The infamous 1968 Star Trek scene in which Captain Kirk and Uhura share a kiss if often cited as the first interracial kiss on television. Though certainly the most notorious, it missed the mark on being the first. For American television, that honour goes to the series 'I Spy', which featured an interracial kiss in 1966. The UK was even more avant-guard: an interracial kiss was aired on February 1st 1959, in an episode of 'Armchair Theatre', nearly ten years before Kirk and Uhura locked lips. Still though, the huge fanbase that Star Trek enjoyed certainly made the 1968 kiss the most memorable. Adding even more intrigue to the smooch is the story of how William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols (who played Kirk and Uhura) outwitted the hesitant NBC executives into screening the scene. The studio had asked for a kiss-less version as well, but the pair fudged every take, including Shatner crossing his eyes while reading his lines. Editors later discovered that the only useable take included the kiss, and thus a bit of television history was born.
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