Broadcast History
Airing on NBC, the series premiered on September 8, 1973 and was broadcast until October 12, 1974, although only twenty-two episodes were produced. The series aired Saturday mornings at 10:30am Eastern/9:30am Central in 1973 and at 11:30am Eastern/10:30am Central the following year.
The series was later shown in reruns on Nickelodeon in the 1980s and on the Sci Fi Channel in the 1990s as part of Sci Fi Cartoon Quest. CBS Television Distribution currently holds rights to the series; it is (as of 2011) currently broadcast on CBS.com's video archives and is not broadcast on any linear channel but is currently available via Netflix streaming (as of November 2011.)
As with all Star Trek series, the episodes were subsequently telecast in countries throughout the world, in both American English and also translated into several different languages.
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