Here's WHY the BBC Banned Star Trek...and Yvonne Craig!

In this video, I talk about the four Star Trek episodes from the original series that were kept off British TV by the BBC for decades!

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This video is not intended for children under the age of 14. Quite frankly, kids...I'm just some random old dude talking about nostalgic TV and movie stuff from a really long time ago and I highly doubt that it is going to interest you.

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[davelightman]

UK person here... There was a family video store about 1.5 miles away from me... I remember walking there, late at night, at around 13, and renting a Betamax tape they had with "Whom Gods Destroy" and "The Empath", probably around 1987. I was the only one who would rent it, and I was a repeat customer... They only had a couple of season 3 tapes on Beta. So I have fond memories of both these episodes - probably fonder than they deserve! Dave - keep up the great work. Glad to see you turn up again on my YouTube timeline.

[pacegarrick]

Never realized that was Yvonne aka Batgirl until this moment. Thank you for sharing this information with all of us.

[DeValiere_]

Worked as an acadmic bookseller for 20 years here in New Zealand. On one occassion I simply couldn't get hold of a textbook for a Physics paper as it was reprinting. When I phoned the lecturer to tell him, he pressed me on it and I said to him that we were looking at a Kobyashi Maru scenario. He just replied with "Ah, understood." Old School Trek was simply the best.

[johncollins]

Awesome presentation Dave:

Thank you for all the Yvonne Craig coverage!

[manlystranger]

I, too, loved the Blish novelizations, many written before Blish had seen any of the episodes as he was forced under time constraints to work from scripts which were later changed. Blish is one of our first Trek real world losses as he passed away while working on the Trek novelizations. During his illness and after his death, some were written by his wife under his name.

[thrashpondopons]

Here's a Fun Fact... Miri was filmed on the lot that the 'Andy Griffith Show' filmed on! & BOTH of Shatner's daughters appear in it.

[byronusa]

As a very long time fan. I thought I knew everything about Star Trek. But I did not know about these banned episodes. But I did know the episode Patterns of force was banned in Germany. Good job, Dave.

[echopeakbicycling]

Ah, 1968 and Yvonne Craig!
Dang, and I was only 4 years old.

[clintonwatkins]

It does surprise me that the BBC banned these episodes, but the one that surprised me most is The Empath. The was a lot of sadism and cruelty shown throughout the run of Star Trek. The Gamesters of Triskelion, The Savage Curtain and Spector of the Gun to name a few.

[vendingdudes]

Shoutout to James Blish! He wrote a few books of his own too!

[scollyer.tuition]

For how long were these episodes banned exactly? I recall seeing the one with Yvonne Craig (!!!) in the UK sometime in the 1970s, though I can't recall the exact year.

[ChrisBakerauthor]

I tried to think of episodes that I would not want kids to watch. I can't think of that many really. As far as violence, sadism, and/or torture are concerned, I would rate "Charlie X" as a fairly sick episode. He was one of the scariest antagonists on the show.

[dianne]

As a young teen, I saw every episode as they were originally aired back in the 60s. I don't recall ever feeling shocked, disturbed, or offended by anything. I was enthralled and wanted to be a crewmember of the Starship Enterprise when I grew up (like Yeoman Rand).

[James-pqnf]

WHAT DID THEY KNOW THEY BANNED JIMI HENDRIX TOO

[NealKlein]

The commercials at the end were a nice surprise. Thanks.

[Blues.Fusion]

I loved a green Yvonne. To miss that is like never seeing the Farrah poster or Tawny Kittaen on David Coverdales car. Each decade has the women who get the boys through. Yvonne was the one in the 60s. Ok, Raquel too.

[JerryShunk-hs]

Your appreciation for Green Yvonne rivals mine ! The best line in the episode had to be when Yvonne, ( the consummate Orion Liar) said she had originated a Shakespeare line ~ and Garth exclaims, " You Wrote That !"

[Traderjoe]

In the episode where they went to that asylum and Garth demonstrated the explosive by putting a grain of it on her and they sent her out on the planets surface and then blew him up and the set rocked from the explosion, I remember as a kid being surprised and shocked by the brutality of it.

[just_kos]

Star Trek 7 by James Blish was my first Star Trek book. I've been a fan since Day One (premiered one day before my 5th birthday), but like you, I turned into a real trekkie when it was released into syndication. (I'm reclaiming the word "trekkie", btw!) Mom told me one day that if I get a certain chore done, she'd have a surprise for me when she returned from town. She comes home and holds out ST7 and I was like NO WAY!!! I always loved to tease her after that, that she bought me my first ST book!

[williamlangan]

I love those commercials and the green makeup on Yvonne Craig!