I bought the original series on VHS ten years ago and I was a penniless student. I just scrimped and saved, so you could do that! Or download it like the others have been saying...
I've never seen most of it...
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Rite in the middle of exams so I have not be online much.
But heres how it went.
I managed to see a few from the first season so far, and I love it. Once you keep in mind it was made n the 1960s and don't expect 21st century special effects you can appreciate it....also...a few things strike me...
1. I'm gay, but the women look good in those miniskirt uniforms
2. The color!! So much color! Not just the uniforms but the control panels etc
3. The real "classic" look of all the clunky controls and computers, I like
4. They were WAY ahead of their time in predicting alot of technologies, like the hypospray/powerderject (as it's called today), desktop computers etc...
Unfortunaty....just as I decided to kick away exam stress with a bit of escapism and watch some more....intellectual property laws intervened to fuck up my entertainment once again!
I fnally got Adobe Media player to work and was watchin a few, then today when I try to play an ep I get that audio message on a blank screen from that annoying bitch from the CBS website "this content is currently unavailable" (to the great unwashed 97% of the planet that are not Americans she probably should have clarified), what the hell diffrence does it make if they're showing it free to air over there why not over here?
In any case they figured out our loophole!
So now I'm stuck, just as I was starting to enjoy it...so my options are
(A) Download torrents (I live on college campus and the college network settings which I can do nothing about wont let these through)...so thats a no
(B) Buy the boxsets (I don't have €80 I have to pay for ye know...food, and I am living in the most expensive country in Europe)
(C) Figure some way of preventing the CBS system from knowing what country my laptop is in...I have to figure theres a few computer nerds among ST fans on this site who can tell me how to do this????
I tried it before by changing proxy settings, but in order to connect to my network I need to be tied in to it's specific settings, so if I change them I get blank pages....so....is there any other way?????????????????
(D) It seems to be the only series not availble somehwere to watch online BECAUSE it's on the CBS website (available to 4% of the worlds population....) so if anyone knows of one thats available to the great unwashed that make up the other 97% of humanity let me know.
But heres how it went.
I managed to see a few from the first season so far, and I love it. Once you keep in mind it was made n the 1960s and don't expect 21st century special effects you can appreciate it....also...a few things strike me...
1. I'm gay, but the women look good in those miniskirt uniforms
2. The color!! So much color! Not just the uniforms but the control panels etc
3. The real "classic" look of all the clunky controls and computers, I like
4. They were WAY ahead of their time in predicting alot of technologies, like the hypospray/powerderject (as it's called today), desktop computers etc...
Unfortunaty....just as I decided to kick away exam stress with a bit of escapism and watch some more....intellectual property laws intervened to fuck up my entertainment once again!
I fnally got Adobe Media player to work and was watchin a few, then today when I try to play an ep I get that audio message on a blank screen from that annoying bitch from the CBS website "this content is currently unavailable" (to the great unwashed 97% of the planet that are not Americans she probably should have clarified), what the hell diffrence does it make if they're showing it free to air over there why not over here?
In any case they figured out our loophole!
So now I'm stuck, just as I was starting to enjoy it...so my options are
(A) Download torrents (I live on college campus and the college network settings which I can do nothing about wont let these through)...so thats a no
(B) Buy the boxsets (I don't have €80 I have to pay for ye know...food, and I am living in the most expensive country in Europe)
(C) Figure some way of preventing the CBS system from knowing what country my laptop is in...I have to figure theres a few computer nerds among ST fans on this site who can tell me how to do this????
I tried it before by changing proxy settings, but in order to connect to my network I need to be tied in to it's specific settings, so if I change them I get blank pages....so....is there any other way?????????????????
(D) It seems to be the only series not availble somehwere to watch online BECAUSE it's on the CBS website (available to 4% of the worlds population....) so if anyone knows of one thats available to the great unwashed that make up the other 97% of humanity let me know.
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This is actually the case with a lot of 60s TV shows. Color TV was still pretty new and the networks wanted LOTS of color on their shows to show off the new technology.
That's why most shows wih three females on it had a red head, a blond and a brunette.
Gilligan's Island
Petticoat Junction
Lost In Space......
Gilligan's Island
Petticoat Junction
Lost In Space......
I've been experimenting with proxies, trying to access hulu.com, but haven't got any sucess. Maybe I'm not using them right, though. Anyway, as this involves circumvention of a legal impediment, I believe one of the mods will step here with a warning.
There was a site called stage6.com which was open to outside the US, but unfortunately it closed down. Seems like they were wasting more money than they expected.
PhoenixIreland; you say you're not in the US so I'm going to make a bold assumption based on your username and assume you live somewhere in Ireland. 
If that's the case, I believe the BBC1 still shows TOS occasionally, if at unreasonable hours. If you have digital, the Sci Fi channel shows TOS constantly.
If that's the case, I believe the BBC1 still shows TOS occasionally, if at unreasonable hours. If you have digital, the Sci Fi channel shows TOS constantly.
I don't have digital at the moment but ebay and the Irish equivilants of Netflix are a good idea to try! Thanks.
Ok, I have the first season and have been watching, so my first impressions.
1. I was quite confused by what order to watch them in considering the diffrence between chronological order and airdate order, but just watched in the order of the episode list of wikipedia.
2. There seems at this stage to be more of a focus on themes rather than the actual mission of exploration, Im sure this is partly the need to prove a sc fi show could make it within a budget and partly the usual moral of the story thread that runs through all ST series.
The Man Trap
Very Good, nice idea for a show in it's infancy, though I did find the idea of two people alone of a planet to fundamentally violate human nature and our need for social contact, it was still a good story.
Charlie X
no..just...just no
Where no man has Gone before
Poor guy havin to wear those tin foil contacts.
The Naked Time
Good, but I just realized that a Season 1 TNG ep was a blatent rip off of this episode, not the first time a story has been recycled in ST.
The Enemy Within
Mudds Women
I skipped this one, the story just seemd so stupid and I think Harry Mudd would make me want to throw stuff at the screen.
What are Little Girls Made of
A Mad scientest story is always good!
Balance of Terror (I skipped forward to this because I heard it was a classic episode)
Thats all I've seen so far, I'm pleasently surprised, it was ahead of it's time and theres such a classic feel to it that has it's own charm.
1. I was quite confused by what order to watch them in considering the diffrence between chronological order and airdate order, but just watched in the order of the episode list of wikipedia.
2. There seems at this stage to be more of a focus on themes rather than the actual mission of exploration, Im sure this is partly the need to prove a sc fi show could make it within a budget and partly the usual moral of the story thread that runs through all ST series.
The Man Trap
Very Good, nice idea for a show in it's infancy, though I did find the idea of two people alone of a planet to fundamentally violate human nature and our need for social contact, it was still a good story.
Charlie X
no..just...just noWhere no man has Gone before
Poor guy havin to wear those tin foil contacts.The Naked Time
Good, but I just realized that a Season 1 TNG ep was a blatent rip off of this episode, not the first time a story has been recycled in ST.
The Enemy Within
Mudds Women
I skipped this one, the story just seemd so stupid and I think Harry Mudd would make me want to throw stuff at the screen.
What are Little Girls Made of
A Mad scientest story is always good!Balance of Terror (I skipped forward to this because I heard it was a classic episode)
Thats all I've seen so far, I'm pleasently surprised, it was ahead of it's time and theres such a classic feel to it that has it's own charm.
I'm right there with you. I'm one of those people that just never found Mudd funny. The season two sequel, I, Mudd, is much more bizarre.
On the other hand, I quite like the Harry Mudd character. Mudd's Women isn't one of my favorites, but I don't consider it a bad episode. I, Mudd, however, is a favorite of mine. It is bizarre, but in a very fun way, in my opinion. There's really no telling what you might like and might not. The "Best of" and "Worst of" polls around here really show that there is always at least a few fans of every episode, even the ones "most fans" think are crap.
I would advise you to watch it. Harry Mudd is a rather interesting character and this episode has certainly a much more believable basis than I, Mudd has. And the moral isn't bad - a certain sixties' sexism not withstanding.
But more than that, I marvel each and every time at how they convey the transition from stunningly beautiful to dead ugly and back without any complicated SFX. No make-up commercial has ever done it more convincingly.
So if you watch it, tell us what you think.
The ending of "Mudd's Women" bugs me. Self-confidence does make a person more attractive in the eyes of others, but it will not magically do your hair and makeup. Actually, if the Venus pills are fakes, then there should have been no drastic physical changes in the women throughout the episode. There are good points to "Mudd's Women," but Mudd is much better in the sequel, "I, Mudd."
Im about to watch Dagger of the Mind.
There is quite a novelty in watchin these for the first time ever, considering I've seen 90% of the other series, all of TNG, DS9 and Voy with only a handful missing from Ent and TAS.
There is quite a novelty in watchin these for the first time ever, considering I've seen 90% of the other series, all of TNG, DS9 and Voy with only a handful missing from Ent and TAS.
Just watching the Menagerie Part II, and I have to say the Cage was a fantastic pilot episode, I don't know why they decided not to approve ST on that lone.
The villans are great (and actually look alien) , I love Pike as a captain.
When I saw it years ago they showed the other caged creatures including one abominable snowman type creature , I wonder why they cut that out?
...also for their time the special effects are very good.
The villans are great (and actually look alien) , I love Pike as a captain.
When I saw it years ago they showed the other caged creatures including one abominable snowman type creature , I wonder why they cut that out?
...also for their time the special effects are very good.
IIRC, that's only in the original pilot, not in "The Menagerie". I don't remember a "snowman creature" though. There's just this creature and this bird-like thing.
Agreed. The effects are wonderful.
The first thing is a bigfoot type abominable snowman thing, ever though he aint white.....but whats with the "war of the worlds" things sticking out of all the consols?????????
I thought those were kind of cool. It's their version of the intercom system.
Reading the Okuda commentary as I watch it said Gene wanted the Talosians to be crab like creatures that would have been so much cooler but too expensive...wonder if thats where "the crab people" from South Park came from
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