markj@hp-pcd.UUCP (09/11/83)
#R:utcsrgv:-197100:hp-kirk:15600006:37777777600:615 hp-kirk!markj Sep 9 14:25:00 1983 from hp-pvd!markj I believe that the Mr. Terrific show has about an average guy (in sitcoms this means one who is a klutz) who, with the help from a government created SUPER FORMULA, became Mr. Terrific. The drawback was that this formula only worked on Mr. Terrific (thus eliminating a whole army of supermen) and the formula only worked for 24 hours. The star who played Mr. Terrific used to be in Cracker-Jacks commercials (Jack somebody). At about this time, NBC had a superhero show called 'Captain Nice' which I believe was produced by Mel Brooks. Its' hero developed his super formula in a police crime lab.
speaker@umcp-cs.UUCP (09/18/83)
Okay...what was the name of the show where a nice guy (yes he was a klutz) who works in a gas station is the only man in the world who can take the super power pills and become a super duper super-hero. He flys. He opens up the top of a train car with his finger like it was a can of beans being opened by a can-opener. Problem is that the pills last for only a certain length of time. Well actually he has one primary pill and two 'booster' pills. Was this 'Mr. Terrific'? It was really an awfull show. -- - Speaker speaker@umcp-cs speaker.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay This must be hell...all I can see are flames... towering flames!
notes@pur-ee.UUCP (11/21/83)
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isrnix!akp Nov 20 16:07:00 1983
I think OVERNIGHT did (is doing) a fine job of keeping me informed. It was
my only source of news last summer, and has been a primary source this fall.
Obviously, it is not as comprehensive as the NYT/Washington Post/etc., but
I don't want it to be: that would be too depressing, and besides, I don't
CARE all that much. I don't need to get all the grubby details; I just want
the headlines, and film, and (this I especially like) the foreign perspective
that OVERNIGHT gives. I don't have the three hours a day it takes to wade
through the newspapers you mentioned -- and OVERNIGHT gives a much more
pleasant presentation than Dan Rather does. Overnight is just my kind of
show -- personal perspectives, and some "cutsey" stories to soften the
blow of the hard news. I also like the bizarre music they play behind the
sports every night (something new and strange each time), and the picture-
stories put together by some cameraman and some editor somewhere in the
country. These are what make "constant viewers" go back -- all the subtle
twists that the people of Overnight add to their show.
Of course, I also like the Don's Guns commercials (Indianapolis).
-- Allan Pratt
...{decvax, ucbvax, tektronix}!ihnp4!iuvax!isrnix!akpleff@smu.UUCP (11/23/83)
#R:sjuvax:-14500:smu:18400001:000:35 smu!leff Nov 22 20:12:00 1983 What about the Wall Street Journal
decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot) (11/27/83)
Submitted to net.tv: What about the Wall Street Journal? ARRRRRRGH! Please try to give SOME context when following up! What ABOUT the \Wall Street Journal/? Dave Decot decvax!cwruecmp!decot (Decot.Case@rand-relay)
rigney@uokvax.UUCP (01/08/84)
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uokvax!rigney Jan 6 12:41:00 1984
> ... token amorpheous children ...
Like Gloop and Gleep of the Herculoids?
:-) Carl
..!ctvax!uokvax!rigneydaver@hp-pcd.UUCP (daver) (01/22/84)
#R:sdccs5:-113700:hp-kirk:15600009:37777777600:1361 hp-kirk!daver Dec 30 15:10:00 1983 There are broadcast pay-tv systems which use decoder boxes each of which has its own electronic ID. The station broadcasts addressed commands to enable or disable the decoder box depending on which services the subscriber pays for. A scheme like this could select among low-bandwidth signals on some subcarrier or during retrace time to broadcast targeted audio, possibly with slow-scan pictures. What would really make sense for some network, especially NBC - the one on the bottom, would be to give up on the general mass market and target programming to specific special-interest audiences. Since the audience would be select rather than general, advertisers would pay a higher CPM (cost per thousand viewers) so the network could make money on the smaller audience. The target audience would almost certainly be people with lots of disposable income, and the principal competition would probably be PBS and cable stations. A different audience could be targeted each night (e.g. one evening lineup devoted to business, another to science, one to opera, etc.). This is an experiment which could be tried a little at a time; choose an evening when the competition is showing their "blockbusters" (Dukes of Hazard, etc.), target the entire lineup to a specific special-interest audience and see what happens. Dave Rabinowitz hplabs!hp-pcd!daver
steve@zinfandel.UUCP (12/15/84)
I understand that the latest copy of Playgirl has a cover photo of Hexum with the caption "Jon-Erik Hexum Bares his Brain" zinfandel!steve nelson
tom@mirror.UUCP (05/30/85)
/**** mirror:net.tv / hpfcmt!mike / 12:10 pm May 6, 1985 ****/ I can't think of any better theme music than Flatt and Scruggs doing the intro to 'The Beverly Hillbillies'. The show wasn't so great, but the music was worth listening to. I often switched to another program after the opening theme. Mike Forman HP Fort Collins /* ---------- */ I heartily disagree about the quality of the show! I loved it. The writers really did have a very good handle on rural life and rural humor, and the juxtaposition of hicks and high society was usually well done. When I talk to people about that show, it seems that people from rural backgrounds are more likely to enjoy it. Some the humor goes right by if you don't have anything to relate it to. If you grew up on a farm (I did), a lot of those gags hit home. Music was good, too.
rodean@hpfclo.UUCP (rodean) (07/17/85)
> While I'm on the subject of HSB, is anyone else out there bothered by NBC's > insistence on airing three or four new HSB episodes then a couple of repeats, > then a couple of new ones, then a couple of old ones...... The lead time for HSB is not large by standard and the production time is long. Last season, for example, they just got behind schedule and had to slip in a couple of repeats. > One more question: I know that Hill St. Blues and St. Elsewhere are related > somehow,(for one thing they are both MTM productions). Does anyone know > if the changes in writers, producers, etc. at HSB will affect St. > Elsewhere? St. Elsewhere is not affected, except that they will probably roll over some more characters (like Peter White, Wendy Armstrong, etc.). I have read that the actress who portrayed Mrs. Hufnagel will be on some other series next year. I have also read that the departed Stephen Boccho (formerly producer of HSB) has agreed in principle to do a HSB/SE type of production on attorneys. Bruce Rodean {ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!rodean
tim@hpfcla.UUCP (tim) (07/25/85)
For any Monkees fans out there: I noticed that in the Denver area on KWGN (channel 2) they are showing the Monkees at 3 or 4 in the morning during the middle of the week. More in keeping with my tastes - they are showing the Avengers on Saturday nights at 3AM. Tim Mikkelsen hplabs!hpfcla!tim
jeff@hpcnoa.UUCP (jeff) (08/11/85)
>Does anyone out there have a list of the Prisoner episodes in the correct >order? I think VIDEO (or is it VIDEO REVIEW) magazine put out an article which lists all the episodes a while ago. Don't read the descriptions though ... they are SPOILERS. -- Jeff Wu
mer@prism.UUCP (08/30/85)
One can *assume* that Ray and Washington are probably gone, given the last episode. That is, Ray was promoted to captain, and so will have to be transferred to a new station and Washington was having serious problems with his knee, and so will probably leave due to medical problems. I don't remember if anything about anyone else was set up in the last episode. Didn't the story also say that Patsy and whatshisname (her partner) were leaving? (Or was that somewhere else?) And didn't it (or somewhere else) say that they were going to *add* some new characters? Who knows? Well, we'll find out soon. Let's hope they don't ruin the show!
mike@hpfcla.UUCP (10/10/85)
Here's what someone said of "The Equalizer": > Have seen one episode of this, and it probably wins for most violent new > show of the season. Basically grim show with the first fifteen minutes > setting up a situation where some incredibly innocent person is placed in a > terrible situation by someone so reprehensible that the audience would like > to see the villain placed under a steam roller. Well, no steam rollers to > be had on this show, but we've got an ex-CIA agent who is slightly neater > than a steam roller, and has about the same effect. He also has a slightly > looney younger friend who he gives enough weaphons to to break into the > White House, and lets him loose at the bad guys. Apparently work theraphy > or something... Are you kidding? This is the best detective show to come along in years. It's serious as opposed to sappy, it deals with violent (but believable) crimes as opposed to banal social work, and Robert McCall (The Equalizer) is the hardest, toughest crime-fighter to appear since Steve McGarret. The theme is simple: Criminals deserve no mercy; give them a taste of their own disrespect for individual rights; answer force with force. I think its refreshing to see justice prevail in the face of an ineffectual police force, and an impotent criminal court system which has obviously resulted from the morass of contradictory laws that usually end up protecting (and freeing) known criminals. Michael Bishop hplabs!hpfcla!mike-b
steven@ism70.UUCP (11/15/85)
Since no one else has answered, let me say that the pianist who was kidnapped got kidnapped a second time and put in the van to be rescued. As Dave and Maddie get to the spot (a few minutes late) with the ransom, the van blows sky high. Later Dave surmises that since they didn't see any pieces of the pianist there, that he wasn't in the van at all. They think that he has staged a second fake kidnapping to get even more money from mom. They go back to mom to explain this, and she reveals that _s_h_e did the second kidnapping to kill him and get her son out of her life, thinking that the person who did the first kidnapping would be blamed for the second kidnapping. Obviously, since there was no real first kidnapper, she is wrong. I know this is illogical and it doesn't really work, but hey, that's how they explained it. Dave sings and boogies in the street (near the corner of Wilshire and Western) and so Maddie forces him to fire the two stiffs that she wanted fired at the beginning of the episode. As Dave approaches their desks in the final scene saying stuff like, "Did you ever want to see the world and experience life??" Maddie comes up from behind and lets Dave off the hook. The two stiffs can stay. INT. HEARSE DAY MADDIE There's a coffin back there! DAVE A coffin? In a hearse?? Call Mike Wallace! MADDIE Do you think there's somebody dead in there? DAVE What do you mean, do I think there's somebody dead in there, of course there is!! What do you think, these guys carry spares?!?
matt@prism.UUCP (11/27/85)
/* Written 5:06 pm Nov 15, 1985 by hxe@rayssd in prism:net.tv */ >> And remember all those arguments we had last year pertaining to >> where Hill Street actually takes place? Solved last week. Mick is >> knocked unconscious and placed in a duffle bag, which is shipped >> by bus to Springfield, Ill. His trek takes place in the morning, and >> he reaches Springfield by noon, and returns to the city that the Hill >> resides in by evening, in time to put the bite (!) on the perpatrator. >> Thus, which city does HSB take place in? You have 10 minutes... >........ >> Chicago. > > Wait a minute. Did it actually *say* Illinois on the duffle bag? > I looked for it but didn't see any mention of a state, and there's > a Springfield in almost every state in the US. Just asking.... Well, it didn't say Springfield, Illinois. But one of the other cities mentioned in the background noise of the bus station was Glen Ellyn, which IS in Illinois, near Chicago. (It happens to be where Lattice, Inc. is located.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Matt Landau {cca, ihnp4!inmet, mit-eddie, wjh12} !mirror!matt Mirror Systems, Inc. 2076 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02140
jeff@hpcnoe.UUCP (12/04/85)
> YES, in the Bay Area, the CBS stations are rerunning FIRST SEASON (!!!!) > Remington Steele episodes at 11:30 p.m. on Mondays. It's part of CBS's late night movies. So if your CBS station does not have its own late night programming, you should be able to catch it. > Check it out. It's great seeing Murphy McMichaels and Bernice Fox. > It's also a really good contrast to see the characters then. I caught most of the first episode (where Brosnan enters the scene). It was a real pleasure. Murphy and Bernice are much more entertaining than Mildred. -- Jeff Wu
rodean@hpfcla.UUCP (12/13/85)
> Query: Can anyone fill in the words that come over the radio during the > opening credits sequence? I can never make out the middle of the > following: "Robbery in progress, _______________tore and People's Drive." > -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago > ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar Last night I tried to listen very carefully to this. Unfortunately I did not have a piece of paper around and I forgot part of it immediately. What I did get was: "See [the] surplus store, corner of _________ and People's Drive". Then again, maybe I did not get it right. Bruce Rodean {ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!rodean
adrienne@datacube.UUCP (01/13/86)
I always liked that con artist Mr. Haney with
his constant sales pitches ,"I'll sell you a genuine moon diamond
worth five times it's weight in gold for only 9 dollars.."
or whatever it is he used to pawn off on that show!The guy
was a classic!
-Adrienne at the Cube
bill@hp-pcd.UUCP (bill) (03/19/86)
Do you have a premium channel descrambler connected to your TV? If you do, and for some reason it's enabled while you're watching a non-scrambled channel, it could be false-triggering. bill frolik hp-pcd!bill