Yes, Star Trek started its run on UK television about the time it was ending on NBC in the United States. Apparently the BBC was a lot smarter about scheduling the show than NBC was in its final season. (The writing of this blog post is very funny and very British, in my opinion.)
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The Joint-165th Most-Broadcast Programme on BBC TV (also 200th)
What? Eh? Weren’t we done with this? Okay, the blog has been quieter than planned of late, and that’s because I’ve been stupidly doubling the number of entries in the book version…
