What was the first episode you have ever watched?

[Push The Button]

The first that I can remember watching from start to finish was Balance of Terror on WKBG channel 56 in Boston, sometime in the mid 70's. WKBG was a wonderful glorious noisy grainy UHF station that had lots of great shows and old movies, plus things like their Creature Double Feature and The Ghoul.

 

[suarezguy]

I'm pretty sure the first scenes I saw were parts of "Projections" but I didn't watch it all; the first episode I saw all of was one from the latter part of either DS9's fifth season or of Voyager's third.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

About 7 months ago. Voyager S3- Remember. Really boring! Luckily the next three were great.

 

[Orphalesion]

WKBG was a wonderful glorious noisy grainy UHF station that had lots of great shows and old movies, plus things like their Creature Double Feature and The Ghoul.

That sounds awesome

About 7 months ago. Voyager S3- Remember. Really boring! Luckily the next three were great.

Wow, you're really new to Trek then. Hope you continue to enjoy it!

 

[urbandefault]

No idea, I was like seven years old and it was way back in 1966. Might have missed a few as the family also watched the competition. (My Three Sons and Bewitched)

Ahh, "Bewitched". Old Derwood, of course! And, "My Three Sons"! Old Uncle Charlie, to be sure! Who didn't love William Frawley?

Vivian Vance sure didn't.

Usually it was ignited when Vance suggested some changes in dialogue or additional bits of stage business. Because the ideas were Vance's, Frawley refused to cooperate, often retreating to his dressing room. Not even the director could make him budge. Oppenheimer would have to go in and soothe his ruffled feathers. The producer usually got Frawley to cooperate by saying, ''Do it for me." Frawley would eventually agree, reminding Oppenheimer, ''I'll do it for you, but not for that bitch!"

After "Lucy" went off prime time, Frawley made this remark about Vance, his TV wife, his so-called "honeybunch": "She's one of the finest gals to come out of Kansas, but I often wish she'd go back there. I don't know where she is now and she doesn't know where I am, and that's exactly the way I like it."

http://articles.philly.com/1989-05-01/entertainment/26113544_1_jess-oppenheimer-arnaz-fred-and-ethel

Oh, and William Demarest was Uncle Charley. Frawley was Uncle Bub.

 

[Melakon]

Frawley was just called Bub, wasn't he? I don't remember him being called Uncle Bub.

 

[urbandefault]

Frawley was just called Bub, wasn't he? I don't remember him being called Uncle Bub.

I don't know about on the show, but I called him Uncle Bub.

 

[Melakon]

I remember when Frawley died and Demarest took over. I'd only seen him in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World before that (in Cinerama!), but didn't know who he was then.

 

[HIjol]

Frawley was just called Bub, wasn't he? I don't remember him being called Uncle Bub.

I don't know about on the show, but I called him Uncle Bub.

Right you are, and I just brain farted as I typed that about Uncle Charlie. Appreciate the Frawley/Vance behind the scenes info. Too bad they did not get along.

I remember when Frawley died and Demarest took over. I'd only seen him in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World before that (in Cinerama!), but didn't know who he was then.

That movie was beyond description. If you get a chance To watch the Extras on the DVD, it is worth it. They all talk about how nothing was improvised. There were two scripts, the dialogue and the physical blocking scripts. Can you imagine, with a group like that, not letting them go off the reservation? Pretty cool stuff to be learned.

 

[Melakon]

I used to have Mad World on vhs, I need to get a dvd version. I think last year they found scenes cut before the general roadshow release, which Stanley Kramer had wanted to keep but the studio made him take out. They created a new dvd release with the new footage.

During the gas station destruction, Jonathan Winters wanted to pull down the water tower with the truck himself, but Kramer wouldn't let him because they couldn't guarantee it wouldn't hit Jonathan in the truck.

When Jonathan was tied to the chair at the gas station, everyone went to lunch and left him there. When they got back, he gave Arnold Stang and Marvin Kaplan a strong lecture about forced potty training.

 

[Timewalker]

"By Any Other Name". It was in November 1975.

 

[Mojochi]

Probably "The Mantrap" back during its original run on NBC. I would've been around eight years old at the time, but my dad sometimes let me stay up past my bedtime to watch STAR TREK with him.

Interesting. My dad & I use to do that too. We also went to see every Star Trek movie in the theater. (Not on premier night, that would be crazy), but Trek has been sort of a family tradition for us. He worked many years for Budweiser, & I nearly pissed myself when my geriatric dad was sitting in a full theater for NuTrek, when they showed engineering, & blurted out at the top of his lungs "Holy shit! That's the California Bud plant!" It got the whole crowd laughing

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Best Of Both Worlds, when it first aired and I was too young to really get it and my parents showed it to me.

 

[HIjol]

Probably "The Mantrap" back during its original run on NBC. I would've been around eight years old at the time, but my dad sometimes let me stay up past my bedtime to watch STAR TREK with him.

Interesting. My dad & I use to do that too. We also went to see every Star Trek movie in the theater. (Not on premier night, that would be crazy), but Trek has been sort of a family tradition for us. He worked many years for Budweiser, & I nearly pissed myself when my geriatric dad was sitting in a full theater for NuTrek, when they showed engineering, & blurted out at the top of his lungs "Holy shit! That's the California Bud plant!" It got the whole crowd laughing

Now, THAT is what I call a good, sweet, fun Star Trek Story!

The Next Generation, indeed.

 

[steveda19]

The first one i saw was TOS when i was 7 years old in 1968. Thats when i first start watching Star Trek it was in 3rd season.Then i saw The Cartoon series on saturday mornings in 1972.

 

[Zek]

The first Trek episode I ever saw was also TNG's first episode "Encounter at Farpoint." I was nine or ten years old at the time so it must have been 2003 or 2004 and the SyFy channel was rerunning The Next Generation from the beginning. I still remember perfectly sitting on my couch watching it completely enthralled. Truly, I had very little understanding of what was going on but I immediately liked Picard for his sense of righteousness and Tasha for how tough she was. I wish I had followed the show back then instead of only catching a few random episodes and then forgetting about it. Now it's been six months since I got really into everything Star Trek and am currently watching all series through starting with TNG. I certainly like a lot of other episodes a lot more but "Farpoint" will always hold that special place in my heart.

 

[Greg Cox]

Probably "The Mantrap" back during its original run on NBC. I would've been around eight years old at the time, but my dad sometimes let me stay up past my bedtime to watch STAR TREK with him.

Interesting. My dad & I use to do that too. We also went to see every Star Trek movie in the theater. (Not on premier night, that would be crazy), but Trek has been sort of a family tradition for us. He worked many years for Budweiser, & I nearly pissed myself when my geriatric dad was sitting in a full theater for NuTrek, when they showed engineering, & blurted out at the top of his lungs "Holy shit! That's the California Bud plant!" It got the whole crowd laughing

Now, THAT is what I call a good, sweet, fun Star Trek Story!

The Next Generation, indeed.

Love that story, too!

Oddly, I don't think I ever saw a Trek movie with my dad. By the time the movies started up, I had headed off to college and discovered fandom, and so ended up seeing all the various Trek movies with my Trekkie friends, my girlfriend, and so on.

Dad and I did keep seeing sci-fi movies together, though. I remember dragging him to THE MATRIX and I'm pretty sure the last movie we saw together was X-MEN: THE LAST STAND. (Yeah, yeah, I know.) He had no idea who the X-Men were, but we had a pretty good time anyway . . ..

 

[krash661]

the first episode i seen was q who ? from tng.
i love q.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

First memory is Spock sitting at his station. The ears attracted my attention. My step-dad probably had a wise-crack about them. He was a bit anti-Science Fiction (a good guy, don't get me wrong, loved watching Westerns with him, but he had no truck for SF). First scene that sticks in my head is a bunch of guys running around a jungle, getting killed, so it must have been "The Apple," though at that time (1973) we had a B/W television set, so I had no idea they were Redshirts.

Sir Rhosis

 

[1001001]

I don't have any specific memory of the first episode, but it was definitely TOS. Sometime in the mid 70's.