What Makes These Two Video Clips So Unusual? Read On!
What Makes These Two Video Clips So Unusual? Read On!
Part of the answer is Gene Roddenberry, who was born 93 years ago today.
The other part of the answer is ‘The Lieutenant’ which was the first show Roddenberry wrote and produced. That’s where he first met “Spock and Uhura”…Leonard Nimoy and Nichole Nichols. At the embedded link, you see Nimoy in Episode 22, and at this link, you’ll see Nichole Nichols in her first ever television appearance in Episode 1.
By the way, the lady in the Nemoy clip is Roddenberry’s soon to be wife…Majel Barrett who he married in ’66 after a divorce from his first wife.
‘The Lieutenant’ ran on NBC in the fall of 1963 but only lasted one season. Roddenberry had always loved science fiction, so in 1964 he developed the idea of a new series about space exploration — “a Wagon Train to the stars,” as he described it — and shopped it around to several studios, most of which were uninterested.
Desilu Productions finally expressed an interest, and NBC agreed to run it after two pilots were done. ‘Star Trek’ debuted September 8, 1966. His new wife, Majel Barrett, provided the voice for the Enterprise’s computer. Ratings were never great, and it only aired for three seasons, but it was a huge success in syndication, and has since spawned an animated series, four spin-off live-action TV series, 11 feature films and a worldwide army of “trekkies”. Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fxJdxL3NJs
(Season 1, Episode 22) In the Highest Tradition http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0631545/ creator :Gene Roddenberry
Don’t forget: Gary Lockwood co-stared in “2001 A Space Odyssey”.
I’ve heard that parent company RCA encouraged NBC to continue for season three because despite so-so ratings, the show was helping RCA sell lots of color TV sets!
Wonderful! Thanks!!!
A trio of Trek veterans in that clip…..Majel Barrett, Leonard Nimoy, and Gary Lockwood. Meanwhile, in the embedded clip, you see a young pre-Man from U.N.C.L.E. Robert Vaughn, and a very young Dennis Hopper. Warner has the complete series available on their “Archive” label for MOD DVD and for streaming as well as “To Kill a Man”, which was a film that was edited together from the series finale. And in regards to Roddenberry, they have two of Roddenberry’s notable post-Trek works…”Genesis II” and “Planet Earth”.