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> Now there's a Stargate show coming on, so we'll see.....

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> Miracle Smith wrote:
>
>
> The show is growing on me. ;)

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>Miracle Smith wrote:
>
>Are you kidding? It rocks! It has rocked for years now.
>
>It's not entirely serious, and once you figure that out it's just good
>old fashioned fun.

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> Liked the Russell movie, couldn't get into the series.

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> Miracle Smith wrote:
>
> Are you kidding? It rocks! It has rocked for years now.
>
> It's not entirely serious, and once you figure that out it's just good
> old fashioned fun.

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> Liked the Russell movie, couldn't get into the series.

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> I'd have to do a sit-down-and-give-it-a-fair-shake marathon or
> something to get interest in it now.

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> Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
>
>
> The first few episodes I saw were a bit glum, but these last few
> have been very entertaining. Last night's was about the big fellow
> with the gold insignia on his forehead, and the rescue of his son and
> others from a mining prison camp, or some such.
> Bob help me, I can't remember the character names just 24 hours
> later. Let me go peek............

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> Aha! Teal'c. Keep in mind I'm watching older years' shows, with
> Richard Dean Anderson still on board.

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>On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 02:50:09 +0200, Frank van Schie
><frankNOSPAM@email.it> wrote:
>
>
>Liked the Russell movie, couldn't get into the series.

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>On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:12:16 -0500, I heard the following crap spew
>forth from "Smeghead" <tribesfan@hotmail.com>:
>
>
>Now see, I think of it as the movie with that odd dude from Sex, Lies,
>and Videotape. I had just about forgotten Russell was even in it.

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>But yes, I really like the movie. The TV show hasn't caught my fancy
>yet.

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>Miracle Smith wrote:
>
>Teal'c the father, Rhyac the son. I remember that episode. There are
>better ones. The Replicators were fairly nice. The first time we see an
>Asgard ship descending through an atmosphere (dark clouds gathering,
>thunder roars, etc, Jack O'Neil summed it up with "Oh yeah...")
>
>I guess I'm a bit of a fanboy, though I have no delusions about the
>intellectual quality of the show.

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>
>Older shows... I'm still voting for a rerun of McGyver, The A-Team and
>Knight Rider in one block on an easily accessible evening.
>
>The A-Team was, I think, much more popular over here then over in
>Leftpondia. In fact, I think we've pretty much topped most nations of
>the world. It's good, clean fun, it has just one plotline which was used
>for every single episode, and I enjoyed the hell out of it. I would
>probably still do so, today.

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> Teal'c the father, Rhyac the son.

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> And Rheostat's the volume control.
>
> I remember Teal'c's name as the guy who's name sounds like baby powder.
>
> I think my favorite episode is the one where the guy makes a movie based on
> SG1's adventures. It has that "Trouble with Tribbles" comedy flavor.

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> Me either. I hear good things, just can't get hooked yet. Now,
> Firefly! That sucker is GOOOOOOOD.

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> Frank van Schie <frankNOSPAM@email.it> wrote in news:HL-
> dnU6m55cUj3vfRVnysQ@casema.nl:
>
>
>
>
> And Rheostat's the volume control.
>
> I remember Teal'c's name as the guy who's name sounds like baby powder.
>
> I think my favorite episode is the one where the guy makes a movie based on
> SG1's adventures. It has that "Trouble with Tribbles" comedy flavor.

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> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:38:03 +0200, Frank van Schie
> <frankNOSPAM@email.it> wrote:
>
>
> I like you, Frank! You're not pretentious. You realize that it's okay
> to be entertained. Bright lights, fast editing and pretty colors can
> be fun. Not everything has to be an opera.

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> Yeah, but Mr. T would be kinda old by now, huh? I pitty the foo' that
> can't talk loud enough for me to hear! Sucka!

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> Kurt Russell played a man of few words in that one. The
> brooding silent type. A man with a mission.

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>Smeghead wrote:
>
>We've been here before. Bring on the damn movie. Box-office hit say you;
>they start cranking out more of the series, says I.

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>Smeghead's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his body
>were:
>
>Like he does in every military movie he does?

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>Smeghead wrote:
>
>It's called "brain candy". It rots the ol' cognitive faculties, but boy
>is it nice.
>
>Besides which, the makes of the show know to have fun with it. Like in
>an outtake, Samantha Carter and Jack O'Neil are stuck on a glacier, Jack
>nearly dead, and Sam launches into a tirade:
>"You spent seven years on MacGyver and you can't figure this one out? We
>got belt buckles and shoelaces and a piece of gum; build a nuclear
>reactor for cryin’ out loud! You used to be MacGyver, MacGadget,
>MacGimmick. Now your Mr. MacUseless. Dear God, I'm stuck on a glacier
>with MacGyver!"
>
>This attitude carries over into the show. If the show had, at all times,
>taken itself as seriously as some shows do, it would've sucked more XXX
>than that lady with the donkeys I keep getting spam about.
>
>
>And Hannibal's dead. Faceman is probably not too facey anymore, and H.M.
>Murdock has beamed up to the final frontier.
>
>I, of course, meant the reruns.
>
>And you can't go wrong with MacGyver. Knightrider, possibly, but even
>that was much fun.

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> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 03:32:26 GMT, Hellmark
> <hellmark@gmail.XXXXSPAM.com> wrote:
> With a flat-top!

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> And we all know, "Germans Love David Hasselhoff". How about a musical
> Knightrider? Where Michael breaks into song? A duette with KITT?

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>Smeghead's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his body
>were:
>
>Knight Rider on broadway?

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> Older shows... I'm still voting for a rerun of McGyver, The A-Team and
> Knight Rider in one block on an easily accessible evening.
>
> The A-Team was, I think, much more popular over here then over in
> Leftpondia. In fact, I think we've pretty much topped most nations of
> the world. It's good, clean fun, it has just one plotline which was
> used for every single episode, and I enjoyed the hell out of it. I
> would probably still do so, today.

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> Now see, I think of it as the movie with that odd dude from Sex, Lies,
> and Videotape. I had just about forgotten Russell was even in it.

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> Or is that the episode where a documentary maker tries to do
> interviews with the personnel at the SGC? That had some hilarious
> stuff in it.

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> Smeghead's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his
> body were:
>
> Like he does in every military movie he does?

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> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 03:32:26 GMT, Hellmark
> <hellmark@gmail.XXXXSPAM.com> wrote:
>
>
> With a flat-top!

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>Hellmark wrote:
> Is it just *me*, or are you busily playing Mr. Negative
> XXXXXXX this week?

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> Smeghead wrote:
> Hey now, I say nice things about the females you GUYS
> lust after- leave my Kurt ALONE
> /me puts up dukes for mock fist fight

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> Miracle Smith's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through
> his body were:
>
> You said nice things about the women they like, but not the ones I
> like *pouts*

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> Miracle Smith's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through
> his body were:
>
> Been a bad bad week here. Had like 6 computers shoot craps. My aunt
> and her other half have been hassled by the cops and were arrested
> illegally because some one they knew got arrested and started making
> all sorts of accusations on people in an attempt to make a deal. My
> aunt and everyone turned up to be clean, but the cops are still
> pissed and trying to stick something on them. Because of all that DFS
> took my two little cousins out and placed them here. An eight year
> old and a two year old. I'm not a people person, I'm not a kid
> person. I've never really been around kids before for anything more
> than a couple hours. Been a nightmare. Running behind in my vinyl
> orders, with people bitching. My llama that my family have had for
> the past 21 years nearly died this weekend from heat stroke, and when
> he was ill with that, he also got pneumonia and is having all sorts
> of problems with that. My bad arm has been giving me so much pain to
> the extent that I've been missing sleep. Its not uncommon for me
> anymore to not be able to sleep till 2 or 3am, even if I goto bed at
> 11 or
> 12. Don't have any pain medicine for the arm, since the quack shill
> work comp doc says "Nothing's wrong" and refuses anymore treatment
> even though I still can't use my arm, and its causing lots and lots
> of pain. Getting bitched at every little bit by everyone for the
> slightest little thing wrong. An example being last friday, didnt get
> to sleep till 1:30, got woke up at 4:00 by one of the fans on my
> computer after it had a bearing go out, didn't get back to sleep till
> 5, woke up at 9, missed
> breakfast, and even the 8 year old was giving me shit "oh its nice to
> see you finally decided to join us". On top of it, I'm really in the
> mood to snuggle with a nice lady, yet can't because I've never been
> anything but single and none of my friends are the type to want to
> cuddle with anyone but their boyfriends.

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> Although, I thought that comment was a bit funny, since while he's a
> good actor, he doesnt have alot of range and so some of his roles
> always seem very similar to others he's done in the past.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> Hellmark wrote:

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> You need a hug. Why didn't you just ask for one?
> {{{{{Hellmark}}}}}

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> Like the chicks' aren't?!?!?!? LOL Dude, we're talking about
> LUST FACTOR here, not talent!!! ROFL

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> Hellmark wrote:
> But hon, you like anything *female*!!!! LOL

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> And we all know, "Germans Love David Hasselhoff". How about a musical
> Knightrider? Where Michael breaks into song? A duette with KITT?

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> Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
>
>
> I just saw that 2-part episode. It was a bit on the gloomy side,
> except for RDA's character in spots. The first part was especially
> glum, when the death happens.
> I suppose I miss all the "inside joke" stuff, since I'm still sorting
> out characters and such. A newbie!

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> More and more lately I find that I can tolerate mindless
> shoot-em-up, blow-it-up, car chase fun much more than
> I used to.
> I've always loved sci-fi, aliens, space, spaceships, etc.,

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> but stuff like the A-Team, that I never, ever watched, might
> actually get me as an audience these days.
>
> Sadly, I think it's because I'm just too effing tired to do
> anything else. Gah.

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> And on that note, I'd just like to say that the person or persons
> responsible for killing SAAB (Space: Above and Beyond) deserves to have
> his nuts stuffed up his notrils and his face caved in with a mallet.
>
> Just thought I'd mention it.
>

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> And we all know, "Germans Love David Hasselhoff". How about a musical
> Knightrider? Where Michael breaks into song? A duette with KITT?

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> Yes, the ending was very gloomy. That, of course, was the point of the
> episode, but the methods of dealing with the interviewer in the first
> episode had me in stitches.
>
> Teal'c was fantastic.

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> Miracle Smith wrote:
>
> And on that note, I'd just like to say that the person or persons
> responsible for killing SAAB (Space: Above and Beyond) deserves to
> have his nuts stuffed up his notrils and his face caved in with a
> mallet.
> Just thought I'd mention it.

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>
> You say that as if it's a bad thing. The watching The A-Team thing.
> Don't be critical and it's entertaining. Be critical and it's a waste
> of time. Switching off criticism for shows that should do without is
> essential.

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> Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
> That's the way I feel about a lot of shows! But since we're going
> on about sci-fi mostly, the one I *really* miss is Second Generation.
> Whoopie Goldberg as an empathetic bartender was pure genius.
> I also dug the empath a whole lot- the beautiful woman whose name
> just won't pop into my head.

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> And which show had that little crook Quark? He just delighted me,
> and I could have watched his antics forever.

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>
> I'm learning! I feel less and less guilt all the time....... ;)

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>Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
> That's the way I feel about a lot of shows! But since we're going
>on about sci-fi mostly, the one I *really* miss is Second Generation.
>Whoopie Goldberg as an empathetic bartender was pure genius.
>I also dug the empath a whole lot- the beautiful woman whose name
>just won't pop into my head.

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> The Next Generation. Deanna Troi was the empath.

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> Deep Space Nine.

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> I got tickled when, at the end of the second part, RDA had to
> finally sit down and give up an interview.
>
> Teal'c is the coolest- he's a bit like the uber-cool Mr. Spock
> in the original Star Trek series. Doesn't get humor at all, that I
> have seen.

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> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:44:17 -0500, Quixote wrote:
>
>
>
> ... who was prone to stating the bloody obvious, iirc.

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>
> ... and one (if not two) early TNG episodes.

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> Miracle Smith wrote:
> He told a joke once.
> "A Serpent Guard, a Horus Guard, and a Setesh [Seth. Jackals] Guard meet
> on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent Guard's eyes
> glow. The Horus Guard's beak glistens. The Setesh Guard's nose drips."
> It's the only moment in the show where I have seen the guy laughing, and
> I've seen every episode. And that made the scene funny.
> ...
> I guess you had to be there.

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> Mr K wrote:
>
> *BLAST* [consoles explode, crewmembers are *nearly* fatally wounded]
> "Captain, I sense hostility from them..."
>
>
> Not *very* early. There were Ferengi in TNG, but not Quark. Or do you mean
> Armin Shimmerman playing one of them?

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> "Miracle Smith" <miracle@spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:42e882ff_3@galaxy.uncensored-news.com...
>
> The Next Generation. Deanna Troi was the empath.

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>
> Deep Space Nine.

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>
> Meh, I still miss the old days of Star Trek. Even Lost in Space was
> good for its time. :^)

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> He told a joke once.
> "A Serpent Guard, a Horus Guard, and a Setesh [Seth. Jackals] Guard
> meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent Guard's
> eyes glow. The Horus Guard's beak glistens. The Setesh Guard's nose
> drips."
> It's the only moment in the show where I have seen the guy laughing,
> and I've seen every episode. And that made the scene funny.
>
> ...
>
> I guess you had to be there.

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> Not *very* early. There were Ferengi in TNG, but not Quark. Or do you
> mean Armin Shimmerman playing one of them?

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> Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
>
>
> I'll be on the lookout for it, because I can't picture
> the poor man laughing! I haven't seen him on any of
> the usual talk shows, and you'd think he'd have been
> invited, having been a football player.

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> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 02:06:23 +0200, Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
>
> Yup, himself.

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> Are you kidding? It rocks! It has rocked for years now.
>
> It's not entirely serious, and once you figure that out it's just good
> old fashioned fun.

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> The A-Team was, I think, much more popular over here then over in
> Leftpondia. In fact, I think we've pretty much topped most nations of
> the world. It's good, clean fun, it has just one plotline which was used
> for every single episode, and I enjoyed the hell out of it. I would
> probably still do so, today.

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> And don't mess with the Hasselhoff, y'know? He gets great reviews:
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...763324?v=glance

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> I was trying to find a movie or such and put it online, but I can't
> find the appropriate ones. A quick googling, however (Michael Shanks
> plays Daniel Jackson. He and Christopher Judge are RL buddies, which
> I suppose helps with work):
> http://www.michaelshanks-online.com.../london_015.jpg
> http://rdanderson.com/stargate/gatecn00/photo03.htm

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> And so on and so forth. Now, mind you, this could be photoshopped, but
> I've seen it in motion and he actually does this laughing thing. Given
> his character, I think the man defines 'acting'.

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> At least the kids are loving it. I also saw that Sliders has been
> released on DVD. There's another pilot episode I missed. Now, if I could
> just remember that other show I watched when I was 10 with the two time
> travelers with a watch that let them go through time so they could fix
> history. I remember they fell from the sky when they went back in time
> and had no idea how to properly work the watch to get back to their home
> time. I never saw the pilot of that one either.
>
> I also never saw the pilot to Greatest American Hero, but I really doubt
> it would be worth putting it in my queue.

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>Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
>One episode of the A-Team in particular stands out in my memory. In
>every episode, guns were fired, things blew up, yet nobody got hurt. In
>this particular episode, however, the bad guys were flying in a
>helicopter. It slammed into the side of a mountain and exploded in a big
>ball of flame. The camera then cut back to the A-Team getting away.
>
>I was shocked. Somebody just *died* on the A-Team. This was unheard of.
>Of course, the camera cut back to the wreckage. Sure enough, the two
>guys in the helicopter emerged from the wreckage with nothing more than
>some soot on their face.

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> Oh neat! Look how his eyes light up when he smiles!
> And he's got a great smile.

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> Especially coming from a pro ball background! Those guys
> are notoriously bad as actors.
> I get another SG-1 fix this weekend: if I describe it, do you
> think you can figure out which season it's from?

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> I get another SG-1 fix this weekend: if I describe it, do you
> think you can figure out which season it's from?

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> However, in X2, Wolverine and Magnito put some serious hurt on some
> non-mutants. And dat's fo sho!

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> Egg zackly. Seeing Wolverine ripping through the lungs of that first
> assault guy in a fury was a bit shocking at first, and then it made
> perfect sense; it's what he does. But for mutants with awesome powers,
> they rely far too much on hand-to-hand martial-art like combat.
>
> It fits the darker theme of X-men.

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> The A-team, however, is about a bunch of guys who got screwed and are
> getting right under the noses of their pursuers.

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> If you just saw the episode with the semi-sleazeball interviewer, it's
> called Heroes and is from just past the middle of season 7. If it's
> the same channel, of course.
>
> There's a very good chance I could get enough information out of a
> summary to figure out the season with Google or a site like
> http://www.epguides.com (ie., http://epguides.com/StargateSG1/ )