"Star Trek" (1966) TV series 1966-1969

Creator:

Gene Roddenberry
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Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3

Release Date:

8 September 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Boldly Go. Again. (2006 remasters tagline)

Plot:

Capt. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise explore space and defend the United Federation of Planets.

Plot Keywords:

Federation | Space | Starship | Computer | Vulcan

Awards:

Nominated for 5 Primetime Emmys. Another 5 wins & 10 nominations

Cast

Leonard Nimoy	...	Mr. Spock / ... (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
William Shatner	...	Captain James T. Kirk / ... (79 episodes, 1966-1969)
DeForest Kelley	...	Dr. McCoy (76 episodes, 1966-1969)
Nichelle Nichols	...	Uhura / ... (68 episodes, 1966-1969)
James Doohan	...	Scott / ... (65 episodes, 1966-1969)
Eddie Paskey	...	Lt. Leslie / ... (59 episodes, 1966-1968)
Bill Blackburn	...	Lt. Hadley / ... (59 episodes, 1966-1969)
George Takei	...	Sulu (51 episodes, 1966-1969)
Frank da Vinci	...	Lt. Brent / ... (44 episodes, 1966-1969)
Walter Koenig	...	Chekov (36 episodes, 1967-1969)
Majel Barrett	...	Nurse Chapel / ... (34 episodes, 1966-1969)
Roger Holloway	...	Lt. Lemli (32 episodes, 1967-1969)

Series Directed by
Marc Daniels		(15 episodes, 1966-1968)
Joseph Pevney		(14 episodes, 1967-1968)
Vincent McEveety		(6 episodes, 1966-1968)
Ralph Senensky		(6 episodes, 1967-1968)
Jud Taylor		(5 episodes, 1968-1969)
Herb Wallerstein		(4 episodes, 1968-1969)
Robert Butler		(3 episodes, 1966)
Marvin J. Chomsky		(3 episodes, 1968-1969)
John Meredyth Lucas		(3 episodes, 1968)
Gerd Oswald		(2 episodes, 1966-1967)
James Goldstone		(2 episodes, 1966)
Herschel Daugherty		(2 episodes, 1967-1969)
David Alexander		(2 episodes, 1968-1969)

Series Writing credits
Gene Roddenberry		(80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Gene L. Coon		(12 episodes, 1967-1969)
D.C. Fontana		(10 episodes, 1966-1969)
Jerome Bixby		(4 episodes, 1967-1969)
John Meredyth Lucas		(4 episodes, 1967-1969)
Jerry Sohl		(3 episodes, 1966-1969)
Robert Bloch		(3 episodes, 1966-1967)
Oliver Crawford		(3 episodes, 1967-1969)
Margaret Armen		(3 episodes, 1968-1969)
Arthur Heinemann		(3 episodes, 1968-1969)
Stephen Kandel		(2 episodes, 1966-1967)
Paul Schneider		(2 episodes, 1966-1967)
Theodore Sturgeon		(2 episodes, 1966-1967)
Shimon Wincelberg		(2 episodes, 1966-1967)
David Gerrold		(2 episodes, 1967-1969)
David P. Harmon		(2 episodes, 1967-1968)
Don Ingalls		(2 episodes, 1967-1968)
Art Wallace		(2 episodes, 1967-1968)
Steven W. Carabatsos		(2 episodes, 1967)
Jean Lisette Aroeste		(2 episodes, 1968-1969)

Series Produced by
Gene Roddenberry	....	executive producer / producer (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Robert H. Justman	....	associate producer / co-producer (71 episodes, 1966-1969)
Herbert F. Solow	....	executive in charge of production (54 episodes, 1966-1968)
Gene L. Coon	....	producer (33 episodes, 1966-1968)
Edward K. Milkis	....	associate producer / assistant producer (25 episodes, 1968-1969)
Fred Freiberger	....	producer (24 episodes, 1968-1969)
Gregg Peters	....	associate producer (24 episodes, 1968-1969)
John D.F. Black	....	associate producer (10 episodes, 1966)
John Meredyth Lucas	....	producer (10 episodes, 1967-1968)
Byron Haskin	....	associate producer / co-producer (2 episodes, 1966)

Series Original Music by
Alexander Courage		(26 episodes, 1966-1969)
Fred Steiner		(24 episodes, 1966-1969)
Gerald Fried		(9 episodes, 1966-1968)
Sol Kaplan		(6 episodes, 1966-1968)
George Duning		(6 episodes, 1967-1968)
Jerry Fielding		(2 episodes, 1967-1968)

Series Cinematography by
Gerald Perry Finnerman		(60 episodes, 1966-1968)
Al Francis		(16 episodes, 1968-1969)
William E. Snyder		(2 episodes, 1966)

Series Film Editing by
Fabien D. Tordjmann		(22 episodes, 1966-1969)
Bruce Schoengarth		(14 episodes, 1966-1968)
Donald R. Rode		(14 episodes, 1967-1969)
James Ballas		(11 episodes, 1967-1968)
Bill Brame		(8 episodes, 1968-1969)
Robert L. Swanson		(5 episodes, 1966-1967)
Frank P. Keller		(2 episodes, 1966)
Leo H. Shreve		(2 episodes, 1966)

Series Casting by
Joseph D'Agosta		(67 episodes, 1966-1969)
William J. Kenney		(7 episodes, 1968-1969)

Series Production Design by
Walter M. Jefferies		(5 episodes, 1966)

Series Art Direction by
Walter M. Jefferies		(73 episodes, 1966-1969)
Rolland M. Brooks		(34 episodes, 1966-1967)
Franz Bachelin		(2 episodes, 1966)

Series Set Decoration by
John M. Dwyer		(38 episodes, 1967-1969)
Marvin March		(19 episodes, 1966-1967)
Joseph J. Stone		(12 episodes, 1967)
Carl Biddiscombe		(8 episodes, 1966)

Series Costume Design by
William Ware Theiss		(79 episodes, 1966-1969)
Ken Harvey		(14 episodes, 1967-1968)

Series Makeup Department
Fred B. Phillips	....	makeup artist (78 episodes, 1966-1969)
Pat Westmore	....	hair stylist / hair styles (46 episodes, 1967-1969)
Virginia Darcy	....	hair stylist (27 episodes, 1966-1967)
Jean Austin	....	hair stylist (4 episodes, 1967)
John Chambers	....	makeup designer (unknown episodes)

Series Production Management
Gregg Peters	....	unit production manager / unit manager (49 episodes, 1967-1969)
Bernard A. Widin	....	production supervisor (27 episodes, 1966-1967)
James Paisley	....	production supervisor (2 episodes, 1966)

Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Michael S. Glick	....	assistant director (15 episodes, 1966-1967)
Gregg Peters	....	assistant director (13 episodes, 1966-1967)
Rusty Meek	....	assistant director (13 episodes, 1967-1968)
Claude Binyon Jr.	....	assistant director (12 episodes, 1968-1969)
Phil Rawlins	....	assistant director (8 episodes, 1967-1968)
Gil Kissel	....	assistant director (7 episodes, 1968-1969)
Elliot Schick	....	assistant director (5 episodes, 1967)
Gene De Ruelle	....	assistant director (5 episodes, 1969)
John M. Poer	....	dga trainee (5 episodes, 1969)
Robert H. Justman	....	assistant director (2 episodes, 1966)

Series Art Department
Irving A. Feinberg	....	property master (77 episodes, 1966-1969)
Wah Chang	....	designer: Balok puppet / designer: Gorn / ... (10 episodes, 1966-1967)
Michael Minor	....	designer: Melkotian / designer: Tholian / ... (3 episodes, 1968)
Thomas Kellogg	....	shuttlecraft designer (unknown episodes)

Series Sound Department
Doug Grindstaff	....	sound effects editor / sound editor (66 episodes, 1966-1969)
Carl Daniels	....	production sound mixer / sound mixer / ... (55 episodes, 1967-1969)
Gordon L. Day	....	sound re-recording mixer / re-recording mixer (26 episodes, 1968-1969)
Elden Ruberg	....	sound re-recording mixer / re-recording mixer (24 episodes, 1967-1968)
Jack F. Lilly	....	sound mixer (21 episodes, 1966-1967)
Joseph G. Sorokin	....	sound editor (13 episodes, 1966)
Cam McCulloch	....	sound mixer (2 episodes, 1966-1967)

Series Special Effects by
James Rugg	....	special effects (77 episodes, 1966-1969)
Darrell Anderson	....	special effects (unknown episodes)
Roger Dorney	....	special effects crew (unknown episodes)
Linwood G. Dunn	....	special effects (unknown episodes)
Joseph Westheimer	....	special effects (unknown episodes)

Series Visual Effects by
Darrell Anderson	....	visual effects (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Howard A. Anderson	....	visual effects (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Melissa Berryann	....	assistant to executive producer (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Petri Blomqvist	....	technical consultant (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Chris DeCristo	....	2D supervisor (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Doug Drexler	....	technical consultant (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
James Holt	....	digital compositor (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Gary Kerr	....	technical consultant (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
David LaFountaine	....	visual effects executive producer (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Denise Okuda	....	producer (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Michael Okuda	....	producer (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
David Rossi	....	producer (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Wendy Ruiz	....	visual effects coordinator (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
John Small	....	systems support engineer (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Chris Tezber	....	visual effects coordinator (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Brian Vogt	....	lead lighting technical director (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Craig Weiss	....	director of visual effects: CBS Digital (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Niel Wray	....	visual effects supervisor (80 episodes, 1966-1969)
Max Gabl	....	lead matte artist / lead matte painter / ... (54 episodes, 1966-1969)
Robert H. Justman	....	technical consultant (54 episodes, 1966-1969)
Toni Pace Carstensen	....	visual effects producer (43 episodes, 1966-1968)
Jena Huynh	....	visual effects coordinator (30 episodes, 1966-1967)
Luis F. Pazos	....	production assistant: visual effects (30 episodes, 1966-1967)
Albert Whitlock	....	matte painter (8 episodes, 1966-1969)
Eric Ehemann	....	lead animator/CG lead (8 episodes, 1966-1967)
Ryan Reeb	....	digital artist (6 episodes, 1967-1968)
Richard Datin	....	model maker (5 episodes, 1966-1967)
Heekyung Shin	....	digital artist (4 episodes, 1966-1967)
Wah Chang	....	model builder: Balok's ship and cube / model builder: Romulan Bird of Prey (2 episodes, 1966)

Series Stunts
Paul Baxley	....	stunt double: William Shatner / stunt double / ... (10 episodes, 1966-1969)
Jay D. Jones	....	stunt double: James Doohan / stunt double: Ned Romero / ... (7 episodes, 1967-1968)
Gary Combs	....	stunt double: William Shatner / stunts (4 episodes, 1967)
Frank da Vinci	....	stunt double: DeForest Kelley / stunt double: Leonard Nimoy / ... (3 episodes, 1966-1968)
Vince Deadrick Sr.	....	stunt double: Bruce Mars / stunt double: DeForest Kelley / ... (3 episodes, 1966-1967)
Dick Dial	....	stunt double / stunt double: William Shatner / ... (3 episodes, 1967-1968)
Bill Catching	....	stunt double: Leonard Nimoy / stunt double: Robert Brown (3 episodes, 1967)
David Perna	....	stunt double: Leonard Nimoy / stunt double / ... (3 episodes, 1967)
Loren Janes	....	stunt double: Richard Tatro / stunt double: William Shatner (2 episodes, 1966-1967)
Irene Sale	....	stunt double: Barbara Baldavin / stunt double: Marianna Hill (2 episodes, 1966)
Phil Adams	....	stunt double: Michael Pataki / stunt double: William Shatner (2 episodes, 1967)
Bobby Bass	....	stunt double: James Doohan (2 episodes, 1967)
Chuck Clow	....	stunt double: William Shatner (2 episodes, 1967)
Jim Jones	....	stunt double: DeForest Kelley / stunt double: Tige Andrews (2 episodes, 1967)
Bill Blackburn	....	stunts (unknown episodes)
Bennie E. Dobbins	....	stunts (unknown episodes)
Gary Downey	....	stunts (unknown episodes)
Louie Elias	....	stunts (unknown episodes)
Alan Gibbs	....	stunts (unknown episodes)
Max Kleven	....	stunts (unknown episodes)
Allen Pinson	....	stunts (unknown episodes)
Roy N. Sickner	....	stunts (unknown episodes)
Paul Stader	....	stunts (unknown episodes)
Tom Steele	....	stunts (unknown episodes)
Al Wyatt	....	stunts (unknown episodes)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
George Rader	....	head grip (78 episodes, 1966-1969)
George H. Merhoff	....	gaffer (77 episodes, 1966-1969)

Series Costume and Wardrobe Department
Andrea E. Weaver	....	costumer: women (39 episodes, 1967-1968)
Marge Makau	....	wardrobe mistress (26 episodes, 1966-1967)

Series Editorial Department
Bill Heath	....	post-production executive (28 episodes, 1966-1967)

Series Music Department
Alexander Courage	....	composer: theme music / conductor (75 episodes, 1966-1969)
Tommy Johnson	....	musician: tuba soloist (51 episodes, 1966-1969)
Jim Henrikson	....	music editor (39 episodes, 1967-1968)
Julian Davidson	....	music coordinator (29 episodes, 1966-1967)
Wilbur Hatch	....	music consultant (29 episodes, 1966-1967)
Richard Lapham	....	music editor (24 episodes, 1968-1969)
Robert H. Raff	....	music editor (15 episodes, 1966-1967)
Fred Steiner	....	conductor / additional music composed and conducted by (6 episodes, 1966-1968)
Gerald Fried	....	conductor / music conducted by (2 episodes, 1966-1967)
George Duning	....	composer: stock music (2 episodes, 1968-1969)

Series Other crew
George Rutter	....	script supervisor (76 episodes, 1966-1969)
Edward K. Milkis	....	assistant to producer (49 episodes, 1966-1968)
D.C. Fontana	....	script consultant / executive story editor (31 episodes, 1967-1968)
Arthur H. Singer	....	story consultant (24 episodes, 1968-1969)
Douglas S. Cramer	....	executive vice president in charge of production (23 episodes, 1968-1969)
Steven W. Carabatsos	....	script consultant (11 episodes, 1966-1967)
Billy Vernon	....	script supervisor (2 episodes, 1967)
Crayton Smith	....	script supervisor (2 episodes, 1968)
John D.F. Black	....	story editor (unknown episodes)

Production Companies

• Desilu Productions (1966-1967)
• Norway Corporation
• Paramount Television (1968-1969)

Distributors

• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1966-1969) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (1969-) (UK) (TV) (BBC 1)
• AXN (2009) (Hungary) (TV) (re-release) (on AXN Sci-Fi)
• CIC-Taft Home Video
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2004) (Germany) (DVD)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2004) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray) (season 2)
• Paramount Home Video (1987) (USA) (VHS)
• Paramount Home Video (1987) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Paramount Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Sat.1 (1987-1988) (West Germany) (TV)
• Sci-Fi Channel, The (????) (UK) (TV)
• TV6 (2009) (Hungary) (TV) (re-release)
• Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (1972-1974) (West Germany) (TV)

Special Effects

• CBS Digital (remastered)
• Cinema Research (photographic effects)
• Film Effects of Hollywood (photographic effects)
• Howard Anderson Company, The (photographic effects)
• Modern Film Effects (photographic effects)
• Van der Veer Photo Effects (photographic effects)
• Westheimer Company (photographic effects)

Other Companies

• Glen Glenn Sound  sound recording
• Studio City Productions  marketing and promotion (syndication: digitally remastered)
• Sunset Digital  restoration

Also Known As:

Star Trek: TOS (USA) (promotional abbreviation)
Star Trek: The Original Series (USA) (informal title)

Runtime:

47 min (79 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono | DTS (re-mastered version) | Dolby Digital (re-mastered version)

Certification:

Germany:12 (some episodes) | Germany:16 (one episode) | Germany:6 (some epiosodes) | UK:PG (some episodes) | UK:U (some episodes) | Finland:K-18 (2006) (DVD) (self applied) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (TV rating) | Singapore:PG | Brazil:12 (season 2 and 3) | Brazil:Livre (Season 1) | Australia:G (some episodes) | Australia:PG (some episodes) | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Backlot, Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company:

Desilu Productions

Trivia:

Stagehands would pull the turbolift doors on cue with ropes and cables. They would also slide panels by to give the illusion of decks being passed inside the turbolift cars. Some of the more familiar bloopers are that of main actors nonchalantly running into sliding doors that hadn't opened as their characters needed to show full faith in the technology of the Enterprise while stagehands often missed their cues. One of the show's "blooper reels", often shown at Star Trek conventions, includes a full minute of shots of William Shatner walking into various doors and reacting with his favorite profanity (which is not spelled S-H-A-T).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In almost all of the hand-to-hand combat shots, with the exception of close-up shots, the characters fighting are very obvious stunt doubles.

Quotes:

Capt. Kirk: You'd make a splendid computer, Mr Spock. Spock
Spock: [taken aback] That is very kind of you, Captain!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Fringe: Ability (#1.14)" (2009)

Soundtrack:

Theme

Where None Have Gone Since '69

The original Trek series established, within it's brief 3-year span, the panorama of an ever-expanding Federation of planets & civilizations, of which Earth was, in the 23rd century, a founding member (tho the audience never saw Earth during this run, except in time travel stories back to our 20th century). This series also presented mankind as, first & foremost, explorers, embodied by the trio of dynamic captain James T. Kirk (Shatner), his number two, science officer Spock (Nimoy) and irascible but kindly Dr.McCoy (Kelley) - but Spock was, of course, an alien (a Vulcan), an example of the alliances Earth held with many extraterrestrial races. They operated from a magnificent starship, Enterprise (one of several such ships in Starfleet), with a crew of about 400. Creator Roddenberry used the series as a platform to address many social & political concerns of the time. The general consensus of most familiar with the show is that the 1st & 2nd years were superior; the 3rd suffered in the writing & budget dept's.

The best episodes: "City on the Edge of Forever"-Kirk almost sacrifices Earth's history for the love of a woman. Almost, and he might've done so had he known her a little longer; "Mirror,Mirror"-4 members of the crew switch places with their counterparts in a parallel universe, where the Federation is a hostile Empire; "Space Seed"-the crew awaken Khan, an old-time conqueror boosted by eugenics, who returned in the 2nd Trek film("The Wrath of Khan"); "Arena"-Kirk battles a lizardian captain of an unfriendly race on a desolate asteroid; "The Naked Time"-the crew lose their inhibitions, back when this was original; "This Side of Paradise"-another one with everyone affected emotionally and forgetting their mission; "The Trouble With Tribbles"-hugely entertaining romp on a space station; "Shore Leave"-another romp on a weird planet; "Journey to Babel"-Enterprise hosts ambassadors, Spock's parents included, dealing with intrigue & politics; "Where No Man Has Gone Before"-the 2nd pilot which green-lit the series and the 1st with normal humans acquiring godlike powers; "The Enemy Within"-examines duality of human nature; "The Doomsday Machine"-space epic about a huge alien weapon destroying planets; "Amok Time"-detailed look into Vulcan customs; "Balance of Terror"-warships testing each other in space,introducing the aggressive Romulan race; "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"-answering all questions on androids; and "The Devil in the Dark"-which shows you cannot judge monsters by appearance.

As the list above demonstrates, all the concepts we have come to know in later films and series (Next Generation,Deep Space 9,Voyager) were laid out just fine in the late '60s by some inventive writing (the first film to follow this, for example, merely reworked the episode "The Changeling" with a $50 million budget). The 2nd season also ended with a pilot for an unrealized spin-off "Assignment:Earth" which would have focused on human agent of aliens 'Gary-7' in the present day. It was back then, also, that omnipotent beings, such as "The Squire of Gothos" and the Organians ("Errand of Mercy"-which introduced Klingons) popped up to work miracles. The final 3rd season show ended things on a hysterical note as Kirk's body was taken over by an unbalanced woman - quite unPC these days but nonetheless intriguing & entertaining. The series was followed 4 years later by an animated version, which took place during the same mission. Finally, I'm still struck, or starstruck, by how, after all this time, it was this show that convinced me we really were on a huge ship traveling in space - more so than the later sophisticated shows (TNG) or the movies. Yes, the original is still the best, and it's easy to see why.