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From: gavigan@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ryan P. Gavigan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.anime
Subject: Animated QL (wasRe:  QL: NBC messes with it again)
Date: 2 Oct 92 06:27:49 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <larne.034w@canetoad.UUCP> larne@canetoad.UUCP (Larne Pekowsky) writes:
>In article <o06PRB2w164w@kryton.UUCP> ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead) writes:
>
>>nigotiating with Selleck, but I wouldn't hold my breath.  On that note of
>>would be QL episodes, has anyone (perhaps Sally might know), heard if they
>>are going to do the animated QL?  I've heard through some Anime friends that
>>Don wanted to use one of the Japanese animtater.
>
>Latest word (that I've heard at any rate) is that they are still planning
>the episode, quite possibly as the season finale.  They have contracted
>with the animation company that did Akira.  In fact, if you have a look at
>the "Most spectacular season of Quantum leap ever" ads that aired during the
>olympics, you can see a shot or two from Akira in the background.
>
Most likely with the creator of Akira and one of the companies that made 
Akira.  The Akira Committee was a group of about 30 separate companies which
together put Akira together.  Kodansha, Inc. "owns" the rights to Akira, and
they were the major partner in The Akira Committee so they might be the
ones contracted to produce the QL episode.

Ryan Gavigan
gavigan@gn.ecn.purdue.edu

p.s. Has anyone ever published what the QL per episode budget is?  I would 
assume it's at least around the $1M per episode.  For the animated episode,
I would assume the production budget would be a good 80% or so of that (what
else would they pay for but the actors 8-).  That kind of budget in the
production of a 44 minute show for the japanese producers is a huge amount.
Akira, one of the highest budgeted japanese films, cost $7 million for its
beautifully done 124 minutes, while most videos only have about $200K 
budgeted for a half hour and still produce high quality videos (Gundam0083,
3x3 Eyes, etc.)
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From: wakesm@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Steve Wake)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Highlander in Indy
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:07:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University

Highlander the series will be showing on WRTV 12 out of Indianapolis at
12:30am Saturday, right after Baywatch.

Steve
From: finifter@remus.rutgers.edu (Tracy E. Finifter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap - Brooke Shields Episode - maybe spoilers
Date: 6 Oct 92 02:02:58 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I've read a lot of bad press about the first two episodes around here.  This
reply though is specifically about "Leaping of the Shrew".  I liked it.  It
wasn't thought provoking QL.  It wasn't artistic QL.  It wasn't character
exploring QL.  But it wasfun.  It was an hour off (what I thought, at least)
witty, humorous writing between Bakula and Shields and between Bakula and
Stockwell.  And after last weeks VERY intense episode (whatever else you have
to say about it, it was INTENSE) I kind of enjoyed having an episode that
didn't take itself too seriously, especially when we have a very serious ep
coming up next week.

And about being a shameless take-off of "Blue Lagoon", so it was.  Big deal. 
How many other times has QL shamelessly copied other movies?  They're still 
good and they still have their own point to make.  And even mediocre QL is 
better than 90% of the rest of the stuff on TV.
From: wallace@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Glenn Wallace)
Subject: Re: QL: Antipodean (Aus) television practices
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:03:14 GMT

ajg620@huxley.anu.edu.au (Andrew J Greinke) writes:

>In article <1992Sep28.045046.2792@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> ins598w@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Roger Tall) writes:
>>
>>Here in Australia we have just finised (I think) the 1991 season of
>>Quantum Leap.
>>
>>Well it is the episode where Sam leaps into an asylum and is given
>>electric shock treatment and in the end he leaps with Al.  But we
>>discover that Al is the one that actually leaps and Sam is the 
>>hologram.
>>
>>Now, the network (channel 10) in their wisdom??? has decided to start
>>showing repeats of old QL episodes from next week.

>What ????   I have been patiently ticking off the episodes on my ftp'd
>episode guide (to which I have forgotten the address - any clues?) since
>the current set began way back January (?) this year.  To my knowledge they
>started off in the second season with "leap home" but then jumped around
>and covered quite a few in season 1.  There are about six which I haven't
>seen, either because they haven't shown them or I've missed them.

Wrong wrong wrong!

I rang them BEFORE Shock Theatre and asked them what was showing after
it and they said "The Leap Back" (1st espisode of series 4).

They are also showing (at least) a few more of the 4th season stuff
(which they own) after the Leap Back IN ORDER!!

Of course, maybe they realised they were doing something right for a
change and decided to put it wrong. :)

Wait and see, it's only shown this Friday, after all.

Glenn

Net: g.wallace@trl.oz.au | Help me escape this country! You can't buy Jolt
RealTime: Glenn Wallace  | here, and they don't have Tower records, or
Work: Telecom Australia  | Fry's or anything! Argh.... Oh to be at WDW!
      Drift Project      | I'm on the next plane outta here!
From: Edward_Lee_Whiteside@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Highlander: The Series
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 92 23:44:34 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

For those that missed the first episode and have access to WGN, they will air
the premiere episode this thursday at 11:30 pm ET, 8:30 PT.
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Subject: QL: Where can the observer go? Theories
From: jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:28:35 GMT
Organization: Searle, Skokie, IL
Nntp-Posting-User: julien

Okay, here's another stinger on the science behind Project Quantum Leap.

It appears from various episodes that Al's view of the past is much
better than Sam's view of the Imaging Chamber.  Al can see people that Sam is
not touching, can see things Sam does not see, such as on the other side of a
wall, and can even be moved to other locales in the episode ("Gooshie!  Center
me on ... now!").

So it seems possible that Al, or another observer, could be put anywhere or
anywhen needed.  This would be an EXTREMELY useful feature to the government,
as they could examine (to beat a dead horse) all angles of who shot JFK,
wheter the missles actually removed from Cuba, how much Teddy drank before
Chappaquidic (sp?), anything at all in history.  This is the success of PQL!

To mitigate this, it may be that Ziggy can only move the observer within the
timestream of something that has been leaped.  To use some pseudo-science,
perhaps they are following the superstrings.  Once there is an anchor in the
timestream, they can wander from it, to people in the same general physical
neighborhood.  

It may still be possible to observe where Sam has been, if the leaps pull out
the loop in the string.

It may also be possible to follow a leap of an inanimate object placed in the
accelerator.

Just some stuff to think about,
Joel
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From: salley@niktow.canisius.edu (David Salley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Covington Cross
Date: 3 Oct 92 12:39:39 GMT
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208

Michael Overland writes:
> Why not give Covington Cross a chance to get better.  Who knows, Covington
> Cross might turn into the Star Trek of the 90's.  

I can see it now: _Covington Cross: The Previous Generation_ ;-) ;-)
                                                       -- David

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From: wakesm@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Steve Wake)
Subject: Re: Highlander: The Series
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:41:08 GMT

In <1992Oct5.104610.5501@hellgate.utah.edu> driskill%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Hank Driskill, GSH3D) writes:

>The second episode was very well done... I'm a major fan of Highlander and
>often refuse to admit the existence of Highlander II: The Sickening, so I was
>very pleased that this is before the Gathering.  Since I missed the first,
>I'd like some info on the relationship between "Connor Macleod of the clan
>Macleod" and "Duncan Macleod of the clan Macleod"... this is the only part 
>which still worries me.

>Hank.

The way that they explained it in the first episode, is that Duncan is from
2 generations after Connor.  Duncan said that his grandfather would tell him
stories of a man in their clan that couldn't.  But, of course Duncan did not
believe the stories until we was supposedly killed in battle and lived.

Duncan does not like to fight, and has spent most of his life hiding in an
ancient burial ground (holy land).

Steve Wake
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From: ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host)
Subject: Re: Quantm Sheepdip (re: WADE 'TURD' SMITH"'s comments)
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 04:27:10 GMT

WTS@HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU ("WADE T. SMITH") writes:

>Just a quick note of thanks for lumping all the messages about that
>defecated turd of yoghurt slime "Quantum Leap" together so I can delete
>them all with one keystroke.
>Keep it up.
>Better yet, don't bother posting them at all!

Here's one which isn't grouped for you; I am sure other fans can
find new combinations for you to add.

So the T in "WADE T. SMITH" stands for Turd;
Worse than Sheepdip in my opinion.

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************* my views represent no one - not even myself. ****************
From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: reason #595 why tonight's Quantum Leap sucked
Date: 24 Sep 1992 18:45:19 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <Bv0Kp6.5w@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
writes:
>	In 1957, when Lee Harvey Oswald is reading the Communist
>Manifesto, it's printed in ITC Souvenir, which wouldn't be available
>until 1970. 
>
>	In 1963, when he's passing out "Free Cuba" flyers, they're
>printed in ITC Garamond, another typeface which wouldn't be around until 
>the seventies.

Well, if we're going to pick nits...

In one of the Russian-language sequences, one of the subtitles said something
like, "Your making a mistake." Shame!

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
From: CRAIG@MITVMA.MIT.EDU (Ed Craig)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Covington Cross
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:23:14 GMT


    Upper class society is distinctly 1990, lower class about mid-19th
century British.
    I have no more problem with American accents than modern British
accents in medieval Britain, (where do you think we got our accents from
anyway?) but anyone who wants a feel for the second person singular need
only read a bit of Shakespear or King James Version Bible to get it
right. These writers didn't.
    Nobody speaks French? The lower classes speak English? Nobody has to
learn Latin? An Irishman is running about as a bandit who actually does
speak English. Nobody speaks Gaelic or Welsh or Danish or Cornish or
Anglo-Saxon. OK, I can accept all that so I can understand it.
    No villain can parry a hero's blow. OK, so the hero's gotta win
somehow, and obviously it's not going to be from his talents.
    People get hacked, stabbed and bludgeoned. Nobody bleeds. Ever. OK,
we can't let the kiddies know that violence hurts.
    Every nobleman is literate? Non-clerical commoners are literate? In
a world without printing presses or cheap paper?
    Disobedient children and servants get off with verbal reprimands?
Nobody gets beaten?
    A baron with the right of High and low justice lets a common ban-
dit hang out in his dungeon, getting well fed, waiting for a royal
court?
    There's a woman running around in pants who's not getting burned
for perversion and/or witchcraft? And this one obviously isn't hearing
angels and saints in her head, either.
    I wouldn't mind the problems above, but the plots suck to boot.
    Let me know if this ever improves. I can't watch it as it is. This
is worse than Star Trek's noisy explosions and shock waves in vacuum.
At least they've had internally consistant writing.
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From: aberigan@nde.unl.edu (A. Berigan)
Subject: Re: Quantum Leap Premise
Organization: Ord High School, Ord, NE
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:17:36 GMT

hship@sw.stratus.com (Howard Ship) writes:
>KL62%MARISTB@VM.MARIST.EDU ("Ryan, Edmund") writes:

>>I find the basic premise of Quantum Leap absurd in that Sam
>>changes lives on a personal level and not on a societal level.
>>In many science fiction stories about time travel, individual
>>events have been shown to influence societal events. Even
>>in Ray Bradbury's story, ?????? (about the dinosaur hunting
>>time travellers), history was changed by killing a butterfly.
>>The changes made in the time continuum as in Quantum Leap would
>>have an eventual effect on society and thereby change history.
>>Even the most seemingly insignificant individuals you can
>>imagine eventually have some effect on society.
>>
>>If the writers of Quantum Leap really understood, they could
>>have some real fun and have Sam alter history as to improve
>>the present state of things.

>Yes, but QL is a drama series (with some comedic aspects).  It is NOT
>science fiction, it just uses a science/fantasy premise to speed along
>its contrived premise.  I mean, Kane (in Kung Fu) had to wander in looking for
>water, hang around until heavily provoked, save the town, then wander off in
>search of his brother.

And David Banner would hitchhike into a town, go by an assumed name,
hang around, get really stressed out twice, and then leave town, leaving
behind property damage and another clue for McGee to track down The
Incredible Hulk.

>Sam leaps in and leaps out.

And the changes he makes makes the world more and more like the one we
know!  Indeed, he can make big changes, but they end up just the way we
remember them.  I thought the episode Lee Harvey Oswald showed that
clearly.

>Howard_Ship@vos.stratus.com

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From: saf@netcom.com (Steve A. Feinstein)
Subject: Re: Anyone getting the SciFi Channel in Stereo?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: us
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:45:56 GMT

In article <BvEGC3.CCp@ais.org> alb@ais.org (Alan Brushaber) writes:
>
>
>  We don't seem to be here in Ann Arbor. Although it won't matter for most
>of the old material they're programming, it would be nice for the newer
>stuff. Isn't the S-F channel owned by the USA Network - we don't receive
>that channel in stereo either - maybe they just don't intend to support it.
>Anyone know anything about this?
>
Well here in Palo Alto, the Stereo light on my TV comes on when I tune
to that station.  I remember hearing that Star Wars was the very first
movie recorded in Dolby tereo (a.k.a. Dolby Surround) so on Blast Off
night (last Thu), I flipped on my Surround Decoder, and sure enough.
Blasters to the left of me, Vader to the right... Quick , Duck!

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From: tmw4r@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Thomas Munroe Walsh)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: SciFi Channel:sked???
Keywords: help
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:20:59 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <Bv9sBG.Dr5@andy.bgsu.edu> ckile@andy.bgsu.edu (crystal kile) writes:
>	OK, so now we have the SciFi Channel & its lotsa fun and all, but
>how can one tell what is gonna be on when???

(Here is the schedule I posted a few weeks ago.)

I've got Starlog in front of me right now so here are the shows that
will be airing on the Sci-Fi Channel (and they're times):

(Please note that titles in quotes are merely working titles/descriptions.)

Monday thru Friday:

7 AM:  SF Cartoon/Marionette show block (no other details available)
9 AM:  A genre movie
11 AM:  Dark Shadows (original series)
12 Noon:  Doctor Who
1 PM:  Lost In Space
2 PM:  Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
3 PM:  Afternoon Movie
5 PM:  One Step Beyond
5:30 PM:  The Incredible Hulk
6:30 PM:  Space:  1999
7:30 PM:  Alfred Hitchcock Presents (color series)
8 PM:  Battlestar Galactica (to be replaced by Buck Rogers in November)
9 PM:  War Of The Worlds
10 PM:  "Great Series Showcase" (Various short lived series from six
         to 22 episodes)
11 PM:  Tales From The Darkside
11:30 PM:  Night Gallery
12 Midnight:  Dark Shadows (original series)
1 AM:  Doctor Who
2 AM:  "Great Series Showcase"
3 AM:  Informercials (until 7 AM)

Saturday:

7 AM:  Informercials
9 AM:  "SF Insider"
9:30 AM:  "NASA Watch"
10 AM:  "Mysteries"
10:30 AM:  "Science Fact Program"
11 AM:  One Step Beyond
11:30 AM:  Flash Gordon serial segments
12 Noon:  Doctor Who
1 PM:  Lost In Space
2 PM:  Voyage
3 PM:  Time Tunnel
4 PM:  Genre movie
6 PM:  Space:  1999
7 PM:  Alien Nation
8 PM:  Genre movie
10 PM:  Amazing Stories
10:30 PM:  Tales From The Darkside
11 PM:  Genre Movie
1 AM:  Genre Movie
3 AM:  Infomercials

Sunday:

7 AM:  Infomericals
8 AM:  Genre cartoon block
10 AM:  Voyagers
11 AM:  The Powers Of Matthew Star
12 Noon:  The Incredible Hulk
1 PM:  Lost In Space
2 PM:  Voyage
3 PM:  Genre Movie
5 PM:  Genre Movie
7 PM:  Buck Rogers
8 PM:  "SF Insider"
8:30 PM:  "NASA Watch"
9 PM:  "Mysteries"
9:30 PM:  "Science Fact Program"
10 PM:  The Prisoner
11 PM:  Genre movie
1 AM:  Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Color series)
1:30 AM:  One Step Beyound
2 AM:  The Prisoner
3 AM:  Infomercials

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From: flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip Russell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: TV Highlander
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:03:05 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <9210051812.AA09114@rutgers.edu> WHITE@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU (Avid Reader - Fledgling Writer) writes:
>
>       I enjoyed it.  Richard Moll was great as the rolling-eyed baddie.  The
>swordfighting was impressive (except when Slan and Mac went at it in the
>polishing room, where the speeded-up footage was all too obvious and ugly).
>However, I'm not sure how much mileage the series can get from a weekly baddie
>coming to cut Duncan's head off and Duncan doing the reverse.  After all, we
>*know* that Connor ended up as *the* immortal - wonder who eventually does
>Duncan in?
>

This is something I have been worried about. Most shows made from movies
blindly follow the same format as the original movie and never grow.

How about episodes devoted to Duncan's problems with living longer than
his mortal friends and girlfriends?

How about an episode letting us find out about the indians!

Flip


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From: dmb@world.std.com (Deborah M Brown)
Subject: Re: Give QL its own newsgroup, please!!!
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 20:42:33 GMT

In article <1992Sep23.194801.24099@access.digex.com> rduggar@access.digex.com (robin of riverdale) writes:
>I have nothing against Quantum Leap.  As a matter of fact, I watch it every
>now and then.  But it seems to me that 95% of the last months postings have
>been about Quantum Leap!!!  Doesn't this warrant an RFD or CFV on giving QL
>its own group???

Only if the QL people want it.  It doesn't matter if a separate group
is created or not, if they don't want to use it, they won't.  Then you'll
have a new newsgroup and still have tons of QL postings to wade through.

Trying to kick a group out of a newsgroup usually fails unless they want
to go, and it seems to me that they don't.

Bug your sysadmin for trn - then you won't have to read anything you
don't want to.  I don't know if I could ever go back to rn again, with 
all the posters changing the subject line in the middle of the thread, 
KILL files just won't work.



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From: jdng90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Gorsuch JDN)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: SF channel
Date: 6 Oct 92 09:33:29 GMT


 Could someone mail me the schedule for SF-TV, I'd like to see it, to
know what programs/films they are showing. 
  Plus have any US cable channels thought of broadcasting to Europe
by sattelite apart from CNNI, which has been broadcasting for some
time by two sats. I would love to see the SF channel in UK. 
 
            jon 

jdng90@uk.ac.soton.ecs
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From: c8643631@cc.newcastle.edu.au (DUCK DODGERS)
Subject: Re: Blake's 7 Ending
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 01:33:28 GMT

In article <15783@umd5.umd.edu>, jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...) writes:
> Well, someone posted quite a few months back that they had seen the
> director's notes/script for the episode, and it included a list of how
> the shots over the end credits should be arranged.  It was scribbled and
> cryptic, and I can't quite remember details, but
> 
> * the first shot is Avon's
> 
> * several guards fire, and Avon gets off another shot or two
> 
> AND
> 
> * the last shot heard, somewhat softer, is Avon's.
> 


In the Marvel (UK) 'Blake's 7' magazine of the early 80's, there was an
interview with Mary Ridge, the director of "Blake" and she stated how she
intended the shots over the closing credits to be interpreted. They are close
to how you describe, but I don't think you've got it quite right. I also can't
find out for a few months as I don't have access to my copies of the magazine.
But if someone reading this does have access, maybe they can post and clear it
up.

Edward D

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From: tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins)