It took Warner Bros. a while, but there is a Blu-ray box set of The West Wing that was released in 2024.
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It took Warner Bros. a while, but there is a Blu-ray box set of The West Wing that was released in 2024.
Clip from the 1968–1969 Nielsen Pocket Pieces showing "Turnabout Intruder" airing on Tuesday, Jan 3, 1969.
Star Trek's "Turnabout Intruder" was the only first-run episode to air on a Tuesday night. It was summer re-run season. Here's a peek at the Nielsens confirming this.
There was a half-baked romance in early versions of the script, but the evidence suggests it was dropped because they didn't want to repeat "Space Seed" more than anything else.
Document from Glen Glenn Sound CO. for the recording of the score to "Where No Man Has Gone Before" dated 11/29/65. Star Trek Desilu William Shatner - Captain James T. Kirk Leonard Nimoy - Mr. Spock Gary Lockwood - Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mitchell Sally Kellerman - Dr. Elizabeth Dehner George Takei - Sulu James Doohan - Scotty Lloyd Hanes - Alden Andrea Dromm - Yeoman Smith Paul Carr - Lt. Lee Kelso Paul Fix - Doctor Piper Gene Roddenberry Samuel A. Peeple James Goldstone
Sixty years ago today the score to "Star Trek's" second pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was recorded. It was composed and conducted by Alexander Courage.
Surprisingly detailed bit of mainstream TV history here, including quotes from a 93 year-old actor who had a brief TV career in the 1970s-80s. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...
Aug 1967 / TV Radio Mirror / A great profile on Leonard Nimoy where he recounts meeting JFK in 1956 when he was a taxi driver—JFK encouaged Nimoy to pursue his dream to become an actor!
Read the full interview here:
I knew Ralph for over 20 years. The day I spent with him in Carmel in 2004 was one of the highlights of my so-called career. Along with Norman Lloyd, he was one of only two sources I interviewed at length who seemed to have nearly total recall. A gold mine. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/r...
Star Trek TMP Klingon bridge/ST2 & 3 torpedo deck sections repurposed for MacGyver. This photo looking up and aft.
Star Trek TMP Klingon bridge/ST2 & 3 torpedo deck sections repurposed for MacGyver. This photo is looking through what had been the lower screen in TMP and the torpedo hatch in the other two films.
#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).
#MacGyverDay
Los Angeles Times, September 13, 1977. William Shatner is confirmed to star in the new Paramount television series STAR TREK II. (The series would not have been called STAR TREK: PHASE II. It just wouldn't have.)
You should see the opinions Maurice doesn't let me print. (Because he's, you know, wise.)
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, September 11, 1966. STAR TREK was a documentary! "The Enterprise actually 'exists'. It was built on stage number 9 at Desilu Studios in Hollywood, and while Jimmy Rugg, special effects man who supervised its construction, admits it won't fly, it does almost anything else."
Brief Star Trek review: "'STAR TREK' deserves a 'B' for its effort to raise space fantasy above the third grade level. Its trump card is its star, William Shatner, a blazing good actor. The first yarn was a weirdie. On some far away planet, Shatner's 400-man super spacecraft crew encountered an intelligent creature that could instantly assume the shape and apparent identity of any human, man or woman, white or colored. Br-r-r-r. "This creature, often Jeanne Bal assuming the : shape of a raving beauty, drove Shatner batty and killed off people like flies before she finally was ex- terminated and exposed as the most horrible old hag in the universe. "Acting employment for Negroes is very low this season but "Star Trek" features one, Nichelle Ni- chols, whom I know, and "Hawk" features one, Wayne Grice, whom I don't know, Nichelle plays a permanent 'Star Trek' crew woman. I thought she' was warmly convincing last night. Wayne plays a young D. A. staff man. He leans slightly to the comedy side." 1966-09-08 Star Trek, Dwight Newton, The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California, p17
Photo of Jean Bal as Nancy Crater. Caption: "DUE—-Jeanne Bal guests on Star Trek, previewing in color at 8:30 p.m. (4)." Source: 1966-09-08 Jeane Bal The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California, Thu, p85.
TV schedule. Headline reads "Tarzan Swings On NBC As Star Trek Tours Space." 1966-09-08 Trek, Southern Illinoisan Carbondale, Illinois, Thu, p16
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.
#StarTrekDay #StarTrek
Maurice Molyneaux clowning around with Kirk Thatcher.
Maurice Molyneaux striking a pose with Kirk Thatcher.
While in Las Vegas, when one your Fact Trekkers asked him to turn down that damn noise, this punk gave him the finger, which then got him a neck pinch. All was good after. Fact.
#STLV
Maurice Molyneaux and Joseph F. D’Agosta meet in person.
After over eight hours of Zoom interviews and many phone calls, one of us finally got to meet the amazing Joseph F. D‘Agosta in the flesh. Joe cast TOS and other shows at Desilu, amongst a jillion other accomplishments. He’s a guest at #STLV.
#StarTrek
My friend of 50+years, Ted Cordes, has passed. He was head of Broadcast Standards at NBC and worked with Johnny Carson, Tom Snyder and #StarTrek. Fascinating stories about all 3:
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...
Big thanks to my friends at @trekcore.com who have edited together the bridge footage with Kirk in command, spread over 8 #StarTrekTOS season 1-3 episodes and put it all back together into one long sequence, the way it was originally filmed almost 60 years ago. 😊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WM9...
Preservation matters. Check this out.
Carol Burnett as the robot lady who threatens the Intrepid as Harvey Korman as Captain Quirk and Sid Caesar as Mr. Spook look on.
Faux title from the Carol Burnett show season 1, episode 2 parody of Star Trek titled "STAR TRIP".
Faux episode title "Who's Afraid of Virginia Robot" from the Carol Burnett show season 1, episode 2 parody of Star Trek titled "STAR TRIP".
Harvey Korman as Captain Quirk of the Intrepid.
Possibly the 1st-ever #StarTrek TV parody was the sketch STAR TRIP: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA ROBOT? on the 2nd-ever episode of the CAROL BURNETT SHOW, Sept. 18, 1967. It begins at 18:09 in the linked video. Guest Sid Caesar played Mr. Spook.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEuf...
@trekmovie.bsky.social
Leonard Nimoy, March 26, 1931 - February 27, 2015.
On an overcast and rainy day in April 1967, before Star Trek's second season started filming, Mr. Nimoy gave an outdoor performance in Agawam, MA. He sang, played his guitar, read poems, told stories, and answered questions from the audience.
Writing credits for SHAFT (1971). Reads "Screenplay by Ernest Tidyman and John D.F. Black, based upon the novel by Ernest Tidyman"
Who was John D.F. Black, and why did his script for "The Naked Time" cause so many problems for the #StarTrek production? The naked truth in our article "The Naked Time Warp."
www.facttrek.com/blog/naked2
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After 22 months, a ton of research & delays caused by real-life concerns, we've finally dotted all the i's & crossed the t's on this follow-up II to our "The Naked Cliffhanger" article.
64 citations! When we say "we cite sources," we ain't fooling around.
#StarTrek #StarTrekHistory #Roddenberry
Love the photo. Thought I would reply with one of my own, from the early '70s. Left to right: me, John Trimble, Nichelle, and, in costume, Janos Prohaska, whose Star Trek roles included the Horta and the Mugato. Mayor Sam Yorty had proclaimed it Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Week in Los Angeles.
Fifty-seven years ago today, Star Trek: The Original Series got back to work after the holiday. Filming began on "Assignment: Earth."
Footnotes from a work-in-progress article
After much research, interviews, and pesky real-life concerns, we're back hammering away on articles!
Citation! Citation! Citation!
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I am greatly surprised and gratified by this honor, but I feel bound to say in the same breath that #StarTrekIITheWrathofKhan stands on the shoulders of many who contributed to the film as well as those who have gone before. Alas, they are not here to take their well-deserved bows. 1/3
Slating a deleted scene for "Who Mourns For Adonais".
Vintage news report from December 7, 1979 when #StarTrek – The Motion Picture opened.
"Gentlemen, if those are weapons, please lower them. At my age, I'm afraid I'm not very dangerous."
56 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln was filmed beaming aboard the Enterprise in Star Trek's "The Savage Curtain."
This is actually scene 105B, camera setup B. During the script revisions, it was decided that several new scenes needed to be added between scenes 105 and 106. In order to preserve the scene numbering in the existing script, they used letters following the number 105, i.e., 104A, 105B, etc.
