>> i'm about ready to give up. >> when it ended, it broke the viewership records set by the beatles on ed sullivan. it was one of the first tv shows that actually went somewhere. >> you know, youngstown is not exactly on our course. >> in a lot of ways, television was showing slices of the world that people may have never seen before. "route 66" was an innovative show because it was actually filmed on location. so the audience was being exposed to things that just weren't part of their local orbit. >> space, the final frontier. ♪ >> you know, there's a little bit of the mayberry aspect to the world of "star trek." that will sound like an odd analogy. but follow me here. people want to believe that such a place can exist. the idea of a future in which a lot of the biases and the fears of the past has evolved out of us. >> where i come from, size, shape or color makes no difference. >> there's one episode where some of the members of the crew