Nostalgia question: what year did you see your first TOS episode?
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That I don't remember: Probably sometime in the 1980s.
That I do remember: 1992. "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
I saw the TOS Movies and "The Cage" in 1991. I won't count those.
That I do remember: 1992. "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
I saw the TOS Movies and "The Cage" in 1991. I won't count those.
1969, first run on NBC, "The Cloud Minders". Or at least that's the first one I clearly remember, I probably saw more beforehand because my older brother was a big fan.
Probably 1968, maybe 1969
1972 (probably sometime in September), a local station that had previously aired syndicated reruns of Star Trek returned it to the afternoon schedule after a rest, this time starting with "Gamesters of Triskelion." I guess that on their previous run, they left off sometime in the second season.
Loved the '70s syndicated reruns, which conveniently aired every day after school for years.
Unfortunately, in my market in the seventies, my Star Trek station had a habit of removing it from afterschool rotation and sticking it on at 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. on Saturday mornings, then a period on Saturday afternoons where it was frequently preempted for sporting events, and then there was the period from 1976-79 when no one in my market carried Star Trek at all, and I had to wait until various vacation trips out of my home region to catch an episode. It wasn't until the Autumn of 1979 to see the vast majority of the series, minus the ones banned by Pat Robertson's flagship CBN station (For the record, Where No Man . . ., Charlie X, Catspaw, A Private Little War, Plato's Stepchildren and the Lights of Zetar. Fortunately, I had seen most of the banned six prior to 1976, but I didn't get to see Zetar until 1988.)Loved the '70s syndicated reruns, which conveniently aired every day after school for years.
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I saw "The City one the Edge of Forever" in syndication in 1975.
1992, when BBC2 had lost the first-run TNG rights to Sky and re-ran the whole of TOS in the timeslot before they were able to resume it. It was "The Man Trap". Incidentally, early in that re-run, around "The Naked Time", BBC1 screened ST5:TFF, which was the most mind-blowing flashforward to my 6-year-old self; like how "The Menagerie" gives the show a weight and history, but in reverse.
Probably sometime in the mid-seventies in syndication. It would have been airing on KSTW Channel 11 here in the Seattle/Tacoma area before moving to KCPQ Channel 13 in 1987 as part of a TOS/TNG block from 6-8pm just before Saturday night FOX programming. At one point it became a three hour block of TOS/TNG/DS9 before being cut back down to a TNG/DS9 pairing.
My first look was "The Lights of Zetar" in prime time. It was probably the NBC repeat, summer of 1969. On a black & white TV. I was too young for that episode. The technician's big death scene was too much for me.
But I was ready for it when the show went into syndication, the following year or so. I was all about the afternoon reruns. It would be ten years before I voluntarily missed an episode, and that was "And the Children Shall Lead." And it was for a death in the family. What could I do?
But I was ready for it when the show went into syndication, the following year or so. I was all about the afternoon reruns. It would be ten years before I voluntarily missed an episode, and that was "And the Children Shall Lead." And it was for a death in the family. What could I do?
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