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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:12:30 +0000


In article <sbradley.02tw@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca> sbradley@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca writes:

> 
> Being an Englishman living in Canada, I'll try to explain what muffler
> means in English......
> 
> Well,, A muff, in England, means a ladies genital area, hence a muffler
> means a ladies genital area, oh what's the word, caresser...

Being an Englishman living in England, I've NEVER heard muffler used in
this context. I've lived in many parts of the England and this term has
never been current. Unless this is peculiar to the Black Country as you
hint in <sbradley.02u2@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca>:

>> You certainly haven't lived in The Black Country...
>> We don't have Horses and that there, (at least we didn't when I left)
>> A muff doesn't mean a scarf there....

> It's pretty funny because over here a Muffin Break is a coffee shop,
> whereas in England it means something totally different.

Muffins in England are NOT what are known on the other side of the pond as
"English muffins".

> Another good phrase found over here is "FANNY". In northern America, a fanny
> is a bottom, backside, derriere, whatever you call it...well in England
> it means the same as Muff....
> 
> So don't go to England and say "Hey man, your wife's gotta lovely
> fanny" unless you want to be severly booted in the bollocks (another
> english word people don't know in Canada)....

Shaw was right about one people separated by a common language. Now to
bring this discussion back on topic who's volunteering to call the BBC's
pronunciation unit and ask what "muff" and "fanny" mean. :-)

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From: sbradley@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Steve Bradley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Captain Scarlet
Date: 23 Jul 92 23:59:58 GMT
Organization: Wizard Online

From a response I got from a guy in Toronto, he say's the Capt and Thunder
birds, are to be shown on YTV in sept....

Regards...Steve

"This is the voice of the Mysterons. We know you can hear us Earthmen."

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From: s_goetz@irau29.ira.uka.de (Oliver Goetz)
Subject: Olympic Tennis Competition on ASTRA
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:39:14 GMT

For all tennis fans out there:

If you want to see more Olympic tennis, try the German channels
1plus and 3sat on the Astra satellite. The German channels ARD
and ZDF which cover the Olympic games have decided that they don't
have enough time left to show the tennis events. So they leave it
to their satellite channels to cover it every day from 10:00
Central Europe Summer Time. That's 9:00 BST. Today (Wednesday)
tennis is shown by 1plus. Tomorrow it's the turn of 3sat (and so on).
Nevertheless you have stand a German commentator.


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From: bob@castle.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray)
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Subject: Re: UK TV Charts for 22-28 June 1992
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:12:37 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

ijp@oak10.doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
>4.4 million, compared with over 15 million for The Street which is on
>just afterwards (and isn't repeated on Sunday afternoon). 

Meaning that this turkey now gets lower ratings than Dr Who
did when it was shifted to that time slot.

I wonder if they will "Rest" this one for an indefinite
period.

We can only hope.
	Bob.
From: v026ltr5@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Monty)
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Subject: Re: The Goons
Date: 22 Jul 92 01:17:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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In article <1992Jul21.171712.19398@hssiarl.uucp>,
morris@hssiarl.uucp (Morris Forbes) writes...
>Can anyone help me out - who were all of the Goons??

Harry Secombe
Peter Sellers
Spike Milligan
Michael Bentine

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From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Science Fiction - Letter to Radio Times
Date: 30 Jul 92 09:41:18 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <1992Jul28.114648.26581@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> s_goetz@irau28.ira.uka.de (Oliver Goetz) writes:
>In article <1992Jul24.102825.17710@cs.hw.ac.uk>, neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite) writes:
>|> I noticed this too. No Blakes 7 or Dr Who, basically because that would
>|> hit video sales. It's as simple as that. Star Trek (TOS and TNG) video sales
>|> are not by BBC Enterprises, so they don't give a flying *uck about showing
>|> it or not (TOS mostly). TNG is mostly a rights fight with Sky.
>|> 
>Some time ago I wrote to Sky One about TNG. In their answer they claimed
>that Sky and BBC had purchased the rights together. If this is true,
>the BBC knew from the beginning that Sky would achieve the rights
>this year, and so there's no fight, just a joint venture.

As far as I was aware, Sky bought the rights to series 1,2 and 3 of TNG for
two screenings only. They did a swap with the BBC of the first TNG screening
for a showing of TOS (Sky wasn't sure about something untried, TNG, and
took a safe bet with TOS). Sky are using up their second TNG showing soon
and will finish in '94.

I could have heard this wrong of course. It is newspaper/net gossip.

Meanwhile in the US TNG series 6 is due soon/on and they get multiple repeats
of Star Trek (both sorts) and multiple showings of Blakes 7, Dr Who, Red 
Dwarf while we get shat on with repeats of the Brittas empire and rubbish
like that (so the Beeb can rake in the dosh on the Videos). 

I don't think I can remember a full repeat showing of Blakes 7 can you ?

This is the real issue I think !!!

Neil
From: mhr@aber.ac.uk (Michael Richards)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: More dosh wasted.... (re: Eldorado)
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:14:02 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth

The best of the Olympic trilaers yet has to have been last Sunday evening...

The scene was in grainy black and white, a weightlifter comes on, dusts his
hands in chalk, and up comes the line....

			MASTERCHEF

					BBC Olympics 1992.

Tenuous or what?

					Mike.
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From: linneman@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (Stefan Linnemann)
Subject: Re: black adder tapes
Organization: CRI, institute for telecommunication and computerservices.
Distribution: rec
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 15:55:59 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.763.7662@dosgate> "dale clayton" <dale.clayton@canrem.com> writes:
> Today I happen to see that all four series of the Black Adder programme
>is now available.
> However, I didn't see the X-mas special. Is it also available, or at
>least coming soon?

It should be, I have it at home :-)

Stefan M. Linnemann			Stefan.Linnemann@CRI.LeidenUniv.NL
"Ira furor brevis est."  Horatius on the flaming Usenet (?).


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From: s1070422@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Damien Binding)
Subject: To Cameron Silver concerning Red Dwarf videos
Organization: Monash University College Gippsland, Churchill, 3842, Australia
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 01:11:02 GMT

This message to concerned to Cameron Silver who Emailed me on where l said l
saw the RED DWARF 3 videos. I kept getting HOST UNKNOWN command so l will
answer his question here.

If you are in Melbourne, the Brashes you are looking for is on Elizebeth St,
between Collins and Bourke St. (this is an estimation as l can't remember
exactly, but l have a strong feeling it is on Elizebeth St. If you are walking
from Flinders St. station it is on the right hand side.
    If you are unable to get to this brashes try asking any for it. It was RED
DWARF III (There are two in the set) Backwards andthe other l can't remember.
From: imc@prg.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: UK TV Charts for 29 June - 5 July 1992
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:21:40 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
X-Local-Date: Wednesday, 29th July 1992 at 5:20pm BST


   BBC1                    millions  BBC2                           millions
 1 EastEnders(Thu/Sun)        15.90  Wimbledon Men's Final             10.89
 2 Neighbours(Fri)            15.31  Sunday Grandstand                  6.74
 3 999                        12.18  Quantum Leap                       5.77
 4 Birds of a Feather          9.37  Wimbledon Ladies' Final            5.21
 5 News and Weather(Sun)       9.20  The Travel Show                    5.06
 6 One Foot in the Grave       8.89  Gardeners' World                   4.27
 7 Keeping Up Appearances      8.40  Whatever happd. to the Likely Lads 4.19
 8 Casualty                    7.79  Wildlife Showcase                  3.56
 9 Boys from the Bush          7.74  Screenplay: The Countess Alice     3.50
10 Crime Limited               7.36  Abigail's Party                    3.48

   ITV                               Channel 4
 1 Coronation Street(Wed/Sun) 17.90  Brookside(Wed/Sat)                 5.81
 2 Home and Away(Fri)         13.39  Hale and Pace                      4.47
 3 The Bill(Tue)              11.38  Roseanne                           4.24
 4 Through the Keyhole        10.70  The Crystal Maze                   3.85
 5 Emmerdale(Tue)             10.51  The Golden girls                   3.59
 6 Jimmy's                    10.42  Garden Club    (joint 5th)         3.59
 7 Wheel of Fortune            9.52  Secret History                     3.40
 8 Catchphrase                 9.46  Countdown(Fri)                     3.39
 9 Thirteen at Dinner          8.87  The Cosby Show                     3.23
10 Hope it Rains               8.80  Little House on the Prairie        3.13

This chart is taken from the new issue of the Radio Times; the information
originally came from the BARB. Permission was not obtained from either
authority. When more than one episode is broadcast in a week, the highest
figure is given, and in this case the day(s) on which the maximum
occurred is(are) stated. If a programme is repeated the audiences for the
first and repeat broadcasts are added together.

imc sez...  Last year, the Wimbledon finals were shown on BBC2, and
highlights of the French Grand Prix were shown later, also on BBC2.  8.07
million people watched the Men's final at Wimbledon, and no figure was given
for the GP highlights.  This year, the French Grand Prix was shown live on
BBC1, and the Wimbledon finals on BBC2.  GP highlights were also shown on
BBC2 in the evening.  10.89 million is a phemonenal audience figure for
BBC2.  Sadly, the GP did not get into the charts.

I wonder what was left of Sunday Grandstand when the two tennis matches were
taken out...  It seems highly irregular to have three pieces of the same
programme in the charts at the same time.

Ian Collier
Ian.Collier@prg.ox.ac.uk | imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk
From: bruce@tcom.stc.co.uk (Bruce Munro)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Captain Scarlet
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:52:49 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe, New Southgate, London.

In article <CC.92Jul21105710@carna.dcs.ed.ac.uk> cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.023158.15381@cs.wm.edu> ajn@physics.wm.edu (smaller than I look on TV.) writes:
>
>There were five Angels, weren't there?  Symphony Angel, Melody Angel, Harmony
>Angel, Destiny Angel and another one I forget.

Rhapsody Angel.

>   It is a shame, I heard that all know episodes of the
>   series were destroyed in a fire in a BBC warehouse. Is this true?
>
>You can buy some of the episodes on video, so they can't *all* have been
>destroyed. 

I doubt the BBC would have been involved as it was produced independently
by Gerry Anderson.

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From: wfrey@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Warren Frey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: help! Show with two bus drivers
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 16:52:07 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

A freind of mine seems to recall a show involving two bus drivers who 
would constantly be screwing themselves, their lives and their buses up 
to great comic effect. I consider myself somethig of an avid British tv 
fan, and I've never heard of this series. Neither has he, and he's more 
of a UK television fan than I am. Can anyone help us before he goes 
irrevocably insane?

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From: sm@g2.ph.man.ac.uk (Steve Mowbray)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Captain Scarlet
Date: 21 Jul 92 17:22:54 GMT
Reply-To: sm@g2.ph.man.ac.uk
Organization: University of Manchester, UK

In article 92Jul21105710@carna.dcs.ed.ac.uk, cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.023158.15381@cs.wm.edu> ajn@physics.wm.edu (smaller than I look on TV.) writes:
>
>There were five Angels, weren't there?  Symphony Angel, Melody Angel, Harmony
>Angel, Destiny Angel and another one I forget.

Rhapsody

>   It is a shame, I heard that all know episodes of the
>   series were destroyed in a fire in a BBC warehouse. Is this true?
>
>You can buy some of the episodes on video, so they can't *all* have been
>destroyed. 

a) it wasn't a BBC series and b) they're all available on video.

Steve Mowbray, Physics Department, University of Manchester, U.K.
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From: sjg@inf.rl.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Olymballs
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:22:24 GMT
Reply-To: sjg@inf.rl.ac.uk
Organization: SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratories

<After shots of Women breast feeding her child>

"Did you spot it? Live breast feeding.. I didn't know that was an Olympic sport"
			- David Coleman
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From: ajn@physics.wm.edu (smaller than I look on TV.)
Subject: Re: Can the BBC2 show STDSN (StarTrek Deep
Reply-To: ajn@physics.wm.edu
Organization: Rio de Caca Illuminati
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:44:37 GMT

In article 24026@castle.ed.ac.uk, asr@castle.ed.ac.uk (Angus "Fluffy" Rae) writes:
>Well, the negotiated agreements that restrict TNG till 1994 are only for
>TNG. They won't cover DS9 (I prefer that abreviation, innacurate as it
                       ^^^

what is Deep Space Nine?

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From: dhylton@linus.umd.edu (Deborah Hylton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Two Bus Drivers
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:43:16 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

The show with two bus drivers was On the Buses with Reg Varney and
the other taller skinny guy, he was the bus conductor.  he was  always
after the birds.  Reg Varney (Stan) lived with his mum, his sister and
brother-in-law.  They were constantly getting on each others nerves.
Olive (his sister) was married to Arthur in the show, Arthur was a lazy
so and so who was always out of work, didn't think too much of his wife.
Olive on the other hand was as blind as a bat without her glasses, slightly
overweight and a bit dizzy.

Deborah
From: bill@thunder.tdd.sj.nec.com (Bill Leslie  x3861 )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Olymballs
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:13:11 GMT
Organization: NEC-AM TDD, San Jose, California

From NBC olympic coverage (proving that this is not a British monopoly):

"It's deja vu all over again"
From: asr@castle.ed.ac.uk (Angus "Fluffy" Rae)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Can the BBC2 show STDSN (StarTrek DeepSpaceNine)
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:38:47 GMT
Organization: CATHY_VoiceMail_Project

bussink@trucks.enet.dec.com (Erik Bussink) writes:

>Ok, the BBC has taken STTNG of the air until 199x, and STDSN (Deep Space Nine)
>will come out early 1993 in the USA, could the BBC2 have it straight away ?
>and show it the same week as in the USA ? 
>I think it's a good idea, don't you ?

Well, the negotiated agreements that restrict TNG till 1994 are only for
TNG. They won't cover DS9 (I prefer that abreviation, innacurate as it
is) so that will have to be negotiated for seperately.
Yes, it's a good idea. But it'll never happen. As far as I know about
the only US program which appears here in the same week is America's Top
Ten, which I belive gets fed here at the same as it is sattelite
uplinked in the States, and due to a wierd combination of timezones and
wierd showing times gets shown before any station in the USA shows it.
Did that last sentence make sense? Anyway, the BBC will never go for it,
as they are a strictly conservative (small c) bunch and won't go for
anything unless there is a good chance it will be popular... hence the
current TNG problems.

Also, the BBC can't go for the same package deals as the USA stations
get - DS9 is being offered with the Untouchables TV series as a
"cheapish" package. The BBC will have to go for both seperately and will
hence get done.

Of course, I could be wrong. I hope I am.

-- 
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From: EEC@PORTIA.UMDS.LON.AC.UK (Steve P eec@portia.umds.lon.ac.uk)
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Subject: OOhhh where's my pussy ?
Date: 23 Jul 1992 04:24:44 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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> From: ziauddin@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Tasneem Ziauddin)
> Subject: Re: Do You Remember any Gay/Lesbian Characters on TV Series?
> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:53:51 GMT
> 
> The show is "Are You Being Served?" and the character's name is Mr.
> Humphreys.  It is never clearly established, especially in the earlier
> episodes, that he is in fact gay.  Later on, the number of puns on the
> subject increase and so do his stereotypical mannerisms.

In "Grace and Favour" (the follow-up to AYBS?), Mr Wilberforce Humphrey's
behaviour becomes more straight and far less camp.  He's even seen sharing
a bed with the attractive daughter of the farmer who lives next-door to the
hotel that the cast are staying in.  Although, I must say that it's never
indicated that anything of a sexual nature is going on.

In the next series (unshown) I beleive that relationship is developed further
and it *IS* made clear that they are having-it-off.

Anyway, generally I didn't find Grace and Favour that funny.  One gag which
does stick in the mind is when Mr Humphreys is standing at the bottom of some
stairs with one hand in his pocket and his other hand on a wooden knob on
the end of the bannisters.   Mr Rumbold shouts "Hand off the knob please, Mr
Humphreys!"  and Mr Humphreys quickly removes his hand from his pocket!

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From: sbradley@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Steve Bradley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Do You Remember any Gay/Lesbian Characters on TV Series?
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:50:17 PDT
Organization: Wizard Online

In the British soap "Eastenders" there was a gay couple who lived together
secretly though......

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From: imc@prg.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
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Subject: Re: UK TV Charts for 22-28 June 1992
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:45:11 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
X-Local-Date: Tuesday, 28th July 1992 at 4:44pm BST

In article <5392@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>, zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) wrote:
>In article <2527@nlsun1.oracle.nl> nroworth@nl.oracle.com (Nick Roworth) writes:
>>Has anyone else noticed that programmes scheduled for the same start time,
>>actually begin about two minutes later on BBC2? This gets so bad in some cases
>>if you watch the end of a programme on BBC2 you can miss the begiining of a
>>programme on BBC1.

Exactly right!  Also I have sometimes crossed over from BBC2 to Channel 4
and got the same effect.

>When recording the latest Red Dwarf repeats I found that every single
>episode started at or later than 8:33 pm yet every week the start time in
>the Radio Times, newspapers, Ceefax etc was announced as 8:30.

It was really irritating because I wasn't in to delay the start of the
recording and cut out the boring stuff.  What really annoyed me was that
time when the previous programme finished at about 8.30 so I thought RD
would be on time for once - and then they showed a 5 (five) minutes long
trailer for the "Black and White in Colour" season.

Ian Collier
Ian.Collier@prg.ox.ac.uk | imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk
From: imc@prg.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Science Fiction - Letter to Radio Times
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:47:55 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
X-Local-Date: Tuesday, 21st July 1992 at 5:47pm BST

You may be interested in the following letter, which I read in next week's
Radio Times...

   Unfair to Star Trek

   I would like to complain            Some more showings of
   about the BBC's continued           _Doctor Who_, _Blake's Seven_
   treatment of science fiction        or _Quatermass_ would be a
   and particularly _Star Trek_        good start.  Or how about a
   as if it were a poor relation.      season of classic movies
      _Star Trek: the Next             such as _Silent Running_, 
   Generation_ has consistently        _This Island Earth_ or
   achieved high ratings               _Forbidden Planet_?
   despite a time slot that            
   indicates the BBC                   Iain R Laskey
   considers it suitable for           Southend-on-Sea, Essex
   younger audiences only.             
   The final insult is the             BBC2 is re-showing
   recent announcement that            the original "Star Trek"
   further episodes will not           series, starting with the
   be shown until mid-1994.            pilot "The Cage" (never
      If _the Next Generation_         before shown on British
   cannot be shown, can we             terrestrial TV) next month
   at least have an alternative?       -- The Editor

                                       [Aside: why is the Radio Times
				       always printing sentences that
				       don't end with full stops?]

Well, I'm quite amazed that the R.T. has chosen to print two letters on Star
Trek in the last month.  Pity the BBC itself doesn't take as much notice.
The above letter (like the previous one) nicely points out that ST:TNG
achieved high ratings, and that it had a poor time slot.

The Editor's reply isn't really a good answer: Mr Laskey named several SF
shows, and all the Editor can do is mention ST:TOS, which he already did
last time.

Ian Collier
Ian.Collier@prg.ox.ac.uk | imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk

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