Star Trek - Did you know this?

[gsdx]

In the episode 'City on the Edge of Forever', Spock and Kirk transport back in time, following McCoy who has changed history somehow. They end up in 1930s New York. In one scene, Kirk and Edith Keeler are walking down the street and they pass a few store fronts which may be very familiar to those of you of my generation or who are into 'classic comedies'.

The street they walk down is the same street in downtown Mayberry. Note the barbershop and behind a pixelated Opie and the radio shop and groceries & meats to the left:

Watch the short clip:

 

[Cormac135]

I know the episode but i've never seen Mayberry so didn't catch it.

 

[LittleDove]

I remember the episode, but had forgotten that Joan Collins appeared in it.

 

[Yooper]

Me TV, which airs ST: TOS on Saturday Nights (and Andy incessantly) has been using self-promos crossing over the shows for a few months now. It's pretty funny.

FYI, this upcoming Saturday night, Me TV is airing both the very first episode of Star Trek at 9PM (8 Central), and on Svengoolie at 10 (9 Central) will be showing the rarely seen pilot in its entirety--not the cut up pilot used in 'The Cage.'

 

[gsdx]

^ Don't get that here.

 

[Yooper]

^ Don't get that here.

One of the very few things the US has going for it, TV-wise. You'd like it.

http://metv.com/wheretowatch/

I know Sir Ron watches--he's mentioned Lost in Space a few times as part of his Saturday Nights. They've changed the schedule as of tomorrow, and moved it far later into Sunday Morning.

 

[jbrown329]

By the time I got into Star Trek, it was in reruns. I do remember the episode but not that it was the Mayberry street.

 

[gsdx]

http://metv.com/wheretowatch/

Nothing in Canada. Too bad. I'd love to see Lost in Space again, if only to see the walking, talking carrot.

 

[roadtripboy]

Nothing in Canada. Too bad. I'd love to see Lost in Space again, if only to see the walking, talking carrot.

Did I remember you saying you could get some US TV stations form Buffalo NY? If so, ME TV is on WBBZ 67.1.

 

[gsdx]

^ Not here. We get the 3 networks (I only watch Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune on CBS), Fox (Judge Judy and People's Court), and PBS (WNED) out of Buffalo. There might be others, but I don't watch them and don't even look for them.

 

[roadtripboy]

^I remembered you mentioning watching PBS from Buffalo and thought you might get other stations as well. It's too bad I think you'd like ME TV and Tribune's Antenna TV.

 

[gsdx]

^ Probably, but whatcha gonna do, eh?

 

[gsdx]

I just went to the Me TV website and the videos are available for viewing up here. So... guess what?

Thanks for the head's up.

 

[BillyT]

Here is the scene without dialog.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

I was 9 years old when Star Trek premiered on NBC in 1966.

Although Star Trek was accepted by the network the original pilot episode was rejected by NBC unless "recommended" changes were made. Fortunately major parts of "The Cage" were used in the two-part, first season finale called, "The Menagerie".

One of my favorite scenes takes place in the transporter room as the landing party prepares to beam down to the planet. Then the Talosians take control and nab Number One and Yeoman Colt. That's when Spock yells, "The Women!".

Love the first version of Spock from "The Cage" - he even smiled at times.

 

[johaninsc]

In the episode 'City on the Edge of Forever', Spock and Kirk transport back in time, following McCoy who has changed history somehow. They end up in 1930s New York. In one scene, Kirk and Edith Keeler are walking down the street and they pass a few store fronts which may be very familiar to those of you of my generation or who are into 'classic comedies'.

The street they walk down is the same street in downtown Mayberry. Note the barbershop and behind a pixelated Opie and the radio shop and groceries & meats to the left:

Watch the short clip:

those scenes were filmed at the '40 Acres' back lot
http://www.retroweb.com/40acres_tour.html
it's all gone now

 

[Yooper]

Did anyone ever notice that the main Talosian in 'The Cage/The Menagerie' is Dr. Bellows from 'I Dream of Jeannie?' Even underneath all that makeup.

 

[star-warrior]

Nope passed me by Joan Collins hasn't aged a bit.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Nope passed me by Joan Collins hasn't aged a bit.

True. Evil queens never do.

 

[kallipolis]

For those who are Star Trek fans here's an informative article that expands on the "philosophy' behind the early episodes, with Gene Roddenberry the catalyst of this thought provoking adventure in time and space.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/04/star-trek--50-year-mission-best-of-humankind

I quote: (for the optimistic among us)

“It’s not an accident that James T Kirk was an analogue of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, nor that the final frontier was indeed a thinly veiled extension of Kennedy’s New Frontier,” he says, referring to the slogan popularised by JFK during the 1960 presidential campaign. “During a time in which mankind was questioning the very fact as to whether there would be a future in the wake of the hydrogen bomb and nuclear proliferation, and the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, Star Trek definitively said not only would there be a future, but mankind would endure and flourish.”