In the episode Kirk and Spock are being humilated and degraded ( being forced to sing, have a little man ride Kirk, and
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timmytony80 — 9 years ago(October 08, 2016 04:33 PM)
Satan 2016; No. Lucille Ball was a Swedish (White ?) Caucasian American. Desi Arnez was an Hispanic (Ethno) Caucasian. With almost certainly some pre-Columbian blood. And possibly Black blood in him. Nordics may have not been considered White in the 50's/early 60's. Thus the ? inside the parentheses.
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McCartney42 — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 07:52 PM)
I don't think it was "All in the Family" that had the first interracial kiss actually. There's a movie named "One Potato,Two Potato" that was made in 1964 that had the first kiss I believe. It starred Barbara Barrie and Bernie Hamilton who fall in love. It was a good movie.
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doug65oh — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 09:05 PM)
You're correct about "One Potato, Two Potato." However, that was a
feature film
rather than a television program - that's where the distinction lies.
The first interracial kiss on American network television was in the episode "Plato's Stepchildren," which aired on November 22, 1968 when Captain Kirk kissed Lieutenant Uhura. -
doug65oh — 9 years ago(October 08, 2016 01:42 PM)
No, they did not kiss. Petula merely
touched
his arm. Here's a little article what talks about the whole thing, from
http://www.emmytvlegends.org/blog/?p=1086 -
grizzledgeezer — 9 years ago(October 08, 2016 09:17 AM)
Julia
was fairly revolutionary. It was only the second American series to star a black woman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(TV_series)
It was difficult to locate this article, it having somehow fallen through the Wikipedia indexing cracks. I found it only by entering "Julia Baker", then rejecting Wikipedia's attempt to replace the search with "
Julian
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Gialmere — 9 years ago(October 08, 2016 01:14 PM)
There might have been an Asian-American kiss on TV before Star Trek. I read this recently, but remember the program.
On a first season episode of
The Wild Wild West
, James West shares several kisses with a Chinese princess (played by a Filipina actress) and seems very happy to do so. This would have been around three years before Plato's Stepchildren. -
Gialmere — 9 years ago(October 08, 2016 05:32 PM)
Gialmere; are you sure? The Wild Wild West predates TOS by only 1 yr.
According to IMDb, the first season WWW episode,
The Night the Dragon Screamed
, first aired on January 14, 1966. The third season ST episode,
Plato's Stepchildren
, first aired on November 22, 1968. So, officially, it's a difference of 2 years, 10 months, 1 week and 1 day.