HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wljohnso@nyx.cs.du.edu (William "Wes" Johnson)
Subject: Re: Catch Phrase Catalog v1.1
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	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 06:08:29 GMT

In article <BPOSTOW.92Sep13140304@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> bpostow@occs.cs.ob
rlin.edu (Brian Postow) writes:
>sheesh, I am really surprised here. people argueing about where:
>"MCLOOOOUUUUUUDDDDD!!!!" comes from! it comes form the Highlander. the
>Kurigen says shouts it in a threatening manner.
>
>--
>Brian Postow :: The Pasta Knight - that noodle head in shiny armour
>
>Didn't your parents tell you not to talk to strangers?
>	And I'm STRAAANGER than you are!


No it came from the --- Mystery Movie...( I hope I am not zapped for that
one)

-------------------------------------------------
William "Wes" "Arrrr" "Man Thats a Loud Shirt"
"Gener Fox" "Mr. Kamikazi" "Mr DNA" "Boojie Boy" 
"Golden Earring" "Sentri Bastion" Johnson
-------------------------------------------------
Its my birthday today, so bite me.
-------------------------------------------------
He Tried To Kill Me With A Forklift --MST3K

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From: wljohnso@nyx.cs.du.edu (William "Wes" Johnson)
Subject: Turkeys they SHOULD Show!
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	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 06:28:56 GMT


Well I was reading a video review guide the other night (it was far better
than the movie "Steel And Lace" which was on at that time) reading the
reviews to as many MST3K movies that I could find/remember.  
Most of them ranged from "turkeys" to 2.5 stars out of 5.

To  make a long story short (too late) I found the ultimate turkey of a
film that would be far worse than even the dreaded CASTLE OF DR. FUMANCHU
(BTW it got a turkey rating)...

After laughing for 5 minutes I shared my discovery with everyone else.

     GANJASAURUS REX

(hehhehehehehehehehehehehehe :)

It wouldn;t be nearly as funny if I was making this up.

-------------------------------------------------
William "Wes" "Arrrr" "Man Thats a Loud Shirt"
"Gener Fox" "Mr. Kamikazi" "Mr DNA" "Boojie Boy" 
"Golden Earring" "Sentri Bastion" Johnson
-------------------------------------------------
Deal With It, Pink Boy --Tom Servo

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From: wlamonac@bach.helios.nd.edu (william lamonaca)
Subject: Re: question
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Distribution: alt
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 06:06:40 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.175905.2430@news2.cis.umn.edu> donnell@shark.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:
>In article <BPOSTOW.92Sep4104218@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> bpostow@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Brian Postow) writes:
>>ok, I don't have access to CC, so I can't watch MST3K while I am at
>>college, but I love the show. I have a question: Viking Women vs the
>>Sea Serpent they made a referrence to Taurus Bolva "Yonda lies the
>>castle of my fodda" "NO, yonda lies the Matt painting of the castle of
>>my fodda!" did they do Taurus Bolva? and if so when?
>>
>>oh, by the way, reply to this via mail because, since I don't have
>>access to MST3k, I probably won't keep up with this group much..
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>--
>>Brian Postow :: The Pasta Knight - that noodle head in shiny armour
>>
>>Didn't your parents tell you not to talk to strangers?
>>	And I'm STAAANGER than you are!
>
>Do you mean the film "Taras Bulba"?
>The "Yonder lies da palace ub my fodda" quote is from Tony Curtis in 
>some damn medieval thing. 
>They have never done Taras Bulba, a historical adventure/War film.
>
>					--Judex--
>

The Tony Curtis movie, was, I believe, "The Black Shield of Fallworth"
From: jpg7@po.CWRU.Edu (Joseph P. Graves)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Do you know
Date: 11 Sep 1992 22:45:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


Which episode included Joel's many references like:
'At least he can play Dixieland jazz?'
Which was the episode with the off-course missile, the island, and all that
  MOUNTAIN CLIMBING?
And what were some of the old first season ComCh episodes (with J.Weinstein)?
I only remember the Radar Men segments, not the movies.
Thanx

JPG7@po.cwru.edu, FPrefect
Parrothead, Dittohead, and MSTie
'He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature...'
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From: shabby@Athena.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin)
Subject: Re: Catch Phrase Catalog v1.1
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	<1992Sep15.060829.683@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:37:27 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.060829.683@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> wljohnso@nyx.cs.du.edu (William "Wes" Johnson) writes:

   In article <BPOSTOW.92Sep13140304@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> bpostow@occs.cs.ob
   rlin.edu (Brian Postow) writes:
   >sheesh, I am really surprised here. people argueing about where:
   >"MCLOOOOUUUUUUDDDDD!!!!" comes from! it comes form the Highlander. the
   >Kurigen says shouts it in a threatening manner.
   >
   >--
   >Brian Postow :: The Pasta Knight - that noodle head in shiny armour
   >
   >Didn't your parents tell you not to talk to strangers?
   >	And I'm STRAAANGER than you are!


   No it came from the --- Mystery Movie...( I hope I am not zapped for that
   one)


McCloud from the movie is spelled MacLeod, FYI.  :)

But it's GOTTA be from Highlander. 

If not, well, ...

--
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-shabby@athena.mit.edu
-member, SIPB, PWLCSBHNM, MITMB, VWA, MITCC, PWN, LSI
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	that Black Knight!"
					-Black Knight pinball game...
From: mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Newsletter, schedules, Guide, etc.
Date: 7 Sep 92 02:46:53 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	Edward_Lee_Whiteside@cup.portal.com writes:
	What do you get if you write to the show (the address
	superimposed on the screen?).

   You get an flyer of stuff to order ("Info Club Stuff" -- $5, which is
worth getting, since it includes back issues of the newsletter, and
other fun stuff, and also puts you on the newsletter mailing list for
a year; t-shirts, etc.), your fan-club card.   You probably want to
short-circuit the process and just send in the $5 with your initial
letter.  (Make checks payable to "Best Brains, Inc.")

	How do you get the Comedy Central Newsletter?

... call them up, and they'll put you on it.  212-767-8600.

	Is there an episode guide posted regularly or available via
	ftp?

... look on syrinx.umd.edu, in directory "mst3k".  There's tons
of stuff there.  You also might also want to get onto the
electronic SOLN digest mailing list -- send mail to
rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu, and put "MST3K" in the subject
line -- ask to be put on the mailing list.  Its run by Richard
Kulawiec, and is very good.

Hope this helps,

Charles

PS - the address for the information club (somebody asked for it)

	MST3K Information Club
	PO Box 5325
	Hopkins, MN 55343
From: barnett@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: RE: Catch-Phrase Catalog
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:26:17 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

I haven't seen:

	-------  rhubarb

as in "japanese rhubarb" or "scientist rhubarb".

Does anybody know which director instructed his actors to say "rhubarb"
in crowd scenes as a way of producing a muttering noise?


Or, should I sit back and just relax?

Eric Suchanek, (posting from a friend's account with permission)

BIX: esuchanek

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From: tbc@netcom.com (Mike Garvey)
Subject: Re: Catch-Phrase Catalog (was: Hercules vs. the Moon Men)
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 05:00:04 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In a prior missive, Michael K. Heney (mheney@access.digex.com) eloquently
scribed this stuff:

>Anyone else catch Servo's comment "It is bassoon!" early in the movie?
>Am I mistaken, or is this a reference to an F-Troop episode where the
>plot(?) revolves around a hot-air ballon, with the climax(?) being a
>scene with the chief pointing in the air, exclaiming "It is balloon!",
>the firing upon it with arrows (and Our Heros are riding the balloon,
>dontcha know ...)

Hardly. Tom has a penchant for noting character entrances or plot points
being punctuated by individual musical instruments, as in "The so and so
will be played by the bassoon", "He's being killed accompanied by French
Horns" etc.

The bassoon is of course, a double-reed woodwind instrument that serves as
the bass for the woodwind section in an orchestra. It has a range of nearly
four octaves from Bb below the bass clef staff, to nearly Bb above the
treble clef staff. I should know, as I am a bassoonist (just like Frank IS
the button). When you hear "The Sorceror's Apprentice" (with or without
Fantasia) that's just one example of bassoonery.

(Wanders off mumbling something about deal with it, my little free rotating
skanky boy!)

Be seeing you...
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From: v133kdq8@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Amy L Levine)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Cut the songs out, huh?
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:08:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hey, HACK-MAN, save the songs for the next time you're on a long car trip, huh?
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From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: Killer Shrew
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:19:22 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.160153.17941@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> jlewis@astro.as.arizona.edu (Jeff Lewis) writes:
>Greetings and Salutations -
>	Has anyone written down the ingredents for
>	the "Killer Shrew" drink?...I would love
>	to get ahold of this...
>
>		Thanks - Jeff
>
>        "It's an intriguing mixture of genocide and modern dance!"
>	"Hey Joel, you're starting to sound like Jack Perkins"
>					-- Joel and Crow, "Fugitive Alien"

The Planet where apes evolved from KEN!?!?!???

"Ken1, quick, help Ken2 kill Ken37!"

----Steve					 
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"You see, I'm kind of this control freak who likes to create his own
personal hells before the real one can get to him. I like to beat hell
to hell so to speak".--Spalding Gray "Monster in a box"
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From: wlamonac@purcell.helios.nd.edu (william lamonaca)
Subject: Re: Catch-Phrase Catalog v.1.0
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 02:22:45 GMT

In article <92249.140327JVI100@psuvm.psu.edu> <JVI100@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>  Here are my phrases that I havn't yet seen:
>
>    4) Must think but too stupid/must reach crappy special effect/etc... (used
>       when someone has to strain to do something or get something thats just
>       out of reach) - (??)

    William Shatner as Capt. Kirk

>     6) I'm dead now, don't smoke.(I can't believe I haven't seen this one
>        posted! I probably just missed it) - (Yule Brenner sp?)

   From an anti-smoking campaign starring Yul Brynner.  The commercials ran
after he died from lung cancer.  (BTW, my roommate saw one these commercials
recently, so maybe they're starting the campaign again.)
>
>
>
>  This is all I can think of right now, but I'm sure to come up with more
>  later.
>
>                                        You will believe a man can fly...
>                                                     The Jimothy


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From: jerrett@iastate.edu (Gregory A Jerrett)
Subject: Petition for the SF Channel
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:19:04 GMT

for those of you interested in getting the Science Fiction Channel the best
way to get your cable company to subscribe is to present them with a
simple, handwritten petition with a couple of hundred signatures.
Your local comic book store or science fiction bookseller shoiuld be the 
best place rto start or find a petition to sign.

For those of you here in Ames, Mayhem comics has started a petition.  They
have about 100 signatures already but they are looking for 250 before they
turn it in to heritage cablevision.  I urger(urge) you to sign it if you haven't already.

Greg Jerrett
From: wlamonac@schiller.helios.nd.edu (william lamonaca)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Catch-Phrase Catalog v1.0
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:59:50 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame

In article <Bu2AJ3.E1v@news.cso.uiuc.edu> thove@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (hove tom) writes:
>Regarding Joe Besser:  any "Spinal Tap" fans out there?  (Need I ask?) Anyway,
>remember Mick Shrimpton's replacement?  His name was Joe "Mama" Besser!
>
>And now . . . more catch phrases:
>
>-"What's that boy?  Daddy's hurt?  Down in Deadrock Canyon?" (???)

    Lassie (?)

>-"N" boom! "Y" boom! "P" boom! "D" BOOM! (???)

    It may be the opening of the TV show "NYPD" where each letter came on
the screen one at a time with appropriate musical fanfare.

>-Show titles with death in them: "Two wheeler. Four Wheeler. DEAD wheeler."(?)

  Parody of titles of episodes from TV detective shows (as in- "This week's
episode of Hawaii 5-0 -The Wave of Death" or some such thing)
From: bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Another catch phrase
Date: 10 Sep 92 01:31:56 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <BuA6Fu.9B9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> thove@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (hove tom) writes:
>"The driver is either missing or dead" is from "The Phantom Creeps, Pt. 1."
>Crow sounds like Ronald Reagan when he says this line because the guy who said
>it in the film himself sounded like Ronald Reagan.

No, no, no.  This can't be right.  Usually they say "Welcome to Death
Valley Days.  The driver is either missing or he's dead."  If I'm not
mistaken, the "Welcome to Death Valley Days" line was NOT in the
Phantom Creeps.  Where it's really from, I have no idea, but it's not
from Phantom Creeps.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: mystical@nmt.edu (Gurupartap Davis)
Subject: Re: Well, I can understand how... HUH?!?
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 07:48:21 GMT

>Edgar winter is a rock musician who is an Albino. He plays sax and Keyboards,
>and is best remembered for his album "They Only come Out At Night", which
>featured the hits "Free Ride" and "Frankenstein". He is also the brother
>of Blues Guitarist Johnny winter, also an albino.

One thing I've been wondering...who's older, Edgar or Johnny?  They really 
don't seem that similar (besides being albinos).


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From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao V. Akella)
Subject: Theme song lyrics wanted.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
X-Lunar-Date: 3 days, 8 hrs, 40 mins until the full moon (U.T.)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:43:00 GMT

Could someone please e-mail me the lyrics to the opening song (you know, the
one that goes "In the not-too-distant future...")?  Most of the song is clear
as a bell, but, try as I might, I can't catch some of the lines (esp. the
second line -- "Mid..." WHAT?)

Thanks in advance.

Fu Manchu: "Where are you going?"
Crow:      "To Scarborogh fair."

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: tsui@ils.nwu.edu
Subject: Re: Killer Shrew
Organization: Institute for the Learning Sciences
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:58:26 GMT

]
>
>>C: Wax lips.
>>T: No, no, no. No wax lips. You're thinking of the Vulcan mind probe.
>>C: Alright, 86 the wax lips.
>
>Note that Joel put the wax lips in anyway.  So--is this a "Killer Shrew"
>that thinks it's a "Vulcan mind probe" or a "Vulcan mind probe" that's been
>swallowed whole by a "Killer Shrew"?  You be the judge.  Think about it,
>won't you?  Thank you.
>
>
>Lisa                         Jenkins@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
>1603 Thirteenth Street South
>Moorhead, Minnesota 56560-3734

I'm gonna have to try to make this drink at the Chicago Civic Opera House
(where I bartend occasionally), I can just see all these rich snobs going into
convulsions.

Josh Tsui
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From: bobscott@access.digex.com (Bob Scott)
Subject: Re: Who is he?
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 01:25:12 GMT

In article <BtuyC0.JvL@world.std.com> dmb@world.std.com (Deborah M Brown) writes:
>
>Geeze, I used to be able to recite the entire cast and crew of this show 
>backwards in my sleep!  VttBotS was one of my all time favorite shows,
>even including the season where the giant seaweed monsters started juggling
>the Seaview.

  You mean "the giant Seaweed Monster of the Week".  The other running "plot"
was somebody taking over the mind of/duplicating the body of Nelson or Crane.
I believe these two literary atom bombs were combined in one particularly
stunning episode.

  "Take 'er down, Chief...and check the bulbs in that big checkerboard thing,
will ya?"

  "Damn, why do we keeping the same rock every freaking week?!"

-- 

Bob Scott   Internet:   bobscott@digex.com
            CompuServe: 73125,1437
            ICBM:       Just down the river from the Pentagon
From: chaput@ils.nwu.edu (Cliff Chaput)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: Catch Phrase Catalog v1.1
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:57:41 GMT
Organization: Institute of Learning Sciences, Northwestern University
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6DA44E95601649B@mac1155.ils.nwu.edu>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 14 Sep 92 19:32:25 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9

In article <g4X2qB6w164w@cellar.org> Brian 'Rev P-K' Siano,
revpk@cellar.org writes:
>> "You did it!  You finally did it, you damn dirty apes!" (Planet of the
>> Apes)
>        Minor correction here. The original lines fro "Planet of the
Apes" 
>have been sort of muddled here.
>

Yeah, I wasn't sure whether I should list the quotes as they were said 
originally or repeated in the show.  I think I'll stick to the repeated 
version, since we'd end up with different versions of a lot of quotes 
(I'm not even sure the Blue Velvet quotes would be publishable).  Also, 
see the game descriptions below.

I also have been getting some complaints about whether these catch 
phrases were ever actually repeated as often as I think they have.  I've 
only been putting in catch phrases I specifically remember in multiple 
episodes, but for the sake of accuracy, I'd like to start giving episode 
references for all the quotes.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

And now I'd like to introduce a new game, the MST3K Catch Phrase Drinking 
Game, and it goes a little something like this: next time you and your 
buddies watch MST3K, keep a copy of the catch phrase catalog handy, along 
with copious amounts of your favorite mind-altering substance.  Whenever 
you hear Joel and/or the 'bots say a line off the catalog then 
chug/ingest/consume.  If you give this a try, post and let us know how it 
went.

What do ya think, sirs?

Cliff Chaput                   | "The scribes on all the people shove
Institute of Learning Sciences |  and bawl alliegence to the state.
Northwestern University        |  But those who love the greater love
chaput@ils.nwu.edu             |  lay down thier lives; they do not hate"
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: sens@jerry.uchicago.edu (Jeffrey David Sensabaugh)
Subject: GIF files
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:08:41 GMT

Hi 
  This is slightly afield of this group's main interest (but not totally
unrelated).  How does one view and/or print .gif files?  I am using a 
Sun SparcStation 1, on unix.  It would be nice to be able to look at the
files on syrinx.umd.edu, as well as other .gif files.  Any help would be
appreciated.  Much thanks,


				Jeff

Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Subject: Re: Well, I can understand how... HUH?!?
Organization: none
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 06:26:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.074821.7526@nmt.edu> mystical@nmt.edu (Gurupartap Davis) writes:
>>Edgar winter is a rock musician who is an Albino. He plays sax and Keyboards,
>>and is best remembered for his album "They Only come Out At Night", which
>>featured the hits "Free Ride" and "Frankenstein". He is also the brother
>>of Blues Guitarist Johnny winter, also an albino.
>
>One thing I've been wondering...who's older, Edgar or Johnny?  They really 
>don't seem that similar (besides being albinos).
>
>

Not sure on this, but I would guess Edgar.
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

					--Judex--

Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
From: donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Subject: Re: Another catch phrase
Organization: none
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 19:14:28 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.233100.14913@njitgw.njit.edu> rhr9081@hertz.njit.edu (Ray Rich) writes:
>In article <1992Sep10.013156.19606@njitgw.njit.edu> bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler) writes:
>>In article <BuA6Fu.9B9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> thove@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (hove tom) writes:
>>>"The driver is either missing or dead" is from "The Phantom Creeps, Pt. 1."
>>>Crow sounds like Ronald Reagan when he says this line because the guy who said
>>>it in the film himself sounded like Ronald Reagan.
>>
>>No, no, no.  This can't be right.  Usually they say "Welcome to Death
>>Valley Days.  The driver is either missing or he's dead."  If I'm not
>>mistaken, the "Welcome to Death Valley Days" line was NOT in the
>>Phantom Creeps.  Where it's really from, I have no idea, but it's not
>>from Phantom Creeps.
>
>	I thought it was the opening from Death Valley Days.  Tho I'm not
>sure if Reagan said the opening or not, I'm almost sure he was the star.
>Thus, the Reagan impression.
>
>						Raythrax
>   

"Death Valley Days" was an anthology of Western stories that ran from 1952-1972.
According to "Harry and Wally's Favorite TV Shows" <A reference book no 
home should be without. More info than you remember about almost everything
ever on TV. The land of saturday morning programming cries for a similar
reference> the only recurring character other than the narrator host, was
the deset of death Valley itself. The are is also where they mine borax, and
the show opened with a 20-Mule team hauling Borax out of the deset. The show
was sponsered by 20-Mule Team Borax for it's entirety. 

Originally the host was Stanley Andrews for more than a decade. Then 
Reagan hosted until he ran for Governor of California. Robert Taylor
and Dale Robertson split the last 6 years of the show. 
It's main place in history was that it was one of the first shows produced
specifically for syndication. Various repackages of the show have gone under
a variety of titles and used different narrators.

Reagan was the host/narrator, but he did not appear in the actual episodes
as an actor.

Whew!

<Harry and Wally's Favorite Tv Shows. Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik.
Prentice Hall Press. ISBN 0-13-933250-2>

					--Judex--