Melakon wrote:
Harry Landers' guest status must have been due to being a regular on the doctor show "Ben Casey" a few years earlier. Coleman was pretty much written as an incompetent, unethical wimp blinded by love.
|
"You are.....you are as I loved you..." Not that the best actor could have gotten much mileage out of that line, it still drove home how good he wasn't.
|
Watch her old series "My Living Doll", where she plays a robot. You'll find her perfectly cast.
|
How she was able to work this into something successful on Batman is beyond my understanding.
|
The character was hastily changed from Janice Rand, due to Grace Lee Whitney being dropped..
|
Which doesn't really excuse much. It would have been worse to see Janice acting so unprofessionally since she was lower on the totem pole as a Yeoman.
|
I thought {Barbara Anderson's} final revelation scenes were wonderfully theatrical.
|
Which was the only point in the episode I found her to be effective. I loved her climactic mad scene, but up till then, she was really intolerable for me.
Still wondering how the "surging and throbbing" line got past the NBC censors.