If Shatner had been Unavailable...
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Robert Culp was being scouted as the main actor in Space 1999 in 1973 and met with Gerry Anderson! But apparently he talked himself out of the job with his many comments about being so good an actor, director and writer!
JB
Robert Culp was being scouted as the main actor in Space 1999 in 1973 and met with Gerry Anderson! But apparently he talked himself out of the job with his many comments about being so good an actor, director and writer!
JB
Then I'd say he dodged a bullet. We may like Space:1999, but a lot of those Year 2 scripts made the cast seem ridiculous.
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I liked Culp's performances on The Outer Limits. He was in two of the best episodes.
He was fantastic on Greatest American Hero, but that was a comedy. He got his laughs though, and that takes skill.
Robert Culp was being scouted as the main actor in Space 1999 in 1973 and met with Gerry Anderson! But apparently he talked himself out of the job with his many comments about being so good an actor, director and writer!
JB
He was married to France Nuyen for a few years. They both got involved in the hippie movement during that time.
Another vote for Robert Conrad.
"The Bringers of Wonder Part 1" ends with a cringey scene in which Koenig cowers in fear for an extended interval, but overall I guess it was pretty good by Year 2 standards.
I liked an otherwise-lackluster Year 2 episode called "Space Warp," for its outstanding miniature fx in which an Eagle takes off inside the hangar and crashes. That was amazing. And at first I thought "The Lambda Factor" was seriously terrible, but then I viewed it as a "so bad it's good" comedy, and I was laughing quite a lot. I wonder if "Lambda" was intended as parody, and they were actually going for laughs. If so, they nailed it.
Lambda Factor was written by Terrance Dicks who was Script-Editor on Doctor Who from 1968-74! So perhaps but he had said he was paid for his story but wasn't informed that they were proceeding with work on his episode until after near completion! 
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Season two of 1999 is slightly irrelevant though; Landau seems to have waived the script veto he had in season one so there was a second season, and probably regretted it (given some of his memoed criticisms of season two scripts, particularly All That Glisters). Culp would presumably have started the same way, and then either waived, or been dropped.
His stance of being a fantastic actor, a fantastic director and a fantastic writer had some weight in Gerry Anderson's idea of not going with him as a lead in the show he was about to produce, yes!
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