{"id":2129344,"date":"2025-11-01T19:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2129344"},"modified":"2025-11-01T19:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:29:26","slug":"ralph-senensky-director-on-star-trek-and-the-waltons-dies-at-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ralph-senensky-director-on-star-trek-and-the-waltons-dies-at-102\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Senensky, Director on \u2018Star Trek\u2019 and \u2018The Waltons,\u2019 Dies at 102"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ralph Senensky<\/a>, the prolific TV director who called the shots for the emotional return of Ellen Corby<\/a> on The Waltons<\/a>, the three-part pilot for Dynasty <\/a>and, before he was fired, 6 1\/2 episodes of the original Star Trek<\/a>, has died. He was 102.<\/p>\n

Senensky died Saturday in a hospital in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, his niece, costume designer Lisa Lupo-Silvas, told The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cHe was 100 precent sharp until the end,\u201d she said. \u201cHe may have been 102, but he had a mind like he was 30.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Iowa native also helmed multiple episodes of Dr. Kildare<\/a>, Naked City<\/a>, 12 O\u2019Clock High<\/a>, The Fugitive<\/a>, The F.B.I.<\/a>, Ironside<\/a>, The Courtship of Eddie\u2019s Father<\/a>, Dan August<\/a>, Nanny and the Professor<\/a>, The Partridge Family<\/a>, Barnaby Jones<\/a>, Insight<\/a>, Hart to Hart<\/a> and The Paper Chase.<\/a><\/p>\n

And in 1963 for the ABC medical drama Breaking Point<\/a>, he handled one of the earliest gay storylines for television.<\/p>\n

Among Star Trek fans, Senensky is synonymous…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ralph Senensky, the prolific TV director who called the shots for the emotional return of Ellen Corby on The Waltons, the three-part pilot for Dynasty and, before he was fired, 6 1\/2 episodes of the original Star Trek, has died. He was 102. Senensky died Saturday in a hospital in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, his niece, costume […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2129345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2129344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ralph-Senensky-Director-on-\u2018Star-Trek-and-\u2018The-Waltons-Dies.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129346,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129344\/revisions\/2129346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2129345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}