Friday, October 14, 2022

TOS Season 3 - The Fred Freiberger Episodes

People often assume Fred Freiberger was solely responsible for all 24 Season 3 TOS episosdes. Its true that as Producer, Freiberger was ultimatly responsible for hiring (firing) the Director, the casting, and the final script, but the  original story outlines weren't all his creation. He seems to been responsible for the following TOS Season 3 episodes from the start to finish:
  1. All Our Yesterdays
  2. Cloud Minders
  3. Lights of Zetar
  4. Mark of Gideon
  5. Plato's stepchildren
  6. Requiem For Methusala
  7. Whom the God's Destroy
  8. World is Hollow and I touched the Sky
In addition, he massively revised two D.C. Fontana stories (causing her to take her name off the credits)  and  Freiberger deserves all the praise (or blame) :
  1. That which survives
  2. Way to Eden
 Finally,  three original scripts from outside authors were selected by Bob Justman and approved by Freiberger (and Roddenberrry) for production.  They deserve to be called "Bob Justman episodes" since he's the one that found the scripts and helped shepard the writers through the process.  But Fred deserves PARTIAL credit:
  1. The Empath
  2. Is There no Truth in Beauty
  3. Tholian Web
The other eleven Season 3 episodes originated with Gene Roddenberry, although  approving the original story outline was often all he did. 

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