8c9 Subj : Re: Star Trek TV is 39 years old today! To : alt.tv.star-trek.tos From : Steven L. Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 00:08:22 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos The Merry Piper wrote: > On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:31:32 +0200, "Wouter Valentijn" > wrote: > > >>Steven L. wrote: >> >>>Crazy About TV wrote: >>> >>> >>>>The premiere episode of the original Star Trek series titled, "The >>>>Man Trap", aired on September 8, 1966. >>>> >>>>------------- >>>> >>>>http://www.crazyabouttv.com/startrekorig.html >>> >>>Yep. >>>I even remember the promos that run during the late summer ("A >>>spaceship as big as a city!"), and the advertisements in the local >>>newspapers: >>>"The First Adult Space Adventure!"). >> >>I saw a clip of it during a special I think. >>"Four hundred men and women...." >> >> >>>Those newspaper ads were the infamous ones with Spock's ears >>>airbrushed out. >> >>Now that's just silly! >>They considered the Spock ears to be offensive? Sheesh.... > > > The brass were worried Spock looked Satanic with the pointy ears. One > exec was quoted as saying "Loose the guy with the devil ears." NBC was worried for good reason. Because lots of religious Americans believed in the devil and NBC feared they would think Spock was satanic. In fact, according to an Opinion Dynamics poll taken only a year or two ago, 71% of Americans believe in the devil today: Fully 92 percent of Americans say they believe in God, 85 percent in heaven and 82 percent in miracles, according to the latest FOX News poll. Though belief in God has remained at about the same level, belief in the devil has increased slightly over the last few years u from 63 percent in 1997 to 71 percent today. The national poll, conducted by Opinion Dynamics Corporation (search), shows that about a third of Americans believe in ghosts (34 percent) and an equal number in UFOs (34 percent), and about a quarter accept things like astrology (search) (29 percent), reincarnation (search) (25 percent) and witches (24 percent). http://tinyurl.com/8wuze -- Steven D. Litvintchouk Email: sdlitvin@earthlinkNOSPAM.net Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me. . 0