Let @trekfactcheck, @8bit_maurice be your guides through the production of the original STAR TREK and its place in TV history. Context is king! We cite sources!
#OTD 49 years ago, actor/writer Stanley Adams died. Here's an In Memoriam about him from the Inside Star Trek/Star Trek Trektennial News, Vol. III, No. 22, 1977.
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AlexShatner the Great?
A big-budget pilot starring William Shatner, Adam West, devised by the creator of Combat! How could that miss?
But it did. Nothing’s guaranteed in TV.
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"It's a faaaake!" AI fuckery fakery is everywhere, like this image we found on an article. Such photo-real nonsense confuses the historical record — caveat emptor.
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The last episode of Star Trek had wrapped filming month before this interview; there was no letter-writing campaign of the magnitude of the previous year. The timeslot move mentioned was for the summer, which would be led off by "Turnabout Intruder".
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Laugh-In was a mid-season replacement for axed The Man From UNCLE Mondays at 8. NBC eyed #StarTrek for that slot, but left it where it was for the duration of the season. Laugh-In was a hit NBC wouldn't risk moving, & Trek ended up in its originally planned Friday 10 pm slot.
Before #Batman or #StarTrek, #AdamWest played co-star to @WilliamShatner in the expen$ive pilot ALEXANDER THE GREAT. It was pencilled into the fall 1964 schedule but dropped in favor of "The Greatest Show On Earth." You can watch it here ⤵️ https://t.co/XOiKNEgWeO
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I really help to save this old film format. It’s time and labor intensive and we are not getting through on social algorithms.
#OTD 1966, ABC premiered #BATMAN, with a 30.7 audience share & WHAM! POW!ed both CBS's Lost In Space & NBC's The Virginian. The show was a big hit at first, but quickly burned out. By the start of its 2nd season in September, it often placed last.
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@StarTrekMinute I realize this post is very old, but the Computerettes' heads appear to have been reworked for the IL Series Cylons—notably Lucifer—in the original Battlestar Galactica.
And this kind of AI crap is only going to further muddy the historical record as to how movies & TV shows—and everything—were made.
@showtoolsai https://t.co/ixLDqB6CvE
Star Trek IV premiered 39 years ago today. 🐋🐋 Wonder what the film's locations look like today? Check out this fan-made short, shot in the same places and using the same angles. It's Kirk (Punk on Bus) Thatcher approved!
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#OTD 40 years ago, #MacGyver premiered on ABC-TV. The first episode—"Pilot"— featured a #StarTrek connection, as series star & a guest star made their way through a control room set that is actually a redress of the Star Trek 2/3 torpedo deck (TMP Klingon bridge).
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59 years ago today, STAR TREK made its NBC-TV debut. Here are three newspaper clippings from that date. One brief review mentions the paucity of roles for Blacks on TV that season.
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Sometime after spring in 1967, Leonard Nimoy stopped into the #KGW studios in #Portland, Oregon to chat about playing Spock.
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