Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Banned episode inquiry. Message-ID: <1364@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 18:55:20 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1364 Posted: Mon Aug 5 18:55:20 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 03:26:40 EDT References: <1267@uwmacc.UUCP> <8800013@convexs> Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 34 > > >> Which ST articles were banned in Texas? > > > ... several episodes were banned in Texas and "the Bible belt" > > because of supposed inferences to Satinism. > ********************************************************************** > > I know! I know! you heard it from someone who talked to whosits > who was CERTAIN that... > > No, repeat ZERO episodes were "banned in Texas." HOWEVER, some independant > stations in certain parts of the country (including Texas) refused > to show certain episodes that depicted creatures (or people) as "god"-like... > This happened NOT during the Star Trek run, but with re-runs, ten years later. > Sorry, I thought that it was assumed we were talking about reruns. -- --- Rob DeMillo Madison Academic Computer Center ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo "...That's enough, that's enough! Television's takin' its toll. Turn it off, turn it off! Give me the remote control! I've been nice! I've been good! Please don't do this to me! I've been nice, turn it off, I don't wanna hav'ta see... ...'The Brady Bunch!'"