"We Didn't Start The Series" Star Trek TNG Fox 23 Commercial Trailer (Billy Joel Parody)

This is an amazing Star Trek The Next Generation TV commercial. Fox 23 was announcing that TNG would be airing in syndication on their network. Someone put together a parody of Bill Joel's "We didn't start the fire" over TNG clips. When I first saw this, I thought it was just something someone edited together, but no, it's real. It really aired as a tv promo for TNG when it came to Fox 23.

If you remember this commercial, you may remember Channel 13 "Night World" late night movies: https://youtu.be/A16UKpSvAOk

I remember watching TNG in syndication when I was a kid. The station I watched it on must have got a deal, because it always aired at 10 PM. So I would have to watch it the volume real low so my parents didn't yell at me for watching too much TNG. Hmm...maybe they were on to something since I'm editing this TNG trailer at almost midnight. Also like 30 years later. Oh well, what a great TV show!

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********** LYRICS*********

Jean Luc,

Geordi's Specs,

Mysteries on the Holodecks

Asteroids,

Triple Droids,

Telepathic Betazoids

Transporter

Deadly Claw

Visitor from LA Law

Photons,

No Kirk,

Captain has gone berserk

Shuttlecraft,

Counselor Troi,

Doctor Crusher's little boy

Klingon Rites,

Parasites,

New Heights,

Phaser Fights,

Data's Head,

Tasha's Dead,

Riker's Hangin' by a thread

Celebration,

Transformation,

Everyone to battle stations

We didn't start the series,

It's the Next Generation

on your favorite station

We didn't start the series,

But when we are gone it will

still be on and on and on...

H/T to B urp- https://youtu.be/g_9eGjZoYoc

This is the only video he posted (15 years ago) and said he wrote to the local CBS station (I guess it changed from Fox) and a producer named Joe Walsh managed to give him a copy. Without the original Youtube poster and Joe Walsh, this fun TNG promo would have been lost. So thanks y'all!

*The station also ran a contest where if you wrote down the lyrics you could win a t-shirt or possible some other prizes. I'm sure there is a shirt floating around with the lyrics at some thrift store. Keep an eye out.

Try these vids if you like old commercials and/or lost media:

1993 Moonlight Theater Commercials:
https://youtu.be/TQTjNOm0p54

90s CBS Night At The Movies Commercials:
https://youtu.be/a2be1OnXizk

1998 CBS Soap Opera Commercials:
https://youtu.be/BO8iGGfdOz8

Moar July 2005 Commercials:
https://youtu.be/wHmAdxa-ew0

2007 Gary Coleman Edition Compilation:
https://youtu.be/lFbf63c7AjA

2010 Lifetime Commercial Compilation:
https://youtu.be/bu0YC1xYch4

Dozens more compilations covering many years are in the playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU3KsR1T2c6JBIblSxpsrjj6VR8k05Jjc

Hundreds of Individual Commercials:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU3KsR1T2c6Io21VNCLd26yc2oVin7Auj

Audio and video have been corrected.

~1991 WXXA TV Fox 23 (Albany, NY)