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Welcome to Gene-ology, a podcast by Roddenberry Entertainment that dives deep into the early TV writing works of Gene Roddenberry. To fans, they were the Great Bird of the Galaxy and the First Lady of Star Trek. To their friends and co-workers, Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry were, perhaps, slightly less mythic figures with their own very human quirks, but still beloved and admired. In this panel from the TrekTalks 5 telethon in support of the Hollywood Food Coalition, Gene and Majel are remembered by those who knew them. Podcast hosted by Earl Green & Ashley Thomas TrekTalks panel hosted by John Champion Panel guests: Fred Bronson, Denise Crosby, Ernie Over, Rod Roddenberry About Gene-ology Gene-ology explores Gene Roddenberry's early television scripts, including his lesser-known works before Star Trek using the Mission Log format popularized by Roddenberry Podcasts. We analyze the themes, writing style, and cultural impact of his scripts, and we even unearth stories from the Roddenberry archives that were never produced. Join us as we trace the roots of Gene's creative genius. In This Episode Memories of Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry from those who knew and worked with them Join the Conversation What did you think of this episode? Share your thoughts, theories, and favorite moments in the comments or reach out to us on social media or email us at missionlog@roddenberry.com Did you know Roddenberry Podcasts is on YouTube? Find the video versions of your favorite shows like Mission Log: Prodigy, Mission Log: The Orville, as well as exclusive content only available on YouTube. Subscribe now! https://www.youtube.com/@RoddenberryEntertainment?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us on Social Media: INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/roddenberrypodcasts BLUESKY https://bsky.app/profile/roddenberrypod.bsky.social THREADS https://www.threads.net/@roddenberrypodcasts FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/MissionLogPod Our shows are part of the Roddenberry Entertainment family. For more great shows and to learn how we live the legacy of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, follow us here: RODDENBERRY PODCASTS https://www.instagram.com/RoddenberryPodcasts RODDENBERRY ENTERTAINMENT https://www.instagram.com/RoddenberryOfficial RODDENBERRY FOUNDATION https://www.instagram.com/TheRoddenberryFoundation Support the Show For as little as $1 a month, you can gain access to our Mission Log Discord Community! There, we continue the discussion with dedicated channels and a weekly video chat with the hosts. Become a member of our Patreon today! https://www.Patreon.com/MissionLog Subscribe and Stay Tuned Be sure to subscribe to Gene-ology for more deep dives into Gene Roddenberry's early works. New episodes are released regularly as we uncover more of Gene's television legacy. – Gene-ology is produced by Roddenberry Entertainment. Executive producer Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry. Visit https://Podcasts.Roddenberry.com for more great content. Edited by Earl Green.
Disney+ streams the seventh episode of the Marvel animated series What If…?, featuring the voices of Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tom Hiddleston (Thor, Loki), and Natalie Portman (Thor, Star Wars Episode III).
The 62nd episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on UK cable/satellite comedy channel Dave, the beginning of Red Dwarf XI, the first full season of the show since its 2012 return. Kevin Eldon (Hyperspace) guest stars.
The 790th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 92nd episode since the series’ revival). Mark Williams guest stars as Brian Williams; Jemma Redgrave appears as UNIT’s new scientific advisor, Kate Stewart.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the seventh episode of Frank Spotnitz’ sci-fi/horror series Night Stalker, a re-imagining of the 1970s series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, starring Stuart Townsend (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). Mira Furlan (Babylon 5) guest stars in an episode previously cancelled by ABC.
The 203rd episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks.
After four years of ballooning costs and launch weight, NASA brings work on the proposed Pluto-Kuiper Express mission to a stop, citing cost overruns and angering planetary scientists. The scientific community protests that, if a mission is not launched to reach Pluto by the year 2020, the tiny planet’s atmosphere will undergo a kind of reverse sublimation process, transitioning from a gas to a solid that rains down to Pluto’s surface. But with mission plans calling for a half-billion-dollar mission (originally budgeted for only $350 million), NASA pulls the plug, announcing that it will solicit new mission designs and plans from scientists around the world, even as advocates for the Pluto-Kuiper Express mission rally around the cancelled proposal.
Welsh toy company Dapol announces the release of the first wave of new Doctor Who action figures since the late 1980s, this group including the third Doctor, the Master, a Sea Devil, two different Silurians, and four variants on a “Gallifrey High Councillor”.
The first episode of Mark Verheiden’s science fiction series Timecop premieres on ABC, starring Ted King and Don Stark, loosely based on the 1994 movie of the same name (also co-written by Verheiden). W. Morgan Sheppard (Max Headroom) guest stars.
The 14th episode of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star.
The 66th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Simon Templeman, Justine Bateman, and J.G. Hertzler (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star in the fourth season premiere.
The 50th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Peter Donat (Time Trax), Nicholas Lea, William B. Davis, Jerry Hardin, and John Neville guest star in the third season premiere.
NBC airs the 75th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. The two-hour fifth season finale is Bellisario’s response to the recent Oliver Stone movie JFK.
CBS airs the tenth episode of Barney Cohen and James Parriott’s supernatural crime series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. David Hewlett (Stargate Atlantis) guest stars.
The first episode of ALF airs on NBC, centering around Paul Fusco’s puppet creation of a furry, wisecracking alien marooned on Earth. Francis X. McCarthy (NYPD Blue, The Practice, Altered States) guest stars.
The 25th episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Danny DeVito (Taxi) and Rhea Perlman (Cheers) guest star in the second season premiere, directed by DeVito.
The 509th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. The Daleks return for the first time in four years, along with Davros; Lalla Ward takes over the role of Romana, while David Brierly takes over as the voice of K-9.
The 13th episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Mariette Hartley and Meeno Peluce (Voyagers!) guest star in the second season premiere.
The 36th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Michael Lerner and Leif Garrett guest star in the third season opener.
The first episode of the science fiction series Man From Atlantis airs on NBC, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda J. Montgomery. Victor Buono (Batman) and Dee Wallace Stone (E.T.) guest star. This is the beginning of Man From Atlantis’ single season as a weekly hour-long TV series, following on from four TV movies that had already aired earlier in 1977.
The fourth episode of the British-German science fiction series Star Maidens premieres on ITV in the UK. (Not all regional ITV affiliates carry the show at a specific time; this episode guide reflects the dates for the broadcast premieres of each episode on Scottish TV.)
The 15th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Lee Majors and Martin E. Brooks appear as their characters from The Six Million Dollar Man in the second season premiere, which is also a heavily promoted crossover event, part one of which was the season premiere of The Six Million Dollar Man. John Saxon, Ted Cassidy, Sandy Duncan, and Stefanie Powers guest star.
NBC airs the third episode of The Invisible Man, starring David McCallum (The Man From UNCLE, Colditz), Melinda Fee, and Craig Stevens. John Vernon (Dirty Harry) and Loni Anderson (WKRP In Cincinnati) guest star.
After months of preparation and contentious saber-rattling by series creator Harlan Ellison, who demands to have his name replaced with a pseudonym after quitting the series he devised, The Starlost premieres in Canada and the United States with the episode Voyage Of Discovery, showcasing an intriguing (but ultimately under-utilized) series premise with a shockingly low-budget, shot-on-video look. It’s the first science fiction series produced in Canada with the intention of broadcast in the United States, which would become a common practice in the 21st century. It runs for only a single, truncated season, and for many years is much-maligned as “the worst TV sci-fi series ever”; Ellison’s complaints about the treatment of his own creation in the years to come do little to dispel this perception.
NBC airs the third episode of the supernatural anthology series Ghost Story, produced by 1960s horror movie mogul William Castle and starring Sebastian Cabot. Gena Rowlands guest stars in a script based on a short story by Elizabeth Walter, and directed by future Superman movie director Richard Donner. (This series will be retitled Circle Of Fear in 1973.)
NBC airs the eighth episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Serling himself. Vincent Price, E.G. Marshall, Imogene Coca, and Desi Arnaz Jr. guest star.
ITV airs the 23rd episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. Oscar Quitak (Brazil) guest stars. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
The third episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. Sally Kellerman (M*A*S*H) and Gary Lockwood (The Lieutenant, 2001) guest star. This is the second pilot, and shows numerous noticeable differences in casting and costumes, but NBC and Desilu Studios elect to air it anyway, giving the production team time to complete more new episodes.
The 13th episode of the spy-fi series Adam Adamant Lives! airs on BBC1, starring Gerald Harper and Juliet Harmer. This episode is one of the earliest directing credits for Ridley Scott (Alien).
The 195th episode of Sam Rolfe’s western series Have Gun – Will Travel is broadcast on CBS in the United States, starring Richard Boone. This episode is written by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and directed by Boone.
British broadcaster ABC airs the 13th and final episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of This World. Adapted by Bruce Stewart from a story by Arthur Sellings, the story stars Ronald Fraser and Jill Curzon, and is introduced by Boris Karloff. This episode no longer exists in the archives, and is the final episode of the series. Out Of This World story editor Irene Shubik, a protege of Sydney Newman, will join Newman at the BBC and become both story editor and producer of a similar science fiction anthology, Out Of The Unknown.
ABC airs the 24th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Augusta Dabney and David Lewis guest star.
Disney+ streams the seventh episode of the Marvel animated series What If…?, featuring the voices of Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tom Hiddleston (Thor, Loki), and Natalie Portman (Thor, Star Wars Episode III).
The 62nd episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf airs on UK cable/satellite comedy channel Dave, the beginning of Red Dwarf XI, the first full season of the show since its 2012 return. Kevin Eldon (Hyperspace) guest stars. 
The 790th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 92nd episode since the series’ revival). Mark Williams guest stars as Brian Williams; Jemma Redgrave appears as UNIT’s new scientific advisor, Kate Stewart. 
Silva Screen Records releases Ben Foster & Murray Gold’s soundtrack from the Doctor Who spinoff TV series Torchwood. 
Epic Records releases an expanded, remastered edition of the Alan Parsons Project‘s 1987 album Gaudi, with additional tracks from the original recording sessions. 
Sci-Fi Channel airs the seventh episode of Frank Spotnitz’ sci-fi/horror series Night Stalker, a re-imagining of the 1970s series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, starring Stuart Townsend (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). Mira Furlan (Babylon 5) guest stars in an episode previously cancelled by ABC. 
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 50th episode of Stargate Atlantis. Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1) guest stars. 
The 203rd episode of Stargate SG-1 airs on the Sci-Fi Channel, starring Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, Beau Bridges, and Michael Shanks. 
Columbia Records Japan releases Bob Sakuma’s soundtrack from the early ’70s Tatsunoko anime series Space Knight Tekkaman . 
After four years of ballooning costs and launch weight, NASA brings work on the proposed Pluto-Kuiper Express mission to a stop, citing cost overruns and angering planetary scientists. The scientific community protests that, if a mission is not launched to reach Pluto by the year 2020, the tiny planet’s atmosphere will undergo a kind of reverse sublimation process, transitioning from a gas to a solid that rains down to Pluto’s surface. But with mission plans calling for a half-billion-dollar mission (originally budgeted for only $350 million), NASA pulls the plug, announcing that it will solicit new mission designs and plans from scientists around the world, even as advocates for the Pluto-Kuiper Express mission rally around the cancelled proposal.
UPN airs the 120th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the show’s sixth season premiere. Rick Worthy and John Savage (Dark Angel) guest star. 
Welsh toy company Dapol announces the release of the first wave of new Doctor Who action figures since the late 1980s, this group including the third Doctor, the Master, a Sea Devil, two different Silurians, and four variants on a “Gallifrey High Councillor”. 
The first episode of Mark Verheiden’s science fiction series Timecop premieres on ABC, starring Ted King and Don Stark, loosely based on the 1994 movie of the same name (also co-written by Verheiden). W. Morgan Sheppard (Max Headroom) guest stars.
The 14th episode of Joss Whedon’s trend-setting supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star.
The 66th episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Simon Templeman, Justine Bateman, and J.G. Hertzler (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest star in the fourth season premiere.
The 50th episode of Chris Carter’s modern-day science fiction series The X-Files airs on Fox, starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Peter Donat (Time Trax), Nicholas Lea, William B. Davis, Jerry Hardin, and John Neville guest star in the third season premiere.
NBC airs the 75th episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. The two-hour fifth season finale is Bellisario’s response to the recent Oliver Stone movie JFK.
CBS airs the tenth episode of Barney Cohen and James Parriott’s supernatural crime series Forever Knight, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and John Kapelos. David Hewlett (Stargate Atlantis) guest stars.
The first episode of ALF airs on NBC, centering around Paul Fusco’s puppet creation of a furry, wisecracking alien marooned on Earth. Francis X. McCarthy (NYPD Blue, The Practice, Altered States) guest stars. 
The 25th episode of Steven Spielberg’s anthology series Amazing Stories airs on NBC. Danny DeVito (Taxi) and Rhea Perlman (Cheers) guest star in the second season premiere, directed by DeVito.
The 32nd episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, airs in syndication across the U.S. 
The 509th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. The Daleks return for the first time in four years, along with Davros; Lalla Ward takes over the role of Romana, while David Brierly takes over as the voice of K-9.
CBS airs the 18th episode of the Space Academy spinoff series Jason Of Star Command, starring Craig Littler, Sid Haig, and Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones). 
The 13th episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Mariette Hartley and Meeno Peluce (Voyagers!) guest star in the second season premiere.
The 36th episode of Wonder Woman airs on CBS, starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner. Michael Lerner and Leif Garrett guest star in the third season opener.
The first episode of the science fiction series Man From Atlantis airs on NBC, starring Patrick Duffy and Belinda J. Montgomery. Victor Buono (Batman) and Dee Wallace Stone (E.T.) guest star. This is the beginning of Man From Atlantis’ single season as a weekly hour-long TV series, following on from four TV movies that had already aired earlier in 1977. 
The fourth episode of the British-German science fiction series Star Maidens premieres on ITV in the UK. (Not all regional ITV affiliates carry the show at a specific time; this episode guide reflects the dates for the broadcast premieres of each episode on Scottish TV.) 
The 15th episode of The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson, airs on ABC. Lee Majors and Martin E. Brooks appear as their characters from The Six Million Dollar Man in the second season premiere, which is also a heavily promoted crossover event, part one of which was the season premiere of The Six Million Dollar Man. John Saxon, Ted Cassidy, Sandy Duncan, and Stefanie Powers guest star.
NBC airs the third episode of The Invisible Man, starring David McCallum (The Man From UNCLE, Colditz), Melinda Fee, and Craig Stevens. John Vernon (Dirty Harry) and Loni Anderson (WKRP In Cincinnati) guest star. 
After months of preparation and contentious saber-rattling by series creator Harlan Ellison, who demands to have his name replaced with a pseudonym after quitting the series he devised, The Starlost premieres in Canada and the United States with the episode Voyage Of Discovery, showcasing an intriguing (but ultimately under-utilized) series premise with a shockingly low-budget, shot-on-video look. It’s the first science fiction series produced in Canada with the intention of broadcast in the United States, which would become a common practice in the 21st century. It runs for only a single, truncated season, and for many years is much-maligned as “the worst TV sci-fi series ever”; Ellison’s complaints about the treatment of his own creation in the years to come do little to dispel this perception. 
The third episode of the animated Star Trek series premieres on NBC. 
NBC airs the third episode of the supernatural anthology series Ghost Story, produced by 1960s horror movie mogul William Castle and starring Sebastian Cabot. Gena Rowlands guest stars in a script based on a short story by Elizabeth Walter, and directed by future Superman movie director Richard Donner. (This series will be retitled Circle Of Fear in 1973.) 
NBC airs the eighth episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, an anthology series of original short plays and short story adaptations hosted by Serling himself. Vincent Price, E.G. Marshall, Imogene Coca, and Desi Arnaz Jr. guest star.
ITV airs the 23rd episode of Ace Of Wands, starring Michael McKenzie, Tony Selby and Judy Loe. Oscar Quitak (Brazil) guest stars. This episode, like the rest of the series’ first two seasons, is now missing from the archives.
ABC premieres the first episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. 
The 31st episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek premieres on NBC. The Enterprise once again trumps mythology with technology after encountering a powerful entity who gives the Enterprise a big hand. 
The third episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. Sally Kellerman (M*A*S*H) and Gary Lockwood (The Lieutenant, 2001) guest star. This is the second pilot, and shows numerous noticeable differences in casting and costumes, but NBC and Desilu Studios elect to air it anyway, giving the production team time to complete more new episodes. 
The 40th episode of Batman airs on ABC. Van Johnson guest stars as the Minstrel. 
The 13th episode of the spy-fi series Adam Adamant Lives! airs on BBC1, starring Gerald Harper and Juliet Harmer. This episode is one of the earliest directing credits for Ridley Scott (Alien).
The second episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris. 
The 195th episode of Sam Rolfe’s western series Have Gun – Will Travel is broadcast on CBS in the United States, starring Richard Boone. This episode is written by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and directed by Boone. 
British broadcaster ABC airs the 13th and final episode of science fiction anthology series Out Of This World. Adapted by Bruce Stewart from a story by Arthur Sellings, the story stars Ronald Fraser and Jill Curzon, and is introduced by Boris Karloff. This episode no longer exists in the archives, and is the final episode of the series. Out Of This World story editor Irene Shubik, a protege of Sydney Newman, will join Newman at the BBC and become both story editor and producer of a similar science fiction anthology, Out Of The Unknown.
The 67th episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone airs on CBS. Harold J. Stone and Fredd Wayne star in an episode written by Serling.
ABC airs the 24th episode of the supernatural anthology series One Step Beyond, hosted and directed by John Newland. Augusta Dabney and David Lewis guest star.