Nostalgia question: what year did you see your first TOS episode?

[Warp Core Breach]

My first look was "The Lights of Zetar" in prime time. It was probably the NBC repeat, summer of 1969. On a black & white TV. I was too young for that episode. The technician's big death scene was too much for me.

But I was ready for it when the show went into syndication, the following year or so. I was all about the afternoon reruns. It would be ten years before I voluntarily missed an episode, and that was "And the Children Shall Lead." And it was for a death in the family. What could I do?

Everyone should skip "And the Children Shall Lead". Always.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Everyone should skip "And the Children Shall Lead". Always.

No, they should chant along with the kids.

 

[Warp Core Breach]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Don't worry, he's a friendly angel

 

[feek61]

1966 when I was a young kid. I still remember how terrified I was of the Horta and that faceless chick in Charlie X. Scared me for life!

 

[drt]

December 1972: “The Doomsday Machine”

 

[BK613]

I don't remember a specific episode but I know I was watching by around 1970-1971.
I do have a distinct memory of being dismayed the first time I ever saw 'Tomorrow is Yesterday' because I initially thought Star Trek had been replaced that day by a movie featuring the Air Force.

 

[Metryq]

Reruns probably around '71 or '72. The first episode to stick in my head (I was around 7) was "The Enemy Within" because my dad used the episode in a sci-fi as literature class. (High school English teacher.) I remember playing it several times on an old Sony reel-to-reel VTR, crawling through the phaser in engineering shot.

 

[Ovation]

October 1973–The Devil in the Dark. Six years old on WLVI Ch. 56 out of Boston. Been watching ever since.

 

[comsol]

June of 1973.

 

[drt]

I do have a distinct memory of being dismayed the first time I ever saw 'Tomorrow is Yesterday' because I initially thought Star Trek had been replaced that day by a movie featuring the Air Force.

hahaha, same exact thing happened to me when I was a kid

 

[Nerys Myk]

1966. Recall being scared by the Salt Vampire. No idea if it was first run or the rerun. I was seven.

 

[publiusr]

Late 60s early 70s

 

[Commander Troi]

I don't know. I wasn't aware there were such things as years when I first saw TOS.

I can only tell you it was in syndication in the early to mid 1970s

Ditto. Probably saw it with my dad.

 

[M'Sharak]

Everyone should skip "And the Children Shall Lead". Always.

Everyone should watch it straight through once, in order to be able to appreciate how awful 99.9% of it is and why they would never willingly want to watch it ever again.

The bit where Sulu was seeing swords on the viewscreen was pretty cool, though.

 

[VSAFaculty]

Don’t recall the episode, but it was the summer of 1972. Thankfully, my parents were very lenient when it came to my obsession, and if dinner was late, I was always excused with my plate so I could go to my room and watch it on my little, portable, black and white television.

 

[VSAFaculty]

Don’t recall the episode, but it was the summer of 1972. Thankfully, my parents were very lenient when it came to my obsession, and if dinner was late, I was always excused with my plate so I could go to my room and watch it on my little, portable, black and white television.

 

[VSAFaculty]

Oh, dear. How does one delete a duplicate post?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Oh, dear. How does one delete a duplicate post?

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
There's a "delete" option on the lower left of the post between "edit" and "report". Might not be available for Newbies, though.

 

[VSAFaculty]

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
There's a "delete" option on the lower left of the post between "edit" and "report". Might not be available for Newbies, though.

No, I don’t see an edit button. Thank you for trying to help me, though!