Hi all! Lurker-cum-register-cum-forgotten-password-cum-newbie here!

I have been working to create these sorts of facsimile original broadcast edits of original series episodes for the 60th anniversary, and it's led me down a very interesting rabbit hole of the differences between original broadcast episodes and the later (more familiar) syndication edits. Given how much the series has been re-edited, redistributed, and internationally syndicated, it's understandable that a lot of changes would end up becoming codified or standardized. What I'm trying to figure out is A. what materials would make up the original broadcast prints and B. what changes might have been made on an episode-to-episode basis for each show.

Series-wide changes:
- Each episode would originally begin with the NBC "Laramie peacock" logo and end with the "snake chimes" logo. This was standard for shows airing on primetime NBC.
- For Season 1, the intros and outros were standardized. The first handful of episodes had minor and major variations both in typesetting and the take of the theme song used. The first handful had the same title card which receded to accommodate a "created by" credit for Roddenberry that would be seen in the Season 2 opening onwards. Additionally, in the earliest episodes Shatner and Nimoy's names were presented without any "Starring" credits. These visual variations are preserved on the initial pre-remastered DVD releases. A different take of the theme song was also used until "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" which featured a ghostly electric violin as the lead instrument rather than the cello of the later Fred Steiner re-recording. The Season 1 DVD inconsistently restored the original intros to some early Season 1 episodes, while the blu-ray used the standard Steiner intro for all but WNMHGB and "The Corbomite Maneuver".
- The same audio change affects the ending credits, although only "Where No Man Has Gone Before" retains the original music on the DVD/Blu-Ray mixes. For my "broadcast" edits of "The Man Trap" and "Charlie X", I simply flew in the WNMHGB take over the credits sequences for these episodes.
- Each episode originally had a "Next Week" preview which showed preliminary clips from the following week's episode right before the credits. While the full audio for these survive, the opening few seconds have been replaced for the entirety of Season 1 and 2 to show a stock shot of the Enterprise with a generic video-generated "Next Voyage" title. Each episode during the first airing had a unique edit with a simple "Next Week" subtitle written in Univers Black Extended. If you listen to the versions on the blu-ray, you can hear the soundtrack remains unchanged; as an experiment I tried to reconstruct the original "Charlie X" preview based on the audio, with convincing results.
- There were various and randomized commercial bumpers with still telops of the Enterprise orbiting or approaching Delta Vega from WNMHGB, alternately voiced by Shatner and Nimoy. By Season 3 (or potentially late Season 2?), Wilbur Hatch composed a brief instrumental statement of the main theme to play back into the show after the commercial break. These were inconsistently kept in syndication going into the early 1980s.
- The ending logos changed over time. The entire first season contained a standard Desilu logo. The first part of Season 2 used a Desilu logo with a byline crediting Paramount and the Norway Corporation. The latter part of Season 2 used the earliest Paramount Television logo. All of Season 3 used the standard Paramount Television logo. The Japanese "Log" laserdiscs and some TV rips suggest a Desilu/Season 3 logo combo was used for Season 1 and 2 in early reruns. Starting in 1978, Paramount updated the copyright with a new byline on the Desilu logo (retained on the earliest DVD releases and the 1987 clamshell VHS tapes), along with a videotaped version of the corresponding Gulf+Western Paramount Television logo. This would be updated until CBS began plastering Paramount mentions in their catalogue. On current prints, Desilu is the only logo which appears, for all three seasons.

Episode-by-episode changes:
- For initial Season 1 episodes, only WNMHGB features its original end title music. However, all episodes on DVD feature their original end credits typography.
- Speaking of typography, the original Univers-set ending credits for "The Man Trap" and "Charlie X" were replaced with more consistent titles set in Eurostile bold at some point for syndication. Different home video releases reflect these differences.
- Sound mixes changed occasionally; for example, earlier versions of Balance of Terror lacked many of the phaser sounds which appear in later versions. Later syndicated versions would also add more pronounced "rumble" sounds to the opening shots. In one bizarre case, the home video mix for The Menagerie Part 2 replaces the opening music cue with a re-recording of the same piece. On home video, the original cue can only be heard on the foreign language versions of the episode.
- "The Naked Time" featured a visual effects glitch where the wrong piece of footage showing the orbit on the main viewscreen was cut in, which resulted in the planet "blinking" into existence midway through the shot. This was substituted in syndication prints.
- "Arena" originally featured a crude matte painting background with a dented piece of iron. This was cropped out of syndicated prints by re-matting the shot, which also resulted in t

Hi all! Lurker-cum-register-cum-forgotten-password-cum-newbie here!

I have been working to create these sorts of facsimile original broadcast edits of original series episodes for the 60th anniversary, and it's led me down a very interesting rabbit hole of the differences between original broadcast episodes and the later (more familiar) syndication edits. Given how much the series has been re-edited, redistributed, and internationally syndicated, it's understandable that a lot of changes would end up becoming codified or standardized. What I'm trying to figure out is A. what materials would make up the original broadcast prints and B. what changes might have been made on an episode-to-episode basis for each show.

Series-wide changes:
- Each episode would originally begin with the NBC "Laramie peacock" logo and end with the "snake chimes" logo. This was standard for shows airing on primetime NBC.
- For Season 1, the intros and outros were standardized. The first handful of episodes had minor and major variations both in typesetting and the take of the theme song used. The first handful had the same title card which receded to accommodate a "created by" credit for Roddenberry that would be seen in the Season 2 opening onwards. Additionally, in the earliest episodes Shatner and Nimoy's names were presented without any "Starring" credits. These visual variations are preserved on the initial pre-remastered DVD releases. A different take of the theme song was also used until "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" which featured a ghostly electric violin as the lead instrument rather than the cello of the later Fred Steiner re-recording. The Season 1 DVD inconsistently restored the original intros to some early Season 1 episodes, while the blu-ray used the standard Steiner intro for all but WNMHGB and "The Corbomite Maneuver".
- The same audio change affects the ending credits, although only "Where No Man Has Gone Before" retains the original music on the DVD/Blu-Ray mixes. For my "broadcast" edits of "The Man Trap" and "Charlie X", I simply flew in the WNMHGB take over the credits sequences for these episodes.
- Each episode originally had a "Next Week" preview which showed preliminary clips from the following week's episode right before the credits. While the full audio for these survive, the opening few seconds have been replaced for the entirety of Season 1 and 2 to show a stock shot of the Enterprise with a generic video-generated "Next Voyage" title. Each episode during the first airing had a unique edit with a simple "Next Week" subtitle written in Univers Black Extended. If you listen to the versions on the blu-ray, you can hear the soundtrack remains unchanged; as an experiment I tried to reconstruct the original "Charlie X" preview based on the audio, with convincing results.
- There were various and randomized commercial bumpers with still telops of the Enterprise orbiting or approaching Delta Vega from WNMHGB, alternately voiced by Shatner and Nimoy. By Season 3 (or potentially late Season 2?), Wilbur Hatch composed a brief instrumental statement of the main theme to play back into the show after the commercial break. These were inconsistently kept in syndication going into the early 1980s.
- The ending logos changed over time. The entire first season contained a standard Desilu logo. The first part of Season 2 used a Desilu logo with a byline crediting Paramount and the Norway Corporation. The latter part of Season 2 used the earliest Paramount Television logo. All of Season 3 used the standard Paramount Television logo. The Japanese "Log" laserdiscs and some TV rips suggest a Desilu/Season 3 logo combo was used for Season 1 and 2 in early reruns. Starting in 1978, Paramount updated the copyright with a new byline on the Desilu logo (retained on the earliest DVD releases and the 1987 clamshell VHS tapes), along with a videotaped version of the corresponding Gulf+Western Paramount Television logo. This would be updated until CBS began plastering Paramount mentions in their catalogue. On current prints, Desilu is the only logo which appears, for all three seasons.

Episode-by-episode changes:
- For initial Season 1 episodes, only WNMHGB features its original end title music. However, all episodes on DVD feature their original end credits typography.
- Speaking of typography, the original Univers-set ending credits for "The Man Trap" and "Charlie X" were replaced with more consistent titles set in Eurostile bold at some point for syndication. Different home video releases reflect these differences.
- Sound mixes changed occasionally; for example, earlier versions of Balance of Terror lacked many of the phaser sounds which appear in later versions. Later syndicated versions would also add more pronounced "rumble" sounds to the opening shots. In one bizarre case, the home video mix for The Menagerie Part 2 replaces the opening music cue with a re-recording of the same piece. On home video, the original cue can only be heard on the foreign language versions of the episode.
- "The Naked Time" featured a visual effects glitch where the wrong piece of footage showing the orbit on the main viewscreen was cut in, which resulted in the planet "blinking" into existence midway through the shot. This was substituted in syndication prints.
- "Arena" originally featured a crude matte painting background with a dented piece of iron. This was cropped out of syndicated prints by re-matting the shot, which also resulted in the title card having its font changed.

So, Trekkers of past generations, are there any other differences that primordial VHS tapes or even audio recordings may reveal? Thanks all, and hope we're enjoying the 60th festivities!

he title card having its font changed.

So, Trekkers of past generations, are there any other differences that primordial VHS tapes or even audio recordings may reveal? Thanks all, and hope we're enjoying the 60th festivities!