I dislike animated series, outside of animated comedy, & prefer live actors. Because of the awesome ‘Center Seat’ documentary (only thing I disliked was <I think was last 2-episodes> auction coverage, because just wealthy enough people to store away ‘Star Trek’; instead of just COOP & thus, accessible by all Museums) about ‘Star Trek’ universe’s from very beginning to the release year of the documentary, I know the only serious & mainstream award awarded (I think it was a Emmy) to any ‘Star Trek’ series has ever won, was this series for one of their episodes. I have yet to watch the Emmy winning episode, but still the stories are good to The Original ‘Twilight Zone’ already did that.
I am keep watching the series,
I loved TAS when I watched it as a teen when it first ran.
I was beyond the age Saturday morning cartoons, but was so happy to have more Star Trek.
I was furious that older fans campaigned against the show to the point that NBC canceled it before more than the first six episodes of the second season were in production.
It still stands as the only Star Trek show to earn a ‘Best Series’ Emmy.
I hadn’t seen TAS in many decades when we picked up the DVDs for our kids (who are now in their late teens).
Given all the CGI and generally better animation in children’s programming, I wasn’t convinced that they would like it. But they took to it right away and it was very successful as an introduction to the franchise for them — more than 35 years after it was made!
One point, the number of frames on the animation, the movement only in the mouths during speech as well as the reuse of sequences was the only way to stay in budget in the 1970s.
The art direction was top-notch nonetheless. The original drawings, including some of the gorgeous mattes for alien planets and some of the new aliens are fantastic.
(I have some images to upload but that function seems to remain offline.)
Yes, they did win an Emmy, but I think it was not for the whole, it was for just one-episode, according to ‘The Center Seat’ documentary.
If you have not seen the documentary, then I could not recommend more that you give it a try.
WOW, the younger people actually like the show’s visuals being so outdated!
I did watch the Center Seat but your recollection is incorrect.
TAS was nominated for the 1974 Outstanding Children’s Show Daytime Emmy Award and won the 1975 Outstanding Entertainment- Children’s Emmy Award.
It also was nominated for Saturn Awards for the retro-release on DVD in 2007 and 2017.
All I remember is one-Emmy & the documentary raving about good the episode was that won the Emmy. I was going to go with your memory (though I really enjoyed most of the documentary, no way I was going rewatch it to find the answer), have challenging memory, until I went official websites, like Emmy (https://www.televisionacademy.com/awards/nominees-winners/1975/outstanding-childrens-program) IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069637/awards/) & Star Trek universe, found that according to IMDb you are right about the whole show, instead of the one episode & in 1975’s nomination. The strangest thing is Emmy have no record of the catagory, in ‘75, & let alone TAS winning & the catagory, in ‘74, & let alone TAS nomination. The official ‘S T’ websites I could find have no mention of any of it, while mentioning ‘T A S’. Makes no sense that the documentary mentions the win & IMDb lists both the win & nomination.
Maybe, you can find it through the official Emmy’s website link, I provided?
The reason why you aren’t finding it on the main Emmy site archive is because in the 1970s children’s programming was grouped with the ‘Daytime Emmy’ awards regardless of when a show was broadcast.
Since we both think it is 1-Emmy, I am going go with what you are saying about it being an Emmy for entire show.
No,I got that, since they offer only one-search feature for the awards that the searching by year & award accounted for all the programming, not just Prime Time or Day Time.