[RARE] Star Trek "The Menagerie" TV Special hosted by Leonard Nimoy [VHS]

Where can we download this?

Weird how before the movies the Menagerie was billed as the Star Trek movie.

The ironic thing is that The Menagerie itself was originally ONE episode, filmed as the first pilot for the series, The Cage. It was EXPANDED into the two episodes of The Menagerie as a way to monetize the never-before-broadcast pilot film and, at the same time, produce two episodes of Star Trek for the price of one (filming the new scenes for the expansion into two episodes). So we have one episode that was expanded into two, then cut down again to produce one short (~80 minutes) "movie."

Ahh Trek nostalgia… ❤🖖🏼🥰

Wow. That's absolutely amazing!
I'm more excited at having seen this than I am about ST Discovery coming back in a few weeks.
THANKS FOR SHARING :-)

😂 Family viewing! They haven’t met my family!

I don't know about the negative of The Cage but the color footage removed from the film print when it was edited into The Menagerie was discovered in a film vault in 1987 and that footage was reinstated soon after.

- AWESOME! <3
- Thx.
- As a kid in the 60s, I watched (and loved / still love) all the original airings.
- I went on to get a degree in electrical engineering (emphasis on computers/robotics).
- "Live long and prosper."...

Incredible Thank you for sharing!

Awsome lost media find! Love that Space 1999 and Star Trek trailers were showing. All that was missing was Battlestar Glaticia.

I remember The Menagerie playing playing in a weekend movie spot on our local "Goldenwest Broadcasters" station channel 5 in Los Angeles soon after Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released and advertised as "The first Star Trek movie." I thought they compiled it themselves. They also showed four Laverne & Shirley episodes as a "Laverne & Shirley Movie" around that time which I'd assumed they'd also done themselves, but seeing that ST and L&S were both Paramount shows maybe it was another example of Paramount padding out their movie package. I didn't watch that broadcast so I don't remember if the Leonard Nimoy segments were included (it was Los Angeles, I would have assumed they just hired him on their own anyway).

Incidentally, seeing that Space: 1999 always made an attempt to be at least a bit ethereal (and for the 1970s that could get pretty strange/wonderful) it's kind of sad that whoever compiled that S:1999 movie picked the bland title "Alien Attack."

Loved Star Trek the series and the following movies. My favorite of the movies was The Voyage Home. I am very disappointed that they didn't actually show The Menagerie. 😢

Its TREK not TRACK.

I am Spock....im not Spock....lol😅

The original series Star Trek is the best. The later Treks are empty and soulless.

Fascinating!

I use to watch this as a kid with my dad. Was his favorite TV show.
5 year mission as a kid seems like an eternity, now that I am 50+ 5 years seem like an extended weekend.

"Pepperidge Farm remembers." - I heard this in Charles Welch's voice.

I remember seeing this on Los Angeles station KTLA, which is a sister station of KAUT.

This is cool😊😊😊😊

The year I was born!🖖🏻

Was he still smoking at this point? I heard Nimoy gave up smoking in 1980 but the affect of years of smoking caught up with him eventually.......

The Managery was a great episode

You would think that 300 or 400 years into the future, they would have finally gotten some better footage of bigfoot, but they never even mention it on Star Trek. It so stup!d.

In early 1988, someone was cleaning out an old vault at Paramount and one of the things they found was a complete, uncut, pristine 35mm print of THE CAGE and was where the full color edition came from.

Spock was the greatest character ever conceived and so brilliantly portrayed.

I read that the first filming of this episode was initiated the day i was born. Nearly to the hour.
I remember in my childhood about trekkie conventions, even my parents went to them. I built the models as a kid and still have in the box 1960's originals. I mailed some built decaled and clearcoated to a childrenz hospital last year. May they have the glimmer of hope i once had that something is right " out there" .

Gene Rodenberry was a genius....Star Trek was his brain storm.

Desilu studios and star trek sure was a special time, 1960s tv shows were the geatest🙂

Awesome

Ok.. WOW!!!

Whats actually more amazing is that people still live in Oklahoma City and believe in a big sky daddy. Terrifying. 😬😬😬

So, why was the series cancelled after three seasons, if it was so popular that it immediately went into syndication?? Somethin not addin up here.

I grew up in the New York City tristate area and Star Trek was on at 11pm on WPIX channel 11. Watch WPIX news from 10 to 11p and then get Trek from 11 to12p; good stuff.

Long Live and Prosper Leonard Nimoy's memory. He Was Star Trek more than any other cast member, as he always served the fans and the franchise of course. He directed 2 out of the 4 Greatest Star TreK movies ever.

@Robohara when i was in-between 6 and 10 i went to the dentist in the Bronx NY. I was put on a reclyong chair with a built in tv monitor where a video on what to expect with laughing gas was played featuring Dr.Spock. i cant find this anywhere.

Interesting to hear Nimoy's comment about how the colour footage of the entire "The Cage" pilot was lost due to it being cut and glued into "The Menagerie" episode as about a decade or so later, a colour negative of "The Cage" was discovered in Paramount's archives as well as an original tape copy of Alexander Courage's music soundtrack.

I forgot about this… saw this as a kid… thanks for the memories

Thumbs down. Get rid of the stupid text on the left.

Greatest TV series ever.
Best wishes to you Rob from the UK 🇬🇧 👑

The only sci-fi series better than Star Trek was Space 1999 (First season, especially).

1975? Nimoy looks like he's wearing a Moon Base Alpha uniform from SPACE 1999. 🤣 As I say that ads for SPACE 1999 show up!! 🤣🤣

Awesome. Thanks for posting.

I watched a remastered version of The Doomsday Machine a few days before watching this video. Seeing the pre-remastered version here brings back memories of when I first saw it as a kid and felt both frightened and intrigued by it.

Hunter didn't want to continue
In the second pilot he had
Ambitions of continuing as
A movie star which he did
Altho not as popular as he had
Been in the 1950s!

Thanks for sharing this treasure