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re: Been watching early Stark Trek TOS and it was kind of wild and woolly
Posted on 9/29/16 at 7:43 am to Ace Midnight
Posted on 9/29/16 at 7:43 am to Ace Midnight
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Seems like it took them a few episodes to start hitting their strides.
From what I understand the executives didn't like the pilot, to philosophical, and they had to retool the series for more action bang bang. So I think that is why the early episodes are that way.
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Posted on 9/29/16 at 8:46 am to Methuselah
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Not much in the way of serialized offerings back then - procedural or episodic was the way to go. Likewise I think star vehicle shows were much more in vogue than ensemble shows.
True. And Star Trek was conventional in that way - episodic, because folks didn't binge watch and syndication was really a tertiary concern. The suits really didn't think a show had much value after its initial airing and, perhaps a single off-season re-run cycle. Yes, they had already been burned by I Love Lucy, but Star Trek is one of the shows that challenged all that - becoming more valuable in syndication in the 1970s than it ever was in the 1960s while still being produced.
In yet another way Star Trek paved the way for multi-season threaded shows - notably DS9 within it's own franchise and Babylon 5 - and it did it, effectively in the pre-video or embryonic video era.
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