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The artwork in the ad was NBC promotional art, and was eventually used on the first Bantam paperback collection of Trek episode adaptations by James Blish. The art was done by James Bama.
NBC prepared similar art to use in ads for all its new shows that season. I think that the art for Richard Mulligan's series "The Hero" was by Jack Davis of "Mad Magazine" fame, but I'm not sure.
NBC prepared similar art to use in ads for all its new shows that season. I think that the art for Richard Mulligan's series "The Hero" was by Jack Davis of "Mad Magazine" fame, but I'm not sure.
I was born in 1970 so no dice but wow! Thanks for linking!
"The first adult space adventure." That's a damn good summing up of the show's appeal. When I was kid, it made me feel grown up. Now that I'm "grown up," it makes me feel like a kid. I'll be a Trekkie forever!
"The first adult space adventure." That's a damn good summing up of the show's appeal. When I was kid, it made me feel grown up. Now that I'm "grown up," it makes me feel like a kid. I'll be a Trekkie forever!
Davis did do some artwork for movies and TV around that time, so it's not unlikely. I remember nothing at all about The Hero and a search didn't turn up much, so I don't have anything to look at, but Davis' drawing style is quite distinctive (there was an old Spider-Man drawing that came up in connection with something recently and I spotted it as his right away.)
I recognized the art in the Trek ad as having been the same as the book cover art, but there's something about the promo that doesn't look right -- that marquee-light thing is something I remember NBC using for their Xxxday-Night Movie promos and such, but I've got this nagging feeling it was a few years later than this that they used it.
Psychedella!
You have just got to love the over-the-top color, style and music of 1960's advertising. 
I loved it. I even saved it to my YouTube favorites to watch again later.
But since I was born in 1975, I just remember the badly cobbled together, tacky, cracked-out ads they used to run in the early 80's for the syndicated reruns.
"Watch Staaaaar Treeeeek! (Insert sparkled blue bubble lettered Trek title card over zipping sideways moving 2D starfield) On at midnight! (Insert horrible synthesizer version of Trek theme)
I wonder if they have any of them floating around on YouTube? I may just have to go on another "mining expedition" to find out.
Edit to add: I did find this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEI0dykl5s0 It is not nearly as cheesy as the one the local station here used but you get the idea.
I loved it. I even saved it to my YouTube favorites to watch again later.But since I was born in 1975, I just remember the badly cobbled together, tacky, cracked-out ads they used to run in the early 80's for the syndicated reruns.
"Watch Staaaaar Treeeeek! (Insert sparkled blue bubble lettered Trek title card over zipping sideways moving 2D starfield) On at midnight! (Insert horrible synthesizer version of Trek theme)
I wonder if they have any of them floating around on YouTube? I may just have to go on another "mining expedition" to find out.
Edit to add: I did find this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEI0dykl5s0 It is not nearly as cheesy as the one the local station here used but you get the idea.
OMG that's great! Even more funky and primitive than I would have expected. I've never thought of Star Trek as an "adult" show since I've been watching it since the age of four.
Even more funky and primitive than I would have expected. I've never thought of Star Trek as an "adult" show since I've been watching it since the age of four.Kryton said:
I own a copy of that first-edition paperback. Too bad they were off by seven days (since everyone knows Trek premiered on September 8th).
Weird thing: the three networks generally premiered all their new Fall programming on the same week, and as an entire schedule.
That schedule would usually remain pretty much intact for at least thirteen weeks, and most of it for at least a season. This business of ordering thirteen episodes and then deciding later to either extend the order another nine or not came later.
Anyway, the official "premiere week" for NBC, ABC and CBS that year was the second week of September.
NBC then announced "sneak previews" of several of their new shows a week early. Thus Trek first showed on the 8th rather than the 15th.
Say what one wants about Jane Fonda's politics...but thirty or forty years ago most guys in here would have given our left legs to fuck that.
I'd "play her" alright. Right into a cervix-shattering orgasm as I scream "Klute" into her face and compliment her daddy's acting abilities.
Jane Fonda has no politics. Never had. She's the silliest of putties, picking up the politics of whatever man she's pressed up against at the time.
I hear now she's really into Jesus. Shame he didn't get a chance to nail her when she was young and pretty.
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