TOS Season 3

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Contents 1 Episodes 2 Summary 3 Background Information 4 See also

[edit] Episodes

Title	Episode	Prodno.	Stardate	Original Airdate	Remastered Airdate
Spectre of the Gun	3x01	60043-56	4385.3	1968-10-25	2008-07-19
Elaan of Troyius	3x02	60043-57	4372.5	1968-12-20	2008-03-29
The Paradise Syndrome	3x03	60043-58	4842.6	1968-10-04	2007-02-24
The Enterprise Incident	3x04	60043-59	5031.3	1968-09-27	2008-04-05
And the Children Shall Lead	3x05	60043-60	5027.3	1968-10-11	2007-04-14
Spock's Brain	3x06	60043-61	5431.4	1968-09-20	2007-06-09
Is There in Truth No Beauty?	3x07	60043-62	5630.7	1968-10-18	2008-03-22
The Empath	3x08	60043-63	5121.5	1968-12-06	2008-07-26
The Tholian Web	3x09	60043-64	5693.2	1968-11-15	2007-03-31
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky	3x10	60043-65	5476.3	1968-11-08	2007-01-27
Day of the Dove	3x11	60043-66	Unknown	1968-11-01	2008-01-05
Plato's Stepchildren	3x12	60043-67	5784.2	1968-11-22	2007-06-16
Wink of an Eye	3x13	60043-68	5710.5	1968-11-29	2007-01-13
That Which Survives	3x14	60043-69	Unknown	1969-01-24	2008-03-15
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield	3x15	60043-70	5730.2	1969-01-10	2008-01-19
Whom Gods Destroy	3x16	60043-71	5718.3	1969-01-03	2008-05-24
The Mark of Gideon	3x17	60043-72	5423.4	1969-01-17	2008-05-31
The Lights of Zetar	3x18	60043-73	5725.3	1969-01-31	2008-06-07
The Cloud Minders	3x19	60043-74	5818.4	1969-02-28	2008-07-12
The Way to Eden	3x20	60043-75	5832.3	1969-02-21	2008-06-14
Requiem for Methuselah	3x21	60043-76	5843.7	1969-02-14	2008-06-21
The Savage Curtain	3x22	60043-77	5906.4	1969-03-07	2008-06-28
All Our Yesterdays	3x23	60043-78	5943.7	1969-03-14	2007-04-21
Turnabout Intruder	3x24	60043-79	5928.5	1969-06-03	2008-08-02

[edit] Summary

[edit] Background Information

• Some production staff members were disappointed with season three. In a 2006 interview, Leonard Nimoy called it "very weak in general, but it was especially not good for Spock." [1]
• Ira Steven Behr once said that both he and his sister were disappointed "with the third season". [2]
• For the third season, the title and credits are now in a light blue color, much like the credits of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• Kirk no longer wears a green wrap-around shirt in any of the episodes, though officers are seen wearing the full dress uniform in "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" and "The Savage Curtain". In the third season Scotty's dress uniform is accompanied by a traditional Scottish kilt. The uniforms were no longer made of velour (which shrank every time it was cleaned), but of double-knit polyester.
• Each episode of the third season now costs about $180,000, the budget having been reduced even further.
• Gene Roddenberry was initially promised an early evening time slot (Mondays at 7:30 p.m.) by NBC. However, this would have required their top-rated series Laugh-In to be moved from its 8pm time slot to 8:30. Laugh-In producer George Schaltter threatened to take his show to another network unless it was guaranteed the 8pm slot. NBC capitulated, forcing Trek to air its third season in the only remaining slot on the schedule--Fridays at 10 p.m. Gene threatened to leave Star Trek entirely if it wasn't put back to the promised time slot, but NBC rejected his threats due to the show's low ratings. He technically kept the post of executive producer for this season, but had actually left for MGM to work on other projects.
• After Gene and most of the writing staff left after the second season, Fred Freiberger took over as producer, with Arthur Singer replacing D.C. Fontana as script consultant.

[edit] See also

• TOS Season 3 UK VHS
• TOS Season 3 DVD

Previous Season: TOS Season 2

Seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series

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