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From: coop1w13@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Subject: Re: The Return of Quantum Leap to r.a.t.
Reply-To: coop1w13@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 14:41:11 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.234555.19352@cs.yale.edu>, reeves-bill@CS.YALE.EDU (Bill Reeves) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr15.204451.16618@bmerh2.bnr.ca> coop1w13@bnr.ca writes:
|> >
|> >As a huge fan of Quantum Leap (read: Leaper), I apologize for starting this
|> >thread. I'm new to the network/newsgroups, and was originally disappointed
|> >when Quantum Leap didn't have a newsgroup dedicated exclusively to it. I had
|> >read that there was a vote about Quantum Leap becoming a newsgroup and that
|> >the motion was defeated, but I had assumed it wasn't because the fans didn't 
|> >want one! 
|> > 
|> As a non-fan of Quantum Leap, I admit that I was in favor of the newsgroup
|> when the vote came about last summer.  I also noticed that when that vote
|> was defeated, several prominent Leapers voted against it.  So all you 
|> Leapers have a point about all us non-Leapers trying to kick you out.
|> 
|> However, I've found a happy solution -- the kill file.  The only problem
|> is that when someone posts an article with the subject line like "The 
|> return of Quantum Leap to rec.arts.tv" my kill file doesn't catch it,
|> and then I am subjected to the same old arguments all over again...
|> 
|> My point is that if every QL article had "QL" at the beginning of
|> the subject line, a large amount of the whining by non-QL people would
|> go away.  I can't speak for all of the silent masses who don't watch
|> QL and don't care, but I appreciate it when I see a bunch of articles
|> dying before I have to look at them. :)
|> 
|> > 
|> >I again apologize for my stupidity.
|> >
|> Don't worry about it -- next time, just put "QL" in the subject line and
|> all of us non-QL'ers will be a lot happier! :)

Does this mean you're unable to put the words, ``Quantum Leap'' in your kill
file, or just too lazy? :-) :-)
 
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From: leapers@romana.Tymnet.COM (Quantum Leap fans)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: QL and HF ratings
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:20:03 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.tv
Distribution: na
Organization: Leap Info R Me

In the major market overnight Nielsens (the full nationals aren't in yet
as I write this), it was par for the course: 48 Hours first, Quantum
Leap second, Homefront third (I didn't have a pencil handy to write
down the exact numbers, sorry).

Just thought some of you might like to know.

Sally

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From: helen@pulua.hcc.hawaii.edu (Helen Rapozo)
Subject: Re: MST3k info needed
Keywords: April 15 episode
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 04:13:42 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.214956.14285@unx.sas.com> saseph@hal.unx.sas.com (Ed Hughes) writes:
>It's going to be "The Corpse Vanishes," from the first season.
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Ahhh, so that explains the reason why Frank wasn't there or the fact that
Tom Servor's voice sounded different, plus the introduction music was
different too.

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From: eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse)
Subject: Re: QL Episode guide
Reply-To: eah4@po.CWRU.Edu (Elizabeth A. Hlabse)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 12:25:42 GMT


In a previous article, dmb@world.std.com (Deborah M Brown) says:


>I posted (or thought I did) everything up to 'Roberto!'.  I haven't had 
>the chance to do 'It's A Wonderful Leap' yet.
>
>I'm going to try to get that done by tomorrow when I post the Nielsens.
>If everyone else is missing the entries, I can post them again (RIT has 
>been having news problems for the past month, hence my new account on The 
>World).

Sorry, Debbie, I haven't seen then, and I'm on the net an awful lot
and I read everything connected with QL.  You may wish to repost.


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From: rush@mnementh.metaphor.com (Ed Rush)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Hard Copy 15th April, about Kelso, WA, cop
Date: 17 Apr 92 00:34:19 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA

A friend of mine was interviewed for a segment of the 
syndicated Hard Copy TV show, which aired in Oregon
on Wednesday evening, 15th April. She would like to have
a videotape of it. Did anyone out there tape this Hard Copy?

She would be thrilled to pay for tape and postage to get
the tape or a copy of it.  Please reply by e-mail, not 
posting, as I rarely get to read this newsgroup.

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Xref: sparky rec.arts.tv:9236 rec.music.classical:5593
From: conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: NEXP: Bear Dance and Closing Music on CD
Keywords: nexp bear music
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:32:21 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.tv
Distribution: rec
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <29984@cbmvax.commodore.com> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner - CATS) writes:

>As someone previously posted, the music from the bear dance
>scene is Bailero by Canteloube.

>New information: The artist is Frederika VonStade (VonStaad ? VonStahdt ?)

Frederica von Stade.  

I feel vindicated!  I said originally that this performance sounded like
her.  She has recorded the whole series for CBS/Sony.

Jon Alan Conrad
From: firenza@wpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL going down hill
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:18:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: wpi.1992Apr13.181835.26682
Distribution: na
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute

In article <1992Apr13.135252.6230@infonode.ingr.com> tensmekl@infonode.ingr.com (Kermit Tensmeyer) writes:
>>
>>"  Next week is another rerun and not one of the better ones. Gee is there
>>"  anything else to do next Wednesday night.  Maybe stick a finger down
>>"  my throat or accomplish the same thing and watch QL.
>>
>>If you don't like it, you don't have to watch it!  Sheesh!!
>>Well, if you really want to...  Maybe you two should get an act together.
>>"Kermit and Jeremy -- On Quantum Leap"   Tonight we review _Shock_Theatre_:
>>HATED IT!
>>
>>Oh, somebody else already does that schtick?  Sorry...   :-)
>>
>
> After being a QL supporter for two good seasons, it tougher this season
> to watch. The quality of the show (production and writing) has gone
> down hill. Which episode if any from this season would you be willing
> to sit through again. How many from last season? Proably more.
>
> Quantum Leap has in the past been a great show. It's good that it was
> renewed this year because this year I wouldn't have written letters of
> support for it.
>Kermit Tensmeyer                                  | Intergraph Corporation
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I agree.  When I think of the early QL, the first couple seasons, I remember
is as being very good.  This season has been a real disappointment.  I liked
"Roberto!", because it seemed to go back to QL's roots.  When I compare some
of this years shows with "The Leap Home" and the one after it(the season 
premiere and second show of last year, having to do with Sam's family) this 
year is very sad.  The writing is almost becoming predictable.  Why can't Sam
fail horribly or cause something bad to happen?  There are too many hurry-up
happy endings this season.  We need more grit.  It's starting to remind me of
the _Magnum PI_.  Very good in the beginning, but the later years lost 
something.  I am sort of scared of the season finale(I won't repeat the rumors
for those who avoided them).  I sounds like it could be very good, but so have
a lot of other shows this year.  

firenza@wpi.wpi.edu.

PS.  Hey, Sally, use your influence and have them repeat the series pilot 
     instead of these lame repeats.  Some of us still haven't seen it.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: dmb@world.std.com (Deborah M Brown)
Subject: Re: American version of Red Dwarf
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:12:30 GMT

In article <9204091423.AA02360@tyrell.CFSMO.Honeywell.COM> ottoh3@CFSMO.HONEYWELL.COM (Otto Heuer #3) writes:

>Wasn't it this week or next week that NBC was thinking of using the pilot
>of the "possibly" abandoned American version of "Red Dwarf" (as a filler
>show)?

It's not this week or next week (I have TV Guides for both weeks).  I'm 
HOPING it's been abandoned.  Even though a netter present at the filming 
said it was pretty good, and even tough Grant & Naylor are supposedly 
involved, the write-up I read that described the Americanised version 
sounded totally wretched.  Nothing like the British (read that 'original')
show we love so well.

>Is there anything in the TV Guide (or other news) saying when this might
>get used?

I'd like to know that too - I just might watch it out of morbid curiosity.


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Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (99E99)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Mrs. Columbo AAAAAAAAAARRRGH
Date: 11 Apr 92 05:51:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing


In article <57240@cup.portal.com> Wedge@cup.portal.com (Craig Teruo Matsumoto) writes:
}ABC is not happy with just showing recent Columbo reruns, nooooo....
}They're putting up an old (1979) MRS. COLUMBO episode, probably the 
}premiere of the ill-fated series.  WHY WHY WHY WHY ??!!
}Well....okay, I have to admit, I don't actually *remember* the old 
}series.  Can anybody tell me:  was it any good?  Should I take the
}plunge and watch this thing?  Any input would be much appreciated...

	I don't think it's all that bad.  It is a cheap attempt to cash in
on Columbo, for sure, but it is still fairly decent.. (Sort of like 
"Friday the 13th The Series".. Had NOTHING to do with the movies, but was a
_very_ good show.. they used the name to have a "presold audience"... The
show was a lot like the Scooby Doo series where they had to find the cursed
items).

	I'm a big fan of Columbo, but still think the Mrs. Columbo series
is "ok".. They should be thought of as separate though.. (there are a couple
of funny references to Columbo though).

	There's no way in hell that an old geezer like Columbo could be
married to her though.. Comon! He couldn't keep up with her.
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From: akilgour@thinkage.on.ca (Anita Kilgour)
Subject: Re: I see the QL whining is starting again
Summary:  And the twits who have to bitch about it are back in force!
Organization: /etc/organization
Disclaimer: the usual
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:46:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.174754.9878@athena.mit.edu> rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro) writes:
>So, the "QL is god's gift to TV and we're so special that even
>a mainstream rec.arts.tv.ql group isn't acceptable" people are back.
>Feh.

Oh, this is brilliant.  Will you please tell me why you are still alive.  I
thought a double recessive gene made people like you live very short lives!

In other words, read the posts and remeber the history, if you can get your 
brain to work that hard.  Both A.TV.QL and R.A.TV.QL have been tried and 
tried to be voted in.  IT DOESN'T GET VOTED IN.  For the love of little green
apples, folks, you tried to get rid of us several times.  Other than fairly
recently, (mostly touched off by this damnable discussion) we are not nearly
as vocal as we may have been in the past, and certainly not more than most of
the other "groups" of fans.  So calm your flipping hormones and get off
the high horse.  It hasn't worked.  Why beat a dead horse?

>By this logic, Star Trek: The Next Generation (it's a TV show) should
>be discussed here.  As should all soap operas, the Simpsons, everything
>in rec.arts.uk, and so on.  After all, if people don't see them talked
>about in rec.arts.tv then they might never watch them.

And if the people who generated those newsgroups didn't want to discuss it
elsewhere, they wouldn't.  And often don't.  Or cross-post.  Your point?

>Ok QL fans, let's hear your support for folding all the TV related
>groups into rec.arts.tv.  Or are you going to admit to being hypocrites?

I will allow that anyone is welcome to support any group they care to.  I 
don't support a rec.arts.tv-ql.  Where is the hypocracy?  Perhaps the 
question is best aimed at yourself.  Or are you not without sin?  You've
certainly been casting enough stones....

>BITNET: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu      JITTLOV FOREVER!

Oh good.  At least I know the man's taste isn't all in his mouth.  

Anita Kilgour

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: afmartp@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (PETE MARTIN)
Subject: Re: QL:Time travel Question
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: ORGANIZATION??...Who has time to be organized?
Distribution: na
Date: 10 Apr 1992 12:39 EST  

In article <10APR199212334928@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>, afmartp@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (PETE MARTIN) writes...
>Also, since Al is a hologram, we always see the neat effects of cars 
>driving right through him, etc,  but why can the car drive through him, 
>but he can sit in the car and travel within it too??  These two actions 
>seem to me to be mutually EXclusive.  
> 
>Any help out there?

Sorry, this news reader sometimes truncates my postings.  I'll now ask what 
was my first question.  I read the QL primer and I understand the concept 
of time strings with the parts of the string touching other times, and how
the rule is that Sam can only leap to times that occur during his own life-
time.  My question is, why can't Sam leap into the future?  By the future, 
I mean that period of time between the first leap, and Sam's death.  That 
would satisfy the "within his own lifetime" rule.  Has this been asked/
discussed before?  Again, any help out there?


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From: ahsiung@bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: QL: Help
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:32:48 GMT
Reply-To: ahsiung@labs-n.bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

Hello!  Please, someone tell me the title of last night's episode..
Where Sam/Jack Stone has flashbacks to childhood after witnessing a
murder.  Thanks.

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From: jrknight@optima.UUCP (James R. Knight)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Actually, it's CYBILL
Date: 9 Apr 92 07:25:32 GMT
Distribution: usa

If you're going to correct someone, at least get it right.  Another L
might not make a difference to you, but these actors go through so
much in choosing the quintessential celebrity-type names that it must
disappoint them so to have their names misspelled and mispronounced.

Jim
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: sam kinneson was killed
Date: 17 Apr 92 02:56:27 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <18057@oasys.dt.navy.mil> dooley@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Katherine Dooley) writes:
<
<He was on his way from L.A. to Laughlin, Nevada to do a show.  A kid
<(18 yrs old) was in a pick-up trunk, passing a car and he hit him head
<on.  Sam was in the car with his new (7 DAYS) bride (27 yr old), just
<getting back from their honeymoon in Hawaii.  She is in a hospital in
<Needles, CA.  The BOY was arrested (apparently unhurt), his passenger
<was slightly injured.  (source:  Washington Post Obits, SUN 12 APR)

I read that the kid was 17 and he crossed a double-yellow line to try and pass.
He was in a truck, not a trunk.
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From: rhl@d62wdf.mitre.org (Roger H. Lincoln)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: "The Machine That Changed The World" - inaccuracy?
Date: 15 Apr 92 13:16:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: d62wdf.RHL.92Apr15081628
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.


Has anyone seen the PBS series "The Machine That Changed The World"?
Last night (episode 2 I think) told about the role that the Apollo
moon project had in miniaturizing the computer.  The told (and showed)
how the on-board computer was responsible for guiding the lander down
to the surface of the moon.  The concluded by saying "it performed
flawlessly". 

I seem to recall an episode of Nova in 1989 about the first moon
landing where they told how the on-board computer was overloaded by
all the incoming data and flatlined seconds before landing so that the
pilot had to land manually.

Which story is correct?  Or is there a new definition of the word
"flawlessly" that I wasn't previously aware of?

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From: rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Robert J. Granvin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: The Return of Quantum Leap to r.a.t.
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:31:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: news2.1992Apr15.153136.950
Organization: School of Statistics, University of Minnesota

In article <300@romana.Tymnet.COM>, sally@romana.Tymnet.COM (Sally 'Lucky Bitch' Smith) writes:
|> Besides which, the QL traffic is usually at a reasonable level until
|> someone brings this topic up again. Ignore us and we're fairly quiet. And
|> the traffic now is much less than it was the last time the CFV went out, so
|> I'd say it has even less chance of passing.

I have to agree with this.  Perhaps we should create a group to discuss
whether there should be a rec.arts.tv.ql.  .5 :-)

In reference to an arguement that last years cliffhanger generated an
awful lot of posts, I submit that any popular show discussed on the net
with a well orchestrated cliffhanger will generate a lot of posts.  
Quantum Leap is by far in the way not the leader of this phenomenon.

It's one of those things you _expect_ at the end of the season (just
like you expect the overall net traffic to decrease dramatically when
Colleges finish the spring quarter and go into the sparsely populated
summer sessions...)

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From: sally@eris.berkeley.edu (S. A. Wilson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Moments to Live
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:54:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: agate.s2lg2INN5pb
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: eris.berkeley.edu



I thought that it was interesting that they had Lynchian
acter, the woman who played Norma's "mother." Gosh, can't
think of her name now. But she played Jeffery Beaumont's
aunt (???) in _Blue_Velvet_, she played a rather bitchy
character in _Wild_at_Heart_, and she was Mrs. Tremond (???)
the Cream Corned Kid's grandmother--a TP spirit--in Twin
Peaks, and I believe will be in the up coming movie too..
And her character last night on QL last night was rather
Lynchian, what with her being a stroke-victim, and wheel
chair-bound.

And I would have loved it if Sam were in factthe Matt
Ashford character, and we got more of a glimpse of
soap opera life, a la _Soapdish_.


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