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From: mwauford@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (Melissa Wauford)
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Reply-To: mwauford@utkvx.utk.edu (Melissa Wauford)
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:23:33 GMT
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Archive-name: tv/abbrevs 

[Last change - 11/30/92]   
[Changes since last posting - None.]

Rec.arts.tv is a high volume newsgroup with a wide variety of discussed
topics.  However, a few topics generate more traffic than others.  In order
to allow those who use rn or some other method of pre-selecting articles to
filter out (or save away) postings about these heavy traffic subjects, an
abbreviation scheme has been created.  Please help out by starting your
subject line with one of the following abbreviations when posting about
these topics. For example:

Subject: NX - Dancing Bears

or

Subject: QL: Scott Bakula is PERFECT

New abbreviations will be added as needed.  Send suggestions directly to
me, and I'll add them to the list.  Objections to any abbreviations should
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will be deleted when no longer necessary.  

B5	- Babylon 5
DN	- Dinosaurs
FK	- Forever Knight
HL	- Highlander
LAL	- LA Law
L&O	- Law and Order
MWC	- Married With Children
MB	- Murphy Brown
MST	- Mystery Science Theatre 3000
NX	- Northern Exposure
QL 	- Quantum Leap    
RD	- Reasonable Doubts
SMP	- The Simpsons 
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WKRP	- WKRP in Cincinnati
WY	- Wonder Years
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From: nad@tegra.com (Nancy Durgin)
Subject: Re: Can't remember 80's TV show name.  Please help!
Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:05:24 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.190244.20594@netcom.com> hatunen@netcom.com (David W Hatunen) writes:
|>In article <C15rx5.13Iv@austin.ibm.com> jlpicard@austin.ibm.com writes:
|>>
|>>mbrockma@bank.ecn.purdue.edu (Matt Brockman) writes:
|>>> 02csclark@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
|>>> >quennevi@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Pokey Bangs) writes:
|>>> >>>In the early to mid 1980s, there was a show on (between 8:00 and 10:00)
|>>> >>>featuring an actor that played a blind man who was either a lawyer or a
|>>> >>>professor (I can't remember which).  I do not remember the actor's name,
|>>> >>>but I do recall him being bald and having a beard.  I met him once, after
|>>> >>  He played a college professor (litterature i think) and had a
|>>> >> young "innocent" college grad assitant. The actor that played the
|>>> >> professor is now on the garry shandling's talk show spoof (i
|>>> >> just forgot the name).. anyway he plays the talk show side
|>>> >> kick... The title of the show is smiling somthing or happy
|>>> >> something or other, i just remember a "happy" title that
|>>> >> was kind of the opposite of the way the prof. saw things...
|>>> >>>
|>>> >>  i also remember ABC on friday nigth.
|>>> >-
|>>> >     -Although i can't remember the guy either, the show was called
|>>> >     "Mr. Sunshine" and the bald guy was the "Producer" on Max 
|>>> >     Headroom just before Sunshine.... 
|>>> He was also Robert Urich's character's friend on the short-lived
|>>> sit-com "American Dreamer".
|>>
|>You may be thinking of James Franciscus as "Mr Novak".
|>

I've no idea what show is being discussed in the original question, but
James Franciscus was never a bald guy (well, at least he never played
one -- for all I know he was as bald as William Shatner), and was not on
"American Dreamer".  He did play a blind man (an insurance investigator)
in "Longstreet" (about 1970), but the rest of the above description
doesn't fit "Longstreet", so I don't think that's what's being
described. 

("Longstreet" is one of my all time favorite shows, by the way.  I'm
desperately searching for copies of it on video tape...)

	Nancy

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From: c9119870@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (ANTIGONE)
Subject: Monty Python Trivia # 1. Demented Fictional Character cont...
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:53:31 GMT

What did Graham Chapman have on his head when he was not
dictating?


Matthew

Xref: sparky rec.arts.tv:26145 rec.video.cable-tv:2407
From: nss3@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Noel Steere)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: Can't remember 80's TV show (Jeffrey Tambor)
Date: 24 Jan 93 21:07:48 GMT
Reply-To: nss3@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago

In article <1jsj8rINN9q3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa716@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott Fields) writes:
>
>Me:
>
>>>Interestingly, as talented as he obviously is, he has yet to have a hit
>>>show.  I think with the Larry Sanders Show, all that's about to change.
>
>Noelle:

Hey pal!  That's *Noel*!  If anyone's going to put something feminine
near me, I want to know about it first (and her phone number wouldn't
be bad either :-))!

>>I'm assuming this is just tv career listed, since he's also a favorite
>>of Mel Brooks, and has appeared in many of his movies.  He works
>>steadily, which by most show business standards would already make him
>>a success.
>
>Never said HE wasn't a success.  I just said he's never been in a
>successful show, but that that's about to change.  As for Mel Brooks
>movies, which ones are you talking about?  I can't remember him in any.

The one that sticks out in my mind is the wormy real estate developer
he plays in *Life Stinks*.  He's the one who always pokes his head in
the office saying "Oh, I'm sorry, am I disturbing something?  Are you
sure I'm not...?"  Other than that, to be honest, I can't recall, and
I apologize for making such a blanket statement.  I guess it just
seems like he's the kind of actor who *would* be in a lot of Mel
Brooks's movies :-).

Noel Steere              | "Somebody's gonna get a punch in the head,
^^^^ :-)
nss3@midway.uchicago.edu |    A punch in the head,
President, Skoura The    |      A punch in the head..."
Gentle Shark Fan Club    |   - Kids in the Hall
(With the scars to prove it)
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From: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Close)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: guest cast (new in cisco.com:/ql-archive/text/guests)
Date: 27 Jan 1993 06:42:31 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Reply-To: pdc@sgi.com (Paul Close)
NNTP-Posting-Host: lunch.wpd.sgi.com
Originator: pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com

Mark D. Baushke (mdb@cisco.com) writes:
>The following list is taken from the Episode Guide "Guest Cast" entries.

>BAKULA, Scott (2)                 031  The Leap Home
>                                  084  Promised Land

Okay, so I haven't seen either episode, but how can Scott Bakula be a guest
on his own show?!?
-- 
Paul Close	     pdc@sgi.com	   ...!{ames, decwrl, uunet}!sgi!pdc

			No fate but what we make
From: finifter@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Tracy E. Finifter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Actress Name Wanted Please!
Date: 24 Jan 93 21:54:44 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I just watched an episode of 21 Jump Street and need the name and credits of
one of the guest actresses.  The episode was where Doug was investigating a
priest and an El Salvador refugee for baby selling, only to fall in love with
the refugee and marry her.  I know I've seen the female American volunteer 
helping the priest, but for the life of me can't remember where.  (I know the
guy helping the priest who turned out to be the baby smuggler is Billy Warlock
from _Baywatch_.

Email or post responses.  Any help is greatly appreciated.


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From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Highlights of Don's talk
Date: 25 Jan 93 22:01:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1993Jan25.220149.4284
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article <108217@bu.edu> mab@buphy.bu.edu (Michael Burstein) writes:
>In article <1993Jan25.055557.268@netcom.com> sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith) writes:
>>- Don doesn't consider QL to be science fiction.

>Don is most definitely wrong! QL is very much a science fiction show, as

Michael, you ignorant slut [whoops, wrong TV show ;-)]:

Nahh, call it fantasy or science fantasy and that takes care of the
SF elements.

>Oh, come on Michael! Yes the show has science fictional elements to it,
>but it's essentially an anthology show. Each episode is about the life
>of someone in our recent history, and it's a good way to discuss how
>social changes in the 20th century affected people's lives. Sam's
>leaping is just sort of a way to tie the shows together.

Gee, that's almost exactly what Don said! Very good.

>There. I've done both sides; now we can drop the topic. :-) 

In our dreams... [and have you considered therapy for that split
personality? ;-)]

> I wonder if Don would change his tune if any episode of QL were
>nominated for the Hugo Award?

I doubt it. Anyway, a lot of stuff that isn't really science fiction
gets nominated/wins Hugos. Take "Raiders of the Lost Ark", f'rinstance.
It won the Hugo. I voted for it, I love it, but it doesn't strike me
as science fiction.

Sally
-- 
Sally Smith (510)790-0608  sallylb@netcom.com (I was sally@tardis.tymnet.com)
I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"
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From: mab@buphy.bu.edu (Michael Burstein)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: QL: Highlights of Don's talk
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:12:16 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.tv
Organization: Boston University Physics Department

In article <1993Jan25.055557.268@netcom.com> sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith) writes:
>Rather than waiting till I get the whole transcript finished, I thought
>I'd post the highlights here now.
>
>- Don doesn't consider QL to be science fiction.

Don is most definitely wrong! QL is very much a science fiction show, as
it involves time travel and technology which does not actually exist.
Hence it must be science fiction.

Oh, come on Michael! Yes the show has science fictional elements to it,
but it's essentially an anthology show. Each episode is about the life
of someone in our recent history, and it's a good way to discuss how
social changes in the 20th century affected people's lives. Sam's
leaping is just sort of a way to tie the shows together.

There. I've done both sides; now we can drop the topic. :-) Seriously,
though, I wonder if Don would change his tune if any episode of QL were
nominated for the Hugo Award?

-- 
Michael A. Burstein
Physics Department, Boston University         mab@buphy.bu.edu
590 Commonwealth Ave.                         (617) 353-9437 (o)
Boston, MA 02215                              (617) 735-9433 (h)
From: d_headl@pavo.concordia.ca (DAMOCLES)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Sitcoms on the Verge of Being Killed
Date: 24 Jan 93 09:24:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

NBC, or at least its affilate WPTZ in Platsburg, is trying to kill another 
show. It seems as though they are trying to kill _Here and Now_ which stars
Malcolm-Jamal Warner. The show is supposed to air on Saturday nights at 
20:00 but it is rarely on. I do not believe that more than three episodes of
this show were ever aired consecutivly. Instead NBC or WPTZ chooses to air
reruns of Nurses and/or Empty Nest and/or anything else they can dig up to 
air in the 20:00 timeslot. Yes reruns.

NBC and/or WPTZ did a very good job killing A Different World (ADW). At least 
a year before The Cosby Show ended, the network decided to move ADW from its
20:30 Thursday timeslot to Saturday mornings at 12:00, which they then 
consistently pre-empted. The network chose to air reruns of Cheers in the
20:30 time slot. By the time that The Cosby Show ended, the network was airing
1.5 hours of Cheers every Thursday night. This continued until approximately 
the end of 1992. I like Cheers but three shows back-to-back is too much to
handle. Happily, I can still see ADW through a Canadian Network in its 20:30
Thursday night timeslot.

What can be done about this situation? New shows are not given the opportunity
to be *seen* these days. Many good shows will end up on the shelf while the 
trash stays on the air.

Bye the way, it seem that ABC is tryng to kill _Going to Extremes_. Think about
it. If you watch and/or tape Law and Order every week, will you suddenly 
watch GtoE just because they are now both in the same time slot? I think not.

This is the end of my diatribe. It felt good.

P.S. Is there any such thing as a T.V. *season* anymore?
From: zinkin@acsu.buffalo.edu (David R Zinkin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: ** SAVE THE FAITH DANIELS SHOW! **
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:36:40 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.tv
Organization: UB

In a previous message, kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey) says:

>While your attempt to save the Faith Daniels show is admirable, you're
>asking people to write to the wrong guy.  NBC News doesn't control Faith's
>time slot, or any other slot on the schedule: NBC *Entertainment* does, or
>rather the "programming department" in general.  If Programming decides
>Faith's ratings suck, then it's THEIR decision as to what will replce that
>show.  They could decide to let the News Division put something else there
>(such shows are quite cheap to produce compared to soaps), or they could
>put in a game show, reruns of "Wings", or even give the time back to the
>local affiliates to run syndicated shows.  Ratings are all that matters,
>so you should find yourself some different phone numbers tozap than Gartner's.

From what I've read, this isn't an issue of ratings, but an issue of
where NBC News wants to put its money.  NBC News wants to put more
resources into prime time; I'm simply hoping that NBC News doesn't get
those extra resources by cancelling Faith's show.

>BTW, Gartner's kind of a jerk, and inundating him with calls and faxes is
>more likely to just piss him off than anything else,

I don't know about this since I don't know him personally; I've only
talked to his secretary.  :-)

>and he DOES have the
>power to cancel Faith himself and cede the time slot back to Programming.

Exactly my point.  This is a case of NBC News wanting to "reallocate
its resources" (I'll be damned if I can remember the article that put
it in those terms...), not of NBC Entertainment wanting better ratings.
Michael Gartner has the power to cancel the show, but he also has the
power to help save it.

 -- Dave

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"I don't get on a plane unless I know where it's coming down!" - Faith Daniels
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From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Subject: RD: Reasonable Doubts NOT on during Feb.!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:43:49 GMT

In last Thursday's "Hollywood Reporter", there was a story which,
among other things, said that RD wasn't going to be shown at all
during the February sweeps. Bummer.

Sally
(living for the day the trades are available on-line...)


-- 
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I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"

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From: Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong)
Subject: Re: Going to Extremes? Anybody?
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:35:48 GMT

> Kathy Samec writes:
>
> Does anyone watch this show and like it?
>


I watch the show and like it, especially the adventures of Alex and Charlie.
Too bad they are not running any more new shows after February ... I don't
know if this mean that it's cancelled.
From: x92ochs1@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Brady Bunch Problem: Bobby's Cat Rescue....
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:56:41 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <1jcf54INNcii@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, leela@wpi.WPI.EDU (Leela Keshavan) writes:
> 
>>> 
>>>Can't think of the name.... Thelma something???
>>>                            ^It's Telma Hopkins(no h!))
> She was also one of the 2 women who were 'Dawn' in Tony Orlando and Dawn.
> It scares me that I know this, by the way...
> 
>>
>>   As for the little girl and her cat, I have the answer, but unfortunately
>>   it is sitting at home about 45 miles away.  If you are really dying to 
>>   know the answer, there is a book about the Brady Bunch that is avaiable
>>   in most bookstores.  This book has short autobiographies on the cast, 
>>   a program guide, backstage photos, a sketch of the house, upstairs and
>>   downstairs, and trivia.  If someone else doesn't know the answer, maybe
>>   I will remember to look it up this week end and post it.  Is the girl's
>>   name Jill?  or Jenny?   I do believe the cat's name is Penelope, but
>>   am not 100% sure.
>>
> By the way, this is a very funny book.  Just reading Robert Reed's
> hate memo's about how stupid  a particular episode is makes it worth the
> 10 bucks.


   I have the book today.  It is called Bradymania! by Elizabeth Moran.
   The girl is Jill and the cat is Pandora.(Episode #79,Law and Disorder)
   
 Jeff

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From: heyer@stsci.edu
Subject: QL: USA Preempted 1/19 (info !)
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:46:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.051410.11218@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) writes:
> Instead of airing the scheduled QL "Maybe Baby" on Tuesday night, USA
> broadcast two lame episodes of "The Powers That Be," a political
> sitcom.  Does this mean that the episode schedule is pushed back one
> night and that I didn't miss "M.I.A." tonight?
> 
> What is the synopsis for "M.I.A.?"  I don't believe I've seen this
> one.  I've seen "Leap Home" I & II, but not this one.
> 
> Mike
> --
> Michael Rosen						"Time and space
> Tau Epsilon Phi - George Washington University		 can be a bitch."
> mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu					  -Quantum Leap
> Michael.Rosen@bbs.oit.unc.edu or @lambada.oit.unc.edu

Tuesday's episode "Maybe Baby" was pre-empted unannounced for some sitcom 
drivel. According to info obtained today from USA programming. the previously
posted sequence will not change, i.e. "M.I.A." was on last night (1/21).
"Maybe Baby" will be broadcast during the next turnaround in it's proper 
spot in the sequence.
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From: gopher@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Trivia: Captain Kangaroo
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:58:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1993Jan25.205832.16777
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

In article <1993Jan23.072151.1602@afterlife.ncsc.mil> jlroths@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Rothschild) writes:
>What was the name of the actor who played Mr. Greenjeans (sp?) on Captain
>Kangaroo?  Is he still alive?  Inquiring minds want to know.  Please e-mail
>me a response, as I don't normally read this newsgroup.  TIA.

For anyone else who's interested:  It's Lumpy Brannum, or something like that.

Chris

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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: WNN breakup
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:37:04 GMT

mem@zwac.mv.com (Mark E. Mallett) writes:

>In article <C18ow3.qK@world.std.com> kieran@world.std.com writes:
> > 
> > As for the effect of this on WNN, who knows.  NBC News Overnight continued
> > just fine when Lloyd Dobyns left and was replaced by Bill Schechner.  I
> > guess it just depends on who replaces Lisa.

>That's because it wasn't Lloyd Dobyns that people tuned in to see: it was
>Linda Ellerbee.  To be honest, I don't even remember Dobens being replaced.
>For me at least, Aaron is the bigger attraction at WNN.  I'm glad that
>he's the one staying -- although he might not be.  :-)


I don't remember Dobyns being replaced either, but only because I was
about 11 or 12 at the time and never watched the show anyway. :)  But even
Linda herself thinks that the show would have done just as well if she'd
been the one to quit.  Ah well, it's a moot point anyway...

As for Aaron vs. Lisa, I agree...right now, anyway, it's Aaron's cynicism
that makes the show worth watching, and I always found his absences to be
much more noticable than hers.  But when they were together and the sparks
flew, it was wonderful television.

>Anyway, I watched Lisa McRee's final show last night.  At the end, they put
>her at the end of the names in every category in the credits.

I'm gonna post the updated lyrics of the Polka tonight, for CD posterity
by whatever company does it.

>PS: WNN is good, but Overnight was in a league of its own.

Very true, but WNN could *be* Overnight in a second if they really wanted
to.  I'm just happy they decided to go even halfway. And there's no news
on television that's *worse* than NBC Nightside.  The peacock is DEAD.

--Aaron

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From: mcs@atux01.att.com (0000-Mike Sabanos(0000))
Subject: QL - Dr. Ruth
Keywords: leap
Organization: AT&T Corporate Education and Training
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 14:37:28 GMT

During the scene where Sam was talking to Annie's boss by the elevator,
did anyone else notice the woman in the background?

Sam was accusing him of harassment while a woman was listening carefully
to the conversation.  Finally, when the elevator door opens, the woman's
companion says, "C'mon Anita, let's go".

Given the building contained at least one law firm, this has got to be a
reference to Anita Hill.  Also, looking quickly at the woman before she
got in the elevator, I could almost swear that it was Ms. Hill herself
putting in a cameo.

Of course, I then forgot to watch the credits.  So, was it really her?

--

Mike
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