Re: In Defense of Fred Freiberger

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

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:
 
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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.