Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!EHL@MIT-MC From: EHL%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: SF-LOVERS Digest V9 #23 Message-ID: <16289@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 23:16:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16289 Posted: Wed Feb 1 23:16:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 02:54:01 EST Lines: 40 From: Edward H. LayI saw an SF film on TV once that I thought was okay. The only scene I remember is one in where the protagonists were standing in some kind of huge underground cave with a line of bodies on slabs stretching off into the distance. One of the protagonists was some kind of guardian, and the bodies were all of the past guardians, or something like that. Strange how one evocative scene can make a movie (or score, for that matter. Would SW have won without such a damn good theme?). Anyone know the title? I thought I'd throw it into the film discussion. -- Scott R. Turner v.srt@ucla-locus The film you are thinking of is called the QUESTOR TAPES. The guardian was the last of a series of androids whose mission was to guide the human race into maturity (I forget who sent them or why). Each android would eventually wear out (after 100-200 yrs.) and then build his replacement. The problem with Questor (I think that was his name) was that the govt, in trying to find out what he was, accidently erased part of his initial programming tape. He then spent the rest of the movie trying to understand what his original purpose was. In this search, he was accompanied by a human who was on the engineering team that helped the previous android create him. I think that the movie was meant to be the pilot for a TV series in which Questor and his human companion would travel around the world--helping out the human race in subtle and obscure ways. Some (trivia) questions about the Apple commercial or someone out there with a VCR and freeze frame: (1) What is on the girl's T-shirt? It appears to have a picture (very abstract) of a MacIntosh with an apple to the left of it. (2) What is written on the back wall of the large auditorium? You got me...