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On the Jazz - Vol 01 Issue 20
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The totally unofficial A-Team electronic mail newsletter
Submission address: onthejazz
Administrivia: Nicole Pellegrini
Please use the following addresses for subscribe/unsubscribe
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pellegri, nicpell
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DATE: June 4, 1995
ISSUE: 20
VOLUME: 1
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Greetings everyone!
First off just a brief correction for the last issue, pointed
out to me by Frank. I called one episode "Operation Watermelon,"
but the real title is "West Coast Turnaround." I dunno why, I
always want to use that first title, it seems so much more
appropriate...
Thanks to P.J.Hewlett, I know have further info on
the 10 A-Team paperbacks. Here's the titles of each and a brief
description:
1. The A-Team. (based on pilot)
2. Small but Deadly Wars (based on `A Small and Deadly War`
and `Black Day at Bad Rock`)
3. When You Comin` Back Range Rider?
4. Old Scores to Settle (based on `The Only Church In Town`
and `Recipe for Heavy Bread`)
5. Ten Percent Of Trouble (based on `Steel` and `Maltese Cow`)
6. Operation Desert Sun : The Untold Story (original story of
the Team`s 1972 escape!!!)
7. Bullets, Bikinis and Bells (based on 'Bullets and Bikinis`
and `The Bells Of St. Mary`s`)
8. Backwoods Menace (based on `Timber` and `Children of
Jamestown`)
9. The Bend In The River
10. Death Vows (based on `Till Death Us Do Part`)
They are apparently all available still, except #10,
through mail-order via:
Sugen & Co.
Prospect House
5 Saunter's Way
Riccall
York YO4 6NY
U.K.
as well as 2 Plot-Your-Own-Adventure books and another
desinged-for-kiddies-book-plus-cassette. (Actually I
know someone here managed to find one of the Plot-Your-
Own books at a Dollar Store in the States recently...).
Peter says to ask for the "T.V. Tie-In's" catalog if you
write to them, and send an include an IRC to insure a
reply.
Now, time for part 2 of the Dwight Schultz interview from UFO
magazine...
Sagan: 'McDonald's of debunkers'
Meanwhile, Carl Sagan appears to have become the McDonald's
of debunkers--with "billions and billions" served. "He says the
same thing over and over," groans Schultz. "He was on '48 Hours'
the other night talking about the possibility of extraterrestrial
life, and he was saying (again in his dead-on Sagan impression),
'Where's the concrete evidence? I'm not a scientist unless I
have that in my hands.'"
Schultz was utterly outraged by another Sagan quote, evidently
culled from a print source, that was read over the air on a recent
'Oprah Winfrey Show' featuring abduction author John Mack. Per
Schultz: "It went something like, 'Well, if these abductions are
real, why hasn't anybody come back with a photgraph of the interior
of the ship or the abductors?'"
"It was so ludicrous I wanted to scream!" Schultz says, rising
a few inches out of his chair. "Has one hostage from Lebanon come
back with a photgraph of his abductors? Has any hostage *ever* come
back with a photgraph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so
incredible! This is a scientist, but he wasn't making an inquiry.
This was an attempt to debunk. But why debunk something that is so
patently stupid?"
Schultz also feels it is significant that, even with the books
written on the period, the general population is largely ignorant of
what occurred in the late '40s and early '50s. "It sort of filtered
into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an
historical secret," he insists. "This--whatever *this* is--needs to
be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about. The
Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses--
some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military
procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?
It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's
bigger than they are that can't be proven. I don't know, I don't
think that's it."
Troubled by endless secrecy
That the government is still maintaining top secrecy over 50-year
old evidence is particularly troublesome to Schultz.
"Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information
that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you
don't keep reality from the population. We all have a right to know,
and if the government has been suppressing information about other
life forms, that's the cruelist hoax of all. It's horrible to think
that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I
mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our
veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't
possibly be the reason."
Schultz is suspicious of certain authors and investigators in the
field as well, many of whom have CIA and other government connections.
"It's like the old joke about there were more members of the FBI in
the Communist Party than there were Communists," he says. "It's
laughable, because most ufology is junk. So why are they keeping on
it? Do they think the hoaxers and charlatans are so fanatical that
they might cause a counter-revolution? It's got to be something
else. They're simple afraid that somewhere along the line something
is going to slip through."
Informed speculator
At first glance, Schultz seems no more qualified than the rest of
us when it comes to speculation: His sense of wonder was instilled
when he stared at the sky as a child. But as he reels off some of his
favorite books as an adult--including Timothy Good's 'Above Top
Secret,' Heinz Pagels' 'The Cosmic Code,' and Michio Kaku's
'Hyperspace,' --it is clear that he is better informed than most.
"The more I read, to me the more incredible everything is," he says
before setting forth his thoery of how the atom bomb may fit into the
UFO picture. "Based on what I've read, there are all these other
dimensional planes and spaces, mathematically proven. The atom was
unleashed in 1946, right when all this stuff was occurring. And the
bomb's incredible release of energy and light may have signalled
somebody in a dimension which is sharing space with us very closely.
Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and
we may have deformed space in such a way that *they* noticed
something peculiar--and they had the ability to investigate it."
Schultz is similarly intrigued by space-and physics-related
developments reported recently in the press. "For instance, they've
discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one
direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says
that we're all moving outward."
Could that possibly mean that something, or someone, is
steering us? "Well," says Schultz, "'The New York Times' was
enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our
entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you
stop and think about that..." He flashes a look of amazmement.
...conclusion of this interview will appear in the next issue.
Finally this week I'd like to pass on a little news tidbit from
the on-line Galactic Enquirer Vol 1 #7:
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Enagagements~~PECK-TRACY-SMITH
Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith (HannibalSm) announces the
engagement of his daughter, Miss Hanna Colleen Tracy-Smith
(HannaSmith) to Lieutenant Templeton Peck (TempletonP) of Los Angeles,
CA. The bride-elect is also the daughter of the late Lieutenant
Colleen Tracy. A June wedding is being planned. However, the exact
time and place are being withheld due to the wanted status of the
wedding party.
Miss Tracy-Smith, whose mother is formerly of Chicago, IL., is a
graduate of St. Mary's Catholic Orphanage. She is the co-owner and
manager of All That Jazz Costumes and Magic both on Earth and on
Rhydin.
The prospective bridegroom is also a survivor of St. Mary's, where
he was captain of the football team. He also served in a crack
commando unit in Vietnam under the command of Colonel Smith.
The details of the honeymoon destination and the location of the
couple's new residence will be kept a secret for obvious reasons.
Submitted by HannaSmith
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For further details on the impending wedding, those of you on AOL
can check out the FFGF Bulletin Board (Keyword RDI), in particular
the "team for hire" and "All that jazz" folders in the Stars End
Bar and Rhydin Town Center areas, respectively. Also check out
the continuing saga of the "USF Rustbucket" in the Dreamweaver's
area (I think) for details on Hannibal's rescue and return from
captivity in outer space...yes I'm not kidding.
On to this issue's messages...
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Date: Mon, May 22, 1995 8:04 PM EST
From: hmmurdoc
Subj: Hi!
To: Onthejazz
Hi, everyone!
Sorry I haven't contributed before this, but I was catching up
on the old newsletters...
Don't have much to say right now, just wanted to send in some
of my favorite quotes:
"Lately I've started packing a helicopter with my underwear"
-Murdock, "Dishpan Man"
"The slinky of destiny has made it's way back to the top of
the stairs" -Murdock, can't remember the ep. title. :)
The quote "I hate this movie!" -Faceman, "Bend in the river",
has already appeared in this newsletter but it has special
meaning to me now...I had to shoot some short segments for a
television production class that I was in this past semester,
and convinced (okay, bribed) some of my friends to help. These
friends are also fans of the A-Team, and everything went wrong,
so that by the end of the day, the "I hate this movie" quote was
being flung at me from all sides....it was espically funny
because I'm the Murdock of the group! :-D
Got an A on the project though, and in the closing credits it's
dedicated to the memory of George Peppard....(sigh.)
Gonna miss him. Well, sorry to bore everyone,
Liz (aka HM "Howlin Mad" Murdock)
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Hey HM,
The movie didn't happen to be called 'Closed For Remodeling',
did it? I had to ask...
FYI, the slinky quote is from the "Mission of Peace" episode.
nicole
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Subj: Re: got something to say
Date: Tue, May 23, 1995 10:10 AM EST
From: dulcinea
X-From: dulcinea (dulcinea)
To: Onthejazz
Nicole-
I enjoy the newsletters so much!!! Keep them coming! Here is an
entry to your question when have Face and Hannibal sang "You are My
Sunshine". In the episode BLOOD, SWEAT and CHEERS- Face and Hannibal
sang the song while bound up in the back of a trailer pulled by Decker's
men. They were waiting for Murdock's inevitable rescue.
Here's my favorite quote (if you want to use it).
Frankie: (worrying, after he and Murdock were exposed to
radiation) I wanted to have a family. Do you think we can still
have children, Murdock?
Murdock: I don't think I know you well enough
>From the episode, Point of No Return.
Thanks for letting me express myself:) Oh, here's a question to throw
out: How many episodes can everyone identify where the poor pitiful Lt.
gets blamed by Decker for their escape?
See ya later!
Jeannine
dulcinea
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Jeez, that's a good question...off the top of my head I can only
think of "Where's the Monster When You Need Him?", when the
Lt. supposedly "moved too fast" and cost Decker the grab.
And yes, that was one of the "You Are My Sunshine episodes." The
other 2 were:
"Holiday in the Hills" Face and Hannibal sing to keep B.A. from
hearing the airplane approaching.
"Beast from the Belly of the Boeing" Face & Hannibal sing while
being held captive by the hijackers while Murdock tries to send
them a message via Morse code.
Here's the trivia question for this issue:
What is "Lou's Delivery"?
...that's all for this time. Stay tuned, 'cuz later this month I'll
have further details on and previews from the upcoming A-Team
'zine I'm editing, "Plans Scams & Vans," which is almost ready to
print.
until next time...
nicole
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Quote of the week:
Murdock: "B.A., I'd like to take this opportunity to say
that I'm real sorry they took your gold back at the prison."
B.A.: "That's all right. If I don't get it back I'll just
have to kill you."
from "Breakout"
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