Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

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  1. Forbin

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    Lee Meriwether was on a few M:I eps substituting for Cinnamon.
     
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    That episode of The Bionic Woman was called Black Magic I recall and was one of the light hearted episodes!
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    Do voice over actors count in 'Surprising Roles'?. If so, there's a young Ted Knight as a bank manager involved in a scheme to rob his bank on this morning's episode of 'Peter Gunn'.
     
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    Did Ted Knight do voice-over on a TOS or TAS episode?
     
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    TAS "The Survivor," uncredited.
     
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    (Whipping out my new reference book, Star Trek: The Official Guide to The Animated Series) Yes, he voiced faux Carter Winston/Vendorian in TAS The Survivor. According to a passage in the book:
     
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    Ted Knight was a regular on Fantastic Voyage also made by Filmation in 1967!
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    And of course was the narrator of the Superfriends.
     
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  10. Forbin

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    I did not know that. :)
     
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    Michael Ansara, Warren Stevens and David Apatoshu in a 1970 episode of Name of the Game. Unfortunately I have a homebrew bootleg disk that give deformed screen grabs, and locked up before I could even see Ansara. :/
    In typical 60s/70s disregard, this seems to take place in a South Asian country full of caucasian South Asians from Universal central casting. Opatoshu is a bald-capped Buddhist Monk. The Dragn-Lady-like wife of a murdered government officer is blonde, blue-eyed Gloria Graham. Sigh.
     
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    I'm probably one of the few people left who has never seen 'Cool Hand Luke', and it's airing right now on the 'Movies' network and there's Morgan Woodward as the man in the glasses. Doesn't say a word, but you can tell it's him.
     
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    Lou Antonio's in it, too...in face, he got fourth billing.
     
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    Well, the subject here has been TOS, but I guess TAS falls under the umbrella given the forum focus.

    The "surprising" part has long ago been left behind. Mostly it's a bird spotting guide now. :)
     
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    TAS is certainly worth counting, particularly because it had so few identifiable guest stars -- just Mark Lenard, Roger C. Carmel, Stanley Adams, Ted Knight (Carter Winston), Ed Bishop (Asmodeus), David Gerrold (Korax and Em-3-Green), Jane Webb (Lara/Vedala), and Billy Simpson (young Spock), plus Filmation producers Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott, the director's son Keith Sutherland, and a couple of uncredited repertory players whose identities are unknown to this day (including one whose roles have often been mistakenly attributed to James Doohan but whose voice I recognize from other Filmation shows). So I'd say finding a TAS guest star who wasn't also in TOS certainly qualifies as "surprising."

    If anything, I'm surprised Ted Knight didn't do more roles for TAS, since he was the lead in Filmation's Lassie's Rescue Rangers at the same time, as well as one of the main voices in Filmation's late-'60s shows like the Superman and Batman shorts, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Fantastic Voyage. But for some reason, after '73 he has no more Filmation credits except one live-action appearance in The Ghost Busters in '75.
     
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    A. He was too busy.
    B. He was too expensive.
     
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    Or he'd retired by then?
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    Hmm, yeah, I guess his Hanna-Barbera voice credits dried up after '73 as well, except for an "additional voices" credit on Captain Caveman around the time TMTMS ended.
     
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    He was doing Mary Tyler Moore at that point, one of the most popular shows on American television.
     
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    Yeah, but he'd been doing that for a couple of years already when Lassie, TAS, and Super Friends (which he narrated in its first season) were on the air. I guess maybe once he won his Emmy, his screen time and salary expectations increased.
     
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