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From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Dr Who Books For Sale
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:25:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: burrhus.1993Jan11.172529.14659
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA


any reasonable offer accepted.
I also have many of the Who hardcover books, The Key To Time, The Early
Years, will sell at coverprice. Inquire for specific titles

     Label     Title                         Condition
                                        Mint = M
    Target                              Near Mint= NM
                                        OK = Cosmetic Damage
               Dalek Invasion Of Earth       M
               Dominators                    NM   
               Marco Polo                    NM
               Myth Makers                   NM
               Planet Of Fire                OK
               Terror Of The Autons          NM
               The Twin Dilemma              OK
               The Aztecs                    M
               The Zarbi                     M
               The Daleks                    OK
               The Mark Of The Rani          NM
               Unearthly Child               NM
Pinnacle       Android Invasion              OK 1nd & 2ndprinting
               Dinosaur Invasion             OK
               Doomsday Terror               OK
               Genesis Of The Daleks         OK
               Loch Ness Monster             NM
               Masque of Mandragora          OK
               Day Of The Daleks             M
               Revenge Of The Cybermen       OK
               Seeds Of Doom                 NM
               Talons Of Weng Chiang         NM
Ballantine
Find Your Fate Race Against Time             M
FASA           
               Dr W: Rebel's Gamble  (6th dr)     OK      
                3rd Quiz Book
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these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
From: stevep@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Steve Pearce)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Coronation Street becomes trunk road!
Date: 12 Jan 1993 10:48:56 GMT
Organization: SSG/CSY Pinewood, UK
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In article <9301121036.AA10053@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>, EEC@PORTIA.UMDS.LON.AC.UK (Steve P (eec@portia.umds.lon.ac.uk)) writes:
|> I found last night's "Coronation Street" completely ridiculous.
|> 
|> After having seen only about 3 cars go along the street in 30 years, we
|> are now supposed to beleive that it's a complete traffic nightmare. Sally
|> appears in the shop saying that it's taken her ages to cross the road!
|> 
|> It appears to have been beyond the wit of the scriptwriters to gradually
|> build up the traffic over a few weeks before introducing this storyline.
|> Alternatively, they could have had someone indicate that road-works (or
|> something) had caused lots of traffic to use the street as a short-cut.
|> But no explantion at all?
|> 
|>  ----------------------------------- 
|> |  Steve P                    (..)  |
|> |  eec@portia.umds.lon.ac.uk   ()   |
|>  ----------------------------------- 
|> 

In one of last weeks episodes, someone mentioned that the traffic was due to a
new one-way system and that people were using Coronation Street as a short cut.

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From: Robert.Hartill@cm.cf.ac.uk (Rob)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Baywatch - The Movie
Date: 5 Jan 93 10:07:05 GMT
Organization: Shabby

In article <1993Jan4.132707.3848@decuk.uvo.dec.com>, les@uvo.dec.com (Les Carleton) writes:
|> 
|> And ... the question of the week
|> 
|> Just how did David Hasslehoff get somebody out of an upside-down canoe then
|> get into it whilst aquiring a life jacket and helmet (from nowhere?) *AND*
|> get the spraydeck onto the canoe without it sinking or taking more than 10 
|> seconds!!!
|> 

More important is the question "Does Erika wear a Nike Pump-up bra ?"
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From: haluk@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Haluk Gumrukcu)
Subject: Re: US <-> UK video swapping
Originator: haluk@turlough.dev.cdx.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Codex, Canton, MA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:14:25 GMT


In article <726308100snx@kingpin.demon.co.uk>, martin@kingpin.demon.co.uk (martin) writes:
|> I would also like to swap VHS tapes with someone from the US/Canada.
|> My main interest is in ST:TNG, ST:DS9 & The Simpsons :-)
|> I can view in NTSC but am not yet able to convert so can only send 
|> PAL recordings. Please mail me if interested.
|> 
|>  

Since we don't have sophisticated TV/VCR sets here in US, (I know you guys have 5-7 system sets), I don't think you have much chance to swap tapes in PAL
format. So, if anybody want to swap in NTSC format, let me know.
From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Has running ST:TNG been a plus for Sky?
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:35:35 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.


Just out of curiosity...Does anyone know if Sky measures the rate of uptake
of subscriptions as compared with the programs it broadcasts?   For months
now we've been hearing how the exclusive access to some live football
matches has not resulted in any great increase in the installation of
Sky dishes.

Presumably a program like ST:TNG is also intended to be a major source of
new subscribers as it was getting about 5M viewers even when hidden on BBC 2
at 6pm.  They must have hoped that many of the viewers would switch to Sky.



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with Mr. Beadle which require a 6-pack of Newcastle Brown in addition!)
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From: dave@yoyodyne.demon.co.uk (David Bisping)
Subject: Re: Come back Thames all is forgiven! 
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:59:21 +0000

In article <1iflk9INN5v5@access.usask.ca> maton@herald.usask.ca writes:

>So what happens to the companies and their employees who lost frachises?
>For instance, there is a quite large TVS studio complex near where my mother
>lives in Maidstone. 
>
dunno bout the rest but Thames is still in buisness as an independent 
producer, they will carry on making such programmes as 'The Bill' for use
directly by ITV

Dave...

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From: w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk (Me)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Citizen Smith
Date: 3 Jan 93 16:06:24 GMT
Reply-To: w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk
Organization: Chemical & Process Engineering Dept, University of Newcastle, UK.


  For the past 2 or 3 months or more they have been running repeats
of the series Citizen Smith.   Are they only showing a selection of
the original shows?

   Unless my memory of hte original transmissions is faulty, I 
seem to remember that Peter Vaughn played the father for quite 
a while before being replaced,  the girlfriend Shirley was on for 
a while before flying off to Italy, and the original villain was 
there for a while also before disappearing.

   But all these things seem to have happened within a short time
of the reruns starting.

  So 
  1. Are they only running a selection of the episodes 
or
    Did they originally only have 6 or so episodes per series, so
    by running each series one after the other it does not take 
    long to cover what origally was spread over several years.
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From: tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins)
Subject: Come back Thames all is forgiven! 
Distribution: world
Organization: Job hunters use Parachute
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:13:36 +0000


In article <726195444snx@apusapus.demon.co.uk> I wrote:

> Well we've suffered Carlton now for two days and I wish that Thames hadn't
> lost the franchise!

It's still not much better now. But I would like to know if London
Transport is getting any pay back for the use of their copyrighted logotype
in the Carlton channel ident?

Regards, Trevor.

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From: sjames@adam.adelaide.edu.au (S James)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: THUNDERBIRDS question
Date: 12 Jan 93 03:49:25 GMT
Organization: The University of Adelaide
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halchuk@seismo.emr.ca (Steve Halchuk) writes:

>That wonderful seies of the late sixties - The Thunderbirds (complete
>with SUPERMARIONATION) is being broadcast in Canada on YTV. After 
>hearing that it has regained some popularity in the UK, can someone
>shed some light on the acronym FAB, which is used by one of the 
>Thunderbirds after receiving a message? 

>Thanks in advance
>Stephen

From memory it did not mean anything, it was just something they said.

Steve James
sjames@adam.adelaide.edu.au


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From: paty@compnews.co.uk (Patricia Young)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Teletext TV pages peeves
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:07:59 GMT
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From: nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Dormant illustrious ladder digressions" Neilski)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Citizen Smith
Date: 6 Jan 93 09:59:54 GMT
Reply-To: nrp@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk
Organization: University of Reading

w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk (Me) writes:


>  For the past 2 or 3 months or more they have been running repeats
>of the series Citizen Smith.   Are they only showing a selection of
>the original shows?

Don't think so - I've got about 20 episodes on tape now, although I haven't
watched most of them yet!

>   Unless my memory of hte original transmissions is faulty, I 
>seem to remember that Peter Vaughn played the father for quite 
>a while before being replaced,  the girlfriend Shirley was on for 
>a while before flying off to Italy, and the original villain was 
>there for a while also before disappearing.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Peter Vaughn and Shirley left at the
end of series 2.  This is half way through my second tape so I think I've
got most of them.

>   But all these things seem to have happened within a short time
>of the reruns starting.

You must have missed some of them.

Incidentally, how many series/episodes were made?  I'd like to know if I
ought to switch to long play before I start yet another tape ...

>    Did they originally only have 6 or so episodes per series, so
>    by running each series one after the other it does not take 
>    long to cover what origally was spread over several years.

I think that's the case.

-- neilski
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From: daniel@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Daniel Bowen)
Subject: Re: New series on British TV
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:22:13 GMT

In <726392091snx@kingpin.demon.co.uk> martin@kingpin.demon.co.uk () writes:

>A lot of new series begin in the new year, as well as some great reruns.
>These are a few selections which caught my eye from the latest Radio Times.
>I thought it might be of interest to readers of this newsgroup.
>I planned to start this list last week, hence * = started last week)

>Thursday 14th Jan
> *Drop the Dead Donkey - Award winning newsroom comedy, Neil Pearson

Aussies please note - SBS are doing the same deal as they did with the
last series- shipping it out for broadcast on the Tuesday after, at 8pm.


Daniel Bowen
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From: shong@bucknell.edu (SHER)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Robin Hood
Followup-To: rec.arts.tv.uk
Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:13:50 GMT
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
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I just heard the rumors of the  RoS II as well.  I am confused.  I thought
Micheal Pread's Robin Hood died at the end of his 2nd season.  If he did
come back I would be ecstatic!   Does anyone have all of the 1st and 2nd
season with Praed that I could copy?  I would gladly pay for blank tapes
and shipping costs.  Also, I always wanted a poster of the cast(w/Praed) or
just of Praed alone.  Does anyone know where I could get one? Thanks in
advance! 
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Subject: Flambards 
Distribution: world
Organization: QLA - Quantum Leap Anonymous
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:29:57 +0000


In article <1993Jan4.190905.20156@ils.nwu.edu> wallis@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu writes:
 
> Is this series available on video?  If so, from where?

Sorry to report that when I enquired about this last year the answer was "No".
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From: L.H.Wood@lut.ac.uk
Subject: Re: new beeb gameshow - VR
Reply-To: L.H.Wood@lut.ac.uk (Lloyd Wood)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 21:50:46 GMT

Pseudo-VR? If they build *real* rooms, I think that's called reality!
About as interesting as watching paint dry. How long before Craig gives up
on the mobile phone prop he's not using?

BRING BACK RED DWARF! BRING BACK STAR COPS! KILL DOCTOR WHO FOR GOOD!

L.
From: rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk (Richard Lloyd)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Has running ST:TNG been a plus for Sky?
Date: 11 Jan 93 12:28:21 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University

In article <6422@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>, zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) writes:
> 
> Just out of curiosity...Does anyone know if Sky measures the rate of uptake
> of subscriptions as compared with the programs it broadcasts?

Probably not, but I heard that there's over 2 million dishes now (it seems
difficult to get the EXACT number).

>  For months
> now we've been hearing how the exclusive access to some live football
> matches has not resulted in any great increase in the installation of
> Sky dishes.

I heard that an amazing 750,000 people subscribed for the first year of live
soccer coverage ! Personally, I didn't bother because there were only 3 or 4
matches I'd want to see in a season and, anyway, Sky News shows brief match
highlights less than an hour after the match finishes !

> Presumably a program like ST:TNG is also intended to be a major source of
> new subscribers as it was getting about 5M viewers even when hidden on BBC 2
> at 6pm.  They must have hoped that many of the viewers would switch to Sky.

I would have thought that showing *NEW* episodes of ST:TNG would have been a
much better viewer-grabbing exercise (we'll know next week if they intend to
show Season 4 onwards).

The top 5 Sky One viewing figures are consistently showing this:

The Simpsons - about 1.3m (worth the price of a dish alone for this series !)
ST:TNG fills the next 4 slots - about 400,000 to 500,000 viewers. So ST:TNG
*has* proved a ratings success for Sky One.

Richard K. Lloyd, 
Computer Science Dept.,   JANET     : rkl@uk.ac.liverpool.compsci
Liverpool University,     Internet  : rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk
Merseyside, England,    Q: "What's the world's fastest home micro ?"
Great Britain.          A: "The Archimedes A3000. 4 MIPS for under 800 pounds."
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From: cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk (The Freak)
Subject: Re: Come back Thames all is forgiven!
Organization: The Place where Godiva rode in the nudie
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:55:53 GMT

In article <29890@castle.ed.ac.uk> sss@castle.ed.ac.uk (S S Sturrock) writes:
>In article <726195444snx@apusapus.demon.co.uk> tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins) writes:
>>Well we've suffered Carlton now for two days and I wish that Thames hadn't
>>lost the franchise! 
>
>And as for GMTV........ ARRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!
>
>It's like TV-AM taken to an extreme!  Horrible, and why do these morning
>programmes insist on being brighter than the other programmes, I watch the
>BBC just to give my eyes a rest from all the saturated reds and yellows!
>
>Then of course, there is teletext on 3/4 which is a complete disaster,
>where is the clock on channel 4 pray tell?  And how come the other day I
>put on ITV and got teletext on 4 and on Ch4 there was none at all?
>Teething problems?  I'll say!

 Disaster...?? Bit of an understatement.! I went to have a look at the 
  "AFTER HOURS" page at 10:30pm when it is _supposed_ to be available..
  and where the bloody hell was it..?? Not bloody there...and not only that
  it didnt eventully come on till 11:15pm,way past my bed time.!
  Bring back Uncle Frank thats what I say......



>
>And who's big idea was all this anyway?  Well, I certainly didn't vote for
>them and I don't know anyone who did, except my parents and they are not
>happy at the moment either.......
>
>What a way to start '93 :-(
>
>
>-- 
>Shane Sturrock, Biocomputing Research Unit, Darwin Building, Mayfield Road,
>University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Commonwealth of Independent Kingdoms.  :-)
>
>Civilisation is a Haggis Supper with salt and sauce and a bottle of Irn Bru.


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From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: new beeb gameshow - VR
Date: 6 Jan 93 10:36:37 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <1993Jan5.154051.571@mfltd.co.uk> dnh@mfltd.co.uk (Des Herriott) writes:
>In article <C0DqCI.95J@newcastle.ac.uk>, S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre) writes:
>> Anyone else catch that new VR based gameshow on Beeb 2 last night...Lister (Craig Charles)
>> was the host.  Had a couple of footballers on one team (don't know who they were, don't
>> follow the sport) and some normalish people on the other.

Normalish?  Members of The Dangerous Sports Club?  Well I suppose they think 
they're normal....
>> 
>> It was a bit annoying with the hooting in the audiance, but the premise was good.

>Yeah, I caught it.  It wasn't bad, but I'd have liked to have seen more 
>out n' out action and less of that tedious puzzle solving.  (or at least
>some less tedious puzzles :-)

Right.

Dump the guy doing the over-fancy game descriptions - Craig had to expalin 
it again anyway.  Improve the 'view': eg I'd have the video wall just for 
the audience, and put the player into a real VR headset.  And I'd split the 
broadcast screen into at least quarters so we could see various aspects 
simultaneously - like one segment could be a copy of the VR headset, one a 
standard shot of the studio, one a copy of the map, etc.

  No Trespassing: 4/17ths of a haiku.     D.Budd@mcc.ac.uk   fax 6040
  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England    (44|0)61-275-6033  
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From: cei308@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jet Girl)
Subject: Re: Swap Shop
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:03:57 GMT

In article <C0quoo.Hwz@cck.coventry.ac.uk> esi001@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dicky-Jim) writes:
>In article <C0qtw3.D9L@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei308@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jet Girl) writes:
>>I never actually managed to get anything on the Swap Shop (or as we purists
>>call it the Multi-Coloured Swap Shop) board, but Boy George was asked one of
>>my questions.  I'd rather it had been Nick Rhodes though.
>>Ahhhhh...they dont make childrens TV show like they used to eh?!!!
>>I can still remember the number to ring in for Swap Shop!!!!
>>
>was it 01 811 8055 by any chance ?????????
>
>Rich.
>
It was indeed!!!  Oh!!! A fellow MCSS fan at Cov Uni!!!!!!>
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From: markc@compnews.co.uk (Mark Cooper)
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Subject: Re: Allo Allo finally finishes
Date: 6 Jan 93 12:29:53 GMT
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Dad's Army finished when 99% of them died...

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