Yes. I also was subject to the vagaries of syndication and didn't know that "A Private Little War" existed until I'd seen all the others two or three times.
lost TOS episode!
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If memory serves, this was around the same time as the Blair Witch nonsense was going on, so this sort of thing was semi-big. Marvel Comics tried something similar with a "lost" character called The Sentry, claiming he'd been created back in the early 60's and then immediately shelved.
The jumping off point for this one appears to be an exchange in the movie "Free Enterprise" when Rob's girlfriend, in the process of dumping him, says something to the effect of, "Who cares about when 'Requiem For The Martian' aired?"
"Methuselah", Rob corrects her, "the episode is 'Requiem For Methuselah,'" and then goes on to quote, chapter and verse, the date and time the episode first aired on NBC, not quite realizing that he's only digging his hole even deeper.
Someone took the misquoted title and ran with it, and more than a few folks around here, always up for a good gag, related anecdotes of their own about thier seeing this "lost episode" back in the day, generating lots of chuckles among the annointed, but confusing the hell out of the newbies.
Yes, mine was "Wink of an Eye". It was in the early 70's. I thought I had seen them all, and then this episode came on.
Arena was my last episode. I saw it for the first time in 1978. I'm not counting The Cage and I'm not certain when I saw that for the first time. It was probably when it aired on TV with the discussion by GR himself.
Like others on this board, I sometimes dream that there is another TOS episode which I have never seen before, and in the dream I can't believe that one has somehow slipped through the cracks.
Like others on this board, I sometimes dream that there is another TOS episode which I have never seen before, and in the dream I can't believe that one has somehow slipped through the cracks.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
That is an interesting 'lost episode'. Because it starts on the bridge like so many others. How long into it you keep asking yourself 'what one is this' thinking that you had already seen it??
Rob
Scoprio
Oh, well, sure. Obviously she was talking about ``Return Of The Martian''. Would you go out with someone who can't keep their episodes straight?
I have to mention two...
Back in the '70s, the last COMPLETE episode I saw was Return to Tomorrow.
However, there was an episode that I started but never finished because I got interupted...That Which Survives. I didn't finish that episode until the red box with Season 3 DVDs was released. I had only seen up to the point that Sulu is touched by Losira.
Back in the '70s, the last COMPLETE episode I saw was Return to Tomorrow.
However, there was an episode that I started but never finished because I got interupted...That Which Survives. I didn't finish that episode until the red box with Season 3 DVDs was released. I had only seen up to the point that Sulu is touched by Losira.
He put lemon in the tidy bowl for you, he put lemon in the tidy bowl... cha cha.
Ancient Chinese Secret: Sometimes I really miss the 70s.
On topic, after TWOK came out, local tv showed every episode. I watched every single one, and despite thinking I had seen each and every episode, there were some I hadn't and several I had never seen all the way through. Tv was a bit more precious before VCRs and DVRs. When "Tomorrow is Yesterday" came on, I thought I had it on the wrong channel because it began in "present day." Likewise, "Shore Leave" threw me for a loop because of it's location shooting. And how can I not mention "Space Seed" which I saw after seeing TWOK? It seemed so odd at the time to make a movie sequel to an episode of a tv series which never seemed to be in rotation. Indeed, there was so much I had missed. Most of my early memories of Trek are I think from the same five or so episodes ("The Man Trap," "The Enemy Within," "The Naked Time," "Arena," and "The Trouble With Tribbles").
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Mine was "Elaan of Troyius". I don't remember any specifics about when I saw it (other than it was in the early '70's), but I'd seen all of the other episodes several times, then *boom* new stuff! Before that, "The Tholian Web" caught me by surprise, also. Two of the few good 3rd seaon episodes, although "Elaan" is a little goofy with the whole "love potion" thing; it's great compared to most 3rd seasoners.
Alas no "lost" episode for me. I had seen each and every episode multiple times by the 70s. However, once in the 90s I saw the teaser for an episode that I didn't recognize, at least not at first. I knew that I must've seen the episode but it was fun seeing even a new fragment. Somehow I had missed the teaser for That which survives for those 20 years.
Mr Awe
Mr Awe
RobertScorpio
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if there was EVER an episode that needed a director's cut..this is it. I'd love to see a scene where Kirk gives her the much needed spanking...mmmm...yeah!!!
Rob
I actually have two lost episodes: This Side of Paradise; The Paradise Syndrome.
For some strange reason I missed those throughout all the years of syndication until a few years ago when they were aired on a local station.
Both times I saw teasers just before they were shown and went, "What the hell is that? I've never seen this!"
Needless to say, nothing I had planned got done until those episodes were over.
For some strange reason I missed those throughout all the years of syndication until a few years ago when they were aired on a local station.
Both times I saw teasers just before they were shown and went, "What the hell is that? I've never seen this!"
Needless to say, nothing I had planned got done until those episodes were over.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
And two very good episodes!!!..At least it wasn't And The Children Shall Lead or The lights of Zeltar or whatever!!
Rob
RobertScorpio
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Yeah...but what if he saw SPOCKS BRAIN and waited five years to see CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER....yikes..
Rob
I thought I had watched every episode of the original series on video tape, having owned the series from Columbia House before it was easily available everywhere else, but actually I had never watched "All Our Yesterdays" until about 10 years later!! It was a really good episode too. Maybe the rest of the 3rd season had burned me out before I got there. (Although I had seen Turnabout Intruder about 5 times already!)
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