Friday 15 October 2021

Was 1st TV interracial kiss 1968 Star Trek?

In a word ... no!

But it was William Shatner...

'He shared the first interracial kiss on US network television
Well, kind of. Six years after playing a bigot in Roger Corman’s The Intruder – an unflinching look at racial tensions in the south, which many theatres were afraid to run – Shatner and Nichelle Nichols, a Black woman who played the role of Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek, shared a somewhat obscured kiss in the 1968 episode Plato’s Stepchildren. (He later claimed they didn’t actually touch lips; she says they did.) Though the clinch became well known as a US television first, various other earlier interracial kisses have since come to light – though by a weird twist of fate, the first of these also involved Shatner: with France Nuyen in a scene from a Broadway production called The World of Suzie Wong that was aired on the Ed Sullivan show in 1958.' (Guardian)

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