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From: BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Dissappointing Sci-Fi Cable Channel
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:13:33 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>Well, the Sci-Fi channel finally arrived.. Are you as dissappointed as
>I am?
>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 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.
>
>No Fireball XL5, no Outer Limits, no more big production classics...
>
>I am just glad it is a part of the basic cable price... I sure wouldnt
>want to pay for old reruns of Hulk.  Blahhhh....
>

I haven't been very impressed with the Sci-Fi Channel, either, but it's
nice to have available anyway. I moved into a new place in October and
watched the last two weeks of "Battlestar: Galactica" episodes. I hadn't
seen them since they originally aired, and a few impressed me more than
I remembered. "Living Legend" (with the Pegasus), "Fire in Space", and
the second to last episode (title forgotten, but it was when they picked
up Project Apollo on the old communications circuit) were quite intelligent
and interesting.
I'm convinced that if they'd abandoned the fake language ('centons' and the
like) and reduced the comic-book style of the Cylons, "Galactica" could have
become a fair hit.
ST:TNG had plenty of time to build an audience and develop the characters.
It had a poor first season, but Paramount was committed to it.
How would 'B:G' have faired with such a committment?
From: jmf@endor.harvard.edu ( ghost )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Trilogy -- Part I
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:00:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1992Nov18.190052.1119
Organization: DAS Purchasing, Harvard University

In article <lgkn86INNk0p@lovelady.cs.utexas.edu> jfrench@cs.utexas.edu (Jason French) writes:

>chase sceen of sorts.  Which was suspensful.  I did have a problem with Al not
>having any information the whole time.  I was very convenient that there was
>a flood and all town records were lost (even though south Louisiana does flood
>a lot).  I think this added to the mystery, but it was very un-Al.

Yeah, but at the very end, AL suddenly knows how the fire-starter
can escape without Sam saving her...."leave her alone, Sam, she gets
out the back way" ...how does he know that??  Or is he just trying to
BS Sam so Sam/sherrif saves himself?

We don't *know*, yet, that the sherrif dies; it would be kind of neat
for Sam to meet a character he's leapt into after the leap, & this would
be a great opportunity.
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From: mpdixon@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL P DIXON)
Subject: ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW.  THANKS!
Originator: mpdixon@c00527-106ps.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: mpdixon@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL P DIXON)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:08:28 GMT


Thanks to everyone that answered my request for information.  I have
what I need now and am very grateful.
   Mike Dixon                           All things being constant, 
   mpdixon @eos.ncsu.edu                fat people use more soap.

THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ABOVE ARE DEFINITELY NOT THE OPINIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA
STATE UNIVERSITY, THEY ARE PROBABLY THE RESULT OF A DIFFICULT CHILDHOOD
FOLLOWED BY ADULT DELUSIONS INTO SURREAL ENVIRONMENTS.
From: ckunz@src4src.linet.org (Charles Kunz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Highlander
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:35:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: src4src.1992Nov17.043541.8559
Organization: The Source for Source

I've been watching the series and enjoying it, and just recently I watched the
original film.  Just wondering where the connection between the two is.  In the
film, we have Connor Macleod, who runs an antique store.  In the TV series, we
have Duncan Macleod, who also runs an antique store.  Same clan, different
first name, same occupation.  Then there's Tessa who doesn't seem to come into
the film at all.  How did they go from Connor to Duncan?  Am I missing
something here?

Chuck
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From: ied1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ingrid de Beus)
Subject: QL: Arsenio Hall
Reply-To: ied1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:05:47 GMT

Well, there's a subject heading you don't see too often.  8^)

Anyway, anyone else think that exchanging Roseanne Arnold for Scott
Bakula on the guest roster was an unfair exchange?  I sure do.  But
I guess high-visibility talk show producers can do that sort of thing.
Or it could have been Scott Bakula's choice to not go on.. how *do*
these things work, anyway? anybody know?

ingrid-


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	My old .sig was quite pessimistic, so here's an improvement:
	 a Blake's 7 quote that works as a Quantum Leap reference!
      "We've come at the worst possible time -- of course."  (Kerr Avon)
From: tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:30:26 GMT
Subject: Re: MST3K ratings?
Organization: the HP Mtn.View Resp. Cntr.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv

Cool, an MST fan(s)!....  

My girlfriend thinks I'm a kook!  She couldnt understand... 
I thought I was the only one watching that show and enjoying 
every minute...  


Well, now lets see whats on alt.fan.mst3k and alt.tv.mst3k!

see you just then....
From: acw@sbmsg1.UUCP (Alvin White)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Abortion adds [sic] are ruinning [sic] my dinner!
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:57:42 GMT
Reply-To: acw@sbmsg1.UUCP (Alvin White)
Organization: Southern Bell - MSG  Atlanta, Ga

>> We have an fake candidate in North Dakota for a special election to fill
>> our late Senator's seat. This person is running very graphic anti-
>> abortion ads as the sole plank in his platform.  The local stations 
>> don't want to run the ads, but the FCC says they have to.  Any comments?

The same thing happened here in Georgia during the recent campaign.
There was some idiot showing unborn fetuses in his ads and that was his
only plank.  There was no campaign, just things about the evil of
abortion.  He tried to air an actual film of an abortion on one of
the local stations.  The station did not want to show it.  The court
ruled that the station must run it but could run it between midnight
and 6am.  The candidate fought and lost.  Fortunately, he also lost
the election.


Alvin White
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From: cartoon@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (michael.n.cartoon)
Subject: NEXP: What happened in the last 10 minutes on 11/16?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:26:23 GMT

Well fatigue finally settled in and I missed the last 10 minutes of the 11/17
episode with Hollings daughter. I saw when she scamed Ruth-Ann but do not
remember any thing after that until I woke up during the ending credits.
I'd appreciate a summary...was she really Hollings daughter.. or was that
another scam?

Thanks in advance,
Mike Cartoon
attbl!cbnewsm!cartoon
attmail!mcartoon

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From: gws@gwssun.att.com (Gary Sanders)
Subject: Re: The Ghoul/Ghoulardi (Cleveland)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: bl
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:54:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.144802.23686@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> roth@csoadm.enet.dec.com (Lee Roth) writes:
>
>Now for a regional query. Cleveland, to be specific.
>
>(A story first, questions later. Those of you that don't know what the
>heck I'm talking about based on the subject, read on...)
>
>                              -==[    ]==-
>
>It's ca. 1971 and my pal asks me to come with him and check out the 'new'
>cable TV at his sisters' house in Columbus... there is a show that he
>insists that I see... but he won't tell me anything about it!
>
>
>Now for some questions...based on my dim recollections. Regional experts
>from Cleveland, this is your cue...
>
>  1) Was the character name described above 'The Ghoul' or 'Ghoulardi'?
>     What was the name of his show?

	The columus areas area receive the program on cable. Actually 
satellite was available but only few station online in 71..

There was the "The ghoul" out of cleveland and "The  cool ghoul" from 
cincinati. Both did similar skits and stunts. In the same vane
as MST3K does now on the comedy channel. The ghoul was however better
in my option.

>  2) I heard that the original dude left/was fired/was cancelled and a
>     poor imitation followd for a short while... this may explain the 2
>     different names in #1 above. Can anyone clarify this?

	The station was bought out and many of the staff was merged
with WUAB TV 43.  The station may have had to move. The upper
TV channels was moved into new services (cellular) about that time.

>  3) Was the original guy's name Ernie Anderson? I heard after leaving
>     the show he went to Hollywood and was doing voiceovers for TV shows
>     like Charlies Angels. I thought I saw 'Ernie Anderson' on the
>     credits for "America's Funniest Videos" as the announcer... is this
>     him?

	Dont know...
>
>  4) What TV station in Cleveland did this run on? (I believe it is now
>     defunct.)

	Dont remember the call off hand, it was either 63 or 68
	wpar?
>
>  5) Any dates as to when this stuff was on the air?

	????
>
>  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?

	Lighter fluid,glue and firecrackers must have made up 
about 50% of the shows cost. Lots of HO trains and matchbox cars
were destroyed this way.
>
>As I said, my memory is somewhat faded... any corrections, facts, other 
>stories, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
-- 
Gary W. Sanders (N8EMR)
gary.w.sanders@att.com		
AT&T Bell Labs 
614-860-5965
From: tracy@scoraz.resp-sci.arizona.edu (Tracy Scheinkman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: re: DUfE and Daughter of Sin
Date: 20 Nov 92 07:36:52 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In Article 5362 (54 more) in rec.arts.sf.tv larne@canetoad.UUCP (Larne Pekowsky)
writes:

>In article <1992Nov18.055356.16119@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> tracy@scoraz.resp-sci.arizona.edu (Tracy Scheinkman) writes:
>>	Boy, women are really taking a beating in QL with these two
>>episodes.  We are pictured as evil, shrew-like witches.

>It seems to me this only a side-effect of the way QL is set up.  There
>are basically three catagories that incidental characters can fall into:
>people Sam is there to help, people Sam has to struggle against in order
>to fulfil his mission, and people who help Sam along the way.

>While there are ways around it, the most obvious thing to do is make the
>people in catagory 1 weak and helpless and those in catagory 2 evil.  That
>leaves 3, but the rules of television demand that Sam does all the really
>hard work, so he can't have too much help from the incidental characters.
>While this is true of all the incidentals, it's far more noticible with
>women because it takes more careful writing to avoid the cliches of 'weak
>and good or strong and evil.'

	Thanks!  I hadn't thought of that, a very good analysis.

					Tracy and everybody
From: BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Energizer Bunny's resume
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 19:05:58 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>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)
 ... rest of list deleted ...
>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
>

Well, the current one is the "BERMUDA TRIANGLE". (Bunny disappears in mid
stride, then mysteriously reappears in next commercial.)

-Brian
From: sweaver3@mach1.wlu.ca (scott weaver 9209 U)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Energizer Bunny's resume
Date: 21 Nov 92 18:29:06 GMT
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University

In article <By18I7.5Lu@ddsw1.mcs.com> dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT) writes:
>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)
         ^^^^^^^^^^
that's 'Sous-la-mer' = 'Under-the-Sea' in French!


>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?

-  the one where he comes skidding across a bar-counter, and does some poor
imitation of a moonwalk past the people at the bar.

>
>David W. Tamkin   Box 59297   Northtown Station, Illinois  60659-0297
>dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com    CompuServe: 73720,1570    MCI Mail: 426-1818


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From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: alt.tv.mst3k goes legit? [was Re: MST3K ratings?]
Date: 22 Nov 1992 07:07:28 GMT
Organization: The Sinister Icy Black Hand of Death Club
Reply-To: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
NNTP-Posting-Host: earthquake.berkeley.edu
Originator: goldfarb@earthquake.berkeley.edu

In article <62245@mimsy.umd.edu> sjsmith@cs.umd.edu (Stephen Joseph Smith) writes:
)Why not create rec.arts.tv.mst3k?
)
)I realize that there aren't [yet] rec.arts.tv.* groups for particular
)programs yet [the only one is rec.arts.tv.soaps].  Maybe it's time for one.
)
)- Gamera

	There have been attempts in the past to create rec.arts.tv.[show]
groups -- the two that spring to mind are rec.arts.tv.twin-peaks and
rec.arts.tv.quantum-leap. Neither group passed, despite the wide popularity
of Twin Peaks on the net at the time. Both groups had the same opposing
arguments: "How long will it be around?" "This will set a bad precedent
for future groups." (In the case of Twin Peaks, this was quite valid --
how much traffic does alt.tv.twin-peaks get these days?)

	Both arguments will be seen again if we try to do MST3K. There
will be fierce opposition. The group will require something like a thousand
"yes" votes to pass. 

	I'm not arguing for or against the effort; I'm just making 
observations based on my experience reading news.groups for the past few
years. But if a vote for rec.arts.tv.mst3k passes I'll be very surprised.

Zach Paleozogt (Hi, Gamera!)

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From: detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David De Trolio)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: What series were not produced in LA?
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:56:56 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

jenkirtl@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Jennifer Kirtley) writes:

>Actually, quite a few network (non-syndication) shows were filmed
>in Vancouver.  Here's what I can think of off the top of my head:

>MacGyver
>Wiseguy
>21 Jump Street

Also:

Street Justice
The Heights
Catwalk
Night Heat
Friday The 13th - The Series
War of the World - The Series


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From: stealth@engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier)
Subject: Re: Abortion adds [sic] are ruinning [sic] my dinner!
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:13:22 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <1992Nov16.165543.25237@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
	writes:
>Using offensive ads to further a political cause seems unacceptable to me.

Think about it, though - if the ad offends you so much, why doesn't the
notion of abortion offend you equally as much?

To many pro-lifers people, abortion is not a political cause, it's a human
rights cause, as compelling as the horrors of concentration camps and gas
chambers in Nazi Germany, and demands the same kind of moral outrage.

That's the message that the ads were trying to put across, I reckon.
I think what they're asking by showing such an ad is, "If it makes
you want to puke to see tiny dismembered bodies, which is
a simple reality of the abortion procedure in many cases, then why
are you in favor of abortion?"

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From: djredick@bluemoon.use.com (Darrin J. Redick)
Subject: Re: QL-Cancellation???
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 03:27:26 EST

 
>
> 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
 
I knew it!  I just KNEW that NBC was looking for an excuse to kill the
show because THEY didn't like it, but the people watching it did!
 
> do that is to try to convince Mr. Little to switch QL back to it's
> old timeslot.
>
 
YES!  YES!!  The time is NOW!  Don't delay!  Deluge NBC with mail!!
It's the ONLY way to save QL!
 

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From: jfrench@cs.utexas.edu (Jason French)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: The Leap Back
Date: 19 Nov 1992 09:16:31 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelady.cs.utexas.edu

In article <69805@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
>>In article <lgi3g8INNgka@lovelady.cs.utexas.edu> jfrench@cs.utexas.edu (Jason 
>F
>>rench) writes:
>>
>>>include it.  On "M.I.A.", which came on right before the "The Leap Home" they
>>>showed the leap into "The Leap Home", but didn't show it the next day.  I hop
>e
>>>they will get around to it so can get it recorded soon.  It is the last one I
>>>need besides "The Curse of Ptah-Hotep".
>>>
>
>I only saw 'M.I.A.' as the original broadcast (which I recorded) and never
>the re-run. In the original, I think, the episode ended with the leap-out
>from Al's perspective. Didn't the episode close on Al's wife (calling out
>Al's name.) If this is true, where did the leap into the next episode
>come from?

You're right.  I don't know what I was thinking of.  There was no leap seen
after "M.I.A." because it is in Al's perspective.  The day after "M.I.A.", USA
played "Leap of Faith" and showed the leap out for "One Strobe Over the Line".
What I am trying to say is their end leaps are in numerical order, but around
"The Leap Home" time they messed up and got the episodes out of order.  I'm
wondering if they might have done it again for "The Leap Back" which as of 
Wednesday still hasn't aired on USA.

+-------------------------------Jason French-------------------------------+
!                                                                          !
! "It doesn't really matter what other people do, or say.  What matters is !
!  what you know in here about yourself and about others, because the most !
!  important person you have to listen to is you."                         !
!                                                                          !
!                                        --  Doctor Sam Beckett            !
!                                            Quantum Leap                  !
!                                           "The Last Gunfighter"          !
!                                                                          !
+----------------------------jfrench@cs.utexas.edu-------------------------+


Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,oh.general
From: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Subject: Re: QL: Quantum Leak
Reply-To: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:20:21 GMT


I believe the boys on "In Living Color" also do a QL spoof, although I've  
never seen it.

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From: detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David De Trolio)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: L&O: Goodbye Paul Sorvino **Major Spoiler**
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:22:54 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

mathew@unixg.ubc.ca (Mathew B Englander) writes:

>A query, after some blank lines (still haven't figured out how
>to get a proper ^L on my editor):


























>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.

The gun dealer seemed to be high on something, I think Logan even
mentioned this while talking to Stone in the hospital.  He was looking
to make a quick buck and keep his merchandise.

What did you think of the ending.  The only person left was the little
girl, and who really knows what her fate is.  After all, mom and dad
got shot, grandma "fell" out of a window, and everyone else connected
to the murder was shot, stabbed, or strangled.


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