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From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty)
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Subject: Re: Star Trek Pilot - The Cage
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Date: Thu, 24-May-84 21:03:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 24 21:03:46 1984
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>Mark Vita writes:
>>   However, Roddenberry still had the first pilot, and it was
>>too good to waste.   So, a "framework" was constructed during
>>the "current time" of the show,
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>This is not quite how I heard it.  I heard that they were getting behind
>schedule, due to the fact that they were so ambitious, and no one had
>done such an elaborate TV show before.  So, they realized that they
>could make up some lost time by making a shorter new episode and filling
>in the time with the unseen pilot.
>			Barry Margolin

That is absoutely correct. To take things one step further, I remember  
distinctly during the first season's original airing that NBC re-ran
an earlier episode ("What Are Little Girls Made Of", I believe) in
February '67. I was a freshman in high school at the time and much more
tuned in to TV than today. I remember thinking at the time that it was
much to early to begin re-runs which *everyone* knows don't start 'till
late March.

Years later, when reading "Making of" I found out about all of the 
production problems the first season. It made perfect sense to me
that they would re-run an earlier episode to buy time, but no one
I've talked to remembers this happening. I refuse to believe that
my memory has been tampered with. Can anyone save my sanity?

A related trivia question:  The very last original episode missed its
air date by nearly three months. Why?


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