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March 20

ST TOS

Who gives G/PG ratings for shows that weren't rated originally? One streaming network gives TOS a G while another gives a PG DMc75771 (talk) 03:16, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification: "TOS" is a term used by its fans to refer to the original series Star Trek. As to the question, I have no idea. --142.112.221.85 (talk) 03:29, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder why Star Trek Classic didn't catch on. —Tamfang (talk) 23:48, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If a movie or telelvision show does not include a rating in the metadata, some streaming services will rate it themselves. If no rating is provided, NR is often used to indicate Not Rated. But, that is not optimal because NR will not show up if you ask for media that is PG-13 or lower or if you ask for R or higher. NR is nothing and is not higher or lower than any other rating. So, to make it easier to find media, the streaming services want to plug some form rating in. It may be from whomever was adding the media to the database. It could be pulled from public ratings, averaging out to the most commonly suggested one. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 13:10, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

March 21

Pride and Prejudice 1983 60 Minutes

I've recently been looking through all the adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and one of them I've really been struggling to find information about is the 1983 version which was shown as an episode of the tv series 60 Minutes, broadcast on 5 December 1983 and it starred Peter Sallis and Patsy Rowlands. So does anyone know any information about it. Also has this 1983 version ever been released on DVD by itself or on any 60 Minutes DVD's. If it hasn't been released on DVD is it available to watch online. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 17:03, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure you have the program name correct? 60 Minutes is a news magazine show, not a drama. I find it incredibly hard to believe that 60 Minutes would ever produce such an episode.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 21:05, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see that he was in a stage production of P&P at that time. Could this simply be some sort of news piece on the play?--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 21:11, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IMDb doesn't have entries for individual segments of an episode. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:34, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't supposed to, true. But that doesn't mean that some well-meaning idiot won't add such a thing.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 23:20, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

23:41, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The episode from 1983 is shown on IMDB. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 21:56, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That has now been deleted. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:13, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I thought obviously OP intended some other 60 Minutes in some other anglophone country where it's a rotating entertainment series, but everything in 60 Minutes (disambiguation) is news. —Tamfang (talk) 23:55, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

IMDb doesn't show any such credit for either person, nor did I expect it to. 60 Minutes? Seriously? That's like Mike Wallace auditioning for The Gong Show. It's vandalism. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:50, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Interestingly, IMDb shows two entries for a 60 Minutes episode for that date: 22:23, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Does that mean that Pride and Prejudice 1983 is ment to be an episode of different tv series not 60 Minutes. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 22:45, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It could be a different series. It could be simple vandalism. Or it could be what I suggested above, a 60 Minutes report about the play. We don't know. What we can assume is that it is in some way erroneous. 60 Minutes is not a drama series, it is a news magazine.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 22:52, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The obvious assumption would be that it was a report about the production. 60 Minutes often had reports about cultural events. They wouldn't actually present the production itself. If nothing else, it would be hard to cram the entire story into 60 minutes minus commercials. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:29, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's worth pointing out that Dec 5, 1983 was a Monday. 60 Minutes is always on Sundays, far as I know. Could it be there is an unrelated UK program called 60 Minutes? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:43, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

60 Minutes (disambiguation) only lists news programs. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:48, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the IMDb entry for PaP displays the 60 Minutes stopwatch. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:57, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There was indeed such a UK programme [sic, it being British], Sixty Minutes (British TV programme), which is a more likely candidate given that the production mentioned by Khajidha and linked by Lambiam was in Britain by a then-prominent British theatre company. It too was a news magazine programme, and ran during 1983 and 1984 (so the dates match), replacing the earlier and better-known Nationwide, and being superceded by the Six O'clock News.

It's quite plausible that this programme carried a report on the production; it's unlikely that each weekday broadcast had a formal title, but perhaps the P&P title was added by a contributor to IMDb as an additional identifier. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.64.108 (talk) 00:37, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The IMDb page has now been deleted, but when it was up it mentioned Don Hewitt, so it must have been for the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. If the IMDb contributor intended to mark attention given by the BBC1 programme Sixty Minutes to the theatrical production of David Pownall's dramatization, they were both quite confusing and quite confused. ‑‑Lambiam 12:26, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Confusion will be my epitaph." {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.64.108 (talk) 22:31, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

March 23

What game is this?

I was going through some family photo albums and came across 02:01, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's "Triple Up" from the Ideal Toy Company, like in 02:33, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's it! Thanks! Matt Deres (talk) 19:35, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

23:00, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - it's apparently more complicated than Connect Four. Matt Deres (talk) 15:03, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

March 27

looking for a good Beatles greatest hits compilation on CD in stereo for about US$15, any suggestions?

looking for a good Beatles (the band) greatest hits compilation on CD in stereo (not mono) for about US$15, any suggestions? Therapyisgood (talk) 02:05, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It might depend on which of their many hits you consider "greatest". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:42, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The best single-disc Fabs compilation is this one, I'm sure you can get it for $15 on discogs. Your stipulation that the songs should be in stereo rather than mono is weird, though. All but the first three tracks are in stereo, if you can live with that. --Viennese Waltz 07:50, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't a lot of the early Beatles stuff in mono? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:09, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, and the real problem is that the mono mix is all that remains. While they can remaster songs by removing static and buzz, the original independent tracks are not available to truly remix. So, when Peter Jackson's group developed AI to recreate new tracks from the mono mix to separate John Lennon's voice from his personal recordings, it allowed them to split the mono mixes back into tracks and then remix. But, it is not really the original track. It is an AI recreation of what likely was used to make the mono mix. I have very mixed feelings about it. 68.187.174.155 (talk) 23:36, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1 is simply a greatest hits compilation of all their #1 songs. Also, all mono songs were remixed in stereo. 68.187.174.155 (talk) 00:51, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Where does it say that? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:50, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For instance 03:15, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article about the 1 album here says the first three tracks are in mono, and the link you posted doesn't contradict that. I concur that phony stereo doesn't sound very good. It's as if the singers were in one isolation booth and the guitars were being played in another isolation booth. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:41, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the album keeps getting rereleased. In 2023, "Love Me Do" was remixed in stero. Digging into it, they only had the original mono mix to work with. They used Peter Jackson's AI stuff to split the mono mix into separate parts so they could remix it in stereo. That is hopefully better than other attempts such as shoving the voice to one side or, what I consider worse, putting the left and right out of phase to make it "immersive." It just sounds broken to me, not immersive. My personal opinion is that the early songs were recorded and mixed in mono. It isn't like the later ones that were recorded and mixed in stereo and then mixed down to mono for radio play. So, if you get a stereo version of the early songs, it isn't really stereo. It is some technical trick to make it sound a bit like stereo. 68.187.174.155 (talk) 14:56, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

March 28

The Traitors mixed casting

In The Traitors some versions are celebrity, some are non celebrity & some are mixed. Has a non celebrity won The Traitors in a mixed cast version? (80.233.74.70 (talk) 14:40, 28 March 2025 (UTC))[reply]

Can you provide a link to the article here? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:58, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Traitors. (80.233.74.70 (talk) 17:25, 28 March 2025 (UTC))[reply]

All the winners are listed there. How do you define celebrity? On the US show it appears to mean anyone who has been on a "reality" show before. Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:17, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. The US definition is what I mean. My IP has changed. (80.233.70.180 (talk) 01:15, 31 March 2025 (UTC))[reply]

It seems that season 1 of The Traitors Canada meets your criteria, being a mix of reality TV stars and normal people which was won by a so-called normal person, Mike D'Urzo (described as a "magician and mentalist"). --Viennese Waltz 11:36, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. My IP has changed. (80.233.70.180 (talk) 01:15, 31 March 2025 (UTC))[reply]

rarefliks.com

rarefliks.com is a website that sells DVDs from what I've heard, but can I ask are the DVD they sell real or fake. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 17:25, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Buy one. If it plays, it's real--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 18:40, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So it's unknown. Also if I buy one will I be able to return it. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 18:52, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here we again with this "fake" business. Are you trying to say "bootleg"? As to their return policy, you would probably have to contact them. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:21, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is it OK to suggest that this person may know all about his own website he keeps asking about to get people to visit it? 68.187.174.155 (talk) 23:29, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to check with reputation analysis sites such as Scam-detector 21:29, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

March 30

Zero One DVD

Can some please tell me what episodes are included on Volume 1 and 2 of KENNZIFFER 01 (ZERO ONE) DVD. Volume 1 and 2 are said to contain episodes on both DVD's from the tv series Zero One. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 11:54, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kennziffer 01 is the (West) German title of the series; in your shoes I'd be asking first, is it dubbed in German? —Tamfang (talk) 00:02, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

amazon.de says German language (dubbed!). IMDB has English titles, amazon.de the German titles. The German titles are often not literal translations of the English titles, but I am guessing that "Vol. 2 #6 Insel im Orkan"=S2.E9 Hurricane, and "#7 Drei Herren aus dem Orient"=S2.E13 Triple Cross, and "Vol. 1 #7 Jedermanns Onkel"=S1.E14 Everybody's Uncle, and "#10 Eine Million in der Luft"=S1.E11 Million Dollar Lift, and "#8 Viel Glück, Peter!"=S1.E7 Fly Away Peter, and "#5 Der Ehestifter"=S1.E9 The Marriage Broker. Etc... 213.126.69.28 (talk) 13:20, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Simply Media email

I've heard that you can apparently email Simply Media to release a 5v series on DVD. Can someone show me how I email them or what link I need to go to in order to email them to request a series to be released on DVD. Matthew John Drummond (talk) 13:33, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In Henry IV, Part 1, the Welsh rebel Glendower brags to knight Hotspur and Lord Mortimer, "I can call spirits from the vasty deep." Hotspur reacts by saying, "Why, so can I, or so can any man; / But will they come when you do call for them?" Sure, you can send a message to Simply Media. But will this make them produce a release? In any case, you can email them at [email protected] or message them through 00:43, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wayne Rhoden

Hi, am having difficulty finding a reliable source for Wayne Rhoden to confirm his death, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 22:00, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How do you know about it? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:05, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Because it was added unreferenced to the article that he had died but all I could find to confirm it was various facebook messages about his death. The facebook messages are still on google but I can't find anything reliable so I removed the death from the article, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 23:45, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're right to remove it. You could also try asking the one who posted it, though he's only made 2 edits in 6 years. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:44, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Still only appearing on a couple of Facebook and Instagram posts (neither of which platforms I interact with), and muddied by years-earlier deaths of people with the same name. A false rumour seems possible. {The poster formerly known as 87.981.230.195} 94.2.64.108 (talk) 06:17, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

April 1

Diving (association football) and rescinding red cards

Diving (association football) says:

In England, starting in the summer of 2017, a three-man panel...would independently review video evidence on the Monday after games...If a player is found guilty of deceiving an official or admits to the charge, the yellow or red card given to the opposing player can be rescinded.

Since the review happens after the match, what's the effect of rescinding the red card? The player can't rejoin the match, since it's concluded. Red card (association football) says nothing about post-match penalties — nothing comparable to the fines and suspensions that can be levied by entities in other leagues, like the AFL Tribunal or the Commissioner of the NFL. Nyttend (talk) 00:39, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Depending on relevant league and competition rules, yellow and red-carded players may be subject to suspension from one or more future games, and may also be given monetary fines (which might be paid by the player or the team). The team might also experience consequences for accumulated offences. See Fouls and misconduct (association football)#Post-match penalties. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.64.108 (talk) 06:27, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

At the least, it will be expunged from the player's record. If they've had a career free of red cards until now, they'll return to that pristine status. That's worth more than gold in some eyes. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 18:02, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

April 2

Music and The Tempest

Inspired by the conversation at Talk:The_Tempest#Ref_13, does anyone have any suggestions for reliable sources about music inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest? Ideally I'd like a book-length discussion of the topic broadly, and being a bit old-school I'd prefer something I can buy from eBay and read rather than accessing online. But I'll take any thoughts anyone has got. AndyJones (talk) 12:29, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]