--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: E4T00014Date: 04/17/97 From: ARTIMUS BROWN Time: 04:30am \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Hello?! Hello All, I seem to have a problem.... Is ANYONE recieving this?! Thanks, |\ |-\ | \rtimus ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- SLMAIL v5.01 (#1307) * Origin: DaySpring BBS BBS (1:261/1605) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: E4T00015Date: 04/21/97 From: ARTIMUS BROWN Time: 03:55am \/To: STEVE QUARRELLA (Read 1 times) Subj: Blakes 7 * Quoting: Steve Quarrella * To: Mark Blackburn * About: Blakes 7 * On: 4-19-97 11:18 Hello Steve, SQ> If you've got Internet access, you might check out www.amazon.com or SQ> www. powells.com. They're a couple of incredible online bookstores SQ> that have found LOTS of hard-to-find titles for me. If you don't have SQ> web access, I can get you some FAX/Phone numbers and addresses where SQ> you can call/write. Hey, can you post those phone numbers and/or addresses please? I don't have Internet access and it doesn't appear to be coming my way any time soon. Thanks, |\ |-\ | \rtimus ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- SLMAIL v5.01 (#1307) * Origin: DaySpring BBS BBS (1:261/1605) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: E4T00016Date: 04/23/97 From: JAMES DIXON Time: 06:41pm \/To: AARON EGNOR (Read 1 times) Subj: Red Dwarf 7 AE> I live about 40 miles north of Tampa FL and luckily the local PBS AE>(WEDU) is groovy on SF. Saturday night they showed _2001_ in it's AE>entirety with no interruptions (save the occassional call-letters in AE>the bottom corner of the screen). We get Dr Who 2x a week, Red Dwarf AE>every Saturday, The Tomorrow People every once in a while, and the AE>latest fund-raiser was to gain funds for the first 2 seasons of AE>Tripods. Plus, there is a marathon the last Saturday of every AE>month--March had 24 straight hours of "Are You Being Served?" =) I didn't think Doctor Who was still being aird on PBS stations... 2001 my local PBS shows from time to time (to them they consider it to be the only SF product "classy enough" to air!)... Just about all I get are the comedies like Are You Being Served, but no Red Dwarf... As for The Tripods, did they EVER show the final series of that? Last I heard they never made it! AE> The only bad thing is they are really hung-up on the first 3 Dr's AE>episodes and show them constantly, so it's no surprise to turn on and AE>see the same episode that was on 2 months previous...... oh well... the AE>price is worth it =) Yah, I rather like the earlier ones... I remember back in the 80s when the Only episodes I'd ever see were endless Tom Baker reruns... --- OLXWin 1.00a For a good time(line) download TREK9.ZIP... --- FE v1.46 i486 * Origin: - Mystical Aura -/- [201.894.8546] -/- Tenafly, NJ - (1:2604/302) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: E4T00017Date: 04/23/97 From: GEORGE SHILEIKIS Time: 12:54pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Castle Keep BBS going down.. . . . . /\ .: * . . . * .' `. . . * . . : . / \ _ .________________ . . | `.+-~~-+.'/.' `.^^^^^^^^\~~~~~\. . . -*- . . |u--.| / \~~~~~~~|~~~~~| . | | u|.' `." 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Thorin Oakenshield - Keeper of the Castle --- FMail/Win32 1.22 * Origin: Castle Keep BBS * 970-663-4153 * FIDO (1:306/62) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: E4T00018Date: 04/22/97 From: ANDY KELLY Time: 08:33pm \/To: MARK BLACKBURN (Read 1 times) Subj: Blakes 7 Hiya Mark! 16 Apr 97 22:21, Mark Blackburn wrote to All: MB> I'm new to this echo and am very happy to find it ! Yeah it is rather fun and not at all stuck up and shite like some of the internet rubbish floating around... MB> I am a addicted Blakes 7 fan, and would be happy to hear from MB> anyone else who is too. B7 is probably the best TV scifi ever written. Ok, so it has that "only the BBC" special fx, but look deeper than that and the story line is superb. No other series even gets close for hard hitting no holds barred plot. Anything can happen - and it does! Goes a bit off towards the end but comes back with some killer episodes in ts final rush towards the biggest cliff hanger in the scifi business... MB> I am having a bit of a struggle getting a MB> book, written by Paul Darrow, who plays Avon in Blakes 7 .. it's MB> a kind of autobiography - from the view point of Avon. :) it's MB> called " Avon - a terrible aspect " By Paul Darrow .. it was MB> published about 1990 so , of course, any help would be MB> appreciated. Hmmm ive toyed with the idea of tracking this down but from what i've heard t isn't worth busting a blood vessel over locating it. Ask Orac to get a transcript of it from Federation archives ;-) Andy --- GoldED 2.42.G0214+ * Origin: AnDy'5 Po1nTy Th1nG! (2:440/7.666) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: E4U00000Date: 04/24/97 From: STEVE QUARRELLA Time: 06:08pm \/To: BOB GLOVER (Read 1 times) Subj: Other English Programs Salue, BOB! Mercurii dies April 23 1997, Dixit BOB GLOVER ad STEVE QUARRELLA: BG> I will do that some time. It would probably be easiest just to go to my BG> local Blockbuster and get them. Is there anything orther than the flying BG> circus and holy grail that I should get ? Yes, but I'll send you mail on my BBS about that. :) BG> I always enjoyed Benny Hill and his skits taht always envolved women in a BG> simi-nude state. Very sexually oriented comedy. This is why many people -dislike- him. :) I'd have to sit and think about what it was about Benny Hill that pushed my buttons. Granted, Hills Angels were a "must-see" at a time when my hormones were becoming active, but I didn't tune in just to see them (and imagine: Those episodes that we saw here in the US were from the 60s and 70s. Hills Angels are probably GRANDMOTHERS by now. :). I really used to enjoy the skits where Jackie Wright would be played for laughs, such as when he'd go to a bad hotel for a vacation and he'd get the "shit-on" treatment by Benny and the staff. Or "Masterbrain," which looked like it was derived from some kind of quiz-type show (Help me out here, Zone 2 folks). Example: Benny (as host): What is an assot? Jackie (as critical thinker, without missing a beat): A little donkey. Benny: And an ascot? Jackie: A little donkey's bed. Don't ask me why this stuff puts me on the floor. :) 'Please don't blame our doggy, it's not his fault at all. Someone left a wet umbrella standing in the hall.' BG> I was not aware that Sanford and Son was a take off of a British Comedy. As were at least All in the Family (I forget the show from which it's derived), and Maude (Fawlty Towers, WITHOUT Basil!). In fact, didn't Bill Cosby appear in a US remake of Waiting for God? There are probably others, but I can't recall all of them off the top of my head. There -were- attempts at a Red Dwarf for NBC, but they went over like a lead balloon. BG> I thought he was wonderful as the nervous minister. I really broke up over The references to the "holy spigot" and the "holy goat" were highlights for me. :) BG> me. But for some reason I can't explain my self , I just don't like Mr. BG> Bean. I don't know what it is about that show , but I can't seem to get BG> into it. It's stupid and silly, which is probably why I'm attracted to it. :) BG> favorite on that show. It is unfortunate for us , but that show is about BG> 25 years old. I would really like to see a bunch more of the episodes. And How many of the cast of Are You Being Served? are still -alive- today, though? :) --- GoldED 3.00.Alpha5+ - Spank Our Wombats! * Origin: Valencia: "Smarter than the average bear." (1:124/9005) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: E4U00001Date: 04/24/97 From: ANTHONY VAN PYRE Time: 03:15am \/To: STEVE QUARRELLA (Read 1 times) Subj: early who SQ>Doh! I wish we could get the Hartnell and Troughton episodes here in SQ>Dallas. Most of my Troughton stories are on a tape that was sent to me in i have all the dr who episodes on tape every episode including the above mentioned --- * OLX 2.1 TD * MSI HQ! BBS - Home of Off-Line Xpress 805-395-0650 --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The Coral Reef Home of the game "Mutants" (1:239/600.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: E4U00002Date: 04/24/97 From: JAMES DIXON Time: 08:51pm \/To: STEVE QUARRELLA (Read 1 times) Subj: Other English Programs SQ> BG> I wonder if there is anyone else out there that watches those same SQ> BG> tired old reruns over and over , every time they air them? SQ>People will do that for ANY show. My wife and I play a game whenever the SQ>episodes of a certain Gene Roddenberry SF show from the 60s comes on: I guess Wow, wonder what show that is... SQ>which episode it is just by listening, and sometimes I get it right within one SQ>or two seconds. Evidently, I've seen this show FAR too many times. :) Nah, no such thing as too many times... I know em by stardate alone... Now I'm working on recognizing the episode by the configuration of the bridge... Almost every episode there's a Slight change in design, be it the color of the overhead perimeter lighting panels or the helm consoles... --- OLXWin 1.00a TREK9.ZIP @ http://www.abacus.ghj.com/sci_fi/ --- FE v1.46 i486 * Origin: - Mystical Aura -/- [201.894.8546] -/- Tenafly, NJ - (1:2604/302) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: E4U00003Date: 04/24/97 From: JAMES DIXON Time: 08:51pm \/To: MIKE SMITH (Read 1 times) Subj: Blakes 7 MS> MB> I am a addicted Blakes 7 fan, and would be happy to hear from anyone MS> MB> else who is too. MS>I wouldn't call myself addicted, but I grew up with Blakes 7, and thought it MS>was the best sci-fi prog around. Never noticed the wobbly sets either, until MS>people started mentioning them :-) The only people who mention that are kiddies who have nothing better to say... Pretty much the same crowd who curse out CGI work and cry that it's too "fake looking"... MS>I found the series to be a huge breath of fresh air after being obliged by my MS>parents to watch several reruns of the original Star Trek, which I thoroughly MS>hated, and still do. BOO! HISS! MS>It would be nice to see the series revived - after all, the BBC did leave it MS>open(ish) by just playing the sound of the final gunshots over the closing MS>credits rather than explicitly showing Avon being shot by the Federation MS>troops MS>- but I can't see that happening without it seeming too contrived to be MS>credible MS>:( Talk about being contrived... There's a novel which picks up where that episode left off... Called "Afterlife" it's a pathetic piece of garbage highly Not recommended! --- OLXWin 1.00a James T. Dixon...Don't you read Trek History? --- FE v1.46 i486 * Origin: - Mystical Aura -/- [201.894.8546] -/- Tenafly, NJ - (1:2604/302) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 270 DR WHO/BRIT SCIF Ref: E4U00004Date: 04/24/97 From: BOB GLOVER Time: 11:10pm \/To: STEVE QUARRELLA (Read 1 times) Subj: Other English Programs -=> Quoting Steve Quarrella to Bob Glover <=- SQ> Salue, BOB! SQ> Mercurii dies April 23 1997, Dixit BOB GLOVER ad STEVE QUARRELLA: BG> I will do that some time. It would probably be easiest just to go to my BG> local Blockbuster and get them. Is there anything orther than the flying BG> circus and holy grail that I should get ? SQ> Yes, but I'll send you mail on my BBS about that. :) BG> I always enjoyed Benny Hill and his skits taht always envolved women SQ> in a BG> simi-nude state. Very sexually oriented comedy[ SQ> This is why many people -dislike- him. :) Yea, and a lot of people can't take a joke either! It seems to me that folks have gone to seed on this "Politically Correct" stuff. Show me in the Constitutuion of the United States of America where it says that you are guaranteed that you will never be offended. SQ I'd have to sit and think SQ> about what it was about Benny Hill that pushed my buttons. Granted, SQ> Hills Angels were a "must-see" at a time when my hormones were becoming SQ> active, but I didn't tune in just to see them (and imagine: Those SQ> episodes that we saw here in the US were from the 60s and 70s. Hills SQ> Angels are probably GRANDMOTHERS by now. :). Thats all right with me, a lot of their viewers are grandfathers by now. Not me yet, but I am old enough to be a grandfather by now. And with three sons (17,22,26 years old) it could happen. SQ> I really used to enjoy the SQ> skits where Jackie Wright would be played for laughs, such as when he'd SQ> go to a bad hotel for a vacation and he'd get the "shit-on" treatment SQ> by Benny and the staff. Or "Masterbrain," which looked like it was SQ> derived from some kind of quiz-type show (Help me out here, Zone 2 SQ> folks). Example: SQ> Benny (as host): What is an assot? SQ> Jackie (as critical thinker, without missing a beat): A little SQ> donkey. SQ> Benny: And an ascot? SQ> Jackie: A little donkey's bed. Jackie Wright was a beautiful little sod of a man. SQ> Don't ask me why this stuff puts me on the floor. :) 'Please don't SQ> blame our doggy, it's not his fault at all. Someone left a wet SQ> umbrella standing in the hall.' Hell , Steve. It's funny just because it is funny. It does not have to by analysed and /or justified. If there are those who are or were offended by it, change channels. I think a lot of people are offended by things such as the sexual humor in Benny Hill not because of the humor, but because they take themselves too seriously. I know there are a lot of so called associations out there that think of themselves in far to high esteem for what they really are worth. BG> I was not aware that Sanford and Son was a take off of a British Comedy. SQ> As were at least All in the Family (I forget the show from which it's SQ> derived), and Maude (Fawlty Towers, WITHOUT Basil!). In fact, didn't SQ> Bill Cosby appear in a US remake of Waiting for God? There are SQ> probably others, but I can't recall all of them off the top of my head. SQ> There -were- attempts at a Red Dwarf for NBC, but they went over like SQ> a lead balloon. BG> I thought he was wonderful as the nervous minister. I really broke up SQ> over SQ> The references to the "holy spigot" and the "holy goat" were SQ> highlights for me. :) BG> I think you are dead on the mark with that. They BG> were indeed, the highlights of his performance, perhaps of the movie. BG> me. But for some reason I can't explain my self , I just don't like Mr. BG> Bean. I don't know what it is about that show , but I can't seem to get BG> into it. SQ> It's stupid and silly, which is probably why I'm attracted to it. :) Everybody loves the three stooges, if they will admit it or not, and a lot of them won't. Slap stick comedy is silly and stupid. And it is the most success filled form of comedy that has ever been. So, its silly, so what? BG> favorite on that show. It is unfortunate for us , but that show is about BG> 25 years old. I would really like to see a bunch more of the episodes. SQ> And SQ> How many of the cast of Are You Being Served? are still -alive- today, SQ> though? :) I saw the guy that played Mr. Lucas on the channel 13 beg night last summer. He is still alive, but the years are sure showing. And I don't know of anyone else from that group for sure having made it thus far. Let's put out an all points bulletin on that. Any body out there seen the crew or members of the crew of "Are You Being Served"? Let us know. I for one would love to know. I have grown very attached to that group,almost like friends. BSG ... Lt. Yar, you are naturally blonde! - Data ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Stargate BBS - Plano, Tx. (214) 578-7618 (1:124/6512.0)