TOS THIRD Season Bloopers

[Filmakr1]

Hi all, I've been looking for the very rare 3rd season Trek Bloopers for years. This would be the roll with Frank Gorshin on the transporter pad and other bloopers not ever seen in the other far easier to find blooper reels. The only one I can find is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuGujMCe4CI

... which has the most annoying watermark every few seconds throughout the entire clip. Does anyone know of another clean version of this out there, anywhere?

 

[Captain Robert April]

Wow. I hadn't seen that third season blooper reel in about thirty-two years, when Roddenberry was doing a lecture at McNichols Sports Arena in '76.

To the best of my knowledge, Roddenberry kept that blooper reel in his personal possession to keep it from getting into, essentially, public domain like the earlier blooper reels had, so the only way to see it was if he was there to show it. Suffice it to say, I'm rather surprised someone got their hands on it, so I'll gladly put up with the watermark.

 

[NCC1968]

Early to mid 70's Roddenberry showed these and Nimoy was always pissed about it. I've seen a letter he wrote saying it made the actors look bad...but maybe they could live with it - for a price

 

[Captain Robert April]

Roddenberry offered to give Nimoy a copy so he could get a piece of the action. Nimoy was baffled that GR just didn't get it, that the gag reels were a private thing to be kept "in the family", not shown to outsiders who might not appreciate the situations in which those clips were made.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

GR's per-appearence value as a campus speaker talking about how network executives screwed over his genius: three figures.

GR's per-appearence value grousing about the network, showing "The Cage" and the "blooper reel:" priceless.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Great stuff! I won a VHS tape at a smaller run convention that had only a couple of clips from this reel -- the Sulu communicator mishap and Shatner saying "Spock here" instead of "Kirk here."

Early to mid 70's Roddenberry showed these and Nimoy was always pissed about it. I've seen a letter he wrote saying it made the actors look bad...but maybe they could live with it - for a price

Wasn't there a similar hubabuloo over the TNG blooper reels, and that being the reason why there was only one season's worth of them?

 

[NCC1968]

Roddenberry offered to give Nimoy a copy so he could get a piece of the action. Nimoy was baffled that GR just didn't get it, that the gag reels were a private thing to be kept "in the family", not shown to outsiders who might not appreciate the situations in which those clips were made.

Here is the letter:

 

[Navigator_NCC2120]

Hi all, I've been looking for the very rare 3rd season Trek Bloopers for years. This would be the roll with Frank Gorshin on the transporter pad and other bloopers not ever seen in the other far easier to find blooper reels. The only one I can find is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuGujMCe4CI

... which has the most annoying watermark every few seconds throughout the entire clip. Does anyone know of another clean version of this out there, anywhere?

Thanks, I enjoyed that. The poor image quality of the blooper reel gave me the feeling that I was looking at a fading memory, which somehow seems appropriate since Majel Barret-Roddenberry (Nurse Christine Chapel in TOS) past away yesterday.


Navigator NCC-2120 USS Entente
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[ToddPence]

Somewhere I have a VHS tape with a poor-quality copy of the Star Trek blooper reel. This includes a number of third-season bloopers. Some of these are -

"Is There in Truth No Beauty" - Diana Mulduar delivers the line "We have come to the end of an eventful trip" and Shatner replies "What have you been taking?" There's also one from the dinner scene where Shatner is pouring brandy for Mulduar and accidentally spills some on her sleeve.

"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" - Kirk, discussing Bele's invisible vessel with Spock, asks him "Could it be a Romulan ship?" but the word "ship" comes out as "shit", breaking them both up. Also in this episode, as mentioned before, Frank Gorshin does his Jimmy Cagney after the director yells cut in the transporter scene.

"Whom Gods Destroy" - Yvonne Craig muffs her recitation of the Shakespeare verse and curses. Steve Ihnat pretends to strangle her.

"Wink of an Eye" - Shatner is trying to steal the stun device from Deela (Katie Brown), but is unable to disengage it from her wristlet.

"For the World is Hollow" - The scene where McCoy is lying on the ground after suffering the pain of the obedience instrument in his skull. DeForest Kelley is trying to whisper something about the oracle. When Shatner leans closer to hear better, Kelley says "Kiss me, you fool."

ADDENDUM: I just watched the youtube link above. That's exactly the one I have.

 

[Filmakr1]

Hey ToddPence, anyway you can capture that section of your bloopers tape as a flash file?

 

[Captain Robert April]

That letter doesn't strike me as Nimoy trying to get a piece of the action, but trying to get through to Roddenberry in terms he might better understand: "Stop showing the damn thing or I'll get the others together and we'll sue your ass for misuse of our likenesses!"

In any case, the point became rather moot by the time of this letter. Paramount was gearing up to restart Star Trek, culminating with the first movie a few years later, so Roddenberry was able to leave the lecture circuit, thus ending the matter on that front. Plus, he'd made the mistake of loaning out the first two seasons' blooper reels to somebody who made copies, and in pretty short order, everybody was showing the damn things, and GR wasn't getting a dime (which is why he never loaned out the third season reel, which is why seeing it on youtube is such a surprise).

 

[Crewman47]

When exactly did Blooper reels start to be common pratice with TV shows and movies anyway cause it seems here that it's a unknown concept to show them as it shows that actors are just normal people who can make mistakes and can sometimes make a song and dance about said mistakes, much to our amusement of course.

 

[paustin]

while I can understand Nimoy's point of view. I dont agree with it, I love bloopers because they show actors or characters you love acting human. The show may be fairly timeless but these bloopers are time in a bottle...I've always loved them and wish there were better copies of them out there. God knows I've bought them over and over hoping to get a pristine copy...but oh well.

 

[Trekwatcher]

In 1979 my local library showed several of the TOS blooper reels on an old style movie projector. My brother and I were astounded that these even existed, and talked about them for years. Great to see this again!

 

[Therin of Andor]

When exactly did Blooper reels start to be common pratice with TV shows and movies anyway cause it seems here that it's a unknown concept to show them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Schaefer

"Bloopers came into prominence in 1931, when radio announcer Harry Von Zell mispronounced the name of then-President of the United States Herbert Hoover as 'Hoobert Heever' on the air, but [Kermit] Schaefer's is believed to be the first attempt at collecting and presenting them. Other similar famous finds of Schaefer's include ABC correspondent Joel Daly intoning, 'The rumor that the President would veto the bill is reported to have come from a high White Horse souse,' and veteran radio host Paul Harvey breaking into uncontrollable laughter at a story about a pet poodle. These were collected and released in LP audio collections such as Pardon My Blooper! and Your Slip is Showing, which were briefly popular in the 1960s. A movie version also entitled Pardon My Blooper was released in 1974. These led the way for such current TV shows as TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes, hosted by Dick Clark."

Clark always saluted Kermit "Mr. Blooper" Schaefer with an onscreen closing credit.

 

[Captain Robert April]

The collector's edition of "The Adventures of Robin Hood" DVD has a blooper reel from several MGM productions of the time, for the assorted Christmas parties on the lot at the time.

 

[ToddPence]

Hey ToddPence, anyway you can capture that section of your bloopers tape as a flash file?

The quality is really bad, worse even than in that youtube clip. Plus the VHS tape I have it on is ancient as well.
In addition, my Pinnacle VHS capture device will work fine on video, but there is no audio. Nothing I have tried has gotten the sound to work and no online documentation has been able to help me. So I can capture VHS video only at present.

 

[DarkHelmet]

Roddenberry offered to give Nimoy a copy so he could get a piece of the action. Nimoy was baffled that GR just didn't get it, that the gag reels were a private thing to be kept "in the family", not shown to outsiders who might not appreciate the situations in which those clips were made.

Here is the letter:

That letter is an amazing bit of history. I wonder how it made it into the public domain?

 

[T'Aerwynd]

Nimoy and Roddenberry exchanged many letters over the course of Trek. If I remember "I am Spock" correctly, they also had quite a few shouting matches. I'm tired, though, so no guarantees on accuracy there. Thanks for posting the blooper reel, that was cute.

 

[trevanian]

In 1979 my local library showed several of the TOS blooper reels on an old style movie projector. My brother and I were astounded that these even existed, and talked about them for years. Great to see this again!

Old style movie projector. What, you mean one that shows movie films?

Old-style? Geez, you'd think we were in the 23rd century or something.