More Parallel Planets?!?!?

[Spock's Barber]

Okay. I'm not a big fan of the 'parallel planet' theory, but here goes nothing. During it's 3 year run, we saw different examples of parallel planets, i.e. Ancient Rome, 1920's Chicago, Nazi Germany, etc. If TOS has gone on to a 4th and 5th season, what other parallel planets do you think the producers would have visited?

 

[Melakon]

For ideas, you would need to know what backlot areas the show had access to, though in the third season the budget had been so reduced they could only go outside once.

But assuming they had more money, they probably had access to 40 Acres, which had been owned by Desilu, unless Lucy had already sold it to another studio...

http://www.retroweb.com/40acres_desilu_years.html

And perhaps some of these current locations on the Paramount lot itself existed then...

http://www.paramountstudios.com/stages-backlots/backlots/brooklyn.html

http://www.paramountstudios.com/stages-backlots/new-york-street.html

http://www.paramountstudios.com/stages-backlots.html

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I'd love to visit the Brooklyn Planet.

 

[Spock's Barber]

How about the Simpson World? Not O.J.'s prison planet, but Homer and Bart's parallel planet. Doh!

 

[Melakon]

In the late '60s and early '70s, based on your opening premise, O.J. was still playing football, and The Simpsons didn't exist yet.

 

[Greg Cox]

We probably would have gotten Medieval World eventually. And maybe Arabian Nights world?

Beatnik World would have been fun, although I suppose we came close to that with "Way to Eden."

Dinosaur planet?

 

[Melakon]

Spartacus World, though I think the Spartacus sets were at Universal.

And nearly every studio backlot back then had at least one Western Street.

 

[Tim Walker]

West World!

 

[Nerys Myk]

Mayberry World

 

[Spock's Barber]

^^ You beat me to it. Andy Griffith had his Mayberry set on the 40 Acre Lot if I'm not mistaken. Kirk meets Deputy Barney Fife?

 

[Melakon]

That 40 Acres site shows the Andy Griffith sets. Hogan's Heroes filmed there too.

 

[Spock's Barber]

That 40 Acres site shows the Andy Griffith sets. Hogan's Heroes filmed there too.

I can't remember. Were the Mayberry sets used in 'Miri' or 'Return of the Archons'?

 

[Melakon]

That 40 Acres site shows the Andy Griffith sets. Hogan's Heroes filmed there too.

I can't remember. We're the Mayberry sets used in 'Miri' or 'Return of the Archons'?

Both, also most notably in "City on the Edge of Forever", when Kirk and Edith pass Floyd's Barber Shop. There's another first season episode I can't remember.

 

[Greg Cox]

That 40 Acres site shows the Andy Griffith sets. Hogan's Heroes filmed there too.

I can't remember. Were the Mayberry sets used in 'Miri' or 'Return of the Archons'?

I thought it was "City on the Edge of Forever."

Although I suppose it could have been all of them . . ..

 

[Spock's Barber]

ST never did visit a communist parallel planet. Maybe the Cold War was just too real for that to be filmed. Check that. I forgot about 'The Omega Glory'.

 

[Nerys Myk]

^^ You beat me to it. Andy Griffith had his Mayberry set on the 40 Acre Lot if I'm not mistaken. Kirk meets Deputy Barney Fife?

Anything can happen

BARNEY: Nip it in the bud, Otis. I don't have time for drunken foolishness about "aliens". Now where'd you say you were from stranger?

 

[Spock's Barber]

How about Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to The Zombie Cheerleader Planet?

 

[Melakon]

Oh, the other episode is "Errand of Mercy". The outdoor steps Kirk and Spock run up is the same set where Pike fought the Rigel VII guy.

 

[Spock's Barber]

^^ You beat me to it. Andy Griffith had his Mayberry set on the 40 Acre Lot if I'm not mistaken. Kirk meets Deputy Barney Fife?

Anything can happen

BARNEY: Nip it in the bud, Otis. I don't have time for drunken foolishness about "aliens". Now where'd you say you were from stranger?

As Spock would say, "Fascinating!" You must be a real Photoshop wizard.

 

[Melakon]

You must be a real Photoshop wizard.

If ever oh ever a wiz there was
The wizard of TBBS is one because
Because because because because because
Because of the wonderful things he does.