Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[Forbin]

A brief, threatening visit to crime boss John Duke (Barry) Russo in Mannix's final season:

 

[Shaka Zulu]

The only downside was how bad Shatner's wig was, vastly inferior to his Trek ones and actually less convincing that the brunette wig David McCallum had to wear in-story as a disguise and which we see get pulled off!

He was already losing hair back in 1964?

 

[ToddPence]

Watching Shatner in FOR THE PEOPLE, with Martin Sheen.

 

[GNDN18]

The only downside was how bad Shatner's wig was, vastly inferior to his Trek ones and actually less convincing that the brunette wig David McCallum had to wear in-story as a disguise and which we see get pulled off!

He was already losing hair back in 1964?

Yes. Even earlier, really.

http://shatnerstoupee.blogspot.com/

 

[Shaka Zulu]

In this scene, Al Mundy says "Every time I kiss a Chinese girl, 15 minutes later I want to do it again."

Great, so not only do they cast a Japanese actress as a Chinese character, but they have the series lead make a racially based, objectifying joke about her character. Par for the course for the era, I'm afraid. The pictures are beautiful, but that "joke" is really ugly.

Which is why shows from that era-with a few exceptions-aren't popular as certain people would like them to be, and one would have a hard time getting anybody-white, black, Asian-to watch them. Luckily for the producers that there was no Twitter, Facebook, or blogs for anybody to vent their spleen about the comment back then.

And it's also why many activists online and off-line these days are demanding to see more faces of color on TV and in the movies.

 

[PhasersSet2Kill]

And then there's this surprisingly twist:

 

[The Old Mixer]

Eh, Colonel Lard's got nothing on him that'll stick....

 

[DarrenTR1970]

2 for one on the episode of the Fugitive I'm currently watching - James Doohan as the attending physician and Sarah Marshall as the suspect.

 

[Forbin]

Mannix consults Samuel T. Cogley, the galaxy's greatest, uuuh, fence.

Elisha Cook in season 8's "The Green Man".

 

[Forbin]

The Search episode "The Ends of the Earth" (March 1973) turned up Diana Muldaur and Jay Robinson in an organization that arranges clandestine getaways for high-paying people who want to disappear. For a threefer, the episode was directed by Ralph Senensky!

 

[telerites]

And then there's this surprisingly twist:

That is great. I could definitely definitely see Ross Martin with some Vulcan ears to go along with Conrad's Kirk rendition.

 

[Forbin]

Perhaps it's not such a good idea for the Petries to buy a house in New Rochelle from Cyrano Jones! The rock in the basement is bad enough ("I'm sure the little lady will enjoy decorating it!"), but he just jacked the price up to a whopping $27,995!

 

[Forbin]

When we were house hunting 20-odd years ago, we also looked at a house that had a huge rock in the basement. My first thought was to build a train layout around it. My wife's first thought was to look at another house.

 

[Forbin]

In a 1959 Steve Canyon episode, kindly Air Force surgeon William Schallert is called upon to help save a pilot trapped in an overturned F-104.

The pilot, btw, is Jerry Paris, who played Rob and Laura's neighbor Jerry Helper on the Dick Van Dyke Show.

 

[Christopher]

I didn't know they made a TV series out of Steve Canyon.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I recently caught William Schallert in a minor part in John Houston's The Red Badge of Courage (1951).

(Despite its reputation as a would-be masterpiece altered by studio interference, I still recommend that film.)

Schallert seems to show up everywhere.

 

[Forbin]

I didn't know they made a TV series out of Steve Canyon.

Yup! Fully supported by the air force and choc-full of cool cold war airplanes. More actual planes and flying in the earlier episodes, though. It's been released on DVD by a private individual who's an enthusiast.

 

[ToddPence]

TERRY AND THE PIRATES was also a tv series.

 

[Christopher]

Hmm, how many classic comic strips got live-action TV series, I wonder? Not counting comic strips based on comic-book characters like Superman. I know there was a Dennis the Menace series; I saw it in reruns all the time as a kid. I think there was a failed Dick Tracy pilot. There was a Flash Gordon live TV series in 1950, but I don't think any episodes survive. I know there were a bunch of Blondie movies... I do have the impression there was a TV series for a year or two as well.

 

[mb22]

Hmm, how many classic comic strips got live-action TV series, I wonder?... I do have the impression there was a TV series for a year or two as well.

Two shows, in fact:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1957_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(1968_TV_series)