From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V98 #150 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume98/150 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se Reply-To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain blakes7-d Digest Volume 98 : Issue 150 Today's Topics: [B7L] UK Gold June Re: [B7L] UK Gold June [B7L] Overheard on rec.arts.drwho Re: [B7L] warlord Re: [B7L] The Making of Blakes 7 [B7L] New Website Re: [B7L] We came third [B7L]Lost In Space Re: [B7L] UK Gold June ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 18:20:00 +0100 GMT From: STEVE.ROGERSON@MCR1.poptel.org.uk To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] UK Gold June Message-Id: <598339105MCR1@MCR1.poptel.org.uk> According to Cult Times, here are the Blake's 7 episodes being shown in June on UK Gold. Sunday 7 June: No episode Sunday 14 June: 9.35am, D13 Blake Sunday 21 June: No episode Sunday 28 June: 9.05am, A1 The Way Back cheers Steve Rogerson Redemption 99 - The Blakes 7/Babylon 5 convention 26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Kent http://www.smof.com/redemption/ "The workers united will never be ignited" Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 13:10:48 -0500 From: "Reuben Herfindahl" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] UK Gold June Message-ID: <012d01bd88d1$9cd50330$660114ac@misnt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----Original Message----- From: STEVE.ROGERSON@MCR1.poptel.org.uk To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Date: Tuesday, May 26, 1998 1:01 PM Subject: [B7L] UK Gold June >According to Cult Times, here are the Blake's 7 episodes being >shown in June on UK Gold. > >Sunday 7 June: No episode >Sunday 14 June: 9.35am, D13 Blake >Sunday 21 June: No episode >Sunday 28 June: 9.05am, A1 The Way Back > > How to confuse a first time viewer. Catch June 14th's episode and then June 28th's. Reuben ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 14:18:02 -0500 From: "Reuben Herfindahl" To: "Lysator" Subject: [B7L] Overheard on rec.arts.drwho Message-ID: <015801bd88db$014b9d70$660114ac@misnt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I stumbled across this comparison over at rec.arts.drwho. Since I hadn't heard it before, I figured I'd cross post it. Reuben In article <01bd883a$bc3ae920$LocalHost@lgwujvnl>, Dangermouse wrote: > Difficult to describe. Sort of a Handbook to the series, with a bit of the > Discon Guide or Nitpicker's Guide thrown in... No pictures though. A discontinuity guide for Blake's 7 is rather like shooting fish in a barrel, isn't it? Still, I look forward to headings like: Fabulously powerful weaponry never used or mentioned again Mad scientists in exile who once knew one of the crew Most manically over-stressed line by Paul Darrow This week's re-use of the spaceship model from episode 2 Rewritten from which "Onedin Line" episode, with Jamaica crossed out and Zobufrax Delta written over the top in crayon ...speaking of manically over-stressed lines, has it ever occurred to anyone that Blake's 7 is a sort of early version of Friends? That is, Ross = Avon Chandler = Blake Joey = Vila Rachel = Cally Monica = Jenna Phoebe = Orac New York = The Galaxy The apartment block = The Liberator Dating = The overthrow of the repressive Federation Tickets to see fashion shows / major basketball games / operas = Technology Clothes = Federation cyphers Sex = Sabotage of an installation resembling a gas works Central Perk, the coffee-bar = An alien world once used for mining gravel Small things to eat with coffee, kept close to hand whenever one is in Central Perk = Teleport bracelets Attractive significant-others who appear from time to time = Servalan Janice, the girlfriend Chandler just can't get rid of = Travis Janice's pregnancy after series 1 = Travis's reconstruction after series 1 In a purely domestic crisis, the apartment radiators break down just on the day of a party (etc.) = In an incident unrelated to the Federation, the Liberator is trapped in space by an alien race (etc.) Cheesy plots to do with long-lost siblings = Cheesy plots to do with long-lost siblings "Yuh-huh" = "Confirmed" "Could I _be_ any more sure?" = "That information is not available." Marriage = Death I look forward to the shock ending of "Friends" in which, with just seconds of the programme still to run, all six of our heroes are married off. (And then millions of fans refuse to believe it and insist that we never actually _saw_ the rings on their fingers.) -- Graham Nelson | graham@gnelson.demon.co.uk | Oxford, United Kingdom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 08:05:35 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: Re: [B7L] warlord Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Sun 24 May, Roger the Shrubber wrote: > I wonder what Zukan thought he was doing though. Presumably he was on > friendly terms with the reps of all the other planets there, why did he have > to go thru the whole charade of pretending to form an alliance, surely he > could have just radioed Servalan & said "Hey chief, they're on Xenon, send > the fleet". Even if he'd delivered Avon & co. to the feds & lived, all those > other warlords would have been after his blood for betraying them. Because he wanted the formula for the Pylene 50 antidote and wanted to be sure that he could manufacture it? Judith -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 Redemption 99 - The Blakes 7/Babylon 5 convention 26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Kent http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 07:49:00 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: Re: [B7L] The Making of Blakes 7 Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Sun 24 May, Jenni-Alison wrote: > Does anyone have an opinion of a book called "The Making of Blakes 7" by > Adrian Wrigglesford (I think)? I've found it in a bookshop and wanted to > buy it, but it was in bad condition. Is it worth ordering specially? I've > got the Sheelagh Wells book (great), and Tony Attwood's program guide > (hmmm, better than no program guide), so is this a good one ? If you can get it remaindered, it's just about worth it for one or two of the pictures. Otherwise save your money. I wouldn't pay more than two or three quid for it. It really is boring, badly laid out and often inaccurate. Marvell did a much better job with similar information for a much lower price. Sheelagh's book went into a second printing. Rigglesford's book was remaindered. Need I say more? Judith PS. Neil's Sevencyclopaedia is far more useful than the programme guide and can be downloaded from my web page or bought as a zine. -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 Redemption 99 - The Blakes 7/Babylon 5 convention 26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Kent http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:15:57 EDT From: AChevron To: space-city@world.std.com Cc: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] New Website Message-ID: <746d7b26.356b937e@aol.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I recieved a mailing from the builder of a new web-site, and dropped in. the site has quite a ways to go to be complete, but there are some nice pics scattered about. If anyone wants to take a peek, and maybe give the gent some encouragement, the URL is: http://members.aol.com/fenchesku/b7.html D. Rose ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 09:48:09 -0700 From: Helen Krummenacker To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] We came third Message-ID: <35684F49.54EF@jps.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit STEVE.ROGERSON@MCR1.poptel.org.uk wrote: > > SFX magazine in the UK has just published the top ten space > ships of all time as voted for by its readers, and the Liberator > came in third. > > The top ten were: > > 1. Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) > 2. White Star (Babylon 5) > 3. The Liberator (Blake's 7) > 4. The Tardis (Dr Who) > 5. Shadow ship (Babylon 5) > 6. The Enterprise (ST: TOS) > 7. The Enterprise D (ST: TNG) > 8. Star Destroyers (Star Wars) > 9. Nostromo (Alien) > 10 The Defiant (ST: DS9) > > cheers > Steve Rogerson > Good choices! Glad to see the Enterprise didn't squash everything else on the list... it surely would have in the States. Say science fiction here and everyone thinks you mean Star Trek. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 15:48:24 +0100 From: julie@ipsys.co.uk (Julie Horner) To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Cc: space-city@world.std.com Subject: [B7L]Lost In Space Message-Id: <199805271448.PAA10795@sun500.Fishnet> Does anybody know for sure which day the B7 Lost in Space will be going out? I am on my hols for the first two weeks in June so if it is on during that time I will need to set the video, but as I am already setting it to record the UK Gold B7 on Sunday mornings I am worried my tape will run out of space. Julie Horner ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 21:48:54 +0100 From: "Julie Horner" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] UK Gold June Message-Id: <199805272046.WAA18815@samantha.lysator.liu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ---------- > From: STEVE.ROGERSON@MCR1.poptel.org.uk > > According to Cult Times, here are the Blake's 7 episodes being > shown in June on UK Gold. > > Sunday 7 June: No episode > Sunday 14 June: 9.35am, D13 Blake > Sunday 21 June: No episode > Sunday 28 June: 9.05am, A1 The Way Back > Thanks Steve. Are they really starting again again? I mean, they went all through once and then immediately again and now starting over once more. Oh dear I just re-read that its not very articulate. Anyway, good for UK Gold. Incidentally, about two years ago - before I had ever seen any B7 (yes honestly!) I remember having UK Gold on in the afternoon and there was some sort of documentary about B7 with the actors being interviewed. It took me ages to realise what it was because, as I have said, I wasn't a fan at that point but I had heard of the series through my husband. Apart from thinking "Oh they must be going to repeat this, I must tell Mike" I didn't really take much notice at the time. All I really remember is Jackie saying how Servalan was originally going to be a man. Now of course I would love to see that again but I haven't the faintest idea what it was called or whether it is available on video or anything. Does anyone out there know what I saw? Julie Horner -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V98 Issue #150 **************************************