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Bangor may be the nearest city or large town to Collinsport. But according to the maps it is at least 20 miles as the crow flies from the nearest coastline. Thus a fising village like Collinsport should be at least 20 miles, and possibly a lot farther, from Bangor.
I suspect that the nearest road intersection to Collinsport is just a few miles away and has a sign pointing to Collinsport, a sign pointing to Cabot Cove, a sign pointing to Derry, and a sign pointing to Castle Rock.
Or possibly a sign pointing to Collinsport, a sign pointing to Bangor, a sign pointing to Cabot Cove, and a sign pointing to Derry, Castle Rock, and Salem's Lot.
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There is no law that only poor people try to become actors.
For example, Tori Spelling (b. 1973) is an actress with some success. <url>https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001760/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1</url> But it is logical to assume that the majority of her present wealth comes from inheritance from her wealthy father Aaron Spelling (d. 2009).
And I don't think that an actor needs to have a super wealthy father like Aaron Spelling to inherit significant amounts of money from. A father or other ancestor who made a comparatively small fortune of a few million dollars and had only a few heirs to leave it to could have left enough money for an actor to live a rather upper middle class lifestyle even without his acting earnings.
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Possibly the character has another career beside acting. Possibly he went to college and got a degree in a profession that pays fairly well, and acting was a minor part of his career until he got his first big role and he quit his day job. And possibly after his acting career stalled, he brushed up his knowledge of his original profession and got hired again and now makes a good regular salary. Or maybe he did until he retired last year, and now has a lot of free time to appear in conventions.
Actor Tom Tryon (1926-1991) became a star but retired from acting in 1969, and wrote a number of novels. I have read his novel <i>The Other</i> (1971) and seen the 1972 movie based on it.
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It is a tradition in movies and television to depict characters living a nicer and more expensive lifestyle than they probably could afford to. Since <i>Galaxy Quest</i> is a science ficiton movie, assume that it happens in an alternate universe where for some unstated reason houses in the Hollywood Hills are more affordable.
So you think that a movie depicting a genderswap would have been shocking in 1985?
<i>The Shriley Temple Show</i> did a version of <i>The Land of Oz</i> on 18 September 1960 and Tip was transformed into Ozma in it.
<url> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Temple%27s_Storybook</url>
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marvelous_Land_of_Oz </url>
<url>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054015/?ref_=ttep_ep1 </url>
And that was a children's program on television in 1960.
And that expression is why the creators of Get Smart (1965-1972) gave their bumbling secret agent protagonist Maxwell Smart the code number of 86.
In the <i>Goldbergs</i> episode "Body Swap" 26 February 2020 one story had William Penn Academy announce a rule change. Seniors were permitted to leave the campus for lunch, and it was being extended to juniors like Adam and his friends. But the juniors had to be enrolled for that privilege, and they had to have their parents sign their permission papers.
Adam's mother Beverly Goldberg refused to give him permission, saying she didn't want him wandering the "dangerous streets of Jenkintown".
My family moved to Jenkintown when I was only eleven, and they never had any problems letting me walk the "dangerous streets of Jenkintown" by, for example, going to the public library almost every day after school. In my six years in high school I walked home for lunch every day except one, as far as I remember. And possibly I was breaking the rules - if so, nobody noticed in six years of high school. Anyway, it was a different decade and a different school system.
So it looks like the 2019-2020 seasons of <i>The Goldbergs</i> and <i>Schooled</i> both have the William Penn Academy located in Jenkintown.
But possibly other seasons have put or will put the William Penn Academy in some other community.
If you mean in "Journey to Babel", the Andorian Thelev was actually an Orion, surgically altered to pass as an Andorian. His mission was commit murders and spread fear and mistrust among passengers and crew. That is why he carried a knife, to try to assassinate captain Kirk.
So I don't think there is much evidence in the episode about how often real Andorians carry knives.
That's a great idea. That has probably been used in some movies and tv shows. It might even be a standard technique.
If backwards filming of scenes for safety is now a common practice I wonder how long it took before someone thought of doing it that way.
I find it easy to believe that lots of actors, extras, and stunt persons were injured and even killed before various safer ways to film their scenes were developed.
You may have heard of melodramas where the villain ties someone to railroad tracks. I once read of filming such a scene for a movie in England about a century ago where somebody goofed and the actor playing the victim was actually run over by the train and died.
Here is a list of movie and tv accidents. <url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_and_television_accidents</url>
In a fourth season episode of <i>Bunk'd</i> called "Three Stars and a Baby", June 28, 2020, Gwen wrote that: "Ava helped me even more than the wolf pack that helped me survive the winter of 2017".
I note that the gray wolf or <i>Canis lupis</i> lives in the wild only in the Northern Hemisphere, so Gwen, who never mentioned traveling outside North America, probably meant she was helped by a pack of gray wolves in the Northern Hemisphere winter of 2017.
The weather or meteorological winter begins earlier and ends later the farther north in the Northern Hemisphere a place is, but the astronomical season of winter begins with the winter solstice, usually on December 21 or 22 of one year, and ends on vernal equinox, usually on March 19, 20, or 21 of the next year.
So did Gwen mean the winter that went from about December 2017 to March or later in 2018, or the winter that began in about December 2016 and ended in March or later in 2017, when she said "The winter of 2017?
According to my calculations in my previous post, the fourth season of <i>Bunk'd</i> should have a fictional date in the summer of 2017, so the only possible winter that Gwen could have meant by the winter of 2017 would have to be the winter that began about December of 2016 and ended in March or later of 2017.
Of course it would typical to speak of the latest passed winter as "last winter" instead of the winter of a specific year, but Gwen sometimes speaks in an unusual manner - she apparently lived with wolves earlier that year after all. And possibly the writer forgot that the fictional date of the fourth season of <i>Bunk'd</i> should in the summer of 2017 instead of 2018 or some later year.
So if a fifth season is ever made, and the writers do want to set it in 2018 before the Covid 19 pandemic, I have not yet seen any episode evidence that would contradict them.
Added 11-29-2020. In "Raven About Bunk'd", July 24, 2020, aired between the third and the fourth seasons of <i>Raven's Home</i>, The characters from <i>Raven's Home</i> head for Camp Champion, Maine but wind up in Camp Kikiwakia instead, and meet the characters in the fourth season of <i>Bunk'd</i>.
So if the fictional order of <i>Raven's Home</i> episodes is supposed to be equivalent to their broadcast order (which isn't certain), and if "Raven About Bunk'd" is supposed to happen between the third and fourth seasons of <i>Raven's Home</i> (which also isn't certain), the fourth season of <i>Bunk'd</i> would happen between the third and fourth seasons of <i>Raven's Home</i>.
And I don't think that I have ever noticed any evidence of the fictional dates of episodes in <i>Raven's Home</i>.
In "The Story So-fa", April 19, 2020, The apartment where Tess O'Malley lives, right across the hall from apartment 3-C, is seen, and it has a living room window seen in the symmetrical position to Raven's apartment 3-C. It is much closer to the door to the apartment than the windows at the far end of the hallway beyond the staircase. Thus the staircase hallway must stick out about a dozen feet from the wall of the building where the living room windows in both apartments are.
And no view of the exterior of the building shows such a protruding section on the third or any floor.
In the <i>Schooled</i> episode "Garden Party" on 25 March 2020, Principal Glascott has to give up his parking space and in one scene he says he is tired because he had to walk to the William Penn Academy from where he parked, at the Willow Grove Mall 2 miles away.
The Willow Grove Mall is north of Jenkintown. Two miles north of the Willow Grove Mall would be near Horsham and Hatboro, two miles west would be near Jarret, Dresher, and Ardsley, two miles east would be near Bethayres, Bryn Athen, and Huntington Valley, and two miles south would be near Glenside, Rydal, and Jenkintown.
The Willow Grove Mall is about 11.1 miles from the William Penn Charter School, while only approximately 4.1 miles by road from Abington Friends High School, so it seems likely that the fictional William Penn academy should be in Jenkintown, or north of it in Abington closer to the Willow Grove Mall.
Of course other episodes of <i> The Goldbergs</i> or of <i>Schooled</i> may indicate that William Penn Academy is in Jenkintown, Philadelphia, or some other community.
On March 6, 2020 the Disney channel might have finally aired an episode in a children's series as dark and sinister as "The Good, the Bad, and the Alex".
In the <i>Gabby Duran and the Unsittables</i> episode"Tayloring Swift", March 6 2020, Principal Swift is captured by aliens who plan to skin him while he is in his natural Gor-Monite form, since Gor-Monite skin is valuable.
So the villains in that episode plan to skin an intelligent being, a person, for profit.
That seems like a very dark plot element for a comedy series for children, and possibly matches "The Good, the bad, and the Alex" on May 7, 2010, 9 years, 9 months, and 28 days earlier.
Genetically most Iraqis are mostly descended from the people who lived within the borders of modern Iraq before the first Arabs ever invaded and/or colonized Iraq. Most Iraqis should have only a tiny minority of ancestors who were invading Arabs about 1,350 years ago.
Since converting to Islam usually involved adopting Arab culture, and since most Iraqis are Muslims, most Iraqis are culturally Arabs.
There is a Tolkien letter in which Tolkien says that Bilbo is out of scale compared to Smaug, way too large. Try comparing Smaug to dwarf skulls and leg bones in the picture.
Or measure the width across Smaug's nostrils and his total length. I measured Smaug's length as at least 40 times the width of his nostrils. There is a scene in the book where Smaug is unable to still his snout into a doorway that should be five feet tall, implying that Smaug is wider than five feet across the nostrils. Thus Smaug should be over 200 feet long.
I calculated Smaug's length as a least 200 feet. Conversation with Smaug indicates that Smaug is about 40 l times a long as the width across his two nostrils. There is a scene winch Smaug is too big in insert his head into a doorway which should be five feet tall. Thus I calculated that Smaug is at least 200 feet long.
In "Headed for Doomsday" 10 April 1966, Jason meets famed newspaper editor Horace Greeley (1811-1872) at a town called Spade City.
Greeley mentions that a couple of years ago his newspaper was very critical of Captain Jason McCord at the Battle of Bitter Creek.
If he means literally "two years", then his newspaper must have been criticizing Jason sometime during the period of about 1.5 to 3.00 years earlier. However, if Greeley used "a couple" loosely to mean "a few" years earlier, maybe Greeley was criticizing Jason about 1 to 5 years earlier, or maybe about 1 to 10 years earlier.
Greeley says he is planning to run for president in the next election, and at the end Jason says that he will vote for Grant. So obviously Jason expected that Grant would run for president in the next election. At that time there was a tradition that a president would never serve more than two terms.
In real history, Greeley ran for president in 1872, being nominated by the Liberal Republicans in May and the Democrats in July, and Grant ran for president and was elected in 1868 and 1872, and there were attempts to nominate Grant in 1880, but James Garfield was nominated and elected instead.
So the fictional date of "Headed for Doomsday" should be early 1872 before May, or about January 1 to April 30, or about 1872.000 to 1872.33. So subtracting 1.5 to 3.0 years from that indicates that Greeley's newspaper was criticizing Jason McCord for the Battle of Bitter Creek sometime between about 1869.00 and about 1870.833. Of course if Greeley used "a couple of years " loosely, he might have been criticizing Jason about the Battle of bitter Creek as much as 10 years earlier, or as long ago as 1862.00 to 1862.33.
Of course if Greeley ran for president at other dates in the fictional universe of Branded, the possible date range of "Headed for Doomsday" might be different.
In "Headed for Doomsday" 10 April 1966, Jason meets famed newspaper editor Horace Greeley (1811-1872) at a town called Spade City.
Greeley mentions that a couple of years ago his newspaper was very critical of Captain Jason McCord at the Battle of Bitter Creek.
If he means literally "two years", then his newspaper must have been criticizing Jason sometime during the period of about 1.5 to 3.00 years earlier. However, if Greeley used "a couple" loosely to mean "a few" years earlier, maybe Greeley was criticizing Jason about 1 to 5 years earlier, or maybe about 1 to 10 years earlier.
Greeley says he is planning to run for president in the next election, and at the end Jason says that he will vote for Grant. So obviously Jason expected that Grant would run for president in the next election. At that time there was a tradition that a president would never serve more than two terms.
In real history, Greeley ran for president in 1872, being nominated by the Liberal Republicans in May and the Democrats in July, and Grant ran for president and was elected in 1868 and 1872, and there were attempts to nominate Grant in 1880, but James Garfield was nominated and elected instead.
So the fictional date of "Headed for Doomsday" should be early 1872 before May, or about January 1 to April 30, or about 1872.000 to 1872.33. So subtracting 1.5 to 3.0 years from that indicates that Greeley's newspaper was criticizing Jason McCord for the Battle of Bitter Creek sometime between about 1869.00 and about 1870.833. Of course if Greeley used "a couple of years " loosely, he might have been criticizing Jason about the Battle of bitter Creek as much as 10 years earlier, or as long ago as 1862.00 to 1862.33.
Of course if Greeley ran for president at other dates in the fictional universe of Branded, the possible date range of "Headed for Doomsday" might be different.
Yes, the Robotoid in "War of the Robots" and the robot guard in "Condemned of Space" was the original Robby the Robot.
<url>https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1119475/</url>
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_the_Robot</url>
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In "The Ghost of Murrieta", set in the then small community of Los Angeles, thee is some talk about the future of Mexican president Benito Juarez (1806-1872).
Since Juarez died on 18 July 1872, the latest possible date for "The Ghost of Murrieta" would be July, 1872. I believe I heard that Juarez had three years left in his term as president and was expected to be elected to another term. After the defeat of the French in 1867, Juarez was reelected president of Mexico in 1867, and in 1871.
So "The Ghost of Murrieta" would most probably happen in 1868 or in 1872, and 1872 seems to better agree with the dates in other episodes.
A woman named Antonia was the lover of famed outlaw Joaquin Murrietta and was pregnant with his child 20 years earlier, but betrayed him to his enemies who killed him and cut off his head. Joaquin Murrietta lived from 1829 to July 25,1853, and 20 years after that would be about 1873-1874. So apparently Antonia was a little too distraught to worry about the precise time span and considered 20 years was accurate enough when telling the tragic story of her life.
So if "the Ghost of Murrieta" happened in real history and deducing its date was a problem for historians, they would guess that it probably happened as late in 1872 as possible for the characters to think that President Juarez was still alive.
If "the Ghost of Murrieta" happens in the same fictional universe as other western movies and television episodes, the possible date would be deduced from the dates of Benito Juarez and Joaquin Murrietta in those productions.
Juarez was the subject of <i>Juarez</i> (1939) and is mentioned in other movies and television shows.
Murrieta appears in:
The Big Valley Season 3, Episode 1. First aired September 11, 1967
"The Man Behind The Gun' 1953, with Randolph Scott, Murrieta was played by Robert Cabal
I saw "the Sky Pirate" again.
There was a scene where Tucker was talking with the Robinsons. He was told that the year was 1992. And he told them how he was abducted from Earth by aliens while crossing the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway at Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, famous for Groundhog Day celebrations with Punxsutawney Phil, and the setting for the famous movie Groundhog Day.
Tucker said he was abducted by the aliens in the year that Custer was massacred, & must have been abducted sometime after the news of the Little Big Horn was received in the East about July 5, 1876. And I am pretty certain I remember that after Tucker said the year that Custer was massacred, someone, probably Major West, said that was in 1876.
Tucker said that he was born in 1858, which would make him 17 or 18 when he was abducted, and he said that he was the town nuisance in Punxsutawney.
The name he called the aliens who abducted him sounded like "Tellurians" which is funny because tellurian is an adjective being "of or belonging to the earth (or the Earth)". He said the alien pursuing him was from Cygnet X, which sounds a lot like the planet Cygnet XIV mentioned in the Star Trek episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday" a year later.
The Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railway did serve Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. So writer Carey Wilber got that bit of local color correct. However, the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh was founded in October 1885, more or less as a reorganization of the bankrupt Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad Company, which was founded in January, 1881 from the remains of The Rochester and State Line Railroad, which was founded in 1869 and began laying track in 1872. The Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad Company laid down tracks into western Pennsylvania in 1882. So Punxsutawny, Pennsylvania probably didn't have a railroad line until 1882, and the railroad wasn't named the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railway until 1885, nine years after 1876.
In "Nice day for a Hanging", 6 February 1966, Jason's friend Frank Allison is due to hang for murder.
Franks son Lon says that his mother died when he was 10, and Frank started drinking a lot. Frank put Lon in an orphanage when the war started, so Lon should be at least 18. Lon hasn't seen Frank for 8 years.
Frank says he was killing in the army for 4 years and couldn't stop when he got out.
So "Nice day for a Hanging" should happen about 8 years after the Civil War started in 1861, and thus about 1869. But if Frank and Lon met once after the war ended and that was 8 years before the episode, "Nice day for a Hanging" could happen about 1873, consistent with other episodes.
Or maybe Frank put Lon in an orphanage when he enlisted to fight in the Snake War of 1864-1868, which would put the date of "Nice day for a Hanging" about 1872, again consistent with other episodes. If Frank Allison was at Fort Crook, California, with Jason McCord and the drummer turned officer from "A Taste of Poison", that could have been during the Snake War of 1864-1868.
In "Barbed Wire", 13 February, 1966, Jason says he was in the region where the story happens once before, when he was stationed at Fort McDivitt for a while. Unfortunately, there wasn't any real Fort McDivitt that I have ever heard, of but there was a real Fort McDermit in Nevada from 1865-1869, a place where Jason McCord might have been stationed during the Snake War.