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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. To fans, they were the Great Bird of the Galaxy and the First Lady of Star Trek. To their friends and co-workers, Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry were, perhaps, slightly less mythic figures with their own very human quirks, but still beloved and admired. In this panel from the TrekTalks 5 telethon in support of the Hollywood Food Coalition, Gene and Majel are remembered by those who knew them. Podcast hosted by Earl Green & Ashley Thomas TrekTalks panel hosted by John Champion Panel guests: Fred Bronson, Denise Crosby, Ernie Over, Rod Roddenberry 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 Memories of Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry from those who knew and worked with them 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.
Syfy airs the 42nd episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, and Joe Morton. Matt Frewer (Max Headroom) guest stars in an episode directed by Morton.
British toymaker Character Options releases a boxed set of action figures based on characters from the Doctor Who episodes The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End. This features the first Davros action figure since the earliest waves of Dapol action figures in the late 1980s.
Actress Kim Hunter, who played Zira in Planet Of The Apes and two of its sequels, dies of a heart attack at the age of 79. She won an Oscar in 1952 as best supporting actress in A Streetcar Named Desire. Her career also included the legendary topical TV comedy That Was The Week That Was, guest shots on numerous episodes of Playhouse 90, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, Mission: Impossible, and many other films and TV appearances.
Pay cable channel Showtime airs the fourth movie-length episode of Lexx (under the alternate title “Tales From A Parallel Universe”). Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Star Trek: Generations) guest stars. This is the last episode to air on Showtime; the series will late continue in a one-hour format on Sci-Fi Channel.
UPN airs the 43rd episode of Star Trek: Voyager. This episode airs three days after the 30th anniversary of the original Star Trek’s premiere, and guest stars original series cast members George Takei and Grace Lee Whitney in a storyline paying homage to the Kirk era (specifically, to the opening scene of the movie Star Trek VI). Michael Ansara appears as Kang.
The 49th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, and Nigel Bennett. Lisa Ryder (Andromeda) joins the cast as a regular in the third season premiere, directed by Geraint Wyn-Davies.
Warner Bros. releases Angelo Badalamenti’s soundtrack from the surprise midseason TV hit Twin Peaks, featuring the show’s signature dreamy jazz-synth-driven score and songs with vocals by Julee Cruise (including the theme tune, “Falling”). Shortly after its release, and for quite some time afterward, this album is the best-selling TV soundtrack album ever.
Catalogued, restored, remastered, and released for the first time ever, The Carl Stalling Project is released by Warner Bros. Records. The album is the first-ever release of the original soundtrack recordings from Stalling’s scoring sessions for the Warner Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies cartoons from the 1930s through the 1950s, featuring many of Stalling’s variations on tunes originally written by Raymond Scott (including the famous manic “Powerhouse” cue). Classic cartoon fans snap the album up and demand more.
The International Cometary Explorer satellite – originally launched as International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 in 1978 – reaches the culmination of a series of complex orbital changes: a flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner, within 5,000 miles of the nucleus, primarily to sample and study the comet’s plasma tail and the interaction between that and the solar wind. ISEE-3 was not equipped with cameras at launch, so no imagery of the comet is obtained. The success of this flyby emboldens mission planners who hope to send it onward to study Halley’s Comet early in 1986, as part of a backup plan to use existing NASA spacecraft to study Halley in lieu of a specialized vehicle that would’ve been launched by space shuttle in 1986 (cancelled in the wake of the Challenger disaster).
The seventh episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S.
The 59th and final episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Jared Martin (The Fantastic Journey, War Of The Worlds), Marc Alaimo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Ike Eisenmann (The Fantastic Journey, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan) guest star in the series finale.
The 80th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Pamela Hensley (Buck Rogers In The 25th Century) guest stars in the fifth season premiere.
NBC premieres the first episode of Monster Squad, a live-action Saturday morning comedy series imagining Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman as a crime-fighting team led by Walter (Fred Grandy, a year before he would set sail on The Love Boat). (Though similar in concept, the series is unrelated to the late theatrical movie of the same name.)
ABC premieres the first episode of Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, part of the Krofft Supershow Saturday morning children’s programming block. This is part one of a two-part story, each episode lasting only around 12 minutes.
The 23rd episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring John Davey, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. William Campbell (Star Trek) guest stars in the third season premiere.
Despite an in-flight fuel pressure glitch that threatens to make this the third failure for the Surveyor program, Surveyor 5 successfully touches down in the moon’s Sea of Tranquility thanks to remote in-flight reprogramming by NASA engineers. Among its objectives on the lunar surface is a precise measurement of the elements comprising the lunar soil.
The first episode of the time travel sitcom It’s About Time, created by Sherwood Schwarz (I Dream Of Jeannie) and starring Frank Aletter, Jack Mullaney, and Imogene Coca, premieres on CBS. The series involves two astronauts thrown back in time to the prehistoric era, and a comedy of errors ensues as they try to get along with the primitive neighbors with whom they find themselves stranded. Richard Donner (Superman: The Movie, Ladyhawke, Lethal Weapon) directs the series premiere.
The 82nd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as Galaxy Four, the first story of the series’ third season. As of this episode, John Wiles becomes the second producer of Doctor Who, after Verity Lambert gives up the job of creatively guiding the series. This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.
British broadcaster ABC premieres the first episode of Pathfinders In Space, a follow-up series to Target Luna, produced by future Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman. Peter Williams stars in a script written by Malcolm Hulke (Doctor Who) and Eric Paice (Star Maidens). Though the original master tape of this episode was later wiped for reuse, film recordings of all seven episodes would be recovered and released on DVD in the 21st century.
Intrada Records releases the second volume of Alan Silvestri’s music from the documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on CD (following an earlier digital release with fewer tracks). There will be two further volumes in the series. 
Big Finish Productions releases the 178th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton. 
Big Finish Productions releases the 177th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Tracey Childs. 
Australia’s Nine Network airs the 24th episode of K-9. The Australian-made series features no Doctor Who-related characters other than K-9. 
Syfy airs the 42nd episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, and Joe Morton. Matt Frewer (Max Headroom) guest stars in an episode directed by Morton.
British toymaker Character Options releases a boxed set of action figures based on characters from the Doctor Who episodes The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End. This features the first Davros action figure since the earliest waves of Dapol action figures in the late 1980s. 
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 22nd episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, and Joe Morton. Teryl Rothery (Stargate SG-1) guest stars. 
Epic Records releases a remastered and expanded edition of the Electric Light Orchestra album Face The Music. 
Epic Records releases a remastered and expanded edition of the Electric Light Orchestra album On The Third Day. 
Actress Kim Hunter, who played Zira in Planet Of The Apes and two of its sequels, dies of a heart attack at the age of 79. She won an Oscar in 1952 as best supporting actress in A Streetcar Named Desire. Her career also included the legendary topical TV comedy That Was The Week That Was, guest shots on numerous episodes of Playhouse 90, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, Mission: Impossible, and many other films and TV appearances.
Epic Records releases Ben Folds’ debut solo album Rockin’ The Suburbs. 
Pay cable channel Showtime airs the fourth movie-length episode of Lexx (under the alternate title “Tales From A Parallel Universe”). Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Star Trek: Generations) guest stars. This is the last episode to air on Showtime; the series will late continue in a one-hour format on Sci-Fi Channel. 
UPN airs the 43rd episode of Star Trek: Voyager. This episode airs three days after the 30th anniversary of the original Star Trek’s premiere, and guest stars original series cast members George Takei and Grace Lee Whitney in a storyline paying homage to the Kirk era (specifically, to the opening scene of the movie Star Trek VI). Michael Ansara appears as Kang. 
The third episode of Lawrence Hertzog’s paranoid spy-fi thriller Nowhere Man, starring Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), airs on UPN. James Darren (The Time Tunnel, T.J. Hooker, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) directs. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the second episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. 
UPN airs the 18th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Dwight Schultz (The A-Team) guest stars. 
The 49th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, and Nigel Bennett. Lisa Ryder (Andromeda) joins the cast as a regular in the third season premiere, directed by Geraint Wyn-Davies.
Warner Bros. releases Angelo Badalamenti’s soundtrack from the surprise midseason TV hit Twin Peaks, featuring the show’s signature dreamy jazz-synth-driven score and songs with vocals by Julee Cruise (including the theme tune, “Falling”). Shortly after its release, and for quite some time afterward, this album is the best-selling TV soundtrack album ever. 
Catalogued, restored, remastered, and released for the first time ever, The Carl Stalling Project is released by Warner Bros. Records. The album is the first-ever release of the original soundtrack recordings from Stalling’s scoring sessions for the Warner Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies cartoons from the 1930s through the 1950s, featuring many of Stalling’s variations on tunes originally written by Raymond Scott (including the famous manic “Powerhouse” cue). Classic cartoon fans snap the album up and demand more. 
Atari Games releases the arcade video game Pac-Mania, licensed from Namco, the Japanese developers behind Pac-Man, of which this game is an isometric 3-D remake. 
The International Cometary Explorer satellite – originally launched as International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 in 1978 – reaches the culmination of a series of complex orbital changes: a flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner, within 5,000 miles of the nucleus, primarily to sample and study the comet’s plasma tail and the interaction between that and the solar wind. ISEE-3 was not equipped with cameras at launch, so no imagery of the comet is obtained. The success of this flyby emboldens mission planners who hope to send it onward to study Halley’s Comet early in 1986, as part of a backup plan to use existing NASA spacecraft to study Halley in lieu of a specialized vehicle that would’ve been launched by space shuttle in 1986 (cancelled in the wake of the Challenger disaster).
The seventh episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S. 
The 59th and final episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Jared Martin (The Fantastic Journey, War Of The Worlds), Marc Alaimo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Ike Eisenmann (The Fantastic Journey, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan) guest star in the series finale.
Atari releases the arcade video game Super Breakout, a sequel to the hit 1976 coin-op Breakout. 
The 80th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Pamela Hensley (Buck Rogers In The 25th Century) guest stars in the fifth season premiere.
CBS airs the first episode of its Saturday morning science fiction series Ark II. Jonathan Harris (Lost In Space) guest stars. 
The 429th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Gareth Armstrong and Tim Piggott-Smith guest star.
The 26th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 airs on British broadcaster ITV, starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Catherine Schell. 
NBC premieres the first episode of Monster Squad, a live-action Saturday morning comedy series imagining Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman as a crime-fighting team led by Walter (Fred Grandy, a year before he would set sail on The Love Boat). (Though similar in concept, the series is unrelated to the late theatrical movie of the same name.)
ABC premieres the first episode of Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, part of the Krofft Supershow Saturday morning children’s programming block. This is part one of a two-part story, each episode lasting only around 12 minutes. 
The 23rd episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring John Davey, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. William Campbell (Star Trek) guest stars in the third season premiere.
The second episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 premieres on British broadcaster ITV. Ian McShane guest stars. 
London Weekend Television airs the tenth episode of the alternate-future-history series The Guardians, starring Gwyneth Powell and Cyril Luckham.
Despite an in-flight fuel pressure glitch that threatens to make this the third failure for the Surveyor program, Surveyor 5 successfully touches down in the moon’s Sea of Tranquility thanks to remote in-flight reprogramming by NASA engineers. Among its objectives on the lunar surface is a precise measurement of the elements comprising the lunar soil.
The first episode of the time travel sitcom It’s About Time, created by Sherwood Schwarz (I Dream Of Jeannie) and starring Frank Aletter, Jack Mullaney, and Imogene Coca, premieres on CBS. The series involves two astronauts thrown back in time to the prehistoric era, and a comedy of errors ensues as they try to get along with the primitive neighbors with whom they find themselves stranded. Richard Donner (Superman: The Movie, Ladyhawke, Lethal Weapon) directs the series premiere.
The 82nd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as Galaxy Four, the first story of the series’ third season. As of this episode, John Wiles becomes the second producer of Doctor Who, after Verity Lambert gives up the job of creatively guiding the series. This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives. 
British broadcaster ABC premieres the first episode of Pathfinders In Space, a follow-up series to Target Luna, produced by future Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman. Peter Williams stars in a script written by Malcolm Hulke (Doctor Who) and Eric Paice (Star Maidens). Though the original master tape of this episode was later wiped for reuse, film recordings of all seven episodes would be recovered and released on DVD in the 21st century.