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   From: sigma957@yahoo.comxxx   
      
   "jayembee"  wrote in message   
   news:d3aeee5b.0403180829.235284af@posting.google.com...   
   > rgormannospam@telusplanet.net (David Johnston) wrote:   
   >   
   >> wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> rgormannospam@telusplanet.net (David Johnston) said:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Mann and Machine: Sure, it died fast, but it was a rare   
   >>>> attempt to do real science fiction, and Yancy Butler   
   >>>> was excellent casting   
   >>>   
   >>> Well, as real as science fiction can get when the premise   
   >>> is that the U.S. government in the early 1990s   
   >>   
   >> I'm pretty sure it was set in the 21st century.   
   >   
   > They never explicitly said, though there were a few clues.   
   > I can't recall what they are at the moment (I suppose this   
   > should give me an excuse to pull out my tapes and rewatch   
   > it), but 12 years ago, when I had posted an episode guide   
   > to the series...   
   >   
   > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22mann%22%2B%22Machine%22%2   
   %22jayembee%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=1992Jul16.113612.19564%40   
   ngage.pko.dec.com&rnum=2   
   >   
   > ...I made the comment, "MANN & MACHINE is set in the near   
   > future (references within some of the episodes narrows it   
   > down to somewhere between 1998 and 2009)."   
   >   
   > -- jayembee   
      
   Was that the show where he was the only one driving a gas powered car?   
      
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