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50 best TV episodes of the 60's: which Treks, if any, belong?
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The Menagerie, it was so romantic, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.
Now the unadulterated "Cage" might be a candidate for the list. Of course, it was never technically aired as a TV program during the decade. I thought the framing story of "The Menagerie" was nicely conceived, but in execution, the juxtaposition of the two stories together didn't work all that well IMO.
Sorry, leaving out "The Prisoner" invalidates your list IMO. That's like leaving out the Vietnam War or the Moon landing in a list of important historical events.
*FAIL*
Statements like that merely reinforce an idea that's I've had for some time: namely, that The Prisoner is very probably, in retrospect, the most overrated program of the era. I’m sorry, but I don’t think the meticulous research I put into the compilation of this list is “invalid” because I didn’t deign to include an entry from a seventeen-episode series which never seemed to have a clear idea of what it was or the direction in which it was going, couldn’t make up its mind whether it wanted to be a realistic drama or a heavy-handed allegory (yeah, yeah, I get it, we are all “prisoners” of society), hardly had any internal consistency from episode to episode, couldn’t sustain its premise even over its short run, and ended with a finale so incoherent that any attempt at analysis of it forces one into babbling psuedo-intellectual hooey. Being obtuse for the sake of simply being obtuse is not the same as being profound.
Not that The Prisoner was a bad series. Far from it. But to listen to some of the show’s proponents pontificate, you’d think it was the greatest artistic achievement of the twentieth century. Anyone who claims, as many do, that The Prisoner was the greatest series of all time leads me to wonder just how much television they have seen.
Didn't see Dragnet on that list but I could have missed it. The Prisoner is a over rated show, many episodes were at best aimless. Adam 12, at least a few eps, did a real good job of showing what was happening to american culture with out digging in to deep. The two star treks I'd place on the list, Balance of Terror and Journey to Babel. The advantage these have over other episodes is that they can stand alone. Menagerie, City, and many others depend on the viewer possessing at lease a passing knowledge of the show. Balance and Journey are the shows I present to friends who have never seen the 1960s' originals.
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Nice.
I've always liked this one, too. Although, I prefer The Cage as originally intended... But they did well, resurrecting an old experimental pilot unintended to ever be seen again...I've always thought Where No Man Has Gone Before was a superb tale told well and the sound design and visuals (expecially the Delta Vega backdrop) really encapsulate the era...
But then I'm biased as it's one of my top favourite episodes...
Sorry, leaving out "The Prisoner" invalidates your list IMO. That's like leaving out the Vietnam War or the Moon landing in a list of important historical events.
*FAIL*
Statements like that merely reinforce an idea that's I've had for some time: namely, that The Prisoner is very probably, in retrospect, the most overrated program of the era. ...
...episode, couldn’t sustain its premise even over its short run, and ended with a finale so incoherent that any attempt at analysis of it forces one into babbling psuedo-intellectual hooey.
Yeah, weirded me out as a kid too.
Sorry, leaving out "The Prisoner" invalidates your list IMO. That's like leaving out the Vietnam War or the Moon landing in a list of important historical events.
*FAIL*
Statements like that merely reinforce an idea that's I've had for some time: namely, that The Prisoner is very probably, in retrospect, the most overrated program of the era. ...
...episode, couldn’t sustain its premise even over its short run, and ended with a finale so incoherent that any attempt at analysis of it forces one into babbling psuedo-intellectual hooey.
Yeah, weirded me out as a kid too.
Interesting - I loved it as a kid. But then, it was the early episodes I saw: The Chimes of Big Ben; A, B and C; Free for All; The General; and Hammer into Anvil - if I remember correctly...
Sorry, leaving out "The Prisoner" invalidates your list IMO. That's like leaving out the Vietnam War or the Moon landing in a list of important historical events.
*FAIL*
In the twenty-third century, on a far away colony world, every school child will know of the grand adventure that was the first moon landing.
Vietnam?
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