Strange Star Trek Closing Credits

Paramount has been throwing out strange combinations of closing logos on their new prints of the original Star Trek lately.

I saw this strange one on local TV a couple weekends ago - it was a season 3 episode, but it had the 1966 Desilu logo, and then it had the 2006 CBS Paramount logo with the 1968 Paramount Rising Circle copyright plastered on. I also saw it on a season 1 episode.

This is not a spoof, just a recreation. What's going on over at Paramount?

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• trek
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[vorsdec]

blame desilu

[korranus]

blame canada

[TheRebel2007]

It was Desilu studios (owned by none other than Lucille "I Love Lucy" Ball) that saved Star Trek from early cancellation!

I thought every Star Trek Fan knew that?!

[pharbizorg]

It was Desilu studios before it was bought out by Paramount.

[retroguy1976]

the shows runned by desilu were great I feel paramount lost their edge on some shows

[technopoptart]

They did that since the 1980's runs of the original series. Used to be 3 logos sometimes.

[minnowtrappermd]

reason for desilu at the end was because Paramount did not gain all TV control untill end of 1968

[redraiderredinLubboc]

Now Viacom, a distribution company when it started, owns Paramount Pictures, CBS, King World distribution, a small production company which did the Fred Silmverman/Dean Hargrove lawyer/doctor/detective series (Perry Mason movies and all that followed -- three potfulls of money and a partridge in a pear tree.

[redraiderredinLubboc]

pharbizog is right. The merger took place during the summer of 1967, to go into effect when Lucy finished filming The Lucy Show later that fall. So some of the Star Trek second-season episodes (I think the first 13 filmed) were done under the Desilu banner and some under the Paramount banner. The show didn't Jump The Shark until the turn of the calendar to 1968 air dates (doubt me? Compare The Trouble With Tribbles on December 29 to The Gamesters of Triskelion on January 5!

[PareliusProductions]

@pharbizorg Actually, it was bought by a conglomerate known as Gulf and Western who also bought a failing Paramount Pictures at the time. They then renamed Desilu to Paramount Television.

[reggie44]

@ClassicTVMan1981X : Also true. The post-Desilu company was Lucille Ball Productions, co-owned with her 2nd husband Gary Morton. They began production on "The Lucy Show" during the Desilu era, but rolled it into LBP after the Paramount purchase... filming at the former Desilu, now Paramount lot!

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@reggie44

The deal did not include "The Lucy Show" because that show aired in 1962. Even in the 1980s Paramount TV had syndication rights to that show.