Opinions on the remastered versions

[Set Harth]

If only they got rid of Leia saying "I always knew" or remove the scenes from the previous films where she's tongue-wrestling Luke...

"They may take our incest kiss scene, but they'll never take... our FREEDOM!!"

Narrator: yeah.. about that

 

[scotpens]

• Contributing to Desilu's sale: The show's financial strain was a factor in Desilu Productions' financial difficulties, which eventually led to the studio being sold to Paramount.

I hate to keep harping on a niggling detail, but Desilu wasn't sold to Paramount. Desilu was rebranded as Paramount Television after both studios were acquired by the conglomerate Gulf and Western.

 

[CoveTom]

To clarify on the matter of the cost, it was Desilu, then Paramount, that slashed the budget, not the network. NBC's share of the budget increased every season. Desilu was a small studio with high overhead and fewer stock elements that could be used to economize, as happened over on the Fox lot, where props and set pieces from things like Fantastic Voyage and the Matt Helm movies get repurposed on everything from Irwin Allen shows to Batman, and items built for one series shot there got reused on others.

We did, however, get to see the street facades of Mayberry on more than one occasion in TOS. Now all we needed, since it was Desilu, is for our heroes to travel back in time and visit the Tropicana!