Power Records "Star Trek"

[Galileo7]

ST:TMP photo cover and inside had the comic book story based on TMP.

http://homepage.mac.com/mmtz/stcomix/peterpan.html

Mark Martinez also lists the TOS "Power" releases and the reprints with TMP cover art on TOS?TAS stories:
http://homepage.mac.com/mmtz/stcomix/power.html
http://homepage.mac.com/mmtz/stcomix/avreprints.html

Thanks cool links, those are the book&records.

 

[Steve67]

I was a kid when these came out, but I have to wonder if Trek's 1960s-era fans snapped these up.

 

[Expo67]

A Mirror For Futility is one that I will never forget. Both the Redworm and the Renderer scared me as a kid.

 

[ToddPence]

I always thought the "Red Worm" sounded like the Joker.

 

[Ssosmcin]

I was a kid when these came out, but I have to wonder if Trek's 1960s-era fans snapped these up.

I am just shy of a 60's era fan, having been born i n1967, but I've watched the show since I was 4 ish. I loved these records. Back in the days before home video, this sort of thing passed for entertainment and they were great. Power Records are a staple of my childhood and when you had the comic book versions, you could read along. My mother loved that aspect, because it served an educational purpose.

Sometimes the voices were godawful, but other times, depending on the show being done, they were really good. They got The Six Million Dollar Man just right. And also, believe it or not, Kojak!

 

[Steve67]

Sometimes the voices were godawful, but other times, depending on the show being done, they were really good. They got The Six Million Dollar Man just right. And also, believe it or not, Kojak!

It's amusing to hear the actor who did Kirk's voice in one of those Kojak stories--still sounding like Kirk!

For Star Trek, I always thought that the voices were pretty good, especially Kirk and the (second?) Spock. Whenever I need a chuckle, I just remember how "Kirk" says "Marpaplu" in To Starve a Fleaver.

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

I've been listening to the four 1975 Power/Peter Pan records of Star Trek that I've had since childhood. I've mentioned the feelings these adventures evoke, but they're also just a lot of fun to hear! The voice actors who do the Enterprise crew are quite charming, with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy particularly good. I've tried listening to the other audio stories, but the performances, scripts, and another actor who played Spock just weren't as good.

The second Spock was the same actor that Power Records used to play the Six Million Dollar Man. And in one of the $6Mill segments the Kirk actor did a cameo as a radio announcer (for WGBS, of all things).

 

[Kelso]

^ Do you know what their names were?

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

^ Do you know what their names were?

I wish I did, but there are whole blogs dedicated to Power Records and even they don't know who the actors were.

 

[Fer]

Thanks for posting these... I played them into the ground when I was a kid too. I've been wanting to hear them again for a while now.

 

[WRStone]

Just FYI, these recordings are all on YouTube.

I have a playlist for them.

It plays them in release order.

Dakota Smith

 

[WRStone]

Also, it should be noted that some of the voice actors for these recordings are veterans of Old Time Radio. If you listen to OTR (I'm a connoisseur of Dimension X, X-Minus One, and Dragnet in particular), you'll find some of these voices familiar.

Dakota Smith

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

Also, it should be noted that some of the voice actors for these recordings are veterans of Old Time Radio. If you listen to OTR (I'm a connoisseur of Dimension X, X-Minus One, and Dragnet in particular), you'll find some of these voices familiar.

Dakota Smith

Can you say which specific ones you recognize from which radio shows?

 

[WRStone]

Also, it should be noted that some of the voice actors for these recordings are veterans of Old Time Radio. If you listen to OTR (I'm a connoisseur of Dimension X, X-Minus One, and Dragnet in particular), you'll find some of these voices familiar.

Can you say which specific ones you recognize from which radio shows?

Hmm ... probably not, actually. A lot of these actors made the rounds of the radio shows: if you listen to as many for as long as I have (over 35 years, now), you start to recognize the voices. I've sometimes looked up the airdates of episodes and can track that one week an actor might have done a Dragnet, then the next week they'd be on X-Minus One. The following week they'd do Fibber McGee and Molly, then back to Dragnet


Jack Webb in particular had a stable of actors that he used on Dragnet. Some of these voices were his "occasional" actors: not the ones he used every week, but a voice that might pop up once a month or so. In fact, Harry Morgan first appeared on the radio show as an "occasional" voice. Webb continued to use him even when the show went to TV. By 1967, he was Friday's partner and a regular. Had Webb lived longer, he'd've revived Dragnet in the 1980s with Kent McCord as his partner, playing the same Jim Reed character as Adam-12 (also a Webb-produced show).


Anyway, as I say, it all tends to blend together. If I happen to hear one of them elsewhere while this thread is active, I'll look it up on IMDB and try to identify them. I might -- I actually listen to OTR more than I watch TV.


Dakota Smith

 

[AcousticKoi]

A couple of the Peter Pan/Power Records "Star Trek" stories are on youtube.

Passage to Moauv
A Mirror for Futility

I had these as a kid. I can remember culling the records department at Sears, specifically looking for these in the early 80s as a young tot of five. Didn't matter that the actors weren't the same as on television. Didn't matter that Sulu was black and Uhura blonde.

With MEGO action figures in hand, I'd listen to these over and over again, so much so that I could tell where the record would skip or scratch.

The same feeling I had listening to those or when I read the Whitman re-releases of the old Gold key comics is the same feeling I had watching the new Star Trek movie.

To me, it's all Star Trek just different interpretations of the same source material.

Enjoy and be a kid again by listening to these.

This is why I love trekbbs. I probably never would of heard of these
so thank you for sharing.

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

The first Power Record I owned was the 7" version of In Vino Veritas. I can still recite big chunks of it from memory.

It's amazing today to think how the early ones (at least) were not dumbed-down for children in terms of their vocabulary. Someone must have insisted on that, and I'm grateful. Edifying, not condescending. Just consider the Latin phrase used as the title of In Vino Veritas, explained nowhere in the story itself.

My mind boggles at the number of words my 8-year-old self heard for the first time on that one record: hegemony, subaltern, palatable, apportionment, protocol, envoy, subterfuge...

 

[Morpheus 02]

^ Do you know what their names were?

I wish I did, but there are whole blogs dedicated to Power Records and even they don't know who the actors were.

Also, it should be noted that some of the voice actors for these recordings are veterans of Old Time Radio. If you listen to OTR (I'm a connoisseur of Dimension X, X-Minus One, and Dragnet in particular), you'll find some of these voices familiar.

Dakota Smith

SO did anyone ever find out who the voices were?

I wish i had my old record...i know i had the 1975 12" with the stories

• "Passage to Moauv"
• "In Vino Veritas"
• "The Crier in Emptiness"

I would also love to see a photo of the guy who did Kirk

 

[Christopher]

I recently watched "The Crier in Emptiness" on YouTube, and it was pretty good, though the alien's "music" wasn't as weird/exotic as I would've imagined. The Kirk actor did a really good impression, though the other voices weren't so great. I found it interesting that even though Connors was originally meant to be Arex, the actor gave him a Russian accent as if he were Chekov.

 

[Mytran]

Excellent website for information about the records:

Guide to the STAR TREK Story Records

Cheers to Danhauser and his love for all things 1970s for keeping this website up!

 

[1001001]

SO did anyone ever find out who the voices were?

I wish i had my old record...i know i had the 1975 12" with the stories

• "Passage to Moauv"
• "In Vino Veritas"
• "The Crier in Emptiness"

I would also love to see a photo of the guy who did Kirk

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