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From: kimes@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Kit Kimes@AT&T/NCR)
Subject: Re: FOR JONES CABLE CUSTOMERS -- PLEASE READ THIS!!!
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: il
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:24:59 GMT

From article <1993Jan8.215144.2270@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>, by (Dan Evans):

# Hello Jones Intercable/Jones Spacelink subscribers at IH,
# 
# For those of you that are subscribers to the Jones Intercable/Jones Spacelink
# cable TV system you already know that they do not carry the sci-fi channel.
# And if you love science fiction as much as I do, you were very disappointed.
# 
# My wife worked for Jones in customer service.  She said that Jones decided
# not to carry the sci-fi channel because they did not think there would be
# enough  demand for it.
# 
# I asked her what could be done to change their minds and carry the channel.
# She said if they got enough letters requesting the channel they would put
# it on.  If each one of you Jones customers reading this would spend
# 5 minutes and a stamp, I know there is enough people out there to change
# their mind.
# 
# The letter itself doesn't have to be complex, just straight-forward and
# to the point. The important thing is where it goes.
# 
# 
# 
# Here is what she said to do.
# 
# 1) You must write a letter to your local Jones office requesting the channel.
#    The letter could be mailed or dropped off in the payment box if there
#    is one. The letter has to go to the local Jones office for your area
#    not the general payment address. The general payment address is just
#    the people taking payments not those in charge of programming.
# 
#    ** I noticed that the office address for your area is listed on the first
#       few pages of the Jones channel guide. If I can gather all the addresses
#       I'll post 'em as a follow up but I think they send the guide to all
#       their subscribers. **

If you are served by the Aurora office (Aurora, Montgomery & Boulder Hill
for sure), the proper person and address is:

	Jones Intercable
	Attn: John Miller, General Manager
	8 E. Galena Blvd.
	Aurora, IL 60506

# 
# 2) A telephone call would not do any good. It must be a written letter.
# 
# 
# We will only get the channels we want if they know we want them.
# Thanks for your time.
 
Kit Kimes
AT&T Resource Link (under contract to NCR)
Naperville, IL
...!att!iwcs!kimes (kimes@iwcs.att.com)

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From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
Subject: Re: who sings this song?
Summary: Probably Enya
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:09:47 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.183629.7858@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, cad0410@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Cecelia A. Dorn) writes:
> Can anyone tell me who (woman, perhaps Irish or Scottish?) 
> sings the background music for the new Volkswagen commercial.
> I can't understand any of the lyrics and can only describe
> the song as serene and other-worldly.
> 
> Thanks,
> Cea

I haven't seen the commercial, but if she sounds Irish and is
"serene and other-wordly" the odds are she is Enya - a wonderful
singer who is being way, way, way, overexposed in commercials
and movies (her song "Book of Days" is heard in the movie Far and Away
and in the trailers).

marc colten
From: gaf5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Gail A. Fullman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Letterman
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:47:55 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1993Jan4.131638.8326@hemlock.cray.com>, jeffy@cray.com (Jeffrey Neau
) writes:
>
>Okay.  Here's what I heard last night:
>
> - CBS has offered Letterman $14 million a year to do a show in the same time
>   slot as Leno.
>
> - NBC has until sometime in late January to match the offer, which means
>   they would probably boot Leno if they did it.  (Leno only makes $5 mil)
>
>
>Either way, it looks like Letterman is going to be on one hour earlier
>
>
>Jeff
>
Who cares?  I don't understand the attraction to Letterman.  Any show I
watched was very boring - he spent 5 minutes with his guest at the end of the
show and the rest of the time was spent in boring banter with his band leader.
His jokes are not funny.  His lists sometimes are good - but to pay someone 14
million?  Puh-leeze.  Leno's better than Letterman but not much better.

-- 

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|   Manager - ADMO     |
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From: mwauford@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU (Melissa Wauford)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Top Ten Males..(c'mon ladies)
Date: 6 Jan 93 23:15:29 GMT
Organization: Univ of Tennessee Computing Center

In article <2B49DA58.2753@news.service.uci.edu> assist@orion.oac.uci.edu (ASSIST Coordination Site) writes:
>My votes would be cast for the following:
>Nick on "Knot's Landing" (I don't know the actor's name)

Lorenzo Caccialanza.  I can't hack watching Knot's anymore (though I
hear he's made the show MUCH more entertaining), but I used to pant over
him him when he was an Under-Five on Days of Our Lives.

To add some other daytimers to the list, I would mention:

Drake Hogestyn (Days)
Richard Biggs (Days) 
Lane Davies (ex-Santa Barbara)
Justin Deas (Guiding Light)
Michael E. Knight (All My Children)
John Callahan (All My Kids)
John J. York (General Hospital)

-- 

                                            Melissa
                                            mwauford@utkvx.utk.edu
From: BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL:  Was Gooshie on the Tonight Show?
Date: Sat,  9 Jan 93 10:06:51 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>
>I just caught the last few seconds of a comedian on the Tonight Show who looke
d
>like the Gooshie on QL -- can anyone confirm this?  And if it was him, did he
>just talk about stand-up or did he mention QL at all?
>
>
>Firestar

  Probably, but I didn't see the show so I'm not sure. The actor who
  periodically plays Gooshie is a stand-up comic. I saw him on the "E"
  network a few weeks ago.
  
  -Brian

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From: bs895@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Terri M. Librande)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL question ...
Date: 6 Jan 1993 21:01:30 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


Most of the information about Starbright, ect, came from an episode
from last year called "Playball".  There is a great scene towards the
end where Sam remembers the first time he and Al met--at Starbright,
and Al was drunk, beating a vending machine to death.  

Terri in Cleveland
-- 
"Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one."
--Ingomar the Barbarian
From: bs895@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Terri M. Librande)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Raven 1/9
Date: 10 Jan 1993 14:36:53 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


Yes, the sound did keep going out in little bites and it was very
annoying.

Yes, I do believe Kumiko was the daughter of teh killer,posing as the
daughter of his brother.  

The dragon was on his left shoulder.  Wish I'd taped the ep.  Is anyone
out there doing so, and if so EMail me so I can send tapes, if possible
for dubbing or trading.

Terri In Cleveland
-- 
"Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one."
--Ingomar the Barbarian
From: jmf@endor.harvard.edu ( ghost )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: who sings this song?
Summary: Clannad
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:43:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1993Jan6.184353.19390
Organization: DAS Purchasing, Harvard University

In article <1993Jan6.165208.2063@colorado.edu> fielden@spot.Colorado.EDU (j. a. fielden) writes:

>>In article <1993Jan5.225707.1764@das.harvard.edu>, jmf@endor.harvard.edu ( ghost ) writes:

>>> >In article <1993Jan5.183629.7858@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, cad0410@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Cecelia A. Dorn) writes:
>>> >> Can anyone tell me who (woman, perhaps Irish or Scottish?) 
>>> >> sings the background music for the new Volkswagen commercial.

>>> Been around on this once already;
>>> Its Maraid Ni Brennan, (Enya's sister) singing, the group she sings with
>>> is Clannad, the song, which predates Enya's fame by a few years now,
>>> is "The Theme from Harry's Game" (a British 2-hour movie whose plot is
>>> nothing like its theme music), the language is Gaelic.  
>
> I thought Enya used to be part of Clannad before she went solo. 

She was, for a short while (compared to the time Clannad's been in 
existence).  Don't know why she left.  Most of the members of Clannad
seem to be members of the Brennan family. (And she called herself
Eithne, or something much like it, back then.  She's given up the 
Gaelic spelling in favor of phonetics.)

I've never heard any of the local folk DJ's, including the one who 1st 
played "Harry's Game" 4-5 years ago, say that that wasn't Maraid doing the 
singing. Subsequent albums of Clannad's, featuring Maraid as usual,
are mining along the same vein as Enya, so maybe they developed
the style together, or maybe she gave them the idea.

Clannad is said to be a fairly big hit in Europe as a result of that record,
which I guess is why they've never toured here that I know of
(they're a big folk hit here, but that doesn't spell enormous crowds like
pop-hit does).

Latest thing I heard was that Maraid had a solo album out, & perhaps is
following a solo career too.

And if I'm wrong, somebody please tell me...
From: 9072falkk@vms.csd.mu.edu (Kathy Falk)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Commercials I hate...
Date: 11 Jan 1993 19:47:23 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 9072falkk@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu


Anything with those whining, waste-toid CORE-LICK sisters.  Good God!  We'd
rather rummage through the dumpster behind Denny's for a meal than	
go inside and risk meeting those two old bags!

Kathy and Mary
From: amadeus@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: _thirtysomething_ episode guide
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:57:32 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at Austin


The subject line says it all -- I need a guide to all four seasons of
_thirtysomething_, especially the titles.  Can anyone help me out?

Thanks...

-- 
-----Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik-------------------------------*<:-)-------------
"Queens never make bargains."  -- The Red Queen, _Through the Looking Glass_
-----amadeus@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu--------------The University of Texas @Austin---
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum)
Subject: Re: Commercials I hate...
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr, Calif.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:24:24 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.204152.13644@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> jackie8@dasher.cc.bellcore.com writes:
>I hate those commercials for "Groovin'" and all those
>other records from Mystic Music and Heartland Music that
>shabbily tries to convey how the 70s are "coming back"

"Is that Freedom Rock? Well turn it up, MAN!!!"


>and shows all these dorky people who can't act and are just
>too perky or something.  Sigh.  WHERE is that bunny when you
>need him?????? :-)
>

Commercials I thought were Energizer commercials but weren't:

Bathroom/Toilet Duck
The Hat Squad

Sick of: Whats-his-face doing that inane Bullwinkle impersonation (that
guy from America's Fullest House).


>All this IMHO, of course. :-)
>
Mine too.

>---

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From: mathew@unixg.ubc.ca (Mathew Englander)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: LA Law Jan. 7/93 (**Spoilers**)
Date: 8 Jan 1993 19:21:31 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

Spoilers follow.




























On last night's L.A. Law episode, I must have missed what went on between
Gwen and Daniel at the end, with regard to her having been stalked. I think
she said something like "the gifts and the phone calls have stopped since
I've been seeing you" and then I think he answered "It was me all along".
Was this a joke? It doesn't seem very funny, and I don't think Gwen would
have found it so. Or did I mis-hear?
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
From: jeffy@cray.com (Jeffrey Neau)
Subject: Re: 'Da Bears
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 12 Jan 93 08:58:13 CST

In article <1993Jan8.170950.22645@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> stailey@comm.mot.com writes:
>
>*"Da Bears" on Saturday Night Live
>
>*Now that Mike Ditka is no longer the coach of the Bears, I wonder if they
>*will continue to do this sketch on SNL.  I assume that they are parodying
>*Ditka with the sunglasses and black moustaches.  There is a sports announcer
>*on WGN from Chicago named Chuck Schwersky(sp?) and when they talk, they kind
>*of sound like him, but since I have never seen Chuck, I don't think they are
>*trying to parody his looks.  The restaurant they are in is called "Ditka's"
>*after the former coach for those of you who were wondering.
>*It will be interesting to see if they do a "Bears sketch" this Saturday.
>
> The Chicago Tribune ran an article about this the other day.
> Tentatively, there is a Ditka sketch set for thie Saturday night.
> However, they're not sure if it will make the final rehersal cut.
> The real interesting thing is that Ditka himself will be in New York
> on Saturday to appear as guest commentator on NBC's NFL LIVE. Will
> he make an appearance on SNL? Stay tuned...
>
> As for the origin of the sketch, it is a modified version of a old
> Second City sketch. George Wendt and company say that the characters
> are a conglomeration of a number of Chicago sports personalities
> including WLUP's Chet Coppack and WGN's Chuck Swirsky. The guys
> don't look like them or have that thick quasi-Chicago accent. In fact,
> there are not many people around here who talk like that. The 
> restaraunt is real. Ditka had three of them, but only one now remains.

George Wendt was not the original host of the 'Super Fans' sketch.  It was his
brother 'Bob' or 'Bill' played by Joe Mantenga (sp?).  I like George better.

Jeff
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From: gap@astro.ocis.temple.edu (George Piotrowski)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Batman:TAS Episode Guide?
Date: 8 Jan 93 05:22:27 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Here is the list I mentioned. I have added one episode that was not
on the early list in rec.arts.tv: Perchance to Dream. With this 
episode, there seem to be 45 original episodes that have aired so
far. If anyone has any corrections, I would be happy to hear from
you.

Here is the List:

Almost Got'em
Appartment in Crime Alley
be a Clown
Beware the Gray Ghost
Cape and Cowl Conspiracy, The
Cat & the Claw, Pt. 1
Cat & the Claw, Pt. 2
Cat Scratch Fever
Christmas with the Joker
Clock King, The
Dreams in Darkness
Eternal Youth
Fear of Victory
Feat of Clay, Pt. 1
Feat of Clay, Pt. 2
Forgotten, The
Heart of Ice
Heart of Steel, Pt. 1
Heart of Steel, Pt. 2
His Silcon Soul
I am The Night
I've Got Batman in My Basement
If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich
It's Never Too Late
Joker's Favor
Joker's Wild
Last Laugh, The
Mad as a Hatter
Moon of the Wolf
Night of the Ninja
Nothing to Fear
Off Balance
On Leather Wings
Perchance to Dream
POV
Pretty Poison
Prophecy of Doom
Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne, The
Terror in the Sky
Two Face, Pt. 1
Two Face, Pt. 2
Tyger, Tyger
Underwellers, The
Vendetta
What is Reality

Total is 45!

Later,

George A. Piotrowski
Temple University
gap@astro.ocis.temple.edu
 
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From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
Subject: TV technology question
Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:37:28 GMT
Reply-To: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Object Technology Products


Perhaps this isn't the correct newsgroup to ask in (if so, kindly
direct me to the proper place), but my girlfriend and I were sitting
around the other day wondering

a) why don't networks broadcast unique codes for each show to
   indicate their start and end? This way, VCRs could be set to
   automatically record a program from beginning to end (no more
   missing the last 3 minutes), and if the president gives a speech
   and delays broadcasting, you'd still get the whole show. For 
   example, the tv guide lists _Cheers_ as code 2539, so I enter it
   into the VCR and it takes care of recording it for me.

b) similarly, couldn't networks also broadcast a time code along
   with the video? This way, televisions and VCRs could automatically
   set themselves to the correct time.

Just idly wondering,

Craig
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From: ccdarg@dct.ac.uk (Alan Greig)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Come back Thames all is forgiven!
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:48:32 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <1ih67bINN1ru@oak5.doc.ic.ac.uk>, ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
> 
> Thames is definitly going to still exist with their 29 million pound
> deal to supply The Bill, Mr Bean, Minder and one other programme
> (can't remember which) to ITV (the 29 million figure is what ITV had

"This is your life". I noticed that last night's credits said:

A Thames televison production for Central.

This seems a bit convoluted. Do they have to sell to another ITV company
who then sell it to the ITV network?

-- 
Alan Greig                            Janet: Alan@UK.AC.DUNDEE-TECH
Dundee Institute of Technology	   Internet: Alan@DCT.AC.UK
Tel: (0382) 308810                 Int: +44 382 308810
              -- There is only one true conspiracy --
From: cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk (The Freak)
Subject: YET MORE PCBH!!!
Organization: The Place where Godiva rode in the nudie
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:47:43 GMT


  Can anyone tell me whether Central are to repeat all 692 episodes of
   Prisoner Celll Clock H this year.?
 I have heard they are planning on doing so,but no confirmed decision
   has been made.?
 Role on the return of Vinegar Tits and Frankie Doyle.....
 
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
From: wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson)
Subject: Robin of Sherwood II
Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 11:14:37 GMT

Argh! I don't know if it's good news or not, but my sister (who lives in
England) tells me that RoS II is returning with Michael Praed. That is the
good news. The bad news is that I can't see it. She doesn't get Sky (or
whatever it's called) so even conversion is out. Now, I read the "rumor" of
this show returning in an old issue of DWB. Does anyone know if there was
another article in DWB describing its factual return? She is subscribing to
it, so any future articles will get back to me. Can anyone give me any other
info on the new season? I have all of the first 3 seasons on tape, and it is
definitely one of my favorite shows. Does anyone know what series was RoS I?

Tom
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
From: bammerla@cs.ruu.nl (Boris Ammerlaan)
Subject: Re: Roxette
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:54:00 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

In <C0p1tu.5MJ@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> u0f98@seq1.keele.ac.uk (DJ Robinson) writes:

>> Doesn't ANYONE have the Roxette/Dangerous Liasons-The fabulous Baker
>> boys-Married to the mob trailer?
>
>I saw the trailer but I don't have it on tape. What Roxette music was
>featured on it? 
>	Dom

"The Look". It was after an episode of Star Trek somewhere near the middle of
December, after an episode of Quantum Leap (around the same time), and after a
John Ford movie called "Sergeant Rutledge", starring the guy that played
captain Pike in the Star Trek episodes "The Cage" and "The Menegerie".

Boris Ammerlaan

Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
From: tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins)
Subject: new beeb gameshow - VR 
Distribution: world
Organization: Job hunters use Parachute
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:04:09 +0000


In article <C0DqCI.95J@newcastle.ac.uk> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk writes:

> Anyone else catch that new VR based gameshow on Beeb 2 last night...

Interesting premise this show though I got the feeling that this was not
the first episode that they had made.

> Had a couple of footballers on one team (don't know who they were,

To keep the record straight they were: John Barnes and John Fashanu.

> don't follow the sport)

Neither do I.

> and some normalish people on the other.

VERY NORMAL these were two members of the Dangerous Sports Club. You know
the people who go bungie jumping and other normal sports.

 
> Lister (Craig Charles) was the host.

> It was a bit annoying with the hooting in the audiance, but the premise was
> good.

I'm (not) sorry to say that he was the worst choice of presenter. He had
some inarticulate "war-cry" that eminated from his facial orifice at time.
What it was supposed to mean I have no idea and I doubt that Craig Charles
had a clue either. Perhaps, he should have washed his mouth out with
Listerine? :-)

Regards, Trevor.

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From: martin.baines@uk.sun.com (Martin Baines - Sun UK - SE Manager Cambridge)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: What is Teletext 3/4?
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:08:13 GMT
Reply-To: martin.baines@uk.sun.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems Ltd
NNTP-Posting-Host: bottomdog.uk.sun.com

In article 1ih541INN1qh@oak5.doc.ic.ac.uk, ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
[deleted earlier thread]
>Have any other ITV
>regions started supplying regional news pages yet?

They certainly have on Anglia.

Also the local Anglia News program is now subtitled. They made a big
splash about this before the service started. This must be
non-trivial thing for them to do: About Anglia is devided into 2
services: one for the East, one for the West of the region
(although I believe both services are actually broadcast
from the Norwich studios). Mind you I still feel that Anglia
is where old broadcasters go to die, and BBC East where they
break in the fresh faced youths :-)

Martin
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