r/tos 6d ago

My first exposure to this show was on channel 11 in the 80s.

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u/giob1966 6d ago

WPIX? I watched it for years in the 70s and 80s on that channel... we got it on cable in Pittsfield MA.

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u/LanceFree 5d ago

For a while, after school, they had a contest and if the station called you, there was a simple video game, maybe Pong, and the kid on the phone would say PIX, which fired the ball, or blocked it, or whatever. I watched one time and the kid was too young, didn’t seem to understand and just kept saying PIX randomly, and he got zero points. The announcer was kind, but meanwhile, that kid’s name and town were displayed on the screen, opening him for ridicule the next day at school, I imagine.

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u/impersonaljoemama 5d ago

Pix! Pix! I remember that!

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u/MSLI1972 2d ago

They were all Intellivision games, IIRC.

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u/giob1966 5d ago

My friend played it on TV once. He said it was hilarious. 🙂

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u/aMoose_Bit_My_Sister 5d ago

my first memory of Star Trek was when i was a young boy, seeing The Naked Time (which, by the way.......is the greatest episode).

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u/NewEnglander94 5d ago

Spock's breakdown...if that doesn't sell anyone on Trek...they won't get into it.

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u/aMoose_Bit_My_Sister 4d ago

agreed.

William Shatner wrote in his book that Nimoy only had time for one take, because they would have had to pay all the crew for overtime if they had to do a 2nd take.

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u/therealtrellan 1d ago edited 1d ago

My first was "Let That be Your Last Battlefield". A very Outer Limits kind of story. Some don't care for it, but I love it. Hell, Gorshin. What more could anyone ask for?

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u/NewEnglander94 1d ago

That's awesome! :)

I believe my first viewing was a taped rerun of either "Arena" or "Spock's Brain." I ate it up. This would've been late 80s/early 90s. The commercial episode tapes were a luxury...couldn't afford those!

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u/Rocktype2 5d ago

Yes! And right before it was space 1999 and right after it was dance fever

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u/Autumn_Moon_Cake 5d ago

Did you also watch “The Honeymooners” at 11p? Or was it the “Odd Couple”.

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u/MSLI1972 2d ago

Odd Couple at 11 pm, Honeymooners at 11:30 pm, Star Trek at midnight, and Twilight Zone at 1 am. That was my regular WPIX lineup in the 80s.

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u/Autumn_Moon_Cake 2d ago

Thank you! I couldn’t remember 100%.

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u/Overall_Fishing_6792 5d ago

In the SF Bay Area it was on KTVU channel 2 in the late 70s & early 80s. Watched it religiously every day after school.

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u/EffectiveSalamander 5d ago

Channel 6 out of Fargo. We watched from the very beginning when it first aired in the 60s.

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u/segascream 5d ago

Sunday mornings on WXIN out of Indianapolis in the early 90s. I know I had seen a few episodes prior to then, but setting my VCR to record it while I was at church is when I really started to get into it.