Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

That actually kinda sparks a dim memory. I may have seen that when it first ran. I'd have been 12 at the time.

 

It's weird to think that that one episode was never re-shown, or even released in other countries or even on video after some fifty years! Understandable that they were scared of being sued so why do an episode like that in the first place! I did know a guy who killed himself that way with the bag and whatever too! He was suffering from mental troubles and the firm knew he was in difficulty but let him carry on!
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I saw that, thanks.
Had to run to check my DVDs too and, yup, it's missing.

 

Glorious.

 

Ba

Balok was one weird-looking dude.

 

John

John Colicos, famed Canadian ham-actor.

 

Dick Ziker, Vic Tayback in The Choirboys (1977)
JB

 

Not so much a 'Guest Actor in a Surprising Role', but Record Store Day is offering a repressing of the 7 inch single 'The Lurch' by Ted Cassidy from 1965.

 

WIlliam Windom and an unusually dark-haired Susan Howard in The Virginian, "Halfway Back from Hell," 1969.

 

Another Susan Howard role I came upon recently: She was one of the original series leads in The Fantastic Journey, a short-lived 1977 show story-edited by Star Trek's D.C. Fontana. It capitalized on the then-current Bermuda Triangle craze, featuring a group lost in an alternate dimension and wandering between worlds. However, weirdly, the network ordered the producers to ditch the original lead actor and both the female leads, including Howard, so they shot new footage at the end of the pilot which abruptly and clumsily established that they'd been rescued and sent home off-camera. Although they kept the male lead's son, played by The Wrath of Khan's Ike Eisenmann, making it even clumsier in that they had to explain why the father would voluntarily go home and leave his son behind in constant peril. (Not that I can blame them for changing the cast -- the original three leads were much blander than their replacements. But the way it was done was hardly any better than the fate of Poochie in that Simpsons episode.)

Other Trek: TOS guests in The Fantastic Journey's 10-episode run include Marj Dusay in episode 3 (also with TNG's Frank Corsentino), Joan Collins and Julie Cobb in episode 8, and William O'Connell in episode 9.

 

Just watched the 1973 movie, Scorpio with Burt Lancaster. It co-starred both Klingon John Colicos and Romulan Joanne Linville. Unfortunately, they didn't appear in the same scene.

 

Speaking of appearing together, the aforementioned episode 8 of The Fantastic Journey had no fewer than three Batman villains -- series regular Roddy McDowall (the Bookworm), Joan Collins (the Siren), and Paul Mantee (a Catwoman henchman in season 2).

What a shame McDowall never did Trek. Wasn't he a candidate for Trelane? That would've been amazing.

 

Who not only co-starred with Adam West in Robinson Crusoe On Mars, but was far more dashing in the Bat costume than Adam West was. I know this isn't Trek related, but it had to be said.

 

It's no surprise if this has already been mentioned (I can't be arsed to search through 190 pages ) — but I just caught Leslie Parrish (Carolyn Palamas) on the Adam-12 episode "Gifts and Long Letters".

 

You can just type a name into the search bar on the top right and click "Search this thread only," and the software will do it for you.

 

Ah ... my only previous attempts were board-wide and didn't go well. Missed the "This Thread Only" option. Thanks!

Using it now, that episode doesn't appear to have come up before.

 

OMG, I had no idea there was Lurch song, so I Googled and found



Ted Cassidy/Lurch dancing is just too awesome. He is surprisingly nimble.

This is right up there with Leonard Nimoy singing about Bilbo Baggins. Was it the same variety show?