no E-mail necessary...

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From: rck1@ellis.uchicago.edu (roberta chi-woon kwong)
Subject: Re: Looking for rec.arts.tv.fiction
Reply-To: rck1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:38:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.142833.978@emr1.emr.ca> lskinner@emr1.emr.ca (Lauren Skinner) writes:
>In article <1992Sep2.110358.27249@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> lmathews@lonestar.utsa.edu
>(Leanthony R. Mathews) writes:
>>I'm looking for the a group to post fan written fiction that is NOT
>>about Star Trek.  More like QL, Raven, even 90210.  Does such a group
>>exist?
>>I think this is a group we need. What do you think?
>
>I agree!  I would also like to see some non-Trek fiction posted, especially
>QUANTUM LEAP, RED DWARF, other Brit. stuff...

Seconded (thirded?). I'd also love to see some of this stuff. From
what I've seen on alt.startrek.creative, these story files can get
pretty lengthy, and so perhaps a separate group would work better.
Also, it's often much easier to post creative stuff in a group that
is devoted to such.


Robin C. Kwong ("er)
					Observers do it admirably!
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 18:10:28 EDT
From: <SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: "Lost" episodes of Dr. Who

In a related not, I heard the episode "Tomb of the Cybermen" was
recently located somewhere...
Can anyone verify this?
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From: c8643631@cc.newcastle.edu.au (I AM NOT ON DRUGS. HONEST. I WAS BORN THIS WAY.)
Subject: Re: Yet Another Blake's 7 Question
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:55:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.182628.23480@u.washington.edu>, rhiann@milton.u.washington.edu (Sandra Hereld) writes:
> In article <1992Aug26.110616.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> c8643631@cc.newcastle.edu.au (THE MAD DUCK) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug24.134559.20692@ulowell.ulowell.edu>, oneill@cs.ulowell.edu (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill) writes:
>>
>>Actually, Gan (David Jackson) didn't want out but the producers decided that
>>one person needed to die and after considering a short list of possibles
>>(anyone except Jenna and Blake) they decided on Gan. Sad, really.
>>	
> Well, If you felt someone must die, of that crew -- who would you have killed?
> Not Avon, I hope!  

No, definitely not Avon. I would have actually killed Jenna, in hindsight,
because for the rest of her time on the series she had very little to do. A bit
upset in 'Trial', a nice little protective mother hen type scene with Blake in
'Killer' and her scenes in 'Star One'.

As for the ones that could have been killed, yes, Gan was the most logical
because he was the one who wouldn't be missed in terms of what was offered to
the stories. Vila provided humour and his thieving skills and Cally provided
the alien-ness.

The reason I find it sad, despite agreeing that Gan was the logical choice to
die (out of Cally, Avon, Vila and himself), is that in three of his last four
stories ('Shadow', 'Weapon' and 'Pressure Point') he being used as a proper
member of the crew. He had good dialogue in the first two stories expecially.
I particularly liked 'Shadow' where Blake is quite willing to use the
space-Mafia (Terra Nostra) to get what he wants and Gan has a lot of moral
qualms about it. This was Gan's best episode and it is this one that makes me
miss him.

I often wish that someone had written an episode for Gan where he meets someone
who is a Gandhian saint and Blake is trying to convince the saint to help him
in his violent crusade but the saint is refusing. Gan likes and believes in the
saint but also knows that Blake needs the man to do whatever it is he wants him
to do and Gan is torn between the two. Everybody else from the first seven had
a story about them - Jenna ('Bounty')
                     Vila ('City At The Edge Of The World' - late, but better
                                                             than never)
                     Cally ('Shadow', 'Children of Auron', 'Sarcophagus')
                     Avon ('Deliverence', 'Killer', 'Countdown', etc)
Gan never had a story like that ('Breakdown' doesn't count because all he did
was grunt a lot.) I think that's a shame. 

Ah, well, enough ramblings. Gan's dead and the fact that I miss him shows that
the producer was right to kill him. That, and other, touches of reality make,
IMHO, 'Blake's 7' a better show than either 'Star Trek'.


Edward Duck



> 
> Sandy
> "Not tonight, dear... I'm reading!"
> 
>
From: JW83HISW@MIAMIU.BITNET
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Highwayman on tape?Highwayman was a TV series that came on in 1987.  It starred
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:29:19 GMT
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

Sam Jones and Jacko as a couple of futuristic U.S. Marshalls, who
worked out of a massive truck.  Future cops storyline.
     The series didn't last, but does anyone out there have the
series on videotape?  I'd like to send you blanks and get the series
copied from you if that's possible.  Post or e-mail at your con-
veinence.  Thanks you in advance.
                                        Jim
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
From: pedlow@ysidro.uchicago.edu (Steven Pedlow)
Subject: Sci Fi Channel: Hope for Chicago Cable (and TCI?) customers
Organization: Department of Statistics
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:09:17 GMT

In article <vdmnnja.saf@netcom.com> saf@netcom.com (Steve A. Feinstein) writes:
>
>For the past few days as I've been flipping through the dial I've come
>across a channel that is displaying what appear to be computer
>generated graphics and playing sort of eerie/ominous music.  It didn't
>occur to me what it was, I thought it was one of those educational
>programs and didn't give it too much thought.  But today on the public
>access channel of my local Cable Co-Op they announced that this was
>the Sci-Fi Channel and it started to make sense.  Obviously they
>haven't started programming yet. But I'm not sure what they are trying
>to do by what they are broadcasting.
>
>I've seen things like what appeared to be the viewscreen and some
>instrumentation of a space ship.  Along with some alien language
>characters on the panel.  I've seen what looked like a fly by over the
>top of fractal landscapes. Sometimes there are sort of poofy
>concentric circles and there's a woman speaking what seems to be a
>sort of Sci-Fi poem.  Right now they are showing what looks like
>you're travelling very fast across a place that has a low ceiling and
>floor but no walls.  And what look like alien "words" are zooming from
>the horizon to right in front of you.  And as each "word" zooms
>forward a voice sort of mumbles in an unintelligable language.
>
    For all of you Chicago Cable customers (and quite possibly all TCI
customers), I saw this programming about 2 weeks ago on the Headline
News channel.  While there has been no announcement of the arrival of 
the Sci-Fi channel, and they obviously won't replace Headline News with
it, this and "ongoing negotiations" between TCI and USA lead me to
hope!


Steven Pedlow                     "Do not blaspheme!  It is the gods
Univ. of Chicago                   who weep...  they cannot protect
Dept. of Statistics                us from ourselves"
pedlow@galton.uchicago.edu                -- The Fool in "Ran"
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From: lewis@odysseus.uchicago.edu (Lewis Muhlenkamp)
Subject: Re: New QL season?
Organization: University of Chicago  LASR
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 05:14:54 GMT

In article <j=6yzwf@rpi.edu> dzembj@rpi.edu writes:
>
> ... Rest deleted ...
>
>"Deliver Us From Evil"  (currently being worked on)
>All I know about this one is this is the episode where they introduce Sam's
>seductive new nemesis...an evil leaper who tries to put wrong everything Sam
>has put right...
>
>					- Jason (Maintainer of the Quantum
>					Leap Episode Guide)

From the way this is phrased, it sounds like this has been planned for some
time.  Is this correct?  If so, is there any more information about this
person?  Will this be a recurring role?  Who will play it?  How will Sam or
Al recognize him/her? ...

I've been wondering if something like this would happen.  I hope it is done
correctly (ie.  It will be a great episode!!!).

-- 
Lewis Muhlenkamp (lewis@odysseus.uchicago.edu)
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From: greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter)
Subject: Re: Premeres
Originator: usenet@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:58:15 GMT
Organization: A Planet Of His Own
Keywords: QL and Star Trek TNG

In article <194snjINNt0i@bigboote.WPI.EDU> patrickd@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lazer) writes:
>I'm sorry I missed it if someone posted the premere dates...please bear with me
>...I just want some info.
>
>Also when will ST:TNG premere (2 weeks?)

It comes in off the satellite this Saturday. A few markets will see it this
weekend; most will likely see it next week.

					- greg
-- 
Greg Trotter
Norman, Oklahoma
Internet: greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu
Fidonet: 1:147/63       TrekNet: 87:6012/8009
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From: ramsey@cua.edu (Betsy Ramsey)
Subject: Re: Is B7 Being Shown Anywhere?
Summary: B7 North American Station Guide (preliminary)
Organization: The Catholic University of America
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:45:49 GMT

(Preliminary) BLAKES 7 North American Station Guide - 15 Sep 1992

Stn     Location                Day Time        Season
----    ----------------------  --- -------     ------
KTEH    San Jose, CA            Sun 10:00pm?      ?
KUED    Salt Lake City, UT      Sat 10:00pm       4
KUED    Salt Lake City, UT      Sun 10:00am       4
WXXI    Rochester, NY           Sat 11:30pm       1

Thanks to those who have contributed:

  Tanya Olsen <SLG7M@CC.USU.EDU>
  dmb@world.std.com (Deborah M Brown)
  David Goldfarb <goldfarb@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
  MJackson.Wbst147@Xerox.COM (Mark Jackson)
  SLL28@CC.USU.EDU (Lorna Payne)

Any more stations airing B7?  Has your station changed day or time, or
are they in a new season?  Has the run ended for now?  Send additions/
corrections to ramsey@cua.edu.

-------
   Betsy Ramsey, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
            Internet: ramsey@cua.edu,  Bitnet: ramsey@cua
From: mgelman@cyclades.ma30.bull.com (Michael A. Gelman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Battlestar Galactica ??
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:55:22 GMT
Reply-To: mgelman@cyclades.ma30.bull.com (Michael A. Gelman)
Organization: Bull HN Info Sys, Billerica MA

In article <1992Sep15.115226.58891@cc.usu.edu>, slg7m@cc.usu.edu writes:
|> Back in the late seventies when Battlestar Galactica was being aired on
|> primetime tv, I seem to vaguely recall a couple of episodes in which they
|> actually do find Earth.  Does anyone else remember this? 
|> Any info will be appreciated,
|> Tanya

It was the sequel show "Galactica 'XX" (where XX is what ever year it
was.  79?).  They had found earth but lost most all of the orginal
cast, as I recall.

Neat flying motorcycles, too.

--Mike
-- 
Michael Gelman -- M.Gelman@ma30.bull.com 
Bull HN Info Systems -- Advanced Engineering Program 
(Any similarity between my opinions and those of Bull, living or dead, are
entirely coincidental.) 
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 22:37:15 EDT
From: <DCA105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: HOW TO GET SF CHANNEL ON YOUR CABLE SYSTEM

Here's a suggestion to cable companies that say they don't have any available
channels for the sci-fi-channel.  GET RID OF EWTN, CBN, AND THE HALF-DOZEN OR
SO BIBLE-POUNDER 24-HOUR-A-DAY PREACH CHANNELS.  If I wanted to watch TV
evangelists 24-hours a day, I'd move to a church.  You could knock off the
country music versions of MTV too.  There's 1-4 new channels you could put SF
on.

Dave
From: gibson@dl5000.bc.edu (Rene Gibson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Cable companies
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:26:23 GMT
Organization: Institute for Space Research, Boston College

In article <1992Sep11.212423.518@HQ.Ileaf.COM> mukesh@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Mukesh Prasad) writes:

>   The cable company in my town (Continental
>   Cable of Arlington, MA) has apparently
>   already decided not to carry the sci-fi
>   channel.  When I called in, they had
>   obviously heard of it, and the customer
>   rep immediately told me they will not
>   be carrying it.  I asked if she would
>   note down my request for consideration, and
>   the answer was no.
>
>   Is there anything one can do in
>   such a situation (in case the channel
>   turns out to be really good)?

Send a letter.  I don't know the address.  I have Continental too 
(in Woburn, MA), but the letter should be sent to your local office.
I had an address for Quincy, but it was rerouted to Wilmington.
When they received the letter, someone (can't remember the name) called
me and talked VERY politely about what the problems are/were with getting
the SF Channel.  The main problems seemed to be price and the number of 
channels the company already has.  The price (from USA?) is on a per 
subscriber basis and it was a bit higher than the company wanted to pay 
at the time (although *I* would pay a small fee per month for it!).  They
are supposedly maxed out on the number of channels, though.  But it's 
beyond me why they need *THREE* home shopping channels when they could 
substitute the SF Channel for one of them to provide a wider range of 
programming.

Anyway, the person I talked to said others had written too and he would 
put my letter in the file with theirs (hopefully not the circular file!!).
Supposedly they're still considering getting the SF Channel.  I think they
would consider it even more if more people would write (and call) and if
the price would drop.  Should we be sending letters to USA to tell them
to drop the price a bit??

Rene
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Subject: Re: QL: "A Little Miracle" <possible SPOILERS!>
From: ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead)
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 14:59:43 PDT
Organization: Paradox Alley F&SF BBS 805-492-8789

djredick@bluemoon.rn.com (Darrin J. Redick) writes:

> Spoiler Warning!  The following MAY contain spoilers for the above named
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> And just what year WAS that white Rolls(?) anyway?

Well I don't know the year of the Rolls, but my families '61 Cadalliac
sure had power windows.  I used to have fun with it when I was little...
up/down/up/down, Mom yelling!!!...etc.  :)  It also had an electric 6-way
seat, remote trunk button, but NO SEATBELTS!!


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Catherine Beckstead                    ace@kryton.uucp
"Do you want to argue with a can of deodorant that registers
NINE on the Richter scale?"        --Ace, in "Dragonfire"
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From: tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins)