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In Memory Of
On Sept 8th 1966 from 8:30 to 9:30 pm a new tv show is aired.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Trap
After a few fits and starts, a discarded pilot and almost being cancelled before it began by Desilu studios because of its costs "The Man Trap" debuts.
Something different, it won its time slot and was just the beginning of a 50 year run in tv, conventions, movies and more...and still continues today.
Not one the best episodes, that salt vampire was kind of hokey, but everything has to start somewhere.
I watched it that night, talked my mom into letting me stay up late to watch it and I was 11 years old and I was amazed...little did I know how much pleasure I would get from all the movies and spin offs that were to come over the next 5 decades.
I saw each and every episode of that show and also every different version first run, now with Netflix I turned my wife on to them and she also loves watching them all for the first time in her life.
Star Wars is fine, loved all the Stargate series and everything else but I am a Trekkie at heart, no other sci fy show or series had characters that became so close to me...like family.
Not every episode of every show was great and there were some bad ones but some pretty great ones were in there too.
In the grand scope of things there are so many historical milestones that were more important but the impact this show had on me on this date so long ago was, has been and will always be tremendous to this dyed in the wool sci-fi freak.
.
My life changed for the better on this date in history.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Trap
After a few fits and starts, a discarded pilot and almost being cancelled before it began by Desilu studios because of its costs "The Man Trap" debuts.
Something different, it won its time slot and was just the beginning of a 50 year run in tv, conventions, movies and more...and still continues today.
Not one the best episodes, that salt vampire was kind of hokey, but everything has to start somewhere.
I watched it that night, talked my mom into letting me stay up late to watch it and I was 11 years old and I was amazed...little did I know how much pleasure I would get from all the movies and spin offs that were to come over the next 5 decades.
I saw each and every episode of that show and also every different version first run, now with Netflix I turned my wife on to them and she also loves watching them all for the first time in her life.
Star Wars is fine, loved all the Stargate series and everything else but I am a Trekkie at heart, no other sci fy show or series had characters that became so close to me...like family.
Not every episode of every show was great and there were some bad ones but some pretty great ones were in there too.
In the grand scope of things there are so many historical milestones that were more important but the impact this show had on me on this date so long ago was, has been and will always be tremendous to this dyed in the wool sci-fi freak.
.
My life changed for the better on this date in history.
Now that you are retired you can catch up on all the episodes!
