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| − | Upon first airing in the UK, the [[BBC]] won the rights to broadcast ''[[Star Trek]].'' The episodes however did not follow the original airdate or production order. The series was split into four seasons with three episodes withdrawn from broadcast, {{e|Plato's Stepchildren}}, {{e|The Empath}}, and {{e|Whom Gods Destroy}}, on the grounds that they were too violent for prime time viewings. A fourth episode, {{e|Miri}} was only shown once and then was withdrawn from repeats after complaints from parents. {{incite}} All four episodes were eventually shown during the {{y|1992}}-{{y|1994}} repeat run. Some episodes were edited for violent or objectionable content, including {{e|The Man Trap}} and {{e|The Enemy Within}}. |
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| + | The '''BBC''' ('''British Broadcasting Corporation''') was one of the UK broadcasters of ''[[Star Trek]]'' and is the parent company of {{w|BBC Worldwide}}, which in turn operates [[BBC America]]. The corporation had the rights to show ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]'', ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''. They also have the terrestrial rights to show {{film|1}}, {{film|2}}, {{film|7}} and {{film|8}} – the rights to broadcast {{film|9}} were obtained by [[Channel 5]] and the remaining film rights are held by [[Channel 4]]). |
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| + | Initially, the BBC was the first-run broadcaster of ''Star Trek'' ({{d|12|July|1969}}-{{d|15|December|1971}}). [[Original BBC airdate order|The series was not shown in airdate or production order]] and some episodes were edited for violent content. The series was shown in four series, the first was shown on Saturday evenings at 5:15 in the timeslot usually taken by ''[[Doctor Who]]'', and the second was shown on Monday evenings at 7:00, ironically in a similar timeslot as the third season was originally going to be shown on NBC. The final two series were shown on Wednesday evenings at 7:10. ''Star Trek'' was one of BBC's biggest ratings winners and was repeated throughout the 1970s and early 80s. |
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| − | At the time of first airing, BBC was still broadcasting in black and white. The first episode transmitted in color was {{e|Arena}}. |
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| + | TNG premiered ({{d|26|September|1990}} and ran until {{d|6|May|1992}}, up to {{e|The Best of Both Worlds, Part II}}). After {{y|1992}}, the first-run rights of TNG – and later DS9 and ''Voyager'' – went to [[Sky One]], with the BBC showing the episodes several months later. |
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| − | Following the huge success of the series in the UK, BBC subsequently repeated the series throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, but with an airdate order which followed the original [[NBC]] schedule. |
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| + | From {{d|26|August|1992}}, the BBC instead repeated ''The Original Series'', ending on {{d|6|April|1994}}. This screening mirrored the original US airdate order, and restored all of the edited content. The run of ''The Next Generation'' started again on {{d|13|April|1994}}, and once the run ended in 1996 the entire series repeated in its now regular Wednesday 6pm timeslot. |
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| − | Below is the original BBC airdate order: |
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| + | All of the ''Trek'' spin-offs were shown in an early-evening 6pm slot - TNG on Wednesdays, DS9 on Thursdays, VOY on Sundays - and as a result, several episodes had to be cut for violence and disturbing imagery, most notably the TNG episodes {{e|Conspiracy}} and {{e|The Icarus Factor}}. The BBC also refused to show the episode {{e|The High Ground}} due to political sensitivity over its content (stating that terrorism had succeeded in re-unifying Ireland), broadcasting the episode for the first time on {{d|29|September|2007}}, nine years after the {{w|Belfast Agreement|Good Friday Agreement}} brought the conflict in question to a largely peaceful end. During their original run of ''The Original Series'', the BBC had chosen not to show {{e|The Empath}}, {{e|Whom Gods Destroy}} and {{e|Plato's Stepchildren}} due to concerns over "sadistic" elements within the episodes making them unsuitable for the series time slot. These episodes were eventually shown during the 1992 repeat run. {{e|Miri}} was not repeated by the BBC until {{y|1993}} for similar reasons, following audience complaints after its original transmission. {{incite|Where does "sadistic" come from?}} |
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| + | The BBC broadcast two special evenings of ''Star Trek'' programming, each known as ''[[Star Trek Night]]'', one in {{y|1996}} and another in {{y|2001}}. |
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| − | Series one - Saturdays 5.15pm |
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| + | The BBC lost out in the bidding to broadcast ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' on terrestrial re-run to [[Channel 4]] in {{y|2001}}, and did not renew its repeat rights for the other series until {{y|2006}}, when in July, ''Star Trek'' and ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' returned to the screen – ''Star Trek'' in a late-night Friday slot, with TNG in a mid-afternoon Saturday slot (later following on from TOS in the Friday slot). ''Voyager'' repeat rights were taken by Five in {{y|2005}}. |
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| − | {{e|Where No Man Has Gone Before}} 12/07/69 |
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| − | {{e|The Naked Time}} 19/07/69 |
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| − | {{e|The City on the Edge of Forever}} 26/07/69 |
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| − | {{e|A Taste of Armageddon}} 02/08/69 |
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| − | {{e|Mudd's Women}} 09/08/69 |
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| − | {{e|Tomorrow is Yesterday}} 16/08/69 |
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| − | {{e|The Menagerie, Part I}} 23/08/69 |
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| − | {{e|The Menagerie, Part II}} 30/08/69 |
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| − | {{e|The Devil in the Dark}} 06/09/69 |
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| − | {{e|Charlie X}} 13/09/69 |
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| − | {{e|Shore Leave}} 20/09/69 |
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| − | {{e|Space Seed}} 27/09/69 |
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| − | {{e|The Man Trap}} 04/10/69 |
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| − | {{e|Dagger of the Mind}} 11/10/69 |
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| − | {{e|Balance of Terror}} |
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| − | 25/10/69 |
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| − | {{e|The Squire of Gothos}} 01/11/69 |
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| − | {{e|What Are Little Girls Made Of?}} 08/11/69 |
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| − | {{e|Arena}} 15/11/69 |
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| − | {{e|The Return of the Archons}} 22/11/69 |
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| − | {{e|This Side of Paradise}} 29/11/69 |
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| − | {{e|The Alternative Factor}} 06/12/69 |
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| − | {{e|Errand of Mercy}} 13/12/69 |
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| − | {{e|The Conscience of the King}} 20/12/69 |
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| − | {{e|The Galileo Seven}} 27/12/69 |
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| + | == External links == |
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| − | Series two - Mondays 7.10pm |
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| + | *[http://www.bbc.co.uk BBC.co.uk] - official web site |
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| + | * {{wikipedia}} |
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| − | {{e|Court Martial}} 06/04/70 |
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| + | *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/ BBC Cult - ''Star Trek''] - archive only, no longer active |
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| − | {{e|The Enemy Within}} 13/04/70 |
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| + | *{{IMDb-link|page=co0103957|type=company}} - distributor |
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| − | {{e|Catspaw}} 20/04/70 |
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| + | *{{IMDb-link|page=co0058146|type=company}} - production company |
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| − | {{e|Who Mourns for Adonais?}} 27/04/70 |
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| + | [[Category:Broadcasters]] |
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| − | {{e|The Apple}} 04/05/70 |
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| − | {{e|Metamorphosis}} 11/05/70 |
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| − | {{e|Wolf in the Fold}} 18/05/70 |
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| − | {{e|The Changeling}} 25/05/70 |
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| − | {{e|The Trouble with Tribbles}} 01/06/70 |
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| − | {{e|Bread and Circuses}} 08/06/70 |
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| − | {{e|Mirror, Mirror}} 15/06/70 |
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| − | {{e|Journey to Babel}} 22/06/70 |
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| − | {{e|The Deadly Years}} 29/06/70 |
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| − | {{e|A Private Little War}} 06/07/70 |
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| − | {{e|Obsession}} 13/07/70 |
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| − | {{e|By Any Other Name}} 20/07/70 |
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| − | {{e|I, Mudd}} 27/07/70 |
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| − | {{e|Patterns of Force}} 03/08/70 |
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| − | {{e|The Immunity Syndrome}} 10/08/70 |
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| − | {{e|Return to Tomorrow}} 17/08/70 |
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| − | {{e|The Omega Glory}} 24/08/70 |
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| − | {{e|A Piece of the Action}} 07/09/70 |
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| − | Series three - Wednesdays 7.10pm |
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| − | {{e|The Ultimate Computer}} 07/10/70 |
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| − | {{e|Friday's Child}} 14/10/70 |
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| − | {{e|Assignment: Earth}} 04/11/70 |
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| − | {{e|The Doomsday Machine}} 11/11/70 |
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| − | {{e|The Gamesters of Triskelion}} 18/11/70 |
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| − | {{e|Amok Time}} 25/11/70 |
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| − | {{e|Miri}} 02/12/70 |
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| − | {{e|Operation -- Annihilate!}} |
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| − | 09/12/70 |
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| − | {{e|The Corbomite Maneuver}} |
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| − | 16/12/70 |
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| − | {{e|Requiem for Methuselah}} 30/12/70 |
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| − | {{e|The Paradise Syndrome}} 06/01/71 |
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| − | {{e|Day of the Dove}} 13/01/71 |
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| − | {{e|The Way to Eden}} 20/01/71 |
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| − | {{e|Let That Be Your Last Battlefield}} 27/01/71 |
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| − | {{e|Wink of an Eye}} 03/02/71 |
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| − | {{e|The Cloud Minders}} 10/02/71 |
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| − | Series four - Wednesdays 7.10pm |
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| − | {{e|Spectre of the Gun}} 09/09/71 |
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| − | {{e|Elaan of Troyius}} 22/09/71 |
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| − | {{e|The Enterprise Incident}} 29/09/71 |
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| − | {{e|And the Children Shall Lead}} 06/10/71 |
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| − | {{e|Spock's Brain}} 13/10/71 |
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| − | {{e|Is There in Truth No Beauty?}} 20/10/71 |
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| − | {{e|For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky}} 27/10/71 |
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| − | {{e|That Which Survives}} 03/11/71 |
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| − | {{e|The Mark of Gideon}} 10/11/71 |
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| − | {{e|The Lights of Zetar}} 17/11/71 |
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| − | {{e|The Savage Curtain}} 24/11/71 |
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| − | {{e|The Tholian Web}} 01/12/71 |
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| − | {{e|All Our Yesterdays}} 08/12/71 |
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| − | {{e|Turnabout Intruder}} 15/12/71 |
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| − | {{e|Plato's Stepchildren}} 22/12/93 |
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| − | {{e|The Empath}} 05/01/94 |
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| − | {{e|Whom Gods Destroy}} 19/01/94 |
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Revision as of 23:45, 8 April 2012
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The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) was one of the UK broadcasters of Star Trek and is the parent company of BBC Worldwide, which in turn operates BBC America. The corporation had the rights to show Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. They also have the terrestrial rights to show Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact – the rights to broadcast Star Trek: Insurrection were obtained by Channel 5 and the remaining film rights are held by Channel 4).
Initially, the BBC was the first-run broadcaster of Star Trek (12 July 1969-15 December 1971). The series was not shown in airdate or production order and some episodes were edited for violent content. The series was shown in four series, the first was shown on Saturday evenings at 5:15 in the timeslot usually taken by Doctor Who, and the second was shown on Monday evenings at 7:00, ironically in a similar timeslot as the third season was originally going to be shown on NBC. The final two series were shown on Wednesday evenings at 7:10. Star Trek was one of BBC's biggest ratings winners and was repeated throughout the 1970s and early 80s.
TNG premiered (26 September 1990 and ran until 6 May 1992, up to "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II"). After 1992, the first-run rights of TNG – and later DS9 and Voyager – went to Sky One, with the BBC showing the episodes several months later.
From 26 August 1992, the BBC instead repeated The Original Series, ending on 6 April 1994. This screening mirrored the original US airdate order, and restored all of the edited content. The run of The Next Generation started again on 13 April 1994, and once the run ended in 1996 the entire series repeated in its now regular Wednesday 6pm timeslot.
All of the Trek spin-offs were shown in an early-evening 6pm slot - TNG on Wednesdays, DS9 on Thursdays, VOY on Sundays - and as a result, several episodes had to be cut for violence and disturbing imagery, most notably the TNG episodes "Conspiracy" and "The Icarus Factor". The BBC also refused to show the episode "The High Ground" due to political sensitivity over its content (stating that terrorism had succeeded in re-unifying Ireland), broadcasting the episode for the first time on 29 September 2007, nine years after the Good Friday Agreement brought the conflict in question to a largely peaceful end. During their original run of The Original Series, the BBC had chosen not to show "The Empath", "Whom Gods Destroy" and "Plato's Stepchildren" due to concerns over "sadistic" elements within the episodes making them unsuitable for the series time slot. These episodes were eventually shown during the 1992 repeat run. "Miri" was not repeated by the BBC until 1993 for similar reasons, following audience complaints after its original transmission. (citation needed • edit)
The BBC broadcast two special evenings of Star Trek programming, each known as Star Trek Night, one in 1996 and another in 2001.
The BBC lost out in the bidding to broadcast Star Trek: Enterprise on terrestrial re-run to Channel 4 in 2001, and did not renew its repeat rights for the other series until 2006, when in July, Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation returned to the screen – Star Trek in a late-night Friday slot, with TNG in a mid-afternoon Saturday slot (later following on from TOS in the Friday slot). Voyager repeat rights were taken by Five in 2005.
External links
- BBC.co.uk - official web site
- BBC at Wikipedia
- BBC Cult - Star Trek - archive only, no longer active
- Template:IMDb-link - distributor
- Template:IMDb-link - production company