From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Friday's Child: my review

"jphalt@gmail.com"  wrote in news:a1406ce6-4b0d-47ed-
bdf2-ee7402b3be47@g22g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

> On Nov 28, 10:21aam, "Steven L."  wrote:
>> jph...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > Season 3's supposed to be the crappy one, right? I'm just checking
>> > because, thus far, Season Two is so far below the standard of 
Season
>> > One that the difference is staggering. None of the episodes has 
been
>> > actively incompetent yet; and admittedly, I'm still a mere three
>> > episodes into Season Two. But so far, it's been one dull, half-
written
>> > mishmash after another. With the Season One episodes, I approached 
the
>> > DVD set with great confidence, knowing that I would probably see
>> > something good, and at the very least get a reliable 50 minutes'
>> > entertainment. With Season Two, thus far, I'm half-forcing myself 
to
>> > watch the episodes. I'm hoping for an upturn in quality soon. As of
>> > this writing, I'm alternating between both TOS and Enterprise
>> > episodes... and for the first time since I started these reviews, 
TOS
>> > is not looking like the better show.
>>
>> Evidently your DVD is showing the episodes in the order in which they
>> were produced, NOT the order in which they were originally broadcast.
>>
>> The first episode broadcast in Season 2 was "Amok Time," a strong
>> episode. aIt was aired in September 1967, at the start of the season.
>>
>> --
>> Steven L.
>> Email: asdlit...@earthlinkNOSPAM.net
>> Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me.
> 
> No, they're in broadcast order on the DVD.  I'm electing to do them in
> production order - as I'm fairly sure even this review alluded to,
> when I mentioned understanding why these episodes were "buried" in the
> broadcast sequence.  Two reasons: (a) in early Season One, at least,
> proudction order makes far more sense than broadcast order; and (b) it
> gives me a better sense of the show's evolution (which includes,
> unfortunately, some very weak first-shot Season Two episodes).


I have never understood the fanatical obsession with the original 
airdate order which is usually arbitrary. Production order usually makes 
more sense especially when observing the progress of a show.  The only 
exception would be if an episode is filmed out of order for some reason 
(Unification Part 2 before Part 1 or Tasha Yar's appearance after her 
death).

BTW, I believe the broadcast of Catspaw was delayed so it could be 
broadcast the week before Halloween.

   
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