Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 19:23:47 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv Subject: Re: In Defense of Fred Freiberger References: <1162120697.736723329.472692.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <20240506204650.000031c9@example.com> <2126053556.736736988.954402.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <397877434.736757449.237126.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 12:33:05 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 51 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-9GNe4BeElmqq+vGKieyP41pPaNG9tzw8irYQ7gJOij3dtq4oZZpJkeNT0pi7Yl+r05VFHEKfSzBt9pl!p7hL1AtysRksMFKgY/tLFJPFFNeiAsGyamcPLEQuCkrHV/FWkcxypPWILt1kTw15jdNd8EI+mrKy!Zmg= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3455 In article <397877434.736757449.237126.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>, anim8rfsk wrote: > BTR1701 wrote: > > On May 6, 2024 at 6:27:29 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" wrote: > > > >> Rhino wrote: > >>> On Mon, 6 May 2024 14:46:02 -0700 > >>> anim8rfsk wrote: > >>> > >>>> Ubiquitous wrote: > >>>>> Last week I created a video claiming that Fred Freiberger was > >>>>> responsible for the demise of such shows as "Star Trek", "Space > >>>>> 1999", "The Six Million Dollar Man" and others, but was he? We'll > >>>>> re-examine that today! > >>>>> > >>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqn_DJdZQGw > >>>> > >>>> Man was an incompetent menace. > >>>> > >>> I recently saw a quote from Shatner where he defended Freiberger, > >>> saying he did the best he could with a severely reduced budget. > >>> > >>> Maybe Shatner wrote the IMDB article on Freiberger which says: > >>> > >>> =========================================================== > >>> Because of a planned European vacation, he then spurned an offer by > >>> Gene Roddenberry to produce Star Trek (1966) from the onset. > >> > >> I've never heard that before and I'd go far enough as to call it a > >> blatant lie > >> > >>> However, in 1968, he took up the option to produce the show in its > >>> final season. By then, severe budgetary cuts (which resulted in many > >>> 'bottle show' episodes and lower quality scripts), the exodus of top > >>> creative talent and the take-over of Desilu by Paramount > >> > >> I'll also call that a blatant lie. While it happened, it had happened at > >> the first season. > > > > And weren't *all* the episodes of TOS "bottle show" episodes? I don't > > remember there being any kind of multiple episode or season-long story > > arcs. > They used the wrong wording. They meant "ship board shows" > The studio and the network were always at odds because the network wanted > planet shows which were more expensive and the studio wanted ship board > shows because they were more economical for obvious reasons. Makes sense.