Animated Star Trek PSA "Yesteryear"

Public Service Announcement from the Animated STAR TREK series for the episode "Yesteryear" written and animated by Curt Danhauser.

Several animated Saturday morning series beginning in the 1970's had a 30-second "message" aimed at teaching the children viewers a lesson, like staying away from downed power lines and not being a bully.

Filmation was actually the first studio to add a moral in the form of an epilogue at the end of Saturday morning cartoon episodes. They made their debut in conjunction with Filmation's Hardy Boys series in 1969, but they didn't become a regular epilogue element until 1972 as part of Filmation's Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids series.

No Public Service Announcements (PSAs) were made for the initial broadcast of the animated STAR TREK series. Just for fun, I decided to create 30-second Animated STAR TREK PSAs with the type of lessons that might be learned from each Animated STAR TREK episode. They were written seriously just like the ones that were seen on Saturday mornings in the 1970's and 1980's, but when viewed with today's sensibilities, they will probably seem quaint and perhaps humorous. Curt Danhauser - 2009

More info on these special PSAs can be found at http://www.danhausertrek.com/AnimatedSeries/PSA.html

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• STAR TREK
• animation
• 1970's
• Danhauser
• Filmation
• Saturday Morning TV
• cartoon
• D. C. Fontana
• Spock
• Vulcan
• time travel

[SavageArms357]

Wait...How can Spock go back in time to rescue himself if he would have died without future Spock's help? And for that matter, wouldn't changing a period in his life like that change what his possible choices in the future would be?

[AlgisKemezys]

he he

[YalanaCotu]

YES, CHDanhauser, this is very good advise!

Deserts are exceptionally hazardous places, on both Terra and T'Khasi.

I will remember to NEVER do that. Thank you!

( lol good work )

[KingZolem]

Yeah, I always felt this was a PSA designed episode.

[KingZolem]

@TIPTON340 If you read the description, he says HE made them.

[TIPTON340]

Where did you get these PSAs? They weren't included in the dvd collection. I know in the 70's the group action for children's television was making most cartoons provide a moral for their stories.

I'd love to see these as they orginally appeared.