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Post by StarFuryG7 on May 31, 2014 14:25:25 GMT -5
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Post by CRAMBAM on Jun 2, 2014 9:29:02 GMT -5
If Star Trek was such a top rated show, how dumb was NBC? And how many more seasons could we have had if NBC supported it?
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Jun 2, 2014 12:46:20 GMT -5
If Star Trek was such a top rated show, how dumb was NBC? And how many more seasons could we have had if NBC supported it? I finished reading "These Are The Voyages, Book One" and have been meaning to post about this. Perhaps later tonight or tomorrow, when I'm not busy working. |
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Post by CRAMBAM on Nov 28, 2014 13:16:30 GMT -5
I finally got my hands on these 2 books, but it will be awhile before I get started.
I'm finishing up one book, and then I want to read the Crucible series, which was a 40th anniversary story that somehow details events during City on the Edge. I believe the first one, Crucible McCoy, documents McCoy's life after saving Edith Keeler.
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Post by Mel on Dec 2, 2014 16:07:16 GMT -5
I looked but I can't tell which Trek book it is. What's the title? Thanks.
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Post by captainbasil on Dec 3, 2014 7:46:59 GMT -5
If Star Trek was such a top rated show, how dumb was NBC? And how many more seasons could we have had if NBC supported it? TV Networks always pulled stuff like that when they had "visions" of what they wanted their Network to represent. The Programming head of ABC pulled the popular Kolchak, The Night Stalker series off the air not because of ratings but because he didn't think ABC should have a "Monster of the Week" show. The series is as much a classic as the two movies that spawned it. Star Trek probably didn't fit the NBC mold at the time. |
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Dec 4, 2014 12:11:40 GMT -5
If Star Trek was such a top rated show, how dumb was NBC? And how many more seasons could we have had if NBC supported it? TV Networks always pulled stuff like that when they had "visions" of what they wanted their Network to represent. The Programming head of ABC pulled the popular Kolchak, The Night Stalker series off the air not because of ratings but because he didn't think ABC should have a "Monster of the Week" show. The series is as much a classic as the two movies that spawned it. Star Trek probably didn't fit the NBC mold at the time. You're partly correct here, but it went even beyond that as the network had a personal dislike for Gene Roddenberry, which is somewhat perplexing, given that they agreed to pick up the show at all in the first place. There was a lot of animosity because of what he did on "The Lieutenant", by producing an episode they were adamantly against, but despite their very pointed warnings, he went ahead and shot the episode anyway, which resulted in that show getting canceled. I think that had a lot to do with why the show received virtually no promotion by NBC, save for when it first premiered, with a lot of that advertising being geared toward promoting the new color TV technology that was hitting the market. By its second season, however, being ditched on the schedule to Friday nights, it got virtually no promotion at all, and even there it proved to be a solid second place showing throughout that season. NBC knew its ratings were pretty solid, and with practically no advertising, and yet, back then the networks were able to keep a tight lid on the ratings data, in part because they were afraid of how actors might well react if they knew their show was performing well, meaning the network knew they could expect their stars to demand more money to do their jobs, and with their not wanting that to become a commonplace trend within the industry, they neither reported nor publicized such information generally, and such was generally the case with "Star Trek" --very much so in fact. I think NBC was determined to kill the show to tell you the truth. When reading the first two "These Are The Voyages" books by Marc Cushman, it's difficult to reach any other conclusion. TOS could have performed even better than it did were it not for them and their handling of the show. They showed it no respect at all, and even without their help, the show performed pretty darn well despite them. |
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