Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.
Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.
I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.
Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'
I think back to my time in children's television, back in the 1970s, and the amount of innovation that was going on then. Because the mass market wasn't focused on it, so you had a freedom to do amazing things, like 'Vision On,' and 'Tiswas.'
The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.
I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.
It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.