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- From: hagel@stsci.edu
- Subject: Re: Cats on TV
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:12:45 GMT
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- In <Ef2ue8_00iUz81_zgS@andrew.cmu.edu>, Meg Alison Veily writes:
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- >Well, Here's a TV cat you may or may not remember. Remember the show
- >_Remington Steele_? (Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan were private
- >investigators). Well, the character Laura had an all black cat named
- >Nero. The episode I was watching last night was the one where Laura's
- >house gets blown up. She was supposed to be blown up with it, but when
- >she opened the door to go in, Nero goes running out the door (obviously
- >upset because some strangers were in his home setting a bomb), and Laura
- >goes out looking for him, thereby not being in the house when it goes
- >BOOM. Yet another story of a cat saving life and limb of its owner. :-)
- > (I don't remember if Nero was in any other episodes. The show did not
- >revolve around Laura's homelife.)
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- >-Meg (always happy to bring bits of trivial information to the net)
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- Nero appeared occasionaly in the 1st season only of the show. I seem to
- recall a character saying that he was never found again after "running away
- from home" right before home went kablooie. Laura had no cat in her
- subsequent loft apartment, alas.
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- Crystal Hagel
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