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Conference ljsrv1::tv_chatter

Title:The TV Chatter Notes Conference
Notice:Welcome to TV Chatter :-)
Moderator:PASTA::PIERCE
Created:Wed Dec 16 1992
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:498
Total number of notes:5416

379.0. "Nowhere Man" by TNPUBS::NAZZARO (NBA action - it's nonexistant) Wed Aug 30 1995 18:02

    I watched the 90 minute premier of this show on UPN Monday night and
    was suitably impressed!  Bruce Greenwood plays a photographer who is
    giving a show of his work.  Megan Gallagher is his wife.  He convinces
    her to take off early with him to go to their favorite restaurant.
    Once there, they have a little argument, and he goes to the men's room
    to have a smoke.  When he comes back, she is gone, and no one in the
    restaurant remembers her or recognizes him.
    
    That's the premise, and it worked really well.  This show has a lot of
    promise - it's a cross between the Fugitive and X-Files.  I recommend
    it.
    
    NAZZ
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379.1I'll try itPCBUOA::LPIERCEDo the watermelon crawlWed Aug 30 1995 19:255
    
    Thanks, I'll check it out.  Do you think they will keep it on Monday
    nights or was that just for her premier?
    
    lou
379.2Give them a month, and it'll change!TNPUBS::NAZZARONBA action - it's nonexistantThu Aug 31 1995 18:123
    Monday at 9:00, for an hour - supposedly!  ;-)
    
    NAZZ
379.3CSC32::MA_BAKERTue Sep 05 1995 18:092
    I liked this one a lot. I will watch it.  We get it in Colorado Springs
    on Fridays right after X-Files on channel 21.
379.4look forward to itSWAM1::MEUSE_DATue Sep 12 1995 18:589
    
    As the base note mentions, it has a lot of the "Fugitive" and some
    of the "X-files". 
    
    Very good show so far.
    
    Dave
    
    
379.5CSC32::MA_BAKERWed Sep 20 1995 17:193
    
    This week's episode also has a lot of "The Prisoner" in it.
    
379.6CSC32::MA_BAKERThu Sep 28 1995 13:444
        I also am disappointed in the 2nd and 3rd episodes, but both of
    	them sure brought back memories of "The Prisoner".  I hope the next 
    	one gets them back to the level they had on the 1st.
    
379.7DisappointingTNPUBS::NAZZAROBarros > DouglasWed Oct 04 1995 13:304
    Last show confirmed for me that this show has quickly fallen from my
    "must watch" list.
    
    NAZZ
379.8I liked this week's episode thoughCSC32::MA_BAKERTue Oct 10 1995 14:447
    
    I thought last night's (10-9-95) was pretty good.  If this one is going 
    to be representative of future ones, then I think it is starting to
    pick back up again - after several ho-hum episodes - and it is back on
    my watch list. I especially liked the ending.
    
    Tom isn't quite as predictable as they thougt he was, is he ...  :-)
379.9Help from anyone who saw this week's?CSC32::MA_BAKERWed Nov 29 1995 15:145
    
    Did anyone watch the Christmas episode?  At the end Tom reads a note
    from his wife. Could someone tell me what it said? It was probably
    important to the storyline, but since I had eye surgery a few weeks
    ago, I cannot see well, so I could not read it. Thanks, Marge
379.10VAXCPU::michaudJeff Michaud - ObjectBrokerWed Nov 29 1995 19:3514
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>     Did anyone watch the Christmas episode?  At the end Tom reads a note
>     from his wife. Could someone tell me what it said? It was probably
>     important to the storyline, but since I had eye surgery a few weeks
>     ago, I cannot see well, so I could not read it. Thanks, Marge

	I don't normally watch this show but was trying to keep it
	easy with a cold so catch this episode.

	The note said something like "how did you guess?".  The tape
	made it obvious (even though I had guess the whole visit to
	the mall was staged beforehand) that the whole thing was
	staged.
379.11EVMS::SCHUETZVMS Clusters Memory Channel 381-1663Thu Nov 30 1995 16:178
    I recall there was a "so where did you hide the negative anyways?"
    p.s. to the note.
    
    BTW, it would seem to me to be very lax of the people hunting for it
    not to have set up a hidden camera to watch where he gets the negative
    from, and immediately grab it from him.
    
    To me, there some MAJOR holes in the whole premise.
379.12CSC32::MA_BAKERThu Nov 30 1995 18:039
    spoilers
    
    
    So was it really Allison or someone acting as Allison.  If it was 
    really Allison, how is she linked with the ones who want the negative
    and how did they get her to work with them? And was it really his mother 
    and same question?
    
    It is rough not to be able to see well enough to even watch TV :-)
379.13More questions than answeres - againTNPUBS::NAZZAROUMass knocks off #1 - again!Fri Dec 01 1995 12:389
    This episode let you think it was answering some questions, but it
    simply made those questions more preplexing.  Now, this could either be
    viewed as entertaining, as a way to continue to involve the viewer in
    the plot, or as a cheap ploy designed to keep the viewer watching.  If
    it is the latter, it backfired with me.  I'm an occasional viewer, but
    I was disappointed in how this episode ended up in that it was so
    predictable.  I know Tom thought so, too!
    
    NAZZ
379.14dumb, but can't stop watchingTUXEDO::CHUBBTue Dec 05 1995 21:3810
    Also..when he read the note about "how'd you guess?", didn't he just
    peel the negatives out of a lamp-shade?  I thought this was weird that
    they would turn the place upside-down and miss where he hid them.
    
    I expected he was just tricking them at first to test them..
    
    This is the dumbest show I've ever looked forward to (but perhaps I'm
    just not thinking back hard enough :) ).
    
    -- brandon
379.15This show is a rip-off of ....VAXCPU::michaudThe AvengersTue Dec 05 1995 22:219
	Well I turned on the tube a few minutes before 9 to see if I
	could catch the previews for next weeks ST:VOY episode (to see
	if it would be another re-run, and it will be).

	Well this show came on after and I caught some pieces of it.
	After now seeing a good chunck of two episodes I believe where
	I've seen this show before.....

	This show appears to be a rip-off of the old series "The Prisoner"!!!
379.16premise???MAIL1::LOCOVAREWed Dec 06 1995 12:4312
    
    	Just curious - I only saw one show and the time slot is not
    	good for me to catch it...did they explain what was so
    	important about the picture...TO me it shows nothing since
    	they have bags over their heads?
    
    	Did they get into why this is so important...?SOmeone told
    	me that one episode with Dean Stockwell implied that his
    	picture of the hanging people were not as critical as
    	someone in the background.??
    
    
379.17CSC32::MA_BAKERWed Dec 06 1995 16:298
    The other things that I thought were kinda dumb, besides the fact that
    they tore the whole house apart and did not find the negatives as prior
    noter also said, was that while they were tearing the house apart, Tom 
    was in the house and did not even hear them.  Should have been lots of
    noise with all that destruction. Also, since they knew both Tom and the 
    negatives were in house, why didn't they just force him give them the 
    negatives, instead of leaving without them.
    
379.18I am not a number, I am a free man...ZENDIA::ROLLERLife member of the NRAThu Jan 25 1996 16:246
    RE: The Prisoner
    
    Did anyone else notice the number they gave Vale when he joined up?
    Was that intentional on the part of the writers?
    
    Ken
379.19BULEAN::BANKSFri Jan 26 1996 12:363
Huh.  Didn't even notice.

I knew something was eating away at me about that number...
379.20Curiosity gets the best of meTNPUBS::NAZZAROMarcus is back!Mon Jan 29 1996 16:503
    OK - I'll bite.  What was the number?
    
    NAZZ
379.21In the Prisoner the star's number/name was number 6VAXCPU::michaud#2Mon Jan 29 1996 18:150
379.22CSC32::MA_BAKERTue Jan 30 1996 14:333
    I've stuck with this series from the beginning but it is really
    beginning to try my patience.  They just get worse and worse.
    I think Nowhere Man is nowhere, man.
379.23answers pleaseWMOIS::TARDUGNOSat Nov 23 1996 22:584