Scenario (multimedia zine)

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Zine
Title:	Scenario
Publisher:	Orion Majoris Publications
Editor(s):	Scott Clark
Date(s):	1984-1986
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Medium:	print
Genre:
Fandom:	multimedia & Greatest American Hero
Language:	English
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Scenario is a gen zine. It lasted for two issues, and a third was planned but never published (the content of which is described below).

About the Zine's Beginnings

Admittedly, my first 1-1/2 years of fanzine publishing saw me; dangerously close to overextending myself—attempting to put out three regular letterzines and a fiction zine (Scenario), as well as occasional special projects. After trimming my output to just The Cannell Files and Scenario, I think that the proverbial 'bloody nose' I got from trying to do too much taught me a valuable lesson...in order to produce a fanzine (especially a letterzine) that people will want to read on a regular basis, an editor needs to concentrate more of their time to emphasizing quality as opposed to quantity. My attitude towards my series of Scenario zines will remain one of frugality (i.e. my intent is to provide as much material in as few pages as possible—cutting back on any unnecessary costs and leaving a frill-less zine), but I intend to continue experimenting with ways to improve the look and readability of The Cannell Files. I thank those of you who've stuck with the zine through the cancellation of several of Cannell's shows, and I hope that those of you interested in the current and future offerings from that studio will look on TCF as your continuing forum for discussing such shows.

Issue 1

cover of Scenario 1, from an ad in Pop Stand Express #10, "The zine with the cover that boggles everyone's mind! The zine they said couldn't be done! (or was that shouldn't?) The zine proud to contain a picture of a stuffed toy!"

Scenario 1 was published in August 1985 and contains 86 pages.

• Editorial by Scott Clark
• "Questions" - a Hardcastle and McCormick poem by Jean Thrower
• Magnum, P.I. artwork by Clay Hartwick
• "Graveyard" - a Magnum, P.I. poem by Sue-Anne Hartwick
• Riptide artwork by Clay Hartwick
• "The Apology" - a Riptide poem by Sue-Anne Hartwick
• "The Promise" - a Simon & Simon poem by Jean Thrower
• "Dream's End" - a Simon & Simon poem by Jean Thrower
• Complete Episode Guide To The Master by Sheila Paulson (3 pages)
• "One Beginning" - an A-Team story by Juli Cleveland (also in A-Team Collection #1) ("Story of Face joining the Team.") (3 pages)
• "The Surprise" - a Greatest American Hero story by Ann Leonhart (3 pages)
• "V — Vigil By Night" - a V story by Cathy L. Bryson (10 pages)
• "Soldier Rest" - a Simon & Simon story by Christine Jeffords (Rick's back from Vietnam, but he seems remote and unable to deal with the personal horror of his final days there.) (reprinted in The Brother's File) (20 pages)
• "Reparations" - a Hardcastle and McCormick story by Liz Tucker (When Mark helps Sarah take some boxes up to the attic of Gulls Way, he discovers why the judge has labeled his son a 'forbidden topic,' and sets out to clear the Hardcastle family name.) (reprinted in expanded form in Back-to-Back #4) (23 pages)
• "Broken Butterfly" a story of The Master by Sheila Paulson (When the Master interrupts a small town bank robbery, he gets more than he intended: shot in the back and a slow death in a remote desert.) (18 pages)
• Cover art of Doctor Who's 'The Master', with his fiendish assistant, 'Cheeks - the Toy Wonder', by Frank Dreier

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Issue 2

cover of issue #2

Scenario 2 was published in 1986 and contains 133 pages. It is subtitled, "Return of Scenario."

The art is by Juli Cleveland, Clay Hartwick, Sheila Paulson, and Leah Rosenthal.

• Editorial by Scott Clark
• That Which Has Gone Before (LOCs on Scenario 1) - includes Letters of Comment from: Jean Thrower, Brenda A., Ann Teitelbaum, Cathy L. Bryson, Margaret Karlin, Robbie Sturm and Sue-Anne Hartwick
• "The Bullet With My Name" - a T.J. Hooker poem by L.A. Carr
• "Marlowe, Come Home" - a Simon & Simon poem by Sue Ann Sarick
• Simon & Simon artwork by Juli Cleveland
• "The Doctor's Lament" - a Doctor Who poem by Juli Cleveland
• "In Pern" - a Pern poem by Teresa Sarick
• "Jack T. Colton" - a Romancing the Stone poem by Sue Ann Sarick
• "Trick or Treat" - a Blakes 7 story by Leah Rosenthal and Ann Wortham - later reprinted in The Bizarro Zine #1
• Blakes 7 - four pieces by Leah Rosenthal accompanying "Trick or Treat" - later reprinted in The Bizarro Zine #1
• "Kinship" - an A-Team poem by Juli Cleveland, reprinted from On the Jazz
• "Delta Dawn, Revisited" - an A-Team poem by Juli Cleveland, reprinted from On the Jazz
• A-Team artwork by Juli Cleveland
• "Cave-In" - an A-Team story by Jackie Edwards
• "Jack's Complaint" - a Romancing the Stone poem by Sue Ann Sarick
• "Life is Hard" - a Dempsey and Makepeace story by Cathy L. Bryson
• "Amy's Thoughts" - an A-Team poem by Juli Cleveland, reprinted from On the Jazz
• "Ripide Reflections" - a Riptide poem by Juli Cleveland
• "Triad" - a Greatest American Hero poem by Jean Thrower
• Greatest American Hero artwork by Juli Cleveland
• "There Ye' Go" - a McCloud poem by Teresa Sarick
• "Life of Legal Larceny" - an It Takes a Thief poem by Teresa Sarick
• "Going/Returning" - a Simon & Simon missing scene (from "The List") by Christine Jeffords (reprinted in The Brothers File)
• "A Starry Night" - a Doctor Who story by Juli Cleveland
• "Protective Custody" - a story of The Master by Sheila Paulson
• The Master artwork by Sheila Paulson
• "Missing Scene (for A.J.)" - a Simon & Simon missing scene (from "The Dillinger Print") by Christine Jeffords (reprinted in The Brothers File)
• "Airwolf: Two Season Episode Guide" - a humorous Airwolf episode guide parody compiled by B'rer Rabbit and Sunburst
• "The Firefly Raid" - a Rat Patrol story by Ann Wortham
• "Wondering" - a Hunter poem by Sue-Anne Hartwick
• Hunter artwork by Clay Hartwick
• "Otherworld: Complete Episode Guide - an Otherworld complete episode guide compiled by Scott Clark
• Hardcastle and McCormick artwork by Clay Hartwick
• "Words" - a Hardcastle and McCormick poem by Sue-Anne Hartwick
• "In Times to Come" - preview of the next issue's contents, including "And You Thought You Were in Trouble Before" (Scarecrow and Mrs. King), "Rainy Days and Mondays Always Get Me Down" (Greatest American Hero) and "The Bloody Sunset" (Greatest American Hero) -- planned publication date of Dec 1986, which never came to pass

Issue 3

Scenario 3 (planned but never published)

• "Moment Of Truth" (Scarecrow and Mrs. King) by Karen B. Valentine. Lee Stetson has disappeared into a Central American hell-hole, and only Amanda and Francine can find and rescue him...if they can survive working together that long! Serious tone, but light-hearted dialogue.
• "A Private Joke" (Scarecrow and Mrs. King) by Scott Clark. Francine is the reluctant leader of Amanda's squad in a survival exercise deep in the Appalachians. Bad enough...until an arms dealer Francine nailed 7 years earlier starts tracking the unarmed Agency rookies...and the storm breaks...and Francine falls down the cliffside and breaks her leg. A story of coming to terms with each other.
• "Daemonium Ex Machina" (Greatest American Hero) by Scott Clark. When the mechanically-enhanced enforcer for a mysterious consortium attacks and nearly kills Pam, Bill has to convince Ralph not to use the suit to exact a personal and fatal vengeance. Meanwhile, Ralph has to deal with his former student Rhonda and his own son Kevin's having discovered his "secret identity" and the repercussions of the attack on Pam. A very serious tale, originally intended for Reckless Emotion #1. Elements of this story cross over with the events to be portrayed in The Internecine Conflict (a planned series of connected stories, in the style of The Karenina Continuity Chronicles), and this story was expected to be reprinted in that zine - which was also never published.
• "Ghost Ship" (Greatest American Hero) by Scott Clark. Supernatural horror strikes at Ralph and Bill as they secretly attempt to help the Coast Guard investigate the sudden and mysterious appearance of an ancient sailing vessel off the Southern California coast.