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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television some emmy nominees carried on an seb by Wendy Bourland the 1988 emmy awards Are scheduled for aug. 28 in Pasadena Calif. The american forces network was unsure at press time if it would get the telecast As was the Southern european broadcasting network. Both networks air a few of the programs nominated among to s Best. Candidates on an include . Law Beauty and the beast and cheers. The Southern european broadcasting network also carried these shows. A Programmer there said the network will air the emmy program live if arts gets the rights. Other emmy nominees arts has acquired include the Yuppie drama thirty something premiering on an next month and Frank s place set around a restaurant in new Orleans. It comes to an in january while seb gets new programs eight weeks after an does. Check the stars and stripes daily to listings to confirm an air Date for the emmy and for other programs. New series not a lot happening Here. New or returning shows coming to an in the next two weeks include spies starring George Hamilton As government agent Ian Stone a half hearted blend of James Bond and Indiana Jones and knots Landing the Dallas spin off soap. Spies begins saturday knots Landing wednesday. Seb viewers can look Forward to everything s relative which starts Friday night cheers aug. 29, and the people s court aug. 30. There Are some Good episodes of existing shows airing on an in the next two weeks starting with monday night s moonlighting. Fortunately for moonlighting fans cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis Aren t the Only characters Worth or formerly Worth watching. Right now it s the deepening relationship Between Blue Moon Agency Secretary Agnes Divesto Allyce Beasley and rumpled Junior Sleuth Bert Viola Curtis Armstrong that shows the most comedic Promise. In monday night s show Bert asks Agnes to move in with him confident that Shell jump at the Opportunity. So he s caught off guard when she asks for time to think it Over. Over the next few nights As Bert works a late night assignment he feeds his anxiety Over Agnes indecision by conjuring up fantasies of tumultuous romantic interludes and disturbing scenes of rejection. Father figure the relationships among the members of the Gardner family Are what make a year in the life so engaging. The family that works together plays together and fights together has become a common to formula but unlike the Huxtable family of the Cosby show the Gardners have problems that Are not solvable by the end of the show. In the aug. 27 episode Anne s Wendy Phillips sex husband comes into town for a visit with his children Bunny Amanda Peterson and David Trey Ames. While Bunny is excited at seeing her father David is not and his buried resentment Over his parents divorce begins to spill out during the visit. Meanwhile an old Navy buddy of Joe s Richard Kiley Dies in los Angeles and the funeral prompts a reunion with two old friends Joe has t seen in More than 40 years and Kay Sarah Jessica Parker is selected for jury duty. Patience is a virtue though he s a Laid Back kind of Guy and she s an easygoing kind of lady detectives Hunter and Mccall Fred Dwyer Stepfanie Kramer find themselves swallowing their tempers with a Rich industrialist whose wife has been kidnapped in the aug. 25 episode of Hunter. The industrialist is rude belligerent and Bossy. He won t cooperate with the pair unless they do what he says and attempt his wife s Rescue his Way. The opening minutes of this show will definitely capture your attention. Two wealthy women Are sitting in a mansion. A ski masked intruder binds them then spirits the wife outside. The faithful Gardener looks up from his duties sees the lady of the House being dragged across the Well manicured Lawn and lunges at the kidnapper with a buzzing Chain saw. Movie pick if you be seen 1980 s the Babysitter you can laugh at it this time. If you Haven to the Shock outweighs the silliness the first time around. A family with problems William Shatner As the father Patty Duke Astin As the Mother and Quinn Cummings As their 12-year-old, Tara is picked out for the special attention of a local teen age girl Joanna Stephanie Zimbalist. Joanna is pretty Friendly and intelligent. When she gets herself hired As Tara s Babysitter Mother father and daughter Are pleased. But that soon changes because Joanna is manipulative twisted and very very evil. The silly part Joanna hanging around the House before the family hires her Only allowing Tara to spot her is quickly forgotten As the teen Ager Worms her Way into the family s troubled life. After she learns the personalities and problems of her Quarry Joanna begins playing them against each other exploiting their weaknesses and subtly encouraging their anguished confusion. It s chilling to watch her operate and the movie moves steadily from the beginning to the end. The Babysitter is an s monday night late show. Seb schedule update the network is moving the Disney movie to a monday evening prime time Slot in september now that school is about to Start. Also the National football league regular season begins sept. 4, and seb viewers can expect at least one game monday night. Armchair quarterbacks can already see Abc s monday night football games Are aired tuesday mornings at 3 . Star trek Freak turned obsession into studio Job by Jerry Buck a television writer when creator Gene Roddenberry has a question about Star trek the Man he turns to is Richard Arnold. The information about Star trek and the lore amassed Over the past 22 years is so vast that Only the most dedicated trekkie could possibly keep track of it. Arnold has been the show s official archivist at Paramount studios for the past two years but for nearly nine years before that he was an unpaid but virtually full time consultant. I might get a Call from a game show asking which cast member first said beam me up Scotty " said Arnold. No one Ever said that on any Star trek episode. The fans made it up like play it again Sam i frequently get Calls from merchandising and licensing. They la want to know what actor played such and such a character and How can they get hold of him to sign a waiver. Television stations Call a lot asking for help in designing a promotion  Arnold emphasized however that he is not the final word on the show. I m a consultant he said. I m not hanging Over anyone s shoulders. They can consult me or  Star trek made its debut on Abc in 1966 and ran for three years. It has also been an animated series four hit motion pictures have been made and a fifth is in the works and the new to series Star trek the next generation is an enormous hit in syndication. I was 12 years old when Star trek began said Arnold. I d gone through the Hardy boys even my Sisters Nancy Drew books and Edgar Rice Burroughs had gotten me into science fiction. I remember i spent one summer in a tent in the backyard Reading. My Mother thought there was something wrong with that. On to i d watched lost in space voyage to the Bottom of the sea and time Tunnel. Then Star trek came on. The first episode intrigued me. The next episode was so Good i cried at the end. After that i scheduled my life around watching Star trek. I watched the shows Over and Over and Over again. My Mother could t understand that. I asked her if she Ever went Back to the same  his Mother incidentally finally began watching and was soon an avid Star trek fan herself. Arnold who was born in the same Hospital in Vancouver British Columbia As Jimmy Doohan Scot Tyran a Star trek fan club in High school and College. He moved from Canada to St. Louis in 1969 and went to his first science fiction convention with a Cousin in downtown St. Louis. It changed my whole life he said. I went to the first Star trek convention in new York in 1971. I met Gene Roddenberry there and he was very kind to me. But i did t know who he was until he was introduced at the  that was the first of Many Star trek conventions he was to attend in following years. In 1974 he moved to los Angeles to work As a Hospital orderly. I still kept in touch with everybody and Susan Sackett Gene s assistant began calling me for information he said. She knew my memory of the shows. If there was a question or a problem they d Call me. Eventually it got to the Point where i had an office a parking space and my name in the Paramount studio directory. And i was t even on the payroll. I kept getting More and More Calls. From publicity from merchandising from everybody. I was spending nearly All my time at the studio. Finally Gene proposed establishment of the Job of archivist and i went to work on july 1, 1986." it s a Job that you d think would make Arnold the envy of every trekkie. But Arnold said they re such a compatible group that they help each other out. He frequently Calls on other trekkie when he s stumped. Ill Call Denise Tathwell if i need to know dialogue from the first 79 episodes or the movies he said. Richard Barnett knows All about the toys and Memorabilia. Guy Vardaman who works on the new series As a stand in knows the dialogue better than i do. And he s worked with a lot of the guest  Arnold also turns out the Best Selling Star trek calendars for pocket books. Next up is the fifth Star trek movie which was postponed when Leonard Nimoy accepted an offer from Disney to direct Diane Keaton and Jason Robards in the Cood Mother. The tentative Start Date for Star trek v the final Frontier is sept. 12. William Shatner will direct. Harve Bennett will produce. I think they la keep making the movies As Long As the original seven cast members want to he said. Leonard is becoming very hot As a director and that could affect his availability. It s such an ensemble cast that if one actor was lost for any reason i Don t know if the other actors would want to go on or How the fans would accept  24 stripes Magazine August 18, 1988  
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