Star Trek NBC promo question

[Maab]

Hi everybody,
I'm doing a compilation of the original NBC promos for Star Trek, those like this one, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_khUyboA0s, never included in any DVD or Blu-ray edition.

The one I find confusing is the following one, which has William Shatner talking directly to the audience from the engine room set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmC0ktiRTWw

I read this should be for the third season, however at the end of the promo Shatner doesn't say (as expected) "on NBC". I can't understand exactly what he says, but it almost seems the name of another network. Could this be for a re-run? How could they shoot a promo after the series ended? Did I totally miss it?

Thanks.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Hi everybody,
I'm doing a compilation of the original NBC promos for Star Trek, those like this one, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_khUyboA0s, never included in any DVD or Blu-ray edition.

The one I find confusing is the following one, which has William Shatner talking directly to the audience from the engine room set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmC0ktiRTWw

I read this should be for the third season, however at the end of the promo Shatner doesn't say (as expected) "on NBC". I can't understand exactly what he says, but it almost seems the name of another network. Could this be for a re-run? How could they shoot a promo after the series ended? Did I totally miss it?

Thanks.

It sounds like the network Shatner, er, Kirk was about to say was cut, possibly due to an audio issue. It does sound like a network in Miami, however....

 

[Noname Given]

Hi everybody,
I'm doing a compilation of the original NBC promos for Star Trek, those like this one, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_khUyboA0s, never included in any DVD or Blu-ray edition.

The one I find confusing is the following one, which has William Shatner talking directly to the audience from the engine room set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmC0ktiRTWw

I read this should be for the third season, however at the end of the promo Shatner doesn't say (as expected) "on NBC". I can't understand exactly what he says, but it almost seems the name of another network. Could this be for a re-run? How could they shoot a promo after the series ended? Did I totally miss it?

Thanks.

A voice says: "KT Full Color Miami" <-- but it ISN'T Shatner's.

Likely it was a promo repurposed for syndication (IE they had a local employee overdub the station ID); OR a station that wasn't a full time NBC affiliate (which was something that could be the case back in the late 1960ies)

 

[cmdr_forst]

Likely it was a promo repurposed for syndication (IE they had a local employee overdub the station ID); OR a station that wasn't a full time NBC affiliate (which was something that could be the case back in the late 1960ies)

The audio tag could be for the former WCKT, NBC's affiliate in Miami while Star Trek was on the air.

 

[Maurice]

Promos were often made for affiliates with the actors naming the station.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

^^
I guess it's similar to actors saying:
"It's not TV, it's HBO."

 

[Nerys Myk]

They still do it today. Especially for News programs. You'll see the hosts of the national news programs promoting the local news. (and vise versa )

 

[Maab]

Thanks all. I agree that the voice who says "...KT Full Color Miami" is not Shatner's and WCKT is the most likely candidate.

Furthermore I'd say that it's for the second season and not the third, since all the scenes are from second season episodes.

 

[J.T.B.]

It must be for an original season, not syndicated reruns, since it mentions Friday night. That would be Season 2 or 3.

This promo would have been provided by NBC to network affiliates to use if they wished. Having the station ID dubbed in (probably by the local station announcer) is kind of cutting a corner; sometimes actors were required to record or film a whole list of affiliate IDs.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

It must be for an original season, not syndicated reruns, since it mentions Friday night. That would be Season 2 or 3.

This promo would have been provided by NBC to network affiliates to use if they wished. Having the station ID dubbed in (probably by the local station announcer) is kind of cutting a corner; sometimes actors were required to record or film a whole list of affiliate IDs.

Yep. Another clue that it occurred during the show's first run is the local affiliate boasting that they're a "full color!" station. By the time Star Trek went into syndication, all-day color broadcasting was taken for granted. There would be b&w re-runs in daytime, but the commercials were in color.

I was going to say "round-the-clock color broadcasting," but stations would play the national anthem and go to dead air every night back then.

 

[DFScott]

Here's some more info about WCKT, which now uses different call letters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSVN

It was very common in these days for the stars of U.S. network shows to do little 15-second promos, all of which conclude with the name of the location station but which don't show the star saying the call letters. This way, the star could sit in an audio studio for about a half-hour saying the names of all the major stations in the network about three or four times, then the editor would pick the take that sounds best, splice it to the end of the film, and ship it in a can along with several others.

What you've found is a superb little gem from the '60s that's a priceless bit of television history. I'd love to see what else you turn up, Star Trek or not.

DF "Now With Several Colors!" Scott

 

[The Old Mixer]

Sounds to me a little like it might be Shat at the end, but edited in from a different session in which he ran through the stations, with different sound quality and delivery.

 

[Kor]

Nice pieces of history. How did you obtain these?

Kor

 

[Maab]

DFScott and Kor

Actually I wouldn't consider this promo "rare". During the 80s and the 90s a series of "Star Trek bloopers and comedy tapes" (VHS) were circulating among fans in Star Trek conventions. They all had some blooper reels, some parodies (like the John Belushi one) and some NBC promos.

As I briefly mentioned in my first post, what I did is to collect all the promos in a single video, trying for each one to use the best source (still far from being good). I also tried to improve them a little, but, as I said, they still have bad quality. Nontheless I find them extremely interesting from a historical point of view.

So here they are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbOKvBq2iSk

Here you'll find 8 promos/bumpers:
1. Season 1-A [no scenes]
2. Season 1-B [different soundtrack]
3. Season 1-C
4. Season 2-A [no scenes]
5. Season 2-B
6. Season 2-C [affiliate network version - WCKT - with William Shatner]
7. Bumper 1
8. Bumper 2 [voice of Leonard Nimoy]

I have being doing the same with blooper reels, but I still have a doubt that I'll shortly submit to the TrekBBS community

 

[erastus25]

DFScott and Kor

Actually I wouldn't consider this promo "rare". During the 80s and the 90s a series of "Star Trek bloopers and comedy tapes" (VHS) were circulating among fans in Star Trek conventions. They all had some blooper reels, some parodies (like the John Belushi one) and some NBC promos.

As I briefly mentioned in my first post, what I did is to collect all the promos in a single video, trying for each one to use the best source (still far from being good). I also tried to improve them a little, but, as I said, they still have bad quality. Nontheless I find them extremely interesting from a historical point of view.

So here they are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbOKvBq2iSk

Here you'll find 8 promos/bumpers:
1. Season 1-A [no scenes]
2. Season 1-B [different soundtrack]
3. Season 1-C
4. Season 2-A [no scenes]
5. Season 2-B
6. Season 2-C [affiliate network version - WCKT - with William Shatner]
7. Bumper 1
8. Bumper 2 [voice of Leonard Nimoy]

I have being doing the same with blooper reels, but I still have a doubt that I'll shortly submit to the TrekBBS community

Great to have these all in one place. Thanks for posting! And make sure you have a backup copy on your comp - don't want to lose it if CBS tries to pull it from youtube!

 

[Maab]

And make sure you have a backup copy on your comp - don't want to lose it if CBS tries to pull it from youtube!

I don't think CBS would be interested in these obscure and bad looking pieces of Star Trek history. Anyway I'll keep a copy on my hard disk (as for everything else in my archive).

 

[Noname Given]

And make sure you have a backup copy on your comp - don't want to lose it if CBS tries to pull it from youtube!

I don't think CBS would be interested in these obscure and bad looking pieces of Star Trek history. Anyway I'll keep a copy on my hard disk (as for everything else in my archive).

Interesting in that of all the 1960ies era promos etc I saw there (and recall some as a child of 6); I never recall seeing the "Tonight's Star Trek will continue in a moment..." bumpers.