Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: nyu notesfiles V1.1 4/1/84; site rna.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!rna!Anonymous From: Anonymous@rna.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Does ANYBODY out there know someone Message-ID: <37800001@rna.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 18:54:00 EST Article-I.D.: rna.37800001 Posted: Tue Dec 18 18:54:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 01:58:49 EST References: <362@jett.UUCP> Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:jett:-36200:rna:37800001:000:1109 Nf-From: rna!Anonymous Dec 19 18:54:00 1984 In NYC on WPIX they always cut something out, usually one of the best parts. For instance, in City on The Edge of Forever they hacked out the bum accidentally killing himself with a phaser that looks like a shaver. Or in I, Mudd they ripped out a chunk of the best bit of theater ever put on by the crew of the Enterprise, namely when they try to short circuit Norman with zany, illogical, behavior. The original episodes were x minutes long with (1hr - x) being the time alloted for commercials. Now all of these stupid independent stations want to cram in more advertising so who suffers... you guessed it. This is bad enough but to make it worse they seem to have taken the ennie mennie minne mo approach rather than trying to pick the least painful 2 or 3 minutes. In reference to the speeding up a film, it is rumored that this is done with commercials. It tends to have desirable (from the advertiser's point of view) subliminal effects. I have never heard of this being done with reruns. (I don't think the fools at WPIX have the imagination). -I think I'm dead, Jim Serge Sretschinsky