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A new TV show based on the old one which starred Martin Milner and George Maharis. The premise was they traveled RT66 in a Corvette to discover America. The new one could be two dorks on Segways doing the same thing.

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What a funny show that was!

What about "The Time Tunnel"? The list has "Quantum Leap" and QL is simply an updated TTT. Both were pretty much the same thing except QL overlayed a social commentary on the time jumps that TTT didn't.

Don't forget the laugh track!

Some viewers regard the laugh track as an insult to their intelligence and sense of humor.

It's GREEEEEEAAAT!

Not Quark! http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/DS9/c haracter/1112445.html

This Quark!http://www.tvparty.com/recquark.html

Could certainly use his services to keep our orbits clean!

There's already been a car with a mind of it's own. Any of you old enough to remember?...http://www.tvparty.com/recmothercar.ht ml

This is an example of bad reasoning. You can certainly have your cake and eat it too!

Let's say that I've been eating cake for 25 years, thinking it's good for me (as the company who sold it to me put in their marketing literature). I enjoy it, and never suspect that it's actually killing me.

Then I find out one morning on the news that cake is bad for me. Really bad. So bad that every bite is reducing my life expectency by five minutes. I'm outraged, then depressed, then finally resigned. By this time I figure I'm already fucked, so I might as well keep doing it.

So my kid comes into the world and sees me, every day, eating my cake - sometimes two or three times or more a day, especially when I'm stressed! He gets used to the smell, the crumbs, the chocolate that sometimes ends up in his clothes... For years - his most formative - before he understands the full import of the words "don't do what daddy does, it's bad for you", he sees that I'm - at least on the surface - no worse for the wear.

By the time he's 12 he's fully aware of the risks associated, but I've always got cake in the house, and some of his friends have tried it and liked it... And he figures his old man does it, so it can't be too bad, 'cause I'm not a complete idiot in his eyes and he hasn't gotten to the "dad doesn't know anything" years yet... So he tries it. And hey, he likes it! (After he manages to get a few bites down without choking, anyway.) But he discovers how addictive it is, and how much it's been ingrained into his psyche, since it's been around all his life.

And so the cycle continues. Even though he knows it's bad for him, he still starts, and can't seem to stop. So he figures he's already fucked, might as well enjoy it. Then _his_ kid grows up and...

So do the smokers bring it on themselves? Yeah, by resigning themselves (and perhaps unwittingly, their children) to their "fate". But I think there's more than an equal share of the tobacco companies in this.

Yes, and of course none of those people were heavy smokers. No, not a one of them (that's sarcasm by the way). Dick Powell used to advertise cigarettes, Wayne was a five pack a day smoker and even Agnes Moorehead (now this would be the name of a porno star, interesting how times change, isn't it?) was known to light up now and then. Of course killing yourself with a pack-a-day habit isn't as interesting as a conspiracy theory. Here's a nice picture of Dick Powell advertising Camels. Here's a nice clip of a TV commercial featuring the Duke peddling Camels. And Moorehead was 74 when she died of lung cancer. Oh wait, another google search reveals this picture of Susan Hayward hawking Chesterfields. Of course this could be a coincidence, perhaps none of these stars smoked at all, perhaps they were just pretending to smoke lots of cigarettes to get money from the tobacco companies. Perhaps they smoked cigarettes but never inhaled! Yes, that's it! It must have been that evil radiation!

And, while everyone is complaining about the grave ommissions, here's mine:

The greatest time-travel series ever made. Imogene Coca as Shad. Joe E. Ross as Gronk. Mike Mazursky as Clon.

One blessed season. The end of which leaves me, still, unconsolable.

It's Eunice's

With the original series, all the geeks drooled over the Tektronics vector displays used to show how many centons away the Cylons were.

I can completely believe that Matt Groening was relating a story about being yelled at for mocking Fox News, and that people thought he was serious.

And given The Simpsons' history of ridiculing (note to illiterate slashdotters: there is only one "e" in the word, "ridicule") the FOX network I can't see how anyone would take seriously anything that MG says. Maybe he and The Simpsons should be forced to implement a laugh track to placate the humourless.

Quoth the article: "But oh how the times have changed. The new Playboy Enterprises is all about class."

Uh, It seems IGN didn't turn their way-back machine back far enough while doing research for the article. Playboy has always claimed to have been about class, though there was a bit of a decline during the late 80s and the 90s. Two notable high-points of class are the two TV series and the Jazz Festival, but IMHO their class factor has been going downhill since August 1969. Apparently the TV show may be appearing again, so maybe they are trying to regain some of their lost class, but without a change in the current trend of their core content, I doubt this move will be very successful.

What about Tobor the 8 Man that I used to watch on the Ray Rayner Show when I was a kid? He was cutting edge "Japan invading the cartoon industry" stuffn and he could do anything!

isnt that the mom from good times?

We only need to use the United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol ship to pick up the debris.

Thanks! here you go: Pirate TV signal on WTTW

And we all thought that Quark was fiction!

It has some old puppet space programs from the 60's.

• Who is buried in Grant's tomb?
• What color is an orange?

Take your time. Talk it over, while George here tries to sober up.

Wasn't George Fenneman really cool? He was the perfect straight man. What a smooth voice! Only Don Pardo is in the same class. Government radio station WWV used his voice for the time signal.