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Subject: QL: Convention news 
Distribution: world
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 18:57:33 +0000


In article <1992Oct1.062331.29585@netcom.com> sallylb@netcom.com writes:

> ...it appears certain that the February 13-15, 1993
> "Quantum Leap" convention will be held at Universal Studios Hollywood,
> not Universal Studios Florida, as previously announced.
> 
> Sorry for those of you from the East Coast who were planning on
> attending, but I thought you'd want to know now before you bought your
> tickets. For those of you on the West Coast -- now you have no excuse
> for not going!

For us UK-based QL peons it doesn't make much difference which side of
the American continent the convention is it will still be expensive to
attend. Still perhaps we can hope that Sam Beckett leaps in to Norman
Lamont BEFORE the pound was devalued so that our pounds go further than
they do at the moment.

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Subject: SF Channel: Queens, NY, customers only
From: <WBWQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Saturday, 26 Sep 1992 01:38:47 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

Hello. If you live in Queens, NY, and you subscribe to Time Warner's
American Cablevision of Queens, BQ Cable, or QUICS, please read this
message about the SciFi Channel; otherwise, please disregard.
Our cable company may consider carrying the SciFi Channel if they
receive enough written requests. I'll send them a (nice & polite)postcard to:
Time Warner Cable
41-61 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY, 11355-3185
Attn: Toby Haber, Programming

If you like, you can do the same.  Thank you for your time.
P.S. I will (someday) vote yes for rec.arts.tv.QL, but I won't tally the votes
From: salley@niktow.canisius.edu (David Salley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: QL: Oswald explained
Summary: Rabbits and Assassins
Date: 27 Sep 92 14:35:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: niktow.1436
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208

> Jeremy Billones writes:
> Greg Berigan writes:
> >	- What was with the rabbit stuff?
> I had trouble understanding those lines myself, and I'm not familiar
> with that history of LHO.

It's not so much the history of LHO, so much as the history of animation.
A popular cartoon character at the time was Oswald the Rabbit, sort of 
a precurser to Bugs Bunny.  The rabbit jokes about Oswald was supposed to
be an insult.  "You're a cartoon, not a real man" sort of thing.  - David

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From: lorenh@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Loren Heisey)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 18:12:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Attention: TCI customers
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv

dchuk@netcom.com (Denise Chuk) writes:
>However, I also heard on local radio that TCI is still thinking and negotiating
>with USA, so there still is some hope.  So, if all TCI customers can unite
>together and tell the TCI office (not just the regional companies) that we
>WANT SFC, maybe they will work a little harder to come to terms with whatever
>"difficulty" they have in getting the two channels.  

For people that want to write letters the address of TCI's central office is:

       TeleCom Incorporated
       4643 South Ulfcter Street
       Denver, CO  80237

--
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From: laura_uerling@QMRELAY.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU ("Laura Uerling")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: QL question
Date: 2 Oct 92 10:30:31 GMT


          10/2/92                             5:26 PM
QL question

I followed the recent discussion of  QL's season premiere with interest. (For
the record, I basically liked it, though I thought it went on a little too
long. The plot twist at the end was fun.)

In particular, "rck1@ellis.uchicago.edu (roberta chi-woon kwong)" made a good
point:
>And speaking of giving leapees heart attacks, remember the joke about
>leapees thinking that they'd been kidnapped by aliens while at PQL?  Well,
>here we have Oswald winding up in the Waiting Room not once, but SIX OR
>SEVEN TIMES! Does he notice that every few years, he pops inexplicably into
>this large blue room with a man named Al holding a strange mechanical
>device? No wonder Oswald went psycho! :-)

This bring up something I've always wondered about. The "leapees" in the
Waiting Room are obviously aware that they're not in Kansas anymore, but do
they remember being there when Sam leaps out and they go back to their own
time? Furthermore, are they aware of what Sam is doing to their lives while
they're waiting? If not, it must be pretty weird for them when they leap
back--Sam sometimes causes some serious life-style changes. (To take a recent
example, when Sam leaped into Nicos he was treading water in the Aegean, when
Sam left and Nicos got back, he found himself in a lip-lock with Brooke Shields
on some remote island.  He might even consider it an improvement, but it
*would* be disorienting.)  Oswald was portrayed as not exactly stable even the
first time that Sam leaped into him; having chunks of his memory inexplicably
altered several times certainly wouldn't help.

The only thing I can think of that would prevent this is if some memory of what
Sam has done stays in the leapee body when Sam leaves; i.e. leapee gets back to
his own body & time and suddenly "remembers" what has happened to his body
while he was in the waiting room. Of course, this doesn't explain to the other
people in the leapee's life why the sexist lout changes into a sensitive guy,
improves his life, then changes back into a sexist lout. Unless the whole
time-stream adjusts to the new reality and everyone's memory of the events
adjusts accordingly...

Enough imponderables for one day. Anyone have any opinions on this?

Laura
laura_uerling@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu
From: WTS@HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU ("WADE T. SMITH")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Quantum Sheepdip
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:18:13 GMT

Just a quick note of thanks for lumping all the messages about that
defecated turd of yoghurt slime "Quantum Leap" together so I can delete
them all with one keystroke.
Keep it up.
Better yet, don't bother posting them at all!

________________________________________________________________________
        WADE T. SMITH                  "O.K. I'VE REVERSED THE
     WTS@HARVARDA.BITNET            POLARITY OF THE NEUTRON FLOW.
WADE_SMITH@NOCMSMGW.HARVARD.EDU              NOW WHAT?"
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From: veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher)
Subject: Re: Highlander: The series
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:19:56 GMT

>
>     You don't know how lucky you are!  I'm from Canada and, as usual,
>   we don't get any of your new series until after a year or so (if
>   they make it).  If any of you have the time, could someone please
>   send me a general outline of the series (ie. what happened in the
>   premier)???
>
>This is precious little American in the series to lay claim to.
>According to the credits, it is filmed in Vancouver, and receives
>production monies from a number of European TV companies, including
>TF1 (France's first channel).
>

Well, that really makes my point doesn't it.  It's Canadian made and I can't
even see it???  And before I get flamed, as soon as I heard there was a
series, I looked through the TV guide and it isn't there.  Hopefully, I'll
be able to arrange for someone to tape it for me.

Later,
Chris Veenstra
From: jdng90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Gorsuch JDN)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: B7: Avon
Date: 6 Oct 92 09:40:06 GMT


  IMHO Avon was the best developed character in the series, he was
also the one who changed the most. In the first series he was a 
complete cold hearted b******, who always looked out for #1 and was
only in it for the money. But somewhere along the line he begins to
change, and by the penultimate season (sans Blake) he has done a 
complete 180 degree turn, and is now as dedicated to the cause as
Blake ever was, I mean can you really see the original Avon as even
risking one hair to rescue Blake, let alone the Liberrator and 
Scorpio. 

 Another point : In the first episode 'The Way Back', Paul Darrow is
nowhere to be seen !! Even though in 'Space Fall' (#2) he is shown
on the recap. 

            jon
From: wildcard@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Sci-Fi and Trek
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:21:15 GMT
Organization: Mankato State University



There has been a lot of talk about what the Sci-Fi channel is and 
isn't going to show.  Rumor said that they wanted to get both trek 
series and have them exclusively there.

I just wanted to say (strictly my opinion), that this is very unlikely.
The shows make too much money in syndication.  Paramount wouldn't make
enough selling exclusive rights.
 
Just stating my opinion.

Th.
"Wherever you go, there you are."
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From: ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin)
Subject: Re: will sf channel survive?
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 18:26:07 GMT

In article <25746@oasys.dt.navy.mil> greenlaw@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Leila Thomas) writes:
>In rec.arts.sf.tv, person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person ) writes:
>>I question whether sfc can survive for more than a couple of years.
>>There is oonly so much sf out there, and a lot of that is BAD sf.
>
>I question whether it can survive if only a few places get it.
>I wonder if someone took a poll to see who does and who does not get
>the SF channel.  It seems to me from all the posts that the majority
>do not get it (I am one, I live in the Baltimore-Washington area).
>
>Leila
>
>*******************************************************************
>"Beauty and the Beast, well thought of by people who think." ---
>Roy Dotrice
>********************************************************************



If only a few places get it, then yes it won't last very long.
However, slowly but surely, some local cable outlets are beginning to
wake up.....
Apparantly the cable company servicing little River Falls, Wisconsin
(where I go to school but don't live unluckily for me in this case)
(a town of about 11000 permanant, 16000 when school's on),
WILL be adding the Sci-Fi Channel sometime before December, as they have
been receiving a LOT of calls and letters about it.

So, all the calling and campaigning seems to be working up here....

As for the programming and how long that can last, I wouldn't worry
too much.  SFC have indeed reserved a few shows that qualify for
airing and are not airing them yet (I don't mean they have the rights to
them, but they probably know about them and don't want to get them on
right away so that they don't use everything up at once.).
I can think of two examples off the top of my head, "The Tripods,"
and "Blake's 7."  Also, at the rate they're going, both "Dark Shadows"
and "Doctor who" can last up to two years if the current formats for
each keep up, and each are easily worthy of more than one run.


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From: iwsbarke@acs.ucalgary.ca (I W Scott Barker)
Subject: Re: Highlander: The series
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 17:26:24 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

veenstra christopher (veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca) wrote:
>   You don't know how lucky you are!  I'm from Canada and, as usual, we don't
> get any of your new series until after a year or so (if they make it).  If
> any of you have the time, could someone please send me a general outline of
> the series (ie. what happened in the premier)???

You might want to check your tv listing real carefully. I'm from Calgary, and
we got the show, but it was on in the middle of the afternoon on Saturday.

--
Scott Barker
iwsbarke@acs.ucalgary.ca

"Remember, wherever you go, there you are."
   - Peter Weller, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
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From: jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
Subject: Re: QL question
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 03:22:31 GMT

laura_uerling@QMRELAY.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU ("Laura Uerling") writes:

>In particular, "rck1@ellis.uchicago.edu (roberta chi-woon kwong)" made a good
>point:
>>And speaking of giving leapees heart attacks, remember the joke about
>>leapees thinking that they'd been kidnapped by aliens while at PQL?  Well,
>>here we have Oswald winding up in the Waiting Room not once, but SIX OR
>>SEVEN TIMES! Does he notice that every few years, he pops inexplicably into
>>this large blue room with a man named Al holding a strange mechanical
>>device? No wonder Oswald went psycho! :-)
>
>This bring up something I've always wondered about. The "leapees" in the
>Waiting Room are obviously aware that they're not in Kansas anymore, but do
>they remember being there when Sam leaps out and they go back to their own
>time? Furthermore, are they aware of what Sam is doing to their lives while
>they're waiting? If not, it must be pretty weird for them when they leap

The Quantum Leap comic book was supposedly going to expore this, with
a story (or series of stories) concerning this cult of people that
arises out of the people Sam lept into; they know something wonderful
has happened to them that has changed their lives, and it was going to
be kind of like the UFO cults and believers we have in the "real
world".  They seem to have abandoned the idea though, as many of the
really interesting story ideas that they said they were going to do
haven't appeared when they said they would (another neat one was going
to be a leap as seen from the viewpoint of everyone at Project QL
instead of from Sam's viewpoint.)

As for what the leapee remembers, I recall someone saying somewhere
that the leapee does know what Sam did while they were switched, but I
don't think it was explained HOW the leapee knows what happened.

-- 
Kansas Jim (Jim Ogle, TORG guru)                               /|
jogle@aoc.nrao.edu (NRAO-VLBA, Socorro New Mexico)           o| |-
"I'd be apathetic if I cared."                              /|\\|
From: salley@niktow.canisius.edu (David Salley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Back Leaping (was Re: QL: Oswald)
Keywords: Leap for Lisa, The Leap Back
Date: 26 Sep 92 04:54:40 GMT
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208

Alan D. writes:
> Here's a stupid question: Why can't they (in general) Leap the Leapee
> back into him/her-self the way they did to Bingo (Al) in 'Leap for
> Lisa'?  Shouldn't that bounce Sam back into himself?  Are they saving
> that for the last episode?  Am I missing something from the first few
> seasons which explains this?  (Since in "Leap for Lisa" and "The Leap
> Back" they said that they can now leap someone into a particular
> person at a particular time...)

That brings up an even more stupid question:  When they leap Bingo back into
himself, who's occupying Sam's body in the waiting room?  The Bingo of
two weeks prior?  Sam??  Nobody??? (shudder)
                                                       - David   

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From: flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip Russell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap - Season Opener
Date: 26 Sep 92 07:15:30 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Sep25.173244.19391@unlinfo.unl.edu> aberigan@nde.unl.edu (A. Berigan) writes:
>flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip Russell) writes:
>
>>I prefer that his mind only leaps. How else could he fit into other
>>people's clothes??? 8-)
>
>If only his mind leaps, how can he swim as a chimp?  On the clothes,
>where's the FAQ when you need it.  Everything gets remapped.  However
>some strange things have happened.  In "How the Tess Was Won", the guy
>he leaped into wore glasses, but Sam didn't at any time -- if he can see
>as a blind man, then his glasses would change.
>
>Or it is handled by God or Fate or whatever controls the leaps.

More like it's controlled by the all important writers who change
the "rules" of the show to fit the needs of each of their
scripts.

Flip


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From: gjw@access.digex.com (Gregory Watson)
Subject: Re: Highlander: The Series
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 02:59:28 GMT

In article <15889@umd5.umd.edu> jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...) writes:
>I liked it.
>
>The series takes place before the first movie, so there are plenty of
>immortals roaming about, and it completely ignores Highlander 2: The Quest
>For More Money.  That should be a plus in anyone's book.

	No, it unfortunately takes place after the first movie.  In
the first movie, at the very start, when Conner is arrested, the cop
says something like "So Mr. Nash, where were you going at time, month
1980 something, in such a hurry."  There were slightly more recent
cars and computers here though.

	However, aside from this little error (which I'm more than
willing to overlook), it was pretty good.  Much better than expected.
I'm looking forward to the others.

			Gregory Watson
			gjw@access.digex.com
			gjw1@midway.uchicago.edu (if the above fails)
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Subject: Re: will sf channel survive?
From: ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead)
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 13:02:51 PDT
Organization: Paradox Alley F&SF BBS 805-492-8789

greenlaw@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Leila Thomas) writes:

> In rec.arts.sf.tv, person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person ) writes:
> >I question whether sfc can survive for more than a couple of years.
> >There is oonly so much sf out there, and a lot of that is BAD sf.
> 
> I question whether it can survive if only a few places get it.
> I wonder if someone took a poll to see who does and who does not get
> the SF channel.  It seems to me from all the posts that the majority
> do not get it (I am one, I live in the Baltimore-Washington area).
> 
> Leila

Well I've heard that at least two BIG markets do not get Sci-Fi, and that
is New York, and Los Angeles.  Probably the two BIGGEST TV markets.
And living here in the Los Angeles area, I can attest that no one here
gets it.  I'm sure there are quite a few other major markets that do not
get it as well.  Most of the cable companies seem to be adopting a "wait
and see" additude.  If the station works, we'll pick it up next year.  If
it goes under, we will not have lost anything.
 


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From: veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher)
Subject: Highlander: The series
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:06:39 GMT

  You don't know how lucky you are!  I'm from Canada and, as usual, we don't
get any of your new series until after a year or so (if they make it).  If
any of you have the time, could someone please send me a general outline of
the series (ie. what happened in the premier)???

Thanks,

Chris Veenstra
veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
From: wixer!cactus.org!wixer!pro-smof.cts.com!rfletcher@cactus.org (Robert Fletcher)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: WOOPS! I shouldn't have had the TV on!
Date: 1 Oct 1992 03:49:46 -0500
Organization: The SMOF-BBS: Science Fiction Online Since 1985 [512-467-7317]
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

  I think your right about no one is going to touch the women. So the whole
plot is going to be about the end of the world.
  Oh, on this Gilligan's Island minus one, I think your right but there is
sure to be one more add to this cast.
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From: kbos@carina.unm.edu (Kurt "Some Guy" Bose)
Subject: Re: QL: The Evil Leaper
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 05:02:08 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: na

In article <717478712.1739.0@unix8.andrew.cmu.edu> gh1r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gaurang Hirpara) writes:
>
>
>Spoilers for an old episode maybe...
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Didn't the Devil himself pop up during the Halloween episode one time,
>when Sam leaped into the pulp novelist? or did i miss something then?
>He (the "devil") did say something like "who are you to go through time
>setting right what I have set wrong?". in that case the evil leaper as
>a demon concept would work nicely eh? 

Personally, given the "problems" stemming from that episode, I'm scared of
the idea of a whole season based on the premise...  :)

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Subject: Re: The Highlander TV series begins 3 oct 1992
From: wildcard@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Date: 30 Sep 92 09:46:50 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Mankato State University

In article <6324@npri6.npri.com>, murphy@npri6.npri.com (David P. Murphy) writes:
> 
> it will premiere at 6:00 on saturday 3 oct 1992 on channel 20 in washington DC.
> does that help?

What Network is that?  Could you please e-mail a response

Thanx
Th
> 
> ok
> dpm
> -- 
> murphy@npri6.npri.com 602 Cameron St. Alexandria, VA 22314 (703) 683-9090
> 
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From: matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: reason #595 why tonight's Quantum Leap sucked
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:37:16 GMT

In article <7425@lib.tmc.edu>, drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
> 
> Well, if we're going to pick nits...
> 
> In one of the Russian-language sequences, one of the subtitles said something
> like, "Your making a mistake." Shame!
> 
> David Gutierrez
> drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
> 
> "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard


I saw that too!  I was appalled that no one caught the error before it went
on the air.  We're illiterate enough in the U.S. without having our TV
encourage it (more than it already does, that is)!

Kellie Matthews-Simmons
internet::matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu
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