September 8 will TOO live in f***ing infamy!

[albadger]

markosf just posted on [turns head, spits]Facebook that tonight, September 8, is the anniversary of Star Trek's premiere. 44 years ago -- I remember that night quite clearly. It was also the premiere night of the Tammy Grimes Show, which is what we'd be watching at our house, thanks, because my Mom had met her somewhere and was a big fan (somehow my brain got this tangled with Ann Morgan Guilbert, whom my Mom knew from college).
At the first commercial break during the Tammy Grimes Show, none of the rest of us dared say a word, but my Mom asked if there was anything else on that we could watch instead.

And thus we discovered Star Trek.

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[rootbeer1.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that Tammy Grimes Show just a huge flop?

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Yanked from broadcast while they still had episodes in the can -- something that never happened back then. My guess is, if we saw it today, it wouldn't really be that much worse than the average sitcom of that year (think Oh, Landlord or Run, Buddy, Run) but it just somehow caught the public's non-fancy.

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

I'll NEVER forget the very first time Star trek aired!

I was 9 years old on September 8, 1966, having had my birthday just two months previous.

I was being punished for one reason or another, and was not allowed to watch that first epiosde!

I hid under my parents' bed while they watched it!

I watched it from there and loved the show ever since!

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Wait, you were under the bed? Could you see the TV or just hear it? Granted, most American TV is written for radio, but still, you'd miss the salt monster sucking the salt out of its victims with its suction cup fingers!

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

I saw the tv! I had to peer out at it from under the bed, but I saw it.

Yeah, the salt monster was pretty cool.. and, a bit scarey when you're only 9 years old! :)

[dhpbear.livejournal.com]

Quite possible -- remember this was the the era of floor-level console TV's

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious!

Being a 1 tv household for most of my childhood, Star Trek was only something I heard about, because I'm SURE there was a baseball game my father could sleep in front of SOMEWHERE!