Youngstown is not exactly on our course

in a lot of ways television was showing the slices of the world that people they've never seen before

Route 66

was an Innovative show because it was actually filmed on location

so the audience was being exposed to things that just weren't part of their local

orbit

space

the final frontier

you know there's a little bit of the Maybury aspect to the world of Star Trek and that's going to sound like an odd analogy but follow me here

people want to believe

that such a place can exist

the idea of a future in which

a lot of the biases and fears of the past has evolved out of us

where I come from

size shape or color

makes no difference

there's one episode where some of the members of crew were taken over

by

these

mental

Giants

this psychokinetic power of yours

how long have you had

they forced Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura

to kiss

it was the first interracial kiss

on television

NBC

asked me if I would do my own special

and I had always adored Harry Belafonte

we decided to do one duet called the path of Glory

it's an anti-war song

and we both felt very strongly about it my just

touched his arm

sponsor

went crazy

my star doesn't touch

a black man's arm

but your Clark says

I'm not doing it over

and it's my show and it's going in that way

we weren't having any of that nonsense

no way

so it went out the way we wanted it to go out

I didn't really have any other problems with sponsors but that sort of gave me a taste of

what could happen

in the TV business the 60s was probably about the last decade during which

the sponsors had a really iron grip on content

brought to you by

-

even if they tried to keep TV this

white homogeneous whole milk product the world found its way in

it could

it just had too much trouble driver

don't you ever remember to bring a silencer

runs line of my soup

with ice by

Robert Culp and Bill Cosby were equals

Cosby is this Pioneer

in terms of a black male lead in a drama

he made race a non-issue

because he's undeniable

the winner is

Bill Cosby

Bobby and I

time put forth

an example

of the way

it should be

racially

in this country

we need more people

in this industry to put forth

that message and let it be known

to the bigots and racists

that they don't count

as

television changed

it was helping all Americans to understand that this is what America looks like

frankly

you're not exactly what I expected

no

no no that's what I write here did you expect me to be older or younger

Julia was going to be

the first time at

a black woman starred

in her own television show

has mr. Colton told you

tell me what

I'm colored

eye color I am

she was a young black woman who would

been educated raising her son alone

it had a universality that

it's just

something new

and you'll keep out of Mischief

I'll just watch the old TV

then the sixties America was exploding in a way that needed to be reflected on TV

stainless steel

dragon it came back in the late 60s

and Friday was now in a very different world than he had been in

in the black and white days and suddenly there were the damn dirty hippies I'll make your book he's been dropping that acid we've been hearing about

Jack Webb would Lex you about the dangers of [censored] smoking and

crazy drug culture

they're trying to deal with the counterculture at but they don't

stand it's just basically their stereotypes

of what the hippies were like and it plays exactly like that

keep your nose out of my purse of yours out of the acid next time I will