The Least Disliked Episode of The Animated Series - Final Part...

[Farscape One]

The votes have been reset for this round.

My pick for this round goes to "ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING". In a contest between the two, for me, "YESTERYEAR" is a clear winner in no small part to how we see Vulcan society and Spock's history.

YESTERYEAR - 0
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING - 1

 

[BigDaveX]

One of Our Planets is Missing. Some actually quite sophisticated messages for an episode of a show targeted at children, and it manages to handle the question of whether or not it was right to kill the planet-killing entity far better than TNG's "Silicon Avatar" did years later... but let's face it, Yesteryear is simply in a whole different league to any other episode of TAS.

YESTERYEAR - 0
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING - 2

 

[Garth Rockett]

Agreed. One of Our Planets Is Missing is definitely one of the best episodes of TAS, but Yesteryear is the best episode.

YESTERYEAR - 0
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING - 3

 

[feek61]

You can't beat "Yesteryear" which is simply the best TAS episode.
YESTERYEAR - 0
ONE OF OUR PLANETS IS MISSING - 4

 

[BigDaveX]

Well, that was no great shock.

Am I right in thinking that Yesteryear is the first episode to win a "least disliked" contest without ever getting a single point at any stage of the contest?

 

[Farscape One]

That is certainly possible.

In any event, we have a winner! Thank you all for playing. I will begin the "Most Disliked" thread shortly.

 

[Farscape One]

I just started the "Most Disliked" thread for the Animated Series. Everyone is very welcome to vote there!

(I wonder if it will progress in the exact reverse of the Least Disliked...)

After this series, TNG's "Most Disliked" will be next.

 

[Brennyren]

Well, that was no great shock.

Would have been astonished if anything else won! "Yesteryear" is in a league of its own.

 

[BlueStuff]

Well, that was no great shock.

Am I right in thinking that Yesteryear is the first episode to win a "least disliked" contest without ever getting a single point at any stage of the contest?

As I recall, In the Pale Moonlight had that honor more than once. Or maybe just once.

 

[marsh8472]

I figured Yesteryear would win before I looked at this thread

 

[V'torr]

Yesteryear was the first animated episode that my father introduced me to. A hard act to follow!

 

[johnnybear]

I also wondered why Mark Lenard and the other actors from the original series that guested their voices on the show were not credited at the end as well?
JB

 

[BigDaveX]

I also wondered why Mark Lenard and the other actors from the original series that guested their voices on the show were not credited at the end as well?
JB

They used the same end credit sequence for every episode of TAS, meaning that any guest stars had to make do without being credited.

 

[johnnybear]

Yes I realised that! But how much would it have cost to credit Mark Lenard I ask myself?
JB

 

[BigDaveX]

Maybe it wouldn't be that much just to add in an extra credit for Lenard, but seeing how that would also mean you would have to credit every other guest star in the interests of fairness (which at the bare minimum would include Ted Knight in "The Survivor," Roger Carmel in "Mudd's Passion," Stanley Adams in "More Tribbles, More Troubles," Ed Bishop in "The Magicks of Megas-Tu," and Jane Webb in "The Jihad"), the costs would rack up real quick.

Heck, a lot of animated kid's shows used the same end credit sequence for every episode of a particular season all the way up to the 90s, and the costs in 1973 would if anything have been even higher, since that was before the era of video-generated credits.

 

[johnnybear]

Lou Scheimer himself did one of the voices for his shows I think! Although not each and every week!
JB