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Welcome to Gene-ology, a podcast by Roddenberry Entertainment that dives deep into the early TV writing works of Gene Roddenberry. We finish finally getting to watch Mr. District Attorney for ourselves, and after picking the best episode of these three, we try to narrow down: what was the best episode of Mr. District Attorney written by fledgling writer Gene Roddenberry? Hosted by Earl Green & Ashley Thomas About Gene-ology Gene-ology explores Gene Roddenberry's early television scripts, including his lesser-known works before Star Trek using the Mission Log format popularized by Roddenberry Podcasts. We analyze the themes, writing style, and cultural impact of his scripts, and we even unearth stories from the Roddenberry archives that were never produced. Join us as we trace the roots of Gene's creative genius. In This Episode A breakdown of key moments and themes in Mr. District Attorney. Exploring Gene Roddenberry's evolving style and storytelling. How this episode ties into the broader TV landscape of the time and reflects the early seeds of Roddenberry's visionary work. Guest stars and unique production elements that bring this episode to life. Join the Conversation What did you think of this episode? Share your thoughts, theories, and favorite moments in the comments or reach out to us on social media or email us at missionlog@roddenberry.com Did you know Roddenberry Podcasts is on YouTube? Find the video versions of your favorite shows like Mission Log: Prodigy, Mission Log: The Orville, as well as exclusive content only available on YouTube. Subscribe now! https://www.youtube.com/@RoddenberryEntertainment?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us on Social Media: INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/roddenberrypodcasts BLUESKY https://bsky.app/profile/roddenberrypod.bsky.social THREADS https://www.threads.net/@roddenberrypodcasts FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/MissionLogPod Our shows are part of the Roddenberry Entertainment family. For more great shows and to learn how we live the legacy of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, follow us here: RODDENBERRY PODCASTS https://www.instagram.com/RoddenberryPodcasts RODDENBERRY ENTERTAINMENT https://www.instagram.com/RoddenberryOfficial RODDENBERRY FOUNDATION https://www.instagram.com/TheRoddenberryFoundation Support the Show For as little as $1 a month, you can gain access to our Mission Log Discord Community! There, we continue the discussion with dedicated channels and a weekly video chat with the hosts. Become a member of our Patreon today! https://www.Patreon.com/MissionLog Subscribe and Stay Tuned Be sure to subscribe to Gene-ology for more deep dives into Gene Roddenberry's early works. New episodes are released regularly as we uncover more of Gene's television legacy. – Gene-ology is produced by Roddenberry Entertainment. Executive producer Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry. Visit https://Podcasts.Roddenberry.com for more great content. Edited by Earl Green.
The CW airs the 153rd episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Cress Williams (Black Lightning), Javicia Leslie (Batwoman), and Tony Curran (Defiance, Doctor Who) guest star.
The 100th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Neal McDonough (Boomtown), Grant Gustin (The Flash), Susanna Thompson (Star Trek: Voyager), Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow), and Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) guest star in an episode which is part of a crossover event involving all of the CW’s DC superhero series.
Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a limited edition 2-CD set featuring – for the first time – the entirety of Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. For the first time, the complete score is presented, including alternate takes and arrangements. The limited edition of 5,000 sells out in four months, and the album later gets an unlimited reissue with slightly different cover artwork on the Intrada label.
The first episode of Andrew Dymond’s sci-fi comedy series StarHyke debuts on DVD (along with the other five episodes of the series), starring Claudia Christian (Babylon 5), Suanne Braun (Stargate SG-1), and Jeremy Bulloch (The Empire Strikes Back, Chocky). Danny John-Jules (Red Dwarf) guest stars. (The series will eventually be broadcast in the UK in 2011.)
Big Finish Productions releases the first Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama, a limited series of audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant star in a story originally intended to lead off the 1986 season of Doctor Who.
Andrew Mark Sewell’s B7 Media releases its seventh Blake’s 7 audio drama, featuring two stories written by Simon Guerrier. Carrie Dobro (Crusade, Hypernauts) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange, Sherlock) star.
Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on an 11-day mission to add a major solar power array to the International Space Station. For the first time, a crew has already arrived via Soyuz and taken up residence on the station prior to the shuttle’s arrival. Another external truss is added, and the first large solar power array – 240 feet long – is added to it, more than quintupling the power available aboard the station. Aboard Endeavour for her 15th flight are Commander Brent Jett, Pilot Michael Bloomfield, and mission specialists Joseph Tanner, Marc Garneau and Carlos Noriega.
The 65th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 60th episode of the science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, Cleavant Derricks, Kari Wuhrer, and Charlie O’Connell. Charlie Brill and Tim Thomerson (Quark) guest star.
The 102nd episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. John O’Hurley (Seinfeld) guest stars; Jerry Springer appears as himself.
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on its first flight in two years, an 11-day mission to conduct studies of Earth’s atmosphere with the ATLAS package mounted in the cargo bay. Aboard Atlantis for her 13th flight are Commander Donald McMonagle, Pilot Curtis Brown, Payload Commander Ellen Ochoa, and mission specialists Scott Parazynski, Joseph Tanner and Jean-Francois Clervoy.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 27th episode of Babylon 5. Dwight Schultz (The A-Team) and Anne Marie Johnson (In The Heat Of The Night) guest star.
NBC airs the 39th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Josie Bissett (Melrose Place) and Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carey Show, Batman: The Brave And The Bold) guest star.
The 678th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This story, guest starring Anton Diffring and Fiona Walker, is the final original series Cybermen episode.
The 668th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. David Selby (Dark Shadows) guest stars as Glitz; this story introduces Sophie Aldred as new TARDIS traveler Ace.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the tenth episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Majel Barrett Roddenberry, who played the recurring role of Nurse Chapel in the original Star Trek, makes the first of many appearances as Lwaxana Troi. This is actually one of the earliest episodes filmed.
Sega releases the arcade game Buck Rogers: Planet Of Zoom in American arcades. Completely unrelated to the recent television series, the graphically impressive game is designed to be the first in a series, but no further games in the projected series ever materialize.
Japanese video game maker Namco releases Pole Position in the United States by way of American licensee Atari. Quickly gaining popularity in arcades, Pole Position marks one of the first “meta” moments in video games, featuring briefly-glimpsed billboards advertising other games by the same manufacturer.
The tenth episode of Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking science documentary series Cosmos premieres on PBS. A popular history of science and scientific theory vs. tradition and superstition, segueing into Sagan’s field of expertise (astrophysics), Cosmos is a major milestone in American documentary filmmaking and the popularization of science and the scientific method (and makes an instant celebrity out of Sagan).
ITV airs the 31st episode of Roald Dahl’s anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected, hosted by the author himself and adapted from his short stories. John Gielgud guest stars; this is the final episode in which Roald Dahl’s on-screen introduction is a regular fixture of the show.
The 43rd episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Diana Muldaur guest stars.
CBS Records releases an LP of selections from Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, one of the earliest fully-digitally-recorded albums of any kind, soundtrack or otherwise. Thanks mainly to Goldsmith’s energetic main title, the album becomes a best-seller; many fans start to regard the music as the best part of the movie. Two reissues follow, culminating in a fan-pleasing 2012 release of the complete score.
The 20th episode of Harold Jack Bloom’s sci-fi series Project UFO airs on NBC, portraying fictionalized investigations into what the show claims are actual cases from the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigations. Edward Winter and Caskey Swaim star. James Olson (The Andromeda Strain) guest stars.
ITV airs the tenth episode of the mystery/spy-fi series Strange Report in the U.K., starring Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, and Anneke Wills (Doctor Who). (The series is an international co-production and airs in the United States on NBC.)
ABC airs the 37th episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. William Schallert guest stars.
The 224th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Kevin Stoney guest stars as Tobias Vaughn, and Nicholas Courtney returns as the freshly-promoted Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, head of the newly created UNIT. This is the last Cybermen story until 1975.
This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives, but is later replaced on DVD by an animated reconstruction.
ABC broadcasts the 12th episode of the Filmation animated series Fantastic Voyage, based on the 1966 movie of the same name. Marvin Miller, Ted Knight, and Jane Webb lead the voice cast of an episode that airs over eight months prior to the first manned landing on the moon.
The Soviet Union launches the unmanned space probe Zond 2, intended to conduct the first close flyby of the planet Mars. Interplanetary exploration is still in its infancy, however, and just as Zond 1 failed mere weeks away from Venus, communication is lost with Zond 2 three months prior to its planned August 1965 encounter with the red planet. A backup of this spacecraft, Zond 3, will be launched in 1965, also failing to reach Mars but instead returning photos of Earth’s moon.
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The CW airs the 153rd episode of The Flash, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ superhero starring Grant Gustin. Cress Williams (Black Lightning), Javicia Leslie (Batwoman), and Tony Curran (Defiance, Doctor Who) guest star.
Fox airs the 11th episode of the science fiction comedy-drama The Orville, starring and created by Seth McFarlane. Victor Garber (Alias, Legends Of Tomorrow) guest stars. 
The 100th episode of Arrow, a modern-day reboot of DC Comics’ Green Arrow superhero starring Stephen Amell, airs on the CW. Neal McDonough (Boomtown), Grant Gustin (The Flash), Susanna Thompson (Star Trek: Voyager), Caity Lotz (Mad Men, Legends Of Tomorrow), and Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) guest star in an episode which is part of a crossover event involving all of the CW’s DC superhero series.
Big Finish Productions releases the 154th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and Julie Cox. 
Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a limited edition 2-CD set featuring – for the first time – the entirety of Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. For the first time, the complete score is presented, including alternate takes and arrangements. The limited edition of 5,000 sells out in four months, and the album later gets an unlimited reissue with slightly different cover artwork on the Intrada label. 
Big Finish Productions releases the 141st Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred. 
Big Finish Productions releases the 30th episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith. 
The first episode of Andrew Dymond’s sci-fi comedy series StarHyke debuts on DVD (along with the other five episodes of the series), starring Claudia Christian (Babylon 5), Suanne Braun (Stargate SG-1), and Jeremy Bulloch (The Empire Strikes Back, Chocky). Danny John-Jules (Red Dwarf) guest stars. (The series will eventually be broadcast in the UK in 2011.) 
Big Finish Productions releases the 128th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton. 
Big Finish Productions releases the first Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama, a limited series of audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant star in a story originally intended to lead off the 1986 season of Doctor Who. 
Andrew Mark Sewell’s B7 Media releases its seventh Blake’s 7 audio drama, featuring two stories written by Simon Guerrier. Carrie Dobro (Crusade, Hypernauts) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange, Sherlock) star. 
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 68th episode of Stargate Atlantis. 
Big Finish Productions releases the sixth Doctor Who audio drama in its Companion Chronicles range (short stories performed audiobook style with one or two actors). Frazer Hines and Suzanne Procter star. 
Big Finish Productions releases the 89th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred. 
ABC premieres the tenth episode of Shaun Cassidy’s sci-fi/horror series Invasion, starring William Fichtner (Contact), Eddie Cibrian, and Lisa Sheridan. 
ABC airs the 33rd episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Frederic Lane guest stars. 
Big Finish Productions releases the sixth Sarah Jane Smith audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring Elisabeth Sladen, reprising her TV role. Stephen Greif (Blake’s 7) guest stars. 
Big Finish Productions releases the 76th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Mark Strickson. 
Big Finish Productions releases the fifth Sarah Jane Smith audio drama, a Doctor Who audio spinoff starring Elisabeth Sladen, reprising her TV role. 
Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on an 11-day mission to add a major solar power array to the International Space Station. For the first time, a crew has already arrived via Soyuz and taken up residence on the station prior to the shuttle’s arrival. Another external truss is added, and the first large solar power array – 240 feet long – is added to it, more than quintupling the power available aboard the station. Aboard Endeavour for her 15th flight are Commander Brent Jett, Pilot Michael Bloomfield, and mission specialists Joseph Tanner, Marc Garneau and Carlos Noriega.
Hasbro Interactive, under its Atari imprint, releases a modern remake of Q*Bert for the Sony Playstation, including the original ’80s arcade game as a minigame. 
The 65th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alyson Hannigan also star.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 60th episode of the science fiction series Sliders, starring Jerry O’Connell, Cleavant Derricks, Kari Wuhrer, and Charlie O’Connell. Charlie Brill and Tim Thomerson (Quark) guest star.
The 102nd episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. John O’Hurley (Seinfeld) guest stars; Jerry Springer appears as himself.
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on its first flight in two years, an 11-day mission to conduct studies of Earth’s atmosphere with the ATLAS package mounted in the cargo bay. Aboard Atlantis for her 13th flight are Commander Donald McMonagle, Pilot Curtis Brown, Payload Commander Ellen Ochoa, and mission specialists Scott Parazynski, Joseph Tanner and Jean-Francois Clervoy.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 27th episode of Babylon 5. Dwight Schultz (The A-Team) and Anne Marie Johnson (In The Heat Of The Night) guest star. 
NBC airs the 39th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Josie Bissett (Melrose Place) and Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carey Show, Batman: The Brave And The Bold) guest star.
The 678th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This story, guest starring Anton Diffring and Fiona Walker, is the final original series Cybermen episode.
The 668th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. David Selby (Dark Shadows) guest stars as Glitz; this story introduces Sophie Aldred as new TARDIS traveler Ace.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the tenth episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Majel Barrett Roddenberry, who played the recurring role of Nurse Chapel in the original Star Trek, makes the first of many appearances as Lwaxana Troi. This is actually one of the earliest episodes filmed. 
Sega releases the arcade game Buck Rogers: Planet Of Zoom in American arcades. Completely unrelated to the recent television series, the graphically impressive game is designed to be the first in a series, but no further games in the projected series ever materialize. 
Japanese video game maker Namco releases Pole Position in the United States by way of American licensee Atari. Quickly gaining popularity in arcades, Pole Position marks one of the first “meta” moments in video games, featuring briefly-glimpsed billboards advertising other games by the same manufacturer. 
ITV premieres the sixth episode of the sitcom Astronauts, concerning a fictional British space station crew aboard Skylab. 
BBC1 premieres the 49th episode of Terry Nation’s science fiction series Blake’s 7. Roy Kinnear guest stars. 
The tenth episode of Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking science documentary series Cosmos premieres on PBS. A popular history of science and scientific theory vs. tradition and superstition, segueing into Sagan’s field of expertise (astrophysics), Cosmos is a major milestone in American documentary filmmaking and the popularization of science and the scientific method (and makes an instant celebrity out of Sagan).
ITV airs the 31st episode of Roald Dahl’s anthology series Tales Of The Unexpected, hosted by the author himself and adapted from his short stories. John Gielgud guest stars; this is the final episode in which Roald Dahl’s on-screen introduction is a regular fixture of the show.
The 43rd episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Diana Muldaur guest stars.
The third episode of the English-dubbed Japanese action series Monkey airs on BBC2. The series is a translation and dub of a fancifully satirical Japanese adaptation of the Chinese novel “Journey To The West”, starring Masaaki Sakai. 
CBS Records releases an LP of selections from Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, one of the earliest fully-digitally-recorded albums of any kind, soundtrack or otherwise. Thanks mainly to Goldsmith’s energetic main title, the album becomes a best-seller; many fans start to regard the music as the best part of the movie. Two reissues follow, culminating in a fan-pleasing 2012 release of the complete score. 
The 20th episode of Harold Jack Bloom’s sci-fi series Project UFO airs on NBC, portraying fictionalized investigations into what the show claims are actual cases from the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigations. Edward Winter and Caskey Swaim star. James Olson (The Andromeda Strain) guest stars.
RCA Records releases Isao Tomita‘s interpretation of Holst’s The Planets, a new recording of the famous orchestral suite recorded entirely with synthesizers. 
The 48th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. 
The 13th episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring Jackson Bostwick, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne.
ITV airs the tenth episode of the mystery/spy-fi series Strange Report in the U.K., starring Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, and Anneke Wills (Doctor Who). (The series is an international co-production and airs in the United States on NBC.)
ABC airs the 37th episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. William Schallert guest stars.
The 224th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Kevin Stoney guest stars as Tobias Vaughn, and Nicholas Courtney returns as the freshly-promoted Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, head of the newly created UNIT. This is the last Cybermen story until 1975.
ABC broadcasts the 12th episode of the Filmation animated series Fantastic Voyage, based on the 1966 movie of the same name. Marvin Miller, Ted Knight, and Jane Webb lead the voice cast of an episode that airs over eight months prior to the first manned landing on the moon.
The 40th episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris.
British broadcaster ABC airs the 88th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. 
The Soviet Union launches the unmanned space probe Zond 2, intended to conduct the first close flyby of the planet Mars. Interplanetary exploration is still in its infancy, however, and just as Zond 1 failed mere weeks away from Venus, communication is lost with Zond 2 three months prior to its planned August 1965 encounter with the red planet. A backup of this spacecraft, Zond 3, will be launched in 1965, also failing to reach Mars but instead returning photos of Earth’s moon.