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Title:Arcana Caelestia
Notice:Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

593.0. "_Probe_ -- Isaac Asimov's TV brainchild" by ERASER::KALLIS (A Dhole isn't a political animal.) Wed Mar 09 1988 08:32

                    -<Well, it's ... different>- 
    
    The television season's in midstride, and we have a serving of
    something associated with Isaac Asimov, and touted as [you'll pardon
    the expression] "Sci-Fi" by the promoters.
    
    It's hi-tech nonsense.  I suspect that in time, if the pilot is
    indicative, Isaac will slowly disassociate from it.
    
    Parker Stevenson, once of the _Hardy Boys_ series, is supposed to
    be an ultra-brilliant scientific investigator, who works with the
    police department from time to time to solve crimes.
    
    He just acquires a pretty, perky, and clumsy secretary who feeds
    him clues that allow him to solve cases.
    
    The "science" is silly ["He made the liquid nitrogen with his chemistry
    set."] and the premises of the pilot were questionable, to put it
    mildly.
    
    Okay entertainment, but don't let the Asimov name fool you.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
    
    Presented as a public service
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593.1"MacGyver" 1999 ?AMULET::FARRINGTONstatistically anomalousWed Mar 09 1988 12:3612
    Hmmm; I thought it was more along the lines of "...Asimov presents...";
    the show was actually written by his co-creator (whose name I neither
    recognized nor remember).
    
    Being one always on the prowl for sf-based or violence laden, mindless
    tv entertainment, I _tried_ to watch.  Couldn't make it through
    to the end; too mindless.  It could be cute, but as .1 mentioned,
    the nonsense and silly levels were just too great.
    
    Reminded me of a (no science) science fictiony "MacGyver".
    
    Dwight
593.2Deja Vu?ANGORA::MLOEWEBack in 15 min or a 1/4 of an hourThu Mar 10 1988 08:524
  
    How did you already see it?  I thought it premiered tonight!
    
    Mike_L
593.3ExplanationHPSCAD::WALLI see the middle kingdom...Thu Mar 10 1988 09:019
    
    The pilot was on Tuesday night, a two-hour TV movie.
    
    DFW
    
    I liked the characterizations, but the plot, the story, and the
    science were pretty awful.
593.4A high tech Sherlock HolmesANGORA::MLOEWEBack in 15 min or a 1/4 of an hourThu Mar 10 1988 09:135
    So then it's the series that starts tonight... Thursday 8:00pm.
    According to T.V. guide, a corpse is found within a highly radiactive
    room, and Parker Stevenson believes it to be murder.
    
    Mike_L
593.5I thought it was hilariousNRPUR::MULLANI seem to be at a functional impasseThu Mar 10 1988 13:406
    
    
    If you want to know more about the movie, see Note #499, in the
    TV Conference.
    
                                                              -mishel
593.6did you see ah..what was its name????RAVEN1::TYLERTry to earn what Lovers ownMon Mar 21 1988 02:452
    Well you got to say it was at least better than... well maby it
    wasn't. 8^)
593.7but it's cuteNOETIC::KOLBEinto the ragged meadow of my soulTue Mar 22 1988 13:164
	I thought the lastest plot device was interesting - designer genes
	for personalized death. The scientific possiblity of this may be
	pretty far-fetched but the idea is intriging. liesl
593.8AKOV11::BOYAJIANBe nice or be dogfoodWed Mar 23 1988 04:087
    re:.7
    
    Actually, the idea isn't really that farfetched. We're nowhere
    near achieving that kind of capability, but it's certainly far
    less farfetched than the Enterprise's transporters.
    
    --- jerry