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   From: et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA   
      
   "Steven L." (sdlitvin@earthlinkNOSPAM.net) writes:   
   >   
   > I got to see the first part of the two-parter, "The Menagerie," a while   
   > later, and of course I was hooked by the cliffhanger.  The day that the   
   > second part was televised, unfortunately, was Thanksgiving and my   
   > parents and I had been invited to spend  Thanksgiving with my uncle's   
   > family.  So after Thanksgiving dinner, I got to watch only the first few   
   > minutes of the second part of "The Menagerie"--on my uncle's color TV   
   > set.  That was the very first time I had ever seen Star Trek in color   
   > and I was stunned.  Unfortunately, my family had to leave in order to   
   > get home in time, so I couldn't stay to see the rest of the episode.  I   
   > never did find out what happened to Captain Pike until the show had gone   
   > into reruns.  (How did we ever get along without VCRs in those days?)   
   >   
   You take photos off the tv screen, and record the sound with a tape   
   recorder.   
      
   I don't know about that early, but a friend was doing that in the seventies,   
   at least doing audio recordings.  I didn't know him when Star Trek first   
   ran so I don't know if he was doing it then.  One famous incident   
   was when the CBC here ran "The Prisoner" in the late seventies, and he   
   decided to record one episode, which happened to be one where Six   
   escapes, and much of the episode has no dialogue.   
      
   My friend was the first person I knew to get a VCR, in the fall   
   of 1980.   
      
   And certainly people did take screenshots with their camera.  I   
   remember seeing articles from the time of the first moon landing   
   explaining the best way to do it.   
      
   > Oh, yes, in the spring of 1968, my family got our very first color TV   
   > set.  So while the 3rd season of Star Trek wasn't very good, at least I   
   > got to watch all the episodes in color.   
      
   What's this color tv stuff?  I never had color until about 1979.  I   
   think I saw "The Menagerie" in a movie theatre in the seventies before   
   I saw Star Trek in color on TV.   
      
     Michael   
      
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