Test Your TREK Knowledge!

... In these four quizzes from the Eighties and Nineties.

The one above is from OK Magazine, dated January 30, 1983.

This one is from the November 29, 1983 Weekly World News.

Ok Star Spotters, this one's from Star's issue dated February 26, 1991.

The last one is likewise from Star mag, November 17, 1991.

For me, all the questions are answerable.  In the olden days of such magazines, it was possible to know nearly everything about Star Trek, because there were only one or two manifestations!

How did you do?  See you Monday, fellow wise ones!

  

Two Views of the Shat

The first article is from the June 17, 1982 Tulsa World.

How insightful to guess that fans might demand another TREK movie!  That was catty of me, I know.  Forty years of TREK domination have made the franchise's survival seem inevitable in hindsight.  Well, it weren't!

The above article is from the Bartlesville, OK Examiner-Enterprise of July 18, 1982.  While I wouldn't have called Captain Kirk a galactic policeman, you could make the argument that TJ Hooker was at least a philosophical ancestor to Starfleet types.

See you Thursday with more gleanings!

  

Soon and Very Soon?

As we fans learned in the Great Drought between TOS and TMP, hopes for a revival of Star Trek were easily raised and just as swiftly dashed.  Vide these two articles from the Tulsa World.

The above is from February 20, 1977.

And the second clipping is from May 22, 1977.

With such a hurry-up-and-wait environment, no wonder, when Star Trek: The Motion Picture finally opened on December 7, 1979, many of us said, "I've waited ten years for this movie!"

See you on Monday!

  

STAR TREK Conquers the World!

In syndication, at least ...

That's what we learned from the March 20, 1983 News-Leader from Springfield, MO, where my sister and her family lived at the time.  She was sweet enough to clip and forward the articled to me.  Thanks, sis!

See you guys on Thursday.

  

Welcome to TREKKING WITH CLIPPINGS 2023!

Yup, you're stuck with a whole month of stuff from my Star Trek scrapbooks, of which the last item is dated 1993.

Here's the cover story from the August 31, 1991 TV Guide, about the 25th anniversary of the first airing of Star Trek.

See you on Monday for the next instalment, campers!

  

Salute to THE FLASH!

In our final wave to The Flash, here's a 1990 interview with Danny Bilson, co-creator of the 1990 CBS series. This is from Comics Interview #88, from 1990.

Note the banner at the top of the last page. Obsessive, yes.  Total sicko, only you can decide! -- WAIT ... they weren't talking about me?

See you on Thursday for a month of TREKKING WITH CLIPPINGS!

  

THE FLASH Episodes 02

In a salute to the film The Flash, here are the rest of the TV Guide listings I clipped in 1990-91 for the original CBS series.

Jason Bernard did a great job as the Nightshade.

This epi, "Twin Streaks," was a lot of fun, allowing Shipp to play himself twice.

"Watching the Detectives" was fun for introducing the PI Megan Lockhart, who later returned as the object of James Jesse's psychotic affection in "The Trickster."

David Cassidy got to guest-star as an invisible man.

Was "Alpha" glamorous or frighteningly deadly, or both?

"The Trial of the Trickster" was a fun way for the show to end.  And it's a darn shame that the series was cut short by (among other things) "the blindness of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets" (to quote the Glen Campbell release).

See you on Monday the 31st for an interview with Danny Bilson, one of The Flash series' creators.

  

THE FLASH Episodes 01

The Flash was such a fun TV show. I dubbed and often rewatched my VHS tapes until the DVD set came out.

These are some of the TV Guide listings that adorned my home-decorated tape boxes.

"Ghost in the Machine" aired December 13, 1990.

                               

Mark Hamill's first round as "The Trickster" aired February 7, 1991.  To me it's plain that Hamill's take on the Joker is an expansion of this assay as the Trickster.

"Flash Forward" sent the Flash a decade into a future where Pike is mayor.  Not much fun, especially since the Flash's speed doesn't make the trip with him.

"Shroud of Death" deaths with the death mask of Rasputin and some vengeful types, but is a Flash episode rare in that I can't immediately recall its plot.

See you on Thursday for the rest of my Flash clippings from TV Guide.

  

Backstage with The Flash!

In salute to the new The Flash film, here's a look at the 1990 series, from the June 1991 Amazing Heroes, #191.

Campers, I cheered in one of the otherworldly sequences of the new Flash film.  I saw a guy running on a treadmill with a Mercury-type hat on.  I clapped because I thought the CGI guy was John Wesley Shipp.  Imagine my disappointment to learn otherwise!

Still, it's a good flick.  Any movie featuring Michael Keaton's Batman beating up Kryptonians can't be all bad!