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Planet Earth is a 1974 American made-for-television science fiction film that was created by Gene Roddenberry, written by Roddenberry and Juanita Bartlett (from a story by Roddenberry). It first aired on April 23, 1974 on the ABC network, and stars John Saxon as Dylan Hunt.
He subsequently cast her in his 1973 TV movie Planet Earth. Consequently, for the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Roddenberry chose her specifically to replace the outgoing Gates McFadden (who was let go at the insistence of the show's first-season producer Maurice Hurley). [10]
Saxon starred as Dylan Hunt in the 1974 Gene Roddenberry television pilot Planet Earth, replacing Alex Cord from Genesis II. A 20th-century scientist unfrozen in the postnuclear world of 2133, he leads a team of explorers and encounters a matriarchal society.
He also produced several new science fiction pilots: Genesis II (also re-worked into a second pilot, called Planet Earth), [8] The Questor Tapes and Spectre. [9] Of these, Questor was approved to go to a full season, but following disagreements between Roddenberry and the studio over suggested changes, it was canceled. [8]
The TV Movie was originally a TV pilot and the third attempt to create a series around a post-apocalyptic future created by Gene Roddenberry.The first two, Genesis II and Planet Earth (the latter also starring Saxon in the lead role), explored Earth after a nuclear war and focused on an organization called PAX that was working to bring peace and order to the world.
Genesis II is a 1973 American made-for-television science fiction film [1] created and produced by Gene Roddenberry [2] and directed by John Llewellyn Moxey. [3] The film, which opens with the line, "My name is Dylan Hunt.
Remains from fellow “Star Trek” alums James Doohan, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, series creator Gene Roddenberry, and visual effects artist Douglas Trumbull will also travel on the Vulcan rocket.
Gene Roddenberry was born on August 19, 1921, in his parents' rented home in El Paso, Texas, the first child of Eugene Edward Roddenberry and Caroline "Glen" (née Golemon) Roddenberry. [1] The family moved to Los Angeles in 1923 after Gene's father passed the civil service test and was given a police commission there. [2]