Fall Preview 1974-1975
MutantsMichael — 6/19/24, 10:16 AM
Ransom Productions and the fall lineup
MutantsMichael — 6/19/24, 10:17 AM
@Madness Dossier @Rob MacD
MutantsMichael — 6/19/24, 10:27 AM
Before I slog through GURPS Boardroom & Curia, I wanted to put together my thoughts for the '74-'75 TV season. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974–75_United_States_network_television_schedule Ransom Productions is right now just getting its hands into being the puppeteer behind American media. That doesn't mean that when Ransom Productions moves out of Tarzana and into Hollywood that you won't have the resources to fling some money at some pilots for '74. Since right now, Archie has three memes he has promised to get into the mix of American pop culture for three different "clients" over the past 9-12 months, I thought that maybe it would make sense for us to create three series that didn't exist in our timeline (or maybe existed in a different context) to slide into the prime time schedule. Those memes, in case we'd forgotten: • Stoney's request to create memetics around "the 144,000 elect" from Mission 7: https://www.san-narciso.com/scenes/archie-looks-at-the-game-board • the Quorum's request to inculcate the Mormon idea of the afterlife in the general American public from Intermission 8: https://www.san-narciso.com/scenes/a-ransom-family-thanksgiving • Control's request to somehow balance out the huge revelations about the military-industrial complex with "building back better" from Intermission 9: [I9] A Visit to Venture Toons,… On a meta level, all you retro television fans in the C Suite are highly encouraged to throw your ideas into the ring; I know I've got a couple. I'll also remind you we'd considered putting the 144,000 meme into a Jocasta-illustrated comic book as well and let's say that nothing works better than a comic with its own prime-time series (or vice versa, if you want to look at it that way). The end result I'd love to have is three TV Guide Fall Preview-style synopses with actors and series pitches by the time we kick off Mission 10. And hey, we've got our own memes to put into the culture as well! Any thoughts you have on healthy media where URIEL dictates the memetic spin, I would love to have one or two of those as well... or just layer them into the "client" jobs somehow.
1974–75 United States network television schedule
The 1974–75 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers primetime hours from September 1974 through August 1975. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1973–74 season. PBS, the Public Broadcasting...
Operation URIEL
Archie Looks at the Game Board — Operation URIEL
With a little help from Enki and Stoney, Archie spends a day at the office just really crunching the numbers. Getting down to it. Predicting shit.
Operation URIEL
A Ransom Family Thanksgiving — Operation URIEL
It’s Thanksgiving with the Ransoms!
MutantsMichael — 6/19/24, 10:48 AM
https://www.flickr.com/photos/paxtonholley/albums/72157629990056461/with/7153766343
1974 TV Guide Fall Preview Issue
Scans of the 1974 TV Guide Fall Preview Issue
MutantsMichael
https://www.flickr.com/photos/paxtonholley/albums/72157629990056461/with/7153766343
MutantsMichael — 6/19/24, 10:55 AM
(so many Depression-era-set shows! quite telling)
[10:55 AM]
(even Little House, even though it's not set in the Depression, was published during the Depression and is kinda about it when you think about it)
Dr. Cronk — 6/19/24, 10:56 AM
I hear Meredith Baxter is available
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MutantsMichael — 6/19/24, 11:00 AM
Also, a lot of shows set in the West, the desert.
MutantsMichael — 6/19/24, 11:24 AM
As for Boardroom & Curia, it's just so convoluted a process I may actually put it in its own thread, so this one can be the "fun" Ransom Productions thread and the other one can be the thread
June 20, 2024
MutantsMichael — 6/20/24, 9:14 AM
We also need a snazzy hauntological '70s logogram and programming bumper for Ransom Productions.
[9:15 AM]
Or maybe we go goofy like MTM
Rob MacD — 6/20/24, 10:16 AM
maybe the Ransom Kid puppet spinning a lasso
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Leonard — 6/20/24, 10:49 AM
This is the best of the ones I tried
[10:50 AM]
I also did one that was Archie as a cartoon burglar holding a bag of money (playing on "ransom") and it yielded a few good ones but got, uh, weirdly anti-semitic Also AI still just cannot handle text, which makes it, ironically, really bad at logo design
[10:53 AM]
Here's one if the Ransom Kid was more explicity Muppetish
[10:54 AM]
Best of the Archie ones
@Leonard
This is the best of the ones I tried
MutantsMichael — 6/20/24, 11:18 AM
Gosh I really like this.
Leonard — 6/20/24, 11:22 AM
He has different numbers of fingers on each hand but hey he's a puppet
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MutantsMichael — 6/20/24, 11:23 AM
hah, I didn't even seen that
Rob MacD — 6/20/24, 11:43 AM
Well, he's got 10 total
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July 2, 2024
@MutantsMichael
Before I slog through GURPS Boardroom & Curia, I wanted to put together my thoughts for the '74-'75 TV season. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974–75_United_States_network_television_schedule Ransom Productions is right now just getting its hands into being the puppeteer behind American media. That doesn't mean that when Ransom Productions moves out of Tarzana and into Hollywood that you won't have the resources to fling some money at some pilots for '74. Since right now, Archie has three memes he has promised to get into the mix of American pop culture for three different "clients" over the past 9-12 months, I thought that maybe it would make sense for us to create three series that didn't exist in our timeline (or maybe existed in a different context) to slide into the prime time schedule. Those memes, in case we'd forgotten: • Stoney's request to create memetics around "the 144,000 elect" from Mission 7: https://www.san-narciso.com/scenes/archie-looks-at-the-game-board • the Quorum's request to inculcate the Mormon idea of the afterlife in the general American public from Intermission 8: https://www.san-narciso.com/scenes/a-ransom-family-thanksgiving • Control's request to somehow balance out the huge revelations about the military-industrial complex with "building back better" from Intermission 9: [I9] A Visit to Venture Toons,… On a meta level, all you retro television fans in the C Suite are highly encouraged to throw your ideas into the ring; I know I've got a couple. I'll also remind you we'd considered putting the 144,000 meme into a Jocasta-illustrated comic book as well and let's say that nothing works better than a comic with its own prime-time series (or vice versa, if you want to look at it that way). The end result I'd love to have is three TV Guide Fall Preview-style synopses with actors and series pitches by the time we kick off Mission 10. And hey, we've got our own memes to put into the culture as well! Any thoughts you have on healthy media where URIEL dictates the memetic spin, I would love to have one or two of those as well... or just layer them into the "client" jobs somehow.
Bill B — 7/2/24, 8:45 PM
“Kung Fu” should not be representing the world of spirits alone. Six Million Dollar Man needs more magic, clearly. Bigfoot episode?
Is there an old comic property? How about Wonder Woman- lots of chances for interaction with gods, if you keep it on the right side of sci-fi/fantasy. Need to keep Bewitched in the conversation— heavy rotation in syndication?[8:46 PM]
Recurring fortune teller character on the Jeffersons?
MutantsMichael — 10/14/24, 8:29 AM
The fall TV season/memes
MutantsMichael — 10/14/24, 8:30 AM
@Madness Dossier @Rob MacD
MutantsMichael — 10/14/24, 8:38 AM
Archie, a couple days after reporting the Gottlieb/Scheider news to the team (and after Mitch and Pat have run Jolly West to ground via remote viewing in Dallas at Trammell Crow's big skyscraper) and awaiting a decision on who's going to approach whom, when, gets a special delivery from Triangle Publications in Philadelphia. It's advance galleys of the non-listing portions of the TV Guide 1974 Fall Preview issue, full of the one-pager summaries of the new series that Archie has planted URIEL memes in (along with the sop "trust the government reformers" memetics he's given to Beth Cole, the "144,000 Elect" meme he promised Stoney, and the "Mormon tripartite afterlife" memes he promised the Quorum in exchange for their help against Control. Suitable for framing, not all of the four series that bear Archie's handiwork, of course, bear overt signs of Ransom Productions' influence. (It would make sense to me if Ransom Productions actually contributed to producing one or maybe two at the most, given it's only been in business in earnest a few months.) But still... Archie has to sit in wide-eyed wonder at these four series, all picked up by various networks, where his handiwork is evident in the initial 13-episode pickups. Sure, not all of them may make it out of the Nielsen arena and survive until April, but they're all four packed with Ransom-crafted memetics. Of course, Archie has more at stake with the series with the URIEL-specific "believe in spirits/respect the dead" memetics he'd worked on with Jo and Roger. But knowing the Quorum could help with the fight against the Owls and Control means a lot, and knowing that Beth/Control/the Owls believe Archie is still earnest about making the American people believe in the "reform" going on in Washington is important too. As for Stoney, well, a deal's a deal, I guess. (Rob, I thought we could use this space, as Archie pages through the Fall Preview issue, to flesh out and make rolls for his big '74-'75 fall season memetics and maybe flesh out which series we want to subvert from our history/create from whole cloth. I figure this will be a fun exercise to contrast with the Big Stuff happening in DC and Dallas.) (edited)
[8:41 AM]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/paxtonholley/albums/72157629990056461/
1974 TV Guide Fall Preview Issue
Scans of the 1974 TV Guide Fall Preview Issue
October 19, 2024
MutantsMichael — 10/19/24, 8:06 AM
I have some series ideas for URIEL's meme(s) and for the Mormons' one.