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From: e91petmo@odalix.ida.liu.se (Peter /\/\odin)
Subject: Re: A Good Show
Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:40:05 GMT

kchang@draco.rutgers.edu writes:


>	The Blackadder Goes Forth is pretty funny show.  I happend to be 
>watching it by accident on PBS - nothing to do on Fridays :)  I never seen
>the opening of the show, always few minutes late.  The last episode was great;
>kind of bitter sweet.  I guess I will catch the reruns, now.  Who is the actor
>playing Blackadder?

You're experiencing the acting of Rowan Atkinson. There are several earlier
Black Adder episodes you've missed, they are ALL great. And if you haven't
seen it yet, you simply MUST see his Mr. Bean episodes. Comedy at its best.
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From: slj1k@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: looking for the boys (young ones)
Date: 12 Nov 92 13:59:26 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

	halo

	any one have an idea how to obtain _the young ones_ on video in the
	u.s. of a.?

	i have seen one compilaton video containing ``Bored, Oil, and Flood''
	but that's all.

	any help would be appreciated. please post to this group or e-mail
	me.

	thanks

 
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Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: samuele@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Spam@tin.supermarket.tescos)
Subject: Re: Rowan Atkinson
Organization: University of Sussex
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:46:14 GMT

sbair@ctp.com (Scott Baird) writes:
: Since the U.S. is a little behind the U.K. in humor, I probably won't be able
: to find CAR magazine in the states, but on the odd chance that I can, what
: does CAR stand for?  I assume it's an acronym since I don't imagine that Rowan
: Atkinson would be writing for an automobile magazine.  I hope if I have the
: full name it can be found somewhere.
:

OOOooooppppsss - nope - he really is writing for an automobile magazine, and
has been for some time now, as the original poster said.  Very amusing reviews
etc he writes too......

Spam.
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: pugh@pico.math.ucla.edu (David Pugh)
Subject: Re: A Good Show
Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 23:11:41 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.161315.1@draco.rutgers.edu> kchang@draco.rutgers.edu writes:
>
>	The Blackadder Goes Forth is pretty funny show.  I happend to be 
>watching it by accident on PBS - nothing to do on Fridays :)  I never seen
>the opening of the show, always few minutes late.  The last episode was great;
>kind of bitter sweet.  I guess I will catch the reruns, now.  Who is the actor
>playing Blackadder?

The actor is Rowan Atkinson.


Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: STUCS204@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090
Subject: Smith and Jones.
       stucs204@uk.ac.bham    aka Richard
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:40:38 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom





Does anyone agree with me that these two *comedians* have definately gone downh
ill with their last series. They used to be absolutely brilliant several years
ago. Is it their material or are they just old hat?

                         Thoughts please (e-mail or reply article)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: STUCS204@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090
Subject: Smith and Jones.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:05:30 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
From: dk4h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Dana L. Kleinman)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: NIEL
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:41:20 GMT
Organization: Freshman, Art, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

NIEL! how come no one's talked about niel? that's brit's best
From: jack.casey@madness.network23.com (Jack Casey) 
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: POLECONOMY
Date: 7 Nov 92 18:14:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Terminal Madness BBS - Newport, RI - 401-848-9069
Reply-To: jack.casey@madness.network23.com (Jack Casey) 

I posted a message a couple of months ago regarding my attempt to access
a copy of Poleconomy from a reader in Great Britain. I got a response
from a reader but the connection could not be consumated. I am again
putting out an open request to readers who may be able to assist me in
procuring a copy across the seas. Any ideas? Please let me know if you
have a copy you'd like to sell or if there's a local store which has it
and may be able to deliver. Thank you much!! -Jack-
jack.casey@madness.network23.com
From: mastr@husc8.harvard.edu (claudia mastroianni)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: quotes
Keywords: Blackadder, list, thanks
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:24:27 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1992Nov7.024806.17193@husc3.harvard.edu> I (Claudia) wrote:
>In article <BxBvMH.L9B@willamette.edu> dreese@willamette.edu (Daniel L. Reese) writes:
>>I'm new to this group, but I love the BlackAdder.  Would someone please
>>send me the quote list mentioned earlier.  I would appreciate it!
>>
>>Thanx
>>
>>				-Dan
>
>Likewise, please!

Got 'em, thank you very much.  I think others who dittoed by Nov. 7 did too;
they were cc-ed on my copy from Lee (forgot your last name at the moment,
sorry).

-- Claudia
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: dreese@willamette.edu (Daniel L. Reese)
Subject: quotes
Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 04:11:05 GMT

I'm new to this group, but I love the BlackAdder.  Would someone please
send me the quote list mentioned earlier.  I would appreciate it!

Thanx

				-Dan
From: Andy.Taylor@brunel.ac.uk (Andy J Taylor)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Are You Being Served? (Again!)
Date: 11 Nov 92 13:03:49 GMT
Organization: Henley Management College, UK

In article <1992Nov03.235919.25294@dircon.co.uk> uad1126@dircon.co.uk
(Robert Palmer) writes:

>sooz@iastate.edu (Susan F Bradley) writes:
>
>>Now, since I'm posting here, could I ask if anyone else in the US is being
>>subjected to this horrendous thing called "The Brittas Empire" on their local
>>PBS affiliate? Does it end soon? (Please say yes!)
>>
>>Susan Bradley
>>sooz@iastate.edu
>>
>Hi Susan,
>
>Please rest assured that not even -*THE*- most avid of telly 
>watchers in the United Kingdon can stand to watch "The Brittas 
>Empire".  It's shear crap!!
>
>Actually this is probably no the place to say this, but as Brit 
>my favorite US comedy series is "Married With Children".  Is 
>there an ALT.TV.MWC?  If there isn't there should be.  Ed O'Neil 
>is brilliant and the sexy Christina Applegate as Kelly is a 
>real dream.  My all time favorite episode is the Xmas edition 
>where Santa parachuted into the Mall but got blown off course 
>and crash landed on the Bundy's roof - Santa got killed!!
>
>okay bye all.
>Rob

Well _I_ like The Brittas Empire.  Brittas' character is soooooo
annoying it's brilliant.  My Fiancee hates it though.  Married... With
Children is brilliant, too ,but it is on so late.  What a family, esp
Kelly (drool).  I even went to see "Dont Tell Mom The Babysitter's
dead just cos she was in it.
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* Cos there's bugger all down here on Earth." - Monty Python       *
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From: mcsbc2gw@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: BLACKADDER IS ACE!!
Date: 13 Nov 92 11:16:22 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <BxLxpx.FAq@acsu.buffalo.edu>, bohm@acsu.buffalo.edu (Eric "Gothmog" Bohm) writes:
> In article <1992Nov11.215354.24522@wam.umd.edu> kaurs@next09wor.wam.umd.edu (Sharanjit Kaur) writes:
>>
>>Hey, 
>>  I was wondering if Blackadder's still on Comedy Central. I went away  
>>during the summer and set my VCR on Saturday 1am but when I got back I got  
>>a lot of useless Mystery Science Theatre instead - so I haven't got the  
>>entire season of Blackadder Goes Forth and am very upset about it. Please  
>>console.
>>-Sharan Kaur
> 
> Yes it is back on Comedy Central in that time slot. Well, sometimes it is,
> seems to be on alternating weeks. Presently they're in BA I.
> 
> 
What do you think of Blackadder Goes Forth?
I have the entire series except the first episode on audio tape
It has just finished a repeat run.
The videos are still available from BBC video if anyones' interested.

Now lets' see ......."Baldrick the cocker spaniel please!!!!"
> 						
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: cosulliv@fraser.sfu.ca (Christina Marie O'Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Peter's Friends
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:08:29 GMT

patty@welch.jhu.edu (Patty Haley) writes:

>Summary: 
>Keywords: 

>has anyone seen the new Kenneth Branagh movie, "Peter's Friends" yet?

>It was originally due out stateside in August.  I read a review of it
>by someone who saw it at a movie festival out in Hollywood that said
>it stunk.

>Considering how good "Henry V" and "Dead Again" were, this comes as
>a surprise, but this guy is usually reliable.

The person who saw it is right.  I went to see it when it was at the
Vancouver international Film Festival, thinking "Oh WOW! Branagh, Thompson, Fry, Laurie, Rita Rudner and Imelda Staunton." I liked the movie up until they all
got to Peter's house and then the script is a fallen souffle.  i blame the
script: the dialogue is awful, the directing is not all that great, and the
big climactic surprise is evident ten minutes into the film. Laurie was
abominably abused in that he was in a role that didn't allow him to bring out
his best: the same goes for Fry and Staunton.  Rita Rudner, who is nowhere near
as funny, oddly got all the comic bits, except for one or two precious moments
by Emma Thompson herself.  The one truly great thing about the film was getting
to hear "My Baby Just Cares For Me" performed by Nina Simone, and the fantastic
opening credits sequence.

Christina O'Sullivan
cosulliv@sfu.ca
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: quotes
From: mastr@husc8.harvard.edu (claudia mastroianni)
Date: 7 Nov 92 02:48:05 EST
Organization: Harvard University Science Center
Keywords: Blackadder

In article <BxBvMH.L9B@willamette.edu> dreese@willamette.edu (Daniel L. Reese) writes:
>I'm new to this group, but I love the BlackAdder.  Would someone please
>send me the quote list mentioned earlier.  I would appreciate it!
>
>Thanx
>
>				-Dan

Likewise, please!

And many thanks (and patience, please: my first post).

Claudia

Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british,alt.fan.goons
From: brom@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (David Bromage)
Subject: The Goon Show Companion
Organization: Monash University General Access Unix
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:28:23 GMT


Does anyone know if Roger Wilmut's book The Goon Show Companion is still
available? (or did he write The Book of the Goons?)

Cheers
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
David Bromage       brom@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au   : 
Monash University                                : "I think thinking is 
Clayton, Victoria   				 :  so important"
 Australia                                       : 	-Baldrick
 						 :   
     May the source be with you			 :     
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	All views expressed are my own except those which conflict with
	my personal opinions.

Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: lchoqu%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Lee Choquette)
Subject: Re: A Good Show (Actually a great show)
Date: 7 Nov 92 16:10:07 MST
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept

In article <1992Nov7.021512.4787@pellns.alleg.edu> gallags2@pell2l14.alleg.edu
(Sean Gallagher) writes:
 > Is Black Adder still being shown on PBS?

Black Adder isn't one of the shows like Great Performances or Nova that every
station shows.  Each station has to make its own arrangement with the US
distributor.  My local station just started with the first episode last week,
so it's still possible for a station to get it.

 > If so, when is it shown?  If it varies, when would it be on in the  
 > Pittsburg area?

Call your local stations and ask.  If they don't have any plans to show it, you
might see if you can find an organization of British TV fans in Pittsburgh with
whom you could apply pressure to the stations.  I think the fans here have
played a significant role in getting KUED to show and keep showing the British
stuff they have, starting with Doctor Who but eventually adding Blakes 7, Red
Dwarf, and now Black Adder.  The programming director even came to the last
sf/fantasy con to solicit comments from the fans.  The other PBS station,
conservative KBYU, has even gotten into the act, with The Prisoner and
Survivors.

You can also get Black Adder and other British stuff via mail order from
companies in the US.  Send me E-mail for the name and phone number of one such
company I've used, to keep commercial stuff off the newsgroup.

BTW, when I called KUED to ask them if they were going to show all four series
of Black Adder, they said they hoped to, but that one of the episodes (they
didn't know which one) was tied up in some sort of legal action in the UK.
Does anyone out there know anything about this legal action?

 > 	Thanks in advance, 
 > 	Sean

You're welcome, but I didn't really answer your question.  Thanks to the one
who can answer _my_ question.
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
   . .  Lee Choquette  . . . . It's the worst plan since Abe Lincoln said, .
  . . lchoqu@cs.utah.edu. . . .'I'm tired of kicking around the house . . .
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Let's go take in a show.' . . . . . . . . .
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: thom@access.digex.com (The Elf-Lad)
Subject: Re: Pittsburgh's Britcom PBS station
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:40:51 GMT

so690561@mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu (Susan Elizabeth Olson) writes:

>...I'd call up WQEX before I called up WQED to request a new show - QEX has
>always had a strong committment to the quirky, particularly Britcoms - QED
>is much more stodgy and conventional (it (QED) BTW is the nations FIRST public
>television station, not as the people here in Houston would have you believe,
>our Channel 8 which suffers from a serious lack of Britcoms - we currently
>have AYBS, French Fields and Alexi Sayles - that's it (sigh) )

Well, QEX and QED are owned by the same licensee. And the stations are
designed to serve different audiences--QEX, especially, is meant to
appeal to the alternative, less mainstream tastes.

I don't know where you come up with the info about QED being older than
KUHT, though. The Houston station came on the air in May, 1953; WQED
didn't sign on until April, 1954. This, officially, is the word
from both stations and from PBS (disclaimer: I'm a former employee
at PBS headquarters in Alexandria, VA, and a current employee of APTS,
public television's national association and lobbying organization in DC).





-- 
Thom Watson, the Elf-Lad         elf-lad@access.digex.com <-----preferred
                                 elflad0@aol.com         elf-lad@glib.org
                                 GEmail=T.WATSON7
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"--U.K.LeGuin
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: thom@access.digex.com (The Elf-Lad)
Subject: Re: Where I got my info on WQED being the first US PBS station
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:43:29 GMT

Hm. Might it be that it says WQED is the oldest ptv station in
the state? That's certainly true. Or maybe it's the oldest PBS
licensee... it may be that KUHT was on the air first, but wasn't
part of the old NET system until after WQED. "The oldest whatever"
is one of those ambiguous statements that often just depend on what
interpretation of "oldest" one is using.

-- 
Thom Watson, the Elf-Lad         elf-lad@access.digex.com <-----preferred
                                 elflad0@aol.com         elf-lad@glib.org
                                 GEmail=T.WATSON7
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"--U.K.LeGuin
From: bell@beethoven.cs.unc.edu (Andrew Bell)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: A Good Show (Actually a great show)
Date: 10 Nov 92 03:32:07 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In article <1992Nov9.124756.8374@hellgate.utah.edu> lchoqu%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Lee Choquette) writes:
>In article <BxF0K4.Du4@NCoast.ORG> brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown) writes:
> > There are video tapes available of Blackadder the Third and Blackadder
> > Goes Forth, by the way.
>And Black Adder 1 and 2 as well.

The Black Adder Christmas Carol was also made available on tape recently --
I rented it last weekend.

  -Andrew Bell
bell@cs.unc.edu


Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: sgparker@eos.ncsu.edu (SCOTT GRAHAM PARKERSON)
Subject: Re: quotes
Originator: sgparker@c00504-119rd.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: sgparker@eos.ncsu.edu (SCOTT GRAHAM PARKERSON)
Organization: CSC/COE NCSU, Raleigh, NC
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 09:12:27 GMT


In article <BxBvMH.L9B@willamette.edu>, dreese@willamette.edu (Daniel L.
Reese) writes:

|>I'm new to this group, but I love the BlackAdder.  Would someone please
|>send me the quote list mentioned earlier.  I would appreciate it!
|>
|>Thanx
|>

Ditto.  Send me the quotelist NOW.

Scott
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From: catstyle@cathouse.aiss.uiuc.edu (Jason R. Heimbaugh)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Oops, I over-wrote General Hospital
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:42:57 GMT
Reply-To: jrh@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

I just got a copy of BA 4-5, General Hospital and give me the super genius
award of the day, I had it for only a few hours before I over-wrote it
with Goodbyeee.  Could someone please send me another copy?

Thanks, (only *2* more scripts to finish) 

--
Jason R. Heimbaugh (CatStyle)
jrh@uiuc.edu
"When my time's over and I'm out on my own,
 You won't find me in an old folks home." --Ronnie Van Zant
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown)
Subject: Re: A Good Show (Actually a great show)
Organization: Oak Road Systems, Cleveland Ohio USA
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 20:50:27 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.021512.4787@pellns.alleg.edu> gallags2@pell2l14.alleg.edu (Sean Gallagher) writes:
>Is Black Adder still being shown on PBS?

On PBS in the sense of through the PBS network, I don't think it ever
was.  I understand some individual stations are broadcasting it.

There are video tapes available of Blackadder the Third and Blackadder
Goes Forth, by the way.

>If so, when is it shown?  If it varies, when would it be on in the  
>Pittsburg area?

Gee, I dunno.  Why not call the station and ask?

-- 
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems                      brown@Ncoast.ORG
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
"Only the futility of the first flood prevents God from unleashing another."
            --Chamfort, as quoted in Claude Arnaud's {Chamfort: A Biography}
From: tjk5@po.cwru.edu (Timothy Kordas)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Hot Metal??? Has anybody seen it?
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:47:10 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62144.student.cwru.edu
Summary: Has anybody else seen hot metal and is it available on tape?
Keywords: hilarious

Several years ago KTEH (in San Jose, CA-USA) broadcast a show about
a fleet street rag---Has anybody else seen it?


IS IT AVAILABLE IN THE US ON VHS (NTSC) ???


Great Great Great show.....



BTW: The other day I saw a Videotape version of the Shakespeare play
_Twelfth Night_ starring Felicity Kendall (from Good Neighbors)--she
was pretty good (although when she first came on her voice was MUCH too
like her Good Neighbors character) has she been in anything else
I should know about??


-Tim Kordas
kordas@snowhite.eeap.cwru.edu
From: rbrooks1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Rob Brooks)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Blackadder FTP site
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:31:14 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College

Ok ok, I know this has been requested ad nauseum but I'd reeeeally
appreciate it if someone could E-mail me the address of the FTP site for
those wonderful Blackadder scripts.  My mind has gone kaput and I can't
remember it for the life of me.

Thanks very much,

Rob
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: patty@welch.jhu.edu (Patty Haley)
Subject: Peter's Friends
Reply-To: patty@welch.jhu.edu
Organization: Welch Medical Library
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:57:28 GMT

Summary: 
Keywords: 

has anyone seen the new Kenneth Branagh movie, "Peter's Friends" yet?

It was originally due out stateside in August.  I read a review of it
by someone who saw it at a movie festival out in Hollywood that said
it stunk.

Considering how good "Henry V" and "Dead Again" were, this comes as
a surprise, but this guy is usually reliable.
From: sbair@ctp.com (Scott Baird)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Rowan Atkinson
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:19:43 GMT
Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners

In article <1992Nov9.130308.10965@bradford.ac.uk> G.M.Humpage@bradford.ac.uk (Guy.Humpage) writes:
>Fans of Rowan Atkinson may like to know that he now has his own column in CAR
>magazine.  Having been a contributor to the magazine for a few years, he now
>has a page of his own.  The December issue of the magazine will be out this
>Thursday (12th Nov).
>
Since the U.S. is a little behind the U.K. in humor, I probably won't be able
to find CAR magazine in the states, but on the odd chance that I can, what
does CAR stand for?  I assume it's an acronym since I don't imagine that Rowan
Atkinson would be writing for an automobile magazine.  I hope if I have the
full name it can be found somewhere.

Thanks,
Scott
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