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From: nss3@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Noel Steere)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Almost Live!
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:44:49 GMT
Reply-To: nss3@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Chicago

In article <1993Jan14.190422.22212@ctsx.celtech.com> alan@ctsx.celtech.com (Alan Dahl) writes:
>Now that _Almost Live!_ has been playing on Comedy Central
>for a few months I was wondering what people in the rest of
>the country think of it.
>
>The rest of you have been listening to those of us in Seattle
>rave about this show for several years now, I was just wondering
>how it plays in Peoria (so to speak). Do the jokes about Kent
>and Ballard ("ya sure, ya betcha") make any sense to you?

Well, it's not as if Seattle's the only city in the world to have hick
towns 'ya know!:-) Seriously, the show's good enough to give you an
idea of what they're satirizing, even if you're not intimately
familiar with it.

>What 
>are your favorite bits?

"Mind Your Manners, with Billy Quan" is hysterical!  Also, I really
liked the "Burger Gun" commercial.

>Personally I think _Almost Live!_ is much funnier than Saturday
>Night Live. Here in Seattle _Almost Live!_ is at 11:30 Saturday
>night followed by SNL at midnight. I hardly ever watch more than 
>just the first few minutes of SNL, it's just not as good.

Actually, *Almost Live!* is much closer to the original SNL than SNL
is now.  Originally, SNL parodied and satirized television, which is
what *Almost Live!* usually does (and very well too, I might add).

My only complaint is that half an hour isn't enough! :-)

Noel Steere              | "Somebody's gonna get a punch in the head,
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(With the scars to prove it)
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From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Subject: Re: QL: Highlights of Don's talk
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:09:34 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.053703.23233@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>	Except that the elements which make this Quantum Leap are
>given sf trappings-- future technology, computers, holograms, etc.

Yeah, but that still doesn't really *make* it SF. If it was really SF,
there wouldn't be so many things that go against the commonly-accepted
norms of SF [and make for such flame-bait hereabouts. :-)].

>Battlestar Galactica, nor Lost In Space...  If anything on TV is
>science fiction, then QL is.  

AAAA, now I see, you hadn't defined your terms. I (and I think Mike
B.) was arguing from the literary definition of SF.

>confidant, require a fantastic explanation.  If it were magical, QL
>would be a fantasy-- since it's pseudo-technical and invokes future

I still maintain that "pseudo"-technical throws it into the science
fantasy category.

>>Since when are vampires science fiction? Or ghosts, or angels?

>	Depends how they're handled.  But personally I consider
>elements like psychics, UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, vampires, etc. to
>detract from the show.  

But, nevertheless, they ARE a part of show canon--since the
beginning--so, ergo, that makes the show not SF, because a true
science fiction show wouldn't have done that.

>	But chocolate very rarely invokes AIs, projecting holograms,

HA! There is a process nowadays that can put a hologram on a chocolate
bar! :-) [or many other foods]

Sally


-- 
Sally Smith (510)790-0608  sallylb@netcom.com (I was sally@tardis.tymnet.com)
I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"

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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: Late Night opening sequence
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:39:58 GMT

jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim)) writes:

>I actually managed to turn on the set in time for the opening sequence
>of Letterman's show and was greeted by a whiz-bang outer space
>sequence - when did this start?  And who's the woman doing the
>voiceover?

Geez, where have you been for the last eight or nine months?  That's how
long it's been on.  And there's several different versions of it that
alternate each night.

As for the woman, I have no idea.  They've made no mention of it on the
show, so I'm assuming that Wendell's just on vacation or having hemmorhoid
surgery or something.

--Aaron
From: dickson@micro.caltech.edu (Jeff Dickson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Stingray:the series
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:37:30 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: celaeno.micro.caltech.edu

aa811@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Terri M. Librande) writes:


>Actually, they never ever said who employed Ray.  The clues were in
>an unaired script I once had.  In the ep "Abnormal Psyche" his licenes
>plates were checked and he was traced down to someone with the governers
>office in Ca.  Another time, they went straight to the White House motor
>pool.  Ray has a friend high in the gov't escalon--in the episode "Less
>Than the Eye Can See", he was there, helping him find the man who had
>infected this town with a mutated form of smallpox.  He said he'd lost
>Ray, I think, 7 years ago, and had been trying to find him ever since.
>He had worked in the CIA or something, and just left.  Disappeared.


There was also the Robert Vaughn episode which implied some government
links, but the episode was towards the end of the series (and getting low
in quality).  One good identity twists was in the episode where
Ray tells the homeless guy his *real* identity (The Greeder?), and the
guy looks astonished (and perhaps honoured).  Another one is where a
trooper thinks he has figured out who he really is, Ray Sheffield.  He
proudly tells Ray this as Ray drives off, and then receives a fax 
in response to his inquiry at some agency: Ray Sheffield is a 50+ year
old black man.

>Plenty of things to wonder about this character.  Stephen Cannell is
>still not talking, and Mancuso just gives this mysterious look and makes
>you wonder.  I wonder how much of his background was ever plotted.

I thought it was ironic that Mancuso shows up in "Under Seige" playing the
CIA guy.

I thought it was a really good series, esp. in light that it was produced
in Canada and therefore didn't have a wealth of local actors and production
facilities to assist it.  I think it was shot in Calgary for a while, and
then moved to Cannell's Vancouver facility.


>The unaired script was something, though.  Ray gets a FAX from a client--
>meet me.  He drives to this deserted town, goes in a bar where he hears
>some sounds; it's empty.  Goes back to street--no car.  Gone.  After
>plenty of chaos breaks out--namely a lot of unseen guns firing like mad
>at him, and things blowing up, he gets away, gets a ride from a trucker,
>and eventually is drugged and sent back to said town.  He logics the
>computer that's running the place--and then his car is there and he goes 
>home.  (I'm making this very simplistic.)  Goes home.  Fax machine goes 
>nuts.  PRints out something like this:  
>Reasoning Ability: 100%
>Emotional:98%
>Logic: 100%
>ect.

>Then:
>You have qualified for service for another year.  Good luck.

Hmmmm, I like the notion that Ray was working for himself.


Anyone remember "Coombaroomba!" ?
From: imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Coming out on videotape!
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:03:49 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
X-Local-Date: Wednesday, 27th January 1993 at 3:03pm GMT
Originator: imc@msc3.comlab

In article <727794192snx@apusapus.demon.co.uk>, arkhive@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Ailsa Jenkins) wrote:
>In article <1993Jan23.024204.4910@netcom.com> sallylb@netcom.com writes:
>> Yes, Universal has finally Seen The Light (and the merchandising
>> possibilites).  The QL pilot 
>YES!YES!YES! HOORAY!!!!! O>-< (This is me jumping up and down)

Please tell me (I mean us) it will be available in the UK!  (Sally did say
that PAL versions would be available, right?)  I don't generally buy video
tapes (other than blank ones of course), but I think I can make an exception
in this case. ;-)

>Which version? Is the 120 mins version the really uncut version? Does it
>have the bit about Mikey getting hit by the bus?

I presume this is 120 mins on the tape, not 120 mins as broadcast with
commercials.  Does this mean there is 30 minutes of material that I haven't
seen?  The BBC's broadcast (second time round) was 90 minutes long.

>> SP...stereo...uncut...sigh...

That will certainly make a change, since the $@!#@ BBC doesn't seem to
broadcast in stereo in this region.

Ian Collier
Ian.Collier@prg.ox.ac.uk | imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk
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From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: QL: Convention activities announced
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:30:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1993Jan25.213034.2934
Organization: Leap Info R Me

Most of this is off Creation's flyer, plus what info I've gathered myself.
(I also corrected some of Creation's typos, hmph.)

The 2nd Annual Official QUANTUM LEAP Convention, Feb. 13-14, Universal
Hilton, Universal City, CA [which, since it's over Valentine's Day,
is being billed as "Lovers' LEAP" -- groan]

Program will include appearances by:

- Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell
- Producers Don Bellisario, Deborah Pratt, and Charles Johnson
- Various Guest Stars
- Ray Bunch on writing the music
- Cameron Birnie, Ellen Williams, Bob Zilliox, and George Tuers on the
production and set design, props, casting, etc.
- Roger Dorney and Denny Kelly on the special effects (this isn't listed
on the flyer, but Roger told me they're doing it)

Other nifty stuff includes:

- A fashion show by costume designer Jacqueline St. Anne, featuring past
guest stars wearing their costumes from the show (which stars, I don't
know, save for Michael Bellisario, who told me he's going to be in it)
- Prop/costume museum
- Merchandise you can spend all your money on
- An unseen episode!
- Random drawing to win a walk-on role (that means no talking) on QL!
- Charity auction
- Trivia contest
- A panel on fannish activities, which I mention simply because myself
and some friends are on it :-)

And, as they say, more.

Be there or be verrrrry sorry! Tickets available through Ticketmaster,
or by calling Creation at (818) 409-0960. They _say_ there will be
tickets available at the door, but I STRONGLY encourage you to buy
them in advance -- I wouldn't risk it.

I also encourage you to bring plenty of film -- the hotel gift shop ran
out last year, and charged exorbitant prices before that.


Sally



-- 
Sally Smith (510)790-0608  sallylb@netcom.com (I was sally@tardis.tymnet.com)
I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"
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From: mre@kepler.unh.edu (Monty Python's Life of MikE)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Was Scott Bakula I-Man?
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:50:31 GMT
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
NNTP-Posting-Host: kepler.unh.edu

In article <1993Jan26.061150.29886@leland.Stanford.EDU> tolsen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Tanya Ann Olsen) writes:
>Do any of you people remember a Wonderful World of Disney movie
>called I-Man?  (I hope I'm remembering this correctly.)  It was 
>about a man, his son, and his dog who happened to be in the wrong
>place at the right time when a space probe crashed and released an
>alien gas right in the aforementioned beings faces.  This mutated
>them such that all they required for energy/food/sleep was enough
>sunlight and they also suddenly had remarkable healing powers.  So
>naturally the CIA or some such organization found out about it and
>wanted the man to do all their impossible type missions for them.
>
>It seems to me that was the first place I saw Scott Bakula, but 
>now for some reason I'm thinking that it actually may have been 
>Robert Hays!  Can anybody correct my swiss-cheesed memory?
>
>Thanks,
>Tanya
>tolsen@leland.stanford.edu
>
>

Yup, that was Scott.  First place I saw him, too, tho I didn't recognize him
from it when QL premiered.  Joey Cramer played his son, who also had the same
abilities.  
For some reason, tho, I'm not sure if the dog had the abilities....

I seem to recall Scott in another pilot, this one for CBS, about a half-man-
half-satellite.  Anybody remember this one?  Could you give us some info on
the show?  THANX.

--MikE....didn't Scott star in the Gung Ho!  TV series, as well?

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From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thumper)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Sitcoms on the Verge of Being Killed
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:02:10 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.

In <24JAN199304245785@pavo.concordia.ca> d_headl@pavo.concordia.ca (DAMOCLES) writes:

>NBC, or at least its affilate WPTZ in Platsburg, is trying to kill another 
>show. It seems as though they are trying to kill _Here and Now_ which stars
>Malcolm-Jamal Warner.

I seem to recall NBC pulling the rug out from under "Here and Now."
Affiliates often pre-empt network programming but I've rarely seen them
move it. WNNE (WPTZ's sister station in Vermont) is currently pre-empting
NBC's programming at 8pm on Thursday's for "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"
But since that has recently consisted of "A Different World" (which has
sucked this season) and "Out All Night" (a show that never lived up to its
potential) I'm not very un-happy.

>NBC and/or WPTZ did a very good job killing A Different World (ADW).

I think the writing killed ADW and nothing else. I was willing to follow
it to another time slot if the show was worth watching.

>What can be done about this situation? New shows are not given the opportunity
>to be *seen* these days. Many good shows will end up on the shelf while the 
>trash stays on the air.

And many good shows survive a slow start and become really great. (ie:
Home Improvement) I think NBC is in deep trouble and needs to give us more
"Law & Order" (L&O) quality shows, better new shows, and stop wrecking good
shows like "LA Law" (which also bites this season).

>Bye the way, it seem that ABC is tryng to kill _Going to Extremes_. Think about
>it. If you watch and/or tape Law and Order every week, will you suddenly 
>watch GtoE just because they are now both in the same time slot? I think not.

Not. I stopped watching GTX after 4 or 5 weeks. One week I forgot it was
on (a bad sign) and decided that I didn't care. I never went back.
I consider L&O to be the best show on network TV right now so it would
take something seriously good to make me turn the channel.

>This is the end of my diatribe. It felt good.

Thanks for sharing, we need something to talk about around here.

>P.S. Is there any such thing as a T.V. *season* anymore?

No.

-Geoff
--
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                         "Get a life! It's just a TV show!"
                                - William Shatner
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From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: Doublemint Ads
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:54:37 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.145529.27413@netcom.com> derich@netcom.com (Scott A. Steinbrink) writes:
>I really hate those ads -- those "double-takes" can be real annoying.

Really - bring back the Doublemint twins!
-- 
John Switzer             | 1/21/93 - Clinton fails to follow through on promise
                         | to have economic legislation ready the day after the
Compuserve: 74076,1250   | Inauguration. Programmers rejoice because he now 
Internet: jrs@netcom.com | gives them an excuse to further slip their schedules.
From: llk@pyrxbooter.eng.pyramid.com (Lynn Lassalle-Klein)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Diver Dan - Anyone Remember Him?
Date: 28 Jan 93 00:34:58 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Pyramid Technology

Since I got such great response to my question about "Courageous
Cat and Minute Mouse", I'm wonder if anyone out there remembers
the show "Diver Dan"?  (Somehow the two go together in my memory.)
I remember Dan always being in an underwater suit (it looked like
it was metal and weighed a couple of hundred pounds) -- and there
was a mermaid  -- and Dan would fight an octopus now and then --
and a barracuda that smoked a cigar -- and maybe he fought a
giant clam shell now and then ...

Any takers out there who could provide more info?

Lynn
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From: eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Coming out on videotape!
Date: 23 Jan 1993 15:39:35 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith) says:

>Yes, Universal has finally Seen The Light (and the merchandising
>possibilites).  The QL pilot and 4 other early episodes will come out
>on videotapes we can all rush right out and buy this summer, then 5
>other early (1st and 2nd seasons) ep's later on. No announcement
>yet as to exactly what episodes.
>
>Sally
>SP...stereo...uncut...sigh...
>
>
Sally, please, please, please tell me that it will be the origingal saga
cells with these eps and not what USA is doing.  Also, original run?

There goes my extra cash....leaping right out of my wallet.

-- 
             Beth Hlabse    eah4@po.CWRU.Edu     Assistant Sysop
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From: tolsen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Tanya Ann Olsen)
Subject: Was Scott Bakula I-Man?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 06:11:50 GMT

Do any of you people remember a Wonderful World of Disney movie
called I-Man?  (I hope I'm remembering this correctly.)  It was 
about a man, his son, and his dog who happened to be in the wrong
place at the right time when a space probe crashed and released an
alien gas right in the aforementioned beings faces.  This mutated
them such that all they required for energy/food/sleep was enough
sunlight and they also suddenly had remarkable healing powers.  So
naturally the CIA or some such organization found out about it and
wanted the man to do all their impossible type missions for them.

It seems to me that was the first place I saw Scott Bakula, but 
now for some reason I'm thinking that it actually may have been 
Robert Hays!  Can anybody correct my swiss-cheesed memory?

Thanks,
Tanya
tolsen@leland.stanford.edu


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From: aa811@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Terri M. Librande)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: How Old Are They?
Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:08:37 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


How about the Secret Garden?  Dean was a SCREAM in that one.

(And it's a beautiful movie to boot.)

Terri in Cleveland
-- 
"Unscrupulous--but effective!"  Al in "Starcrossed"
Terri Librande aa811@cleveland.Freenet.edu  Assistant Sysop
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From: ahsiung@bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Coming out on videotape!
Date: 25 Jan 93 02:25:02 GMT
Reply-To: ahsiung@labs-n.bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

Ailsa Jenkins writes:
>
>sallylb@netcom.com writes:
>
>> Yes, Universal has finally Seen The Light (and the merchandising
>> possibilites).  The QL pilot 
>
>YES!YES!YES! HOORAY!!!!! O>-< (This is me jumping up and down)
>
>
>Which version? Is the 120 mins version the really uncut version? Does it
>have the bit about Mikey getting hit by the bus?

Mr. Bellisario emphasized that it would be the uncut version.

	-- Anita --

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From: ddogan@AFIT.AF.MIL
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: CHEERS
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:59:18 GMT
Organization: Air Force Institue of Technology, WPAFB OH

In article <qac3mvr@rpi.edu> turneo@vccsouth13.its.rpi.edu (Omar Turner) writes:
>From: turneo@vccsouth13.its.rpi.edu (Omar Turner)
>Subject: CHEERS
>Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 02:12:11 GMT
>Keywords:
>
>I was wondering why there is not a CHEERS newsgroup,
>COME ON LETS GETONE STARTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
>
Bit late for that, isn't it?  ...Thought this was the final season.
From: baylor@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: RD: Reasonable Doubts NOT on during Feb.!
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:13:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: iscnvx.1993Jan25.201330.10473
Reply-To: baylor@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Distribution: na
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California

In article <1993Jan25.054349.29049@netcom.com>, sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith) writes:
>In last Thursday's "Hollywood Reporter", there was a story which,
>among other things, said that RD wasn't going to be shown at all
>during the February sweeps. Bummer.
>
>Sally
>(living for the day the trades are available on-line...)
>
Rats! Neither QL nor RD? I may actually get something useful
done on Tuesday nights. :(

RB
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From: andy@balr.com (Andrew Little)
Subject: Picket Fences: Jill's Legs
Organization: Balr Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:18:59 GMT

My neighbor seems to think that they never show Jill from the waist
down on Picket Fences.  Jill is the sheriff's wife, and I can't
remember the actress' name.  He says that he thought he saw her legs
once, and she seemed to have a limp.

I said that maybe she was pregnant in real life, and they were hiding
it, but he thinks there is something strange going on.  What?
Something strange on Picket Fences?

He also says that she was in Edward Scissorhands, and looked and
walked completely normal.

I have told my neighbor that the net will give me more information
than I ever wanted to know about this actress, so don't let me down.

Thanks,

Andy Little                       BALR Corporation
andy@balr.com                     Software Solutions in Real Time

Picket Fences keywords for 1/22: incest, polygamy, twins, ducks