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Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

Fans of Doctor Who may remember "The Gunfighters" in 1966. Johnny Ringo inaccurately appears in the Gunfight at the OK Corral, and has very memorable scene earlier.

Ohh, yes, "The Gunfighters" was astonishingly inaccurate. It makes "Spectre of the Gun" seem historically authentic in comparison.
 
But Johnny Ringo was an enemy of the Earps and was implicated in an attempt to kill Virgil Earp and Ringo was later found dead shot in the head! He was also a comrade of the Clantons and Sheriff Johnny Behan! :techman:
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I once heard that John Ford based My Darling Clementine on conversations he'd had with Wyatt years before. Yet that film is ridiculously inaccurate.
 
I once heard that John Ford based My Darling Clementine on conversations he'd had with Wyatt years before. Yet that film is ridiculously inaccurate.

I think Ford claimed the shootout sequence itself was based on accounts by Earp, whom Ford could well have met at Universal in the teens or early '20s. Ford biographers have not really been able to nail that down, but the shootout is actually quite quick and matter-of-fact, not like some other highly-orchestrated versions. But certainly the story, like most Earp accounts of the day, owes much to the Stuart Lake biography, which was basically fiction. But Ford, as usual, cared more about a compelling and allegorical story than historical accuracy.

On topic, the two great other starship commanders together. Morgan Woodward and William Windom in Petrocelli, "The Golden Cage", 1974.
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Susan Howard is a series star of course,
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and gets into an unfortunate confrontation with six-foot-three Woodward.

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^It was always weird on Mission: Impossible how Briggs or Phelps would recruit these famous celebrities for his team -- noted stage magicians, supermodels, actresses, circus stars, etc. -- and yet nobody ever recognized them undercover, even on domestic missions. There was one story where Cinnamon Carter played herself and used her connections in the magazine industry to assist in a case, but usually nobody had any idea who she was even though she'd supposedly been on countless magazine covers.
 
James Gregory visits F-Troop to test the men in a live-fire obstacle course.

Watch the bow, Parmenter!
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"A little lob shot."
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Mariette Hartley in this evening episode of Emergency! on Cozi TV, this time around as a the abusive mother of a 7 year old boy who attempts suicide.
 
OSS lock-pick artist with a bad heart, Warren Stevens on The Rat Patrol! (The Do or Die Raid (1966))
 
I Spy, S3, "Laya" (Pronounced "Lie-uh") features Janet McGlachlan, and bonus sci fi legend guest Michael Renni

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