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November 30, 2001  Seventies Week

Lotsa fun on TSS this week. The 70s theme this week included guests such as Nichelle Nichols of Star Trek fame, and Chistopher Knight who played Peter on The Brady Bunch. Today's finale featured a spontaneous tap dance by former TSS cohost Kate Botello and Johnny Whitaker from the TV shows Family Affair and Sigmund and the Sea Monster.

A summary of some of the more interesting tidbits from this weeks interviews:

Robert Hegyes of Welcome Back Kotter now teaches oral communication at brooks college in Long Beach, CA and has a website, www.roberthegyes.com.
In his news page he talks about his experiences teaching basic English skills to incoming freshmen who have been passed through the public school system.

Richard Hatch, who played Captain Apollo on Battlestar Galactica, has a new project, The Great War of Magellan, and he revealed that a movie based on the Battlestar Galactica tv show is in the works.

Christopher Knight of The Brady Bunch currently works for Eskape Labs, now owned by Hauphauge, which makes audio and video hardware for Mac computers.

Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura on the classic Star Trek series and movies, has had a varied career of dancing, singing, and sci-fi writing in addition to acting. When she wanted to quit the show to return to musical theater, she was encouraged to continue by Martin Luther King himself. She also worked for NASA recruiting women and minorities for the austronaut program. Her website can be found at Uhura.com.

Johnny Whitaker currently does an online mental health show, The Dr. Zod & Johnny Show, and has had a long time interest in computers and technology.

Yay! Leo announced that Don McMillan will be back on TSS next week. Don was last on the show almost exactly two years ago, not long after I first discovered TSS. He started out as a chip designer but switched to geek-themed stand-up comedy. Other comics try to do geek humor, but this guy is the real deal. He wrote an article for TSS for that appearance: Chip Design is Hilarious -- Really!. The video link on that page no longer works, but the article is worth a read. He also has his own site at www.donmcmillan.com.

Posted by Christy on November 30, 2001 08:35 PM

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