“The Way to Eden” also has Spock rocking out with the space hippies, playing his doohicky. Vulcan autoharp. And Chekov is a stick-in-the-mud. That’s right, the Beatle-haired Monkee wanna-be is the rule stickler.
I saw TOS in syndication and had suitably low expectations. Mostly speaking, I’d opine that the worst Star Trek was superior to the best of Maude, Alice, Sanford And Son, Rhoda, Laverne & Shirley, Green Acres, Chico And The Man etc. Or at any rate a much better gamble.* Even the weak episodes of Star Trek are at least diverting.
- I suppose this hypothesis could be tested with an old edition of TV Guide. How often would it make sense to watch something other than Star Trek, assuming you only had access to broadcast TV?
By the same token, “The Changeling” because it sets up ST: The Motion Picture. I’m not suggesting that’s a really good movie, but like the original series episodes any one of the films is worth watching at least once.
I watched “What Are Little Girls Made Of?”. Everything to do with the half-naked sex-bot was creepy. Everything to do with Lurch in a flowered pink nightie was hilarious. Also, there was this stalactite … :dubious:
Regardless, the one later Mudd episode “I, Mudd” is one of the better ones on the funnier side. In a way it’s like “Squire of Gothos”, but without the deus ex machina resolution given that he’s a human being.
I think Andrea was supposed to be creepy. It was the one time in the series in which a character had a 20th-century reaction to an underdressed woman. Chapel quite realistically doesn’t buy for a moment that Roger Corby didn’t build and dress Andrea as he did with fucking in mind.
- herbert -
Melvin Belli, who reprises this role in Gimme Shelter.
That was horrible. You are bad and you should feel bad.
I get the distinct impression that Chekov is just an idiot.
“Amok Time” and “The Doomsday Machine” were both certifiably awesome. “Doomsday” might be my favorite episode I’ve seen, so far.
The alternatives:
1966: Tammy Grimes Show and Bewitched on ABC, My Three Sons and the CBS Thursday Night Movie on CBS.
1967: Hondo on ABC, Gomer Pyle and the CBS Friday Night Movie on CBS.
1968: Judd for the Defense on ABC, CBS Friday Night Movie on CBS.
Seemed like a no-brainer to me.
Oooooooooh, Hondo…
It’s both a really good story, and a clinic in overacting (a TOS staple).
Without the CGI improvements, it had even more Star Trek charm - the gray bugle corn chip looked even dumber, and the relative sizes of it, an Enterprise-class ship, and a shuttlecraft were messed up throughout the episode.
…far away, far to see, friendly angel come to me.
I did that from memory. Some things from my youth just. won’t. die.
I believe it was “far to sea.”
Ah, but Tammy Grimes was cancelled after a month (the first show to bite the big one that season) and replaced by the nighttime version of “The Dating Game”! I remember it well… 
Just remembered that Alexander “Sandy” Courage wrote the themes for both ST:*** TOS ***and Judd.
Ahh, But did he write the lyrics?
–shudder–
Well, that’d make sense too. Or more, even :). Of course I never saw it written, I just remembered the episode which I probably last saw over 30 years ago. Though to be fair I imagine I saw it 4-8 times when I was a youngster - Star Trek reruns were quality TV back then. Beat Three’s Company, anyway. I actually went to Space-Con #2 ( unless it was #6, but I think #2 )when I was about eight and a half in 1976, though my ten-year old step-brother was the real ST geek. He had a six-foot poster of Mr. Spock in his bedroom.
This thread is actually making me think I should fire up Netflix and revisit some of TOS.
I always thought it was “for to see”.