50 years ago today, the first episode of 'Star Trek' was broadcast. I was in my second year of engineering school and I can remember going down to the TV lounge in the dorm to watch the shows. However, I have to admit that while 'Star Trek' was popular, after all we were all a bunch of techie nerds, the show that people really went wild over was 'Batman', which was first aired 50 years ago this past January. When 'Batman' came on, the TV lounge was standing room only and if any of you can recall, the show included 'captions', such as 'POOWW' and 'WHAAAM', which they would splash across the screen and of course this would prompt full-voiced participation by the people in the room.
And by the time I had graduated, BOTH shows had been cancelled by the networks because they didn't appeal to the traditional demographic that the advertisers were going after which was usually the 40 - 50 year old's. Little did they know that they had created a pair of franchises that lasted much longer than the TV executives of the day.
Much More Than A 5-Year Mission: 'Star Trek' Turns 50
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/492880770/much-more-than-a-five-year-mission-star-trek-turns-50
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