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Why Gene Roddenberry Had to 'Entertain or Go Off the Air'


Why Gene Roddenberry Had to 'Entertain or Go Off the Air' | Star Trek

Gene Roddenberry: Although Star Trek had to entertain or go off the air, we believed our format was unique enough to allow us to challenge and ...

How was the Star Trek series originally conceived by Gene ... - Quora

Gene Roddenberry sketched out his vision for a “wagon train to the stars” in the early Sixties. He tried to shop it first to MGM and then to ...

Thoughts on Gene Roddenberry? : r/startrek - Reddit

He was instrumental in the creation of Star Trek. He would often ignore or diminish the contribution of D.C. Fontana, Jean L. Coon and ...

Gene Roddenberry - Wikipedia

As a freelance writer, Roddenberry wrote scripts for Highway Patrol, Have Gun – Will Travel, and other series, before creating and producing his own television ...

A Bold Vision: How 'Star Trek' First Made It to the Screen - Time

“Although Star Trek had to entertain or go off the air, we believed our format was unique enough to allow us to challenge and stimulate the ...

Penthouse Interview's Gene Roddenberry 1976 - Mego Talk

It seemed to me that if I had things happen to little polka dotted people on a far-off planet, I might get past the network censors, as Swift ...

Gene Roddenberry | The “Great Bird of the Galaxy”

After only ten episodes, Star Trek was out of scripts to produce because Roddenberry kept rewriting them. This caused delays and resentment from ...

19 Things You Might Not Have Known About Gene Roddenberry

On Star Trek, he was a famous script meddler. He had affairs with Majel Barrett and Nichelle Nichols. His first post-Star Trek project was going ...

An Encounter with Gene Roddenberry: The Traveling Troubadour ...

Even after the war ended, he still never could take his eye off the sky or shake his childhood affinity for gazing up into the heavens with wonder. Thus he ...

Career Highlights: Gene Roddenberry - Entertainment Junkie Blog

Roddenberry chose to air it in first-run syndication to avoid network intereference. A smart choice seeing as how Roddenberry had more luck in ...

Early life and career of Gene Roddenberry - Wikipedia

Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist best remembered for ...

72 (Special Section: Star Trek) - DePauw University

Although Star Trek had to entertain or go off the air, we believed our ... had put into the show.—Gene Roddenberry (Whitfield 112). Superior ability ...

Gene Roddenberry | Memory Alpha - Fandom

Peeples (an acquaintance from Roddenberry's earlier television days) shortly before the Desilu pitch occasion, not Roddenberry, who had called it "a "Wagon ...

1972 Gives Us The Bird - FACT TREK

Gene Roddenberry: Thank you very much. I think it feels something like this to get nominated for President. I can't help but start off by ...

Was Gene Roddenberry out of touch during TNG? - GameFAQs

Star Trek started as an idea setting where we moved passed alot of the hang ups we had as a species, and yet as time went on those a fair bit of ...

The Untold Truth Of Gene Roddenberry - Grunge

At a time when Westerns, comedy shows, and police dramas were the norm, Roddenberry went from writing for shows like Dragnet and Dr. Kildare to ...

Gene Roddenberry's 1991 Humanist Interview - Star Trek

This is my favorite Roddenberry interview because, even though he's mostly the Roddenberry you expect, he's also profound and fairly honest on some of his ...

Gene Roddenberry - Fanlore

While Star Trek was on the air, and afterward, Roddenberry was a willing and entertaining convention guest. A few years after Star Trek went off the air ...

My Talk With Star Trek's Gene Roddenberry About Aliens, God, And ...

In 1979, I had the honor of having a long and private talk on an airplane with Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek. While flying from New ...

Another dystopian WI: Gene Roddenberry & George Lucas both die

"It was so bad that I have never return to do any more writing for Television. Some Friends have try to get me to write for some others shows.