603 Subj : Re: Star Trek TV is 39 years old today! To : alt.tv.star-trek.tos From : Wouter Valentijn Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 19:31:56 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos The Merry Piper wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:36:41 GMT, 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." > > I mean "LOSE" ... not loose. grrrrr Yeah, I heard something like that. But to go as far as to airbrush out ears... -- www.Wouter.Valentijn.name www.zeppodunsel.nl www.scifics.com www.nksf.nl liam=mail . 0