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From: drosera@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Donald Burden)
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Subject: Re: Little Rascals and Cosby
Date: 13 Nov 92 04:58:22 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Nov2.173758.11384@bsu-ucs> 00sdriddle@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
>Is it true that Bill Cosby bought the rights to the Little Rascals
>because he thinks they are racist?
>	Please tell me a documented source or something more than
>" I heard..."


There was a question about this in the local weekly TV schedule.  The answer
was "no".  BTW, The Little Rascals can be seen on TNT every morning around
6-7 am Eastern Time.
From: kuchar@buast7.bu.edu (Tom Kuchar)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Election night coverage
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:58:48 GMT
Organization: Astronomy Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <1992Nov4.161113.20419@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> jlpicard@austin.ibm.com writes:
>
>Gee, did anyone else watch the ABC Presidential Election coverage
>where they had the woman press these 3 little buttons on her desk 
>and it looked like little hologram bar charts sprung up to indicate
>percentages for Bush, Clinton, and Perot? 

Do you get the feeling that the people at ABC have been watching too
much Star Trek.

BTW, the reporter was Lynn Sher (sp?).  Good thing they just had her
pressing fake buttons and reading figures.  I think she's got to be
the worst reporter ABC has.


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Subject: Elections married with children episode
From: sondhu@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Paul Sondhu)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:20:27 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia


Last nights episode of Married with Children ( here in Melbourne, Australia )
showed the Bundys voting for a US President ( they were the only family
to vote - they were concerned about beer tax!! ).  The Voiceover bloke
before the show said that this episode was recently shown in the US to 
co-incide with the US elections.

Is this true?

Paul. 
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From: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH)
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Subject: Re: Cheers Question
Date: 12 Nov 92 00:49:26 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

mgtaylor@eos.ncsu.edu (Mary Molly G Taylor) writes:

[on Bebe Newirth]
>Your excused.  She did get a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.  Green
>Card may not have been a hit with the fans, but it has gotten Newirth (sp?)

My favorite role of hers so far was one on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as
a scientist who was anxious to have sex with a space alien (Ryker).
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From: jarnolde@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (John Arnolde)
Subject: QL
Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, University of Wisconsin
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 18:20:01 GMT


Well, this might contain some spoilers, but nothing to earth shattering from
the latest episode. Here's your warning to move on



Ok, everyone's talking about this show.. I liked it. As to the ending with Sam
leaping back into the begining, I think that's exactly what happened, he just
plain leaped back into Jimmy and by doing so changed whatever he was supposed
to change the first time he was there that Alia screwed up by being there.
From: bs895@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Terri M. Librande)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Chuck Connors
Date: 12 Nov 1992 16:47:57 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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I actually had a crush on Chuck Conners when he was on "Branded".
No kidding.  I was about seven at the time, and loved him.  I think
I even wrote him a fan letter.  That was one silly show, in retrospect,
but I did feel sorry for his character.  My brother used to sing
"What do you do when you're Chicken?"
"And YOu have no name..."
And he called the show Coward instead of Branded.  He also used to 
dress like Gilligan and think he knew the skipper.
Terri in Cleveland
I guess it was better than if he was dressing as Mary Ann.  sigh
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From: morin@noao.edu (Marg Morin)
Subject: Re: Question for Project Quantum Leap Fan club members
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:48:48 GMT

I wasn't aware of a Quantum Leap newsgroup. Can someone e-mail me
any info on this?

Much appreciated.
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From: berninge@cs.purdue.edu (James Berninger)
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Subject: Re: QL: Opinions about the Evil Leaper Episode
Date: 11 Nov 1992 12:19:50 -0500
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
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In article <1992Nov11.155854.6056@zip.eecs.umich.edu> charles@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Charles Jacob Cohen) writes:
>Disclaimer:  Although this post discusses most of the bad points
>of this episode, I *am* a big fan of Quantum Leap (which is why
>this episode saddened me).  Also, all these are just my humble 
>opinions.
>
>Spoiler Alert:

>1.  Who was the evil leaper?  Well, unfortunately I had it figured out
>as soon as I saw her talking to her holographic friend, Zowie.  Zowie
>had to be from the future, I was looking for someone who had to be the
>leaper, and there were only two main character non-holographic women
>in this episode.  It wasn't hard to figure out...
I thought Zoey's outfit was somewhat appropriate for the 60's -- big
plastic beads and such.  I thought she was just one of the wacky
neighbors, and expected the EL to be Frank's secretary.  What more
opportune place to ruin a marriage?

>2.  Where is the evil leaper from?...at the end of the episode Zowie says
>they are demos or devils from hell...
I believe the quote was something along the lines of "we clawed our
way out of hell".  I think this is a metaphor for the mental hell
Alia's gone through trying to get back home.

>3.  Why did everything revert at the end?...
This I don't get at all, unless "we lost two days" actually means
that Sam's leap put him two days *earlier*...

>4.  Can Sam really stop Alia from doing evil things?  No.
As has been mentioned elsewhere, it doesn't appear that Alia is the
evil one...

>5.  What was I hoping for from all the previews?...
IMHO, the previews ruin the episodes.  New episodes are pretty much
consistant with other episodes in terms of quality, but have nothing
to do with the promos.  Remember the evil leaper's glowing eyes?
The "special surprise ending" of the JFK episode?  The new theme
music?  They're trying to make QL come across as this big
adventure-type show, and it's not.  The new theme is very upbeat,
appropriate for something like MacGyver or Miami Vice, but not for a
drama.  Notice the number of women Sam makes out with in the
opening?  That's about every one he *has* made out with.  QL is
selling out to what the what the public supposedly wants, and they're
ruining my (and my fiance's) enjoyment of each new episode.  After
the "Daughter of Sin" promo last night, my fiance looked at me and
asked, "Is it time to stop watching already?"

>Was anyone else disappointed and hoping for more?...
We are disappointed and hoping for less (hype)...

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From: Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong)
Subject: RAVEN: Show Update
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 16:02:46 GMT

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.
From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Election night coverage
Date: 4 Nov 92 16:11:13 GMT
Reply-To: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Object Technology Products
Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com


Gee, did anyone else watch the ABC Presidential Election coverage
where they had the woman press these 3 little buttons on her desk 
and it looked like little hologram bar charts sprung up to indicate
percentages for Bush, Clinton, and Perot? 

Very cute.

Craig
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From: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Herman's Head Question
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:25:00 GMT
Reply-To: joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434


DA|Yea... Molly Hagan ("Angel"), played the young "Miss Ellie" several
  |years back in the CBS TV movie "Dallas: The Early Years".  It was a
  |pretty big part, but I don't remember seeing her again until H.H.

I'll have to go back and watch that.   Also, the most recent TV role 
for Mr. Bracken (DAMN, can't remember real name offhand) was his 
appearances as "Nightshade" on The Flash.
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From: rlcarr@animato.network23.com (Rich Carreiro)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Xmas Movies
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 11 Nov 92 08:39:50 EDT
Organization: The Other Side of Life

In article <1992Nov9.042021.6325@cs.mun.ca> craigs@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Stace) writes:
> pennelln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> 
> >and "The House Without a Christmas Tree," but now I'd like to ask:
> >What's your favorite Christmas movie?  Something tells me I have every
> >one known to God or man on tape, but I'd like to hear from all of you.
> >Heck, writing about Christmas beats studying!!!!
> >		Nancy
> 

Well, _A Christmas Story_ ("You'll shoot your eye out, kid.  HO! HO! HO!")
(Jean Shepard narrating) has got to be on any Christmas list, IMHO.

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From: rockwood@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: Who has won Most Emmy Awards????
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:57:35 GMT

Does anyone on the net happen to know which Individual has won the most 
Emmies? It can be in any category. The listing I have is only up to 1983, 
and only lists performers anyway. I have a feeling that there's probably a 
writer or producer or someone else who has picked up more than 8, which is 
the most listed in Book of Lists 3. It says Dinah Shore won that many, but 
surely someone won more than that.
Please E-Mail   rockwood@kean.uca.mun.ca
Thanks in advance.

Art Rockwood
St. John's Nfld.

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From: c8643631@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Mr Flibble)
Subject: Hill Street Blues Episode Guide Wanted
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:43:45 GMT

I want to obtain an episode guide to 'Hill Street Blues'.

Is there an FTP site containing it, or is there a site containing
episode guides for any series?

Could someone help me, please? It's not urgent, but would be greatly 
appreciated.

Edward
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From: guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery)
Subject: Re: Herman's Head Question
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 03:26:30 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.191222.6424@u.washington.edu> iho@cac.washington.edu writes:
>MSTBH@CUNYVM.BITNET (mstbh) writes:
>
>>   Does anyone recognize any of the actors from anywhere else?
>>    The only one I recognized is Louise who does Lisa Simpson's voice and
>>   appeared in City Slickers and The Legend of Billy Jean (or is it Ballad of..)
>
>She was also in that movie about cars going berserk and attacking people.
Maximum Overdrive (Dir. Stephen King)

jam
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From: Mitch=Kazel%Staff%UIUC=CMC@bigbird.will.uiuc.edu (Mitch Kazel)
Subject: Re: WY:  Why was Winnie mad?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:08:14 GMT

In article <BxMCIK.JFE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ziauddin@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Tasneem Ziauddin) writes:
>Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv

>I saw the show yesterday after missing a couple of episodes and thus I did
>not know why Winnie had broken up with Kevin.  His friend said something
>like, "You embarrassed her and almost ruined her reputation" (something to
>that effect).  What did Kevin do?

In the last episode, Kevin implied to his friends in the locker room 
that he and Winnie had gone all the way, which was not the case.  Word 
got back to Winnie and they had a big fight.  
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From: il@bambam.u.washington.edu (Il Hwan Oh)
Subject: Re: Herman's Head Question
Reply-To: iho@cac.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Tacoma
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:12:22 GMT

MSTBH@CUNYVM.BITNET (mstbh) writes:

>   Does anyone recognize any of the actors from anywhere else?
>    The only one I recognized is Louise who does Lisa Simpson's voice and
>   appeared in City Slickers and The Legend of Billy Jean (or is it Ballad of..)

She was also in that movie about cars going berserk and attacking people.

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From: smmcafee@mtu.edu (Sean McAfee)
Subject: Re: COVINGTON CROSS and CROSSROADS are *canceled*, not just on hiatus
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:46:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.193826.20552@netcom.com> sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith) writes:
>Boyoboy was I bummed to pick up "Variety" Friday morning in Hollywood
>to read that the shows have been canceled. ABC says it will burn off
>the remaining episodes of each sometime in 1993 (oh, yeah, where's
>the remaining eps of "On the Air"??) but there will be no more made
>of either show (each had a 13-ep order).

Man, this sucks.  I wasn't too impressed with the sneak preview or season
premiere or whatever it was that was aired at the end of the summer
(Covington Cross), but the show sure did grow on me.

Did anyone else out there see the trailer for CC that was apparently
intended to get kids to watch the show?  I saw it once, on a Saturday in the
summer.  It showed a sequence of swordfight and other medieval battle scenes,
while a voiceover said:

	"No Pizza?...
	 No Video Games?...
	 No Fun?
	 No Way!"

After seeing that, I made it a point to watch the show.  Contrast this with
the advertisement I saw in the fall premiere issue of TV Guide, in which
some reviewer is quoted as saying the show is like "a combination of 'Robin
Hood' and 'Beverly Hills, 90210'".  90210?  A, where did they get THAT, and
B, was that supposed to make people want to watch the show?  Sheesh.

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From: morgans@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: L&O, 11/4/92
Date: 8 Nov 92 14:00:19 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

I was rather delighted and then later annoyed with last weeks Law and 
Order.  
But in case there are some people who missed it and don't want to read 
this, here are some blank lines.....

























Okay, I liked the idea that Dr. Olivet (the psychiatrist) was given center 
stage in a story.  I was pissed that to do so, they had to make her a 
victim.  Was that really necessary?  L&O has always impressed me since it 
was about L&O, not necessarily the people who were involved in the process. 
Yes, we know that Logan's mother was abusive, and that Stone is divorced, 
but these were mentioned in passing, not made the major theme of the show.

Just my gum drops (don't have any change on me at the moment).

Later

Siobahn (Shabang) Morgan
morgans@iscsvax.uni.edu

If your last name is Head, or Weed, never name your son Richard.
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From: dzembj@jec305.its.rpi.edu (Jason Eric Dzembo)
Subject: Re: QL-Cancellation???
Reply-To: dzembj@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:23:35 GMT

|> bs895@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Terri M. Librande) writes:
|> 
|> > The official word is in as of yesterday.  Quantum Leap will be 
|> > cancelled ((this is according to Don B.)) at the end of the season
|> > unless there are dramatic changes in the ratings.  The best way to
|> > do that is to try to convince Mr. Little to switch QL back to it's
|> > old timeslot.
|> 

Gee...awfully early for the networks to be discussing cancellation, isn't it?
Seeing as they usually wait until at least February to start.  (Gee...maybe 
they really DO like QL and wanted to give us fair warning...naaaahhh.  That
would mean Littlebrains had a heart.)  Are you sure this isn't just Don's
personal opinion?
Besides, how many times in the past have we heard them threatening to kill
QL if the ratings didn't get better?  (Too many.)  
Even so, I'll agree with Terri for once and say that a letter writing
campaign to NBC isn't a bad idea.  (There's no such thing as a bad idea
when it comes to writing to support the show....)  Even if we can't convince
them to put QL back where it belongs, we can show them that their ratings,
at best, are inaccurate, and, at worst, just plain illusionary.  That address
again (since the copy of the letter I'm replying to here had it edited out:
NBC
Mr. Warren Littlefield
President
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10019

Remember, if QL is truly in trouble (and, well, even if it isn't), only YOU
can save it.  

						- Jason
From: bdsm@fermat.WPI.EDU (Billy Don McConnell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Brent Spiner - credits other than ST: TNG?
Keywords: Brent Spiner credits
Date: 11 Nov 92 02:16:15 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Originator: bdsm@fermat.WPI.EDU


In article <1992Nov11.001456.15630@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>, 
bbrett@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Betsy Brett) writes:
|> 
|> Okay, I know Brent is in Star Trek (Data) and he played the ill-fated
|> country hick in Night Court from time to time, but what else has Brent
|> Spiner been in aside from those?  
|> 
|> -Betsy Brett-
|> bbrett@morgan.ucs.mun.ca


I remember a late-night movie once with him in it...but I can't really
recall what it was about.  The story that comes to mind is one where Andy 
Griffith plays a hard-edged judge who jails two teenage girls "to teach
them a lesson" after they did something relatively innocuous; one of the 
girls is raped by a guard, and eventually a suit is filed.  Anyway...in 
one scene (I think some kind of pre-trial deposition thing) the girl sits 
at a large conference table with a number of legal types; among them is 
Brent Spiner.  I don't rightly remember if he even had more than a 
couple of lines, but my sense is that he quickly made himself out to be 
a scumbag.  But I may be remembering ALL of this incorrectly...my apologies 
for wasting your time if this is the case.  (But at least I DO remember him
playing a legal type seated at a conference table...someone else can fill in
the gaps.)

Don Mc Connell
From: lopresti@henson.cc.wwu.edu (lopresti robert)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: NEXP: article on Ruth-Ann
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:05:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Nov9.160537.9001
Organization: Western Washington University


NEXP fans might be interested to know Peg Phillips (who plays
Ruth-Ann) is on the cover of VIEW magazine this month.  VIEW is the
free mag sent to all members of the Group Health COoperative, one
of the oldest and largest Health Maintenance Organziations, centered
in Seattle.

Turns out Peg is a long time member of GHC, and from the article she
is just about everything you'd want the woman who plays Ruth-Ann to be.

She got divorced in the 1950s and raised four kids alone, working as
an accountant.  When she retired at age 65 she started studying drama
at UW.  She still hasn't finished her degree because her freshman year
she got an agent and started working regularly.

As of this year she is a regular on NEXP, with a four year contract,
and the studio is half an hour from the home she's lived in for twenty
years.  Talk about perfect.

There was an interview with Dwayne Burrows, who plays Ed, about how
much he and Peg enjoy working together.  The show won an Owl award last
year, which is given out for best show about the problems of the elderly.
It was for the episode where Ed gives Ruth-Ann a gravesite for her
seventy-fifth birthday and she gets the chance to literally dance
on her grave.

Peg says when NEXP was casting her agent didn't bother to send her in
for the part because she thought it was "a cookie jar grandmother type.
I usually get the bag lady parts."  Fortunately, the producers couldn't
find anyone they liked and Peg went in on the second call.

Remember the scene last year where Ed tries to convince Ruth-Ann to
stop smoking and she makes a speech about doing what she wants?  
Apparently that was a conversation between Peg and the producer Josh
Brand, which he copied down almost word for word.

Fun article.  Interesting lady.  Oh- in her spare time she runs a
drama program at a children's correctional institution.
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