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From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: YIJC - Spying in Spain
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:49:48 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Oct15.211909.15567@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> kca@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (k.c.archie) writes:

>I also loved the Morse code routine. It was nice to see something
>pleasant after the horrors of the last few episodes.

Ditto here!

>But I have a question as well. The German attache had two soldiers
>in uniform that acted as his seconds in the duel. 
>I am pretty sure that one of them played the German commander 
>in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

Yes, that was Wolf Kahler as the aide.

_Really_ sharp-eyed viewers will also have noticed that the Russian
dance troupe leader Diaglihev (sp?) was played by William Hootkins,
who was the bureaucrat at the end of "Raiders" and was also an X-Wing
pilot in "Star Wars".

Ain't casting fun?

Sally
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Subject: "Prisoner" episodes needed
From: jpollock@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:32:52 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

Does anyone out there in NewsNet land have the episodes for "The Prisoner" on
tape?  I need them for two reasons: one, I really want to see them again (I've
seen about half of them) and also, I might actually need them for a class of
mine, where I could use them to show how society entraps people.  If anyone out
there does have them, please Email me at JPOLLOCK@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU.  Thanx in
advance!

JP
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From: djs@sadtler.com
Subject: Re: Three cheers for Sinead!!!
Organization: Sadtler Research Laboratories
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:29:41 GMT

In article <ed.718727088@cwis> ed@cwis.unomaha.edu (Ed Stastny) writes:

[Topic deleted]

>
>When you think about it, it's only our interpretations that matter.
>That's all that matters with any such expression.                  
> 
>If you're not interested in reading someone's translation, then you
>probably shouldn't be reading any part of this thread unless it says
>"Sinead O'Connor" in the "from" field....and even then, could you trust
>it?
> 
>...e
>
Never work as a fact finder.  
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From: rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Highlander
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:42:19 GMT
Organization: MAWL - Mudd Alums Without Lives

In order to maintain continuity, the series must take place before
1986.  As far as I can tell, there is nothing to indicate the series
is not taking place before then, and I've been trying to keep my out.

Has anyone noticed any blatant post-'86 anachronisms?

The only problem now is the sheer volume of immortals that will be
killed before the Gathering.  The movie seemed to imply that there was
a relatively small number of immortals.  If the series continues along
the same lines, we'll be killing them off a dime a dozen.

The formula could get old real soon.  I'd like to see an ep where
there is no evil immortal.  The swordplay is good enough for me.  We
don't need to blow out glass every ep.  We also wouldn't thin out the
immortal pool as quickly.  :-)

Agitator
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From: pom2@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Paul Pomerleau)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Joe's Basement?
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:27:19 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Hi guys.  It occurs to me that the kind of people who subscribe to this
newsgroup might be the type to watch their local cable access channels.
Although it seems like most people and the major media are only aware of
"Wayne's World," there's actually some good stuff on access channels,
buried amongst the religious talk shows and farm reports.  When I was
living in Chicago, for example, we used to watch this great, really bizarre
local access show called "This Week in Joe's Basement."

The show is hard to describe for those who've never seen it, but it was
basically this guy, Joe, who would host the show from what looked like his
own basement, and present a bunch of weird skits and man-on-the-street
interviews and things like that.

I'm told we don't have any access channels here in Philadelphia.  I
don't know firsthand, because I haven't decided whether to get cable,
yet.

Anyway, this show had a real folllowing in the Chicago area and it
would be fun to hear about what people are doing in other cities, too.

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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
Subject: Re: NEXP: MY PERSONAL HIGHLIGHT REEL
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 08:47:50 GMT

In article <16315@mindlink.bc.ca> Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong) writes:
>The 10/12 episode of Northern Exposure was the best one so far this season.

  Well, just to add another opinion, I didn't care much for this
episode.  Maybe because it concentrated on Chris, a character that I
can only take so much of.  His love interest also really turned me
off.  The flash of cruelty and vengefulness she shows at the end is
supposed to be ironic and telling, I suppose, but the whole plot left
a bad taste in my mouth.

  I did like the Maurice plot, though, and especially the German
character.  There is not much chance that he will be back, but I
thought the interaction between him and Ed was great.  ("I forget who
played Mengele in this one."  A classic line.)


--Raymond Flournoy        
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From: ctuel@zeus.calpoly.edu (Cliff Tuel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Commercial:  Folger's Coffee
Date: 9 Oct 92 06:00:12 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

ahsiung@labs-n.bbn.com (Anita Hsiung) said...
|That commercial with the British woman and American male neighbour
|(yes, I know both actors are British)..  Who is the man in her
|apartment in the latest installment? [...]

He switched their regular coffee with Folger's Crystals.

(How are *we* supposed to know?  That's the POINT!  You're supposed to
keep watching!  Frankly I could care less.)

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From: gt3477c@prism.gatech.EDU (Stutzman, Bryan Raymond)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: NEXP Depiction of Love
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:11:29 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I can't think of another TV show which has been able to show
real love between two characters like Northern Exposure does.
Look at the following exhibits:

(1)  Holling and Shelly  (Decorating the church and singing Ave Maria
     to bring back her Catholic childhood at Christmas).

(2)  Shelly and Holling  (The puppet show was amazing while still being
     definitely Shelly (the chick-maiden))  (What's amazing about these
     two is that their relationship is usually so sexually based)

(3)  Ed and Ruth Anne   (The gravesite gift with the view)

(4)  The Flying Man and Marilyn

(5)  Cicely and Roslyn

(6)  Joel and Maggie  (Staying with her at the hospital after the
     helicopter flight)

Sure, we see a lot of people having sex in other shows but hardly ever
do we get the emotion of love depicted as well as it is in Northern
Exposure.

Bryan Stutzman
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From: mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Designing Women: new season comments
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:14:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpuerca.BvrBnt.4u4
Organization: a stone mountain of Kudzu

In <1992Oct6.074034.21970@wixer.cactus.org> guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery) writes:


>I guess it's a couple of things that make the show better... Miss OPD
                                                              ^^^^^^^^
>being gone, and the fact that they seem to be DESIGNING women so far,
>instead of whining women or tirading women, or whatever they were up to
>last season.


This one running gag practically made _me_ gag all last season.

Thanks for reminding me of another reason I'm enjoying the new season
so much more.


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From: firenza@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: NEXP Line 10/12/92
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:00:41 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

In article <Bw64KG.E5t@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair) writes:
>APUCORLE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU writes:
>
>>And the Mengele movies scene was a classic.
>
>   I'm not sure about this, but I think Ed's cinematic knowledge may
>once more have been shown to be fallible.  I haven't seen MARATHON MAN,
>but in the book, Mengele does not appear--- the war criminal is named
>Christian Szell, supposedly a partner of Mengele's.

  Ed, indeed, is showing gaps in his knowledge.  I have seen the movie and the
Nazi Olivier played was named Szell.  

firenza@wpi.wpi.edu
From: rlcarr@animato.network23.com (Rich Carreiro)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Sinead's got balls!
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 15 Oct 92 08:05:11 EDT
Organization: The Other Side of Life

In article <Oct.14.16.38.13.1992.8301@aramis.rutgers.edu> rinehart@aramis.rutgers.edu (Mark J. Rinehart) writes:
> dear. She has no power in her message. She's just a singer who can't

Well, Rinehart, for a message that has no power, it sure as hell put a bee
up your ass.  So I guess it wasn't as powerless as you thought.

Hell, I'd hate to see how you'd react to a "pwerful" message.  Probably
die from apoplexy or something.

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From: wayman@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Jeffrey Wayman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: A write-in request for the new Bob Newhart show
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:05:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

I've mentioned before that I really like the character
Chad Pfefferle on "BOB".  He's the really weird guy
played by Timothy Fall.  The problem is that he doesn't
get a lot of lines and I'd like to see more of the
character.  Also, Fall seems to be a pretty good actor.

Here's the address for the show at CBS.  I'm going to
write a letter telling them what I mentioned above and
I ask you to do the same. 

"BOB"
c/o CBS
7800 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Thanks a lot!!

Jeff        wayman@lamar.colostate.edu
From: abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: [QL:] Al's last name
Date: 14 Oct 92 00:18:19 GMT
Organization: Boston University

In article <1atgpkINN9vi@bigboote.WPI.EDU> kay@wpi.WPI.EDU (K) writes:
+In article <1992Oct6.161436.13380@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> bggreenberg@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Brian Greenberg) writes:
+>Does anyone know Al's last name?
+
+Assuming you meant Al from Quantum Leap, I believe it's Calavicci, although

Assuming you did not, it's "Wesolowsky." Thanks for asking.


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From: jmf@endor.harvard.edu ( ghost )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: GOING TO EXTREMES (10/06 Episode)
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:41:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1992Oct13.214150.24021
Organization: DAS Purchasing, Harvard University

In article <16097@mindlink.bc.ca> Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong) writes:
>For those who gave up on Going To Extremes after the canoe making episode,
>you should know that the show is actually getting better ... or maybe I'm
>just tired :) Still, I find the show interesting, yet I am frustrated because
>I can not sometimes pick up what the "natives" are saying half the time.

Problem with the show is that the auxilliary characters 
(Jantique natives) are often well-drawn & always well-acted, ditto for the
background main cast (Roy Dotrice, Carl Lumbly).  These guys are fun when
they're around, but they're not around enough.  So we get to watch some
truly ugly Americans, only 3 of whom, the Black American princess,
the David Morse clone, & the guy with the nebulous accent & 
citizen-of-the-world act, seem bright enough to get into any medical school,
even this one, & only those 3 of whom are well-acted enough/have screen
presence enough to care about.

Its hard watching a couple of true jerk jocks hog center stage each week
(I'm assuming the guy with the broken-centrifuge-as-blender problem
& the guy carrying the thumb-in-bottle who keeps seeing Bigfoot, are, in
fact, 2 different actors...its hard to tell.)

I didn't start watching St Elsewhere regularly 'til about 1-1/2 years
into the show, so I don't know if it started out this badly, but 
the actors playing the goofier med students, Ed Begley & Howie Mandell, 
were bright enough to convince you that in another life in a galaxy
far, far away, they maybe could have been medical students.
From: eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: DW: Scott Bakula
Date: 15 Oct 1992 12:27:02 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery) says:

>Did Scott Bakula ever appear on Designing Women? I was fliiping through
>the channels when I saw a commercial for syndicated DW episodes, and I
>thought I saw him, and somehow I got the feeling that he was Mary Jo's
>ex husband.
>

Your right on both accounts.  He was on Designing Women and he was
Mary Jo's ex husband.  I think he was in two episodes, but I could
be wrong on that.



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From: stig@edb.tih.no (Stig Wahlstroem,TIH)
Subject: Re: Smith and Jones
Organization: T I H / T I S I P 
Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15  1.20 (running under MS-Windows)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 08:18:31 GMT

It's brilliant!!!!!

The (one and only) Norwegian TV station used to show it!!
I could have told you some of the jokes, -they are of that sort
you remember..

Stig Wahlstroem
stig@edb.tih.no
From: zcaccah@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Christopher Harrison)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Last night's M*A*S*H
Summary: What has happened?
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:51:36 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium

What happened last night? We seem to have jumped back in time.
A few years ago the BBC started to screen M*A*S*H from episode
one, with the plan (as I undestood it) to go throught all the 
episodes and culminating, naturally, with Goodbye, Farewell 
and Amen. 

But it seems that this has gone to pot. After gratuitously
replacing M*A*S*H for umpteen weeks, we seem to have 
returned to episode one again. (Not that the return of
Trapper, Radar and Henry was not welcome, but that is not
the point.)

Does anyone know what is going on?

Chris.
From: mei172@cch.coventry.ac.uk (guru)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Star Trek "Miri" showing next week
Date: 15 Oct 92 13:43:29 GMT
Organization: Coventry University

In article <2540.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg> imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier) writes:
>>I see from the latest Radio Times that the BBC seem to have lifted their
>>ban on the Star Trek episode "Miri" and it is to be shown on Wednesday 14
>
>Incidentally, why was it banned and what have we got to look out for? :-)
>Perhaps they will cut some bits out (even if they said they won't)...

guru sez:
	yes, do please tell...

	Having seen it last night, I didn't find anything that I would deem
	worth banning (except possibly the rather suspicious relationship
	'twixt James T and Miri), but hey, I'm not employed by the Beeb..

	Oh yes, what else has the girl who played Miri been in? Her face
	was worryingly familiar, but even squinting at the titles didn't
	help.

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From: etllnfr@eddie.ericsson.se (Lyndon Fletcher)
Subject: Re: Bird of Prey - memories, anyone?
Organization: Ericsson Cellular Division
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 11:00:26 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.131027.9338@syma.sussex.ac.uk> andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews) writes:
>
>Did anyone notice that the "super weapon" at his disposal was an Acorn
>Electron - not one of the world's most successful personal computers :-)
>
Only in "Bird of Prey 2" I think. I vaguely recall that the machine in
the original show was some generic CP/M box. In BoP2 a "Network" hit man sent
to kill him decides to use our overweight heros skill to defraud his masters.

They are forced to leave the country quickly and so they cann't take any    
equipment with them. Fearing the the network may be monitoring purchases
of equipment they "go Christmas shopping" in a mall in Brussels (?) and
buy home computer equipment from a standard electrical shop..

I remember that scene because it's the clip that the Beeb always shows.
The hero pushes a large shopping trolley which has a large prominent
"Acorn Electron" box in it around the mall while he discuses their plan with
the hitman (Leo???). The crux of the mater is that Leo needs our man to do
a run against the network. Our man need's Leo to protect him but what will
Leo do to him when he has the money.

BoP 2 was shown in the autumn season of the year the Electron came out. I       remember the adverts for the computer that Christmas. I always felt it was
a rather cynical piece of "Product placement" by the Beeb who used to get 
a heathy commision on sales of Acorn products. In fact I suspect that they
would have used one of Acorns "BBC micros" if it wasn't so expensive that
no shop would stock it.

Fletch 
>
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From: feldman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Todd J. Feldman)
Subject: Inspector Morse
Originator: feldman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Distribution: ca
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:22:13 GMT

Does anyone know a video store that rents the Inspector Morse
tapes, preferably in the South Bay area?

Thanks for any help!!!


Todd
From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Smith and Jones
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:06:03 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Tasneem Ziauddin (ziauddin@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: After finishing its current round of BA episodes, the local PBS station will
: be showing something called (I think) Smith and Jones.  Could someone who
: has seen this show tell me anything about it?  Who stars in it?
: 
: Thanks in advance.

Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. Usually very good. Mixture of sketches,
stand-up comedy of a sort and (the best bit) ``head to head'' dialogues
between Mel and Griff, as a pair of slightly dumb South Londoners... 

Well worth watching.
pete
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From: etllnfr@eddie.ericsson.se (Lyndon Fletcher)
Subject: Re: Bird of Prey - memories, anyone?
Organization: Ericsson Cellular Division
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:15:38 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.161211@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> chardi@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Ian Chard) writes:
>I have vivid memories of an excellent drama series called "Bird of Prey" on ITV
>several years ago.

The series was actually made by the BBC and was one of three "high tech" 
thrillers they made in the early '80's (the others being "Bird of Prey II" 
and "The Consultant").

Bird of Prey was the story of an overweight accountant(?) who discovers a
huge international fraud involving some very powerful people. He soon discovers that they are powerfull enough to corrupt the police and he end's up literaly
on his own. Becoming computer literate real fast he uses the machine as a super
weapon gathering evidence that can expose the whole network. Finally he
writes a program which means that if he doesn't type a certain code into a
computer once a month all the data he's collected will appear on every
networked computer screen in the world. Not even this conspiracy is large
enough to escape that so they eliminate the British end of the conspiracy
and leave him alone. He knows one day their hackers will discover his codes,
so he prepares to run.........

If you Email me I'll tell you the plot for Bird of Prey II but I don't want
to dump too many spoilers.


Fletch
From: mhr@aber.ac.uk (Michael Richards)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Die Hard - Scissors Time!!!!!!
Date: 14 Oct 92 10:38:27 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Hup hup hup!!!!!!

	Film censor lovers will need no reminding that tonight, ITV are
showing DIE HARD. 

	Anyone like to think how many minutes of it will be cut? All those
lovely scenes with Bruce Willis pulling glass out of his feet, Mr. Takagi
decorating a plate glass window - how will ITV get that across at 9:00pm

	Not to mention all the frantic clicking in the soundtrack ..

	Such as `Yippee Kay Ay MotherFu [CLICK] Sucker [CLICK] er!!!!!!!

				I cannot wait.

					Mike.
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