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Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

I mentioned him, I just feel the need to make it clear when I'm bringing up non-TOS actors as an aside, because when I've done it without the clarification, people have felt the need to point out that I was bringing up non-TOS actors.

And while "TOS movies" is a convenient umbrella shorthand, "The Original Series" is a retroactive subtitle specifically applied to the '60s television series, to distinguish it from all the other Trek properties that have sprung up over the years. Each of the TOS movies is a separate production that already has its own subtitle, and most of them have Roman numerals as well. "The Original Series" was never made part of their already sufficiently distinguished titles.
 
I just watched Reverend Burgess Meredith join Rich Little and Emily Banks in holy matrimony (Love, American Style, "Love and the Hypnotist," Oct. 9, 1970).
 
I'm watching Cinematic Titanic's 'Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks' on Shout! Factory's MST3K Channel and there's Michael Dunn as the hunchback assistant.
IMDB says this was released in 1974-75 and Michael died in 1973, so this must be his final role.
 
Morgan Woodward in an episode of Gunsmoke, (S20, E1), Matt Dillon Must Die, as Abraham Wakefield

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Ed McCready, Rex Holman, David Opatoshu, Frank Orsatti & John Arndt in The Streets of San Francisco's The Thirty Year Pin!
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Jim saves childhood friend Sharon Acker from being assaulted...
by Loretta Swit.
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According to flashbacks, they're supposed to be about the same age, though Peter Graves was nine years older.

Meanwhile, Paris regales the rest of the IMF gang with the story of the bravest little Hobbit of them all...
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Mission: Impossible, "Homecoming" (Oct. 10, 1970)
 
Apollo the bank robber! Branded, "Yellow for Courage."
If you need somebody to rough up Chuck Connors, you need somebody almost as big as him.

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Agamemnon! Odysseus! I'm coming!
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The plot once again deals with a local bumpkin populace not believing in a vaccine (diptheria this time), and ridiculing the new British doctor ("A darn fool woman! And a foreigner to boot!").
 
Apollo the bank robber! Branded, "Yellow for Courage."
If you need somebody to rough up Chuck Connors, you need somebody almost as big as him.

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Agamemnon! Odysseus! I'm coming!
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The plot once again deals with a local bumpkin populace not believing in a vaccine (diphtheria this time), and ridiculing the new British doctor ("A darn fool woman! And a foreigner to boot!").

Oh, but ain't that America?;)
 
OMG, I had no idea there was Lurch song, so I Googled and found

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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?

No, it wasn't; the Leonard Nimoy Bilbo Baggins thing was on a different series, the name of which escapes me now.
 
Twilight Zone, "Twenty Two," features Arlene Martel, (billed as Arline Sax) as a spooky morgue hallucination, and a confused stewardess on a doomed flight.

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"Room for one more..."
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Thanks, Henny! I watched that episode last night and just keep my eyes open for the faces and voices (Montaigne) that I know from Trek! :techman:
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