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From: sjs4310@wucec2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: ST episode (Assignment: Earth) question
Message-ID: <1446@wucec2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 00:34:06 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 00:34:06 1986
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Reply-To: sjs4310@wucec2.UUCP (Steven Jeffrey Sittser)
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In article <309@davaar.tcom.stc.co.uk> drm@stc.UUCP (David Monksfield) writes:
>
>The Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" has just been shown here.
. . . . . . .
>This looked very much as though they were hoping for a spin-off
>series for Gary Seven (lots of futuristic gadgets but conveniently
>set in 1968).
>
>Can anyone out there confirm or deny this and, if it's true,
>was such a spin-off series ever started ?

Yes, Gene Rodenberry (sp?) was planning to produce just such a spin-off.
No, the series never made it onto television.

						-SJS