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Subject: Re: In Defense of Fred Freiberger
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On May 6, 2024 at 6:27:29 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>  On Mon, 6 May 2024 14:46:02 -0700
>>  anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>  
>>>  Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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.