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The Doclopedia #2,131

How I Did It!: Kept Star Trek On The Air

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I did this bit of time tinkering fairly close to home, on Earth 1-F. It started by going the easy route and having Gene Roddenberry make the second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, instead of of the original pilot. He used the actors we are familiar with right from that start.

I also made sure, again using neuralization and a touch of blackmail, that the pilot and the series would have 25% larger budgets. Then I iced that part of the cake by having NBC commit to two full seasons of 32 episodes.

That left dealing with a few major problems. First was making sure it kept a strong audience. This sadly meant dialing back the more cerebral aspects of the show and upping the action and adventure part. It also meant chopping a few episodes we know and adding better ones.

Dealing with the critics was simple: I bought the most influential ones off and neuralized several more. I also might have zapped a few well known SF writers, too.

The show did much better in the first year than it did here, finishing in the top 30. I made sure it got rerun during the summer and that helped even more.

The second year saw several two part episodes and even a three parter. By the May sweeps, the ratings were better than ever and the series got another 2 years. I had to arrange more pay and other considerations for the cast, but the all stuck with it through the final fourth season.
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The Doclopedia #2,132

How I Did It!: Kept The Beatles Together

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I’d like to tell you a long involved story about how I did all sorts of things to keep the Beatles together, but really, I only did two things.

1: Neuralized John and got him to apply some of his restless creativity in different ways. I also prevented him from meeting Yoko.

2: As tensions were getting high, I took them all to a pub and, after getting them to vent to each other, suggested that they take two years off, do whatever solo projects they liked, then meet up in the same pub to talk again.

Over the two years the made solo albums, acted, wrote poetry and books, got married and/or divorced and had kids. When we all met in the pub again, tensions were prety much gone and the allowed as how maybe taking time off now and then was a good idea.

They still did not like touring, but they did it once in a while. They toured every 3-4 years and released albums every couple of years. Their last concert date was in July of 1983, six months before John had a stroke from which he never fully recovered. He died in 1990 and the Beatles finally ended.