That's a beautiful photo of Angelique from this scene.  Thanks, MB!

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Oh yes.  The good Professor was keen to see a rare early edition of THE FEDERALIST in Liz's private library.  No doubt a family heirloom... Joshua's conversations with the Countess leave one in no doubt whatsoever that he was well read in such matters as were discussed in the pages of that publication.

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It's not surprising that they never showed the library.  I mean, they never even showed a washroom, and I'm sure there were several.  Sometimes I think of Liz's personal powder room as being very dainty, French Regency, afloat in shades of lavender and blue.

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The circ info says that 10 copies are available--it should mean just of this set which is a lot, but it may mean total number of sets of DS.  One might have to ask one of the ref librarians for clarification.  I see that 6 are marked available and there are 2 holds marked.

It's really very nice to see just how popular DS continues to be with the public.

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Wow, Marilyn Michaels.  There's a name from the buried past.

Sounds like a very special evening!

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I love all the ones in the poll.  It's hard not to fast forward through any and every Roger Davis scene but there are the actor actors in the scene to look at and enjoy.

Sometimes Lisa Richards gets on my nerves because apart from traumatized Sabrina in 1969, her other two characters (recovered Sabrina and PT Sabrina) were written as such drips.  I do think Lisa is an excellent actress and it was just poor writing that is responsible for the annoyance.

I don't "hate" Craig Slocum but I do wonder why on Earth he's there.  What is he supposed to be doing?  No real answer.

Jerry Lacy is one whose characters I LOVE to hate.  LOL.

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Well, Me-TV isn't an Amazon product or service... for all I know, their customer service representatives may be instructed not to answer questions about matters that do not relate to Amazon's products.

This might help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeTV

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Yeah I have seen the speed-up bit in action, and I've been aware of the cuts for many years now.  It's one reason why I keep so many old shows on DVD. 

Another facet that bugs me is cases where the shows have been tampered with to make them "look better."  The only example that comes to mind is Star Trek where the old model shots and some other FX have been "upgraded" with CGI that will look even more dorky and worse, inartistic, than the original work in ten years time.  I've heard that when these shows run on TV now, the CGI versions are shown.  Because of this, last year I collected the pre-CGI prints on old DVD sets, most of which I found used at very reasonable prices.  I did see that in the latest "Blu Ray" issue of these shows, you could choose to watch either the "upgrade" or the work actually created in the 1960s.  This has been how the BBC has handled episodes of Doctor Who where FX were "upgraded."

I also read last year that Lost in Space was being retooled to fit the popular 16 x 9 look.  I haven't seen it yet but presumably this means that only a segment of the original image is selected to get the required aspect ratio, as was done with the disc release of the 1991 DS series.

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