DVD Transfer 13 (Miscellaneous - Mostly from April-May 1989)

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DVD Transfer 13 (Miscellaneous - Mostly from April-May 1989)

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DVD transfer 13. Miscellaneous recordings but mostly Star Trek episodes from April and May 1989 CONTENTS 1. The Believer's Voice of Victory ("The Hindrances to Faith"; Music clip: “The Blood-Bought Church” as sung by Kenneth Copeland. Based on a reference in passing during the message {from the 1988 Southwest Believer's Convention}, this was shortly after the death of Kenneth's mother Vinita.) 2. Star Trek: TOS ("The Changeling" {S2E3}; Episode's plot is often said to be similar to the first Star Trek movie (Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ in 1979, also sharing similarities to the last episode of the original version of "The Outer Limits" ("The Probe") and inspiring an unsuccessful 1974 pilot penned by Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon called "The Questor Tapes". Guest stars include Vic Perrin; Blaisdell Makee and Roger Holloway (the episode's director, Marc Daniels, is briefly seen on-screen in a photograph portraying Dr. Jackson Roykirk, inventor of the Nomad space probe that is the main focus of the plot). Infamous for the scene where Nomad completely wipes out Lt. Uhura's mind (though an early draft suggested the memories were intact but the ability to express language was wiped); thus resulting in Uhura briefly speaking Swahili in an attempt to restore her memory (Uhura's actress, Nichelle Nichols, got into an argument with Marc Daniels on what language would be spoken after Uhura's mind was erased {Nichols wanted the character to speak Swahili since it was already established as her native language; Daniels - noting Nichols didn't speak Swahili herself - wanted Uhura to just speak in English. Nichols -- at one point stating "Nichelle Nichols doesn't speak Swahili, but Uhura does" -- won only after Gene Roddenberry sided with her, bringing in a linguist specializing in Swahili to write some lines of that language}) 3. Star Trek: TOS ("The Apple" {S2E5}; Guest stars included Celeste Yarnall (Yeoman Martha Randall, whose judo knowledge contributed to her being the only red shirt to survive this episode {Nichelle Norris having, according to David Gerrold's "The World of Star Trek", confronting Gene Roddenberry that the female crew members -- usually depicted up to then as helpless -- would probably know various self-defense techniques}. Yarnall was also given the costume that had been Grace Lee Whitney's in Season 1) and David Soul (playing Makora in one of the first acting jobs for the future "Starsky and Hutch" star). Kirk's joke at the end about Spock looking like satan is a reference to NBC's own fears in regards to Spock's ears, with the points being hidden in early promotional material. The original script included an emergency saucer separation. This was not used in the actual episode for budget reasons, eventually used in "Encounter at Farpoint", the series premiere of "Star Trek: The Next Generation") 4. Star Trek: TOS ("Mirror, Mirror" {S2E4}; This one, involving a mirror universe version of the Enterprise, naturally has most of the cast playing dual roles as alternate versions of themselves. Jerome Bixby, the episode's writer, based the script on a short story he wrote over a decade earlier titled "One Way Street". This was also his first of four scripts for Star Trek: The Original Series Bixby wrote or co-wrote. Guest stars included John Winston as Transporter Chief Kyle and Barbara Luna as Lt. Marlena Moreau (Luna's kissing scenes with William Shatner were delayed for three weeks due to Luna suffering from strep throat and a 103 degree fever at the time of the original filming). With the mirror version of Sulu wearing a red uniform as a security chief, this made George Takei the first actor to wear all three uniform colors (Sulu normally wearing gold but wore a blue uniform {usually reserved for science or medical personnel} in "Where No Man Has Gone Before"). Last original series mention of Capt. Christopher Pike (with the mirror version having been assassinated by the mirror version of Kirk}) 6. MTV Spring Break Concert (Special concert apparently sent to over-the-air stations as well hosted by Head of the Class star Brian Robbins; British rocker Samantha Fox and comedian Gilbert Gottfried; partial recording - not sure why this was recorded. Performances include: "One Thing Leads to Another" by the Fixx; "The Flame" by Cheap Trick and "Da Butt" by EU (Experience Unlimited). Record date: March 20, 1989) 7. Rappin' Roots (Rap-themed series featuring guest appearances by rapper Kurtis Blow; comedian Redd Foxx (this was around the time Foxx was having a number of financial problems that eventually led to the IRS seizing his house and several of his cars in November 1989) and jazz singer Jon Hendricks; same record date) 8. Star Trek: TOS ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" {S1E3}; Partial recording. 2nd Star Trek pilot (filmed in July 1965). Guest stars include Gary Lockwood (as Lt. Commander Gary Mitchell; also starred on Roddenberry's earlier series "The Lieutenant"  and later was in "2001: A Space Odyssey"); Sally Kellerman (as Dr. Elizabeth Dehner; later played Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the 1970 film "M.A.S.H." {giving way to Loretta Swit in the series version} and becoming a regular on director Robert Altman's projects) and Andrea Dromm (as Yeoman Smith; Dromm - having gained notice for her appearance in commercials for National Airlines and Clairol's Summer Blonde hair color - was rumored to have been cast solely for the purpose of the skirt-chasing Roddenberry to "score with her". The attempt by the married Rodenberry didn't work on Dromm, and she was replaced by Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Rand before Whitney left midway through Season 1 following her own problems with the lecherous production crew). Episode introduces Scotty, Nurse Chapel and Sulu. William Shatner was cast after Jeffrey Hunter (Capt. Pike in the original pilot "The Cage") refused to return and Lloyd Bridges and Jack Lord were considered but passed over. This is the only episode where Majel Barrett (playing Nurse Chapel) is credited under her birth name of Majel Hudec (Barrett being a stage name); eventually becoming part of every Star Trek related production during her lifetime (up to the first movie in the 2009 J.J. Abrams reboot {where she voiced the Starfleet Computer} but having passed away in December 2008, roughly 5 months before the May 2009 premiere}) and marrying series creator Gene Roddenberry. The effect used for Mitchell and Dehner's silver eyes were very primitive contact lenses with wrinkled tinfoil in between. Gary Lockwood, in particular, found them painful and had to raise his face and sight along his nose in order to see through the small holes in the foil (incidentally adding to Mitchell's crazed behavior {thinking he has become a god}. Despite its being the pilot, NBC elected to air "The Man Trap" as the series premiere) 9. CBS Evening News (April 3, 1989; anchor Dan Rather reporting from the Communist summit in Havana, Cuba. Partial recording (starts toward end of Bernard Goldberg's story on attempts by the Castro regime to raise cash by appealing to Western {but not American; as there was still a travel embargo at the time} tourists)) 10. A Current Affair (same date; Featured stories include host Maury Povich's interview with call girl turned author Xaviera Hollander (better known as the “Happy Hooker”) and Kansas City clashing with Tom Metzger of the group White Aryan Resistance over Metzger's attempts to get his Race and Reason show over the city's public access cable channels. Partial recording {missing final story on Margo Adams - the other woman to Boston Red Sox star Wade Boggs - telling and baring all in Penthouse) 11. Star Trek: TOS ("The Man Trap" {S1E1}; Partial recording. Series premiere (though the 6th episode filmed). Guest stars included Jeanne Bal as Nancy Crater (or more accurately, the Salt monster posing as Mrs. Crater); Alfred Ryder (later known for his role as Goudy, the defense attorney in the original 1969 version of "True Grit") as Professor Robert Crater and Michael Zaslow as Darnell (the first {unofficial}"red shirt"; Zaslow later appeared in "I, Mudd" seven episodes later and played the long-running villain Roger Thorpe on the CBS soap "Guiding Light" from 1971-80 and 1989-97). First episode for, well, everybody except for Mr. Spock (the only character carried over from original pilot "The Cage"; but with a radically different personality). Notably, in a 1983 documentary titled "Star Trek Memories" (hosted by Leonard Nimoy), Nimoy noted that this was the least favorite of the episodes completed up to then. Despite being the series premiere, the Canadian network CTV beat NBC to premiering the series by 2 days (airing on CTV on September 6, 1966 to September 8 for NBC's premiere). The original draft of George Clayton Johnson and story editor John D.F. Black's script had a more pronounced element of the salt creature (or M-113) being the "last of its kind") 12. Donahue (April 6, 1989; Featured guest is Terry Rakolta, a Bloomfield Hills, MI housewife who led a boycott of FOX's Married...with Children after the airing of the episode “Her Cups Runneth Over” (while she succeeded in getting several sponsors to drop their advertisements from the series, it ended up in the process sparked curiosity about the show and a ratings increase). Partial recording {approx. the last 8 minutes}. Rakolta's sister is Ronna Romney, the ex-wife of Scott Romney (son of former American Motors chairman and Michigan Governor George and brother of Bain Capital co-founder; former Massachusetts Governor; 2012 Republican presidential nominee and current {as of 2019} Utah Republican Senator Mitt) and an unsuccessful candidate for the Senate from Michigan in 1996 – Ronna's daughter, Ronna Romney McDaniel, was the former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party and currently serves as Republican National Committee chair)) 13. WTKR News 3 Live at Five (5:00 newscast for the Norfolk, VA CBS affiliate. Lead story is a train derailment in Shippers, VA that led to close to 30 people injured (though no fatalities that I am aware of). On-air crew includes lead anchor Ed Hughes {often called the "Walter Cronkite of Hampton Roads"}; weatherman Andy Roberts and sports anchor Jim Hale; with reports by Betty Francis; Mike Russell and 11:00 anchor Gene Kapp; partial recording {missing the final segment}) 14. The Andy Griffith Show (partial recording {taped over - tape ran out; unsure of episode})