It's Wednesday, January 23rd, 1974. You're a Star Trek fan who misses your favorite series since it was canceled nearly five years before. You look in the TV listings for that night and you notice that there are two TV-Movies airing that night, each one involving Star Trek alumni.
The first one, on ABC, Pray for the Wildcats, is about three advertising executives who join a ruthless client on a motorcycle trip into Mexico, a trip in which people and events combine to jeopardize careers, families and their lives. The movie stars Andy Griffith, William Shatner, Robert Reed, Marjoe Gortner, Angie Dickinson, Lorraine Gray, and Janet Margolin. Shatner plays a suicidal advertising executive who is cheating on his wife with Angie Dickinson's character. And, as an odd bonus, Shatner is wearing a yellow jersey with a black collar for much of the movie, making him look a bit like his old Star Trek character, Captain Kirk.
Meanwhile, over on CBS is The Questor Tapes, a TV-Movie pilot for a proposed new series from Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. The movie is written by Roddenberry and former Star Trek story editor Gene Coon, who just passed away the previous July. The description is as follows: An android, capable of all human functions, is brought to life in a laboratory and begins a programmed mission to find its missing creator, or face nuclear destruction. Robert Foxworth plays the android Questor, and Mike Farrell plays Jerry Robinson, a human who befriends Questor and joins him on his travels. John Vernon, Lew Ayres, Dana Wynter, James Shigeta, and Robert Douglas also star.
You only have one TV and no VCR. You can only watch ONE of the movies. Which one do you watch and why?
(Although the two TV-Movies only overlapped for an hour in actually, for the sake of this thread we'll pretend that they're airing directly opposite each other from 8-10pm.) Choose Your Fighter!
The first one, on ABC, Pray for the Wildcats, is about three advertising executives who join a ruthless client on a motorcycle trip into Mexico, a trip in which people and events combine to jeopardize careers, families and their lives. The movie stars Andy Griffith, William Shatner, Robert Reed, Marjoe Gortner, Angie Dickinson, Lorraine Gray, and Janet Margolin. Shatner plays a suicidal advertising executive who is cheating on his wife with Angie Dickinson's character. And, as an odd bonus, Shatner is wearing a yellow jersey with a black collar for much of the movie, making him look a bit like his old Star Trek character, Captain Kirk.
Meanwhile, over on CBS is The Questor Tapes, a TV-Movie pilot for a proposed new series from Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. The movie is written by Roddenberry and former Star Trek story editor Gene Coon, who just passed away the previous July. The description is as follows: An android, capable of all human functions, is brought to life in a laboratory and begins a programmed mission to find its missing creator, or face nuclear destruction. Robert Foxworth plays the android Questor, and Mike Farrell plays Jerry Robinson, a human who befriends Questor and joins him on his travels. John Vernon, Lew Ayres, Dana Wynter, James Shigeta, and Robert Douglas also star.
You only have one TV and no VCR. You can only watch ONE of the movies. Which one do you watch and why?
(Although the two TV-Movies only overlapped for an hour in actually, for the sake of this thread we'll pretend that they're airing directly opposite each other from 8-10pm.) Choose Your Fighter!
