Questor Tapes 12

Gene Roddenberry's Questor Tapes

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[captainpiccard]

LOL, "Join me for the premiere of MacGyver"...

[Tincanification]

Questor is very much like the android in ST :tos entitled "I Mudd". Actor Foxworthy even looks like that actor. Foxworthy was in St ;ds9. I always liked how Roddenberry would use previous ideas and actors.

[oinotnaecurb]

Great job in posting it. I saw it 30 years ago and have been looking for it ever since. What a fantastic surprise to find it in YouTube.

[ramsildor]

Many Thanks...I always enjoyed this story. I like how you can see so many of the elements that went into the making of Data got it's start.

[retrocyn]

Post part 2: Questor would have had a base of operations, much like the one at Lady Helena's, where he collected information and made decisions that would change the course of mankind's development... in his view, for the good. Jerry would have acted as Questor's friend and protector, as well as his conscience and his window into human nature. Meanwhile, the government agencies would provide additional tension by trying to track him down.

[retrocyn]

My understanding is that the series was supposed to follow Questor's attempts to guide the development of mankind while dodging detection by the governments, with Jerry Robinson providing the human emotional/ moral counterpoint to some of Questor's choices. The series was actually picked up by the network and a full season was commissioned, but the network wanted to eliminate the character of Jerry and make Questor an android on the run, a la The Fugitive, so Roddenberry pulled the plug.

[murphyld66]

Thanks for posting this. It wasn't until the scene where there were tables that held the previous models that I remembered seeing this when I was a child. I've been a fan of Gene Roddenberry's work every since I found out he was the creator of Startrek. I am grateful that I have been able to rediscover some of his other works here on YouTube.

[ILikeCalliopes]

Thanks for posting this pilot.

I've been wanting to see this

since the late 1970's when I

found out about it in a Starlog magazine.

It had a photo of Questor with the article

and I was always curious to see this.

I'm wondering about what Questor was

supposed to do from week to week in

the series. Does anyone know how his

mission would have progressed?

[1MustHave1UserName]

jellionastick, thanks so much for posting this. It had been probably about the time of this copy's airing that I had seen it last.

I've waited for a commercial copy to become available but it never came to be so I was very happy to have this opportunity to see the entire thing again.

I also watched Planet Earth and Genesis II on YouTube today, so I've seen all of Gene's SciFi pilots for a while until I need to see them again.