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From: tmw4r@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Thomas Munroe Walsh)
Subject: Tomorrow People, Who was their leader?
Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.tv
Keywords: Tomorrow People
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 03:29:16 GMT

I watched "Tomorrow People" back when it was aired on Nickelodeon and a
question about it popped into my head recently that maybe someone here can
answer.  Who played the leader of the Tomorrow People, and is it the same
actor who played Robin Culcourt (Rebecca Howe's "rich boyfriend") on "Cheers?"

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From: tsmith@SPARTA.SPARTACUS.COM (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V17 #152
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:15:59 GMT

How do I unsubscribe?
From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Mann & Machine: Second Episode *SPOILER*
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:21:17 GMT
Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

ghost@ra.nrl.navy.mil (G. Host) writes:

}BTW they gave clues to the year of the show, it was mentioned
}that the original suspect graduated in '12 or so so I figure it
}is 2025 - 2040 give or take a few centuries.

Hmmm, I didn't think it was that far in the future.  In the first episode,
didn't Mann's friend talk about getting his lawn in '93?

--James Preston

Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
From: daw5g@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Vertigo)
Subject: Re: STAR WARS SPECIAL
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 03:54:27 GMT

campbell3789@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
> DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER A SHOW ABOUT STAR WARS IN THE LATE 70s?  I BELIEVE IT
> TOOK PLACE ON THE HOME PLANET OF CHEWBACCA.  I AM ONLY 18 YEARS OLD SO I ONLY
> REMEMBER A VAGUE IMAGE.  IF ANYBODY KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THIS I WOULD
> APPRECIATE THE INFORMATION.
> 
> KRIS
> 
   What do you want to know?  It was a holiday special that had
Han and Chewie trying to get to the Wookie planet and Chewie's
Mom, Dad, and son.  It has Luke and Leia in bit parts saying
basically,"Nope, don't know why they're late.  Happy holidays,
though."  There were several guest stars including a musical
number by Jefferson Starship (can you imagine being in a Star
Wars special on the grounds that your band's name has a space
reference?).  Most of the scenes involved the Wookies doing
their everyday stuff, as long as it somehow allowed a guest
star to show up (eg someone doing cooking instructions via tv
show to Mom, someone singing bad song in VR-type viewer that
Dad got from friendly storekeep and rebel ally Art Carny,
etc).  Stormtroopers search the house looking for reported
rebel spies who may be in the area (breaking Jr's Bantha toy).  
Han and Chewie are seen throughout fighting through
tie-fighters, etc in the Falcon trying to get to the planet
(These battle scenes are from the movie).  The highlight is a
cartoon that has the honest to goodness very first appearance
of Boba Fette.  It is a neat cartoon that looks very much like
it was done by Moebius, but wasn't.  I'm being awfully cynical
about this special, but it is actually pretty neat.  It isn't
wonderful story wise, but it is a classic. It is a nice watch and a lot of
fun.  I would feel lucky to have it in my collection (But I'll
settle for my good friend having it).  If you need more info,
e-mail me.


						Dave

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From: sally@romana.Tymnet.COM (Sally 'Lucky Bitch' Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Mann & Machine (and Steel Justice)
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:07:11 GMT
Organization: None

In article <1992Apr7.074533.14289@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> jogle@nrao.edu writes:
>In article 271@romana.Tymnet.COM, sally@romana.Tymnet.COM (Sally 'Lucky Bitch' Smith) writes:

>>for me by that line about "Drs. Scott, Deckard, Ford, and Hauer", though! :-)

>!!! I missed that (but sound quality on tv is pretty bad around here)....
It was when the capt. introduced Mann to Eve's inventor Dr. Kepler (Samantha
Eggar) and she turned to the other people in the conference room and
introduced them as that. Everyone in my living room fell over laughing.

I still don't think it looks like it's set enough in the future for us to
have robots THAT advanced, though.

>With the exception of the giant dinosaur I really liked "Steel Justice", and
>if they were to expand on the 'power' that he has and let him do things 
>other than make his son's toy dino grow big the show would have a lot of
Actually, I was told that the premise was that Robo could be *any* size--
from microscopic up to the big one--and that any size Robo had the same
powers. Mostly, for reasons of budget, he was going to stay toy-size,
except (as you saw) towards the big finale. Don't know what plans they
had other than that, I didn't get much of a chance to ask questions.

>I guess M&M's 'vision' of the future is cheaper though so it got
>chosen to be the series.
Yup.

Sally
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"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
From: edlee@hobbit.gandalf.ca (Ed Lee)
Subject: Re: QL: Famous people
Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 13:12:30 GMT

In <1992Apr6.232201.10434@nic.unh.edu> J_DELANO1@unhh.unh.edu (Jeff   Delano) writes:

>	I've been wondering how many famous people Sam runs
>into these days.  Certainly less than Young Indy!  I've only seen four:
>	Stephen King
>	Rudy Valle (someone told me this one)
>	Donald Trump 
>	another I can't remember.
>	
>	Does anyone have a list?
>	Wishy

How about Dr. Hymlich (sp?) of the same maneuver.  I've 
always liked the way the good doctor was introduced to 
us and I didn't catch it until the second rerun of that 
episode!!

	edly
From: il@bambam.u.washington.edu (Il Hwan Oh)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Mann & Machine
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:55:00 GMT
Reply-To: iho@cac.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Tacoma

pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro) writes:
> winicur@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Zev Winicur) writes:

> >Oh, yeah.  I had no problem watching an hour of Yancy Butler.

> I second that!

If that's the actress's name, I'm with you.  She was one of 2 reasons
why I watched the whole thing.  The other was that I was convinced there
would be a chase scene with that HMMV (or whatever the letters are for
that ATV he was driving).  I think we got cheated.

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: FAQ Request: Quantum Leap Origin
From: jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:07:46 GMT
Organization: Searle, Skokie, IL
Nntp-Posting-User: omeara

This should probably be in a FAQ file somewhere, but can someone post
or email to me a plot synopsis of the first Quantum Leap episode.

Actually, I'm really interested in the following items:
1) Did the first episode cover the Quantum Leap experiment, or was he already
   a'leapin' by then?

2) Where/when did they come up with the concept that a 'higher force' was
   directing the leaps?

3) OK, I get it that other people see the person he leaped into, but
   how does he fit in their clothes?

By the way, Al forgot to use the door in last nights episode.  He just
blinked out.  That was supposedly how Sam caught on that it wasn't Al
in a previous episode.
From: rhm3@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Robert H Morrison)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Danger Island
Keywords: danger island, banana splits
Date: 11 Apr 92 22:39:08 GMT
Reply-To: rhm3@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Robert H Morrison)
Distribution: na
Organization: Columbia University



If I recall correctly, Danger Island was one of the serials on the old Banana Splits show (along with Arabian Nights, Three Musketeers, etc.)  However, the Danger Island segments were live action, not animated and were really, really, awful.

Great theme song, though.  Fleagle, ????, Trooper and Snork!  (Bonus points     if you can name the missing split!)
From: musjjh@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: UFO
Date: 14 Apr 92 12:05:35 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University

In article <35121@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, hughes@gary.enet.dec.com (Gary Hughes - VMS Development) writes:
>>	Does anyone have info on the old British show "UFO"? I used to 
> 
> Supreme Headquarters, Alien Defense Organisation (under the Harlington-Straker
> film studios).
> 
> gary


Speaking of the Harlington-Straker Film Stuidios......In UFO do we ever
get to see Harlington? Or was he some sort of in-joke?


Expiring Minds Want To Know,

Jason
From: boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The fox so cunning and free)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Nightmare Cafe
Date: 8 Apr 92 08:31:39 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <1992Apr7.134108.8312@garfield.cs.mun.ca>, andrew1@odie.cs.mun.ca (Andrew Furlong) writes...

} Does anyone out there know if NBC's "Nightmare Cafe" has been axed?

Probably.

Every show that starts in the spring is slated for a 6-episode (sometimes
pilot + 6 episodes) trial run, after which it goes away awaiting a final
network decision on whether it will be renewed for the next season.

NIGHTMARE CAFE finished its 6-episode trial run. I don't think the ratings
were very good, so I doubt that it'll get renewed.

-- 

	"Buster, this trip downriver has been truly special.
	 Downright Twainian in a Hitchcockian sort of way."


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA)

    boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com
From: boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The fox so cunning and free)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Nightmare Cafe
Date: 9 Apr 92 07:26:08 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <29E39928.9627@noiro.acs.uci.edu>, eabu202@orion.oac.uci.edu (Virany Margaret Kreng) writes...

} Granted, the last few episodes weren't as good as the first two,  [...]

I feel just the opposite. I thought the show started out very weak and
steadily improved over the course of the run.

-- 

	"Buster, this trip downriver has been truly special.
	 Downright Twainian in a Hitchcockian sort of way."


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA)

    boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com
From: jafoust@cco.caltech.edu (Jeffrey Alan Foust)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Mann & Machine: Second Episode *SPOILER*
Date: 14 Apr 92 23:27:23 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

In article <3ar702h.cbvC00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> jsp@pls.amdahl.com writes:
>ghost@ra.nrl.navy.mil (G. Host) writes:
>
>}BTW they gave clues to the year of the show, it was mentioned
>}that the original suspect graduated in '12 or so so I figure it
>}is 2025 - 2040 give or take a few centuries.
>
>Hmmm, I didn't think it was that far in the future.  In the first episode,
>didn't Mann's friend talk about getting his lawn in '93?

No, as I recall, he mentioned that Anaheim Stadium went from natural grass to
artificial turf in '93, and that he got the last batch of the particular
variety of grass (Santa Ana hybrid, as I recall).

-- 
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From: THC8650@TNTECH.BITNET ("Troy H. Cheek  The /|\tari Cowboy")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: SFA Network News Part 2
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:20:00 GMT


Just a note...if you will check the January '92 issue of ATARI EXPLORER and
the interview with Walter Koenig, you will find my name.

Letter from the Founder (me):

Enclosed please find information on The Space, Fantasy & Adventure Network
(SFAN which we are releasing to fans and interested groups in advance of
our pending nationwide press release.  We feel it is vitally important to
give priority to fandom before the news media hears about SFAN.

We did not wish to live down premature public announcements, so the
difficult task of forming SFAN has been accomplished mainly out of the
public eye.  The project moved slowly and steadily through careful planning
and funding projections necessary for a solid business.  We have carefully
combined science fiction writers with the scientific community,
celebrities, hard-edged business acumen _AND_ the fan world for an
unbeatable combination of talents to work for SFAN and make it a reality.

The cable and television industry, as well as fandom itself, has been
barraged for several years with conflicting claims and press releases about
an attempt to launch a supposedly similar concept.  The result of this
multiple media blitz is a genuine cynicism among cable and entertainment
executives about the viability of any such project.

SFAN can convince these executives that the necessary programming exists to
support our specialized network for many years.  However, these same people
need to know that a large audience is impatiently waiting for SFAN.  Fans
will have to demonstrate their support for this project to lend it
credibility with the powers that be.

Please pass word to your membership, family, and friends.  You are
authorized and encouraged to reprint this information (or the entire pages)
in your newsletters or correspondence, especially the addresses of the
cable multi- system operators (MSOs).  Ask everyone to help by writing
letters to the five MSOs at the listed addresses, making known their wishes
for SFAN, a viable Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, and Horror network.
Aim these letters at the MSOs to arrive beginning in mid-to-late April...
but if word is passed to you later, it's _never_ too late to add your
letter to the stacks.

Fans are discerning enough to understand their influence.  They were the
determining factor in major national efforts:  the SAVE STAR TREK campaign
in 1968, the naming of the first space shuttle, and the saving of the space
program, as well as many regional campaigns.  That's why we are making a
direct appeal to fandom.

SFAN cannot happen without its potential viewers:  we need you and your
invaluable support.  We know that fans, if addressed with the honesty and
respect they deserve, will do whatever is needed to make their dreams a
functioning and successful long-term reality.

Sincerely,

Michael Kelley
Founder
From: ccaaand@ucl.ac.uk (Andrew Dawson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Tomorrow People, Who was their leader?
Keywords: Tomorrow People
Date: 13 Apr 92 11:14:14 GMT
Reply-To: ccaaand@ucl.ac.uk
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium

tmw4r@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Thomas Munroe Walsh) writes:

>I watched "Tomorrow People" back when it was aired on Nickelodeon and a
>question about it popped into my head recently that maybe someone here can
>answer.  Who played the leader of the Tomorrow People, and is it the same
>actor who played Robin Culcourt (Rebecca Howe's "rich boyfriend") on "Cheers?"

Their unofficial leader was called John, played by actor Nicholas Young. I
doubt that he had anything to do with Cheers though.
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Date: Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 21:34:10 EDT
From: <MRM122@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Famous people

I don't remember the Rudy Valle or the Woody Allen ones... someone please
refresh my memory...
I also know there were more "kisses with history", but they aren't leaping to
my mind (bad pun, I know...)

                             Marsh
From: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU ("Slow-Children@Play")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Quantum Leap / USA Today
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:21:33 GMT

USA Today; Wednesday, April 15, 1992:

The season ender to NBC's Quantum Leap ends with a whopper -- Sam (Scott
Bakula) leaps into the body of Thomas Magnum, a.k.a. Tom Selleck.  The
show returns in September with a two-part opener /c Selleck.  If you
don't get the connection, Quantum's creator and executive producer,
Donald Bellisario, performed the same duties on Selleck's Magnum, P.I.
Other big leaps next year include Sam stepping into the bodies of Lee
Harvey Oswald and Silence of the Lambs' Hannibal Lecter.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
From: cbh@opus.mlb.semi.harris.com (Cherie R. Slasor)
Subject: Re: Mann & Machine
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:36:44 GMT
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL

In article <1937@ra.nrl.navy.mil> ghost@ra.nrl.navy.mil (G. Host) writes:
>
>> Article <1992Apr7.074533.14289@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> From: jogle@nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
>
>> >keep watching it, though. Any deficiencies in last night's ep were redeemed
>> >for me by that line about "Drs. Scott, Deckard, Ford, and Hauer", though! :-)
>
>> !!! I missed that (but sound quality on tv is pretty bad around here)....
>
>I got the line
>  Scott == Montgomery Scott, Chief Engineer of the Enterprise,
>  Deckard == Bladerunner,
>  Ford == Harrison Ford/Bladerunner (or Ford motor company :-) )
>  but who is Hauer?
>

Hauer = Rutger Hauer/the android from Bladerunner


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From: kkittels@ub.d.umn.edu (Guy Kittelson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Space 1999 anyone ??????
Summary: Available on video
Date: 11 Apr 92 21:33:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: ub.2853
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth. Information Services.

In your posting, you said that Space:1999 is not available on video - 
but it is!  Yesterday at Suncoast Video I saw the  first 15 episodes 
(at least 15) on videotape for sale.  If you're really interested in\
Space: 1999, Suncoast is the answer.  Hope this helps.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
From: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
Subject: Re: Blake'7
Organization: Ursa Minor Beta, 402-476-8047 @ 2400
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 05:52:17 GMT

unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown Matt) writes:
>s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden [GA]) writes:

>>Blake's 7 *finished* I mean it ended, not cancelled (well..) but ended
>>([SPOILER DELETED]) and that was it.. as to what happened
>>to it being screened.. well it was only shown here once in Australia
>>- maybe the BBC isn't allowing repeats for a set period, or noone has
>>bothered to rebuy the rights to the show...

> It _was_ cancelled.  I have no concrete proof, so you can just blow
>this off as a "FOAF" tale if you want, however in previous discussions on 
>different newsgroups, people have convincingly shown that "Blake" was _not_
>meant to be the last episode

True, but the way it was scripted was not how it was meant to be
scripted.  The series I understand was ended behind the creator's back.
There are several rumors about attempts to continue it both with and
without accepting the existence of the episode "Blake".

>(which is a pity, IMHO.  If that were the
>planned ending, it would *definitely* be the best ending of a series ever...
>Now it's 'just' tied with Newhart [a show I wasn't a great fan of otherwise]..
>It's certainly the best SF show finale ever).

Pfft!  The "It never happened" series ending is one of the worst things
ever done on television, and I'll be damn happy when it stops.
(Especially when they do a crossover between two series, and then one
becomes a "never happened", like ST. ELSEWHERE's crossover with
CHEERS, and then to WINGS... but that's another newsgroup.)

> Hopefully someone else will bring up more data on the relevant
>subject.

> by the way, it was pretty crappy of you to spoil the ending..

Well, at least he didn't spoil the WHOLE ending... which is still
dubious.

>/unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu                                    Apple IIGS Forever!\

Other groups where you can find discussion of BLAKES 7 (they never had
an apostrophe in the title) include "rec.arts.tv.uk" and "rec.arts.drwho".
It is a very fragmented discussion topic.

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From: sally@romana.Tymnet.COM (Sally 'Lucky Bitch' Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Mann & Machine: Second Episode
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:23:10 GMT
Organization: None

This actually is about medieval French history, not the show, so...

In article <92104.005214SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> SML108@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>Abelard was a French theologian who couldn't control his urges for a certain
>woman, but he couldn't marry her either or he would be defrocked.  He treated

Uh, wrong. Heloise and Abelard *did* get married, just in secret, because it
would have messed up his standing as the greatest university teacher of his
day (remember, this was when professors had to be at least nominally
clergymen). He probably could have kept his post, just on his reputation, too,
but there were a lot of powerful men in the church who didn't like some of
his ideas.

>her shabbily until one day he was castrated by her relatives in the night and
>she was ultimately sent to a convent.  
That's true (It was henchmen hired by her uncle the canon, and let's not
even get into Uncle's feelings for his niece, BTW).

>This was one seriously screwed up guy
Oh, undoubtely egotistical and ahead of his time, but I wouldn't say
seriously screwed up.

BTW, Heloise (who is at least as important in this story!) was regarded as
the most brilliant woman in Europe at the time. And quite a looker, so they
say -- which *is* a nice parallel with the show.

Hey, and who knew I'd use all that history reading here?

Also BTW, lovers still (after about 800 years) leave flowers on their grave.

Sally
Wondering where my copy of "The Letters of Abelard and Heloise" is.
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