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PANCHO BARNES
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"Pancho Barnes"AS PLAYED BY:Valerie Bertinelli
From Wikipedia:
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lorence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes (July 22, 1901 – March 30, 1975) was a pioneer aviator, the founder of the first stunt pilots union and the owner of the Happy Bottom Riding Club.[In] the Spring of 1928, while driving her cousin Dean Banks to flying lessons, decided immediately to learn to fly. Convincing her cousin's flight instructor of her desire that same day, she soloed after just six hours of formal instruction. True to her flamboyant devil-may-care spirit, she forthwith brought friends along for rides and began "buzzing" her husband's Sunday morning congregation for the fun of it. At this time in aviation history, Barnes was one of only two dozen aviatrixes in the United States, a contemporary of female flyers such as Amelia Earhart.Her passion for aviation took off, and she ran an ad-hoc barnstorming show and competed in air races. Despite a crash in the 1929 Women's Air Derby, Pancho returned in 1930 under the sponsorship of the Union Oil Company to win the race – and break Amelia Earhart's world women's speed record with a speed of 196.19 mph (315.7 km/h). Barnes broke this record in a Travel Air Type R "Mystery Ship."
After her contract with Union Oil expired, Pancho moved to Hollywood to work as a stunt pilot for movies. In 1931, she started the Associated Motion Picture Pilots, a union of film industry stunt fliers who promoted flying safety and standardized pay for aerial stunt work. She flew in several air-adventure movies of the 1930s, including Howard Hughes' "Hell's Angels."
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From the website "Berkeleyside", which is about life in Berkeley, Ca.:On this week’s episode, character Adam is seen — very briefly — scanning the front page of his local paper with his morning coffee (before he greets his morose teenage daughter, Haddie, who has just broken up with her boyfriend).And as the site pointed out, the newspaper was the San Francisco Register, which was the same newspaper where Dan Vassey worked as a reporter in 'Journeyman'.They went on to complain that it should have been a Berkeley newspaper and one that was real at that. But where's the sport in that? At least this way, we have a reason to connect those two shows together.So we thank them for adding to the Great Link, even if they don't appreciate how great a find it was themselves. (The jacklord knows I would never have found it by myself; I couldn't bring myself to get involved with 'Parenthood'.)BCnU!
Here's some news from Tele-Buddy's Tinseltown Tales:
After July 4, ABC will be showing webisodes on their website which will be based on their soap operas 'All My Children', 'One Life To Live', and 'General Hospital'. The kicker is that each webisode will team up two or more characters from different shows. (Pictured below are Tony Geary - who plays "Luke Spencer" on 'General Hospital' - and Erika Slezak, known as "Victoria Lord Buchanan whatever her last name is now" on 'One Life To Live'. This is not from their upcoming webisode, however.)
Tele-Buddy claims that it won't be part of the continuity, but we shall see what we shall view....
Tele-Buddy was nice enough to provide the list of crossovers:
• "All My Children's" Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) and "General Hospital's" Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard)
• "General Hospital's" Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary) and "One Life to Live's" Viki Banks (Erika Slezak)
• "All My Children's" Ryan Lavery (Cameron Mathison) and "General Hospital's" Carly Jacks (Laura Wright)
• "All My Children's" Greenlee Smythe (Rebecca Budig) and "General Hospital's" Jason Morgan (Steve Burton)
• "One Life to Live's" John McBain (Michael Easton) and "General Hospital's" Sam McCall (Kelly Monaco)
• "One Life to Live's" Todd Manning (Trevor St. John) and "General Hospital's" Damian Spinelli (Bradford Anderson)
• "All My Children's" Angie and Jesse Hubbard (Debbi Morgan and Darnell Williams) and "One Life to Live's" Starr Manning (Kristen Alderson)
• "One Life to Live's" Blair Cramer (Kassie DePaiva) and "All My Children's" Tad Martin (Michael E. Knight)
• "One Life to Live's" Tess (Bree Williamson) and "General Hospital's" Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna)
• "General Hospital's" Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms) and "One Life to Live's" Rex Balsom (John- Paul Lavoisier)Definitely there are a few final steps necessary for inclusion in the TV Crossover Hall of Fame.This should be especially fun for my friend Mayr and my former sister-in-law MJ!BCnU!
FRANK CLARK
"Pancho Barnes"
AS PLAYED BY:
Ted Wass
Farmer: You knew (stunt pilot) Frank Clark. What was he like? Pancho: I’ll tell you a little background on Clark. Clark was a bootlegger. Ran trucks and stuff in San Francisco. I believe it was loads of rum. Frank Clark was a very handsome person. I tell you that he looked kind of like Clark Gable. I mean, he was a very handsome person, and he was a big man. And he was like a cat in the air. He absolutely – he could take a ship out and bring it out for everything it has in the last hour, and they didn’t come apart with him And anybody else it would come apart with. I mean he knew just how far he could go. It was almost – well, it was funny.And he was one of the very first pilots flying pictures in Jennys. And they were flying Jennys around , they were raising hell. He used to do stunts all the time at shows and things. And he flew a Jenny off the L.A. Railway Building in Los Angeles.
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At the end of the 'Doctor Who' episode "Victory of the Daleks", the Doctor gives Professor Bracewell - who had been revealed to be a Dalek-made android with a device inside its chest that could destroy the Earth - the chance to escape. It took a while for Bracewell to figure out what the Doctor and his Companion Amy Pond were talking about, but eventually he caught on and made good his escape.
Personally, I think this was a foolish thing for the Doctor to have done. He should have taken the Professor along for a ride in the TARDIS and dropped him off on a planet where he wouldn't be a threat to anyone should the device be triggered accidentally. Sarpeidon in its final years, perhaps ('Star Trek' - "All Our Yesterdays")*, or some Eden-like planet that was unpopulated.
But the Doctor left him on Earth Prime-Time during World War II. So what happened to Professor Bracewell afterwards? Was he ever seen again on our TV screens?
I would think the case could be made for several of the characters played by Bill Paterson in recent years could be Professor Bracewell under assumed names. However we couldn't go too far back in Paterson's resume to find such characters because of the difference in appearance due to the progress of Time. (I figure ten years, tops.)
The temptation would be to claim that his character of George Castle on 'Law & Order: UK' was actually Professor Bracewell, with a re-built mechanical hand. I've seen four episodes of that series so far, and although no personal information has been forthcoming yet (not something usually found in the 'Law & Order' franchise), there's always the possibility that we might meet his family members or have them discussed by the other characters. It would be better to use one-shot roles, guest appearances, as they're less likely to provide to many details that would negate the premise.
I do have one suggestion that would have taken place soon after the events transpired in "Victory of the Daleks". Bill Paterson played the brilliant RAF surgeon Patrick Jamieson in "Enemy Fire", an episode of 'Foyle's War'. I won't give away the plot to this brilliant mystery, but it wouldn't contradict the suggestion that the surgeon was really an undercover android. 
I could see Professor Bracewell assuming the role, perhaps as a way to assuage his guilt over his role in the Dalek fiasco at Churchill's headquarters. And as for the fact that he was now sporting a beard, perhaps his synth-skin made it possible for him to grow artificial follicles. Either that or he figured out a way to attach a fake beard after rebuilding his destroyed hand.
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AMELIA EARHART
AS SEEN IN:
"Amelia Earhart"
AS PLAYED BY:
Susan Clark
AS SEEN IN:
'Star Trek: Voyager'
AS PLAYED BY:
Sharon Lawrence
Two for Tuesday!
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lorence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes (July 22, 1901 – March 30, 1975) was a pioneer aviator, the founder of the first stunt pilots union and the owner of the Happy Bottom Riding Club.
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