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From: dean@MorningStar.Com (Dean Schell)
Subject: Re: The Ghoul/Ghoulardi (Cleveland)
Organization: Morning Star Technologies
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:50:47 GMT

>In article <1eea03INNsh9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bk134@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Keith William Bowes) writes:
>>
>>      We believe there were both: "Ghoulardi" was the original on channel
>>      8 here in Cleveland from around 1962 until late 60's. This was
>>      followed by "The Ghoul" on UHF Channel 61 (?) This was early 70's
>>      (probably).

I think he was on the Cleveland VHF station as Ghoulardi from the mid to
late 60's, got fired for blowing up a frog and then appeared as The
Ghoul on the UHF station for a couple of years.

2) I remember that on one of the Cleveland VHF stations there was a late
nite horror movie show called Houlihan and Big Chuck that was after
Ghoulardi, and they did the same voice over and inserting bits of other
movies stunts like Ghoulardi, but they never started blowing up things.

3) Don't remember.

4) Seems the Cleveland VHF stations at that time were 8 and 13.  Can't
remember the call letters though.

5) see above

>>>  6) I heard that viewers frequently sent in the props to be blown up;
>>>     some already fitted with the 'charges'. Heard a story that one of
>>>     these viewer contributions turned out to be a hefty one, more like
>>>     'ordinance' than a firecracker and it tore up part of the studio.
>>>     Did this really happen? Is that what got him removed from the air?
>>
>>      Very likely this is BS. People are not that stupid. I'm sure things
>>      were very controlled in an expensive TV studio.

I seem to remember that kids would send in models to be blown to bits,
but Ghoulardi always set it up.

>I'm not sure about the heavy ordnance, but he definitely DID get in 
>trouble for blowing up a real frog - remember 'froggie' was his
>nemisis.......

Yep, when he blew up a live animal on the air he was history.

Besides blowing things up, sometimes he would show his own home movies
with himself and friends as the stars.  Even as a kid I thought it was
boring and couldn't wait until he got back to the main horror flick.  I
also remember that he helped popularize the term "rat fink".  I think
about the same time period Channel 4 or 10 here in Columbus started
their Chiller Theatre that Jerry Beck hosted for awhile - sponsored by
Duke Ale.  I'll always remember those Duke Ale Little Kings.

-dean
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From: toten@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Derek Toten)
Subject: Re: What series were not produced in LA?
Organization: E.E. Dept., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:57:34 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-10944]: bourbon

In article <Bxz0Lq.10r@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B) writes:
>
>Dark Justice is done in Barcelona, I think.  That's pretty
>wild.  It takes place somewhere in the US (from all the
>flags on the courthouse buildings), but I don't think
>they say where.
>
>Lots of Crimetime shows have strange credits (Sweating
>Bullets is a "Canada-Mexico" joint venture, etc.). 
>Anyone know the scoop on some of these things? 
>
>ab

"Sweating Bullets" is shot in... (ready for this)... Israel!


Derek Toten
From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: L&O: Goodbye Paul Sorvino **Major Spoiler**
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:26:39 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: na
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.


Spoilers!


In <1eedsbINNmbe@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> mathew@unixg.ubc.ca (Mathew B Englander) writes:

>Why did the gun dealer shoot Ceretta? Did he realize he was a cop?
>Or was he planning to kill him for his wallet? I found it really
>puzzling.

It was puzzling. But the guy obviously wasn't the most stable individual.
He wasn't just nervous, he was twitching! It seemed to be a combination of
paranoia and doublecross.

I'm glad they didn't kill Ceretta off, Logan would have totally lost it.
And who would be willing to partner up with a guy who had two ex-partners
in the ground?
As is, he almost blew that gun dealers head off.

I was very amused by the reference to the Tuck School of Business by the
Colombian murder victim's mother. I wonder if we have Michael Moriarity to
thank for that? He is a Dartmouth alumnus. I just wish the victim hadn't
been tangled up in something illegal.

And how about that ending? "She doesn't have an uncle." Whoa!

-Geoff
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From: rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Robert J. Granvin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: FORM A NEWSGROUP ALREADY!!!!!
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:38:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: news2.1992Nov18.173847.354
Organization: School of Statistics, University of Minnesota

|> I just started reading this group today...
|> 
|> Is this rec.arts.tv or alt.ql.enamored ?
|> 
|> When the bulk of the topics are about 1 show it's time to get a
|> group of your own!!

Then _do_ something about it.

Constant posts of this nature (and replies like my own) do nothing 
constructive for the situation at all.  There is a mechanism in place
for newsgroup creation.  If it succeeds, a group is created.  If it
fails, then so be it.  But someone must actually get up and do something
about it.  If no one does, then it obviously isn't that big of a deal,
correct?

-- 
// Robert J. Granvin                                         rjg@stat.umn.edu
// School of Statistics - University of Minnesota        System Administrator
// ``One of the `right' people.''
From: finifter@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Tracy E. Finifter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: FORM A NEWSGROUP ALREADY!!!!!
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:52:16 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

quendor@stein.u.washington.edu (Don Sowell) writes:


>   One thing I have wondered about, How does one go about making a newsgroup?
>Who do you contact? Is there a certain amount of people nessessary to start
>one? Who writes the charter? Who keeps the FAQ?

>                                       Don Sowell

>                            

Sorry, people, but the word is you're going to have to put up with us for quite
a while yet.  You may or may not recall the hordes of messages posted several
weeks ago about a rec.arts.quantum-leap.  The problem is that while alt 
newsgroups are easy to create, and there is one for a lot of different TV
shows, most of the QL fans who frequent rec.arts.tv and rec.arts.sf.tv can't
get alt newsgroups and are stuck with only the rec groups.  And it is much
harder to create a rec group than an alt group.  There is a way (but I'm not
sure what it is) to tell your news server to ignore all messages with QL in
the subject.


-- 
* Tracy E. Finifter                       *                                   *
*  finifter@gandalf.rutgers.edu           *    "Leapers do it time after      *
*  Douglass College, Rutgers University   *        time after time..."        *
*  New Brunswick, New Jersey              *                                   *
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From: bbrett@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Betsy Brett)
Subject: SHERLOCK HOLMES (w/Jeremy Brett) Episode Guide wanted!
Summary: S,Holmes episode guide wanted
Keywords: Holmes guide wanted
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:30:09 GMT


If anyone has the Sherlock Holmes episode guide, please post it or send
it to me.  This is the Granada series presently being shown on A&E, and
also occasionally on PBS.  As well, please post to rec.arts.tv.uk -
there are others who subscribe to that group who want it, but possibly
do not subscribe to this one.

Thanks!!

-Betsy Brett-
bbrett@morgan.ucs.mun.ca

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From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)
Subject: Re: Dissappointing Sci-Fi Cable Channel
Organization: Utopia Planitia Starfleet Yards, Mars
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 11:35:47 GMT


tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates) writes:
 >the Sci-Fi channel finally arrived.. Are you as dissappointed as I am?   

Nope...  It's nothing to drop-dead over, but I *have* been taping 
various series quite regularly ever since it started.  

 >They appear to be showing TV shows like War of the Worlds, Incredible Hulk
 >Space 1999... all of which can be found running on other cable channels..

They can?  None that I am aware of.  (except for I.H. which I 
would prefer not to be "aware" of in any way shape or form! :)

In fact, 1999 has not played on ANY channel around here in *many* years.
WotW also disappeared from stations about a year or so ago, and I had
not seen it since.  I am very glad both of those shows are on again,
since it allows you to tape any episodes that were missed before.
THAT is the reason i'm not "disappointed" with SFC.  They have been
playing multible series that I want to tape all or part of.

 >They did show Star Wars on the opening night,  nothing as good since...
 >Every once in a while I see an old 50's sci-fi classic.

I have *ZERO* interest in seeing movies on a commercial channel,
but if that is what you want, by the looks at SFC's schedule they
do seem to be obliging you...

 >No Fireball XL5, 
They have Stingray and Captain Scarlet.

 >no Outer Limits, no more big production classics...

"big production classics"??  I'm not sure what you expected from this channel 
(or even what that is :).  *I* wanted to see lots of SF series that I have 
not been able to watch or tape in a long time.  Alien Nation, War of the 
Worlds, Prisoner, ST:TAS, 1999, Supermarionation shows, and even sillier 
stuff like Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers all fit that bill quite 
nicely.  Another show they just started which I have not seen in ages was 
"Planet of the Apes".  Coming next year will be others such as The Invaders.
If they keep that up I will be perfectly satisfied...

 >I sure wouldnt want to pay for old reruns of Hulk.  Blahhhh....

Neither would I, but fortunately there are DOZENS of other shows on SFC.
From: mayday@lclark.edu (May Dea)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Shows B&W --> Color?
Date: 22 Nov 92 09:45:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: lclark.1992Nov22.094509.10637
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR


>>How many shows filmed in the '60s went from B&W to Color?
>
>[shows deleted for brevity]
>
>Beverly Hillbillies
>Doctor Who
>F-Troop
>
>Those are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.  Anyone else?
>
I Dream Of Jeannie?
Xref: sparky rec.arts.tv:22324 rec.arts.sf.tv:5220
From: sll28@cc.usu.edu (Lorna Payne)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL Query: How tall are the boys?
Date: 20 Nov 92 09:07:13 MDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Utah State University

In article <Bxztpy.Dws@ddsw1.mcs.com>, leaper@ddsw1.mcs.com (Maria C. Munoz) writes:
> tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine) writes:
> 
> : just how tall are scott and dean?
> 	Scott said (to Sally and which I read) that he's 6 feet...and
> Dean is 5'6" I believe.

Well, according to _Current_Biography_ (1990 ed.) Dean Stockwell is "about 
5'10" tall."  Since I fully expect a man to lie about his height (just as 
most women subract 5 pounds off their weight), I'd say he's closer to 5'8"
or 5'9".  5'6" is a full half-foot shorter than Scott, and there's not quite
that much height differential. 

But I like shorter men better, anyway.

Lorna, who's  currently (and has been since 1976) 5'3.5".
-- 

     -------------------------------------------------------------
               Lorna Payne
               Certified Math Geek and Grammarian
     -------------------------------------------------------------
     The concept is simply staggering.  Pointless, but staggering.
                         -The Doctor (The Pirate Planet)
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From: d8b@sgfb.ssd.ray.com (Boudria)
Subject: Jackson's movie
Organization: Raytheon Company, Portsmouth, RI
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:49:35 GMT

My husband caught the tail end of the Jackson's Movie last night and I have
a question.  We started discussing all the Jackson's and what they're doing
now.  We know there were eight kids - two girls (LaToya and Janet) and six
boys (Michael, Randy, Marlon, Tito, Germaine and .........).  That's the
problem, we can't think of the name.  While we were trying to think of it
we started to pay real close attention to the movie and never heard them
say the name (and we watched for about an hour).  So does anybody else know
the last Jackson's name????  And why didn't they say anything about him in
the last hour???  And why did all the kids call their father Joseph and not
Dad????  Inquiring minds want to know.

Denise
From: adamsf@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Daughter of Sin update needed
Date: 18 Nov 92 11:24:30 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <92323.093208MBS4@psuvm.psu.edu>, Michelle Schott <MBS4@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> Sorry, yesterday was my son's birthday and I forgot to tape Quantum Leap.
> Would some kind sould please e-mail me a summary of what happened?
>                                             Thanks,
>                                                Michelle Schott

Me too, I had someone at the door just as Sam lifted the lady
with the broken leg....so I lost the last 10-15 minutes!  

Thanks

Fran Adams
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From: guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery)
Subject: The year 2000 (was Re: QL: "SLSB": observations)
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 06:08:43 GMT

In article <ISBELL.92Nov15161431@panther.ai.mit.edu> isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell) writes:
>
>The fact still remains that 2001 will be the first year of the 21st
>century.  And just because everyone in the world thinks you're a
>potato(e), this does not make you a potato(e).
I never said it wasn't. I just support the specialness of the year 2000.

jam
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From: rwarren@vax2.concordia.ca (Rosemary A. Warren -- Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Subject: The Jacksons:  An American Dream
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: Jackson, Michael
Organization: Concordia University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:47:00 GMT

hey folks,

when you were counting up the number of people that played Michael,
did you include the baby?

just a thought.  see ya wednesday.

"All the colors of the world should be
 Lovin' each other whole-heartedly ..."
	The Jacksons, "Can You Feel It?"

Rosemary Warren		rwarren@topaz.concordia.ca
Montreal's Favorite Jacksonmaniac !!!
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From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: Re: This Old House: Bell Tower suite
Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:24:40 GMT

mclaughlin@brandonu.ca writes:

>I couldn't believe my eyes during that last episode of This Old House!  
>Imagine putting an apartment into a seven storey bell tower of a 
>burned out church!

Yes, that was neat.

It reminded me of the time I stayed in a youth hostel in Vienna.
It was only open in the summer, and was in the bell tower of a church.
The noviate priest stayed there during the rest of the year.
Imagine 7 stories up with a backpack.

The only problem was when they rang the bell. The place sure rocked. :)

>I wish the cameraman had stood still and just turned around so we could have
>gotten a feeling for the size of each room.  I think Steve said that the
>entire floor space was 13' x 13'.  That's not very big -- and why would the
>architects put the fireplace on the TOP floor!  Carry firewood up 7 flights
>of stairs?  No, thank you.  Steve was puffing by the time they got to the
>fifth level.  I wonder how many fires the owners actually have!?

I think the only reason was to avoid a 7 story chimney, using up
precious space all the way up.

>I do love that show!  It's the only way I'm ever going to get a look at
>some of the wonderful house designs that architects with imagine come
>up with! :-)
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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT)
Subject: Energizer Bunny's resume
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:49:18 GMT
Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois  60657

Has rec.arts.tv ever had a canonical list of the Bunny's appearances?
I've started one from memory in no particular order:

The Lone Ranger (leaves a battery instead of a silver bullet)
Really White laundry additive (bunny gets bleached)
Alfred Hitchcock's theme song and outline
Chateau Marmoset wines
Tres Cafe international coffees
Airedale air freshener (bunny wears gas mask)
Sputnik beet drink (weightless bunny spins about in mid-air)
Chug-a-Cherry soda pop (bunny joins dancer upside down on ceiling)
Optiphone long distance (bunny knocks over set divider)
alarm! soap (bunny in raincoat interrupts shower)
HiPS (on the Adventure Channel -- all-female SWAT team show)
Dance with Your Feet (romantic movie)
Marceau Soulenaire's underwater special (bunny is submerged in scuba gear)
Nasatine decongestant
Firmatene anti-diarrheal (bunny is parachuting past balloon)
Ligamint liniment (bunny gets X-rayed and shows bones inside)
Olga Montero and Her Magic Harp
an Olga Christmas [ever call the 800 number?]
Sitagin suppositories
Rottenbrau yuppie beer (bunny knocks mug over and head of foam turns out
			to be plastic prop)

Which have I missed?

David W. Tamkin   Box 59297   Northtown Station, Illinois  60659-0297
dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com    CompuServe: 73720,1570    MCI Mail: 426-1818
From: firenza@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: L&O  11/18/92
Date: 19 Nov 1992 19:25:41 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

    That episode was quite complex.  I really liked it.  The ending was a major
surprise.  I figured someone was killed, but talk about a major house cleaning.
And I agree with a previous poster about the last line.  "She doesn't have an
uncle."  I love it when they have endings like that.  Just sort of grabs you.

firenza


Organization: H&SS Academic Advisory Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:23:36 -0500 
From: "Carol A. Buckner" <cb30+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: LAW & ORDER question

Anybody know if they're writing the officer out of the script that was
shot on Wednesday's (11/18/92) show? If so, why? I liked his character. 
Thanks in advance for any replies.  
 
Carol Buckner
Carnegie Mellon University 
            
Trivia is so unimportant, but if we had none what would we talk about?
From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: "SLSB": observations
Date: 15 Nov 92 16:14:31
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
	<1992Nov15.075253.9855@wixer.cactus.org>
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In-reply-to: guppy@wixer.cactus.org's message of Sun, 15 Nov 92 07:52:53 GMT

guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery) writes:
|>What is so special about the New Year 2000? That year is the last of the
|>20th century. 2001 is the start of the 21st.

|<flame on>
|It's special because the year will begin with 20! Everyone will be
|screwed up writing 19 and then crossing it out and writing 20. It's
|special because my check books will have a _______20__ for the date
|printed on them. 2001 isn't special at all! It doesnt change anything
|but the last digit of the 2000 that we all will be used to writing by
|then! There wont be a presidential election in `01 or an olympics, and
|the questions of leap years doesn't even enter into `01 (will we or wont
|we, well by 2001, it wont matter!!). 

True.

|One of the only things going for 2001 is that Al Gore will the the first
|president of the 21st century. Another special thing about 2001 will be
|that the 20th Century Fox studio will have made their decision about
|their name. Whoopie. What do you think is special about 2001 that it
|should overshadow 2000?  Well all this pseudo-intellectualism about
|correcting people will be drowned out by all the people who will
|steadfastly celebrating Dec 31st 1999!! Ask Prince.

True.

However.

The fact still remains that 2001 will be the first year of the 21st
century.  And just because everyone in the world thinks you're a
potato(e), this does not make you a potato(e).
--
Peace.
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         It is IN the Pacific.  It is a part of the United States that 
         is an island that is right here."
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                   Hawaii, September 1989
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From: Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong)
Subject: Re: RAVEN: Show Update
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:31:50 GMT

> Ada Cheng writes:
>
> Msg-ID: <1992Nov13.175905.7934@cs.mun.ca>
> Posted: 13 Nov 92 17:59:05 GMT
>
> Org.  : CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
>
> In article <17229@mindlink.bc.ca> Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong)
> writes:
> >Some people were asking about the status of the show. CBS has cancelled
> the
> >show, as well as its whole Saturday night lineup in favour of a movie
> format,
> >that is, until they decide what else could go there.
> >
> >So goes another interesting series ... I thought the show was surprisingly
> >popular.
> >
> Is this the show the Lee Major was in and is about ninja or something
> like that? I watch it twice and really like it but could never remember the
> name of the show. I have been trying to find it in the TV guide for quite
> some time. Hope another station pick up the show.
>
> AC


Yes, that is the show. Someone mentioned that CBS might revive it later as a
midseason replacement. Can anyone confirm that?

P.S. Lee Majors was pretty funny ... he carried weapons everywhere on his
body.
From: maire@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Leno/headlines?
Date: 19 Nov 92 21:04:10 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

Fans, please forgive my lack of knowledge, but I have a question.  Does
Jay Leno still feature the funny newspaper headlines on the Tonight Show?
I ask because I almost never see the show, but I recently came across
an item that would be absolutely perfect for it.  Please let me know
via e-mail, as I don't usually monitor this group.  Also, if you know
an address where I could send it if he still features them, I would
appreciate that too.
Thanks!
Tina M. Wood
maire@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
maire@drycas.bitnet

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